Friday, January 9, 2009

The Whopper Virgin

I thought this ad campaign was funny. The folks on Madison Ave have come up with the idea to find people who haven't yet eaten a BigMac, OR a Whopper, and quiz them on TV, after some editing of course. These folks are from, rural, remote communities, who presumably locally grow and raise there own fruits, vegetables and meats. You gotta wonder what there initial reaction to tasting for the first time an agri-business tomato might be. Interestingly they are probably exposing themselves unwittingly for the first time to genetically modified food, too. A typical hamburger patty, has beef from as many as a thousand cows in it, as opposed to beef from just one cow for example. If they had any idea of what they where eating, perhaps they would refrain from participating in the quiz. Well, it makes for good TV.