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CptJohnYossarian
#2 You just know that those kids were instructed/coached to ask that guilt-tripping follow up question. Fuckn unlikely to make me feel guilty with your billions in unpaid taxes. I'll donate when your staff can afford to buy a house, you fuckn ghouls.
TheUnstoppableWampas
Those are the actions of a man that knows what gets put into those burgers.
Ghnhx
StrokeFlavoured
I was looking for this one. Thanks. Or the one where he eats a Krusty O's.
DerpyBestPrincess
Nothing in the text is correct, can you not take 5 seconds of fact checking before posting?
Anyways, there a whole saga of this, with other CEOs making parody videos and mocking him for the (real) video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2FrKeIim8
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
Side note, when companies ask you to donate to charity organizations through them, don’t. Ever. Either they take part of that cash as a “operational fee” they don’t tell you about, or they use your donation as a charitable write off on their taxes.
Laylah77
It was the new McArch not the chicken
guitarfourtysix
FK their cold 2/3 filled container of greasy albino fries they call "golden" for reasons unknown. Big Mac patties now thinner than White Castle's. My last chicken sandwich had a rubber-type piece of fat or gristle in it that I could not chew. The slice of *cheese? on the fish has evolved to a 1"x3" paper thin strip. They support Tangerine Nazi, which explains why they treat their workers like slaves and costs up an extra $5 on every $10. Such a joke, the clown is even being phased out.
OrkenMork
Except that's not a chicken sandwich....
Mickstah
Right? That's a chicken burger!
I'm not seeing any square flat bread therefore not a sandwich
thealmightywalrus420
It's the chicken big mac
polepolekaz
How this passed review and got posted just puts a huge question mark on the governance at McDs…
Yssago
Guy's used to his foie gras on brioche on his Lambo for breakfast.
cosonfused
the comments on his video are golden. Every single other fast-food chain, known and unknown, globally are mocking him relentlessly.
Telemapus
It's amateur hour video production, is what it is. This could be his fifteenth take, for all we know. He's not going to chew and swallow a bite for every take. The people making the video are too clever by half and are advising him not to swallow in case they need to do multiple takes. This is designed to look like an amateur Tik-Tok but it's McD's CEO - of course there's a massive team behind that camera. Sure, he doesn't doesn't eat that shit, but I reckon this is an example of overproduction.
Gruesslibaer
Fifteen takes? And this is the one they went with?
guitarfourtysix
Reminds me of Lucy's old Vitameatavegimine commercial. They kept reshooting but the health tonic was like 80 Proof https://youtu.be/KY3eOtJwOhE
Telemapus
NOTE: Consider his location, in some generic corporate office rather than in a McDonald's kitchen with a burger hot off the.. uh... deep fryer (if it's a McChicken Big Mac). I feel very confident in assuming that thing is stone cold and there's a line of them out of frame for extra takes.
valen00
Yeah, no cut after the bite makes this probably the least worst option.
Lochlannach
Fifteen takes to take a bite of a burger? GTFO here...
RayMC
When I was in elementary school, they’d make us read fiction and non-fiction passages to develop reading comprehension skills. I must’ve read hundreds of these, and one of them was about how food in food commercials is fake so that it can look good in extreme lighting conditions and how even when real, actors spit it out because of the number of takes
zuken
Have you ever been in a major filming set try and do takes? They'd spend fifteen takes to do a wink if they weren't getting the right pathos from it
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
He don’t eat that shit. He’s a multi-millionaire or BILLIONAIRE. He probably has 3 kitchen staffs, working in tandem, that follows him and his family around daily including weekends and holidays.
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
...and I bet he even has a “Kitchen Staff Manager”.
Snooj
I'd feel awful being the CEO of a company that makes food I can't eat. I'd only be the CEO of a burger company that makes good fucking burgers. Or maybe ramen. Something edible and delicious. I would only eat my own food every day.
StrokeFlavoured
This is why people like us never get to be CEOs. Maximum restaurant owners.
NaskaV
Well, you don't get to be a CEO usually by having passion for your product and empathy for your customers. You get there by a complete lack of both, only caring for your bottom line.
