Not cool, guys. Really not cool.
An Atlanta restaurant called “Chops & Hops” used Chris Brown and Rihanna’s infamous 2009 post Grammy tete-a-tete to promote a burger on their menu called the “black and bleu” via Facebook. The restaurant chose to post this as the caption for the picture of the meal, shown above:
@chrisbrown, @rihanna and us teamed up for a award winning celebrity sandwich. Put your hands on this caribbean black and bleu sandwich. Chris Brown won’t beat you up for eating this unless your name starts with a R and ends with A.”
Apparently assault is a trivial matter in the burger business.
The post, understandably, caused a huge outcry from the public, who claimed the caption was in bad taste (no pun intended) and was a completely thoughtless act. No kidding. One woman posted this:
“Never, never will we cross the threshhold of your restaurant. You’ve really blown it with this ad. Domestic violence is not a joking matter and never should be made to appear so. Mark us down as 2 lost customers.”
Pretty harsh words, but given the post, it’s a pretty reasonable reaction. The restaurant has since apologized, saying that they do not support domestic violence and that they’re now donating six times the profits they made on the burger (which has since been taken off their menu entirely) to Project Safe Team 6, an organization which advocates against domestic violence. And we hope whoever wrote that post was fired, or at least has had his or her access to the restaurant’s Facebook completely revoked.
But preferably fired. (via NY Daily News)
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Not funny at all! But at least their trying to make up for it.
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wow. classy.
ranunculus / 3285 posts
Ugh, that’s awful.
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I tend to criticize people for being over-sensitive. But even I have to admit that this is harsh. And not at all funny, I mean if you’re going to make an offensive joke, make it funny! Even I can’t laugh at this and I’m notoriously easily amused.
orchid / 160 posts
I thought it was funny, but obviously terrible for marketing. Like it’d be funny on a bad tv show, not real life. If Rihanna hadn’t gone back to him, I would be all up in arms with y’all about this, but she obviously doesn’t care and would rather have forceps indents in her head than be single.
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Deff not funny at all. Its sickening.
sunflower / 332 posts
myeh…don’t care
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I didn’t find the response harsh. It was matter of fact and made complete sense. More people should make a stand.
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I laughed. But yeah, not effective marketing.
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Terrible. Good response, though.
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domestic violence is one of those things i’m really never cool with joking about. it’s just not funny at all. and by joking around about it, we make it seem like a big joke, thereby condoning its practice. that’s so messed up.
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It looks tasty though. A shame.
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I don’t know what they were thinking when they made that. They could have marketed the burger so many different ways too, because it looks tasty but the caption makes it seem really sour.
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terrible.
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I’m all about joking about.. well, everything & anything, really. But this wasn’t tasteful at all. It’s more offensive because it’s not even funny.
rose / 802 posts
Really? Harsh words? That woman went easy in them. They deserve to go out if business for that.
sunflower / 499 posts
MMmm burger!!
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Atlanta be gangsta! Jkjk
But you know places in the A be like that. Some people be like snap snap while other just like wtf. Either you like it or you don’t.
It is offensive but only to Ree Ree and breezy and i guess people of abuse.
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they shouldve stopped right after sandwich. and it would have been fine but the sentence right after starting with chris brown ruined it all.
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Jaw. Dropped. What the hell is the matter with people?!
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@atl_luv@xanga - she’s not with him, she’s with Ashton Kutcher now.
orchid / 160 posts
@daydreams_nightmares@xanga - i wrote that comment before lovelyish told us she’s with ashton