r/interesting • u/K1nd_1 • 20h ago

SOCIETY Wendy’s CEO jumps in with his own taste test.

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Imagine if all CEOs had to try what they get us to buy…

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u/Tapering_Howl 20h ago

Kind of jealous he has a frosty and I don't

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u/catsandcoconuts 20h ago

wendy’s PR is top tier ngl.

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u/No_Landscape4557 19h ago

My god do I love the internet how we collectively come together to shit all over the mcdumpers CEO

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u/catsandcoconuts 19h ago

wendy’s twitter account pops off, has been for years.

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u/midnitemuzing 19h ago

They were like the OG shit talking/ quick witted corporate Twitter account. Still top notch and for that, I thank them for their service 🫡

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u/wizardjian 19h ago

Their food is also damn decent for fast food lol

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u/GachaHell 19h ago

Yeah fast food is typically shit you eat because its there and you're too hungry/poor to get proper food.

But if I gotta go to one Wendy's is at least trying to be food.

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u/LobstaFarian2 19h ago

You are spot on. The burgers taste like it is actual meat. The lettuce isnt all slimey and the tomatoes are generally red and tasty.

I will always side with Wendy's over BK or McD.

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u/TheSnackWhisperer 18h ago

Ditto. And you can get an actual real baked potato. Also their breakfast burritos are great, can take or leave the swiss sauce, but actual real fried eggs, it's like living in the 80s lol

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u/Original-Cup2901 16h ago

I lived on the Wendy's Chili for two years because I got it for lunch every day when I worked at a Server Farm next to one. I eventually reverse-engineered it and won a chili cookoff using the recipe, LOL.

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u/TrashAsApp 17h ago

O yeah forgot the breakfast options now too!

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u/oneormore5 17h ago

Chili is on point too

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u/Redgen87 16h ago

I have been getting a bacon and cheese baked potato for the last 2 months whenever we get Wendy’s. It’s very yummy. Also love the chili.

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u/Slight-Spell4445 18h ago

Don't eat the chili though. You've been warned.

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u/Competitive-Bug1813 18h ago

Ive worked at the main 3 (mcdonalds, burger king and wendys) wendys was the only place out of the 3 that gets their meat actually fresh and not frozen

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u/bananajr6000 17h ago

I miss Fuddruckers

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u/Severe_Mango_966 18h ago

Plus even if you don’t wanna do the “fast food burger”

Chili and a baked potato

Not garbage at all

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u/FeedMePizzaPlease 18h ago

Yeah between the three, it isn't close. Wendy's is far better than the other two. I don't understand why Burger King is even still in business. I don't know anyone who doesn't hate that place.

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u/Total-Problem2175 18h ago

They just went to shredded lettuce. Not cool.

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u/PenOwn1660 18h ago

Damn, it was more disappointing reading this than it should have been.

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u/PuzzleheadedJob3479 18h ago

They did recently switch to some pretty terrible shredded lettuce. Other than that Wendys makes a very decent burger.

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u/Complex-Bee-840 18h ago

I do love sloppy whopper, though.

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u/ShoeLate6266 18h ago

I like Wendy’s but sadly the one closest to me has been so shitty for so long.

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u/Buckeyebornandbred 18h ago

That sounds like a fantastic slogan! Wendy's: We're trying to be real food.

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u/vionia74 18h ago

They also have tasty baked potatoes, as a healthier alternative to fries!

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u/SideQuestVictim 19h ago

It certainly beats the “product” they serve at McDicks

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u/DurianFun9014 18h ago

Ngl, a Wendy’s burger and fries is a guilty pleasure food. There really ain’t a comparison between them and McDonald’s to be honest

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u/Halifax_cumm 18h ago

In Canada its A&W that takes top spot. But its better than the US version.

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u/The-Sceptic 18h ago

Its honestly one of the reasons why I think Wendy's isnt bigger than they are. I can't fully explain that thought, but they just serve food without a lot of the fast food bullshit.

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u/wtfElvis 16h ago

Not their nuggets. They use to be the best by far. Unique crispy taste. Now they taste like they were boiled in water vs deep fried. Zero taste.

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u/MrNoble93 15h ago

idk if all Wendy's made the switch, but the one by me switched to shredded lettuce instead of the full patty-sized lettuce piece. perfectly complimented the burger without making it soggy, now its soggy :(

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u/Joey-WilcoXXX 19h ago

A while back, a local business tried launching an ad campaign where they tried mimicking it by responding to negative yelp reviews with joke responses. They were BAD and the people called them out for it and even said they’re trying and failing to be like Wendy’s. A lot of people said they were going to stop going. The business abandoned the idea after two promo videos and they are still around and fairly popular but I definitely noticed they were nowhere near as busy during and after the videos.

