Please help me get a handle on this ad from Nandos. I admit that I did eat at Nandos once, but I promise you that I never will again.
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hey morgan
i have no idea about this ad. I actually saw this ad on tv late one night and thought it was totally wierd. So wierd that i woke up the next day and thought it was a dream (because a)it featured a half naked woman and b) it made no sense at all)
I told my partner about it because she’s eaten at Nandos before and she didn’t get it either.
The following week i walked past a Nandos and they had a poster in the window saying ‘nandos gum..not available here’. Thoughtfully there wasn’t a picture of a stripper on the poster for the dine in families to view.
I still have no idea about it though- I’m guessing that either
a)some crack addict has been given free reign to design the ad or
b) its some wierd pisstake trying to tell us that nandos is so good that if you ever wanted to not eat the stuff you’d have to choose some for of gum to stop the cravings.
Either way, i still don’t understand the role of the stripper and he relation to gum or the proposed target market of nandos which judging by our local shopping strip (is this some wierd link…strip and strippers???) is largely families.
All in all, i have no idea
Haha, yep, definitely wtf?!
Hey Morgs. I’ve heard about this ad. All i can think is that it must be a piss take on the usual ‘help mum out - buy fast food’ type of ad. But the link with strippers and gum is all a bit confusing… It must be a piss take.
I am sort of thinking though that if it was a piss take should we not be able to be sure of it? And we are not. From what I can tell so far, the gum is not real and this is a campaign designed to get ones attention, but it seriously turns me off. It is bad taste in my opinion.
You’re right Morgan — this is one of the weirdest (and tasteless) adverts I’ve seen on tv. You have to wonder what was going through their collective minds when they produced and started screening it.
Perhaps to get exactly the comments we’re making? Would you be more likely to stop at Nando’s now out of a mix of curiosity and anger?
Me? Not a chance!