New "Offensive" Starbucks Logo

[Monkey]

LMFAO..This group wants attention. Our poor children are being corrupted by a coffee chain logo.  :)) :))



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The new logo (left) being used in some Starbucks outlets has caused offence

US coffee chain Starbucks has come under fire for a new logo that critics say is offensive and overly graphic.

The Resistance, a US-based Christian group, has called for a national boycott of the coffee-selling giant.

It says the chain's new logo has a naked woman on it with her legs "spread like a **********... The company might as well call themselves Slutbucks".

Starbucks says the image - based on a 16th century Norse design of a mermaid with two-tails - is not inappropriate.

Rather, the image is a more conservative version of the original Starbucks design, which hung above the chain's first store when it opened in Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971.

'Rubenesque'

It says the raunchy image - the longstanding logo for Pike Place bags of coffee - is appearing on some of its cups as part of a promotion, and will remain "for several weeks".

Howard Schultz, who bought Starbucks in 1982, described the emblem in his memoirs as "bare-breasted and Rubenesque; [it] was supposed to be as seductive as coffee itself".

Although its share price has plunged in recent years, Starbucks has 16,000 coffee shops in 44 countries worldwide, employing more than 170,000 staff.

The chain has just opened its first outlet in Argentina.

Based in San Diego, the Resistance claims to have more than 3,000 members across the US and has gained a reputation for espousing diverse conspiracy theories.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7427105.stm

[fwankwinsmom]

Geez. People have more things to worry about, like filling up their tanks with gas. I don't buy Starbucks usually, anyway. Charge way too much for what I can get 2 bucks cheaper.

[Tara]

Good grief...

The picture in Homer's siggy gives me nightmares, where do I complain?  :))

[SpunkyGirl]

That is unbelievable.  People worry about such small thing, but the important things.....................like gas, nobody's really complaining.  ( *_ ^ )

[MsMissy]

I myself dont see anything wrong with the new logo, but i think the green 1 is much better looking & prettier.  :!@

[xgingerx]

ppl this day and age have some major hang ups...the world has gone to hell..

bring back the good old days... when coke was a coke, crack when you was crackin jokes... :!!

[EASYRIDER10174]

LMAO I agree :{:

[Stinkerbell]

I think the new one looks like a mermaid tearing herself in half.  Maybe there's some hidden or subliminal message there.

[~Sassy~]

I think the new one looks like a mermaid tearing herself in half.  Maybe there's some hidden or subliminal message there.

:))) I agree with you Stinker, it does look like a mermaid trying to tear herself in half.  :)))
I'll bet she didn't get her Golf Solitaire Flawless Victory badge and it is evidently now causing deep psycological problems.  :))

[Stinkerbell]

:))) I agree with you Stinker, it does look like a mermaid trying to tear herself in half.  :)))
I'll bet she didn't get her Golf Solitaire Flawless Victory badge and it is evidently now causing deep psycological problems.  :))

I'm glad you with me.  I thought maybe it was just me missing something or reading too much into it.  Sheesh.   :)))
Maybe it's some secret society thing.   :))