AP: Making McDonald’s A Chinese Fat Kid’s Paradise?
The AP has published a story today about the grand opening of the first McDonald’s outlet with a drive-through window in China. It opened yesterday in Beijing to rave reviews from its first customers.
Apparently, the fast food chain is growing by leaps and bounds in the communist enslaved nation. McDonald’s China CEO, Jeffery Schwartz is quoted in the AP piece about the company’s growth in the Red Nation. “It’s huge. It’s a real priority for the global company because of the potential growth in China…We think drive-throughs are a big part of this.”
And, when you read the AP’s story everything seems upbeat and glowing about McDonald’s growth and future opportunities in China.” It’s all good”, as they say. And, it is no surprise that the AP’s business writer, amusingly named Joe McDonald — no I am serious, that IS his name– was so aglow over the heightened business opportunities for the McDonald’s chain.
Then you look at the picture supplied with the story…
Look at the pounds on THAT kid! He looks like a Sumo wrestler! (I know, I know, Sumos are Japanese. give me a break, will ya. Comedy ain’t pretty.)
It left me wondering if the AP was trying to slyly imply that McDonald’s will make China’s kids fat? Are they trying to warn their friends in China to turn away from the temptation of a double cheese burger?
It seems that the AP saying, “turn away, my red friends… or you’ll end up looking like this porker!”
Look at the gaping mouth of that ‘lil feller! Is his mouth agape and watering for a Big Mac, or is he so fat he is just gasping for breath?
I wonder if large Chinese people tell their comrades that they aren’t fat, just big boned?
How do you say big boned in Chinese?
I find the whole thing rather amusing, as you can tell. Is the AP that heavy handed in their “subliminal” messaging? If so, they need to learn the definition of the word “subtle”!
I wonder how you say “subtle” in Chinese? Bet it isn’t “AP”.
Along with Breibart.com’s posting, the same picture appears on several websites with the AP’s story (and it is an AP supplied photo credited to photographer Ng Han Guan).
The Detroit News andCBS News, among others, paraded the poor, bewildered, fat Chinese kid before their readers.
At least we can all have some fun with this story! I guess I should get ready for some you-are-a-fat-person-hater letters, though.
Sigh.
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January 21st, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Well, at least we will not need to have another opium war to kill off their population and keep them from taking over the world.
Just keep the movie Super Size Me from being translated into Chinese and send all of the partially Hydrogenated oils over these from now on.
There is hope for the West!
We can let go of Afghanistan and its opum production now.
January 21st, 2007 at 5:12 pm
And there’s we go! The United States won again.
The “Empire” of China is plagued with many problems right now. There’s the overpopulation, a problem that the “One Child Policy” dint fix. The extreme poverty is still rampant with 750 millions of Chinese living with less than 2$ a day.
On this, the lack of women to marry is epidemic. Since they dint want to put asides the teachings of confucius asides, the Chinese people litteraly murdered millions of babies girls in the last decades. Now the sons, who are the ones that carry the family name, don’t have anyone to marry.
Then, the occident bring in their culture. Feminism in China was, at first, a Communist idea where women are the equal to men. Of course, it was only on paper. Now, more and more women refuse to marry or to have chindren since they have good jobs.
The Arrival of McCrap in China is just another sign of the real problem in the “Empire”; obsolete traditions are getting the way to modernity. I have an idea. Let’s mess with the chinese. The American DOD should hire the whole MTV company to broadcast shows tailor-made for the Chinese audience! They think they are righteous? let’s give them sleaze until they ask for more! That would be a victory!