"We might as well go back to communism" -Burger King CEO

[DireStrike]

"No pressure at all ... I don't think it's my job to tell Americans what they should eat. We might as well go back to Communism." Burger King CEO Greg Brenneman, on whether the chain feels pressure to alter its menu or make other changes to appease fast-food critics.

Found in May 9 Newsweek.

Now, aside from social responsibility concerns and whether or not Fast Food is good for you, how does a man this inexcusably ignorant get to such a position? He doesn't know the difference between Communism and Totalitarianism, and furthermore thinks that we lived under communism at some time in the past!

[jeff30997]

1. Well...

Greg Brenneman might as well go back to home and fuck himself.

[Pithy Cherub]

2. Speaks to the intelligent design of those in a position to select

BK's top talent, no? :evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. No..I like free enterprise..it gives me the right not to eat at places

spearheaded by ignoramuses.

[DanCa]

4. Careful fast food moguls

Catholic employees might start demanding not too serve meat on Fridays. You know this one is bound to come up.

[bloom]

5. OF course they use the media to manipulate people into buying that crap

but if someone did the same thing in reverse - it's communism.

Man - that's rich.

[mike_c]

6. so BK will stop advertising it's swill...?

Right. I'll believe that Brenneman isn't interested in telling Americans what to eat when BK stops..., well, when they stop trying tell Americans what to eat!

[spooky3]

18. does anyone know BK's advertising budget?

I'm sure they're not spending that money so that you'll decide freely to eat at KFC, or the Four Seasons, or at home.

[zanne]

7. When did stupid people start making it big?

I'm no psychologist. I don't claim to be paticularly intelligent, either. But I've noticed lately how alot of the well-off aren't paticularly intelligent, either. In fact, alot of them seem stupid. Is the secret of financial "success" inherent in a person's personality or is intelligence more important? I'm not being flip about this; it's just that I've noticed that really aggressive, self-centered people without alot of smarts or education somehow manage to do very well.

[SammyWinstonJack]

22. You mean like bush**?

"When did stupid people start making it big?"

[pretzel4gore]

8. notice how seamlessly their opinions are, no matter the issue?

michael leden could have said this, or richard perle, rush limbah-humbug, anus coulter, bill orally, tweety mathews, john leo, don imus, john smith (of sinclair) ari fesher, the clearchannel pig, wolf 'les' blitzer, geeb bush, john asscrack, fred barnes, tony snow, tom brocaw-caw, bill frisk, tom DeLay and so on ad nazism....
they all speak with bush's pie-hole!
sheeee....
:shrug:

boycott burger king

[Jade Fox]

9. Wasn't that pretty much what Communism was all about?...

You know--telling people what they could and couldn't eat? :eyes:

On edit: by the way, when were we a Communist country so we can
go back to being one?

[K-W]

12. Yep Karl Marx wrote several books on nutrition guidelines. EOM

[Skip Intro]

10. Hell, why not give away free cigarettes with each meal too?

"I don't think it's my job to tell Americans what they should eat."

Nah, its just your job to seduce the public into eating your garbage.

Pofit$ above all else.

[K-W]

11. But it is his job to tell amercans what they should eat.

He does it every day.

The American myth that as long as we pretend corporate rule isnt government they arent controlling our lives.

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. They need to lose the Kreepy King commercials

The one with the plastic head that spies in windows and wakes up next to you bed. Way scarier than communists.

[K-W]

14. I love those commercials...

but then again, im a pinko commie liberal wacko.

[spindoctor]

15. BACK to communism? Is there something we should know about BK?

I take it BK must be one of the sponsors to the SI group that recently published a full page ad claiming that health concerns about obesity is nothing more than a hoax.

Supersize my middlefinger, fat boy!

[goodboy]

16. what does he mean "go back" to communism? This guy doesn't

even know what a communist is.

fucking asshole.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

17. Hah! Burger King and Popeye's Chicken have the monopoly on the

turnpike in my state. It would be nice to get some capitalistic competition and get some decent restaurants in there. Burger King is so vile, I'd rather eat at Popeye's, which is the greasiest thing around, so I never go to either.

As for his stupidity, merit matters less and less in this new empire, the dumbest are definitely rising to the top!

[AlCzervik]

19. if every child in america read "Fast food nation" and then watched

"Supersize me" i think fast food sales would go down. My daughter and i watched Supersize me about 6 months ago and she hasn't had any fast food since then, at the end of the dvd they have an interview with Eric Schlosser about corporate farming and thats what did it fot my 10 year old, she was so sickened but what she heard she said she never wanted fast food again.

[DemBeans]

20. communism?

Isn't it sort of a theme of capitalism that market forces dictate? If the market wants healthier menu items, and a company responds to that...it's capitalism.

Communism, on the other hand, dictates to the market and produces according to State plans. Flexibility is not an option.

[K-W]

23. Close

Capitalism is when the people who own the capital dictate the market conditions and workers, as consumers make controlled choices within the framework established by capital. If the consumers want healthier menu items, capital may choose to make healthier food if it thinks it will make them more money.

Only in an authoritiarian government with a control economy are the state plans dicatating things with no flexibility.

Communism is a different beast altogether. Under communism you dont really have an economy or state as we know it. Communism is a completely different mode of production.

What you are probably thinking of is socialism, which is the name people have often used to describe authoritarian control economies, but that is just propaganda. A true socialism is a democratic control economy.

[SouthernDem2004]

21. Worst fries in the world. /eom

[The Revolution]

25. That's why you get the onion rings!

Although they aren't "real" onion rings...I don't think they're all that bad. I used to eat at BK quite a bit, because there was one near the grocery store where I worked for a couple of years. Culvers has some good onion rings though.

Man, I need to get some onion rings...

[SouthernDem2004]

26. Um, the dipping sauce....

[undeterred]

24. to be CEO of Burger King you don't need to know much about

history :dunce: