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McDonald’s new ad for its 'Irish' Shamrock Shake features Stonehenge and bagpipes

“bagpipes are Scottish and Stonehenge is in England you muppets”

MCDONALD’S ANNUAL PADDY’S Day tradition of the Shamrock Shake is well known at this stage.

But this year they’ve introduced a chocolate version in the States to go with it:

Of course, they needed a new ad campaign to push this out there.

So they produced this abomination on Twitter

(If you can’t see the video, click here)

Let’s break down what we’re dealing with here.

There’s a man playing the Shamrock Shake like a wind instrument while bagpipe music blares out

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BAGPIPES.

He’s also wearing a Scottish-style hat

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Lads.

And then f**king Stonehenge pops up in the background

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From Scotland to England.

Perfect.

Obviously people on Twitter have been calling it out

The responses have continued solidly since it was shared on Tuesday. And they’ve had that succinct quality we’ve come to expect:

bagpipes are Scottish and Stonehenge is in England you muppets
are the sheep Irish? Because nothing else in this picture is
Not a single thing in your ad is Irish

This particular instrumint needs to be retuned

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And one response has the answer:

The music is Scottish pipes & the scene is Stonehenge in England. Maybe try again with Irish Uilleann pipes & an Irish setting?

Make it happen, McDonald’s.

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