How do you give a vanilla dessert rhythm? Apparently, you just make it brown. It sprouts big, red cartoonish lips and googly eyes, and breaks into routine as a “Hip Hop cupcake.” What the fuck publicists at Duncan Hines were thinking when they built a campaign around blackface, I don’t know, but they’ve since pulled the YouTube video created for them by a company called Filmaka.
Classy, guys. Hat tip, I believe, to Patrick Alan Coleman.
UPDATE:Eater National has the pulled video. Question: Does the fact that they’re actually preforming crappy techno and not hip hop make this any better? No? Didn’t think so.
I’m literarily speechless.
Not as tasty as Betty Crocker’s Fudge Tunnel.
@Todd: You’re causing my sphincter to clench.
I’m literarily boycotting Duncan Hines.
I literally want to buy this and squirt it into my mouth!
Also, do people really find this racist? I found WSH reference to “Corinna, his black maid ” even more racists than this.
http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/Blogto…
WSH is literally circling the drain.
@c&b: If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard that phrase! You should just try to relax…
BTW, perhaps to make amends Duncan Hines can become the U.S. distributors for THIS:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toddmecklem/5…