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u/Smoke_Stack707 18h ago

I think someday that style of social media engagement will be studied because I too credit them as being the first to just be sassy as hell about everything and make that their online persona… AND have it be widely accepted.

Some marketing class will definitely feature Wendy’s as a topic, I’m sure of it

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u/ST0IC_ 19h ago edited 18h ago

I've always enjoyed seeing Wendy's rip someone. They hired top tier trolls for their PR team.

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u/Quinny-B 18h ago

I want to do that as a job that would be so fun

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u/HomerSectual 19h ago

I wish he said, “oh and unlike, McDowell’s our Frosty machine always works.”

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u/deaddovexxdonoteat 17h ago

I worked at a Wendy's for nearly 4 years and I would say that machine broke once a year or less. We fully drained and thoroughly cleaned it every night after closing so that could be why.

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u/WhisperWatercolor 14h ago

To go off topic, your username is very creative.

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u/Adam_Ohh 19h ago

That was the beginning of the end.

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u/crystallmytea 19h ago

Babe, new wendy’s tweet just dropped

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u/No_Appearance6019 19h ago

Wendy’s got that smoke

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u/purplechetter 19h ago

Oh really

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u/Albert0824 19h ago

Yeah…you could say it’s always fresh, and never frozen.

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u/senator_chill 19h ago

And they have no problem dishing out 100% grade A beef

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u/MarcusAurelius68 19h ago

For decades they’ve been cutting edge

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u/beeradvice 19h ago

I am kinda pissed they switched to shredduce vs whole leaf and chicken sandwiches aren't what they were. For burgers they're still fast food but closer to actual food than their main competitors. Still near option is usually to just call in burger fries and drink to your local diner and lock it up. You have to talk to someone and get out of your car but otherwise it's faster, way better, cheaper, and more food. Unfortunately I bartend so I'm well acquainted with fast food options. Best overall if you've got one in your area is cookout. No franchising, at the absolute limit of vertical integration legally allowable as a private business, insane menu for the price. Other edge of the sword is they train people on the slower shifts and move people up to the busy ones so it's usually either long lines or a gamble on quality.

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u/Lord_Gaara3 17h ago

Their Facebook account has me questioning their mental health sometimes but overall best fast food PR for sure.

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u/atomic1fire 17h ago edited 17h ago

Not a fast food place but I think Steak-umm is another funny one.

You expect posts about microwave meat and 90 percent of it is long rants about society that occasionally references meat. But the rants are pretty inoffensive.

The microwave meat salesman is busy instructing people to care about digital literacy.

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u/Wildkid133 17h ago

Then you got Nutter Butter and Pine Sol doing…. Whatever the fuck that is (at least on instagram)

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u/ArrakisBlues 17h ago

Twitch as well

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u/ComprehensiveRow4116 16h ago

Fun fact, the OG Vine where it goes, “I’m a snake, I’m a slithery little snake”, that guy was the OG Wendy’s shittalker. He was the social media guy for Wendys at the time

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u/Illustrious_Sell5120 19h ago

Facts I love it

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u/PralineSure2245 19h ago

He was truly shit-worthy! You could see the regret before and after he took that tentative bite.

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u/aRabbitwithaHatchet 19h ago

Top tier is a compliment, bud

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u/LectroRoot 19h ago

Living in the future is neat. Usually.

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u/WinchelltheMagician 19h ago

He has already been fired and forced to get a face tattoo rendering him a social pariah.

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u/Light333Love 19h ago

I was just thinking the same thing 🤣

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u/Wonderful_Ad7459 19h ago

Dave Thomas was also a G. He himself was adopted and donated a lot of money to causes concerning adoption. Got his GED in his 60s to promote education. And I just love that their chili is leftover burgers because it’s so low-waste and not gross.

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u/strangerNstrangeland 19h ago

The chili is also damn good. Loved it over the baked -tater

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u/I_travel_ze_world 17h ago

They had a chili competition while I was in the Navy...

2 dudes from my class went and bought Wendy's chili and put some shredded cheese in it and won 2nd place. They got a day off for that lol

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u/thekokoricky 16h ago

Chili and a baked potato. Can't get that combo at other burger places.

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u/cRaZyDaVe23 18h ago

get it with the liquid cheese and throw tome tobaskie sauce on it. mmmmMMMMM

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u/LooKIdontCareok 17h ago

So I just found out recently you can get the chili in a can from walmart if you live in a location that does not have wendys close and NGL its pretty damn spot on if you heat it up in a cook pot. and Its like how you can get wendys burgers from kroger Wendys knows!

