Posted on 08/04/2004 12:11:47 PM PDT by auzerais
More Anti-American Images Found at German Subway Stores
(CNSNews.com) - Picture this: a gigantic cheeseburger (with tomatoes and lettuce) slamming into two high-rise buildings, as cartoon characters run from the flaming ruins.
(See article for Subway's disgusting WTC drawing)
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Damnit! And I am only 1 sticker away from a free 12" sub.
But I'm craving a low carb turkey bacon ranch wrap!
If this is true, they are not getting another dime from my family.
Quiznos is better, anyway.
I spend, or I should say I used to spend $20 a week at subway. I have eaten my last subway sub.
Subway is a German company?
The best reason not to eat as Subway, is well, ... Quizno's.
This will soon be a case study in corporate stupidity.
Is there any way to get a better and larger photo?
I saw the picture on the link and it doesn't show a burger slamming into two buildings at all. It shows a burger coming out of a downtown area -- like Godzilla -- and chasing people. Silly idea but there's nothing anti-American about it.
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Didn't Godzilla and King Kong attack NY City? Did the terrorist learn how to attack large buildings from Japanese film makers?
I think y'all are being a little too sensitive about this.
Looks like an anti-hamburger (thus, if anything, anti-German) cartoon to me.
I don't know why I'm shocked by this, but I can't believe that someone could make a cartoon out of what happened on 9/11 and that people find it amusing.
Not that it should make a difference, but they seem to have forgotten that it wasn't just Americans that died that day.
Yeah, I kinda think this may be more of a Godzilla-type "Attack of the Giant Burger" cartoon.
It isn't even "two high rise towers" it is a bunch of buildings.
And the stupid hamburger looks like its chasing some fat Germans.
Exactly. Much ado about nothing.
What is this? Every time there is a general image, drawing, etc of buidlings being destroyed it just *has* to be a 9/11 reference?
And I don't see anything in the cartoon showing that those are buildings in the U.S.
This type of hysteria is unwarranted. It's a spoof of Godzilla, if anything.
Too "sensitive"?
Subway already has used anti-US imagery (fat Statue of Liberty) to hawk its sandwiches. I don't think there can be any excuse for using this type of WTC imagery. If you want to continue to eat at Subway, do so, but I doubt many 9/11 families ever will eat there again.
Email sent. FReep these scumbags and their lousy sammitches. Stick to Quizno's... they have a pepper bar.
I agree. I don't care that they pull the ads. I could not care less if they were to apologize profusely and continually. I will never eat at a Subway again. I've written to let them know too.
I'm shocked at the shock being displayed by some people in regards to a drawing which appears to be mocking Godzilla.
bttt
This is an obscenity.
There is no WTC imagery. The ad is spoofing Godzilla blundering his way through some unidentified downtown area.
Subway quoted Michael Moore in that infamous fat Statue of Liberty spoof.
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to eat anywhere where Michael Moore is considered a guru of health.
That, and all of their 6" sandwiches except for the mayo-free, cheese-free, oil-free, olive-free, pickle-free, sauce-free "Veggie Delight" sub have more calories than a McDonald's hamburger. Healthy my rear.
As my Dad used to say: "Don't make me come over there again to whip your a**!"
Hey neonazipunks do you want ANOTHER a**kicking????
This ad may be much ado or nothing but their last campaign did quote Michael Moore.
If I can have a "Boycot France" sticker on my car (no, I have no sticker slammin' the Germs because they're not as entertaining) I suppose the Germs (or the cheese-eating French surrender monkeys, for that matter) can have cartoon hamburgers flying into our buildings. No skin off my fat Ami butt.
Exactly. I'm not going to assume this is an innocent coincidence - yet. I don't buy the "Godzilla" explanation at all - the burger looks more like it landed there, causing destruction and mayhem. Now, if this were a television ad, things might be more clear.
I think you're asking waaaayy too much.
I see that numerous posters see this picture as a harmless Godzilla spoof.
Well, since there are no cartoon planes flying into cartoon burning buildings, I concede the point.
There is no contemporary over-arching gestalt of the Ami's unfortunate 911 catastrophe. None. Nicht!
...and HOW do I pronounce this?
