On-again off-again KFC/Kentucky Fried Chicken just got into some hot water with viewers in the UK. The company's ad for its new Zinger Crunch Salad features an office full of telephone operators operating with their mouths stuffed with chicken and greens. Over 1100 viewers phoned in to voice their displeasure, complaining that it "encouraged bad manners, [and] mocked people with speech impediments." In an amazing display of "to each their own," the last ad to provoke so many was a 1995 condom campaign that "featured an image of the pope wearing a hard hat alongside the words “Thou shalt always wear a condom"." Chicken or condoms, it's so hard to please people these days.Speaking of offensive: KFC ad rankles viewers
On-again off-again KFC/Kentucky Fried Chicken just got into some hot water with viewers in the UK. The company's ad for its new Zinger Crunch Salad features an office full of telephone operators operating with their mouths stuffed with chicken and greens. Over 1100 viewers phoned in to voice their displeasure, complaining that it "encouraged bad manners, [and] mocked people with speech impediments." In an amazing display of "to each their own," the last ad to provoke so many was a 1995 condom campaign that "featured an image of the pope wearing a hard hat alongside the words “Thou shalt always wear a condom"." Chicken or condoms, it's so hard to please people these days.
1. So what the Brits have never been starving or found something so tasty that while eating it they must tell everyone how great it taste.
Grow up UK I've never eaten 40 bowls of cereal on a coffe table in bed and I don't ever plan to.
Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Man