• zeppo@lemmy.world
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      5 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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        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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          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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              Being the CEO, he knows exactly the quality of beef McDonalds uses. Would you eat a burger if you knew how many diseased cows were in it and how much antibiotics were used?

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                I don’t think he knows anything about it at all except that it’s made for the poors.

                There are so many layers of separation between the CEO of a company like McDonald’s and where their ingredients come from.

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              Maybe it was cold? Gun-shy? Get him a hot product, watch him shove it in his mouth. Hot steamy product, yum yum.

              I’m sorry, that sentence shouldn’t exist.

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          https://youtu.be/W6QFxgS8fSA

          Main points: “product”, not burger, the tiny bite, the look of disgust, and the lack of finishing the damn thing. He tried again and people pointed out he pulled a “wipe my mouth while spitting the ‘product’ into it” move.

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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      5 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.