Anyone else think McDonalds is trying way too hard to be black?

[Manchurian Candidate]

in my opinion, they are simply targeting the right audiences

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Originally posted by: Mill
Hilarity is that I wrote that post while listening to Bob Marley. No doubt *gasp* that 'ole Prole has listened to a bit of the Bob in his day.

I bet you wouldnt have ever guessed that post would have made you such a hero.

A counter-counter-culture hero. We need Mill shirts.

Like... this.

:laugh:

 

[LordNoob]

Is Wegro less offensive?

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Where do you guys get the time to make/find/host all of these pictures?

BTW, Mill, 10/10.

 

[importdistributors]

yes but the fact of the matter is that being black just sells the products.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: ssvegeta1010
Where do you guys get the time to make/find/host all of these pictures?

BTW, Mill, 10/10.

You mean it's hard to open Photoshop, grab his usericon in, go to Google Images, steal a beret off a cartoon frenchman, flip it, change the color, change the eye on the usericon, change the background color, do a little resizing and type "Viva Mill"? It took me 3 minutes. All the other images in this thread are just stock that people have gathered over the years.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
I'd be interested in seeing McD's customer's demographics

I went to a McDonald's once on a Wednesday (the McDeal was the McChicken). A lot of black people.

Of course, the restaurant wasn't located in a Chinese neighbourhood.

 

[91TTZ]

I'm lubbin' it!

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Whatever... equality will be achieved when we have WET = white entertainment channel, AET = asian entertainment channel, etc. j/k.

 

[duckdown]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
I went to a McDonald's once on a Wednesday (the McDeal was the McChicken). A lot of black people.

around here they love the McFish or whatever on Friday

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: CheapArse
They're black 356 days of the year.

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Wow.

After looking through that site, it's pretty obvious that McDonald's is going after minorities very heavily. I see pro-black pages, pro-latino pages, and pro-Asian pages. I wonder where white people fall into the picture at McDonald's?

And the Asian page is just lame with their corny little story that tries to tie Asian culture in with McDonald's.

"We're Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and our diverse cultures and our everyday American lifestyle are becoming one. We're hanging on to our great traditions while we move to the beat of the times. We honor our heritage and we love being Americans. From high fashion to high tech, from Asian Pacific American hip hop to haute cuisine, we're weaving the threads of our culture into the fabric of everyday American life. Whether we're celebrating one of our cultural holidays or enjoying a Big Mac sandwich, we're helping make the magic mix called America become even richer. And McDonald's is right there with us, everyday!"

That's just rich. Nothing says Asian culture to me like McDonald's.

We fall into their "it's not PC to embrace you, but we'll gladly take your money anyway" picture.

 

[CreativeTom]

Originally posted by: duckdown
I just came from McDonalds, and had the woman at the drive-window tell me "Shes Lovin It" and to have a great day.

I was like "What a stupid thing to say. Whats with McDonalds trying to be hip?"

Then I looked at the bag they gave me the food in, its decorated with some loser white guy breakdancing, looking like a major w1gger.

McDonalds is wack, son

Yo son...I am feelin' ya, dis shizzle is wigidee wizzle yo. YOU BETTER RECOGNIZE

 

[jakedeez]

have you seen "super size me" BIG MACs made the dude impotent! Nuff said

 

[Chrono]

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: Amused

We're "racist" for pointing out the double standard of blacks using the N word, but then complaining when whites use it?

We're "racist" for agreeing with Bill Cosby that popular black culture is self destructive, self deprecating and responsible in a significant way for their general lack of success?

Bullsh!t.

By the way, what if we took your first line about "all white and Asian nerds" and replaced it with "blacks." Would that be racist?

White liberal guilt is worse than racism. It absolves it's subjects of any and all personal responsibility and assigns them permanent victim status. Virtually assuring they never succeed and escape the ghettos (another creation of white liberal guilt).

Uh white liberals created ghettos?

You are an idiot. I'm sorry there is no argument here. You are just a plain retard.

Oh wait... you're from the Midwest. My bad.

I don't think blacks are victims at all. They are getting wealthier and rap music and hip-hop culture is dominant in America. I just know 95% of you folks wouldn't talk all the sh!t you do here in real life. You'd probably clam up and be a little whiney b!tch like most of the white and asian nerds I know. Nice try attempting to make this political. You suck at it though. I guess thats why you people hate the P & N.

LOL - nice sterotypes there from the biggest wannabe I've ever seen here at Anandtech. Punk wannabe who taks big on the intarweb.

At least steeplerot and some of the other extremists are true to their ultra-liberal hippie-esque nature. You're just a poser is every sense of the word who likes to think he represents the "people." :laugh: Keep wearing that Guevara t-shirt you bought at the Hot Topic in the mall and using the pot-smoking avatar! Be sure to talk about coorporations and "The Man" a lot. Someone will think you're cool!

Wannabe?? WTF. Do I know your lame ass? No. So kindly get out my face, redneck and go back to shooting animals with sniper rifles or whatever you people do in Texas.

Just how do you know me at all? I don't go to extremist protests or wear t-shirts to assert my identity. I am who I am. You wouldn't know that I go to India and help the poor almost yearly. You wouldn't know what I do personally at all because I don't feel the need to show it off with the way I dress and the people I hang out with.

Anyways, now that I have cleared this annoying fly of my face. Lets go back to Amused's original statement, which is whack and offensive to so many people its not even funny -

Virtually assuring they never succeed and escape the ghettos (another creation of white liberal guilt).

Wow, you're the most racist biatch I've seen on here. Yes, I know your response already, so STFU you racist bastard. Let me put the formula for you together. Anybody not black + adds remark about black person = racist. WOW! Where did you come up with that formula you dumbass?