ItsACrazyWorld
This only hurts his image. Fucking idiot.
Lombax369
It's a Chicken BURGER! A sandwich is between two slices of bread or a roll. That is a burger bun, therefore: Burger.
ziph3326
Pretty sad when the narrator can’t tell the difference between a chicken sandwich and a Big Mac!
kInADress
Yeah sure, McDonalds cares about kids' health...
Jandegrote
Ah yeah that happens often when McDonald's staff is asking you "you don't care about kids health?" that is 100% one of those and everybody clapped moments.
D3pleted
"I dont even know how to attack this" is what someone who never eats burgers says, it's not rocket science Steve, you grab it and stick it in your mouth. This guy doesnt eat mcdonalds, doesn't like the food, and is clearly uncomfortable just by touching the food.
TheAnswerIsViolence
Looks like a villain from Supernatural trying to fatten up the cattle.
alcamar
I stopped watching when the Leviathans came on the show. I ended up watching the whole thing later and regretted not pushing through
InfocalypseRising
Really? It got pretty bad towards the end. Even the self-aware jokes about it didn't really help.
DwayneTheCrackJohnson
"How bad?" might someone ask. "Geriatric Sam bad," would be the answer
msgbubba
Don't listen to him I thought it was great, but also I like to like things and I love supernatural
65454685132465846865163
I love them for making god the final villain, and also Jack was a really fun character at times, but it was still an immensely stupid and contrived series of seasons
morganfreemanslarynx
I as well enjoy a good God joke
InfocalypseRising
I will give them points for using Chuck as an obvious stand-in for the writers basically saying "we want to end this fucking show but you won't stop watching it and they keep renewing us please let this torment end"
thatwoodguy
Let's see the CEO has had too many meals prepared by a private chef or too much fine dining to enjoy what normal people eat.
letsnotgothere
Is there something wrong with McD in the US? It's quite edible where I live?
harbengerprime
yeah, we don't have sane laws here preventing them from putting all that fake shit and preservatives and what not
mrthewhitee
I'm so confused by this whole thing.
First, he gets paid 20 million a year and can't muscle down a single bite of his own food? Even if I hated it, I could get one bite down.
Second, why is he even doing this if he doesn't the food? Who asked for this?
Where there actually McDonald customers who were saying "I won't eat this unless I see the CEO love it?"
gronzilla
What do you mean "His food"? He owns the real estate, the workers and most importantly, the profits. He never cared about food.
herppavitunderrpa23
my theories are that they decided it was a good idea to use one of those ad burgers where most of the ingredients are inedible or they thought all publicity is good publicity. i have nothing against maccas food but they've lost their damn mind with the pricing so i don't go unless i absolutely have no other choice.
delecti
Nah. Their corporate test kitchen can absolutely manage making a burger using the actual food while also making it look presentable, especially when it doesn't need to get wrapped up in between.
WhatzitTooya
That performance is for the shareholders, not the customers.
morganfreemanslarynx
Well, speaking as a shareholder, that looks like donkey shit
andexer
What I'm getting is "you can't pay me to eat this. Not even millions!"
DrasticBastard
I don’t believe you. You’d eat their shitty food for millions.
andexer
I would! But I meant that was the vibe I was getting from the video, from the CEO
Ventx
I saw someone on Reddit who did this specific type of PR, how their company never would have green lit this whether it was the first take or the best take, etc... I'm absolutely baffled that someone thought that putting the CEO into an ad campaign made sense at all. NO ONE knew who this guy was. What does it matter if the CEO of the company ACTUALLY thought his company's food is good? Just hire Mitch Pileggi (X-Files Skinner) or someone as 'the CEO' and build an ad campaign around that...
Krauterhosen
Exactly!
