{"id":11498,"date":"2018-06-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/burger-chain-says-sorry-for-the-offensive-offer-it-made-to-women\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T00:00:00","slug":"burger-chain-says-sorry-for-the-offensive-offer-it-made-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/burger-chain-says-sorry-for-the-offensive-offer-it-made-to-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Burger Chain Says Sorry For The Offensive Offer It Made To Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Burger King has apologised for an offensive campaign it pitched as a way to ensure the future success of the Russian soccer team.<\/h3>\n<p>The chain was offering cash and a lifetime supply of burgers to any Russian women who became pregnant by a soccer star currently in the country for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>According to deadspin.com, the promotion read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBurger King, within the framework of social responsibility, has appointed a reward for girls who get pregnant from the stars of world football. Each will receive 3 million rubles, and a lifelong supply of Whoppers. For these girls, it will be possible to get the best football genes, and will lay down the success of the Russian national team on several generations ahead. Forward! We believe in you!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"869\" width=\"800\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/burger-king-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The company later dumped the promotion and said sorry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe offer apologies for the announcement we made. It was too offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Burger King apologizes for offering Russian women free Whoppers for life if they get impregnated by World Cup players <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/skBTWSGHWU\">https:\/\/t.co\/skBTWSGHWU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cl9MkPFlCp\">pic.twitter.com\/Cl9MkPFlCp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NY Daily News Sports (@NYDNSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYDNSports\/status\/1009484620352585728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burger King has apologised for an offensive campaign it pitched as a way to ensure the future success of the Russian soccer team. The chain was offering cash and a lifetime supply of burgers to any Russian women who became pregnant by a soccer star currently in the country for the World Cup. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Burger Chain Says Sorry For The Offensive Offer It Made To Women - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/burger-chain-says-sorry-for-the-offensive-offer-it-made-to-women\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Burger Chain Says Sorry For The Offensive Offer It Made To Women\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Burger King has apologised for an offensive campaign it pitched as a way to ensure the future success of the Russian soccer team. 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