Uber Eats made some last minute changes to their Super Bowl ad after serious backlash! ICYMI, the delivery platform shared their commercial to their social media last week in preparation for the big game.
The premise of the ad was based on their new tagline “whatever you forget, remember Uber Eats gets groceries.” The ad featured a number of stars “forgetting” things but then remembering that Uber Eats delivers. Jennifer Aniston forgot her Friends co-star David Schwimmer, while David and Victoria Beckham forgot the name of the Spice Girls. Usher even made an appearance on the ad directly after his performance, saying he wished he could perform at halftime!
Oops!! Related: The BEST Super Bowl Memes That Will Have You Cackling All Day Long! But the real problem with the ad came with an actor eating peanut butter while covered in hives because he “forgot” that peanut butter contained peanuts while having an allergy.
A small warning displayed at the bottom of the screen during that clip read “please please please do not forget there are peanuts in peanut butter” while the actor looked at the jar he was holding and said: Ch-ch-check out the original version of the ad (below): It was only a split second — but it was enough to catch the eye of concerned viewers and the Food Allergy Research & Education organization alike!
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