A&W Restaurants raised eyebrows after tweeting that Rooty the Great Root Bear, its mascot for decades, would henceforth be wearing denim jeans – and later admitted it's a joke. In the initial Twitter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A&W jokingly announced that longtime mascot Rooty would start wearing pants. A&W jokingly announced that longtime mascot Rooty ...

Fox News got duped into taking an obvious joke about a root beer company’s beloved mascot and turning it into fodder for the endless culture wars. A&W issued a statement on Tuesday declaring a ...

M&M’s recently announced that it will be euthanizing its sexy, anthropomorphic candy mascots as part of a soul-wearying ad campaign that has incensed Fox News and, presumably, a handful of ...

MILWAUKEE - A&W Restaurants announced a decision on Tuesday, Jan. 24 that affects the chain's spokesbear, Rooty the Great Root Bear. A message tweeted out by A&W reads, "Since 1963, Rooty the Great ...

A&W Restaurants didn’t shy away from the online uproar over M&M’s decision to put its cartoon “spokescandies” on hiatus. Mars, which owns M&M’s, publicly acknowledged this week that “even a candy’s ...

A&W jokingly announced that longtime mascot Rooty would start wearing pants. A fast food chain’s joking tweet about its mascot’s clothing choices apparently caught Fox Business with its pants down. On ...