What I found hard to believe was the way they portray their own customers! Who would want to be associated with the fat, ugly, stupid, white trash, misogynistic idiots in that commercial? It made me proud that I never eat there. It made me never want to ever try eating there again. Do the people in that commercial think they look cool? Does anyone? I just don’t get it. Why would anyone want to be associated with that?
This thread makes me…
…hungry.
I’m going to get me some BK!
I’ve never heard of this place. Burger Chef, yes, but not Burger Queen. Was it regional?
Did you not know that effeminate gay men calling each other “Mary” has a long and storied history and manage to light upon the name by coincidence? Not being snarky, I’m genuinely curious.
I agree that there’s a difference between “faggot” and “Sally” but if one is calling another “Sally” to demean him based on his sexuality, the difference isn’t all that great. And clearly I’m not the only person who sees the sexist and anti-gay interpretation of the remark. It’s not like I’m gonna go picket BKHQ about it or anything but it seems pretty pointless to deny that the “queen” comment doesn’t carry the sexist or homophobic implication.
Oh, and “I prefer to be called Rita.”
Another ad everybody loved, but very few could remember who it was for. (It was Wendy’s, by the way.)
A couple years back, Burger King had great success with a trio of Microsoft-developed Xbox games featuring The King, which were given away with meals: a bumper car game, one I forget (minigolf, perhaps?), and Sneak King, in which you were The King, attempting to surprise people with tasty BK food without getting caught, just as The King often does in the ads. kidchameleon is saying he would like to see another video game based on one of BK’s current campaigns: a group of mafiosoesque soccer moms who are attempting to whack The King because their children prefer his new Homestyle Bacon Melt over their version.
I thought the same thing, especially since one of BK’s earlier campaigns a few months ago featured men singing “I am man…I refuse to eat this quiche” and how they wanted a big, manly burger. Myogynistic? Definitely. Homophobic? Maybe, but probably not.
Otto, do you take offense at poker? Where the King is a superior card to the Queen? Or chess, where the King is more important than the Queen? Or royalty, where the Queen is almost always subordinant to the King? Sheesh.
And mobo85 is correct regarding the games. Though the third game was a minicar racing game. You could play as the King, Burger Boy, Brooke Burke and others.
See my post about Burger Queen = Druther’s. And it was a Kentucky-based business, so I don’t know how far it spread. Kind of like Mother’s Pizza in Canada. It was a “national franchise” but actually a pretty small one. Burger Queen hasn’t been a brand for about 25 years or so, they started the changeover to Druther’s in the late 70s.
Sorry. Never heard of “Druther’s”, either…
I personally think that the marketing person behind this used to be an ex-food services worker and this is their revenge by showing what all kinds of ridiculous shit one has to put up with. Also, I was another who took the King > Queen reference as a drop in notch of equivalent. IE: If BK is home of, and mainly known for, the Whopper = the King part, then if you take that away, you no longer have that. Which leaves the demotion to Queen, when you’ve ruled out the head honcho. At least, that was my take on it.
And I agree with others… that bitch at the drive-thru needed a special dispensation just for her. A la’ Waiting perhaps.
For what it’s worth, I cringed the first time I heard the “Queen” comment because I took it as a dig on the gays. That was my initial reaction, right or wrong.
I had absolutely no clue.
While I know some gay people, none of them are effeminate- my lifestyle, work, and hobbies tend to select people who are a little more aggro, so nope- I used “Mary” because, in “Road Trip,” when the kid at the mail desk gets ready to wrestle Breckin Meyer, one of the names he uses is “Mary.” And I bet the guy who wrote the screenplay didn’t know that either. 
I and people I know do it to demean manhood, not sexuality. I don’t think you’re the only one who sees anti-gay, but I think that you and the others who do are reading too far into it. I don’t think that makes you a bad person, just a little thin-skinned. I still wouldn’t have a problem if you wanted to come drink beer and watch baseball with me and my friends, but we’d probably all genuinely wonder why you were so uncomfortable. Again, doesn’t make you a bad person, just different from us. Doesn’t make us bad people either.
Noted for next time.
Queen comment or no, these ads still aren’t anywhere near as anyone as the BKTV guy from 10 years back or so.
“Sometimes you’ve got to BREAK the RULES”.
WHAT RULES???
Sheesh indeed. I have to wonder why you and a few others are working so hard to convince everyone that my interpretation of the remark can’t possibly be right, that there is no possibility that the guy’s remark was intended to be demeaning either in terms of sex or sexuality. It’s not like I’m saying that people who disagree with me are inseneitive brutes or “thick-skinned” or whatever so why is it so important for the “other side” to demand that those who were disturbed or annoyed or caught up short or, yes, even offended by the comment not be?
If “Queen” does refer to The King changing gender, then I would have to conclude that The Whopper is actually The King’s manhood. Which means when, when you stick a hot juicy Whopper in your mouth what you’re actually doing is…
Oops douple post
I would not bat an eye if the BK person said “We no longer have Whoppers.” I would have ordered something else and figured “whatever.” Hell, I’ve been to KFC when they ran out of chicken and Taco Bell when they had no tacos. It would not shock me a bit to hear someone at BK say there aren’t any more whoppers.
I, for one, am not saying that it’s impossible, just extraordinarily unlikely.
I’m also saying that if you want to be offended by it, you can go right ahead. Different people have different tastes. If a person expresses a positive opinion about “Hey There Delilah” in my presence, I go apeshit and will rant for at least a minute. I’m just saying that the normal reaction is for people to react to you in this instance the way people react to me in that instance.
I will defend my right to hate that inane, poorly-written, unmelodic, half-assed, popular-in-spite-of-itself testament to the idiocy of teenage America, but I don’t demand that my point be taken seriously, even if it merits serious treatment.
I’m just saying lighten up.
I can see Taco Bell running out of Tacos- they have other things on the menu like burritos and Mexican pizzas and the like.
I can see BK running out of Whoppers. It’s one thing on a menu of many.
But how the fuck does KFC run out of CHICKEN?
There was a radio commercial a while ago for one of the fast food joints that opened with a whining, petulant brat crying and screaming "MOMMY, JOEY’S HITTING ME!
I never found out which greaseburger joint was using it, because as soon as I heard the whining, noisome harpy start screeching at the top of it’s inhuman lungs, i reached for the volume knob and turned the volume off for at least two minutes
brilliant ad campaign, morons, piss off your customers to the point where they turn the radio off at the first signs of your advert
basically it’d go like this…
Mommy, Joe-…[silence for two minutes]
Yeah, we went to Arby’s once and they told us they were out of roast beef. My friend and I were totally: :dubious: :smack: