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A Burger-King-tweet alerting customers it was "the sale of milk shakes all weekend" was banned for condoning and encouraging the anti-social behaviour.

The Fast -food company of The Post came after a series of elections to the European Parliament, the candidate had thrown milk shakes on you.

And a McDonald's in Edinburgh, the sale of the drinks in front of Nigel Farage finished speaking to a rally in The City .

Burger King defended the tweet, calling it a "tongue-in-cheek response to recent events".

It read: "dear People of Scotland. We sell milk shakes all weekend. Have fun. Love BK. #justsaying".

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) said it as a tweet "irresponsible".

The items on Burger King 's official Twitter account a series of dairy-based events, in which activists to the European elections, the way followed.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson , and the UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin were both hit with food and drink during the construction of the survey.

the Former English defence League leader, Mr. Yaxley-Lennon soaked with milk shakes twice in Two Days , as he campaigned in the North-west of England.

days after his appearance in the case of a Brexit Party rally in Edinburgh, Mr Farage was also poured over it later with a milk shake during a campaign walkabout in Newcastle.

'Tongue-in-cheek'

The ASA crucial Burger-King-tweet for the toleration and promotion of anti-social behavior was.

He said, complained 24 People , that encourages irresponsible and offensive, because they believed it, violence and anti-social behaviour.

The tweet was posted saying The Day after a McDonald's store in Edinburgh, put up a sign, it would not sell milk shakes or Ice Cream of the "police request".

Burger King said it had advocated no violence, which made it clear to read with a follow-up tweet: "We would never in favour of violence - or are you wasting our delicious milkshakes! So enjoy the weekend and please drink responsibly People . "

dairy items were temporarily withdrawn from sale in an Edinburgh McDonald's during Nigel Farage 's visit

The ASA said: "Although we have recognized that the tweet may not have been intended as a humorous response to the suspension of the milk shake sales through the advertiser and a competitor, in the context in which it appeared, and we thought it would be understood, suggesting that Burger King milk shakes could be used instead, as the People of 'milkshake' by Nigel Farage .

"We considered the ad therefore tolerated, had the earlier anti-social behaviour and encourages more instances. We therefore concluded that the ad was irresponsible. "

The ASA added: "We said to make sure Burger King is that its future Marketing Communications does not condone or promote anti-social behavior. "

A Burger King spokesman said: "Our tweet was intended, on The Situation in Edinburgh, a tongue-in-cheek reaction to The Situation . It seems that some have incorrectly interpreted this as an endorsement of violence, which we reject absolutely.

"At Burger King , we believe in the right of the individual to freedom of expression and would never do anything that conflicts with this. We would never advocated violence or wasting our delicious milk shakes. "

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Source of news: bbc.com