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Micky Dee’s should have a shake for it’s main customer base…..
Mmmmm. Dat watamelon sho is good, boss.
I missed it. What is the stereotype here?
Sensationalist headline is sensationalist
i think the stereotype was at the very end when the guy bit into the french fry (potato)
To say this is racist is akin to people on BET “exaggerating racial stereotypes”
What the HELL is it supposed taste like? Clover? Grass? Penecillium?
First this and then Bloomberg with the Irish jokes. An Irishman can’t catch a break.
Really? That offends you? Get over it.
I’m part Irish too, but I’m not a “self-esteemy”, so I couldn’t be upset over this if I wanted to.
(I love Shamrock Shakes, BTW.)
Not really. I was joking. It doesn’t offend me.
I think this was posted a wee bit tongue in cheek…note that one of the tags is “humor”.
Think some people are missing the joke here.
Wow, you had to go back to the 70’s to dig up some crap to post.
correction 80’s
#11. Uh yeah, thanks….sometimes I wonder about you guys.
I just bought the shake yesterday. The green foam tasted like a cross between LYSOL, Pine Sol, and Listerine (mint). Almost undrinkable. Completely man-made concoction. No known flavor profile basis. NASTY!!
Um, that wouldn’t be a “racial” stereotype anyway. Perhaps a nationality stereotype, but not racial… c’mon folks, Irish isn’t a race…
Personally I take offence at McDonald’s stereotyping of clowns.
If this equates to “racial stereotyping” in your mind, then your PC meter is stuck on Idiotic.
One year I drank 5 supersized Shamrock shakes within a year and developed lactose intolerance. Stay away.
Ironically, the undercover reporter who shut down ACORN and got the NPR guy fired did an Irish stunt like this first. He got Lucky Charms, the cereal, banned at his university’s cafeteria by saying it was racist. He filmed it too and the university staff bought it.
McCullough I would be more incensed that your name means son of a boar if I were you.
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#20. Huh, you’re right. Oh well, if you only knew my Dad. He is a little pig-headed.
This illustrates a BIG problem…
People are so obsessed with being busy-bodies into other people’s actions – they’ve forgotten to take care of their own responsibilities.
Green = trees = mint = Ireland = grass – get over it.
Jaysus Mary and fekkin Joseph
If you wanted to make it a real Irish combo mean, include the shamrock shake and leave out the fries.
if you want racial stereotypes take a look at the kia soul commercial, the one with the hamsters, are they saying that inner city people are rodents?
and for that matter is a kia soul slightly better than a toaster or cardboard box to drive around in? idle prying minds wanna know who put that commercial together and who approved it?
The title is a joke to say:
If it was an Afrimocha shake and drinking it turned you into a black man with a leaf loin cloth and war-painted face holding a spear… It would be racist and protested
If it was Cinco De Mayo Brown shake and drinking it turned you into a short brown man who couldn’t speak English and worked in a field picking tomatoes… It would be racist and protested
If it was a Rainbow shake and drinking it turned you into a skinny guy with nice hair getting F’d in the A… It would be protested
Anything that promotes any stereotype (other then white people stereotypes) is racist and should be protested
Just Keep Looking==second post of yours I have noticed and as equally nonsensical as the last. Leprechauns are white people Willis. You almost did have it right, just got lost in an overly long idea.
Ha, ha. Stupid racist Puke.
I once worked at McDonalds for $1.00 an hour, now that is abuse.
What’s more troubling is McDonald’s can create an entire ad campaign based on adding 3 drops of food coloring to a shake.
I agree with #28!
If they ran it now, “Erin go bragh” would be considered as supporting terrorist activities.
Eire go bragh! (the slightly more proper way to say it.)