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Advertising Fail - Jakensama - 03-13-2009
So this is what happens when a German company tries to cash in on Obamamania without having a competent marketing team to tell you of some basic American stereotypes -
<img src="http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1460924,00.jpg">
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- Thudz - 03-13-2009
Seems like they know their target market just fine.
- Jakensama - 03-13-2009
It is marketed to Amis living in Krautistan.
- Snowreap - 03-13-2009
you must be mistaken. curry dip?
-ken
- Jakensama - 03-13-2009
You should see the various abortions that get labelled as 'American Food' in the supermarkets.
My favorite is 'hamburger sauce', which is pink and I can only imagine a mixture of mayo and that vomitous vile white trash substance known as ketchup. Then we have 'American salad dressing' which is yogurt based and resembles nothing I have ever put on a vegetable in the US.
I wouldn't say its exclusively marketed to Amis, but it is in all of our expat markets.
- Zeeroh - 03-13-2009
Jakensama Wrote:My favorite is 'hamburger sauce', which is pink and I can only imagine a mixture of ketchup and that vomitous vile white trash substance known as mayo. Then we have 'American salad dressing' which is yogurt based and resembles nothing I have ever put on a vegetable in the US.
couldn't help but notice you accidentally got your syntax mixed up. I fixed it for you. Yeah, those Germans are pretty crazy. Their board game and confectionery technologies however are far more advanced then our own...
- grizzle - 03-13-2009
If they are going to call them Obama Fingers, shouldn't it be dark meat?
Just a thought.
- Snowreap - 03-13-2009
Jakensama Wrote:Then we have 'American salad dressing' which is yogurt based and resembles nothing I have ever put on a vegetable in the US.maybe they're attempting something like Miracle Whip, but without the miracle.
-ken
- Venganza - 03-13-2009
Is that... fried chicken? Wow.
And the haribo cola bottle gummies are the best thing on earth.
![[Image: 61VTCY2TFSL._SS500_.jpg]](http://www.crowndozen.com/main/61VTCY2TFSL._SS500_.jpg)
- Diggles - 03-13-2009
grizzle Wrote:If they are going to call them Obama Fingers, shouldn't it be dark meat?
Just a thought.
obama is only half black
- Kakarat - 03-13-2009
So Diggles is saying, use the whole chicken... both dark and white meats.
- Diggles - 03-13-2009
Kakarat Wrote:So Diggles is saying, use the whole chicken... both dark and white meats.
you're a mind reader
- Vllad - 03-13-2009
Zeeroh Wrote:couldn't help but notice you accidentally got your syntax mixed up. I fixed it for you. Yeah, those Germans are pretty crazy. Their board game and confectionery technologies however are far more advanced then our own...
While their board game market certainly has revitalized the chaundra (sp?) their designs totally suck a dirty ass.
They are the ultimate thing I hate. Their are some consistant themes. Very little competition, no attacking, almost multi-player solo games.
The last one was my last straw.
"Space Pirates"- Basically an econ game that if you try to play as a Pirate with combat assures you will lose the game. The days of screwing over Dophuz with in the first 3 turns of the game are over. Hence they are not designs I would play.
It is come to the point where we change the rules in the first 15 minutes of play time just to enjoy a purchase.
Their board games suffer from a severe lack of play testing. Essentially they are all Brittney Spears. They look good, have bad rules, then eventually crash and burn after you have played them more then 3 times.
Vllad
- Zeeroh - 03-17-2009
lies!
I'm curious which games you've played... I've never even heard of space pirates.
I highly recommend the geek for the purpose of finding which games are worth buying - and for you vllad, I'd recommend Shogun, Twilight Imperium, or battlelore.
Quite a few of them (as a whole) do fall into that multi-player solitaire catagory - but the good ones have enough player interaction that you can still screw over your opponents while getting the goods yerself.
Incidentally - the only "space pirate" game I could find was by Steve Jackson (his games suck, sorry) called "SPANC - Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls" - I'm worried for you.