MCDONALD’S ANNUAL PADDY’S Day tradition of the Shamrock Shake is well known at this stage.
But this year they’ve introduced a chocolate version in the States to go with it:
Of course, they needed a new ad campaign to push this out there.
So they produced this abomination on Twitter
When your Shamrock Chocolate Madness drink plays all the right chocolaty-mint notes #ShamrockSeason pic.twitter.com/TKtZ7jOoR9
— McDonald's (@McDonalds) March 7, 2017
(If you can’t see the video, click here)
Let’s break down what we’re dealing with here.
There’s a man playing the Shamrock Shake like a wind instrument while bagpipe music blares out
BAGPIPES.
He’s also wearing a Scottish-style hat
Lads.
And then f**king Stonehenge pops up in the background
From Scotland to England.
Perfect.
Obviously people on Twitter have been calling it out
The responses have continued solidly since it was shared on Tuesday. And they’ve had that succinct quality we’ve come to expect:
bagpipes are Scottish and Stonehenge is in England you muppets
are the sheep Irish? Because nothing else in this picture is
Not a single thing in your ad is Irish
This particular instrumint needs to be retuned
And one response has the answer:
The music is Scottish pipes & the scene is Stonehenge in England. Maybe try again with Irish Uilleann pipes & an Irish setting?
Make it happen, McDonald’s.