Cuckoo for Coco Puffs
We stand corrected. A rep from McDonald’s has informed us:
It’s important to remember that this is just one component of our overall
PR program. To connect with our AACM consumers, we tapped into a prominent
McNuggets lover. McDonald’s has an overall public relations program that celebrates the
people who are passionate about their Chicken McNuggets, which includes a
Facebook page and a web site, NuggNuts.com.
And it’s true. They, for some crazy reason, thought NuggNuts would be a good name. As Gurgling Cod points out, this sounds like something to store your weed in. Among the more disturbing elements of the Facebook group (which, it should be noted, astoundingly, has more than 1,500 members) is an album of pictures of McNuggets that look like other things. Abe Lincoln takes the cake. Or compressed chicken ass. Or whatever a NuggNut prize would entail.
Not content with having merely embarrassed Keith Sweat, McDonald’s PR agency also trolled Times Square and apparently gave the tourists, mentally disturbed homeless people and escapees from Bellevue (see above and note the scar running across the forehead and through both eyebrows) a nifty hat and T-shirt if they’d smile manically for the camera.
