Fork advert riles mom

14 October 2016 - 18:52
By Julia Madibogo

Other fish and chips shops don’t give a fork. These words‚ on an advertising billboard‚ left a bad taste in the mouth of a mother in Johannesburg who said the word "fork" could be interpreted as an expletive.But the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) this week dismissed her complaint about the advert having a vulgar connotation.

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