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McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/02/mcdonalds-ceos-awkward-taste-test

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  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    These are not intelligent people.

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    • catbum@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I get mad Succession vibes reading all this.

      L to the O, G…

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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      • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Transcript:

    “Hello fellow humans. I shall soon commence sensory analysis of this new human food product. I SHALL INJEST THIS FOR MY LUNCHEON. Let us scrutinise the product. It has dimensions which impress me hugely. It has constituent components. I can name some of them. I am inexperienced in eating this kind of human food product so must first determine an effective strategem for inserting it in my face hole. Minimally shall be my approach. 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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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      kinda like zuckerborg trying to act human.

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      • three@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just outside, smoking some meats is totally normal behavior.

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    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
      • ingest *
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      • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Woopise. Thanks, I’ll change it. Though ‘in jest’ does seem appropriate.

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  • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    Don’t like parasocial corporate social media accounts but these were pretty funny.

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    • pnelego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mini should probably start by test driving their cars.

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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They do. They aren’t built for you or me, given how several of them have caught fire in my city I think they are for the IRA.

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  • Lexam@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love the sudden jump after he took the bite. He spit that out.

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    • diemartin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • toynbee@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can’t kill him if he’s wearing people clothing!

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      • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think I swallowed some of the juice

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which country are you from?

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

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      • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        the best American fast food.

        Let me dig a hole for the bar you’re setting there.

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      • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve had McDonald’s in Italy and it’s the same cardboard taste there as it is elsewhere in Europe imo.

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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      • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s cause they care about ya and want you to want them. They already raw dogged us.

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    • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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    • protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      fast food is the bottom of the barrel

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    • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      there are a few worse regional chains, but national chains yeah

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do we think this CEO fucks his employees too?

    What even qualifies someone to be a CEO? I’ve been doing writing coach work for business majors and it’s just amazing how easy the work is. Imagine your term paper being “write a professional email.”

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe that’s why a lot of them think AI is the future. It can do their easy fucking bullshit of a job so they believe it can also do real work.

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      • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ding ding

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    • Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s some serious McDicking around.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How much money is being spent daily for a marketing team? Let them do their job and stay out of it.

    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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    • AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • Seaguy05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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      • Jomega@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        AI can’t be held responsible when it hurts people though.

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  • Philharmonic3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eh. It’s not as bad as people are making it out to be. Doesn’t really deserve attention

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Dearth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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    • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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  • Garbagio@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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    • Soulg@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      McDonald’s isn’t gourmet but poison is a huge stretch

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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        imminent liver failure in just one month.

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      • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s ultraprocessed food with additives and ingredients we aren’t fully sure what effect they have on the human body.

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      • DragonAce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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      • cheat700000007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well that’s how the CEO treated it

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  • IamLost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mmm I love lunch product!

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    • eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a delicious product!

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  • Doom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That a dude that knows their food is literal poison.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From Penny-Arcade “the least convincing performance of humanity I’ve ever seen”

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  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The botox cheeks make it worse.

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think i swallowed some of the juice!

    Also, where video?

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Instagram, so I haven’t seen it either

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      • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I did look up the Big Arch and it’s hilarious that every little article tells you that there are “two, quarter pound patties (that’s one half pound!)”

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He described the burger with the word gooeyness

    Ew.

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    maybe this is the problem with public companies??

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  • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    His face says, “I’ve got a RAGING clue right now…”

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  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, I think the Big Arch is trash so I don’t fault him

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  • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wondered what Nathan Fielder was up to lately.

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All these CEO’s look like they came from Megan’s list

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  • troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why is he taste testing sparks?

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