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InvisibleSimplepowa
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Russian Burger King Ad: Whoppers Are Totally Better Than Opiates
    #18749146 - 08/23/13 09:31 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Spot Banned by TV Stations Says Time for Poppies Is Over
Published: August 15, 2013

Well, this is one of the weirder marketing strategies we've come across lately. How many marketers go out of their way to compare their products to highly addictive narcotics?

Burger King in Russia is one. Russian TV stations have banned the airing of Burger King spot that positions the Whopper as a viable alternative to opiates.

In the spot, the Moscow Times notes the tagline is "The time of poppies is over!" The ad begins with a poppy flower -- do we need to point out here that heroin and opium are derived from the poppy -- being smashed by a falling Whopper. The voice-over then says: "This is a poppy. It was popular once, but now it's time has passed."

The Moscow Times also noted that this is a play on words. Poppy translated into Russian is "mak," a name the publication said has become synonymous with McDonald's.

Burger King Russia's website posted on Aug 12 that the ad was, as translated by Google, "banned from major Russian television channels. We have decided to publish it in the official YouTube channel of order so that everyone could see what you see on TV."

Burger King did not respond to a request for comment, though Burger King Russia's marketing director Ivan Shestov wrote in a company statement to the Moscow Times on Wednesday that the poppy is an analogy of a bad habit, and that the Whopper is an alternative to it.

http://adage.com/article/adages/burger-king-russia-likens-whopper-opiates/243690/


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Re: Russian Burger King Ad: Whoppers Are Totally Better Than Opiates [Re: Simplepowa]
    #18750186 - 08/24/13 04:36 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Poppy is used for making heroin qnd opium. That's all it's used for. Nothing legal and equally destructive has any basis in poppy.


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Re: Russian Burger King Ad: Whoppers Are Totally Better Than Opiates [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
    #18750699 - 08/24/13 09:28 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

It doesn't even make a beautiful flower or anything. Kinda strange they allowed a plant drug to even exist ever huh?!?


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Re: Russian Burger King Ad: Whoppers Are Totally Better Than Opiates [Re: Atrium]
    #18751024 - 08/24/13 11:03 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

id much rather ingest poppies or any of their derivatives than fucking burger king, i have my preferred poison thank you very much.


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Re: Russian Burger King Ad: Whoppers Are Totally Better Than Opiates [Re: SoundScape]
    #18752288 - 08/24/13 04:35 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Fo sho. And I'm sure fast food kills a whole lot more than morphine, opium, and heroin combined. Just takes a few years longer to do it. And they've got a good point, burger king is def better than McDonalds.


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Re: Russian Burger King Ad: Whoppers Are Totally Better Than Opiates [Re: Simplepowa]
    #18759217 - 08/26/13 10:54 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Video is removed. Is there another copy around?


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Re: Russian Burger King Ad: Whoppers Are Totally Better Than Opiates [Re: Simplepowa]
    #18760866 - 08/26/13 06:34 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)



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Re: Russian Burger King Ad: Whoppers Are Totally Better Than Opiates [Re: something cool]
    #18761057 - 08/26/13 07:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

something cool said:
Video is removed. Is there another copy around?




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Re: Russian Burger King Ad: Whoppers Are Totally Better Than Opiates [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
    #18761414 - 08/26/13 08:59 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

LuSiD enthusiast said:
Poppy is used for making heroin qnd opium. That's all it's used for. Nothing legal and equally destructive has any basis in poppy.



Well, to be entirely correct:

Poppy is also used in making medicinal codeine & morphine for the medical community. Its seeds are also used in "poppy-seed bagels" and other such things.


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