31 December 2008

This posting will not change your life

I was driving down Grand the other day with the little brother, and I passed the sign at Taco Bell for a "volcano taco."

Seriously -- if you're a food chain with a greasy reputation like Taco Bell's, do you really want to have the word "volcano" as a descriptor for any item on your menu?

I didn't think so.

It's almost as bad as Burger King's "Whopper Virgins" ads. For all I know, the woman is pointing at the Whopper and telling the cameraman that it tastes like camel dung ... which is aside from the fact that the concept of a "Whopper Virgin" is a rather tactless idea in the first place.

Happy New Year. May it be free of dumb ad campaigns.

A girl can dream, at least.

No comments: