Slog - Comments on Naked Lunch http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch Burger King wants you to know that it selects only the finest, freshest vegetables to accompany its previously frozen meats. To illustrate its scrutinizing process, an ad campaign depicts anthropomorphized vegetables, representing the best and worst of humanity. One shows a red-light district, featuring a randy tomato and busty corn. Another ad, printed on tray liners at an airport, shows two upstanding peppers waltzing past a baggage-claim checkpoint, while a rubber-gloved security pickle prepares to cavity-search a nervous onion. Reads the bottom of the ad: “At Burger King we’re extremely serious about controlling the quality of our ingredients. That’s why... Copyright 2008 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:41:35 -0800 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:32:51 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Katelyn Violent Veg is much better. Come On, BK, if you're gonna bite... do it with style!

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068114 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068114 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:50:03 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo Cavity searches: Always funny. Sure, we've all pretty much resigned ourselves to living in a police state, but at least we get to live in a wacky! fun-filled! police state.

So that's something.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068122 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068122 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:53:46 -0800 Comment by E "May we forever associate Burger King onions with anal cavity searches.' - butt of course, the odor of the two is so similar.

]]> E http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068125 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068125 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:56:13 -0800 Comment by Darcy Do those lady veggies have breasts? God, this is weird. I hate anthropomorphized food.

]]> Darcy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068128 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068128 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:58:24 -0800 Comment by Abby @4: yes, yes they do. In fact, the onion even has vegetable porn.

]]> Abby http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068136 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068136 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:04:07 -0800 Comment by giantladysquirrels Couldn't they have come up with a better title than PlayVeg?

]]> giantladysquirrels http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068141 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068141 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:07:39 -0800 Comment by Darcy @5: Ahh, I just noticed that. Man, BK ads consistently make me feel creeped out. I hate the King, too.

]]> Darcy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068143 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068143 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:08:32 -0800 Comment by --MC More strange than this is the one showing the brothel street -- the potato madame standing under a sign that says, in lurid red neon, HAVE IT YOUR WAY. The peppers with tits! The onion in Y-fronts!

]]> --MC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068146 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068146 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:09:19 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways why are all the security people cucumbers? Is it a racial thing?

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068153 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068153 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:12:02 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball Mr. Poe hates onions. This could all be his doing.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068155 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068155 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:12:54 -0800 Comment by scary tyler moore i am bringing an onion to slog happy so dominic can do his own anal cavity search. and i'll film it, too.

]]> scary tyler moore http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068159 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068159 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -0800 Comment by genevieve ew.

]]> genevieve http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068172 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068172 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:28:41 -0800 Comment by Jeremy from Seattle The Pickle has some pubes sticking out....

]]> Jeremy from Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068189 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068189 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:42:06 -0800 Comment by lostboy BK must be pretty confident that its demographic consists entirely of law-and-order conservatives now.  Did Super Size Me really have that big an effect?

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068190 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068190 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:42:54 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball @13 -- I thought that was a distended anus.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068192 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068192 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:43:45 -0800 Comment by PopTart Gramps onion with his shorts down and his butt about to be probed makes me want to disavow vegetable eating for the forseeable future. The skanky potato in the red light district ad pretty much seals the deal. But the "how we get ketchup" ad was kinda funny.

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068193 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068193 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:44:18 -0800 Comment by laterite I can never tell if Burger King's marketing department consists of autistic stoner geniuses with a coke problem, or particularly lucid escaped schizophrenics with a coke problem. Either way, there is plenty of coke floating around BK headquarters.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068205 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068205 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:51:28 -0800 Comment by Andrew Pendleton The onion has a suitcase full of clothes, but vegetables don't seem to wear clothing. In fact, the onion seems to be the only one wearing any, and his pants seem only to be there so that we can see that they've been lowered... and, of course, they don't seem to be worn over underwear, despite the fact that he owns some (we see a pair of briefs on the floor). Somebody didn't think things through, unless this is supposed to be some terrible future where they've banned clothing on planes and in airports to keep people (/veggies) from concealing bottles of shampoo and other dangerous objects.

]]> Andrew Pendleton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068221 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068221 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:07:54 -0800 Comment by dkl that copickle looks like George Michael!

from here:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oyw-Cdg5L._SL160_AA115_.jpg

or from his "Outside" video!

]]> dkl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068236 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068236 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:33:22 -0800 Comment by Etherite @7 The King freaks me the fuck out for some reason.

Is it just me, or does the pickle about to do the probing remind anyone of an anthropomorphized vegetable version of the cop from The Village People?

]]> Etherite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068251 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068251 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:59:36 -0800 Comment by sad panda This is making me hungry.

]]> sad panda http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068287 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068287 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:48:19 -0800 Comment by garth Dan needs to lecture the chili sex worker. Don't leave pickles tied up and unattended!

]]> garth http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068334 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068334 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:24:25 -0800 Comment by Luke Baggins Anyone not amused by this is a prude who probably has a pickle like the one in the picture -- village people costume and all-- up their ass. It makes me want to eat tons of Burger King even though Mcdonald's is better.

]]> Luke Baggins http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068400 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068400 Chow Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:47:21 -0800 Comment by inkweary This gives new meaning to the jingle lyric "hold the pickles".

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068826 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1068826 Chow Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:26:34 -0800 Comment by anonymonday mmmmm.....pickled onions.

]]> anonymonday http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1069316 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1069316 Chow Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:26:54 -0800 Comment by Ellen I just like the part where you said "onion's butt."

]]> Ellen http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1069981 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/naked_lunch#c1069981 Chow Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:32:51 -0800