It was a stuffed bird, or at least according to Mr. Richard Brunson. But that's not the point - at all. It doens't excuse the message.

A while back there was a commercial for Imperial Margarine where a baked potato was upset it couldnt "be with" the margerine and so it impaled itself on a fork. I wrote to the company, and basically said it's indecent to exploit a serious issue like suicide to sell a product. So what if it's a potato? That doens't make it ok. Someone wrote back to me - personally - and said they were sorry and were pulling the commercial from the air until they came up with a new one. Within a month or two, they had a new commercial out, where the margerine and the potato were on the conveyer belt at the grocery store, and the potato has a fantasy about running through a feild with the margerine until the reverie is shattered by one of those plastic order dividers. I was totally impressed with their swift action and humanitarian response. I think if we don't back down there is a chance Quizno's will get the message.