Saturday, February 4, 2017

Butt Burgers

You gotta love the rivalry that comes out of competition.

Trump labor nominee's company sued rival for implying its burgers came from cow's anus 
Donald Trump's labor secretary nominee, Andrew Puzder, doesn't appreciate being the butt of his competitors' jokes.
In 2007, CKE Restaurants, the fast food company headed by Puzder, sued rival Jack-in-the-Box for suggesting that the meat in Hardee's and Carl's Jr. angus beef burgers was anything but top quality.
At issue were two ads from Jack-in-the-Box. In one ad, Jack-in-the-Box employees laughed every time the word Angus was said. In another, Jack, the company's mascot, leads a meeting where he refuses to point to where Angus beef comes from.
"That's the sirloin area," Jack says, while pointing to an image of different cuts of beef from a cow.
"Jack, our competitors serve Angus burgers. Could you point to the Angus area?," a man in the meeting asks.
"I'd rather not," Jack responds.~snip~
From a consumers point of view ads like this should be hilarious and nothing more but, shockingly, there's an alarmingly significant number of people who allegedly don't get the joke.
CKE Restaurants saw initial setbacks in the case. Attempts to get an injunction to have ads removed from the air were denied, and a judge said he was not convinced by a survey submitted by CKE Restaurants that of 404 people, 36% thought Angus beef came from the butt of the cow.
Lawsuit worthy?
Stay tuned.

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