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Unsettling British pork advertisement

The aptly-named “Scarred for Life” Twitter account posted this remarkable ad for British pork, dating to some indefinitely creepy moment in the 1970s or 1980s. There should be a corollary for Poe’s law (“it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken for the thing parodied”) for parodies of British advertisements. Be sure to click through to the thread for more high-quality horrors of UK product marketing.

Previously: KFC Commercial, by Peter Serafinowicz.

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