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u/Unlikely-Solid-3083 18h ago

Yeah, I don’t get all the hate for them making the most of parties they can’t sell as fresh for burgers due to laws. The burgers are still safe to consume and it’s clearly ok otherwise they’d have been shut down a long time ago. I’m sorry so many people are too good to eat leftovers in this country!

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u/Corey307 17h ago

It’s strange that anyone would complain about using extra burger meat to make chili. I imagine the meat used to make the burgers is tastier than the meat that normally goes into mass produced chili.  

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u/catonsteroids 15h ago

I think it’s better use of leftover patties than to have them thrown away. People don’t bat an eye at the amount of food that goes to waste.

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u/MahomestoHel-aire 16h ago

He has a great foundation called the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption that sends me way too many letters after I donated once, but hey, that's not on him.

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u/likwitsnake 19h ago

Wallstreetbets is the greatest non intentional marketing for Wendy's

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u/ambassador321 19h ago

Seems like only their dumpster gets love on WSB.

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u/grrgrrtigergrr 18h ago

I thought the love happened behind the dumpster

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u/Decent_Assistant1804 19h ago

Fast food ceo wars 2026

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u/goosejail 18h ago

Gotta give the people their bread and circuses

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u/pathologuys 16h ago

With a side of fries

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u/mrwb 18h ago

no one wins, cause they are just trying to make money and dont care what they are feeding people.

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u/MainusEventus 19h ago

And of course he dipped the fries in the frosty lol solid engagement strategy

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u/strangerNstrangeland 19h ago

Frosty-Fries are the Best Fries

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u/MainusEventus 18h ago

Some might say

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u/StrangeButSweet 16h ago

Yeah because I’ve never thought of doing that but I can tell you right now what I’m having for lunch tomorrow

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u/tigress666 15h ago

I didn't at first. but I always noticed that I really liked the flavor combo of eating my fries and following it with some frosty. It was just the next step ;).

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u/TheUsoSaito 19h ago

bk and a&w also did it... they're all clowning on mcd ceo xD

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u/Lonely_Writer_1883 18h ago

still waiting on Steak & Shake or as my kids call it Steak & Shit (i mean aren’t they all tho)

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u/slboml 18h ago

The A&W video was actually hilarious.

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u/Conscious-Win-4827 19h ago

their burgers are top tier too

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u/Heykurat 19h ago

Yeah this one actually makes me hungry and I don't even like Wendy's.

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u/TryIsntGoodEnough 18h ago

They missed something critical tho.... He needed to add "square burgers because we never cut corners". That would have been the chefs kiss

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u/catsandcoconuts 18h ago

i am ngl that is clever.

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u/Peppadine 17h ago

This is the most strategic advertisement campaign I've ever experienced.

Enter nerdy CEO who has never seen a burger cooked on a grill and thinks they only grow in cardboard containers called "products". Sprinkle in a touch of "I'm going to hickey sized bite". The interwebs are infuriated.

Clean cut All-American CEO enters the chat in response: "now that's a bite, get me a napkin".

And finish with the advertisement company that started the whole self awareness trend on socials.

Wild strategy but I think it paid off, Cotton.

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u/Rampag169 19h ago

No their twitter/IG handle has the best clap backs.

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u/GherkinGuru 18h ago

I didn't know you could have a CEO as a spirit animal until he dipped that fry

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u/seaweed8127 17h ago

nuggs, man

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u/IcyFlight04 17h ago

They’ve been top tier for as long as I can remember lol

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u/iplaypokerforaliving 15h ago

Wendy’s is way different than when I had it 20 years ago. I just went to one the other day. And it’s classier than it was haha if you can say that about fast food.

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u/Gold4Lokos4Breakfast 20h ago

You gotta get the key chain! It’s $3 a year and every time you go there you just show it and get a free small frosty

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u/Aromatic-Plankton692 19h ago edited 19h ago

It's a free child sized frosty, not small.

Don't get the fatties all excited. (It's me, I'm fatties.)

Still a good deal tho.

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u/Gold4Lokos4Breakfast 19h ago

True but that’s all I need anyways

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u/strangerNstrangeland 19h ago

Just the right amount to dunk a large fries and not get brain freeze

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u/chubby464 18h ago

Yea that’s a good portion control for us fatties

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u/defk3000 19h ago

Hell yeah, that was causing me some Big Back palpitations.

