Fast Food=Heroin, and Other Junk Ad Campaigns

Seriously?

This is a real Australian anti-fast food ad comparing giving your kid a burger to injecting him with heroin. Because they are totally the same. Official tagline:

"You wouldn't inject your children with junk. So why are you feeding it to them?"

Next up in the series: Mother puts child on traditional Chinese flatbottomed boat.

"You wouldn't send your children to sea in a junk. So why are you feeding it to them?"

Then: Baseball player winds up to throw a knuckleball to a child at bat:

"You wouldn't pitch your children junk. So why are you feeding it to them?"

And finally: Michael Milken tempts a child with risky bonds:

"You wouldn't let your children invest in junk. So why are you feeding it to them?"

Sheesh.

Via IPN's daily links, and Dick Puddlecote.

Comments

[sloopyinca]

Apparently, it's just a viral video from some bullshit pressure group. This will never make it to the TV sets down under. The state is too busy creating ads to censor the internet to waste their time on an anti-fast food campaign....at least at this moment.

[sloopyinca]

Oh, and I almost forgot. WTF were the Puddlecotes thinking when they named their son?

"Hey, honey. I've got an wonderful idea for the baby's name. Let's name him Dick Puddlecote. That way, he'll get loads of respect from the other boys whilst growing up and will bear no psychological burdens for the rest of his life."

"Yes, dear. That sounds like a smashing plan."

"Jolly good, hon. Jolly good. Pip, pip and all that."

[Mr. FIFY]

Kids with unfortunate names grow up to be either politicians or attorneys, in order to get revenge for being picked on all their lives.

Remember: Guys named Dick, usually wind up living up to their name.

[Wiener fan]

yeah, especially if they assume another name, like Don

[Chris]

I think you're onto something...we have a Young Boozer running for State Treasurer in Alabama. Although judging by his campaign ads, he seems pretty proud of his name.

[fresnodan]

hmmmm....I remember when my moniker was asmallpenisisfinedan.
The derision I was subjected to. The moniker of course was referring to the fact that blog commenters have a realtively small voice, like a small pen is fine. Why people don't think someone with a small penis..pen is...
penis!??! Oh oh!

[Dick Puddlecote]

It's a pseudonym, sloopy. My real name is Jack Obolokov. 😉

[Old Mexican]

You know you are in Australia when...

[???]

I think the meme you're looking for is

MEANWHILE IN AUSTRALIA.

[R C Dean]

I can't believe they missed out on:

Child stands in front of guy with back to camera, but holding his trenchcoat open: "You don't want your kids to put junk in their mouths, do you?"

[rac]

Beat me to it.

[Old Man With Candy]

Let's not get personal here.

[Lame Joke Guy]

What does a Jewish child molester say?

"Hey, kid... wanna buy some candy?"

[tb]

Another charmer. Just yourself "Lame Joke Guy" and you can tell all the greedy Jew jokes you want. It's like a get out of jail free card.

[tb]

Lovely. You can always count on one of Mangu-Ward's scumbag readers to put a pedophile twist on things any time the subject of children comes up.

[Very English Concern Troll]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, deeeeeeeeear, musn't mention the children!

[tb]

I guess that's what passes for mockery on the right these days. I don't get how you acting like an even bigger clown makes me look bad, but there you go.

[cynical]

Well, it was the more obvious one anyway.

[Spencer Smith]

Well,

That would explain why I've taken to melting my burgers and tacos in a big spoon and injecting them straight into the bloodstream!

[nobody]

That's a Patton Oswalt bit.

[Spencer Smith]

I always knew I was as funny as that guy.

[ClubMedSux]

Yeah, you and everybody else not named "Dane Cook."

[AlmightyJB]

I find Martin Short also not funny. When you're the least funny guy in The Three Amigos you just need to give it up.

[Abdul]

I thought he had. don't tell me he still has a career.

[Zeb]

He had some pretty good standup earlier in his career.

[Spencer Smith]

+1

[Chad]

I don't have a problem with this.

[Old Mexican]

Re: Chad,

I don't have a problem with this.

Gee, what are you on?

[Tony]

Sound logic.

[Max]

You rightwingers just don't get it, do you? Go suck Ron Pual's cock!

[Max, Tony and Chad]

Arf arf art
heehaw heehaw heehaw
whee whee whee

[Spencer Smith]

GO TROLL SOMEWHERE ELSE.

[Vogon Poet]

Technically, I don't think this counts as trolling - at least not in the traditional sense. Just garden variety flaming.

[Torontonian]

Does nobody else find it suspicious that Chad, Tony and Max all suddenly appear within a minute of each other?

