Burger King pulls ad showing diners using chopsticks to eat burgers
A clip of the commercial, which was posted on the company’s New Zealand Instagram account, but has since been deleted, shows people awkwardly trying to hold Burger King’s new Vietnamese Sweet Chilli Tendercrisp burgers with large red chopsticks.
In a caption accompanying the clip, the fast-food chain wrote “Take your taste buds all the way to Ho Chi Minh City with our Vietnamese Sweet Chilli Tendercrisp.” Maria Mo, a Korean woman living in New Zealand, noticed the advertisement on Instagram earlier this week and posted the clip to her Twitter account, which has since been deleted.She also wrote a thread on Twitter expressing her disappointment in the commercial.
“I’m so sick of racism of any kind. Of the kind that makes fun of different cultures,” she said. “Say no to every single manifestation of it.”“How did this ever get approved to be released in New Zealand...
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