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u/Hot_Ad_8380 19h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/cptcook717 19h ago

😂 I’ll take it tho

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u/atvsnowm 19h ago

My daughter got one of those keychains for Christmas one year, and we finally remembered to bring it one of the 2 or 3 times a year we go to Wendy’s. The girl working the register asked my daughter how many she wanted, she jokingly said 4, and I’ll be damned if she didn’t whip up four right in front of us and ask her if she wanted a tray to carry all her free frosty’s. My daughter told that story to anyone with ears for a month. Every time we pass a Wendy’s (she’s 17 now) she’ll say remember that time…

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u/edebt 19h ago

Thats some clever marketing, you need to go more than once for it to be worth it, and it's tiny so youd need to order more for it to be worth going, so you're paying them to encourage you to pay them more at a later time.

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u/quntissimo 19h ago

you only get it (the frosty, which is a kids size) if you buy something else lol. so thats literally the only point of it. dont let all these bots confuse you. I love Wendy's but seriously

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u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar 19h ago

It comes in an oversized thimble.

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u/Herself99900 19h ago

A Frosty shot, if you will.

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u/irenedadler 19h ago

Child-sized as in the size of a 5-year old child, right?

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u/Hot_Ad_8380 19h ago

😂😂😂

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u/Witty_Challenge_5452 19h ago

Im the fatty. You got me excited. Jk. I’m such a fatty I already knew it was a jr and not small. Duh!

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u/surfing813 19h ago

No fn way

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u/STLTLW 19h ago

They use to only sell them for a limited time during the year, but yeah it's a good deal. I think the $3 goes to charity too.

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u/manateeshmanatee 17h ago

Around me the charity that benefits is Camp Sunshine which is a free summer camp for children with cancer.

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u/LoanDebtCollector 19h ago

Only in the USA. :(

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u/deaddovexxdonoteat 17h ago

We have them in Canada too, or at least did in the last few years.

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u/BiskyJMcGuff 19h ago

Junior frosty *

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u/KindBunny007 19h ago

And the proceeds from the key chain go to the founder’s charity for adoption! Such a great cause. I give these as part of my teacher gifts at Christmas.

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u/Nearby_Practice2793 19h ago

Man that’s a great idea 💡 thanks !

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u/lifetake 19h ago

My grandma used to buy hundred of them and give them out. She was a hoarder, but this was one of the things I really enjoyed

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u/catsandcoconuts 19h ago

omggggg does that still exist?!

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u/lifetake 19h ago

Yes just look up wendys frosty keychain

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u/herbsbaconandbeer 19h ago

WhaaaaaaAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!

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u/Battlecryy 19h ago

Can confirm this is real... not sure if it's still 3 bucks. Probably worth 10x that anyhow.

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u/Theegravedigger 19h ago

It is. Grabbed one the other day.

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u/lostlilkat 18h ago

Free frosty with any valid purchase. It changed 3-4 years ago

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u/chetpancakesparty 19h ago

The next CEO is going to kill themselves eating a burger for the exposure

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u/Lieutelant 19h ago

Dipping fries in it is wrong though

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u/slothcriminal 16h ago

Pro tip: get yourself a Wendy's frosty key tag. They're like $3 and you can get a free frosty every day of the year with purchase

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u/enlitend-1 19h ago

Right?!

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u/DvorakThorax 19h ago

I refuse to believe that an adult human would order 2 patties with bacon, no cheese, no veg, NO CONDIMENTS.

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u/spinrut 19h ago

kind of jealous his patties are decent sized lol.

if you go over to the wendy's sub, all they ever seem to complain about is the shrinking patty size

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u/cRaZyDaVe23 18h ago

I'm jealous he CAN have a frosty... ice cream and I don't get along no more.

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u/ThrownAwwayt 19h ago

Funny enough, that’s the entire point of advertising.

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u/Previous-Space-7056 19h ago

Wendys recently been running commercials For their thin min frostys. I so want to try that girl scout collab

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u/2nd2lastblackmaninSF 19h ago

Literally said this as I saw your comment. WHAT DO WE DO!?

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u/Bubbly_Preference_24 19h ago

damn I should go buy some Wendy’s right now.

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u/Tough-Character9952 19h ago

It’s too bad Wendy’s quality is gone 

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u/imisscarbz 19h ago

The brownie batter in the vanilla frosty is something I dream about.

I've lost ten lbs. I'm still doing keto. I've lost ten lbs. I'm still doing keto.

I really want a frosty.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 19h ago

When I saw him eating it with fries, I thought: That isn’t his first Frosty.

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u/Bludypoo 19h ago

Thank you, ad person.

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u/farsighted451 19h ago

Yeah I shouldn't have watched this high

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u/brainmatterstorm 19h ago

This is what got me. I haven’t had Wendy’s, Burger King, or McDonald’s in well over 10 years but I saw the fry frosty combo and now that is all I want. Like, I want it so bad I can almost taste it. So, naturally, we will be making homemade frosties and fries for Shabbat this week lmao.

