Burger King's Whopper Virgins.

[Dinner]

I thought this was an interesting bit of advertising, market research, and documentary work all rolled into one. Burger King wanted to do a taste test between the Whopper and the Big Mac but they wanted to hear from people who had never tried a hamburger before nor be exposed to advertising by either firm. To do this they went around the world finding people in extremely remote locations who had never eaten a hamburger and sometimes never even heard of a hamburger before. This video is their result. I must say it was kind of interesting just watching people try to figure out how exactly you eat a hamburger, how you hold it, etc...

http://www.whoppervirgins.com/

[snoopy369]

Okay, who is paying you for the advertising...

You know it's not market research, right? And not documentary work? It's just ... a commercial. By a crappy fast food company. Perhaps THE crappy fast food company (I consider them much worse than McD's both in average restaurant quality and in taste).

[Riesstiu IV]

It would have been more entertaining to give one single burger to a group of starving Somalians in a refugee camp.

[Docfeelgood]

I found it interesting. thank you.

[RGBVideo]

is this your new job?

[SlowwHand]

Who cares what some aborigine thinks about a hamburger?

[Winston]

I'd buy a Whopper if it comes with a virgin.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Pedo-Winston

[Felch]

Pretty cool stuff. Obviously a commercial, but a good commercial.

I'm surprised Romanians are that isolated from hamburgers. Hmong villagers I can understand, and Inuit too. I figured Romanians would have some contact with American culture. And that would be McDonalds.

[snoopy369]

Umm, you have some reason for believing these people have actually never seen a hamburger... why?

I bet you think there were WMDs in Iraq also ...

[Wiglaf]

Do you people have any friends? If you did you'd have seen this last year.

[Naked Gents Rut]

That video is obviously fake. The only black people in Minnesota are Prince and Kirby Puckett.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Umm, you have some reason for believing these people have actually never seen a hamburger... why?

I bet you think there were WMDs in Iraq also ...

QFT

All those people in the commercials were actors folks.

[Unimatrix11]

On a somewhat related note: How do you call the job/people, who tidy up a fast-food restaurant? I recently learned, in germany they are called ´night-cleaners´ - no translation; and i would place a bet, that nowhere else in the world, including every english-speaking country, they are called this way.

[Felch]

QFT

All those people in the commercials were actors folks.

Legally speaking, is Burger King allowed to claim that they aren't actors even if they are? I mean, it's not airing on public airwaves, so the FCC doesn't really have a role. Is there some other body of law that forbids false claims in advertising?