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Maybe the author likes retro games and fast food? The anti-corporatism shtick is so lame. Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make
by bigyikes 3y ago
Maybe the author likes retro games and fast food?
The anti-corporatism shtick is so lame. Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad. Just because something is an advertisement doesn’t make it bad.
I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too.
- poisonarena 3y agoFor me, it's the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich. I even ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige. One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!". Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give me three packets. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local McDonald's restaurant, I go there at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.
- ifyoubuildit 3y agoHey, good for you finding something that you like, but god damn if this doesn't read like ad copy. If you're not getting paid by them, you should be. You probably already know this, but fast food 5 times a week is basically putting in a request for health problems.
- boneitis 3y agoRight. My experience in this realm is often the store employee either charging me or acting like I'm stealing from their personal savings account by asking for extra sauce. e: Wow, I got sniped big time.
- robgibbons 3y agoIt's a copypasta. There are different versions floating around, but this one's my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnXgbMgfkYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnXgbMgfkYg
- ifyoubuildit 3y agoDamn. The sooner reddit gets its shit together the better.
- poisonarena 3y agoagreed, you need to go back
- yamazakiwi 3y agoWhat is McChicken sauce packets? Mayonnaise?
- gowld 3y agoIt's a Canadian thing https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/mcchicken-sauce-packet.html https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/mcchicken-sauce-p...
- yamazakiwi 3y agoI'm concerned that it says "Mayonnaise Style Sauce Packet" and thank you for bringing that to my attention!
- wintogreen74 3y agoprobably no eggs, which is what holds the oil and water together
- ksaj 3y agoMayonnaise Style Sauce ingredients: Soybean oil, Water, Liquid egg yolk, Vinegar, Sugar, Salt, Mustard seeds, Mustard bran, Xanthan gum, Potassium sorbate, Calcium disodium EDTA. Miracle Whip ingredients: water, soybean oil, sugar, vinegar, modified cornstarch, egg yolks, salt, mustard, spices, potassium sorbate, calcium disodium EDTA, dried garlic. Thankfully you don't have to be too concerned. It's for the same reason Miracle Whip doesn't actually call itself mayonnaise, and Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise does. Mustard, garlic, etc., are not mayonnaise ingredients.
- amon22 3y agomustard is definitely a mayonnaise ingredient
- ksaj 3y agoIndeed, you're right. I thought at its most basic it is just egg whites and oil, but googling that specifically says mustard is part of the recipe. So it's still a mystery why McDonalds doesn't just call it Mayonnaise when the ingredients are pretty much identical to every other mayonnaise out there, including Hellmann's REAL Mayonnaise. Maybe it's one of those "It's only X if it comes from the X region" type issues. It just makes it sound suspicious for no discernable reason. Like buying a bottle of "Wet 'water' style beverage."
- lovich 3y agoAs someone who eats like shit all I can think at that list is that’s a lot of McDonald’s
- wintogreen74 3y ago>> when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs. Huh. My experience with McDonald's: never met daily nutritional needs, no longer affordable and struggling to be fast.
- tropdrop 3y agoHonestly I've been impressed with their fish sandwich recently – wild caught and actually flaky filet!
- toolz 3y agoI'm no expert, but I thought we should prefer farm raised, no? Seems weird to advertise they are wild caught when that's a big concern with over-fishing in the wild.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoPick your poison. Wild caught can deplete wild fish and farmed fish pollutes the environment. I spring for wild caught whenever possible.
- gowld 3y agoThere's a third option...
- Alupis 3y agoLiterally everything you do has an impact in some way on the environment. If you want to boycott everything, you won't have an existence. Living is all about understanding trade offs and making informed decisions. Just because plants don't scream when you kill them doesn't mean a plant-only diet is without negative effects as well.
- cazum 3y agoI don't think it's unreasonable anti-corporatism so much as it's a very rational cynicism about the psychological effect of marketing. They did something cool and now you want to give them money. Why is that?
- veave 3y agoAsk a busker
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoBecause the food is delicious.
- toolz 3y agoWhat is rational about being cynical that I want to spend my money on things I think are cool? Maybe there's merit in asking why I think it's cool to begin with (and in this case I hardly think mcdonalds is responsible for people who like gameboy games), but there doesn't seem to be much to gain in asking myself why I want to spend money on things I like. What else should I spend my money on?
- cazum 3y agoBut that's not what's happening. They made a Gameboy game and now you're buying hamburgers. If you're doing a 'vote with your wallet' thing to try to convince them to make more retro games that at least makes sense, even if id argue it's a little naive, but that's not even what were talking about. They made a videogame and now people are pledging to buy their hamburgers.
- disruptalot 3y agoIt makes perfect sense. McDonalds did something unconventional and apparently popular. People that found that valuable send the strongest signal you can send in an economy - money. "Corporate profits" take a look at the bank and they think "hmm, that seemed to work, we'll do more of that". They might not produce another gameboy game, that signal might need to be calibrated over further attempts to figure out why people bought more hamburgers. But certainly some signal concerning the approach they took will be loud and clear.
- themodelplumber 3y agoYeah, the evisceration of corporate-everything has really unnecessarily crowded out enjoyment of all the good parts, while at the same time somehow managing to look more ridiculous as a POV than I ever expected. Back in the edgy days, I never thought I'd find blanket-corporate-hatred becoming quite so lame, to the point of even taking on its own corporate-style blandness, in the 2020s...
