Top 10 Tasteless Ads

Burger King is just the latest company to roll out a questionable ad campaign. Here, TIME examines some of the most tasteless, inappropriate, or downright disturbing commercials

Sexy Vegetables

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"Apparently, NBC has something against girls who love their veggies," was PETA's comment after NBC banned their "Veggie Love" video from airing during Super Bowl XLIII in 2009. A look at the video, however, makes it quite clear that these girls loved their veggies a little too much. The ad's pitch was that vegetarians have better sex. NBC told PETA they were uncomfortable with the "sexuality" of the scenes with a woman "rubbing pelvic region with pumpkin" or "screwing herself with broccoli" — among other scenes — and that they would need to be cut. PETA refused to do so, counting on the controversy to spread their sexy veggies campaign far and wide across the Internet — which, obviously, worked. But won't somebody think of the pumpkins?

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