• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    It should be a rule, that a food executive is required to eat at least seven meals a week from the business they are running. Their attitude about food quality would fundamentally change.

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    The comments were hilarious, “like watching a gay man forced to have sex with a woman”.

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    maybe this is the problem with public companies??

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    I’ve always considered McD’s to be the bottom of the barrel as far as fast food.

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      That was fine when it costed significantly less than the other options, same principle that Little Caesars operates on

      It doesn’t anymore

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        Same with taco bell. Its not cheap anymore and everything has their ass-flavored fake cheese sauce on it.

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        When it was cheap it was just cheap garbage that destroys the planet. Now it’s expensive garbage that destroys the planet.

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      for me i consider McD average it isnt good nor bad.(mcflurry is good though, also it depends on the food)
      but ofc there are better restaurants

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      there are a few worse regional chains (i know one that uses a fuckin inch of miracle whip on each burger. not even a reasonable amount but like an inch thick on every burger), but national chains yeah

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      Which country are you from?

      Here in Italy McDonald’s is top quality; probably the best American fast food.

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          I know. That’s why I said that’s super good for that horrible category. KFC is dirty and oily, Burger King is shit-tier both in speed and cleanliness, even though I think their hamburgers are the best

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        McDonalds is easily the worst fast food out there, except for their breakfast, which is surprisingly decent. Their burgers are the worst in the biz.

        If you think McDonalds represents the best, you should try Culver’s.

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          We don’t have Culver’s in Italy, that’s why I specified that.

          And McDonald’s is different in Italy, both in their menu and the quality of the ingredients they use.

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              Yes, I tried it in the US and it was way worse. I’m not saying that the Italian one is delicious, but it’s still better than all the rest.

              We don’t have many American fast foods in Italy anyway. McDonald’s, Burger King, a few KFC’s, very few Starbuck’s’ (about ~30 in all of Italy, mainly aimed at tourists and wanna be social media influencers) and less than a dozen Five Guys.

              We also used to have some Domino’s Pizza but they all failed less than two years after they opened.

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              “Perhaps Mcdonalds is better over there.”

              Seriously? The US having much worse quality food, especially fast food, is common knowledge. How are you not aware of this? American fast food chains, and also other american food products, wouldn’t sell at all outside the US if they had the same barely edible quality as they do in the US. Many things wouldn’t even be legal to sell in much of the world because many ingredients and levels of quality are banned in most other countries, especially in Europe. It’s so odd to see anyone that doesn’t know this.

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    How much money is being spent daily for a marketing team? Let them do their job and stay out of it. He didn’t even know what toppings are on the damn thing.

    Elon Musk should have been enough of a warning to CEOs everywhere that being in the public eye is bad for business.

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      CEOs should be replaced by AI. They might actually make a good decision or two this way, and save the company tens of millions of dollars.

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            At least it’s possible to hold a CEO accountable, we just aren’t. Putting a computer program in charge of any kind of management decision is a terrible idea.

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        I highly doubt an AI agent that’s ready to suggest nuking everyone would make anything but the most extreme decisions to make more money. Like laughably evil shit like sending contaminated baby formula to 3rd world countries or knocking down governments to sell more bananas or reducing quality ingredients to the bare minimum that still technically qualifies as food… Oh wait I see your point now.

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          I highly doubt an AI agent that’s ready to suggest nuking everyone

          That Nazi CEO swore up and down that we could inhabit Mars if we just nuked the crap out of it. AI doesn’t have the ability to come up with these kinds of statements on its own, which means that it was fed content with people already identifying nukes as a solution to anything.

          The nuking issue is less of an off-the-rails Matrix kinda situation, and more of a “I learned it by watching our CEOs!

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    Transcript:

    “Hello fellow humans. I shall soon commence sensory analysis of this new human food product. I SHALL INGEST THIS FOR MY MIDDAY REFUELLING. Let us scrutinise the product. It has dimensions which impress me. It has constituent components. I am able to identify some of them. I am inexperienced in eating this kind of human food product so must first determine an effective strategem for inserting it into my face hole. I shall now appear to consume a small sample. Yes, indeed that is a human food product. Only McDonalds could produce a distinctive human food product like this.”

