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There aren't a hell of a lot of Wendy's left in SF. The one on 658 Market closed all too soon, and we're dying to sample the Baconator. (We really are.) Although we appreciate the noble and expensive slow-food movement, we'll always prefer Wendy's square-cut meat patties cooked in record time.
Except this redhead group won't: the NAARP, National Association for the Advancement of Redhaired [sic] People (or perhaps the marketing division at Wendy's International, Inc.), seem to hate the ultra-ginger mascot, Wendy, so they staged a protest bit at one of the fast-food chain's bistros.
UPDATE: Lies! A tissue of lies! NAARP is actually Improv Everywhere. They don’t promote redhead pride; they promote improvisational comedy! Shudder.
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If Wendy's isn't going to have the balls to (re)open a restaurant here in SF, the least they could do is provide a shuttle to the nearest one in Oakland.
Damnit, I want a Baconator, too.
(and btw, the boyfriend and i totally love that bacaonator commercial)
um, i sure hope this is an ill-conceived marketing ploy. whether it is or not, it's really, really stupid. why on earth is SFist covering it?
I was in LGA (Laguardia Airport) and had one of these - such the perfect hangover prevention and cure! mmm bacon!
wow... I can't sympathize with a chant that sounds this ridiculous.
Biggie-sized bigotry is not stupid. The fact that I can't get a god damn Baconator in San Francisco is stupid.
that is so fucking funny
i have one question
do their carpets match their drapes?
It's not a real protest, it's an improv group based in NYC that "creates scenes." Nothing more, nothing less.
the improv group was featured on This American Life a little bit ago. they're pretty clever.
Two things: I noticed all the downtown Wendy's seemed to close down overnight on the same night. Second thing: Gingers smell of wee. I won't have them in the house.
though i appreciate sfist bringing me something i wouldn't have otherwise seen:
ick. this could have been funny if how blatantly contrived it was didn't become obvious by the first 5 seconds. the remaining 3:50 of the video shoves the joke ('umm yah teh wendy isnt a fair representation of us') in your eye 46 more times..
"yaay we're two off-the-wall comedy crew dudes with a heap of redhaired people and a wacky take on inequality.." gag..
This is an event created by Improv Everywhere, an NYC based Improv group that creates absurd public scenes. It's supposed to be funny and weird, not serious, and it's definitley not a marketing ploy. Check out the rest of their stuff at http://www.improveverywhere.com/- it's pretty great. The Best Buy Mission is classic.
The work of one Improv Everywhere group (home of the famous "no pants" subway schenanagans: http://improveverywhere.com/
I personally find a lot of their "scenes" quite amusing. (:
can you convince them to do one about the progressives here in town?
that would be even funnier