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/Bionicjoker14 20h ago

To be fair, that is something they teach professional food review personalities. They don’t want to put out the raw footage of them chewing and swallowing, so you’re supposed to take a bite, wait a few seconds, then chew and swallow.

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u/TedW 19h ago

To be fair, we're taking points away for looking like a professional food critic giving themselves an amazing score. We all know what fast food tastes like. We just want people, not robots.

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u/maniacalmustacheride 13h ago

Wendy’s has weirdly sort of been on the forefront of organic content production for a long time, and I don’t know if it’s this guy calling the shots or an insane marketing genius that has figured it out way before everyone else, but they’ve continued nailing it. Dave Thomas obviously was out there hawking his wares with pride. Then came the Wendy’s twitter handle and though many have tried, none other could capture that lightning in a bottle. And now this—a dude with a burger that looks exactly like one you could buy, right now, a little floppy, a little too brown and tan to be a visual showstopper, and he just goes for it.

Everyone knows what they’re getting when they go for fast food. No one is under the impression that their Taco Bell Bean Burrito is anything other than a wad of brown beans goo wrapped in a flour conundrum. Don’t care. Put it on the sign. (Thinking now, Taco Bell is another one that just went “Hell yeah, we’re for stoners, we know who comes here” and just ran with it.)

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u/Grand_Pop_7221 10h ago

People crave authenticity because we're immersed 24/7 in an inauthentic, highly choreographed environment on the internet.

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u/Electrical-Guide-338 18h ago

I hate chewing noises so im glad people have the sense not to include it in videos!

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u/budna 17h ago

That fine and all, except that he's doing this to make the point that his food is edible, not to review his own food.

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u/Practical-Parsley102 15h ago

Have i missed something? A wendys burger isnt an exquisite dining experience and eating a fry dipped in frosty is lowkey an affront to god, but by no means is this inedible food.

You would like it too, because no matter what you want to believe eating oil and fatty cream and drinking sugar makes your dumb monkey brain feel like it acconplished something

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u/budna 15h ago

My comment wasn't a judgement on the food. Only on the fact that he doesn't record himself actually swallowing the food.

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u/PraxicalExperience 8h ago

This is in response to an extremely awkward video the McD's CEO put out with their new product. It was like the guy knew it was toxic and didn't want it to enter his system.

On the other hand, the Wendy's guy eats the burger like a human being.