Beer Brand Brawl Breaks Out After Bud Light Commercials

The brand aired 3 spots during the Super Bowl about corn syrup

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Bud Light may have cracked up some Super Bowl viewers with its ads on Sunday, but the company also cracked open a feud with its biggest competitors and a major agricultural giant for a whopping three Super Bowl ads critical of corn syrup.

One of the Anheuser-Busch beer brand ads that aired during the first half depicts the cast of medieval “Dilly Dilly” characters enduring a full-out odyssey to deliver an enormous barrel of corn syrup to Coors Light and Millers Light.

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