Re: Dark Week Time Wasting Thread


"James Langdell" wrote...

I suppose the current "What part of the cow is the
angus?" ad is more likely to get the company into legal trouble with
its competition.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/05/29/jack-in-the-box-sued-over-commercial-video/

Jack in the Box sued over commercial - VIDEO
A couple new commercials for Jack in the Box's new sirloin burgers has
spurred CKE Restaurants to file a lawsuit against the fast food chain. In
one of the offending ads, Jack, the mascot, tells his fellow board members
about the new sirloin burger. When he's asked to point to the "Angus" part
of the cow, he says, "I'd rather not," indicating that it comes from the
part of the cow that could be described as "Angus" without the "g." CKE
Restaurants owns Hardee's and Carl's Jr., both of which serve Angus burgers.
CKE Restaurants, correctly, points out that Angus is not a cut of meat but a
type of cow. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday, claims the ads confuse
consumers into thinking that Jack in the Box offers a better quality meat
than Burger King.

Jack in the Box has refused to remove the ads, citing an ad from Carl's Jr.
that suggests its milkshakes are superior to its competitors.

What none of these lawyers and fast food owners have taken into
consideration is that all this talk takes attention away from my new
restaurant that only serves meat from the animal's ***. I'm calling it
Uncle Rumpenstein's Booty Buffet. Grand opening is next month. Bring the
kids.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18894390/
Burger wars: Jack in the Box sued over ad
Competitor has a beef over Angus commercial: 'They're not being funny'
LOS ANGELES - The parent company of the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's fast food
chains sued rival Jack In The Box Inc. on Friday to stop TV ads that it says
suggest Carl's Jr. and Hardee's use cow anus to make Angus beef hamburgers.

CKE Restaurants Inc. sued Jack In The Box in U.S. District Court on Friday
over an ad in which executives laugh hysterically at the word "Angus" and
another where the chain's pingpong ball-headed mascot, Jack, is asked to
point to a diagram of a cow and show where Angus meat comes from.

"I'd rather not," the pointy-nosed Jack replies.

The employee asking the question traces a circle in the air with his pen
while pronouncing the word Angus.

CKE claims the ads create the misleading impression that Jack In The Box's
new 100 percent sirloin burgers use a better quality of meat than the Angus
beef used by Carl's Jr. and Hardee's. CKE claims the spots confuse consumers
by comparing sirloin, a cut of meat found on all cattle, with Angus, which
is a breed of cattle.

Executives at San Diego-based Jack In The Box had not seen the lawsuit and
could not respond, company spokeswoman Kathleen Anthony said.

Restaurants owned by Burger King Holdings Inc. and McDonald's Corp. also
serve Angus beef burgers.

CKE is known for running controversial ads for its chains, including one
featuring a scantily clad Paris Hilton washing a car while eating a burger.
But CKE claims the Jack In the Box ads go too far.

"They're not being funny," CKE chief executive Andrew F. Puzder said Friday.
"They need to stop misleading people about what Angus beef is."

Puzder said that the company asked Jack In the Box to drop the ads, but that
the chain refused and pointed to a Carl's Jr. TV spot suggesting Carl's Jr.
milk shakes were superior to those served by competitors.

Puzder said the comparison was not valid because the Carl's Jr. ads did not
suggest that Jack In the Box shakes were made from milk that came from an
unsavory part of the cow.

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They already have done a commercial about being sued about where the
competition's meat comes from.

I just wish whoever made up the company's ads also made up their
recipies. Then the food at Jack In The Box might be more to my taste.

You should actually try the Sirlon Burger. Very good.

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Alan

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