[Aresen]

Actually, I think there is spoofing going on.

Chad usually has a whiny explanation as to why he found libertarians too naive.

Tony tries to lecture us on why THE STATE KNOWS BETTER.

I think "Max", above, may be genuine. His trolling has really degenerated into nothing but namecalling lately.

[I, Kahn O'Clast]

But everyone knows heroin makes you skinny!

[Fiscal Meth]

Yeah, this commercial is on the right track. If our kids are so obese and that puts them at so much risk, we can't afford not to get em all smacked-out skinny.

[Phil Niekro]

"You wouldn't pitch your children junk. So why are you feeding it to them?"

Fuck you.

[Spencer Smith]

+1000

[tb]

Go Phil! I'm going to force feed my kids nothing but Big Macs out of spite. If they become morbidly obese and die heart attacks at age 11, it's the commercial's fault!

[Abdul]

The real reason not to inject your children with junk is because they'll steal your stash.

[Fred Sanford]

leave me out of this.

[Mister DNA]

The G is for "guacamole", dip!

[Lamonte]

My father was always verbally abusive, saying "You dummy" this and "you dummy" that. I would have much rather he gave me a burger than a "dummy" complex.

[Boddhisattva Fugen]

Mom holding a copy of Earth in the Balance. "You don?t let your kids read junk science, so why are you feeding the junk food?"

[Boddhisattva Fugen]

Mom holding a copy of Earth in the Balance. "You don?t let your kids read junk science, so why are you feeding the junk food?"

[Al Gore]

And the much more popular Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth...

[DG]

These videos would be better if they were in 3-D.

[Mango Punch]

If this were in 3D it would probably have a bigger impact.

[AlmightyJB]

If you wanna ride
Don?t ride the white horse

[Aresen]

Is that a reference to the Obamessiah's choice of steed?

[Mr. FIFY]

Obviously, it's a slap at Obama's white oppressive mother.

[AlmightyJB]

If you wanna be rich
You got to be a bitch
You got to be a bitch
I said rich, rich you bitch

[Ted S.]

I Wanna Be Rich

[mad libertarian guy]

Aren't all of us libertarians already filthy rich. You know, with top hats and twirled mustaches and such?

[Lady Libertarian]

Even the womyn!

/twirling her mustache

[AlmightyJB]

Well then you've got to be a bitch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8j2ej5jqQw

[Aresen]

If a burger is heroin, does that make potato chips crystal meth?

[Legate Damar]

You wouldn't let your children invest in junk.

But along with this this glass of orange juice and 4 slices of toast and a sliced banana, it makes up an important part of this balanced breakfast portfolio

[Patrick]

Wait a minute. Australia bans video games that show drug use - even if the drugs are make-believe - but they show this?

[AlmightyJB]

Leftest = One set of rules for everyone else, a different set for us, and we make the rules for both.

[Ska]

Fucking Med-X, Jet, Psycho - so wait, what is FO3 speak for heroine? Is that what Med-X is supposed to be?

[SugarFree]

Yes. They originally called it morphine, the ERSB made them change it.

[Robert]

I guess they'd ban it if it were a scene in a game.

Anyway, in the USA the ad would probably have a different caption, and concern prenatal care -- like if you're pregnant, get off the heroin and start eating instead, because then it's like feeding your baby nutritious hamburgers instead of heroin.

[Keith Richards]

You wouldn't inject your children with junk.

Hey, speak for yourself.

[Mick Jagger]

Keef, it's time for your wakey-wakey dowse. An' don't forget to sowk yer ya-yas in kerowsene, you down't wanna get another case of the crabs.

[Bob Dylan]

Speak clearly, man. I can't understand a fucking word you're saying.

[Robert]

And what's junky about a hamburger? Before hamburgers became associated with large chains of fast food restaurants, they were not considered junk. OK, they were cheaper than steaks or chops, but they weren't considered exactly low class or un-nutritious, and they were tailor made for children too young to handle knives. Besides, the child being fed did not appear to be overweight.

So what was the point of the ad? That making hamburgers for your children would lead to their becoming obese, while not making hamburgers for them would prevent them from becoming obese?

[Aresen]

Basically, the anti-hamburger campaign is an anti-capitalist meme. Before Mickee Dee's and the rest came along, hamburger (= ground beef) was what poorer people ate for meat most often.

You don't see any campaigns against meatloaf because no one is going to make a fast food franchise based on it. I suspect meatloaf may be worse for you than a Big Mac because the meatloaf pan prevents the fat from draining away during cooking.

[Sir Mix-a-Lot]

If you want your kids fuckin' a chick with junk in her trunk, keep feedin' him that shit!