Today while I was running I was watching some inane show on the television (there isn't much on at 9:30 am on a Friday) when a McDonald's ad came up. It was for chicken nuggets and featured very fit, beautiful people dipping Chicken McNuggets in corn syrup--sorry, I mean sauce--and very much enjoying it. At the end of the ad, a narrator said something like "take joy in the temptation." (Actually, whatever the narrator said struck me so much, I thought, "I have to get off the treadmill and write that down because if I don't I will forget it, and if I forget it, I will regret not writing it down because it was such an awful thing to say." Of course, I did not get off the treadmill (ironically, I was too lazy to get off the treadmill and find a pen and paper) and promptly forgot exactly what the narrator said. Anyway, "take joy in the temptation" is pretty close to what he or she (I can't remember if it was a male or female narrator) said.)
I really could not believe McDonald's was passing along the message that we should take joy in giving into temptation. I mean, look, I like corn syrup just as much as the next guy. In fact, I saw an ad on television the other day (I was running then too) by some trade group trying to petition to change the name from "high fructose corn syrup" to "corn sugar." To learn "the truth" about corn sugar, check out the group's website www.sweetsurprise.com. They have all sorts of studies and experts on the website to contradict all of the corn sugar/syrup hater's studies and experts. I don't know who is right and who is wrong, but I do like McDonald's "dipping sauces," and have been known to get Chicken McNuggets simply for the corn syrup/dipping sauce.
Despite this, I cannot condone this new ad. McDonald's should be ashamed of itself to, on JANUARY 7, try to convince people to give in to temptation and break their New Year's resolutions. It is pathetic and I will have nothing to do with it. I therefore call all Americans to arms (figuratively, please do not bring firearms) and join me in the fight (again, this is a figurative fight) against McDonald's by banding together and boycotting the Golden Arches until the end of March 2011. That is right, an old fashioned boycott. Let's show those fat cats who are making us fat people that we will not give in to temptation. We will not eat their "delicious, fresh made, and oh-so satisfying sandwiches" (those are their words, by the way, not mine). We will not drink their perfectly mixed, ice-cold beverages, their creamy, a-little-too-runny milkshakes, or their wannabe Starbucks-quality coffee. We will not eat their golden, crispy, perfectly fried french fries. And we will not partake of their dipping sauces.
Join me in this battle, my friends, against this member of the Fat Man's Axis of Evil (more about the Fat Man's Axis of Evil another day). Take the pledge today by either commenting on my blog or sending me an email. I will keep track of the number of people (not necessarily who, but just how many) people will join me in this effort. I know it will be hard, but have courage friends. We can do this; we can resist McDonald's; we can resist the joy of temptation.
1 comment:
Jeff, this will be hard for me...but I will join you.
ps. Why March???
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