panillo
10-11-07, 07:40 PM
I don't eat much fast food anymore. Maybe it's because I read Fast Food Nation a few years back and that scared me off the chalupas and whoppers. Or it could be because the doctor told me to watch my fat intake and ease off the fried foods.
When I really think about it though, those excuses are kinda lame. I think that the real reason I don't eat fast food is because fast food restaurants are doing their damndest to scare us away from their restaurants. I mean look at the weirdos they have peddling their food. Scary clowns? Creepy old men? Purple blobs? The fast food companies been subjecting us to these creeps for years, but recently the situation has become unbearable.
So without further ado, I present to you my list of the 10 creepiest fast food mascots [note: I'm limiting the list to characters peddling goods for fast food outlets - I realize that the Kool Aid Man and Count Chocula are also disturbing, but that's for another list.
#10: The Quiznos Rat/Hamster Thing
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6996/01dp2.jpg
Who thought selling fresh, healthy sandwiches alongside a mangy deranged rodent was a good idea? The last thing I want to think about when I'm eating food is some bubonic plague carrying, disease-ridden rat. At least Subway had the decency to saddle us with Jared Fogle (http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/17/subway.guy.ap/).
Need more evidence? Tell me you want a Quiznos sub after watching this advertisement with the Quiznos rodent... (http://www.fanpop.com/site/go?url=http://www.fanpop.com/spots/legendary-ads/links/13505)
#9: The Dominos Noid
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7472/02ig9.jpg
A fixture of the Dominos Pizza commercials from the 80s and 90s, the Noid was a small goblin-like humanoid with rabbit ears dressed in a tight red latex suit that communicated via a series of chortles and grunts. Tell me that ain't creepy.
Need more evidence? The animated Noid in the TV commercials was bad enough. But adults dressing up as the Noid for Halloween and, more recently, 80s parties? Oh the humanity!
Rest Here.. (http://www.fanpop.com/spots/legendary-ads/soapbox/56)
When I really think about it though, those excuses are kinda lame. I think that the real reason I don't eat fast food is because fast food restaurants are doing their damndest to scare us away from their restaurants. I mean look at the weirdos they have peddling their food. Scary clowns? Creepy old men? Purple blobs? The fast food companies been subjecting us to these creeps for years, but recently the situation has become unbearable.
So without further ado, I present to you my list of the 10 creepiest fast food mascots [note: I'm limiting the list to characters peddling goods for fast food outlets - I realize that the Kool Aid Man and Count Chocula are also disturbing, but that's for another list.
#10: The Quiznos Rat/Hamster Thing
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6996/01dp2.jpg
Who thought selling fresh, healthy sandwiches alongside a mangy deranged rodent was a good idea? The last thing I want to think about when I'm eating food is some bubonic plague carrying, disease-ridden rat. At least Subway had the decency to saddle us with Jared Fogle (http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/17/subway.guy.ap/).
Need more evidence? Tell me you want a Quiznos sub after watching this advertisement with the Quiznos rodent... (http://www.fanpop.com/site/go?url=http://www.fanpop.com/spots/legendary-ads/links/13505)
#9: The Dominos Noid
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7472/02ig9.jpg
A fixture of the Dominos Pizza commercials from the 80s and 90s, the Noid was a small goblin-like humanoid with rabbit ears dressed in a tight red latex suit that communicated via a series of chortles and grunts. Tell me that ain't creepy.
Need more evidence? The animated Noid in the TV commercials was bad enough. But adults dressing up as the Noid for Halloween and, more recently, 80s parties? Oh the humanity!
Rest Here.. (http://www.fanpop.com/spots/legendary-ads/soapbox/56)