• Roo-ing the Day - Strine Tucker

    Oh, La La! Kangarou Pizzas, C’est Magnifique! … Plutôt

    Kangarou Pizzas are a French fast food chain. The chain appears to be based in Thionville, with outlets in Metz, Nancy and Varangéville. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the chain specializes in deliveries. It’s logo is a bouncing kangaroo, or kangarou in French! Being from the land of culinary delights, you’d expect Kangarou Pizzas to be a popular choice. Perhaps because of its origins, customers are more demanding, but the chain gets only average reviews on Trip Advisor, with 60% rating it as either “poor” or “terrible,” though it appears disgruntled users were more miffed by poor service than lousy food. Still, it’s…

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    Hopper Gives U.S. Satellite TV Network Viewers a Roo-ed Awakening

    Hopper is the (brilliantly original!) name given to the kangaroo used to promote U.S. satellite TV network Dish. Hopper was probably at her most prominent in the mid 20-teens as Dish launched a huge campaign to popularize Internet telly. During the 2014 campaign, Hopper was voiced by portly Strayan actress Rebel Wilson, then at the peak of her career. The campaign centered on Dish’s universally praised digital video recorder, which is also called Hopper, like the kangaroo that promotes the network. The line of recorders further extends the kangaroo link by naming the compact version of the DVR, Joey, which…

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    A Kangaroo Was One of the Earliest Advertisers of Cognac

    A kangaroo was one of the earliest live animation advertisers of cognac. An artist called Georges Maresté (1875-1940) made the above advertisement to promote Prunier Cognac sales in Australia early in the 1920s. Many Maresté works featured his birthplace of Cognac, France, which is, of course, itself the birthplace of cognac brandy. Prunier has a history of 250 years of selling cognac, so it’s unlikely to have rued the day it roo-d the day by using Australia’s national animal to plug its wares down under.