Chick-fil-A cooking up new “family-friendly” video streaming service
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Isn't there already an Christian "Hallmark" channel?? Great American Family channel or something like that? I noticed it popped up around the holidays probably because my wife would leave the Hallmark channel on and it was next to it.
It's just like the Hallmark channel but the dogs are always white. /s
It's just like the Hallmark channel but the dogs are always white. /s
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Maybe they’ll sell to Donald Trump or Truth Social. You know it’s going to be full of hysterical “trans people are stealing your children and ruining western civilization”, “Democrats and Jews are drinking the blood of babies”, “Buy more guns the Muslims are coming for your gas stoves” propaganda.
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I expect "soft" bigotry and/or "anti-woke" horseshit, like Seventh Heaven, that appears "why would anyone object to this" wholesome to their audience, but anyone any bit aware clearly sees how they treat issues like addiction, homelessness, and teen pregancy as the person experiencing it is a complete degenerate that just needs Jesus.
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There won't be anti-anything. They just won't exist.
And I'm sure the chicken there is fine
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Indeed.
Everyday I wake up and go 'WTF have they done now?" Rarely am I not surprised at whatever fresh hell is dumped in my lap.
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There's several of those services out there already. Never doubt the ability of grifters to find suckers to grift.
None of them have the name recognition of a brand like Chik-Fil-A though.
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Tangentally, FreeForm (the "Hulu cable channel", now owned by Disney) was originally Pat Robinson's Christian Broadcasting Network which aired The 700 Club,
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Hopefully the content is better than the food. The lemonade is pretty good though.
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This is a perfect home for the Church Play Cinematic Universe
View: https://youtu.be/ZK4gM7RC1M0?si=_B6sgG2h-LM8qAML
View: https://youtu.be/ZK4gM7RC1M0?si=_B6sgG2h-LM8qAML
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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.
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Well, yeah, but that was about adapting a Bible story, not about moralizing against "woke" or whatever.
Also, I don't know that I'd necessarily call it a "Christian" movie, considering that Exodus is part of the canon of all the Abrahamic religions, and the movie was Jeffrey Katzenberg's pet project.
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Lemonade contains citric acid,. which is a preservative. Lemonade contains sucrose, which is a preservative.
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OMG I got that opening fiddle theme in my head now, that is my jam
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Hope they fail and lose all their money. Their content is likely to promote bigotry.
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And that's why Chick-Fil-A is so popular. A lot Americans have very bland, simple palates. They don't know much about flavors, and aromatics, and seasonings - either eating foods with them, or cooking with them. Kinda where that trope of "Americans think black pepper is too hot and spicy" comes from I guess. There's this interesting sort of puritanical aversion to all of that. The idea that food - which for a lot of folks in the US is basically just chicken and meat - doesn't need any of that extra fancy complicated stuff. In addition to the belief that "I don't have time for all of that, I'm too busy.". And there's a well documented nexus between all of that and the distinct American trait of dousing every food item with a type of sauce - ketchup, ranch, BBQ sauce, butter, you name it. I think all of that is why Chick-Fil-A is so popular here in the US.
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I only ate at CFA once (long story, I wouldn’t have chosen it) and was shocked that there were pickles on my chicken sandwich! I was driving so I couldn’t yank the things off. Now Wendy’s has started putting fucking pickles on their chicken sandwich so I have to remember each damn time I order it to ask for no pickles.
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No doubt featuring hardcore Christian values .. where we'll find out years from now that these people featured in these reality-TV shows have really dark sides -- which arguably would make for better TV from a drama perspective.
"Pastor by day, dog walker by afternoon, and serial rapist by night. Watch as our Christian Values Network gets you into the mind of a good family man."
"Pastor by day, dog walker by afternoon, and serial rapist by night. Watch as our Christian Values Network gets you into the mind of a good family man."
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A lot of people nowadays don't consider Disney anything to be family friendly and many of them eat at Chick-fil-A.
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If they name it ChickFlix I bet they get a lot more interest! Of course it'll come from a demographic that is looking for stuff that is decidedly not family friendly...
But hey, maybe they can convert those "perverts" with some really high quality Veggie Tails knockoffs?
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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.
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By "America" they probably mean "Minnesota"
Tim Walz’s Quip on “White Guy Tacos” Sends MAGA Into Meltdown
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CFA makes a sandwich I find quite tasty, and their milkshakes too. Great customer service. Sucks they aren't open on Sunday's when the craving kicks in.
CFA is owned by religious people whose church I would never attend.
