I know this thread has become a joke, but I have to say, this shit really pisses me off. It’s like these fucktards don’t even care that if their hateful agenda is enacted, hundreds of women are just going to resort to acquiring unsafe back-alley doughnuts.
–Cliffy
Well, duh. They’re trying to promote their new abortion-while-you-wait service.
Get Your D & C at the A & P!
Only $12.99 with your Bonus Savings Club Card!
I’ll agree that this seems like stupidity, and I am fervently pro-choice, but what is the phrase supposed to mean in that context. As one other poster commented, it does seem odd. If you just omitted the phrase it wold make the sentence feel more natural. I don’t get why they inserted it, or to what it is supposed to refer to.
Oh well, more bad writing and misplaced frothing…
I will never again buy USDA aborted fetus beef in my life.
Wait, what?
Here’s the quote:
Which phrase could you delete? I thought they were linking the freedom to choose our President with the choice of doughnut. Without the word choice, it would be basically. . .get a free doughnut (probably the plain one which is their basic). A free doughnut of choice is like an extra. So they wanted to link it to something to tie it to the Inauguration. And they linked it to the freedom of choice of choosing our President.
How would you have rewritten that?
I cant even eat the damn things and I think I am going to go pick up a dozen and bring em to my students
Didn’t you know? Unborn doughnuts are more important than born ones!
I am seriously considering having my username changed to this.
These people should be all over www.gop.com
“Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) is honoring American’s sense of pride on this particularly auspicious Inauguration Day, by offering a free doughnut to every customer on Jan. 20. By doing so, participating Krispy Kreme stores nationwide are celebrating the best of America with America’s best tasty goodies – just another reminder of how oh-so-sweet ‘free’ can be.”
This is better to me. The whole “choice” idea just seems clunky to me. and the tie in with “free” and “freedom” also seems forced. Not that I read much more into the paragraph it than what is there. But it does seem to me that the forced writing stems from the copywriter starting with the idea of getting “freedom of choice” into the paragraph. Though, not necessarily for the reason having to do with abortion.
But, obviously, this whole thing is a tempest in at teapot. I would have just read it over and given it as much notice as I do the other ad copy I see every day.
I regret to say I don’t think pissing off easily-offended busybodies is enough of an incentive for me to eat Krispy Kremes. I can find better donuts, even if they aren’t sacrilicous.
(Yes, I’ve just been looking for an excuse to type “sacrilicious”.)
So it’s about the gays now?
Get your card punched with every abortion! Every 12 punches gets you a FREE abortion!
Must be your own child. Limit 2 gestations per customer.
What will be really funny will be getting, on camera, members of the American Life League stopping in at a Krispy Kreme for a free donut. I can see it now, trenchcoat, wig, dark glasses, but…BUSTED!!!
You’re actually going to provide those abortion accesses to students?! I thought there were laws against that in this country! I bet you’re not even going to tell their parents, either.
And mine uses President’s Choice–AND it’s a Chicago based chain! Coincidence? I think not–MORE proof that Obama’s main agenda is killing babies…
Offer not valid post childbirth.
However, you’re all missing the real outrage here – giving away free stuff is communism!
Its obvious, we should elect our doughnuts as well as our presidents. Its the only way to avoid the word choice.
My fellow Americans, I promise to not get stale on the campaign trail !
Dick Chenney Doughnut : "Eat me! "
I agree with this general reaction. It was probably either just clunky wording / bad luck, or perhaps someone in the Marketing Department was getting a chuckle by slipping this by the senior VPs, but “freedom of choice” is a bit of a loaded phrase when applied to celebrate the inauguration of a president who promised that the first thing he’d do after taking office is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. It feels forced, to me, in the context of that release. Like at work, when someone who’s bad at giving speeches tries to segue to the next speaker by hammering on a company catchphrase as a play on words.
I am not outraged by the wording–it may well be just an unintentional coincidence–but I don’t think the inference is as “out there” as most in this thread seem to think. I’m also not at all getting the reaction that leads one to conclude consecutively that this is innocuous wording, completely unrelated to the abortion issue, so let’s all buy KK donuts to support that firm’s, um, apparent indifference to the cause. To piss off the pro-lifers? Speaking only for myself, I can tell you that this pro-lifer does not care even a little bit if you go out and get donuts on Tuesday. I won’t even be aware of it, and won’t care if I am made aware. However, KK, that revered institutional shoulder-shrugger over abortion rights (as inferred by most in this thread), will be greatly appreciative. Knock yourself out.
Now, that’s well done.
Finally.