Briandavi
Thirdly, for the purposes of this video, he could have just had food made to his preference of quality put in a McDonald's wrapper. As long as it appears to have the basic components, no one's going to be able to tell.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Yeah this is what I don't get. If he hated it so much, make him a special non-McD's burger. As long as it looks the same no one will know.
yourmomscheese
Might be marketing viral video, might be his marketing department hates him and let that video go out
Arook1
I thought I heard before this that he was caught saying that he won't eat McDonald's or let his kids. I always assumed it was some theater to make people go o look he does eat it. But like clearly though out and planned by that moron not a problem team
idiotsonfire
That's it. Once you're at that much money, you have wage slave personal chefs that cater to your preferences at every meal.
cadesama
Emperor's new clothes. The CEO cannot fathom the idea of being bad at anything and the marketing team that proposed it is also incapable of seeing the CEO for his actual abilities. Caught in a feedback loop where he can't be honest and neither can they.
InfocalypseRising
In a company this big, the C-suite is so far removed from the actual day-to-day of the business that the product itself doesn't even matter. It's not "can you do a good job selling burgers," it's "can you make the company more profitable."
ThoseRulesArentReal
Right but that emphasizes the question why is doing it
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
Considering McDonald’s makes most of its money on real estate and not burgers? It’s not surprising.
xRHIN0x
When I learned that franchise owners have to lease the land their store is on from McDonalds corporate FOREVER a lot of things started to make sense.
Sticklebrickk
Like Walmart taking life insurance claims on their elderly employees without their knowledge. Corporate America are bottom feeders.
Isthe4thtimethecharm
McDonald's corporation is more in the real estate business than they are the business of selling burgers. The rent you the building and equipment when you open a franchise. At least that is how it use to be done.
wopoetry
I remember that right before he did this the CEO of another company promoted his food really successfully, I think it was Red Lobster. So people thought he was trying to show how hip and relatable he was as well but he's just not.
spittytrinkles
CEO of Maccas? He's a Landlord.
spittytrinkles
All those Franchised Restaurants? Tenants.
FPAlpha
Something most people actually don't know. McD is one of the largest real estate owners in the world.
spittytrinkles
Also one of the largest toy distributors, because a lot of the dross they throw at kids gets called toys.
spittytrinkles
Lego makes more tires than Michelin. Volkswagen makes more Sausages than they do Cars.
rnugget
i have trouble seeing him spit it out. i guess the placement of his fingers suggest he's holding the napkin to catch something instead of wipe something?
Ilikestyx
It wasn't a chicken sandwich, it was the new BIG ARCH™
InboxMeYourHDGIFs
She's not talking about that one. The video that's shown and that she's talking about here is him "eating" the Chicken Big Mac back in 2024.
Kjasi
They're two separate videos.
evilspock
It's fun when CEOs surround themselves with so many "yes-men" that they can film something like this and *nobody* has the balls to tell them "this looks bad and is a bad idea and releasing this will harm the company and your own reputation."
Because *someone* should have told him. At that nobody did says a ton.
Poopoopeepeevagina
It's not a burger it's a product
Cosmicfisherman
Hey how about this concept. We tax a few pennies from individuals and a few dollars from corporations then put it in a big bowl and use it to feed and provide medical care for everyone.
ToSisPoS
Anyone else remembered Dick Roman and their turduckens?
EnderKing567
Either the sandwich is SO BAD he couldn't bear to eat it. Or he is so uptight on rich folk food that he can't handle such a small meal even slightly below his high class standards. Wow. :/
Strategicgnomer
Or, he's had to do multiple takes all morning and can't keep eating and eating or he will get sick. It's called acting. It's an ad. You don't really think actors are eating the food in such scenes do you? How? They sometimes have to do 30 takes to get it right.
p00p3rz1314
What about Chrisp Ratt?
idiotsonfire
Its the latter. It didn't have enough $73,000 a scoop dijon that was distilled from children's tears mustard on it for him.
idiotsonfire
McD is edible, its not good by any stretch of the imagination, but when you've only had a personal chef for your whole life, it tastes awful
Bierock
It's also an old actors trick when you're going to have to do multiple takes.
aap71
he's a prissy, persnickety, fussy rich boy who used to cry when foods touched on his plate. he looks like he picks at fish.
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
It’s the latter, I guarantee it.
