• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 minutes ago

    I just came up with a new idea. What if fast food companies are only allowed to sell food which their CEO and every board member have eaten every single day for a month straight. They didn’t die of a heart attack? Guess it’s not too unhealthy for the market, slap that new burger on the menu.

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    2 hours ago

    hasn’t burger king already started doing this? also, mcd got a lot of free publicity from that. wouldn’t be totally shocked if it was setup.

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      52 minutes ago

      Yea, people in those positions might be out of touch with reality, but to make that video and still release it after? They knew what they were doing.

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    3 hours ago

    And it has to be from a random store location, made by employees who didn’t know who it was for, so you’re getting exactly what random normal customers get.

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      3 hours ago

      You know the backstory, right? It was really difficult for the CEO of McDonald’s. He couldn’t even pretend.

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        2 hours ago

        I sort of read him more as terribly awkward and definitely not ready for a camera. He felt like YouTube unboxing video in 2010.

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          43 minutes ago

          I think many people saw the imperceptibly tiny nibble he took as general discomfort toward the product.

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            And also how he talked about the product not as a food item but as a product, like there waa some abstraction between the fact that it can be eaten and the purpose of selling it.

            It’s like they told him seconds before that it was edible, and he didn’t believe it buy kinda played along by taking a tiny bite.

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      3 hours ago

      Succession had a nice bit about one of the rich guys eating normal people’s food to get ready for prison. What tastes good for you does not necessarily taste good for people using personal chefs for every meal.