White Castle and the Ill-timed Pulled Pork Promo

Mmmm, swine flu. Now look, I only mention the swine flu here in reference to the media frenzy, not the actual bug itself. It just seems like a bad time to be parading one’s pork products around the room, no? Or maybe it’s the best time since you can’t get swine flu from eating pork, or so they say, and this is White Castle’s way of saying “hey, our meat is all good.”

Nonetheless the first thing I thought of when I saw this spot was Heidi and Spencer wearing those gad awful face masks as they traipsed around Mexico. Ha ha they were so funny, like people dying is funny. Ugh.

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