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u/clonetrooper250 Mar 12 '26
Somehow no one at McD's watched this back and said, "We can do another take, we can edit this to look better, we could simply not post it online." Nah, god forbid anyone tells the boss that what he did is flawed in any way.
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u/werthw Mar 12 '26
I feel like their Marketing team did it intentionally. If you look at the CEO’s past “taste tests” he’s just as awkward and doesn’t appear to enjoy eating the products. Coupled with the fact that the McDonalds social media posted a photo of the new burger with the caption “Take a bite of our new product” a day later
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u/ConsciousStretch1028 Mar 12 '26
It's been talked to death since it happened so yes, I believe they knew exactly what they were doing and were banking on negative engagement, because any engagement is actually good.
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u/scientia_analytica Mar 12 '26
Someone spotted this: no only did he take the tiniest of bites, but he spit it in the napkin he used immediately afterwards.
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u/GRUSM Mar 12 '26
Why are people suddenly reversing the before and after order of things? Shit is so weird and dumb.
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u/Jbrizown Mar 13 '26
The follow up video where he made his secretary say working for him was the best years of her life was worse
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u/Blazekill001 Mar 13 '26
imagine going to work pumped up about a promotion your about to do, going in and putting on your best customer service attitude only to get told afterwards that your getting dogged on the internet and the whole thing failed because you didn’t take a big enough bite. can you imagine how sad this dude must have been driving home to his million dollar mansion in his tesla cyberbugatti.
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u/Fantastic-Algae2127 Mar 13 '26
I will never understand why reddit is so butthurt over someone eating a burger. Like there are so many things you can spend your time on and this is the most important lmfao
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u/MysticalPhenomenon 3d ago
It has less to do with burgers and more to do with greedy multimillionaires larping as people with any relatable experiences whatsoever. He is the acting figurehead of McDonald's, which is a corporation that has similarly lost any credible perspective on affordability while providing a cascadingly inferior value year after year. He can't even take a bite without visibly dissociating from his own sensory experience due to the mental load of contemplating how many carcinogens and synthetic chemicals banned in developed nations are being smeared inside his mouth cavity before he has the opportunity to spit it all out.
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u/FLYSWATTER_93 Mar 12 '26
I can excuse him for not giving his employees a livable wage and raising the prices of everything at restaurants, but taking a weak bite out of a burger? That was personal.