Big Mac with kale in a doomsday reduction - By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Did you hear? Taco Bell is going to start selling burritos wrapped in shells made entirely of purified air! Amazing. Also, Pizza Hut is reportedly testing a more “relaxing” pie made with something called “Mindfulness Meditation Mozzarella.” Whoa! And Hot Pockets microwaveable cancer bombs will now donate 95% of all proceeds to whatever the hell happened to your colon after you ate one.

Did you hear about any of that? Of course you didn’t. Because none of those stories is actually true.

But this one is: McDonald’s is going kale.

True! Pink slime’s favorite vendor just might start adding kale to salads or smoothies (for the health-averse and those living in or around the South: kale is a dark, leafy uber-green “vegetable” that’s “grown” in the “earth,” and is currently all the rage among fitness types and your annoying vegan relative who posts endless blurry photos of all the dried kale chips she bakes for her dog).

http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/05/08/big-mac-with-kale-in-a-doomsday-reduction/

[Tanuki]

1. The author lost me with the snarky condescension of "explaining" kale to

"those living in or around the South." At my humble public school in West Virginia, we had kale in the school cafeteria EVERY SINGLE MONDAY along with white beans, cornbread, and fried baloney, WAY before kale was cool. Sorry to unload on your post, Madokie, but it rubbed me the wrong way. As for the content, I think it is a good thing that McDonald's is trying to add something a little more healthy to their menu, since the reality is that a lot of people do go there for something cheap, fast, and convenient.

[antigone382]

2. Dude I get the point about the absurdity of this, but what's with the dig at Southerners?

In the article and a photo caption comments are made to he effect that we're too ignorant to know what kale is, or vegetables in general. It's weird, serves no purpose except to alienate a big portion of your audience, and culturally ignorant. Ever heard of collards or turnip greens or okra? My job is to promote vegetable consumption in a rural Appalachian town...no doubt it needs to be encouraged down here, but insulting people's intelligence isn't the way to do it. Plenty of people garden down here.

[madokie]

3. Personally

I read Morford for the comic relief. For the most part he is not to be taken literally, in my estimation that is
IMO

[antigone382]

4. I understand that, but I don't think comedy should be mean-spirited.

And as a member of the group targeted here, I feel that this was mean-spirited.

[malaise]

5. Precisely n/t