This first ad is what put the "spotlight" so to speak on Subway's ads.
Group calls Subway ad 'unpatriotic'
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - An advocacy group Friday accused sandwich chain Subway Restaurants of being "anti-American" because the tray liners that the company is currently using in Germany display an obese Statute of Liberty and a German word that it claims is a pejorative term for Americans.
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/30/news...ubway_protest/
More Anti-American Images Found at German Subway Stores
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
August 04, 2004
It's clearly a takeoff on the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center, and according to the Virginia-based Center for Individual Freedom, the illustration appears on page 18 of a 30-page "food diary" distributed by Subway sandwich shops in Germany.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.a...20040804c.html
A few articles about the incident
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