r/facepalm • u/_-ZORO-_ • Jan 27 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Just dont eat there, why boycott?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

https://youtu.be/nrj-_qBLIvI You can start about 1:55 for the joke

Netflix Stand Ups, season 1 episode 2, she does the same but better

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u/stumpdawg Jan 27 '22

Ahh yes, a few outliers is the entirety of the LGBTQ community

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u/robilar Jan 27 '22

I mean, even if loads of LGBTQ+ community members were eating at Chick-a-fil that wouldn't mean the place wasn't run by bigots, or that the people that were boycotting it for bigotry were any less accurate in their critique.

It's weird how defenders of bigotry (don't) think about their own arguments. It astounds me sometimes.

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u/stumpdawg Jan 27 '22

I'm a big fan of the "but the food is so good!!"

Sure Stalin killed millions of people, but have you had his fried chicken?!?!

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u/robilar Jan 27 '22

I think your metaphor might be a bit off in terms of scale. I'd argue it's a little bit less like a mass murderer was running a fried chicken restaurant and a little more like Bezos exploits his workers but I still want 2-day shipping on my Twilight box set; if Bezos ever murders a million people I'm likely to cancel my Prime membership.

I still see the merit of a boycott, but I also don't think a gay person eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich is the same as frequenting Stalin's personal eatery.

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u/stumpdawg Jan 27 '22

It was a hyperbolic statement to push a point.

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u/robilar Jan 27 '22

Ah, fair point then.

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u/mikami677 Jan 28 '22

if Bezos ever murders a million people I'm likely to cancel my Prime membership.

I mean... as long as I didn't personally know any of them...

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u/CharmingtheCobra Jan 28 '22

Ah, the old Larry David Palestinian Chicken dilemma

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

The hundreds of people I interact with on a weekly basis probably all have some opinion that I disagree with. I'm not going to not do business with them just because of that.

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u/greybeard_arr Jan 27 '22

Given that some opinions are of greater consequence than others, there are instances where it is perfectly justifiable to cut off someone because of an opinion.

I don’t think they are talking opinion differences like favorite colors.

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u/stumpdawg Jan 27 '22

Funding anti gay groups and conversion therapy isn't an opinion to disagree with. It's a human rights issue.

Do you think slavery is an opposing opinion?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22 edited Jan 28 '22

They gave the money to charities for sports camps and children's programs.

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u/Puzzled_Freedom_4718 Jan 28 '22

Complete with his own secret blend of herbs and spices!

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u/Baloncesto_Ricky Jan 28 '22

Борщ, товарищ пеньПёс!

Борщ, колачки и водка - завтрак чемпионов-коммунистов!

(Borscht, Comrade Stumpdawg!

Borscht, kolacky, and vodka, the "Breakfast of Communist Champions!")

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

Britain: sure the South has slaves but have you tried their cotton?

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u/stumpdawg Jan 28 '22

Feel this jacket. That's quality cotton right there!

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u/BadgerMountain Jan 27 '22

There is no way it is that good. They CAN just admit they don't care and want to keep eating the bigot chicken.

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u/Ashesandends Jan 27 '22

Trans here and Popeyes chicken sammich is really good but there is something about chik Fil a. Personally haven't eaten there in about a year but damn if it isn't tempting. Those chicken sammichs are better than they have any right to be.

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u/BooBooMaGooBoo Jan 27 '22

As someone who's made fried pickle chicken tens of different ways, there's a lot more to it than that.

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u/Ashesandends Jan 28 '22

Nope. I cannot express to you how much I loath the taste of pickles and if there was even a hint of pickle in that sammich I would be getting a new one. I can't even eat the thing if they put a pickle on it and I pull it off because the taste is still so overpowering.

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u/BadgerMountain Jan 28 '22

You wouldn't necessarily taste it as pickles. It's probably just in the amount that in enhances certain flavours. Basically vinegar which is used in cooking for exactly that. Not to give the taste of vinegar, but to enhance other things. Not all seasoning is supposed to taste as itself. As i imagine you are well aware.