 

[manohartvs]

Originally posted by: Ornery
OUR VALUES

• McDonald's Balanced, Active Lifestyles Initiatives

• 
  
  McDonald?s cares about da damn well-bein' issues dat is so impo'tant t'many uh our customers. Wid our balanced, active lifestyles initiatives, we is offerin' some variety uh high-quality menu opshuns, promotin' physical activity, and providin' info'mashun and educashun t'help our customers around da damn wo'ld make smart choices fo' demselves and deir families.
  
  
  McDonald's Sucka's Promise
  
  Fo' McDonald's t'achieve our goal uh bein' de wo'ld's best quick service restaurant 'espuh'ience, we gots'ta have da damn best 'espuh'ience fo' all McDonald's employees. So's we fo'malized our beliefs into our Sucka's Vision and our Sucka's Promise.
  
  
  McDonald?s Co'po'ate Responsibility
  
  Co'po'ate responsibility be an impo'tant part uh McDonald?s heritage. We gots some long track reco'd uh industry leadership in community involvement, environmental protecshun, diversity, oppo'tunity, and wo'k wid our suppliers t'help improve deir practices. We is committed t'do still mo'e t'earn de trust uh our customers and everyone else affected by our business.
  
  
  McDonald's Diversity
  
  McDonald's be de wo'ld's community restaurant. Man! We is proud uh our long-standin' commitment t'a wo'kfo'ce dat be diverse. We recon' in developin' and maintainin' some diverse wo'kfo'ce dat gots'ta strengden de McDonald's system. WORD!
  
  
  McDonald's Wo'ld Children's Day
  
  Participatin' McDonald?s restaurants in mo'e dan 100 countries wo'ldwide is gearin' down fo' Wo'ld Children?s Day at McDonald's 2003, an annual global fundraisa' benefitin' Rolo McDonald Crib Charities® (RMHC®) and local children?s causes.

LMAO!!!

So you people still actually go to McDonalds....I NEVER GO THERE!!

 

[HardcoreRobot]

its just marketing

 

[Chrono]

Originally posted by: manohartvs

Originally posted by: Ornery
OUR VALUES

• McDonald's Balanced, Active Lifestyles Initiatives

• 
  
  McDonald?s cares about da damn well-bein' issues dat is so impo'tant t'many uh our customers. Wid our balanced, active lifestyles initiatives, we is offerin' some variety uh high-quality menu opshuns, promotin' physical activity, and providin' info'mashun and educashun t'help our customers around da damn wo'ld make smart choices fo' demselves and deir families.
  
  
  McDonald's Sucka's Promise
  
  Fo' McDonald's t'achieve our goal uh bein' de wo'ld's best quick service restaurant 'espuh'ience, we gots'ta have da damn best 'espuh'ience fo' all McDonald's employees. So's we fo'malized our beliefs into our Sucka's Vision and our Sucka's Promise.
  
  
  McDonald?s Co'po'ate Responsibility
  
  Co'po'ate responsibility be an impo'tant part uh McDonald?s heritage. We gots some long track reco'd uh industry leadership in community involvement, environmental protecshun, diversity, oppo'tunity, and wo'k wid our suppliers t'help improve deir practices. We is committed t'do still mo'e t'earn de trust uh our customers and everyone else affected by our business.
  
  
  McDonald's Diversity
  
  McDonald's be de wo'ld's community restaurant. Man! We is proud uh our long-standin' commitment t'a wo'kfo'ce dat be diverse. We recon' in developin' and maintainin' some diverse wo'kfo'ce dat gots'ta strengden de McDonald's system. WORD!
  
  
  McDonald's Wo'ld Children's Day
  
  Participatin' McDonald?s restaurants in mo'e dan 100 countries wo'ldwide is gearin' down fo' Wo'ld Children?s Day at McDonald's 2003, an annual global fundraisa' benefitin' Rolo McDonald Crib Charities® (RMHC®) and local children?s causes.

LMAO!!!

So you people still actually go to McDonalds....I NEVER GO THERE!!

Are you lovin' it? ON a side note, have you guys ever watched that commercial where the girl is eating out with this other guy at McDonalds, while the guy is talking, the girl eyes this other guy and their eyes meet. The guy gets his food and then walks out. WTF are they saying in that commercial?

 

[TGS]

The last time I went to McDs I got the double quarter pounder meal super sized. About halfway through my coke and QP, I started to get the McGurgles followed by the faint McSweats.

Damn that Grade F circus meat. Somehow my body can tell the difference between that and real food.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: jakedeez
have you seen "super size me" BIG MACs made the dude impotent! Nuff said

No, force feeding and gorging caused his ill effects. He ate 3-5 times his normal calorie intake. He ate past the point of feeling full on a regular basis. On most days, he ate past the point of feeling sick.

The same thing is done to geese to enlarge their livers to make Foie Gras.

He could have done the same thing with ANY food, even your mother's cooking.

The movie, and it's entire premise, was a sham.

 

[PawNtheSandman]

^ is angry they no longer super size and is also a fatty.

 

[BigJ]

^ is a moron.

 

[heedoyiu]

i would hate to say this but yes it seems that they are trying to entangle more black people i actually talked to some people in my class about it and they told me just to shut up. ha ha well they were black so they might have been some what affended

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: PawNtheSandman
^ is angry they no longer super size and is also a fatty.

I'm a 6' tall, 210lb body builder with a 32" waist.

I could care less whether or not they supersize. What I care about are facts and truth. Spurlock's supersize me was a scam from the get-go. Any thinking person with even a modicum of knowledge about health can figure that out.

 

[Kev]

McDonalds makes tasty cheeseburgers.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: jakedeez
have you seen "super size me" BIG MACs made the dude impotent! Nuff said

Are you 12 or you just easily get sidetracked from reality.