http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/24/asa.advertising

This was a funny, good humoured, thoroughly ambiguous ad with no ill meaning whatsoever, so what caused such offence, and why have Heinz been so apologetic about it? There are chaps snogging all over the place on TV, but a comedy kiss between a husband and "wife" (a hard talking New York deli chef straight out of the Sopranos) is verboten? When did we go back to the fifties?

I honestly thought society had moved on a little from this. I don't think there was any real suggestion that this was a gay relationship in any case (more a surreal suggestion that "Deli" mayonnaise put a deli chef in the kitchen) but either way, so what? Are there really people still offended by the idea of gay characters in mainstream TV, and if there are, should we still be listening to them?
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