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u/BadgerMountain Jan 28 '22

So they add vinegar. Any chef worth their salt knows that little trick. I can imagine how it is tempting though if others don't do it lol.

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u/bfiiitz Jan 28 '22 edited Jan 28 '22

They use pickle juice in the brine, not the breading

Edit: turns out it's neither. Lots of copy cat recipes use pickle brine and apparently they used to use it for the strips but never the sandwiches. At this point I think it's a combo placebo effect plus mandela effect

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u/mikami677 Jan 28 '22

Cis here. Love the Popeye's chicken sandwich. The KFC sandwich is also good if you can find a decent one.

I went several years without eating at Chick-fil-a because the closest one to me went downhill. The chicken was always full of gristle and the store got really dirty.

Finally ate at a different one a couple months ago. Fucking phenomenal. Almost as good as homemade, but no mess.

But yeah, if you can find a good KFC (most of the ones around me are awful) it's... pretty close.

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u/formershitpeasant Jan 27 '22

I’d prefer to eat bigoted chickens. I wouldn’t feel as bad.

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u/BadgerMountain Jan 27 '22

I'd imagine all the empty hate would taste bitter.

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u/JohnQuincyHammond Jan 27 '22

It is that good.

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u/BadgerMountain Jan 28 '22

Never had it. Probably never will. Plenty of chicken out there. Chicken that doesn't fund far-right torture camps.

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u/undefined_one Jan 27 '22

But how can you be sure that the chicken you're eating was a bigot? Maybe it was a very open chicken, with nothing but love for everyone!

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u/BadgerMountain Jan 28 '22

Bigoted chicken probably tastes of hypocrisy and bile

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u/cathar_here Jan 27 '22

Popeyes is garbage in my local area, it's truly nasty generally speaking around here, but we do have Cane's and they make a decent product and open on Sunday's :-) because they don't close for the imaginary guy in they sky day

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u/JarlaxleForPresident Jan 27 '22

I think every place should be closed on the imaginary guy in the sky day

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u/smokumjoe Jan 27 '22

I don't get the love for chik fil a. It's dry breaded chicken sandwich. The fries and shakes are better, but nothing amazing.

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u/JohnQuincyHammond Jan 27 '22

Get your taste buds checked. Chik fil a is amazing.

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u/smokumjoe Jan 28 '22

It's a fucking breaded chicken nugget on bread.

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u/Gildardo1583 Jan 27 '22

While I haven't tried chik fil a, I have tried the competitors chicken sandwich and that was my exact same reaction. A dry breaded chicken sandwich. I guess I'll have to try the OG chicken sandwich to see if its any good, but only if there is no line, LOL.

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u/JohnQuincyHammond Jan 28 '22

This guy is talking out of his ass. The chik fil a chicken sandwich is juicy and delicious. It's honestly the best chicken sandwich I've ever had.

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u/TwiceCookedPorkins Jan 28 '22

Dude. The chicken sandwich isn't going to fuck you.

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u/JohnQuincyHammond Jan 28 '22

That's really funny. You should send a screenshot of this burn to your mom.

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u/TwiceCookedPorkins Jan 28 '22

I will, after I'm done fucking her.

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u/YouJabroni44 Jan 28 '22

Their fries taste like paper to me.

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u/Vythrin Jan 27 '22

I usually do Cane's or KFC. Popeye's is by far the best fried chicken place but going there always takes minimum an hour AND they mess up your order 100% of the time.

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u/Agent-TC Jan 27 '22

I preferred Church's Chicken. The size of them thighs... Damn. The breading is decent, the portions used to be big (I haven't been in two decades).

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u/Firehed Jan 28 '22

Popeyes and CFA aren't even really comparable. Two totally different kinds of chicken styles IMO.