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      An intelligent person would look at that bank account and think “I never have to work another day in my life, why am I still here?”

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        Less lacking intelligence, more not a sociopath. These people are clearly very intelligent, they just lack ethics and have replaced it with greed.

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        This. This right here, if you can retire and don’t I hope you die before you get to enjoy it. What the fuck is wrong with them

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    Big Obama drinking water in Flint, Michigan vibes. The man knows exactly what poison he’s selling, and that he has to balance the risks of eating it vs. the need to do so on camera.

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        IDK, I remember seeing a post a few years back of someone who left a McDonalds cheeseburger and fries out to see how long it would take to spoil. IIRC the damn things went on close to a decade without a single bit of decomposition. While that may not be directly poison per se, that amount of preservatives and chemicals can’t be good for the human body.

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          There’s a lot of food that won’t rot if left out to dry.

          Not that McDonald’s is any good, just that that particular experiment was flawed because there was no control showing that other food left out in similar circumstances would have decomposed more (and even then, decent burger patties make McDonald’s’ look like jokes; “thick and juicy” is more likely to decompose than thin and whatever you’d call the moisture level in a McDonald’s burger).

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            Food lasts way longer than what one would expect. I got a bunch of eggs in the fridge from CostCo from about a year ago. They still taste alright, much to my surprise.

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              Yeah, it’s all about a) whether microbes can get to it, b) whether microbes can survive on it, and c) whether microbes can thrive on it. If the answer to any of those is no, then it won’t decompose.

              If it just relies on a, then opening it starts its countdown.

              If it just relies on b, then it won’t rot but the preservatives might be an issue for us, too. Though it could rot eventually if circumstances change (like it gets soaked with clean water or if the preservatives break down over time).

              If it just relies on c, then it might just be waiting for some moisture for an existing colony to take off, but it’ll just sit until then.

              Eggs are a and maybe a bit of b mixed in. You don’t even need to refridgerate eggs if they weren’t washed like they do for commercially available ones (at least in north america, dunno about elsewhere). Not that unwashed eggs are necessarily better, as they can have bacteria on the outside of the shell from things like chicken shit.

              Once I understood the role moisture plays, I stopped using a lid on my garbage so that it would dry out and stink less. It works unless I’m thowing out a bunch of fish guts or something that stores/traps moisture well, and even then, the stink isn’t as bad.

        • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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          It’s not 'chemicals", it’s grease. The frying process removes almost all the water in a McDonald’s burger.

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              Bread doesn’t rot, it molds. Whether mold can grow depends on the conditions it’s kept in. The ingredients are availble to the public, the only preservative in the bun is calcium propionate which you’ll find in just about any other baked good on store shelves.

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                I bought a twin pack of Nutella from Costco. The unopened one developed mold after awhile, but the opened jar in the fridge was just fine. If anything, I was expecting at least the reverse.

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                I never mentioned rot, I don’t think so anyway. Any bread I’ve ever had doesn’t look the same after 5 days.

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      I find it funny that autism-central is raking this guy over the coals for being socially awkward

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        Seriously. He took a normal size bite for someone who doesn’t want to get messy. The internet is acting like he needs to take a tv commercial sized mega bite to oversell how good the burger is.

        Dude is clearly just a tidy awkward human and the internet is convinced that means the food is bad

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          i mean, the food is bad by several measures. But I agree that it’s just a normal bite for a guy who doesn’t want to deal with getting messy on camera. It probably tastes good.

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            I’ve had the big Arch when it was in Canada, there’s a reason that it’s not on our menu anymore.

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      Yeah I was like “where’s the issue?”

      Looks like a dude taking a bite out of a hamburger. Yeah he’s doing corpospeak over it but that comes with the job.

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      Reminds me of this:

      Screenshot from The Simpsons Movie. Krusty is eating a Krusty Burger with a happy face. In the background there's a pig.

      Director: Action.

      Krusty: Hey, hey! It’s your old pal Krusty, with my new pork sandwich, the Klogger. lf you can find a greasier sandwich, you’re in Mexico!

      [Krusty laughs and munches on the hamburger.]

      Director: And we’re clear.

      [Krusty spits out the hamburger.]

      Krusty: Perfect. Cut, print, kill the pig.