- relativty 3y agoThe “other people don’t speak how I prefer” regardless of the context is such a lame complaint. Corporate blandness has infected us all; from my reference frame you’re just some bland text on a corporate website that silences spicy discourse. Are others lame or is that all you feel given hypernormalized routines? Look at the rebels willing to risk going against this thread by eating McDonalds; highway to the danger zone. How bold
- noduerme 3y agoI was gonna eat McDonald's tonight anyway. Regardless of the sneering of the privileged commies who live around me.
- FullyFunctional 3y ago"privileged commies" is a fascinating oxymoron. Is that really how you think of the people that disagrees with you?
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- noduerme 3y agoI say it with humor, because it sounds like an oxymoron. But it does describe a certain wealthy, anti-capitalist clade here in Portland. (And I'll happily point that out to my friends, whether or not we agree on things). I was just thinking of the last time I was waiting in my car at the McDonald's drive-thru with the rest of the proles, and a friend called. When I told him where I was, he had let out an involuntary "ugh" sound, and expressed that he can't believe I eat that garbage, let alone support that corporation. This particular friend owns a business that serves billion-dollar corporations, lives in a $1.2M house, drops $200 on bottles of wine at fine restaurants (where he's known for showing up in Transformers pajama bottoms) and grows almost all his own vegetables. Bernie stickers all over his (multiple) Subarus. I guess "privileged commie" was a bit of wry shorthand, but it's not that much of a stretch.
- pcthrowaway 3y agoI think this is pretty cool too, but um.. > Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad. But massive corporations (with maybe ~1% or fewer exceptions) don't base their practices on anything remotely resembling bad or good, and this leads them to profit-seeking behaviours that harm people on an individual level (which I think is a "bad" thing), as well as the planet, the environment, the economy, their competitors. McDonalds is not a good or ethical company. The corporate apologism is "so lame".
- golergka 3y agoTheir profits pay pensions of the ordinary people. How is that not a good thing?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago> I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad.
- brvsft 3y agoI would otherwise be 'on your side' but this is not a great take. Lockheed Martin's profits also help pay for pensions. Phillip-Morris as well. I don't think this makes their business actions a net good.
- golergka 3y agoLockheed Martin's profits pave way to Pax Americana, unprecedented peaceful period in world history, deter China and Russia and helped getting Saddam, Gaddafi and Miloshevich to justice. It would be a net good to humanity either way.
- megablast 3y agoSo therefore anything that produces profits that pays pensions is a good thing? Wow.
- bentcorner 3y agoPaste this reply:\r\n Their Big Macs are also incredibly tasty. The sauce and double patty beats anything at their competitors.
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- perardi 3y agoDon’t have a cow, man.
- gowld 3y agoWhy not give money to support retro game creators, instead indirectly via a fast food chain?
- willis936 3y agoIf anyone can find a spark of counterculture in 2023 I encourage it. There is no longer a battleground for the soul of society. It's safe to say the suits won.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoAre you familiar with normcore? There's an argument to be made that the most counterculture thing you can do is to semi-ironically eat a Happy Meal in order to support indie Gameboy devs
- z3c0 3y ago> the most counterculture thing you can do is to semi-ironically eat a Happy Meal in order to support indie Gameboy devs Like Winston at the Chestnut Tree Cafe
- Eater_of_food 3y agoYes. Only once you truly love eating your big mac will the hamburgalar murder you.
- z3c0 3y agoWhen you examine the most common deaths for Americans, it's either the Hamburglar or cars
- TeMPOraL 3y agoOf course there is a battleground. The counterculture is more alive than ever. It's just all been thoroughly subsumed by capitalism. Those kids on the streets protesting most recent excesses of multinational corporations? The hoodies and Guy Fawkes masks they're wearing, the signs they're holding, the chains they're rattling - all bought on Amazon, happily providing specialized merch for the "fuck the system" market niche. And what do those kids achieve? Mostly they generate attention that moves newspapers and keeps millions glued to where they can be best exposed to ads. Etc. Yes, the suits love the anti-corporate movements. They are a quite profitable form of entertainment.
- RajT88 3y agoChex Quest and Sneak King were both pretty amusing for what they were.
- bitsoda 3y agoChex Quest was my first FPS and only many years later did I learn about Doom. It all clicked and my gratitude for whoever at General Mills was responsible for the title flowed immensely.
- libraryatnight 3y agoSounds like a win for society of you eat as much of it as possible. It'd really teach us a lesson if you ate multiple meals a day.
- howlin 3y ago> I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too. Plenty of people will have plenty of issues with a major corporation. But it's worth pointing out that McDonald's is one of the most prominent fast food chains which has no problem with animal abuse in terms of products from horribly treated livestock animals. They have trouble even making their french fries livestock-torture free . Maybe this issue doesn't personally matter to you, but it does create a huge problem for a company that does something so shamelessly unethical.
- acuozzo 3y ago> They have trouble even making their french fries livestock-torture free They haven't cooked their french fries in beef tallow since 1990.
- madeofpalk 3y agoI just think it's weird to say that McDonalds, of all companies, needs or deserves 'support'. No one needs to "support McDonalds", and no one needs to be encouraged to. It'll do fine.