# McDonald's + pirates + hip-hop = huh? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 23, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326 "2003-07-23T05:50:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![available\_light](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@available\_light](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/available_light)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/1 "2003-07-23T05:50:04Z")
There’s a \* TV commercial that combines these 3 \* elements, with no \* apparent rhyme or reason. It’s pretty much, here’s a \* Big Mac, here’s some \* undead \* pirates, here’s some phat dope \* beats yo. Run that \* by me again, Captain Jack? Then if you \* go to McD’s, there’s no \* sign of Pirates of the \* Carribean merchandise, just a \* poster. What the \*? [sub]\*Please insert your favorite random profanity here.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/2 "2003-07-23T05:58:11Z")
Crap, I forgot my wife was logged in on her account before I posted that. Sorry mods. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/3 "2003-07-23T06:07:36Z")
Personally, I think somebody missed out BIG by not grabbing the license for Johnny Depp action figures… ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/4 "2003-07-23T06:40:29Z")
Yup. Another campaign not unlike Hook in 1991. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/5 "2003-07-23T08:03:14Z")
Sounds like more half-assed an attempt at product tie-in than the _Pirates of the Caribbean_ video game. I’m glad I don’t watch TV (and, by extension, that means I don’t watch commercials, neither). ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/6 "2003-07-23T12:32:18Z")
When are they gonna get the Icy Hot Stuntaz? ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/7 "2003-07-23T12:45:17Z")
I was just commenting to my husband that the commercial was very odd. I asked him (he’s seen the movie) if any of the pirates were eating Big Macs in the movie. He assures me they were not. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/8 "2003-07-23T13:49:00Z")
Further evidence for why McDonald’s financial earnings have been declining streadily. They lack focus in their marketing/advertising and this is just one of many examples. MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![Morrigoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Morrigoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrigoon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/9 "2003-07-23T13:55:54Z")
I was about to bitch about this on my Disney boards! WTF! I mean, they just go “Hey, Pirates is a great movie, doesn’t that make you want to eat french fries?” With no financial incentive to do so. Jeezus people, at least have some happy meal toys or 50 cents off a Big Mac with your cross-promotion! :rolleyes: meanjoe: Add Disney to that list m’dear. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/10 "2003-07-23T14:31:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Airman Doors, USAF \* > \*\*When are they gonna get the Icy Hot Stuntaz? \*\* LOL Those guys were pimpin’ ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/11 "2003-07-23T14:51:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by available light \* > \*\*There’s a \* TV commercial that combines these 3 \* elements, with no \* apparent rhyme or reason. It’s pretty much, here’s a \* Big Mac, here’s some \* undead \* pirates, here’s some phat dope \* beats yo. Run that \* by me again, Captain Jack? Then if you \* go to McD’s, there’s no \* sign of Pirates of the \* Carribean merchandise, just a \* poster. What the \*? > > [sub]\*Please insert your favorite random profanity here.[/sub] \*\* Exactly what I thought, verbatim. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/12 "2003-07-23T14:54:37Z")
Maybe you stumbled upon a [Wiggle’s](http://www.thewiggles.com.au/media/pg/pg_captainfeatherswordsship.html) video. (Don’t forget to click on the home/about page.) Peace. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/13 "2003-07-23T16:42:43Z")
McDonald’s and Disney have a contract where McD’s gets exclusive rights for food tie-ins for every Disney movie that comes out. This is, of course, a sign of the Apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/14 "2003-07-23T16:49:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > \*\*McDonald’s and Disney have a contract where McD’s gets exclusive rights for food tie-ins for every Disney movie that comes out. This is, of course, a sign of the Apocalypse. \*\* Ugh that is just wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/15 "2003-07-23T17:13:25Z")
Nothing to add, I just wanted to say that if there were “Pirate’s” Collector’s glasses out, I would be about wetting myself with excitment. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/16 "2003-07-23T17:16:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by World Eater \* > \*\*Exactly what I thought, verbatim. \*\* With the \* and everything? Duuuuude, that’s like… Whoooooa. As for the merchandising, Burger King was doing a lot of Disney toys for a while, did that change? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/17 "2003-07-23T18:14:56Z")
The same rap is also used in another commercial. The lyrics consist of the trademarked phrase, “Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun.” (I believe it’s trademarked as one word.) Pirates singing it is, in fact, very historically correct. Pirates invented the hamburger, and in fact, an old text written by Blackbeard himself features a passage entitled “Blackbeard’s Grand Recipe for Ham-Burgers,” the ingredients of which include “The patties made of beef, numbering two; lettuce; cheese; pickels; onions; and a sauce the ingredients of which are known only to me, on a bun covered in seeds of the sesame.” A McDonald’s franchisee named Jim Delligatti, a pirate buff, added the Grand Recipe to the menu, naming it the “Big Black” in honor of its inventor. McDonald’s took it nationwide in 1968, changing the name of the burger to “Big Mac” as not to offend African-Americans in the wake of the civil rights movement, and introduced the now famous “Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun®” phrase, inspired by a chanty the pirates used to sing. Idiot disclaimer follows This is satire. None of this is true. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/18 "2003-07-23T19:55:41Z")
When did McDonalds have _Pirates_ toys? Last time I looked, they were giving away Sega-branded LCD video games. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/19 "2003-07-23T19:59:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wang-Ka \* > \*\*Personally, I think somebody missed out BIG by not grabbing the license for Johnny Depp action figures… \*\* I’m getting sweaty just thinking about a Johnny Depp action figure. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326/20 "2003-07-23T21:41:17Z")
AHAHAHAHA. I too have been subjected to this acid trip of a commercial. So bizzare. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-pirates-hip-hop-huh/190326.md?page=2)