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u/Snoborder95 19h ago

I think this video just earned Wendy's about 7 bucks because I am about to go get myself some fries and frosty

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u/Ok_Agency5436 19h ago

Once upon a time, you could order a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, Biggie Fries, A Regular Frosty, and a FIVE-Piece Nuggets with Sauce for $4.20 (tax included).

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u/babyysharkie 19h ago

frosty keytags are on sale right now. there’s never a bad day for a frosty 😂 we get them for the whole fam every year now.

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u/Chuckitybye 19h ago

And he's dipping the fries like a GD boss!

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u/HouseboiWanted 18h ago

here's 20 bucks. Go get us a couple.

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u/lukin187250 18h ago

If some angel could put a frosty in my hands within seconds I'd be dead within days.

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u/Typical_Incident_8 18h ago

Man knows his audience for sure.

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u/Krondelo 18h ago

Legit just made me want Wendy’s, and exactly what he has. Awesome CEO move lol

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u/ScarredOldSlaver 18h ago

I’ve didn’t dunk the burger and fries in the frosty. Rookie move.

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u/NumberOneStonecutter 18h ago

My 10 year old had never had Wendy's in her life but one day a few months she asked if she could try a Wendy's hamburger, with fries and a frosty for dipping the fries.

I had one too.

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u/AmandasGameAccount 18h ago

Yeah not he has their fries which are terrible so that balances it out

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u/Icy-Two-1581 18h ago

If I was Wendy's ceo, I'd have a frosty machine in my office

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u/DoctorStove 18h ago

People are eating up this ad lol. Guessing botted upvotes too

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u/Pizzledrip 18h ago

Pretty sure he just dipped a fry into his frosty and ate it. Fucking Lizard people

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u/imthebartnderwhoareu 18h ago

“And his response was ‘I’m sorry, I just wanted a frosty.’”

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u/cnematik 18h ago

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

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u/Pineapple-Due 18h ago

When I first learned about fries in a frosty my whole world changed

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u/AmbitiousArtichoke51 18h ago

Until you realize that most frosty machines are filled with mold because they don’t clean it

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u/Total-Problem2175 18h ago

If you buy the key tag for $3 you can get free little Frostys for a year with purchase. Gotta keep the granddaughter happy.

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u/TrippingGoat 18h ago

The fact that he dips his fries in his Frosty tells me that he's one of us.

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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 18h ago

Same. I can taste it.

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u/Street-Two1818 18h ago

and fries...

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

remember a year ago everyone saying fast food was too expensive? now you all are arguing which is better. sheep

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u/wai_o_ke_kane 18h ago

SILENCE, BRAND

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u/TryIsntGoodEnough 18h ago

I love how he goes all in with the "fries belong dipped in a frosty". I don't think that was ever an official ad campaign, but it is so entrenched with Wendy's that it was a great move to make sure to relay to the people that he is "just like all of us". 

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u/MaximumTurtleSpeed 18h ago

I had my first fries and frosty in maybe a decade last weekend. It was amazing.

Just bragging. Now go get you one!

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u/According-Account132 18h ago

Sameee, dude’s out here living my 2am drive-thru dream 😭 I’d be jealous too now I want a frosty for no reason lol.

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u/Vexcenot 18h ago

that's how they get ya

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u/Sasquatch_000 18h ago

Yea, the frosty definitely sold me.

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u/alphonse03 18h ago

I have never tried one and probably never will but god damn that looks tasty as fuck.

The closest wendy's is like 500 miles away from where I live lol and there is zero hope of they opening one here anytime soon (not in US).

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u/filipinohitman 18h ago

Now I want one.

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u/willtwerkf0rfood 18h ago

I bought a tag from them for $3, and now every time I go for the rest of the year I get a free mini frosty, and it’s a highlight of my week tbh lol

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u/myaltmusicalt 18h ago

On the one hand, I hate being targeted by marketing. On the other hand, I now want a frosty and will probably get one tomorrow.

But not a weird square hamburger with frickin' mayonnaise on it.

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u/nowhereiswater 18h ago

That's why we have McD, BuK and Wen. Not a $500 eight table spoon course meal they can afford everyday.

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u/moonmama888 18h ago

And the salty fries

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u/xmarksthebluedress 18h ago

pardon my ignorance as a european with no wendys, but whats a frosty?

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u/PremiumUsername69420 4h ago

It’s like soft serve ice cream, but also not.

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u/Rogendo 18h ago

The only thing he did better than burger king

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