CFA already produces content, and wants to expand and cater to a particular demographic, and will probably make some money too.
Like a lot of other content, I will never watch what CFA produces.
No fuss, end of story, and the lack of diversity or promotion of a particular ideology will have no effect on me or my family, because we simply won't watch. If media exposure represents a primary tutor in life, conditioning what you think and experience, then maybe representation in media (or lack thereof) shouldn't be a primary concern. Unfortunately, for so many, both things are true.
CFA is owned by religious people whose church I would never attend.
CFA already produces content, and wants to expand and cater to a particular demographic, and will probably make some money too.
Like a lot of other content, I will never watch what CFA produces.
No fuss, end of story, and the lack of diversity or promotion of a particular ideology will have no effect on me or my family, because we simply won't watch. If media exposure represents a primary tutor in life, conditioning what you think and experience, then maybe representation in media (or lack thereof) shouldn't be a primary concern. Unfortunately, for so many, both things are true.
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religious cartoon shorts? REVIVE VEGGIETALES YOU COWARDS!
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This seems like the ark theme park which would be swarmed with evangelicals (hint, it wasn’t). I mean possibly enough of them are willing to watch sickly sweet moralistic Christian shows, to make the ad revenue worth it, but I bet someone is going to look at the costs and just figure not worth the expense
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They're not wrong. There are a lot of Americans that have a bland palate. There are a lot of tiny restaurant-less towns around. Even here in Seattle it is not uncommon to hear somebody joke they think mayo is too spicy. With all this talk of hot dishes with Walz's winning recipe has 2 tsp of spice, 1 being pepper, not including the salt for a large dish with at least four pounds of food. I've put more than that in my tuna fish salad for a single sandwich. (...and one clove of garlic? Surely he meant one whole head.) There's plenty of spicy food, now with peppers that didn't even exist when I was a kid, and flavors from all over the world but don't kid yourself that there isn't also a large swath of people who aren't interested in that. In today's climate, it is practically a political statement that many flock to.
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Fox talking heads are seriously saying he was lying about black pepper being the spiciest he can stand (instead of understanding it as a self-effacing "white people be like..." joke), citing hot-dish recipe that has green chilis and paprika, claiming they are spicier than black papper!
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I knew they were anti-LGBQT, but I didn't know they were promoting racism as well. They are super-duper-pro-faux-Christian for sure, so it wouldn't be a shock if they were.
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One of the very best episodes of Star Trek barely even counts as a Star Trek episode and it's moralized to bejesus and back.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwzgtCwAnf8
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It's not a far step from "traditional marriage" to "anti-interracial marriage", especially among white Nationalist Christians, like the Cathy family.
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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.
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Hope they aren't planning to take a page out of Disney's run book and run this streaming service with main purpose of forced arbitration clause, just in case someone will get hurt by accident in their restaurants.
but then again, Chic-Ail-A still has lots to learn about nefarious and insidious plans from certain mouse logo company.
but then again, Chic-Ail-A still has lots to learn about nefarious and insidious plans from certain mouse logo company.
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I used to work for a company that made riding lawnmowers and they had several dealers that were Amish.
They even used our electronic schematic and parts catalog software. Though they had to get dispensation from their pastor for it, and even then they weren't allowed to hook it up to the internet for updates and ordering. So their sales rep had to manually install updates from CD/USB and they had to print out their parts orders and fax them in.
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It's certainly not good enough to go out of my way to purchase and compromise my values.
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It's funny how one guy goes nuts fact-checking Walz's offhand joke. And how conservatives throw all their standard in-group/out-group logic out the window at the drop of a hat.
Like, Walz is a white guy, he can make fun of himself and his fellow white guys. In the course of friendly banter he can casually let pass that a non-white-guy joined him in this sentiment in a mild way. Yes, he doesn't have to get mad that Harris made a crack about tuna and mayonnaise, it's not a big deal. It's a standard MAGA dream to use the N-word in a conversation with a black person without getting in trouble for crying out loud.
Edit: I almost forgot my favorite part of the article, where they provide a rare 100% true, though still nonsensical, statement from Ted Cruz (bafflement in the original):
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White people arguing about the spiciness of black pepper vs paprika is so fucking funny.
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Why do you feel uncomfortable around "those people"? What makes you uncomfortable around them? Because... I don't.
Don't give up on being able to change yourself. We've changed ourselves multiple times in our history as a species. We're uniquely capable of it. If we don't... well I suppose we should let this be our last battlefield.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev10K4hgRtQ
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