7 food promotions gone horribly wrong

Burger King offends with an ad for a Texican Whopper, and more

The Texican Whopper: "The taste of Texas with a little spicy Mexican"
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Did you ever hear about Burger King's Texican Whopper? The taste of Texas and a little, spicy Mexican — and they do mean little. The ad for the new product ran only briefly in Spain and the United Kingdom before the Mexican government demanded it be pulled. Seems they (understandably) didn't like having their countrymen depicted as three-foot-tall wrestlers who wear the Mexican flag as a cape. Here, a few more promotions that didn't go the way the marketing gurus had planned.

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