Day 046 - 04 Nov 94 - Page 55
1 actually prepare hamburgers, that is, a beef or whatever
2 patty in a bun?
3 A. It is extensive.
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5 Q. At home?
6 A. It is extensive. It is probably the favourite cookout
7 for back air cookouts and barbecues during the summer and
8 all year long, but it is favourite of families.
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10 Q. You can go into supermarkets, can you, and buy big plastic
11 bags full of buns which are specially for hamburgers?
12 A. That is correct -- hamburger buns, hotdog buns; and
13 then you can buy the patty. Sometimes the patties are
14 already formed and sometimes the parent forms them himself,
15 or it is cooked at home and formed at home. But I would
16 say it is, in my opinion, one of the staples of the
17 American diet.
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19 MS. STEEL: I cannot find it in the American section, but in the
20 English IBA guide, it talks about "children's ability to
21 distinguish between fact and fantasy will vary awarding to
22 their age and individual personality". Would you agree
23 with that?
24 A. Again, I am not an expert, but I think, in general,
25 that may be true.
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27 Q. There are some children who might not realise, or they
28 might well realise that that is not a real live setting,
29 but they not might not realise that hamburgers do not come
30 from hamburgers patches?
31 A. I think most children have their first experience with
32 hamburgers probably at home, as opposed to anywhere else,
33 but I do not know. I do not have all the information to be
34 able to answer that question.
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36 MR. MORRIS: If you did show slaughterhouses and the truth in
37 that advert to children, would that put the children off
38 from eating?
39 A. I do not know. I would imagine that it would not be
40 very appetising.
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42 Q. Let me ask you a question -- you may not know the answer --
43 a lot of children do go vegetarian in this country when
44 they learn the connection between how food, where it comes
45 from -- meat, basically. Does that happen in America, as
46 well?
47 A. I would not have any information about that. My
48 children-----
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50 Q. But you are aware that a lot of children are vegetarians?
51 A. I know there are children who are vegetarians, yes.
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53 Q. You do not have any vegetarian Happy Meal choice, do you?
54 A. No.
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56 Q. So if you showed something that put children off and they
57 go vegetarian, for example, your particular business would
58 not be able to offer them a Happy Meal that you are
59 promoting?
60 A. I do not think that the role of advertising is to show