I need to know how I need to refer to myself--P*R*O*U*D*L*Y!
Perhaps you haven't been paying attention. The German Subway franchises just concluded a tray liner promotion tie-in with the movie "Supersize Me" (an anti-American and anti-capitalism schlocumentary by a Michael Moore wannabee). In this promotion, the headline on the trayliner asked "Why Are Americans So Fat?" and also featured an obese statue of liberty holding a burger and fries instead of her torch.
So, coming on the heels of an anti-American promotion like this, the current tray liner is very offensive.
It's not a 9/11 image, it's an attacking hamburger. Lighten up, Francis.
It comes across more as a play on Godzilla than the 9-11 attacks, but still a poor choice considering everything that's happened.
First, I don't get my panties in a twist every time someone uses the Statue of Liberty in a promotion, cartoon, etc.
Second, "Supersize Me" may have been stupid but "anti-American"?
Third, Americans are, indeed, way too fat. That's a fact.
Fourth, I've got a thick skin. Liberals are supposed to be the ones who go around moaning everytime they feel slighted or made fun of.
This from a company that decorates it's stores with vintage NYC subway maps.
Sounds like a sequel to the film "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," an anti-Italian pasta-sauce screed that answers the question, Where's the beef, not to mention lettuce, cheese, and sesame-seed bun?
Subway restaurants in Germany pull controversial promotion
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, August 4, 2004
ARLINGTON, Va. — Subway franchise holders in Germany have killed a promotional tie-in to the documentary “Super Size Me” after conservative interest groups in the United States accused the campaign of fomenting “anti-American” sentiments.
Conservative groups began an Internet and letter-writing campaign late last week aimed at top Pentagon and Congressional leaders to protest tray liners that appeared in German Subway restaurants to promote the July 15 German premiere of the documentary “Super Size Me.”
In the film, which bills itself as “an irreverent look at obesity in America and one of its sources — fast food corporations,” independent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock gains 24 pounds after 30 days eating nothing but McDonald’s fast food, three times a day.
In July, the German distributor of “Super Size Me,” Prokino Filmverleih, reached an agreement with approximately 100 German Subway franchisees to provide free tray liners advertising the movie, according to Subway spokesman Les Winograd.
“Neither the German franchisees nor Subway paid for or created” the tray liners, Winograd said in a Tuesday telephone interview from Subway’s franchise headquarters in Milford, Conn.
But after receiving e-mails from U.S. expatriates, the Washington-based National Legal and Policy Center began a campaign to kill the promotion, which the center’s chairman, Ken Boehm, called “beyond the pale.”
The tray liners “were in bad taste and not the way to behave in the global community,” Boehm said in a Monday telephone interview. “You don’t want to politicize fast food, for crying out loud.”
On July 28, three Washington-based conservative interest groups sent a letter to Subway chairman Fred DeLuca that accused the Subway campaign of advancing “anti-American rhetoric and false, negative stereotypes in an already heated political environment.”
The most offensive element of the campaign, the letter to DeLuca said, is the tray liner’s cartoon depiction of a plump Statue of Liberty holding fries and a hamburger, which makes “mockery of our national symbol.”
But the notion of an ever-expanding Statue of Liberty “is a major theme in the film,” Winograd said, not something that was created specifically for the tray liners.
The groups also objected to the promotion’s “derogatory” use of the word “Ami,” as shorthand for “American,” Boehm said.
“It’s a little like calling someone from Japan a ‘Jap’,” Boehm said. “No other major U.S. corporation markets their product by making ethnic, religious, or prejudicial” references to their customers.
Winograd disagreed with the Boehm’s translation of the German phrase.
“‘Ami’ is an affectionate nickname, more like calling an American a ‘Yank’,” he said.
The National Legal and Policy Center sent similar letters of protest to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and members of both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, asking them to contact Subway regarding its “anti-American advertising campaign.”
The German Subway franchisees “were very heartsick to find there was a furor,” Winograd said. The promotion “was innocuous and innocent. There was no insult intended.”
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=23614
Fret not, my fellow freeper, Arby's wraps are way better than Subway's.
If you would like to contact Subway, here is there email form;
http://www.subway.com/subwayroot/Applications/CustServ/frmCustomerService.aspx
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