Ambrosyus
Despite the cheapness in its taste and ingredients, I e joy Macca's sometimes but I thought he did that maybe because he was vegan or something
cousteau
"If I spit it out it doesn't count as killing animals for eating"
RawSuger
if you saw how this shit was made you might have misgivings yourself. i very much doubt its just class...its more i know what this is and where it came from
Isthe4thtimethecharm
Or he just know all the cost savings that go into that burger. I am reminded of the kids science experiment about how much saw dust can you put in rice crispy treats before people notice. But would be surprised if McDonald's used something as benign as sawdust.
Frobizzle
Say what you want about the guy but if you think he spit it out while making eye contact with the camera and still uploaded the video you're tripping.
Zixtank
More likely, he knows what's in it and knows it's pure poison.
ImMrDC
He knows what it's made of.
LivingDeadX
This.
BerryButcher
and how it's made and stored, as teen i worked plenty of places that i loved to eat from, didn't ever eat there again after working there...
BatmanAndCradleRobin
and who makes it
cousteau
Or he just KNOWS what goes in it.
Poppypoppoppop
He could have had literally have a Michelin chef make the burger for him, with freshest premium ingredients or whatever and nobody would have known
fuckyouyoufuckingfuckedupfuckingfuck
OR he's doing multiple takes and doesn't want to eat as many bites as it takes to get the shot
morganfreemanslarynx
This seems reasonable, however why would they out that footage up
VegaJuniper
One, how many takes do you need for taking a bite of a burger?
Second, if they did multiple takes and this was the best they got, maybe that dude shouldn't be allowed in front of a camera
bonodono1350
idiotsonfire
That is the most generous interpretation imaginable.
hellvis
Maybe he's a vegan.
Agouti
That's the first reasonable explanation to date. I'd respect that.
Morg729
Then he's at the wrong company
EnderKing567
I mean... Is he? I don't really know much about CEO's.
ThisIsYourLifeNow
Especially if he would be, why does he or the marketing department think its a good idea to show him "eating" the products?! Just dont release that crap.
stephseviltwinII
A vegan wouldn't do that
cousteau
Become the CEO of a fast food chain that probably slaughters more animals than any other company in the world (and most likely in a not especially humane way) and promotes a meat-consuming lifestyle rather than convincing people to eat more veggies? Or eat an animal just to spit it out so that the animal died for nothing? (I'm not vegan and even I think that's wrong)
stephseviltwinII
Both? I worked with a vegan that wouldn't eat food at the cafeteria prepared on a grill that also prepared meat. Maybe they wouldn't wipe it off for her? Anyway, not even a drop of animal product entered her mouth
cousteau
That sounds more religious than a moral principle tbh.
LordSutter
I don't understand, why is the company making these videos when he clearly doesn't like the food? Seems like a better idea would be to just not make them?
jbrightmans
Because now it's being talked about
Drishna
I've been assuming he lost a bet
DukePhelan
I think we have reached the stage of capitalism where the rich just don't give a fuck anymore. They think anyone not them is hardly above animals. They are so divorced from reality they they can't see how normal people view them and their behavior. They're almost a separate species from their inability to operate in society.
So they can do this because, well, why not? They hate you, and they want you and your family dead as long as you give them all your money and assets first.
Skizzlesnap
They also apparently missed the memo about the negative public sentiment about CEOs in general. Your CEO isn’t relatable or even likable. This, I think, was completely his idea and not a single one of his “yes men” had the slightest inclination to say this isn’t a good look. Almost worse than him eating this garbage is the litany of bullshit corporate speak that preceded the “eating”.
FPAlpha
Maybe they thought the CEO is a better actor than he actually is. Would be akin for a Ford CEO to drive a Mercedes, they need to represent and push their product even if they deep down believe that other companies make better products.
ParaspriteHugger
Maybe they plan to replace the CEO and this is the start of the PR campaign for it? Big "we listened to our customers" nonsense?
