AIBU to find HelloFresh's Pride post grim?

[OrientalBay]

Really Hello Fresh? Jumping on the Pride bandwagon and promoting your high fibre offering to gay men? Utterly grim.

i know lesbian and hetero couples who do anal using a strap on

the pearl clutching on here is hilarious. as are the people who have tried to make this about halal meat and reform. it's ok to relax you know!

But do they do it while food shopping?

not really the same thing lol... but yes i know of people who will want to eat in a certain way beforehand.

When people are preparing meals it's unlikely they're thinking about bowel movements. To deliberately link the two isn't just naff, it's plain stupid.

Dunno about that. When I’m making my lentil soup I just know that I’m going to be making a few trips to the toilet over the coming days. Still make it and eat it though!

Gross. And what about the lesbians 🤔

Would you mention it to your dinner guests though? Or keep it to yourself?

Ah he’s because gay men are so promiscuous they are too busy shagging to the extent stopping to eat is secondary. And that’s before we get to the crass ‘our food will give you a clean shit so you can get back to shagging each other up the arse’ message. It’s just so lovely isn’t it. In reality, gay sex isn’t even all about anal sex. They probably don’t have it any more than hetero couples do!

If I was thinking about hello fresh this'd put me right off. Do we really need silly little comments about anal sex to promote somthing? Unless of course it's lube which this isn't. Wankers.

Tbh all the podgy blokes ive seen bursting out of their skimpy outfits on these parades I think they most certainly are not only thinking about food but consuming great quantities.

Apparently the follow up will be “Goes down like a shit sandwich”

Fucks sake it was a light hearted comment.

To your point, my DH does know I have IBS thanks. If I was preparing Hello Fresh I’d probably be mentioning it to him too

Your DH is one thing. Dinner guests are quite another.

A potential customer base you don't know... well that's a huge gamble.

Just saying. Context is so important.

You'd tell your friends and family that after eating your soup you'd be waiting for it to come out the other end? Or for the Hello Fresh to come out the other end?

Classy.

Thats true. Anal sex jokes and jabs at gay people were plentiful back then and yes, it was homophobic.
Now we're seeing it all again only this time we're supposed to think its all cool and funny?

It's weird. More and more over the last year, the stuff that seems to be coming out of political progressive culture is really leaning hard into stereotyping. Be it around sexuality or race or sex, but especially sexuality and race.

And when I say that I mean the kinds of stereotypes that would have been seen as cringe or offensive back in the 90s and maybe even the 80s.

To be fair a lot of people who don’t know what HelloFresh is will do now, because of the outrage over this advert. So a fait accompli

Yeah, it's that bumsex company.

But knowing what it is doesn't equate to buying their products. If your advertisement puts off your customers it's not much use

Yeah no… that doesn’t need to be related to food 🤮

now, if they did a high fibre recipe plan push for prostate and bowel cancer awareness in men… even during pride month because men are terrible at looking after themselves when it comes to DRs … bring it on. Would be an amazing campaign.

but for anal sex… gay guys have that mostly figured out ime.

It was the assumption that they might be that made them stop buying Gillette. The advert was very ill advised and destroyed the brand.

Should say brand value.

Technically, no.

Yes I've noticed that too. I wonder why it is? It seems really counterproductive.