Hot and spicy
Sometimes it just collapses into total absurdity and all one can do is laugh.
Like this ad for takeout fried chicken in Australia for example:
Yes but what does she think of the fried chicken?
Anyway the ad was posted to Twitter and Twitter did what Twitter does do.
The ad was immediately criticized as everything from simply inappropriate to downright misogynistic. One critic even wrote that the ad had “set women back 50 years” according to Australian news site News.com.au.
Possibly a slight exaggeration, given everything else that’s going on, but whatever.
The fried chicken people apologized and deleted the tweet.
“We are very sorry for our earlier tweet on H&S – we didn’t mean to offend and removed it when we realised we’d made an error in judgment,” the company tweeted.
In a statement to News.com.au, the company further explained, “this was a genuine tweet to launch KFC’s new Hot & Spicy chicken products next week. It was not intended to offend and we’ve removed the image.”
Whatever.
The really funny part, to me, is that there are people full of solemn outrage about the apology. It’s the end of free speech and it’s all the fault of feminists or social justice warriors or the next door neighbors, choose one.
Those feminists! Always spoiling the fun…
And eating all the chicken! And killing free speech!
Free speech for chickens…that’s my motto.
It’s good that they are trying to put this mistake behind them, but they’ll regret all over again it in two years when Cricket Australia abruptly drops them from a joint promotional campaign.
Australia is pretty good at this sort of thing:
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FdG5AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA16&dq=%22girls,+want+something+hot+and+throbbing+between+your+legs?%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM9IyD-JzMAhVHIKYKHYqaDa0Q6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q=%22girls%2C%20want%20something%20hot%20and%20throbbing%20between%20your%20legs%3F%22&f=false
Aussie humor is quirky/clever. When used in ads It can be much more racy than what you’d see in America
I was a teenager but I still vividly remember the shitstorm over this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmddjOyKvQ
Shoot! That ain’t fried chicken – that there’s choked chicken.