Posted on 04/15/2009 4:09:28 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Fast food giant Burger King apologized Tuesday for an advertisement featuring a squat Mexican draped in his country's flag next to a tall American cowboy and said it would change the campaign. Mexico's ambassador to Spain said posters released in Europe for Burger King's new Tex-Mex style "Texican whopper," a cheeseburger with chile and spicy mayonnaise, inappropriately displayed the Mexican flag, whose image is protected under national law. The ambassador wrote a letter complaining to Burger King and requested the ad campaign be discontinued.
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It's too bad it's only an animated pic.
So I suppose this means toilet paper with a Mexican flag motif is just out.
We have millions of their people in our country illegally that have that rag of a flag of theirs pasted all over the place, and they get huffy over a BK ad?
I have not heard any Mexican official telling Mexicans in our country that flying a Mexican flag above our American flag; and also telling these same Mexicans that flying our American flag upside down below the Mexican flag is very inappropriate.
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And that creepy new "square butt" one? You'd think burger joints would want to get away from the "it will make your butt fat" thing.
... I guess it's not always good to be the king ...
Aw heck, I still miss The Frito Bandito! He was great!
Caption for this one should be Where Is Your God Now!!
It was the implied profanity
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