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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:17:02 AM EDT
Russian "Obama" ice cream ad stirs anger
Yahoo! News ^ | March 26, 2009 | Reuters MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian advertising agency has used an image resembling U.S. President Barack Obama to promote a new vanilla-and-chocolate ice cream, drawing the ire of human rights groups who said the ad was vulgar. Ice Cream Plant No. 3 in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg launched last week a new brand named "Duet." The poster features a computer-generated caricature of a broadly smiling figure resembling Obama standing in front of the U.S. Congress with the ice cream in the foreground. The strapline reads: "It's on everyone's lips –– the Dark is in the White!" "We wanted to make the print amusing and cheerful, just as joyful and pleasant as the process of eating an ice cream," Yevgeny Primachenko, deputy creative director of Voskhod advertisement agency, told Reuters by phone from Yekaterinburg. "This is just a vanilla ice cream with a chocolate filling," Primachenko said. "We decided: why not use such a great news peg as the election of the first black U.S. president to the White House, while showing no political preferences at the same time?" Prominent Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov rapped the advertisement as "a vulgar exploitation of some political symbols in pursuit of commercial interests." He added however: "I do not think the person who created this is necessarily a racist ... But our society is xenophobic all the same." Russia has a growing problem with violent racist attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The ice cream maker said on its website (www.xk3.ru) the new brand would be sold across Russia, from Moscow to Kemerovo in Siberia and Blagoveshchensk in the Far East. Primachenko admitted his advertising agency had received negative reviews from some foreign colleagues maintaining that the ad had xenophobic or even racist overtones. But he added: "We have so far not received any critical calls or negative comments from Russia ... I can tell you one thing –– our client is absolutely happy, that's the main thing. I myself bought this ice cream today. It tastes great!" 
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:18:02 AM EDT
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Chocolate on the outside, chocolate and vanilla mixed together in the middle?
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:18:05 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:19:31 AM EDT
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Chocolate on the outside, chocolate and vanilla mixed together in the middle? I'm just waiting for a photoshopped version of that ad to become someone's avatar. |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:19:35 AM EDT
[#4]
oh, that's awesome! I want some.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:19:46 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:21:13 AM EDT
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That's awesome. Can't wait to see those on the side of the ice cream trucks.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:26:54 AM EDT
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"Vulgar" ?
I think it's funny. |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:28:54 AM EDT
[#8]
Well, at least it is accurate...
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:30:54 AM EDT
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Group buy?
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:32:31 AM EDT
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Quoted: Group buy? I'm in! |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:32:47 AM EDT
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Let me guess theres a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow cause obama is 3% Irish...
Obama has slanted eyes... Thats wascist. |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:33:47 AM EDT
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It comes in a purple wrapper too, those racist Russians...
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:33:52 AM EDT
[#13]
Those clever Ruskies!
Well, we wanted them to be Capitalists! "Reset" this Hillary...
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:34:05 AM EDT
[#14]
Obama Ice cream !
Smooth as a Stimulus bill Tasty as Socialism Light like Goverment Refreshing like Hillary clinton Look for it in a subsidized goverment store near you ! |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:35:52 AM EDT
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Group buy? I'm in! absolutely. |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:36:00 AM EDT
[#16]
Now every liberal in congress can finally have Obama melt in their mouth.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:36:59 AM EDT
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Heard a commercial on the radio this morning for car dealership hyping their "stimulus" package. The voice in the ad...an Obama impersonator.
There's going to be a lot more of this. Those offended by it can go fuck themselves. He's just another public douche now. He's fair game. |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:37:22 AM EDT
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Well, it is obvious that Ice Cream Plant #3 is way more modern and fresh than either Plants#1 . Those Ice Cream Plants are yesterday's news.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:40:09 AM EDT
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why is his hand behind his back? Is his fingers crossed?
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:45:21 AM EDT
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I don't see what all the fuss is about.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:47:38 AM EDT
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Now every liberal in congress can finally have Obama melt in their mouth.  I don't know guys, but it seems that everything that has, somehow has a hint of Obama in it, will make me lose appetite. Even the words hope and/or change, somehow it lost all its meaning.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:51:48 AM EDT
[#22]
Expect a response from Rev's
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:54:00 AM EDT
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Quoted:
Chocolate on the outside, chocolate and vanilla mixed together in the middle?
