NEW YORK (AP) -- Taco Bell is pulling a TV ad after receiving complaints that it discouraged people from eating vegetables. The ad by the fast-food chain was touting its variety 12-pack of tacos, with a voiceover saying that bringing a vegetable tray to a party is "like punting on fourth and one." It said that people secretly hate guests who bring vegetables to parties. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a health advocacy group, this weekend urged people to tweet their complaints about the ad and the chain quickly made the decision to pull it. "We didn't want anyone to misinterpret the intent of the ad," says Rob Poetsch, a Taco Bell spokesman. The Center for Science in the Public Interest thanked Taco Bell for its speedy response.
So this commercial got pulled off tv because it was factual? If someone showed up to my house with a pack of vegetables in order to watch a football game at my house, I'm obviously impolitely asking them to leave. Then again if someone brings a taco 12 pack to my house, I may call the police because they are obviously a rapist/murderer. These commercials make it out to be perfectly sane to just randomly bring 12 tacos over to someones house? Newsflash: thats something a crazy person does. I'd definitely rather someone bring my carrots and ranch dressing then Doritos locos tacos.
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