In An Absolut World...

[CPDlife4ME]

Well, after seeing this, I could honestly say these fools won't be getting a dime of my money again.

This is an ad that's currently being circulated in that wonderful country to our south :rolleyes:

[MP_Steve]

Yeah, no more of my money for them! :mad:

[Norm357]

My vodka of choice is Grey Goose. Absolut is toilet water. ;)

[Cat_Doc]

And they thought they lost money over the ill conceived Snicker's bar commercial during the Super Bowl a couple of years ago?

The treasonous ad is making the rounds, big time, in Arizona.

This thing will really hurt the Absolut line.

[Coastie 585]

Well, it will appeal to the Mexicans.

[Adamantine]

Oh, that really does not go over well with me... Why would a company do that, knowing that people in the US would see that and react negatively? Are they that foolish?

[Kate]

Oh, that really does not go over well with me... Why would a company do that, knowing that people in the US would see that and react negatively? Are they that foolish?

I saw this article and the pic on another forum this morning:

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Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!

The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker Absolut promises to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border, but it could ruffle a few feathers in El Norte.

The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency TeranTBWA and now running in Mexico, is a colorful map depicting what the Americas might look like in an "Absolut" -- i.e., perfect -- world.

The U.S.-Mexico border lies where it was before the Mexican-American war of 1848 when California, as we now know it, was Mexican territory and known as Alta California.

Following the war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo saw the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México ceded to the United States to become modern-day California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Arizona. (Texas actually split from Mexico several years earlier to form a breakaway republic, and was voluntarily annexed by the United States in 1846.)

The campaign taps into the national pride of Mexicans, according to Favio Ucedo, creative director of leading Latino advertising agency Grupo Gallegos in the U.S.

Ucedo, who is from Argentina, said: “Mexicans talk about how the Americans stole their land, so this is their way of reclaiming it. It’s very relevant and the Mexicans will love the idea.”

But he said that were the campaign to run in the United States, it might fall flat.

“Many people aren’t going to understand it here. Americans in the East and the North or in the center of the county -- I don’t know if they know much about the history.

“Probably Americans in Texas and California understand perfectly and I don’t know how they’d take it.”

Meanwhile, the campaign has been circulating on the blogs and generating strong responses from people north of the border.

“I find this ad deeply offensive, and needlessly divisive. I will now make a point of drinking other brands. And 'vodka and tonic' is my drink,” said one visitor, called New Yorker, on MexicoReporter.com.

Reader Paul Green goes into a discussion on the blog Gateway Pundit of whether the U.S. territories ever belonged to Mexico in the first place, and the News12 Long island site invited people to boycott Absolut, with one user, called LivingSmall, writing: “If you drink Absolut vodka, you can voice your approval or disapproval of this advertising campaign with your purchases. I know I will be switching to Grey Goose or Stoli and will never have another bottle of Absolut in my house.

“Hey Absolut ... that's my form of social commentary.”

-- Deborah Bonello and Reed Johnson in Mexico City

[Curt581]

They can say what they want.

If their version was the reality now, as if the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo never happened, and Texas never attempted to form it's own republic....

We'd be having the same problems with border jumpers that we do today. The border would just be longer.

[Movementarian]

Norm is right, Absolut is toilet water. I prefer Finlandia.

[Adamantine]

Well, I always did prefer Stoli myself... Just need to check when I order what the bar is using.

[Big Sexy]

Doesn't matter where the border is, even in an Absolut world, they'd still be crossing it. :D

[Hockey9019]

Support Germans! Drink Jägermeister

[Coastie 585]

Doesn't matter where the border is, even in an Absolut world, they'd still be crossing it. :D

In an Absolute world Mexico wouldn't be going through all the stuff they are right now (Drug wars, etc).
Rebuild your crumbling economy, get things back together, THEN they can start crying about what land belongs to who.

Hell, we beat them twice and we still BOUGHT the land from them. Quit your bitching.

[patchcop]

Support Germans! Drink Jägermeister

I really agree with you:D. I have to spread..... blablabla..... before I can rep you again!

Vodka Moskovskaja isn't bad but I don't know if they sell it in the USA.

[WellAdvised]

Is that map wrong? :D