So glad I don't live in Oz....

[delphyne]

......because it means I don't have to see ads like this one on my TV screen -

http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=yChInvz8gIg

(via Hoyden about Town http://viv.id. au/blog/?p=603)

I can't believe they can show something like that on terrestrial TV, then again it's probably no surprise given the normalisation and approval of prostitution by Australian society, or at least by the male half of it.

[deedle]

speechless.

[oneangrygirl]

what is nando?

[KatetheGreat]

if you can believe it, it's a family resteraunt.

This had me fuming all afternoon.

[Cellycel]

Yeah, I saw that ad, and became angry immediately, I wrote a little thing on my blog about it.

If you go to their website... well, try it an find out. Thy tell you how peri peri sauce increased the libido's of the africans who originally ate it, and how women loved to cook it for the men.

They also talk about how the europeans "met" the africans, who "gave" them the secret to peri-peri sauce, as if the portugese didn't inslave the african people, and sell them to other european nations.

I don't eat there anymore.

[oneangrygirl]

is anyone in australia already organizing a boycott?

[Cellycel]

If there's a boycott being organized, I don't know about it.

[Jimmy H.]

When I saw that Nando's, while created in South Africa, is a "Portuguese-themed" restaurant chain, I couldn't help thinking that this is a country (Portugal) where the right to abortion has been barely obtained only this year. Stripping and "sex work" never gave women that kind of empowerment.

[rich]

is a "Portuguese-themed" restaurant chain

From the commercial, I thought they were selling (or trying to at any rate) chewing gum.

[sunnysmiles]

a friend of mine commented about how nando's is very colonialist in it's advertising. I.e. it erases the experience of colonialism and goes on to talk about the 'discoveries of the portuguese': http://www.nandos.co. uk/?"/nan_experi/NEP/Nandos_Experiperience.html"

Way back in the 15th Century, in the rich soils and
intense heat of Southern Africa, our Portuguese forefathers discovered the African Birds Eye Chilli.

All in all - seems like a very racist and sexist dining experience.

[Cellycel]

I think the girls who work there have to wear some kind of condecending T-shirt too... I don't remember what they say... the word "chicks" is involved, like "We have the best chicks at nando's"

*Actually, I wouldn't mind being one of the "best chicks" depending on what they mean by the phrase, but I don't think they mean well.*

[laurelin]

If I recall rightly from living next door to a damned Nandos in London at one point- the T-shirts said 'hot chick' and the advertising was full of sexual innuendo regarding the female body/ chicken.