tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post6095469220626267070..comments2024-03-16T05:34:13.675-07:00Comments on The Commercial Curmudgeon: Oh what a tangled web we weave...John F Jamelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18351383534436377360noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-49670838605265041632011-02-13T20:00:51.845-08:002011-02-13T20:00:51.845-08:00My first job was at a McDonalds, when I was 15 yea...My first job was at a McDonalds, when I was 15 years old, in 1979. The "food" then cost more than it does now- a regular hamburger was around 75 cents, which is much more than a dollar is today. It just goes to show what mass production and declining quality allows corporations like this to do with "food" prices. At this rate, in 20 years McDonalds will have a Quarter Menu, and poor and stupid people will be practically living in the Drive Thru.John F Jamelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18351383534436377360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-50581134219271603642011-02-13T19:55:15.077-08:002011-02-13T19:55:15.077-08:00Speaking of the dollar menu. I was watching someth...Speaking of the dollar menu. I was watching something on VHS tape the other night that was recorded off TV at least 20 years ago. There was a commercial for Burger King about some special they had going where there was a different dicount meal for each night of the week. One was a double cheeseburger for a dollar. Fast foward 20 years and thanks to the dollar menu a double cheesburger is one dollar. I just thought it was crazy that you can buy the same food item today for ehat it cost in 1991. Crazythepapershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671018463903866136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-57034168536445111372011-02-13T19:37:13.622-08:002011-02-13T19:37:13.622-08:00McDonalds has three main audiences:
1. The Poor
2...McDonalds has three main audiences:<br /><br />1. The Poor<br />2. The Stupid<br />3. Kids<br /><br />The Dollar Menu is one of the most depressing marketing concepts of our day- yes, it allows poor people to eat out. It also allows middle class people to eat more than they normally would. Between the Dollar Menu and Supersizing, I think McDonalds just may be out to kill us all.John F Jamelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18351383534436377360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-45996537711946426452011-02-13T19:32:25.580-08:002011-02-13T19:32:25.580-08:00Oh yeah. To answer the little girls question of wh...Oh yeah. To answer the little girls question of where she comes from..<br /><br />A long time ago there was a princess that hated her father, the king, so much that she left the castle and went off to a magical kingdom known as the ghetto and laid down with any man she came across. Several months later she went on the Maury show to find out who her babies daddy was. Facing a kings ransom in child support payments the man decided to marry the woman who had been disowned by the King and Queen and now must live off social services, drive a 12 year old Ford Taurus and eat at McDonalds 5 times a week. The Endthepapershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671018463903866136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-69309600808537015242011-02-13T19:24:33.104-08:002011-02-13T19:24:33.104-08:00Most of McDonalds commercials are desperate attemp...Most of McDonalds commercials are desperate attempts to convince people that their food is of a decent quality. One thing I will give McD's is that they have basically stopped having white people over the age of 18 in their ads. I have to hand it to them, at least they are not afraid to admit who their target audience is. There was a McD's commercial on a year or so ago that was mostly in spanish even though it was being run on a non-spanish channel.thepapershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671018463903866136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-47938177699662177852011-02-13T03:19:13.800-08:002011-02-13T03:19:13.800-08:00It's sort of appalling to realize that, like L...It's sort of appalling to realize that, like Lynn Johnston, the ad-men have a camera in the Mickey D's of the world. That's because this sounds like something trailer trash would actually say.DreadedCandiru2https://www.blogger.com/profile/15561460498807276057noreply@blogger.com