Chips banned from the Olympics

[alpine_saint]

Unless bought with fish, thanks to the global leviathan marketing brand that is McDonalds.

 

That is superb. Really, why do well allow ourselves to be embarassed internationally like this ? Is British management really SO incompetent ?

 

Did the Chinese allow chicken chow mein to be banned in Beijing ?

[dubai_phil]

Pah!

 

That's it.

 

The final straw.

 

I'm definitely not going to the Olympics now.

[dune]

Anyone would think Saints fans have food on the brain. This is the 3rd food thread this week.

[Thedelldays]

WoW

[Pancake]

Good, less fatties taking up 1.5 seats then.

[dune]

WoW

 

I bet this thread receives more replies than yours.

[CB Saint]

Unless bought with fish, thanks to the global leviathan marketing brand that is McDonalds.

 

That is superb. Really, why do well allow ourselves to be embarassed internationally like this ? Is British management really SO incompetent ?

 

Did the Chinese allow chicken chow mein to be banned in Beijing ?

 

It's got nothing to do with bad management and everything to do with McDonalds turning up with a lorry load of cash, and Locog being potless. Some would argue that it is good management to extort a big fee from mcDonalds for such a small, insignificant concession.

[This Charming Man]

Unless bought with fish, thanks to the global leviathan marketing brand that is McDonalds.

 

That is superb. Really, why do well allow ourselves to be embarassed internationally like this ? Is British management really SO incompetent ?

 

Did the Chinese allow chicken chow mein to be banned in Beijing ?

 

That's how modern sponsorship works unfortunately.

 

I attended the England v Sri Lanka ICC Champions Trophy game at the Rosebowl years ago and received a letter advising me I wasn't allowed to take in Coca-Cola and I wasn't allowed to wear any Nike, Reebok or other sport brands clothing. This was because Adidas and Pepsi were two of the main sponsors.

 

McDonalds don't sponsor events to get their brand out there. Everyone knows who they are already. They do it so Burger King can't sponsor it.

[alpine_saint]

That's how modern sponsorship works unfortunately.

 

I attended the England v Sri Lanka ICC Champions Trophy game at the Rosebowl years ago and received a letter advising me I wasn't allowed to take in Coca-Cola and I wasn't allowed to wear any Nike, Reebok or other sport brands clothing. This was because Adidas and Pepsi were two of the main sponsors.

 

McDonalds don't sponsor events to get their brand out there. Everyone knows who they are already. They do it so Burger King can't sponsor it.

 

That's trememdous...

 

They were really refusing entry to people with Nike trainers on ?

[Gemmel]

That's how modern sponsorship works unfortunately.

 

I attended the England v Sri Lanka ICC Champions Trophy game at the Rosebowl years ago and received a letter advising me I wasn't allowed to take in Coca-Cola and I wasn't allowed to wear any Nike, Reebok or other sport brands clothing. This was because Adidas and Pepsi were two of the main sponsors.

 

McDonalds don't sponsor events to get their brand out there. Everyone knows who they are already. They do it so Burger King can't sponsor it.

 

Were you playing or working on the press side or just a spectator?

 

I would assume that if you were a spectator, this would have made the front page of every newspaper and lead story on every news channel in the western world...... I think you misread the letter.

[This Charming Man]

Were you playing or working on the press side or just a spectator?

 

I would assume that if you were a spectator, this would have made the front page of every newspaper and lead story on every news channel in the western world...... I think you misread the letter.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-315762/The-end-cricket-picnic.html

[This Charming Man]

That's trememdous...

 

They were really refusing entry to people with Nike trainers on ?

 

I don't know if it was enforced but the very fact they sent a letter out in the first place was bad enough!

[Gemmel]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-315762/The-end-cricket-picnic.html

 

As i suggested you might have misread the letter.... Not one bit about what you couldn't wear and then ;

 

He said the policy was not aimed at cricket fans who put together picnic hampers which happened to include products made by companies not sponsoring the tournament.

Mr McClements added: "Provided they are just ordinary cricket fans, I doubt whether they will have any difficulty

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-315762/The-end-cricket-picnic.html#ixzz20PpLb2Cu

[Hatch]

[This Charming Man]

As i suggested you might have misread the letter.... Not one bit about what you couldn't wear and then ;

 

He said the policy was not aimed at cricket fans who put together picnic hampers which happened to include products made by companies not sponsoring the tournament.

Mr McClements added: "Provided they are just ordinary cricket fans, I doubt whether they will have any difficulty

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-315762/The-end-cricket-picnic.html#ixzz20PpLb2Cu

 

And?

 

I originally said if you wanted to take in Coke, you technically weren't allowed and must take in Pepsi which is what that article supports. Of course if you wanted to take a pork pie in you're allowed as Pepsi have no commercial interests in pork pies.

 

I can't remember how rigorous they were with the searches, I always take in more booze than you're allowed so where there's a will, there's a way. The point I was making was they actually made the ridiculous rules in the first place.

 

I assume as you know so much about this letter, you received one as well?

Edited 12 July, 2012 by This Charming Man

[View From The Top]

ICC trophy is in the UK next summer. It will be interesting if a similar stance is taken then.

[suewhistle]

But McDonalds don't serve chips, they serve "fries" which I believe are made from extruded potato flour, wallpaper paste and something mix, possibly plastic, if the ones I pinched from a friend are anything to go by.

[ericofarabia]

This should confuse any visiting Yanks.

 

Are Pringles sponsors?