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When it comes to BBQ commercials, and, certainly, BBQ itself, New York City has nothing on Midwest City. This is like one of those puzzles (which are now in In Touch or one of those magazines! For adults!) where you point out all the things that are wrong, starting with using the phrase “bite and chew” in ANY food commercial:
Via Fellow Southerner Cajun Boy, who takes issue with the young lady’s bad Southern accent. In her defense, she’s clearly Australian (or maybe Kiwi or maybe British, I am not Meryl Streep’s accent coach), and doesn’t seem to be trying very hard to hide that fact, until the end when she attempts an accent Hail Mary with “It’s the best sweet iced tea in a jah you’ve evah hayd.” Ouch. Make it stop.
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she’s probably someone’s daughter.
I can pretty much guarantee that that’s true.
If this commercial ever actually showed up on my TV I’d be so upset.
How hard is it to find an actual Southerner?
This is pretty bad commercial…not as bad as Manny & Olga’s Pizza (Washington, DC).
Wait, Manny & Olga’s has commercials? Also, that place is the worst.
Their BBQ is good though
In defense of this horrible accent, actual Southerners also sound like they’re faking the accent (see: Britney Spears).
As an actual Southerner, I must disagree. I think Britney sounds weird because she’s been coached not to use the accent, so it sounds incredibly bizarre when she slips back into it for whatever reason.
how’d they get fat mike from nofx to sing their theme song?
Seriously, she goes from an Austrailian to a British to a bad Southern accent.
I’ve been seeing this commercial for a few years now in NYC and never get tired of it. Sweet iced tea in a jah! So-bad-they’re-good ads always get me in the store.
Maybe she’s from Bon Temps, Lousianna. Maybe she just moved to get away from all the vampires with bad southern accents.
Linds…I say we march down there and raise all kinds of hell. Like get really hammered and act like we’re from Tennessee or something and get into a pretend argument and throw bones at each other. Maybe you could ever dump a “jah” of sweet tea on my head. It’ll be beautiful.
Linds…I say we march down there and raise all kinds of hell. Like get really hammered and act like we’re from Tennessee or something and get into a pretend argument and throw bones at each other. Maybe you could ever dump a “jah” of sweet tea on my head. It’ll be beautiful.
Also, the song. It simply makes me angry.
The commercial is pretty wretched…though I can’t speak for the barbecue.
I guess New Yorkers running barbecue restaurants is no worse than all those Billy Bob’s New York style pizza joints you see in the south.
It makes me happy that, in some small way, Oklahoma City won out over New York City today.
That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.