China: Yao Ming and beef

Written byOiwan Lam
Posted 5 January 2007 20 years ago

Frank Yu from One Billion users comments on the recent McDonald's poster featuring Yao Ming with horns with a subtitle: “beef makes you strong”, but the whole image conveys a totally different message to foreigners:

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