Is There A Reason I Should I Hate Australian Beef?

I was watch­ing the NBA finals last night, (no, I don’t know why) when I noticed a com­mer­cial for A&W Restau­rants.  The crux of the com­mer­cial was that they were the patri­otic choice for fast food because they use 100% Amer­i­can Beef.  Accord­ing to the com­mer­cial some of their com­peti­tors allegedly use Aus­tralian beef.  They men­tioned Burger King as the chief per­pe­tra­tor of this atroc­ity in the ad.  Hon­estly, I thought the ad was for Burger King until it was almost over.  They even had that freaky King with the giant head sit­ting in the bed of a pick up truck.  Any­way, I started think­ing to myself, does the coun­try of ori­gin play a part in anyone’s fast food deci­sion?  Does this mes­sage res­onate with any­one?  It sure doesn’t with me.  It is not as if Aus­tralia is Nazi Ger­many.  Last time I checked, the Aussies were on the shrink­ing list of coun­tries that do still like us.  Out­back seems to have no prob­lem fill­ing the seats.  Now, if Aus­tralia had an out­break of Bird Flu, Mad Cow, or some other exotic ani­mal ill­ness, I might be con­cerned.  Or say my dou­ble cheese­burger combo with mus­tard was actu­ally going to pro­duce Mus­tard Gas, that again would be an issue.  Maybe even if Aus­tralia was steal­ing all of our jobs this would make sense, but they aren’t.  We like them.  They have cool accents, drink, surf, and chase rep­tiles.  We are cool with Aus­tralia.  Bot­tom line.  If you want me to try your burger, A&W, go back to the draw­ing board, or sim­ply spend your money on mak­ing great burg­ers and not stu­pid ads.  By the way, are the let­tuce, toma­toes, onions, pick­les, pota­toes, and other menu items 100% Amer­i­can as well. 

On an aside, did any­one see the vignette on the ref­eree that was once an under­cover agent.  He helped to bring down 2 major crime fam­i­lies back in the 70’s, and they were telling his story dur­ing half time.  His story was com­pelling but is shar­ing some­thing like that a good idea.  Seems like you might want to keep some­thing like that to your­self, or at least limit telling that to your friends and fam­ily.  I would not want to be stand­ing next to that guy at a Nets game.  Fur­ther­more, do you think that a vignette about a ref­eree sig­ni­fies that it is time to retire the mini fea­tures that innun­date us dur­ing every sport­ing event.  I never thought I would say this but “bring back the half time show.”