On Jun 30, 11:21?am, "cybercat" > wrote:
> "margaret suran" > wrote
>
> > Did anybody else see it and did it affect you as negatively as it did me?
> > I wonder whether a commercial like this can backfire, but I doubt that it
> > will.
>
> I did not see it, but I can tell you this about commercials for big sloppy
> disgusting overly-huge portions of fast food in commercials: I will never
> ever eat at Hardees again due to their really gross market-to-the-cretins
> commercials. The big drippy chiliburger that drips in the guy's lap and he
> scrapes the chili off his filthy jeans with a French fry? Etc. That said, I
> have
> a fast food burger maybe twice a month, and I suspect the construction
> workers and ... (I don;t know, who do these commercials appeal to?)
> they want to sell burgers to eat a whole lot more burgers than I do and
> are worth marketing to. If I were those guys, I would be as insulted as
> the Geico cave men. You can work with your hands and still not be the
> type of guy who scrapes chili off his work jeans with a French fry.

Don't believe all the Madison Avenue hyperbole. How bigoted you
are... construction workers, truck drivers, heavy equipment operators,
and other trades people who do physical labor as a rule do not eat
fast food... perhaps occasionally, very occasionaly, but as a rule
those who do jobs requiring physical labor eat better quality and more
nutritious diets than most anyone else... they typically eat good home
cooking (they mostly bring their lunch) and they frequent eaterys that
specialize in home cooking type meals (like truckstops, steak houses,
taverns, and the like that serve real food, wholesome food), they
usually don't frequent the family style chains either, those
specialize in serving what amounts to chemical laden excretia. It's
the obese slobs in suits who sit behind desks all day (Madison Ave.
types) who mostly keep the fast food joints, coffee bars, and 2ni
emporiums in business.

Sheldon