The quickest way to become famous on the Internet? Just be heavy handed in trying to protect your reputation or your trademark. Congratulations to Thinkgeek for taking full advantage of the opportunity.
First spotted here.
UPDATE: I wonder how long it will be before I receive a cease and desist letter for the title of this post.
June 22nd, 2010 - 1:25 pm
Wow. Talk about humorless. (And: protection-of-parody rules, for the win!)
I wonder if there was someone, somewhere, who actually interpreted the product in question as, you know, a REAL product.
June 22nd, 2010 - 1:45 pm
I notice that their site says “The new white meat” not “the other white meat”. Stupid lawyers. I’d really like someone to explain to me how killing all the lawyers is going to cause the collapse of civilization.
June 23rd, 2010 - 11:18 am
As chicken or turkey breast was always the “white meat” when I was a kid, long, long ago and far away, I can’t quite figure out how the pork mafia somehow think that the terms “white” and “meat” in any combination belong to them.
I shall continue to buy canned unicorn meat from ThinkGeek, though I do prefer it fresh.
It’s not very white though. Might send them a lawyer’s letter about their false descriptions.