gdoane
April 14th, 2009, 9:23 am
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/04/13/20090413mexicoburgerking.html
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MEXICO CITY - Mexico is protesting what it says is a whopper of an insult.
An advertisement for Burger King's chili-flavored "Texican" burger that has run in Europe shows a small wrestler dressed in a cape resembling a Mexican flag. The wrestler teams up with a lanky American cowboy twice his height to illustrate the cross-border blend of flavors.
"The taste of Texas with a little spicy Mexican," a narrator's voice says.
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Now, I live in Phoenix, AZ. I can go to the store and find JELLO in the colors of the Mexican flag. It's sold that way in the green, white and red colors of the Mexican flag all wiggly and jiggly.
The Mexican Flag has an Eagle sitting on a Prickly Pear Cactus holding a snake. I've seen Prickly Pear Cactus and I've seen Eagles. No WAY is anything even HALF the size of an Eagle going to perch on a Prickly Pear Cactus and not collapse into a pile of needles and cactus goo.
Here's the story on the Mexican Flag's Eagle.
http://gomexico.about.com/od/historyculture/qt/mexican_flag.htm
"The Mexican Coat of Arms is taken from an Aztec legend which recounts the way in which the Aztecs came to choose the site where they built their capital city of Tenochtitlan (where Mexico City stands today). The Aztecs, also known as the Mexica ("meh-shee-ka"), were a nomadic people traveling from the north of the country. Their leader was informed in a dream by the god of war, Huitzilopochtli, that they were to settle in the place where they would find an eagle on a prickly pear cactus holding a serpent. The place where they saw this sight was quite inhospitable - a swampy area in the center of three lakes, but this is where they settled and built the great city of Tenochtitlan."
You know, if I told you that some God of War with a seven-syllable name told me to build a city when I saw an eagle perched with a snake on a cactus, you'd call the guys in the white coats to take the crazy man away.
This isn't just slightly crazy, this is full-blown cuckoo class crazy. This is Jack Nicholson gets a lobotomy class crazy.
Mexico is SO PROUD of this flag that they'll fight BURGER KING to keep it's honor. Where were they in WWII? They weren't fighting the Nazis. Where are they now in the Middle East? Are they fighting terrorism?
No. They're fighting BURGER KING and saying that their flag is getting international exposure in a disrespectful way. Well, Mexico, when has your flag ever gotten international exposure in a respectful way, huh?
The ONLY REASON Mexico's candy ass isn't currently a fully owned subsidiary of Spain is because of the USA. We beat Spain for their freedom and we beat Mexico for the Alamo. We owned them TWICE and set them free.
Now they're a proud nation out to protect their flag? HEY MEXICO. You have 120 Million citizens and 12 MILLION of them LEFT, they're HERE as illegal aliens because YOU SUCK.
I don't even get how a nation so bad that it has a flag based on some freaky War God and citizens who flee the hellhole in six-digit figures every year has the audacity to go after a burger joint disrespecting their colors.
They're lucky I'm not running Burger King. I'd introduce the Alamo Burger. It would be a small thing, done in a few bites and doesn't put up much of a fight but the payback is going to be Hell.
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MEXICO CITY - Mexico is protesting what it says is a whopper of an insult.
An advertisement for Burger King's chili-flavored "Texican" burger that has run in Europe shows a small wrestler dressed in a cape resembling a Mexican flag. The wrestler teams up with a lanky American cowboy twice his height to illustrate the cross-border blend of flavors.
"The taste of Texas with a little spicy Mexican," a narrator's voice says.
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Now, I live in Phoenix, AZ. I can go to the store and find JELLO in the colors of the Mexican flag. It's sold that way in the green, white and red colors of the Mexican flag all wiggly and jiggly.
The Mexican Flag has an Eagle sitting on a Prickly Pear Cactus holding a snake. I've seen Prickly Pear Cactus and I've seen Eagles. No WAY is anything even HALF the size of an Eagle going to perch on a Prickly Pear Cactus and not collapse into a pile of needles and cactus goo.
Here's the story on the Mexican Flag's Eagle.
http://gomexico.about.com/od/historyculture/qt/mexican_flag.htm
"The Mexican Coat of Arms is taken from an Aztec legend which recounts the way in which the Aztecs came to choose the site where they built their capital city of Tenochtitlan (where Mexico City stands today). The Aztecs, also known as the Mexica ("meh-shee-ka"), were a nomadic people traveling from the north of the country. Their leader was informed in a dream by the god of war, Huitzilopochtli, that they were to settle in the place where they would find an eagle on a prickly pear cactus holding a serpent. The place where they saw this sight was quite inhospitable - a swampy area in the center of three lakes, but this is where they settled and built the great city of Tenochtitlan."
You know, if I told you that some God of War with a seven-syllable name told me to build a city when I saw an eagle perched with a snake on a cactus, you'd call the guys in the white coats to take the crazy man away.
This isn't just slightly crazy, this is full-blown cuckoo class crazy. This is Jack Nicholson gets a lobotomy class crazy.
Mexico is SO PROUD of this flag that they'll fight BURGER KING to keep it's honor. Where were they in WWII? They weren't fighting the Nazis. Where are they now in the Middle East? Are they fighting terrorism?
No. They're fighting BURGER KING and saying that their flag is getting international exposure in a disrespectful way. Well, Mexico, when has your flag ever gotten international exposure in a respectful way, huh?
The ONLY REASON Mexico's candy ass isn't currently a fully owned subsidiary of Spain is because of the USA. We beat Spain for their freedom and we beat Mexico for the Alamo. We owned them TWICE and set them free.
Now they're a proud nation out to protect their flag? HEY MEXICO. You have 120 Million citizens and 12 MILLION of them LEFT, they're HERE as illegal aliens because YOU SUCK.
I don't even get how a nation so bad that it has a flag based on some freaky War God and citizens who flee the hellhole in six-digit figures every year has the audacity to go after a burger joint disrespecting their colors.
They're lucky I'm not running Burger King. I'd introduce the Alamo Burger. It would be a small thing, done in a few bites and doesn't put up much of a fight but the payback is going to be Hell.