Comments on: Whopper Virgins

By: knight

knight — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:42:50 +0000

Has anyone ever gotten a whopper like the one advertised?

By: Whopper Sacrifice

Whopper Sacrifice — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:10:09 +0000

[...] on the heels of Whopper Virgin comes Whopper Sacrifice, another super smart campaign by Burger King. Whopper Sacrifice is a [...]

By: Security Adviser

Security Adviser — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:47:24 +0000

Seeeesh all this because of one ad?? Dammmm!!!!!!!!!!! screw going to a remote places. All BK and Mac’s have to do is sneeze in this blog and their ratings will hit the roof. Wow never heard the words hamburger , Big Mac, Whopper etc mentioned so many times at one time…LMAO

And people for the love of all things good… This is an Ad we are talking about .. does everything have to be overly scrutinized????

By: TJ

TJ — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:57:45 +0000

This ad campaign is sickening, exploitative, and wrong on so many levels. Burger King taking the Whopper to impoverished people around the globe is a crass intrusion of American culture, and a rubbing of their own poverty in their faces. It’s like saying, “Here, everyone else has this already, but you’re too poor and far away to be connected to the rest of the world.”

I’m sure that Burger King did absolutely nothing to aid these communities; indeed, they’ve exotified them as the perpetually backwards “other” who are only good for being test subjects in an advertising campaign for corporate America. Did these communities gain anything from this experience? Of course not. But Burger King is bringing in the dollars while the people they exploited to do so are still poor.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:10:06 +0000

Andrew chill, its not supposed to be scientifically accurate, its supposed to be entertaining and entertaining it is.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:08:12 +0000

I’m wondering why they couldn’t put similar burgers up against each other. No one who knows anything thinks a whopper is the competitor to the big mac… They are like apples and oranges.. they aren’t even trying to be the same thing… Why not put a stripped down Burgerking burger against the same product from McDonlads.. This proves nothing.

I bet these people would prefer a Wendy’s burger anyway… There is a reason they didn’t put the whopper up against a double bacon cheeseburger… It would get destroyed… Most people buy double QP’s with cheese from McDonalds anyway… not big Macs… if you want a Big Mac… a Whopper is not an alternative… they taste completely different and are made with completely different ingredients. What an incredibly stupid add campaign. Then again, it is Burger King, so what do you expect.

I wanna see the same thing down with their french fries.. Burger King ‘fries’ taste like salted cardboard.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:40:28 +0000

BK in Kuwait sucks, its like they fucking microwave ALL the food. They precook the burgers and then just heat them up with the microwave before they serve u. Thats why I prefer McDonalds who I dont think even have microwaves in their kitchens.

By: BoBader

BoBader — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:40:07 +0000

Yeah, I saw the ads when they first aired. However, I am interested to know where did they got their burgers if they went all the way to “remote” areas?!
I like the previous ones where they tell customers that they don’t have Whopper and hand them BigMac instead.

By the way, I don’t like BK and McDonald’s burgers that much. Many local restaurants burgers blow them away.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:09 +0000

Hamburgers must be stoned!

By: Zohan

Zohan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:22:44 +0000

Hamburgers are Jewish!

By: gilly

gilly — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:24:12 +0000

Ah, ads in video games, Pepsiman anyone? :P

By: SanDMaN

SanDMaN — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:00:42 +0000

@ Holla: Actually the BK xbox games, and a bunch of other games by pepsi, BK, and other well known brands were trying to cash in on the phenomena of advertising in videogames, by taking it to the next level, and making their own games that were advertisements, and they were giving them away for free with kid’s meals, or with six packs of soda.

But advertising in video games in general is a phenomena that’s been around for years now, but that’s another subject for another day, if you’re interested in the subject and have access to old issues of ArabAd magazine, check the December 2005 issue, there’s an article I wrote about ads in games there.

By: holla

holla — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:49:38 +0000

BK has always had great ads. their last one the ‘creepy king” was fucking amazing and the jokes it spawned were equally as hilarious. They made an xbox game about the king just to promote it!

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:41:44 +0000

I just returned from the States on Wednesday and have to admit that I was a little surprised by the ad when it aired. However, I just considered the country I was in and moved on. The ad is really smart and, IMO, does not poke fun at world hunger.

It is time to let the creativity flow in Kuwait, people!!

By: A&B

A&B — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:36:22 +0000

mark
your arteries must be clogged with cholesterol