New Zealand pizza chain Hell Pizza holds Aussie kangaroos hostage

Miranda Ward

July 2, 2014 1:52

New Zealand pizza chain Hell Pizza has taken Australia’s kangaroos hostage in a new campaign promoting the brand’s kangaroo pizza.

Created by independent NZ agency Barnes, Catmur & Friends, the video pastiches hostage videos, with Hell Pizza holding Australia to ransom with a list of demands including changing the flag and letting New Zealand play in the NRL State of Origin.

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Miranda Ward

Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.

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Australia kangaroo

6 COMMENTS

Aussie_Austridge 2 Jul 14

“Heck Pizza” – the American version.

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Kiwi trade 2 Jul 14

In exchange for the kangaroos they are quite welcome to take the cane toads, rabbits, camels, red fire ants, Portuguese millipedes, and razorbacks. Sounds like a fair deal to me.

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Bill 2 Jul 14

those fire ants would make a good pizza topping

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WTF 2 Jul 14

funny

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JR 2 Jul 14

That picture on the billboard is absolutely ‘shopped’ in…just saying!

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Bill O'Connell 4 Jul 14

So they want to be the 7th state of Australia?