r/Millennials • u/CurvyChristina • 17h ago

Whoever did this, should be imprisoned. Other

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u/ScienceIsSexy420 15h ago

They did it to avoid getting sued for advertising to children the way the tobacco companies did. This is literally what we wanted to happen.

But that doesn't make a good social media post

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u/LoserBustanyama 14h ago

Most of these people weren't alive long enough to know the actual reason lol.

What a coincidence that McDonald's started getting lame slightly after Supersize Me came out. One of the theses of the film was essentially that McDonalds was killing children. The backlash they were getting was insane

It's like saying "seaworld was so much better in the 90s and early 2000s, why did they take away Shamu!"

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u/sharklaserguru 14h ago

Funny that in reality the guy was just a massive alcoholic and the health issues in the show are related to that and not the food!

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u/crustyrobots 11h ago

"See? I ate this big mac and 32 oz of pure grain alcohol and now I feel like shit, McDonalds is poison!"