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re: GQ is telling us that the "Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Craze Morphed into Black Shaming"

Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:34 am to
Posted by Martini
Near Athens
Member since Mar 2005
49696 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:34 am to
quote:

Sweetgreen winter squash salad.


Well if they had this I’d be in the drive thru line too.
Posted by Champs
"Platinum Member"
Member since Feb 2008
12579 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:35 am to
It’s ok to be white
Posted by thekid
Anna, Tx
Member since May 2006
4051 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:35 am to
Bottom line is the bottom line...if there is money to be made, restaurants will show up...a lot of the healthier food option restaurants target people with money who can afford those decisions...I bet there aren’t any healthy option food chains in poor white or Hispanic neighborhoods either.
Posted by sgallo3
Lake Charles
Member since Sep 2008
28320 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:35 am to
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This is really blowing up in Popeyes face, exposing them for their shitty customer service over the past 40 years.

Not to mention the type of employees they hire


wow, maybe your popeyes just has a shitty owner or shitty manager. the one closest to me is always on point
Posted by DanglingFury
Living the dream
Member since Dec 2007
20475 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:36 am to
Every time an article like that is published, Trump picks up more voters.
Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
25106 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:36 am to
It doesn’t make any sense—they’re completely absolving an entire community of personal choice and pointing the finger at the big bad corporations. Don’t wanna be fat? Research how to diet and exercise.

Really weird how so many athletes come from these communities only having access to Popeyes, isn’t it?
Posted by brass2mouth
NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
20735 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:37 am to
quote:

food swamps


I see we’ve morphed from “food deserts.”


I guess they found a water source to use.
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
178333 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:39 am to
Imagine having this kind of thought process consume your life like they do.
Posted by OsTiger78
Ocean Springs, Ms.
Member since Aug 2019
884 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:39 am to
I clicked on the article last night. I almost made it to the end of the first paragraph before I puked in my mouth a little bit. Did not finish
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
Member since Mar 2012
20404 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:41 am to
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I see we’ve morphed from “food deserts.”



First thing I noticed. The Food Desert thing, even though I think it is bullshite, at least makes sense for what they are trying to say. Food Swamp doesn’t work. There is tons of food in a swamp. Hell, we just had that thread on the OT not too long ago.

I legit think this author tried to use a term he doesn’t even know and no one in the editorial process said anything. I think he meant Food Desert.
Posted by SirWinston
Say NO to War
Member since Jul 2014
104464 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:44 am to
Conde Nast has destroyed GQ - its now agitprop used to help brainwash straight educated young white men
This post was edited on 11/9/19 at 8:45 am
Posted by cwil177
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2011
30130 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:51 am to
quote:

it is not some uncontrollable craze for shoes, or jackets, or chicken that precipitates black violence, but rather broader structural desperation created by racism and segregation which animate crimes.
Damn wypipo making good black folk commit crime
Posted by Monkeyboy
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
798 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:52 am to
This article is silly. I live in the third wealthiest zip code in my state and there's a Popeyes within walking distance of my house.
Posted by John Wick
Member since Nov 2019
171 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:54 am to
Black people and White liberals always try to act like White people are throwing rusty beer cans at them.
Posted by PrivatePublic
Member since Nov 2012
17848 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:55 am to
There's a paragraph in that article that blames the guy who killed someone over a sandwich on systemic racism.

I mean, it's obvious at this point they're just trolling white people to see what kind of reaction they can get.
Posted by ZappBrannigan
Member since Jun 2015
7692 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:55 am to
Well if the community didn't rob stores blind maybe they'd have something other than shite options?
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
36557 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:58 am to
I live in a gated community and there is a Popeye's a quarter mile from my house.

Writer is an idiot. Popeye's has locations all over, in may different areas. White people aren't taking jungle expeditions into the hood to get a chicken sandwich. They are going to the Popeye's near their house or work.
Posted by Hangit
The Green Swamp
Member since Aug 2014
47713 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 9:00 am to
The author is full of shite, and did not do his DD before writing it, so I will give you the facts.
quote:

Popeyes, which is owned by Restaurant Brands International


They are a Canadian company, based in Toronto. They own Tim Horton's, Popeyes, and Burger King. Popeyes and BK maintain their headquarters in Miami but the mother corporation is headquartered in Toronto.

49% of Restaurant Brands International is publicly traded. 51% is owned by a Brazilian company. That's right, Brazil. So black and Hispanic folks own, and are in charge of the majority of the company. They have the ultimate authority to make decisions, so claiming racism doesn't work.
Posted by DeusVultMachina
Member since Jul 2017
4245 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 9:04 am to
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GQ


Fagg's Quarterly
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
24501 posts
Posted on 11/9/19 at 9:05 am to
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Studies have found that black communities are disproportionately "food swamps"—areas where healthy options like grocery stores are few and far between, and fast food restaurants like Wendy&aposs, McDonald&aposs, and Burger King dot every corner.

This author has clearly never had a home cooked meal at a gathering or dinner in a black neighborhood. The food is absolutely delicious, but way more unhealthy than just about anything you could get from a fast food place. Hell, older white people in the south cook incredibly unhealthy meals all the time too. The amount of salt, butter, and lard my grandmother used to cook with was insane.
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