NaughtButOne
Nah, this is just one of many for a while now. There's another where he spits out a bite of a chicken sandwich.
idiotsonfire
Its the "hello fellow kids" shit.
ttm2
and he can't even be bothered to carry two skateboards....
that's not even a bare minimum of effort
slightlybrokenegg
It’s something to do with that other ceo that got trash talking the food of the company he worked for. They probably felt like it was an opportunity for some publicity and it back fired.
nefroye
I could see making them actually, if you didn't realize how bad they'd be. The "WTF" was the *releasing* of them. This is going to hurt McD's reputation for a long, long time. If I was someone who did such things I'd short their stock right now big-time. If I owned any stock I'd surely sell it. I'm really surprised it hasn't gone down yet. It surely will.
PostalHeathen
Little bit of column A and a little bit of column B, I'd say. McD's is shit tier even by fast food standards.
Heisanevilgenius
McDonald's quality has gone way up over the last twenty years. I feel like most people still think of McDonald's as it was back in the Supersize Me days
NaughtButOne
Yeah but it's at least edible. There's no excuse for a display like that (the CEO's).
AtmaDarkwolf
McMatter. Great invention. They put it in the burgers, in the shakes, in the fries - Great filler that (at least at one point) was made from mostly sawdust. I kid thee not. (And yes, it is 'safe' to consume,it just has zero nutritional value and passes right though you, part of the reason why u hungry 15min after downing a full meal at micdicks.) Also the '100% beef' claim at one point was actually '100% of the beef we put into our meat is real beef' (yes again at how silly that sounds)
TheGoudaKaramazov
Very occasionally I get a large fries and eat it with 3 buffalo sauces. Love spice, but something in that buffalo sauce feels like it is eating away my gum line. So, occasionally. Just to feel alive again.
mojofilter02
I'm not actively boycotting McDonald's. It's just a given that their food is so crappy, that I never think about going there. There's a location three blocks away. I bet I've only been there twice since we moved here in 2001. If a Big Mac and fries tasted like they did in the 1970s, it would be hard to resist. But they don't taste like that anymore, and haven't for a very long time.
ZackWester
the problem its more or less only the US that got a McDonalds thats serving food that is legally not classifed as food (rest of the world) the burger I get in sweden is classified food at least, if I bought a McDonalds meal from the US to sweden It would get put in hazard waste at the Swedish airport.
ImTired2
I live like half a mile from a mcdonalds and I dont mean to sound like an ad but ill go there for a quick breakfast sometimes. they got a deal in the app for $2 breakfast sandwiches or just $3.50 for a sausage, cheese mcmuffin w/ a hashbrown and a coffee. Outside those 2 things I hate their food and everything else is way overpriced.
ForlornHopeful
It used to be my place of comfort before I moved. I hate crowds and on the rare occasion I had to take the train to go to the office I needed something to eat as anxiety tears up my stomach and there was a McDonalds opposite the train station. Since we've moved though, the nearest one is 3 miles away in the middle of a retail park and I don't drive
morganfreemanslarynx
The salt....it's the salt. It's nostalgia at this point
Sticklebrickk
They changed the recipe for their quarter pounder, I wanna say 6 or so years ago? It was amazing. Went back to get one recently and they switched back. So disappointing.
MattoJanai
The whole appeal of McD was that it was cheap. Now the quality is way down and it's cheaper to just make an actual meal at home. Same goes for pretty much all fast food these days. I used to eat fast food like 2-3 times a week. Now it's a luxury item that tastes awful. Last time I had McDonald's was about 10 years ago. But at least that's good for my health
EnderKing567
Yea I just don't like it either. People in my family always talk about how they like the coffee and stuff but... Literally nothing about it is appealing. I don't think it's even cheap anymore.
Roune
What used to be a $1 burger is now $3 and change, closer to $4. Any kind of combo meal is like $10 and that’s for the medium. They basically made it so you have to use their app and rewards if you want it to be anywhere near reasonable in cost and even then it’s not. They also put a time limit on the points you earn so you can’t build up a large amount. It’s absolutely not worth it. Used to be you could go get 3 decent burgers for $3 and change
Predacane35
A meal cost about AU$16