Hardee's New Ad: Our Food Tastes Better Than Someone's Anus!
Not to be outdone by Burger King's "fellate our new burger" ad, Hardee's restaurant has launched a similarly juvenile campaign with its new "biscuit holes." You can probably guess where this is going.
Hardee's joins Burger King, Quizno's, and Carl's Jr. in the consortium of chains who have attempted to apply the "sex sells" adage to fast food. Hot!
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Hardee's and Carl's Jr are owned by the same parent company. I saw the Carl's Jr "Sexy Paris Hilton" ads here, but under the Hardee's name. No need to "add them to the list", they were already on it.
Jtook care of one of those needs. Now to get some lunch...
But ultimately aren't "b-holes" the same as "a-holes?"
Funny! If you're 8 years old . . .
We're slowly moving towards a society resembling the one in "Idiocracy".
While "Donut Holes" don't conjure the image of an "A" hole after watching this, the new "B"(iscut) Hole will forever be associated with butthole for me now.
Why is this "badvertising"? I laughed. I would definitely buy some B-holes.
yeah, it's a shame commercials have been dumbed down to this point. Remember when they used to ask philosophical questions about life, and any humor used was derived from the great comedies written by our forefathers?
God, people. Shut up. Commercials over the years have come in two flavors: "My product is good" and "Check out how cool we are". Don't be a pathetic tool trying to sound like you're "above" this kind of advertising. The whole point of such a commercial is to get people to NOTICE, they don't care if you like it or not. ...and here you are commenting.
You lose.
@Easton21: You could also go all freudian, for individuals who are both anally and orally fixated. It's another two-fer.
@RAEdwards: "Hardee's and Carl's Jr are owned by the same parent company."
I'm from the midwest and we have Hardee's and they completely suck. I would rather eat chalk
On the other hand, when I'm on the west coast I'll go out of my way to get a burger from Carl's Jr. They're awesome.
Does the parent company know that us fatties from the midwest have no taste and we'll eat anything? I'm just wondering.
This ("disliking the 'A-hole'") falls under "Sex sells"?
My inner fifth grader is giggling at this commercial
isnt the first girl the lead from Dead Like Me?
You didn't mention Jack in the Box. They're just as
guilty with their mocking of the "Angus" burgers from McDonalds.
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Hundreds of commercials on television and this one gets an article... Wouldn't you say that's a great ad?
It's somewhat amusing in a childish way, but mostly stupid. All of Hardee's food is nasty. I am glad they shut them all down where I live. I no longer have to smell their vile stench permeating the air with every breath.
@r0bVious: Plus, if someone can't be amused at the occasional off-color comment or lowbrow humor then they're just dead inside.
@Jim Topoleski: I don't know about her but that "A holes taste funny" guy sure looks an awful lot like Morgan Freeman.
@r0bVious: Thank you!
I get a little tired of the posturing too. Puerile jokes aren't new, nor are stupid commercials. They're just a bit more likely to be combined now.
And that's OK with me. It generally improves the jokes and the commercials.
The food itself is far more offensive to me than the innuendo used to sell it.
@GMFish: Hardee's and Carl's Jr. are exactly the same. Is it possible that you ate at Hardees about 5 years ago, before they revamped their menu, and then ate at a Carl's Jr. after the new menu came into being?
That six-dollar burger is pretty darn good,but I'm sure it will clog your heart in a very short time..
@techstar25: I would've been pressed to say this 5 years ago but yeah... pretty immature.
OTOH... it was pretty funny!
I refuse to eat there because I don't understand the name. Carl's junior what? Carl owns a junior?
@spanky: Puerile humor isn't new, but does that mean it should be used to advertise food? I'm just fine in a snack commercial not resorting to gross-out/overt sex humor, similarly to the way I'm okay with a web browser commercial not showing off fountains of fake vomit.
In the South, Carl's Jr. is called Hardees. Same crappy food and service though. I wonder if the holes will come with sausage and gravy.
What GARBAGE!!! I don't care how you dress up or undress the commercials, the people will NOT BUY the food if it isn't GOOD! For companies that started out as Family Friendly restaurant chains, they sure have done a great job in turning away the very people who helped them grow where they are today. I won't be taking any of my family to any restaurant that goes to this extreme.
@Spero: A hypothetical browser ad showing off fountains of fake vomit is a pretty big leap from a moderate double entendre in a food commercial.
@GMFish: I don't understand how you can say Hardee's sucks and Carl's Jr. is awesome, because they are exactly the same chain with different names depending on where in the country you are. The ads are even completely identical, just changing "Hardee's" to "Carl's Jr.", look them up on Youtube.
@techstar25: Shut up! Can't I eat my EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES in peace?
Jeez, these fries need more molecules.
"The best kind of holes money can buy".
They get a gold sticker for that one.
They should have thrown a salad into that commercial.
@Spero: I didn't say it should be mandatory. If it helps them sell stuff, they'll keep doing it. If it doesn't, they'll stop. I probably find that commercial more entertaining than a similar, boring one that doesn't have a potty joke in it, though, so the next time I'm sitting in front of the TV with my arms and legs all broken, I will probably be grateful for the less boring version.
The point, though, is that this doesn't spell the downfall of western civilization or anything. It's just a commercial with a potty joke in it.
@Easton21: I can't claim to be turned on, but dammit, you can't get good donuts or biscuits here in Norway, so I still think they look good!
The whole point of such a commercial is to get people to NOTICE, they don't care if you like it or not.
@r0bVious: Really? You mean they don't care if it fails to get people to buy their food?
I will say that this commercial is way better than the Burger King ad: it's not creepy and while it's using a double entendre it's not suggesting that we should be having sex with their food.
Juvenile? Absolutely (and I laughed - but I never claimed to be mature).
Sexual? Uh, yeah, not so much
@I Love New Jersey: Oh I get it! Because all of us who voted for Obama are dumb! It's amazing I'm still clever enough to catch the subtlety of your wit.
@Travishamockery: @korybing: They're not exactly the same. We had Hardee's in the South and they were absolutely awful, the bottom of the fast food barrel. Then I moved to the West Coast and tried Carl's Jr, which is, in fact, quite awesome. There's a HUGE difference in both quality and in the menu offerings. They do have a lot of the same things, but Hardee's is lacking most of the really good stuff from the Carl's Jr. menu, like the guacamole burger and the jalepeno burger and the teryaki burger and the Santa Fe chicken...
You know they're just putting electrolytes in those biscuit holes.
@geoffhazel: I'm proud to say that my 8-year-old daughter wouldn't understand what was funny about "A holes."
Maslow would be proud. They're pulling at multiple levels of our hierarchy of needs simultaneously and you know what? It's working. I'm both turned on AND hungry.