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I like jimboys better than taco smell, and carl's jr over booger king.
But Taco Bell has committed a grevious sin of food. Mexcian food, even Americanized Mexcian food, is guilty of "Stealth Vegetables." At no point is it acceptable for vegetables to be minced in with real food to the point where even servers can't tell the difference. What's in the "Chili con Carne" the chili with meat? Is it just meat? Or are their onions, peppers and all sorts of other assorted vegetable filth that I will spit out like poison the second I taste it? Sometimes, that crap is actually VISIBLE in chunks.
This is even worse when I order a beef burrito or something. I would like a tortilla, to hold my meat together while I eat it. I courteously place my order, always with a please and a thank you, for a beef burrito. Then I find out it's topped with......whatever THAT vegetable medley barf is. I seem to recall it including sour cream, too. What is this milk-sop ****? Ewww. Now I have to scrape it off and I can never get rid of the flavor.
Taco bell does this same thing over and over again, to the point where I hesitate to even order anything. Yeah, here's my beef burrito, thanks, but now I must pull it apart and sift through it to make sure there are no filthy onions in the mix. Where there are, I'm not eating it. Thank you for the kind service and the attempt to make my meal flavorful, but that is simply not a flavor I can stand. And no, you don't have to make it again. Caveat Emptor.
Well, this Emptor is simply done with that chain. Not the enterprise, I'm glad they're successful, I mean the food chain where I have to eat like a rabbit. I am off in pursuit of wisdom I recieved from a wisened old woman: "Where's the beef?"
It's at Burger King. Plus it comes with bacon.
There's nothing tasty and special about it, Taco Bell made a mark in our cultural history during the "franchise wars." Americans, as a whole, are fiercely independent people. Some will say otherwise, they will say they want social this or that, but the old saying on our flag "Don't Tread on Me" holds true. They will bite the **** out of anyone who doesn't want things the way they want them.
The Franchise Wars and the media attention they garnered were a result of this. Americans live in fear of monopoly at all times, because if a monopoly over everything existed, we no longer have any freeedom. Everyone in this nation CAME here because of a desire for freedom.
But capitalism has a way of creating monopolies. Survival of the fittest leads to one dominating all others, yes? Didn't take long for modern capitalism, in the face of deregulation, to start amalgamiting and pooling its assets for advantage and dominance.
We're actually in the midst of an argument about this once again, and I'm on the side of those who are pro-capitalist, but this tends to be their view and it should be represented. No doubt, they will be happy to add.
Anyway, the Franchise Wars occurred when it became clear that private companies were using laws AGAINST monopolization to control vast empires of colonies which they didn't technically "own" but were still in control of. Like colonies, but with no violations of any laws, and what's more, actually catering to not only the American desire for freedom, but also our love of small business. Anyone can make it here, or so we like to think.
A company merely needed to "invest" in a franchise, a private business, on the condition that said business would do pretty much what it wanted. From there, the war built exponentially and at a rapid and alarming pace.
The two Cola giants, Pepsi and Coca-Cola, saw the opportunity for exploiting fast-food chains like McDonalds to sell their products. Franchises were booming, so by including only THEIR soft-drink products in contracts not only to franchises, but to the people who started them, they could guarantee a supply of demand in the near future.
It didn't happen exactly like that, but that's the gist of it. I forget who actually made the first move. It might have been the franchises themselves. Doesn't matter. Same result. People were overwhelmed with Franchises as each contender sought dominance on this new battlefield. Coca-Cola had McDonalds, the rest of their attemptos failed, but Pepsi had the indestructible trio of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, And Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The franchise wars were in full swing, kind of like the Console wars have been, just a different business model. People talked about it, even made movies about it. It was serious business because somebody HAD to come out on top.
Ultimately it fizzled into nothingness. There are no Franchise Wars any more, but most who were around remember them, and the old fuses still burn. We even have books about the fear of such things, like "Jennifer Government" which I would recommend as a read.
But then, I don't need to tell you. Somehow, you're watching American media even if you don't understand what all of it is about. It's a new war now, one about expanding markets and finding new places to reach. Just because it's trade doesn't mean it's not a competion of sorts.
Once again, FIRMLY on the side of the capitalists, just in case anyone gets the wrong idea. Can't be skipping histroy, though.
I would rather not eat.
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