Heinz Deli Mayo Ad

**Denary**

Simple question.....

Do you find this offensive and why?

Personally I don't care weather two guys kiss in the middle of an advert. 2 Men kissing happens all the time now especially in modern society where homosexuals are more accepted in a community.

**SolidRevolver**

Dont tell me this ad has been banned because of two guys kissing ¬_¬

Like it or not, it happens. If you view a g-a-y kiss, you will not catch homosexuality so get over yourself and change your priorities.

I was watching a documentary on the Westboro Baptist Church last nightt, and I was amazed how you get people like that still alive in this world, yet it seems there are a lot more of them around (just not at the extremes of the WBC)

**exsuscito**

Homophobic's, extreme right-wing Catholics, Ann Coulter and members of the Westboro Baptist Church assemble. A man...and a...MAN. THIS MUST BE STOPPED.

Pfft, not offensive in the least. If he had pulled out a gun, shot the kid in the head and turned to smile at the camera as a caption for a gun company comes up on screen (for example), then perhaps I'd have a problem with it.

**Denary**

Sorry did forget to mention, This ad has been banned in the UK because of the kiss in the advert.

**exsuscito**

That doesn't surprise me one bit. If challenged on the subject, I envisage the channels with ad's claiming that they're extremely liberal with programming such as 'Queer as Folk' etc. What they won't mention is that those shows are on at a 'safe' time after the 'watershed', which, in itself is code for 'when the kids are asleep and we're not corrupting them with the dirty homo's'.

I hate people. Grow up.

**odj**

Denary wrote:

Sorry did forget to mention, This ad has been banned in the UK because of the kiss in the advert.

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Some people need to grow up.

**SolidRevolver**

Ha, I just infected you all with 'The G-a-y'

This kiss was on Corrie, a british soap which is on at 7:30pm and repeated on the other channels as early as 9am. There is even regular *CENSORED* characters now, 2 of which are a couple. So how does that differ from the New York deli dude?

**exsuscito** · 06/27/2008 07:00:28

It makes me laugh (and rant) how standards and the protruding double-standards make no sense whatsoever.

Edit 'Friends'-which is broadcast basically all day everyday-to remove the word 'sex' from being spoken and sometimes even just inferred.

Ban an advert showing two men kissing.

Allow a long-running soap to show two men kissing during prime time, and during sporadically timed repeats.

Desperately convey their tolerance of everyone through subtle, and not-so-subtle promotions for equality.

Allow scenes of a gratuitously violent nature with a warning prior to the movie/show airing.

What's next, an early warning for 'scenes of a homosexual nature, which some viewers may find distressing'? This is like those narrow-minded idiot women who say porn is *CENSORED*.

Go.away.

Edit: I was censored for saying involuntary, violent and very, very wrong sexual predation.

**ShiXinFeng**

I could care less; there are more important things going on in the world.

But. . .I have to ask, what the hell does a homosexual relationship have to do with selling mayonaise? It's idiotic, and if I owned the company, I'd fire the git who came up with such a stupid idea.

It's *CENSORED*-backwards to getting people to accept homosexuality on tv, anyway. First, you need to get a prime-time show about a *CENSORED* couple, THEN you can run ads that cater to that lifestyle.

**ZippyTheSquirrel** · 06/27/2008 07:18:08

The mayo is SO New York it turned the female mother into a generic New York deli worker.

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That was the intended joke.

Edit:

This commercial needed a voice over at the beginning to lay down a straight line to introduce the Deli man.

"New Heinz Deli Mayo is now extra packed with New York flavor.

Maybe a little too much."

**exsuscito**

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:

The mayo is SO New York it turned the female mother into a generic New York deli worker.

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That was the intended joke.

Which I'm sure everyone understood. The point of the thread was the kiss itself, not an inferred relationship between the two involved.

**ShiXinFeng**

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:

The mayo is SO New York it turned the female mother into a generic New York deli worker.

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That was the intended joke.

Oh. Well then. That's funny! I watched again and actually laughed now that I get the joke. Thanks, oh bushy-tailed one.

**Denary** · 06/27/2008 07:21:28

I just find it really aggravating that so many people (over 200 actually complained) about a kiss which was nothing more than a peck. I think it just goes to show that 200 people need educating about life and that 200 people need to get a life because clearly they have too much time on their hands if they can complain about said advert.

privaronT · 06/27/2008 07:27:33

If anything an ad like this is refreshing.

I'm sick of seeing 50 guys in a smoky bar sitting around slapping their knees with a guitar singing Viva Viagra! when kids are getting home from school but seeing anything remotely close to giving the homosexual community a little relevancy in just the fact that they exist outside of pray yourself UnGay conventions shot down and persecuted as an attack on family values.

This isn't remotely offensive whats offensive is that people out there still try to attack stuff like this and force their family values campaign on everyone else.

**ZippyTheSquirrel**

exsuscito wrote:

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:
The mayo is SO New York it turned the female mother into a generic New York deli worker.

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That was the intended joke.

Which I'm sure everyone understood.

Evidently not, or else this thread wouldn't exist to begin with.

It's just a classic failed joke attempt (like Kramer and the "n" word!) that is spiraling out of control because some people think too much about certain things.

Oh, for grief's sake, these forums censor the word g-a-y? Oh, Admiiiiiins....