All-White Gold Star Chili Commercial

by PeteyHendrix on Jun 30, 2009 4:51 PM EDT

I can't find a link to post the new Gold Star Chili commercial that lovingly adorns our Fox Sports Ohio commercial breaks. I'd love to post it here, as the spot completely astonished me. The tag line is "This is Cincinnati Flavor." This might be true - assuming that minorities don't count in Cincinnati. You see, I counted 23 people (including parts of people like hands, and people in the background) in the commercial.

And none of them were black. Not a one.

In fact, there are no minorities to be found...perhaps the one's guy's arm is Asian, and the mustache guy might be Latino rather than Italian, but that's as close as anyone comes to being anything other than white (and pasty)

So next time you see this spot, feel free to go minority-hunting. Let use know what you think.

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What do you think of the Gold Star spot?

It was a harmless mistake - even though it was seen and approved by pro marketers and countless Gold Star executives

10 votes

Of course the ad is racist - Cincinnati is still a pretty bigotted, segregated place.

14 votes

That one guy's arm was definitely Asian.

7 votes

boobs

30 votes

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I'm assuming you don't mean this one?

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

Because, while I don’t see race, I think I see a black man and his kid at the end.

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by Slyde on Jun 30, 2009 4:57 PM EDT reply actions

I see them, too.

But I didn’t see them when I went through the spot, so perhaps this is a different version, or perhaps I was drunk when I was watching. Probably the latter.

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by PeteyHendrix on Jun 30, 2009 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions

It turns out that Slyde's link IS NOT the ad I saw.

The spot I saw was a recut of Slyde’s link, and it ran again last night in the commercial break leading into the top of the eighth inning. This spot features “$5 Footlongs,” and contains NO minorities.

The spot Slyde links to has 51 discernible persons, and 2 of them are black (and only pictured together, as there is no race-mixing over the fine linoleum of a Gold Star franchise.

So out of the Greater (Graeter?) Cincinnati population of 331,285 (2000 census) , 142,176 are black. That’s 42.9 % of the population, not 0.0% nor 3.9% as these commercials might demonstrate.

That’s racist!

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by PeteyHendrix on Jul 1, 2009 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions

yup

There was some discussion in the game thread. You were right.

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by BubbaFan on Jul 1, 2009 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Petey works for Skyline. :)

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by Farneyismycopilot on Jul 1, 2009 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions

I vote for more boobs in commercials

by Brendanukkah on Jun 30, 2009 5:28 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Here, here on the titties.

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by Farneyismycopilot on Jun 30, 2009 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions

It is hard for Cincinnati based companies to find Negores for commercials who aren't uppity.

Why do I live in this city which is a haven of moronic neo-cons, bleeding heart faux liberals, anti-semetics (Jews and Muslims alike), homophobes and racists….?

I blame my city choice on Bob Howsam and the BRM

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by Madville on Jun 30, 2009 5:34 PM EDT reply actions

Um...

Colored folk don’t eat chili?

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by BubbaFan on Jun 30, 2009 5:57 PM EDT reply actions

I'll see you and raise fine sir

Explain this, considering Kentucky’s black population was last calculated at 7.7%. (picture, second page)

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by jch24 on Jun 30, 2009 11:12 PM EDT reply actions

I do enjoy

how KFC goes out of its way to include white people in its ads.

Wear something sexy to my funeral.

by Pops Daniels on Jul 1, 2009 4:57 PM EDT reply actions

What about the Asian dudes in karate outfits and the one that yells, in accented English: CHICKEN!!

Eighty-five percent of the f*ckin' world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here. A f*ckin' playground for the cocks*ckers.
-Lee Elia on Cubs fans

by Farneyismycopilot on Jul 1, 2009 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions

In all fairness

Asians love them some KFC.

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by Colin Auscapee on Jul 1, 2009 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions

that's racist!

When I went to China, there was a KFC in Beihai Park (which some think is the most beautiful place on earth). Sacrilege. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought so, because the government eventually ordered the KFC removed.

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by BubbaFan on Jul 1, 2009 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions