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Your company has a commercial selling a meat product. It consists of a boy doing an auction with some of his classmates. A little girl comes in with a pony and he says "Sold to the lady with the pony". He is a small child. When I saw this commercial, I thought it was distasteful because of the lesson that it could be teaching children. I looked at it as a superficial act on his part and so did a couple of my neighbors. This was disturbing. Think about it; I am aware that your company is trying to make money but is this the kind of lesson that we want to be teaching our children? We're not trying to do anything to make this world any more messed up. Everybody is equal. If you wish to contact me, please feel free to do so at any time. Thank you

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Shelld
US
Mar 27, 2010 9:32 am EDT

This is the funniest commercial I have seen in a long time. I have loved it from the time I first saw it and even looked it up on the internet so I could watch it over and over again. I love the kid. If children are drawn to the commercial it can give parents an opportunity. Perhaps parents should use the commercial as a teaching moment to explain to children the pros and cons of the concept of selling to the highest bidder. Maybe we also should teach our children to not dwell on the negative they perceive, but to concentrate and focus on turning lemons into lemonade more often!

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Drewski23_7
Redlands, US
May 26, 2010 7:39 pm EDT

Ok, well [censored]214, in all honesty your complaint doesn't even make sense. Is it my understanding that you feel that having your children see another kid auction/trade off a sandwich to a girl with a pony is somehow morally degrading? I understand maybe if he was not thankful for the sandwich, but it really does not matter. Are you afraid that your kids will think they won't get anything good in life unless they have a pony? Or do you feel that the auctioning kid should have really learned about each kid before deciding who to trade his sandwich to? Everyone remembers going through a similar event where they had things in their lunch that they didn't like and wanted to trade other kids for something more desirous. But regardless, you make no sense.

The commercial in itself is the least entertaining of the Hillshire Farm commercials i have seen yet. They are usually hilarious, but this one wasn't even that funny.

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ALMIGHT GOD
HEAVEN, US
Jun 01, 2010 1:38 pm EDT
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YOUR IRRITATING COMMERCIAL, FEATURING SOME FAT, UGLY BLACK...YELLING GO MEAT IS STUPIDEST COMMERCIAL EVER AND IS UNWATCHABLE...
PERSONALLY, I TURN THE CHANNEL...AND WILL NEVER BUY YOUR PRODUCTS UNTIL THIS COMMERCIAL IS PULLED...
HERE IS MY MOTTO FOR YOU "GO FCUK YOURSELVES!

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ALMIGHT GOD
HEAVEN, US
Jun 01, 2010 1:39 pm EDT
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YOUR IRRITATING COMMERCIAL, FEATURING SOME FAT, UGLY BLACK...YELLING GO MEAT IS THE STUPIDEST COMMERCIAL EVER AND IS UNWATCHABLE...
PERSONALLY, I TURN THE CHANNEL...AND WILL NEVER BUY YOUR PRODUCTS UNTIL THIS COMMERCIAL IS PULLED...
HERE IS MY MOTTO FOR YOU "GO FCUK YOURSELVES!

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judy vadnais
Panama City, US
Oct 12, 2010 12:56 pm EDT

I bite down on a very sharp bone fragment which caused my gum inside my mouth to bleed! I was eating the hillshie farm roast beef deli select, purchased at Publix in Panama City, Florida.

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Larrywpe
US
Jan 24, 2011 2:43 am EST

I have used products from Hillshire Farms many times and have had no problem with your products.
I purchased your Beef Summer Sausage from Wal-Mart Which was very good.
On a trip to Sam's Club I purchased a package that you call Yard-O-Beef (Beef Summer Sausage ). It was terrible .No Taste mealy with too much fillers.
Even my Yorkie refuses to eat it.
Larry Perry
23506 Nocturne Ln
Punta Gorda, Fl. 33983
email larrywpe@msn.com

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phwaah
US
Mar 06, 2011 12:31 am EST

those commercials are ridiculous in every way. go meat? go to hell

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mushamushaboom
Manheim, US
Jul 11, 2011 11:06 pm EDT

I often get bone fragments in their hotdogs. Chipped a tooth on one once. The incisor, you can see the tip is gone

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