Burger King's Whopper Virgins.

[onodera]

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.

Don't forget that Romania is not a rich country. For many people there a fast-food restaurant is still a restaurant, a fancy and expensive place to go and eat. The video did mention that all of the tasters lived reasonably close to both burger joints so they could be fed real burgers, it's just that they have never even though of going there. If you live in a village and don't have a TV you are isolated from any fast-food advertising. I'm sure you could find a lot of people in Russia who have never had a hamburger before.

[OzzyKP]

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?

These ads are being shown on tv.

[SpencerH]

While the people in the commercial may be actors (there's no evidence of that, it's simply a possibility), there's no evidence that BK didnt do what they said they've done, ie ask people who've never eaten a hamburger and have not been exposed to our advertising to compare the Big Mac against The Whopper.

Personally I like the double whopper with cheese and bacon. Hardee's triple thick burger with cheese and bacon is the winner of the fast food chains though.

[Darius871]

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

don't forget Guzman

[Zero]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/53099/saturday-night-live-whopper-virgins

[Zkribbler]

Personally I like the double whopper with cheese and bacon...

From me, who's had gall stones + 1 heart attack: Repent, my son!

[aneeshm]

Pedo-Winston

A predilection for virgins does not a paedophile make.

[Space05us]

Whataburger makes infinitely better hamburgers than either McDonalds or Burger King.

[Fake Boris]

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.

Rural Eastern Europe is pretty backwards (economically, at least). You still got farmers bringing the goods to the market with a horse-drawn cart.
There is just one McD in Kiev (and that's a 2+m city).

[SpencerH]

From me, who's had gall stones + 1 heart attack: Repent, my son!

I only eat about 2-3 fastfood hamburgers a year, so it's not a worry.

[Dr Strangelove]

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/

How is this news? That entire commercial series came and went last year. Honestly I don't watch TV that much, but I remember them about a year ago.

[Winston]

How is this news? That entire commercial series came and went last year. Honestly I don't watch TV that much, but I remember them about a year ago.

Ah, but only now did Oerdin think of conducting an online search for the string "virgin+whop".

[Zero]

ive never seen the actual commercial. just the snl version i linked above.

[Kidlicious]

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?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanham_Act

[Grandpa Troll]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanham_Act

Irony

Wikipedia having an article about false advertisement