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This is the new Subway ad in Germany. Some say it looks like the 9/11 incident. What do you think?

Hmmmmm makes you wonder if Subway is run by Al Quida.......naaaaaaaaaa way to.......well..........hmmmmmmm

since we weren't attacked by a giant sandwich my vote is for no.

When did Subway start selling cheeseburgers?

rednekkPH wrote:When did Subway start selling cheeseburgers?

i beleave subway is saying cheesburgers are bad.

A1A BOUND wrote:

rednekkPH wrote:When did Subway start selling cheeseburgers?

i beleave subway is saying cheesburgers are bad.

oh. oops

A1A BOUND wrote:

rednekkPH wrote:When did Subway start selling cheeseburgers?

i beleave subway is saying cheesburgers are bad.

does this mean that mad cow disease was invented by Al Queda ? I bet that is the WMD

Cheeseburgers are not paradise afterall

Godzilla was destroying buildings for decades before Al (ci-) Qaeda. It's not like they have a trademark on it or something. (Oooops! Better not give them any ideas. Think what terror they could wreak with a team of hydrophobic lawyers.)

On the other hand I am offended that one of my primary food groups should be so slandered...
"Cry Havoc, and loose the legal pitbulls upon those XXXXXXXX... !"
"Grrrr"

Sure, NOW you want a lawyer.

rednekkPH wrote:

A1A BOUND wrote:

rednekkPH wrote:When did Subway start selling cheeseburgers?

i beleave subway is saying cheesburgers are bad.

oh. oops

That's all I got out of it too! So are they saying cheeseburgers are as bad as Al Quada?!? I don't get it.

I'm just tired of the ads that put down the other guy

I hate Geico but that lil lizard is funny

RAGTOP wrote:since we weren't attacked by a giant sandwich my vote is for no.

Ditto.

And PLEASE PLEASE stop with the burgers! I just got my wisdom teeth removed yesterday and can't eat anything that's not mushy!

that is soooo not cool

lovin_jimmy wrote:that is soooo not cool

Your right, you would think they would find some other way to advertise and get the message across that does not include any possible controversy. I guess there is a reason they only put the ads out in Germany in kept them out of North America!

Seriously? 11 people think it's reminiscient of 9/11?

It's a play on Godzilla... there are no airplanes... those aren't the twin towers (there's at least 4 or 5 buildings in the illustration)... we weren't attacked by a cheeseburger...

A little bit, kinda sorta. But mostly it just demonstrating "heavy" food.

I looked at this yesterday and then again this evening.
I don't like it... but then again, I'm not German either.

Perhaps it helps to understand the context - these were illustrations for ads for Morgan Spurlock's "Supersize Me", a film about American Fast Food Culture. The German distributors wanted to advertise in Subway restaurants and the illustration is meant to show Fast Food rampaging through america. There's also one of a fat Statue of Liberty.

There's clearly more than two towers in the illustrtation and the cheeseburger isn't attacking from the air, he's attacking from land. I still think that saying this is reminiscent of 9/11 is a HUGE leap.

9/11 is and always will be an extremely touchy subject for me. Some of my friends died that day, and friends of friends. Other friends saw things that will haunt them forever. As a direct result, I and tens of thousands of other military members left home for as much as two years.

All that having been said, and as touchy as I am on this issue, I still think it looks more like Godzilla than 9/11. And once it's put in the context of Lee's last post, even more so.

here are a few links regarding this:

http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/ ... 0805b.html

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp ... 0804c.html

http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/ ... 0803b.html