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:57:31 AM EDT
[#24]
If they think this is offensive, someone needs to tell them about the Obama brand fried chicken fingers...no, silly mods, that isnt a racist joke, I saw it on Fox News.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 11:57:42 AM EDT
[#25]
hahahhaaha thats funny not vulgar at ALL its HILARIOUS!!!!!! I WANT SOME ICE CREAM NOW!
that's the only "obama" product I think I would buy LOL |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:03:33 PM EDT
[#26]
Kenyan is a flavor? Who knew? Like Neopolitan maybe?
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:04:54 PM EDT
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I've still got some "Darkie" brand tooth paste I got when I lived in Malaysia. It has a picture of a big smiling black dude on the front, with bright white shiny teeth. It was one of the biggest brands of tooth paste, and was very popular. It's not really intended to be racist per se, just funny, is my impression.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:19:44 PM EDT
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if the brown outside is chocolate, it must be red on the inside, but what exactly does socialist flavor taste like?
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:22:37 PM EDT
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Expect a response from Rev's http://streetknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/jesse_jackson_duke.jpg and http://brownsugarpages.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/alsharpton.jpg rev pitcher and catcher?  he real question is, which ones which
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:24:28 PM EDT
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:26:29 PM EDT
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if the brown outside is chocolate, it must be red on the inside, but what exactly does socialist flavor taste like? The blood of the kulaks, which they will soon spill. |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:31:36 PM EDT
[#32]
I am missing the problem...
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:38:17 PM EDT
[#33]
Oreo should capitalize on his popularity and rename these "obama" version:
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:39:22 PM EDT
[#34]
hahahahahahahahhahha
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:42:17 PM EDT
[#35]
Still leaves a bitter taste in your mouth.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:43:43 PM EDT
[#36]
I LOL'd
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:44:05 PM EDT
[#37]
tag. I'll photoshop it tonight.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:44:15 PM EDT
[#38]
I think there was something lost in the translation, not intended to be racist, like Jackie calling NObama "Schwarzer", meaning a male black person, not the derogatory word "Neger". However, the Germans have a sweet treat called "Negerküsschen", little chunks of chocolate over vanilla ice cream.
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Posted: 3/26/2009 12:58:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:09:35 PM EDT
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I am missing the problem... It's obviously racist? |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:11:12 PM EDT
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Quoted: Do you know who you replied to?Quoted: I am missing the problem... It's obviously racist? |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:12:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:13:50 PM EDT
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Do you know who you replied to?
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I am missing the problem... It's obviously racist? I was being facetious. 
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:21:00 PM EDT
[#44]
wha? is it surrounded by clusters of fruits and nuts
 
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:25:10 PM EDT
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I think there was something lost in the translation, not intended to be racist, like Jackie calling NObama "Schwarzer", meaning a male black person, not the derogatory word "Neger". However, the Germans have a sweet treat called "Negerküsschen", little chunks of chocolate over vanilla ice cream. Yeah, in Denmark there's a type of soft marshmellowy thing covered with chocolate that is called "Negerboller" which means "negro-buns" or something similar to that (doesn't translate well). But in a country that basically had no black people at all, it's not intended to be racist or derogatory at all, just a funny name, and maybe a little old-fashioned and clueless in the 21st century, but not mean-spritited. |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:26:19 PM EDT
[#46]
Uh that resembles Obama...............
and every other Black man in the world. RACISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:28:09 PM EDT
[#47]
They sell ice cream in Siberia?
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:30:20 PM EDT
[#48]
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Now every liberal in congress can finally have Obama melt in their mouth. I don't know guys, but it seems that everything that has, somehow has a hint of Obama in it, will make me lose appetite. Even the words hope and/or change, somehow it lost all its meaning.ibid. |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:32:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/26/2009 1:36:47 PM EDT
[#50]
Much like the inspiration for the product it leaves a shitty taste in your mouth.
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