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McDonald's 'Make Burger History' Site Hijacked With Offensive Burger Ideas (stuff.co.nz)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Stuff.co.nz: McDonald's New Zealand has been left with egg on its face after a raft of bad-taste burger suggestions customers forced it to quickly take down its new design-your-own-burger website. The company launched its "Make Burger History" site this week, as part of a new promotion where customers can "build your own unique burger" and get free fries and a medium soft drink. "Just come in to a participating 'Create Your Taste' McDonald's and order your Creation at the self ordering kiosk," McDonald's promised. But its failure to consider what pranksters might dream up online has left the company red-faced, with the website overrun by racist, homophobic and otherwise offensive suggestions. The page now redirects to the McDonald's homepage. The burger concepts ranged from the mild, such as "Bag of Lettuce" (literally just a pile of lettuce leaves) and "The Carbonator" (seven burger buns, no filling), to X-rated, including "Girth" (a stack of seven undressed burger patties) and "Ron's Creamy Surprise" (a pile of mayonnaise, best left unexplained). But many went totally tasteless, creating burgers with names like "Mosque at Ground-Zero," "Rektal Prolapse" and "Toddler Body Bag," some of which ended up on the website's front page before it was shut down entirely overnight.
Sometimes I miss out on all of the fun.
I revile hatred and bigotry. Yet I love the internet.
How can these both be true? Oh internet, you are a sweet sweet mystery.
...I would've just created a "Fullet'o'Fush" and "Chups".
In the spirit of Boaty McBoatface, why not "Ronald McDonald"? ...... oh, wait
Table-ized A.I.
"Ask the internet, and ye shall receive that which you did not expect"
It's almost like they hired Tay to do their PR.
Tay was too busy submitting new burger ideas.
Because it's not about the UK where people wear top hats, monocles and would look down on that sort of witlessness. .
On the plus side, none of these were more tasteless than the burgers themselves.
Can you get a "Fapple" without the mayonnaise? Or is that just not possible?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Unlike that apostrophe.
Hell, one time I got an ass chewing from my doctor for not having *enough* salt in my blood.
That's quite an...unusual...way of testing for salt in the diet.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.