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quickdodge®
05-28-2007, 08:50 AM
They're not funny. Lolol.

LINK TO VIDEO!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKizLGVtvA)

Burger wars: Jack in the Box sued over ad
Competitor has a beef over Angus commercial: 'They're not being funny'
The Associated Press
Updated: 11:40 a.m. CT May 27, 2007

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.

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!! I thought that fucking video was funny as hail. Later, QD.

David88vert
05-28-2007, 09:21 AM
That IS funny. That is SMART advertising. It's NOT misleading at all.

SLow_POke
05-28-2007, 01:42 PM
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w294/MoDans55/Animations/ROFLOL1.gif .

BABY J
05-28-2007, 01:48 PM
1) What's this?

2) Directions.

1) Directions to where?

2) Burger wars. We'll see how you do... then we'll talk.

VooDooXII
05-28-2007, 04:58 PM
That really is funny.

Ltdnismorace
05-28-2007, 05:07 PM
how is carl's junior/hardees gonna justify that in a lawsuit?

cactusEG
05-28-2007, 05:07 PM
jack in the box has bad ass food.. i dont see y their getting sued for angus shit?

BuBBa DRiFT
05-28-2007, 05:09 PM
link to commercial?

quickdodge®
05-28-2007, 05:09 PM
To cactusEG ^^^ You must not have gotten the joke. Later, QD.

quickdodge®
05-28-2007, 05:09 PM
link to commercial?

If you're too stupid to see it, I shouldn't tell you that it's already linked in the first post. Later, QD.

BuBBa DRiFT
05-28-2007, 05:10 PM
found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKizLGVtvA

BuBBa DRiFT
05-28-2007, 05:11 PM
lol i was looking for a long youtube url my bad haha

HeLLo iM iZzY
05-28-2007, 05:21 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3je86z5b42U&NR=1

LOL.

cactusEG
05-28-2007, 05:22 PM
To cactusEG ^^^ You must not have gotten the joke. Later, QD.

nope not at all...

quickdodge®
05-28-2007, 05:24 PM
nope not at all...

Take the G out of angus and what word do you have? Then watch that video again and remember that word when the guys asks Jack to tell where the part of the cow the angus is. Later, QD.

cactusEG
05-28-2007, 05:29 PM
Take the G out of angus and what word do you have? Then watch that video again and remember that word when the guys asks Jack to tell where the part of the cow the angus is. Later, QD.

lol anus

quickdodge®
05-28-2007, 05:31 PM
AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Later, QD.

Ed
05-28-2007, 06:04 PM
did you really not get it in the first place? thats interesting. ;)

mikebluS2G
05-28-2007, 06:08 PM
hahahahaha..those comercials are great though.....they cant do anything about it though.....theres no proof of mis-leading anything...

Maniaç
05-28-2007, 06:25 PM
i don't see whats the big deal is about jack n the box.. its not even that good...

BurgerKing & Taco Bell FTW!