I love watching football on Sunday for a lot of obvious reasons. But one not so obvious reason is the commercials; specifically the commercials selling very unhealthy food to targeted audiences. My previous post on Jim Breuer's Pizza Hut commercial is a good example of this.
Well this week was no disappointment, as Taco Bell rolled out the inexplicable Black Taco.
I can't help but picturing the marketing brainstorm the yielded this culinary innovation; hell, black president- why not black taco? Progress, right?
But that's more bizarre than actually racial. McDonald's, on the other hand, has a long history of pandering to black consumers with some pretty hilarious results:
The McDonald's ads that rolled on Sunday were for their annual monopoly promotion, and featured a lot of black people eating the product and a pair or red dice rolling at the screen, to which I couldn't help yelling "Clickity clack!". I can't find the video on the internet, but you'll find web ads all over the NFL's official website. So is this more of the same pandering? Or am reading into the subtext a little too much.
Either way, it brings to mind this hilarious video from a while back:
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