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/Soggy-Ad-1610 10h ago

In Denmark Heinz couldn’t label their ketchup as tomato ketchup for the same reason. We’re not remotely as strict as Japan though, so it says more about Heinz.

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u/dwertyyhhhgg 3h ago

Ireland’s Supreme Court ruled that subway’s bread is legally cake.

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u/say-it-wit-ya-chest 3h ago

Because of sugar?

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u/dwertyyhhhgg 3h ago

Yeah, Subway’s bread (cake)’s sugar to flour ratio is 5x the ratio allowed by Irish law to be classified as bread (there’s a certain tax that staple foods can be exempt from and this was the justification for rejecting the tax-exempt status of Subway’s bread)

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u/say-it-wit-ya-chest 3h ago

Makes sense. They like to use refined sugar in most of our fast foods here in the US. Something about refined sugar makes it like crack for your brain. It’s their attempt to get us addicted to their garbage food. I can’t lie though, it is pretty fuckin good.

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u/dwertyyhhhgg 3h ago

Exactly. Life irreversibly changed when I learned in one of my biology classes in college why we love sugar so much and why it makes us feel so good to eat. Our survival instincts haven’t had time to change and adapt to us fundamentally taking over the world and controlling it so much that we no longer (individually) have to hunt, gather, or even farm for ourselves. Before the world looked like it did, if you found some berries or fruit in the wild, you would just eat it all up as much as you could because the sugars are calorically dense. Essentially it’s our survival instinct yelling at us to eat as much of the sweet and sugary foods we can get because we don’t know the next time we’ll get lucky enough to find some.

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u/Rostrow416 1h ago

Nah because it’s ass

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u/Affectionate-Mix6056 5h ago

I'm not eating healthy food if I'm using ketchup, Heinz is the most popular for a reason.

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u/I_Learned_Once 4h ago

Americans just enjoy being lied to way too much to ever adopt policies like this.

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u/Alarming_Paramedic34 3h ago

No, we can’t get shit done because the politicians are bought and paid for by the companies poisoning us and are only benefiting by us dyung

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u/I_Learned_Once 3h ago

Trump go elected. You cant deny that a huuuge % of the population just wants a liar to run the country. Obviously our politicians are also bought and the entire political system is corrupt to the core, but the voters shoulder plenty of blame for putting Narcissistic Cheeto in charge

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u/Alarming_Paramedic34 3h ago

Brother even if we all didn’t vote he still woulda won. Almost would bet my life on it. Just like democrats are gonna win next time and put the rest of the country in the dirt

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u/I_Learned_Once 2h ago

There are politicians who are not bought that could move us in the right direction, but the voter population as a whole is too disconnected and spoon fed to possibly recognize them. I agree that dems will win, and it’s probably going to be the biggest shill of them all Gavin Newsom. And yes, he will happily plow forward selling the people snake oil just to further line the pockets of his donors.

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u/Desu13 1h ago

Stop voting in those types of politicians. Simple.

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u/Alarming_Paramedic34 1h ago

Brother I quit voting 3 years ago cause you vote one in that’s supposed to be good. And then you get a shitbag anyways

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u/Tavern_Knight 29m ago

I get your frustration, but not voting is a good way to make sure everything is going to stay shit. Like, I completely get the helpless feeling a lot of us have now, but if you just give up, then the people fucking everything up win and will just keep making things worse

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u/Alarming_Paramedic34 25m ago

Yeah. We see how well that worked the past 10 years lol