Chick-fil-A cooking up new “family-friendly” video streaming service

Fast-food chain is paying up to $400K for unscripted content, Deadline reports.

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[CrystalCowboy]

And will it work on Sundays?

The rumors are false: New York isn't forcing Chick-fil-A to open on Sundays

I overheard a rumor at my family Christmas party that seemed a little hard to believe: The state of New York was going to force all Chick-fil-A restaurants to remain open on Sundays.

But like many rumors, there was a lot more to the story.

Despite what Sen. Lindsey Graham and other Republican lawmakers have suggested, New York is not forcing Chick-fil-A to open on Sundays...

A bill proposed by New York lawmakers would require all restaurants contracted to operate at rest areas on the state highway system to be open seven days a week. The legislation applies to "food services at transportation facilities and rest areas owned and operated by certain public authorities," according to text submitted with the bill.

The purpose of the bill is to ensure that motorists have reliable access to food while traveling on state highways by requiring restaurants to be open daily...

However, the bill would not impact the vast majority of Chick-fil-A locations in the state. It would also not immediately apply to the existing locations that are already in rest areas to open on Sundays, as it is meant to impact "future contracts." ...

 

[CrystalCowboy]

Plot twist: first show is about a family business trying to make lollipops that taste like fried chicken, called Cocksuckers

I remember when someone I knew brought back some chicken-flavored candy from East Asia. My gawd it was awful.

 

[CrystalCowboy]

This is actually a brilliant idea for them. While Ars will not be the target demographic for this service, if executed well, they could make a killing as a "wholesome" streaming service. Contrary to popular opinion here, in the minds of their demographic the opposite of "woke" is not "anti-woke" or "racist", it's just not woke.

This move will be interesting to watch unfold. They could create an entirely new income stream, flop, or even really damage their reputation.

To understand not woke, one would first have to define woke. Which inconveniently, you failed to do. As near as I can understand from usage of those who claim to be not woke, woke means insufficiently racist. (or more generally, insufficiently bigoted). So not woke would indeed mean racist.

 

[CrystalCowboy]

I'll define woke. Woke is choosing winners and losers based on anything other than objectively defined merit. Attempts to solve all the past injustice in the world by intentionally ignoring the merit of people uninvolved counts.

Nope, that doesn't work. I see people who claim to be not woke choosing all the time for reasons other than merit. Just a few examples:

President Trump hired his daughter and son-in-law as White House advisers, even though they had no relevant experience or skills, or anything resembling merit. He hired them because they were related to him and presumably loyal, and because he considers Ivanka to be highly fuckable. President Trump hired plenty of other people who were without merit too, as he loudly proclaimed after he had fired them.

Candidate Trump chose JD Vance for his running mate, even though it is obvious that he has no merit as a political candidate. It seems like every day Vance is offending some demographic or another. Vance has no merit as a politician. Trump probably chose him because he is a sycophant.

Landlord Donald Trump, in a previous century, chose tenants not for their ability to pay steady rent and keep up their property, but for the color of their skin. There is a legal trail on this. This legal trail is evidence that "not woke Trump" is racist, not objective.

By your definition, Donald Trump is woke AF, and we all know he claims not to be.

 

[CrystalCowboy]

Yeah, it seems bland vanilla pablum sells, the sheep like to graze on it.

I protest the stereotyping of vanilla as "bland."

 

[CrystalCowboy]

When a corporation has 'religious values', why is it always the owner who gets to choose those values, and not the employees?

 

[CrystalCowboy]

Christian Nationalist company. Against women’s rights. Against LGBTQ+ protections.

That this publication would cover these guys is beyond me.

Reporting is not approval.

 

[CrystalCowboy]

Like their tea, the lemonade is specially made with filtered water, from lemons and sugar every day, because it has no preservatives. And now I want to try some.

Lemonade contains citric acid,. which is a preservative. Lemonade contains sucrose, which is a preservative.

 

[CrystalCowboy]

This is just plain crazy. I'm guessing you've never been to America, or if you live here you've never left the tiny restaurant-less town where you were born. I can't imagine how else someone would get such a strange idea.

By "America" they probably mean "Minnesota"

Tim Walz’s Quip on “White Guy Tacos” Sends MAGA Into Meltdown

Kamala Harris and her running mate on Thursday posted a promotional video of them discussing food, during which Walz brought up his Midwestern palette.
“I have white guy tacos,” said Walz.
“What does that mean? Like, mayonnaise and tuna? What are you doing?” Harris responded jokingly.
“Pretty much ground beef and cheese,” Walz said. “They said to be careful and let her know this. That black pepper is the top of the spice level in Minnesota.”...

 

[CrystalCowboy]

I seem to be in the minority here that I don't think their food product is anything exceptional. I'd prefer Popeyes or even KFC over them.

I do not live in an area with a high density of CFA outlets, so have refrained from comments about their food.

But the idea of a business having "religious values" is still totally fucked up.

 

[CrystalCowboy]

Indeed, vanilla is just the default, but it's still a flavor, and one I love. Now, that "plain white" icing that isn't vanilla? That stuff's bland.

Marzipan?

 

[CrystalCowboy]

That's a mineral right, not an alloy?

I remember once playing a game of Balderdash, where you have to make up fake definitions for words. I tried to pass off fulgurite as an obscure 19th century utopian sect. Which might have worked reasonably well on a cross section of the general populace. Unfortunately for me, I was in a room full of Quakers at the time.

 

[CrystalCowboy]

You must have a lot of friends.

Geddit? Quakers? Friends? Huh? Huh?

Ha ha. I was dating a Quaker at the time, and they were her friends.

But you've probably seen the old Pennsylvania slogan on license plates: "You've got a friend in Pennsylvania."
Is it a double entendre?

 

[CrystalCowboy]

"Got crowns"?

I dunno. An old British coin? A checkers reference?

Fortunately, it was not vital to understand his point, which is that "every accusation is a confession.":