Thursday, January 8, 2009

McNugget Love?

I almost never go to McDonald's. It's always a last resort type of thing when I do go, and it's always bad it seems. Never say never, but it wouldn't bother me much if I never set foot in a Micky D's again. Oh I've had my time of actually liking the food, but it's long past that now. I've enjoyed a Big Mac or two in my 40-enough years, Quarter Pounders, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, a fish sandwich here and there - but for all practical purposes, I'm done.

So what's my point? Ah, the latest commercial for chicken McNuggets, slathered with an excessive amount of R&B in the form of a song, a GOD-AWFUL song at that. Not only is it awful, it sticks in my head the way most of the menu at Micky D's would stick to the walls of my arteries if I actually ate there. As a friend of mine said, it kind of serves to illustrate just how cheezy R&B is these days. I'm not trying to hate here, but give me Earth, Wind & Fire, The Isley Brothers, Tower of Power, Al Green or Sly Stone any day over most of my current choices in that musical genre. I don't want to run down the entire song, but the opening line goes like this:

I woke up and found you creepin'...blah, blah, blah, something, something, McNugget love....

The drama plays out when the composer/singer of the song is denied any McNuggets by his lady love. Allow me to write my own song and finish it as if I were the guy in the commercial:

I woke up to find you creepin'
Smelled that greasy chicken while I'm sleepin'

Girl I can't eat no chicken that they stuff into a mold
Dip it in some batter & deep fry it frozen cold

Lady love's not sharin' but I can't say as that hurts
'Cause I know when you're finished girl you're gonna have the squirts
Okay, sorry - perhaps a bit vulgar, but now you get an idea of how I feel about Chicken McNuggets, and yes, I've eaten them too. Every time I've had them they've given me heartburn and I finally got the note-to-self about not eating them again. I suppose this is a rather pointless post huh? Maybe, just maybe it'll help get that blasted song out of my mind. In the commercial, the guy's lady love does compliment his song despite still denying him the golden goodness he's foolishly craving. I wonder if my commercial would have the woman say "that's a stupid song - here, try one of these."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Whoever produced that commercial ought to be hogtied and forced to listen to James Brown Live at the Apollo 'til he repents.

Whoever invented McNuggets ought to be strung up by his McNuts and force-fed broccoli 'til his squirt turns green.