Sunday, May 11, 2008

New York Chicken Wings


Customer: What flavor is it?
Man: It's a bird mate, it's a bloody bird, it's not any bloody flavor. Albatross!
Customer: It's got to be some flavor, I mean everything's got a flavor.
Man: All right, it's bloody albatross flavor, it's bloody sea bloody bird bloody flavor. Albatross!
Customer: Do you get wafers with it?
Man: Course you don't get bloody wafers with it, it's a bloody albatross innit. Albatross!

Merci beaucoup a Mark Copyranter!

52 comments:

Karen said...

Holy shit. We've got so many terrible ads in New York. Two words: Doctor Zizmor.

Alex said...

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I have nothing to say.

neko said...

well, they don't specify what kind of 'wings' they are.

these appear to be cassowary wings.

cc3 said...

Whatever they are, they're bloody huge wings!

I mean, if that's a wing and she needs to hold it like that...

I know everything in bigger in America but good God!

Sam said...

I'm not sure if this should be "land of the giants" 'cause the wing's that frikkin' huge, or "land of the borrowers" 'cause that really is a chicken wing, she's just one foot tall.

Anonymous said...

I don't think anyone in NYC says "bloody" or "innit." Unless you're talking about the NYC of Europe, London. Either way, we have awful ads in NYC, it's true.

Anonymous said...

You think thats bad. Check out this arm.

http://digits.hrblock.com/newsletter/yourtaxes/taxrebatearriving.php

Anonymous said...

haha the link on the last post is excellent

ArtsAngel said...

Re: above link ^

Egads, she's broken her elbow!
Shame there isn't a larger version...

Deb Clague said...

I don't see what the problem is... pterodactyl is a delicacy in the land of bad advertising.

Anonymous said...

Actually my elbow bends backwards like that too. Technically the term is "hyperextend"

Obviously those are the rumored illusive buffalo wings.

Jack said...

@Deb: Excellent David Chappell reference!

@HRBlock: Are you kidding me? You probably pay as much attention to the returns you are filing for people.

Excellent blog. Keep up the good work..

PinkPanthress said...

10 Wings of those and I would explode... even without a wafer-thin mint! XD

J. Curtis said...

"Did anyone see the size of that chicken?!"

Romel said...

Can you all imagine the size of that red packaging boxes they keep in backyard ? :))

Anonymous said...

Anon 4:44
It's from Monty Python, you fool.

Dario Volaric said...

For those who don't know the Albatros sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_u7VGiMO0U

Anonymous said...

It is an advertising firm, and they 'Shoppeth one of three...

Miq-Tak said...

That's not a moon...it's a space station!

Mad Izatie said...

holy hell, looks like they're serving ostriches. does anyone know how ostriches taste?

yikes.

Anonymous said...

I think they just saved Tokyo from another attack, this time from a chicken.

Acmeous said...

Really a pretty example of bad advertising.
But I love Chicken always...

Anonymous said...

Message: Eating these wings is a crunchy yet obliquely sexual experience.

Rune Jensen said...

What's so bad? It's a good advertise, made to make people laugh, by making i bigger than it is.. Or is there some blooper I didn't spot? I think it is good..

YYC26 said...

Well, the size is clearly intentional. Silly looking, but intentional. Where this one is a disaster, for me, is the shoddy comp job. It looks like that wing should be poking her eye out.

Monster said...

Wouldn't the business selling these be fined if the ad was in the UK? I seem to remember a debacle involving large handed models and KFC a while back...

Unless, of course, these really are giant wings.

steve from eugene said...

pretty sure this is the location or one of the locations of this attrocity...i pass it often and it induces LULZ

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=304+Quincy+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11216&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=55.148262,90.175781&ie=UTF8&ll=40.692825,-73.950648&spn=0.006524,0.011008&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.689574,-73.951399&panoid=Nc2Zq4fOCbLzDHnTHf6Hsw&cbp=1,620.7481296758103,,0,-1.628330124517807

greg said...

i'm scared

Rnormfoto said...
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Rnormfoto said...

that is one big-ass bird...they must have a bus-sized deep fryer.

Insanity said...

That wing is extremely huge! Its like the wing of the extinct Dodo...

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Anonymous said...

Ostrich actually tastes the same as beef. Very healty, low in fat.

Anonymous said...

You'd think Ostrich would taste like chicken. Everything else does.

libwitch said...

oh my god. I can see the tagline now "you only need one!"

alexis said...
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alexis said...

ack! The link is too long, to post here, but to see the original (pre dinosaur wing) search for this image number - 32313763 - here:

http://www.photos.com

Anonymous said...

you can all just stop...there in celebration of scott baradells 43rd birthday...there I've said it,JeFf LAhOrNE

Graham said...
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Graham said...

Albatrosses aren't really that big. (See this Wikipedia picture.)

Ostrich, perhaps...

Camilla said...

Graham:

The text is from a Monty Python sketch.

twigg said...

this image made me throw up against the back of my teeth a little bit.

is that what they were going for?

Anonymous said...

This picture honestly frightens me. I'm not sure why, but I get really and truly scared looking at it.

Anonymous said...

I think those are B-52 wings.

Kálmán said...

Actually no phothoshop was used here, they just crumbed one hand of that model...

Anonymous said...

At first glance, I thought it was her own fried arm she was trying to eat!

Alex said...

This has had me balled up in laughter so many times. I can't thank you enough for posting this.

Anonymous said...

Bert I. Gordon must have directed that photoshopping.

نشيدي said...

Thank you for all

منتدى مدونة اناشيد موقع برامج دليل مواقع تحميل اناشيد
نشيدي اناشيد يمن برس دردشة مواقع انشادية

Did You Know? said...

this chicken is so affordable. dollars or bucks?

tarahm said...

I was browsing a stock photo site and I happened to come across the original image used in this...

Click here

She's supposed to be eating a watermelon :P

John said...

Lordy, that crimson polyp-fest rubbing up against her cheek... it's like a porn version of the Elephant Man.

i am not your freud said...

she looks like she is half chicken and about to bite her wing off