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TSG's seen some offensive ads before, but this one from Lipton is particularly galling. In a bid to sell onion dip, the company (part of the multinational Unilever firm) produced a print ad showing a Catholic churchgoer preparing to dunk a Holy Communion wafer in a bowl of dip. The ad, running in the current issue of the weekly New York Press, was called "an error in judgment" by a Unilever spokesman--after, of course, readers and church officials blasted it as demeaning.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/art/liptonad1.gif

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/liptonad1.html

Date: 2001-06-21 10:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brianlee.livejournal.com
LMAO!
I think that is great!

Date: 2001-06-21 10:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] papoose.livejournal.com
Admittedly I was raised catholic and have issues with the church.

I think it is funny.

Date: 2001-06-21 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zealot.livejournal.com
It's hilarious!

Date: 2001-06-21 11:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maampeppy.livejournal.com
Not to be inconsiderate or anything, but that's one amusing ad :o)

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Date: 2001-06-21 12:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
I think it's comical too, and disturbing at the same time. :)

Date: 2001-06-21 12:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-foom23660.livejournal.com
C'mon people, learn to liven up and laugh a little. I think it's cute, and I heard from several reliable sources that those wafers taste like shit.

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Date: 2001-06-21 12:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
nah the wafers taste like... oh, I dunno.. stale crakers.

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