Old McDonald Had a Rough Week
Do you think Putin eats Big Macs?
Food Talk, but on the Internet
It’s just some guy sharing his love of an anime, tofu products, and his old Toyota with people who feel the same way.
Let’s look at the big picture here. Bobby Flay was the last of the old guard.
I somehow went the whole article without saying “Finger-Lickin-Good.”
This isn’t even really a question of “can Bon Appetit recover from this?” anymore. They had their 15 minutes of fame and squandered it, and no amount of performative wokeness is going to bring back their former prestige
One would think that, when the scandal broke, Conde Nast would simply do the damage control, pat themselves on the back for being so ‘woke’ for paying their employees equal pay for equal work and let the ad revenue start flowing in again. Why would they throw it all away?
While it may be hard to tell just how much change is going on behind the scenes and Bon Appetit, what can be said is that there has been a change in food media as a whole.
Adam Rapoport didn’t lose his job because Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter came to be because of the damage that many in positions of power like Rapoport have done in both mainstream media and society as a whole.
The saying is “Gotta go fast,” not, “I can go fast when I want to,” so I can only imagine most meals for him are hurried affairs dedicated to ingesting the most calories per second possible.
Thanks to George Lucas and the hundreds of writers who crafted the Expanded Universe, we know… wayyyy more than we could have ever wanted about literally everything (except for, like, what species are Yoda and Baby Yoda) in the Star Wars universe.