Boycotting Burger King

[IDemo]

Even if you don't eat burgers, protest corporate greed

By Bill Cope

I'm giving up Burger King.

Ah, the truth is, I'm not exactly giving up Burger King. I haven't had a Burger King burger for, best guess, 25 years. As I remember it, the last Burger King burger I ever bought ended up with all of its component parts slipping out of the bun like they couldn't stand to be in the same place together. It tasted fine--as burger-y as you would expect from just another patty of charred cow parts in just another white bread bun--whenever I could get a bite that didn't result in a special-sauce-soaked slice of tomato in my lap or a pickle dangling off my chin. I decided from then on, if I just had to have a burger, I would get it someplace where I didn't have finish it with a fork.

But the point being, I can hardly give up something I don't really have. So including myself in on any boycott of an American fast food joint that's taking its mailing address out of America is meaningless, in terms of what effect that renunciation would have on their bottom line. Still, I'm declaring myself part of the Burger King boycott, hoping that if enough Americans make it known they are disgusted with the behavior of any corporation that would remove itself to another country to avoid its responsibility to help the rest of us pay for this thing we call our homeland, then maybe the next board of directors contemplating such a move will reconsider.

As you know, this particular tempest arose last month when Burger King--which, according to the wisdom of Mitt Romney and the dictates of the U.S. Supreme Court, we must now consider to possess all the rights and privileges of "personhood"--announced it was buying a chain of Canadian donut shops, a deal recognized to be a scheme to relocate their headquarters to Canada.

All well and good. I suspect the average levels of decency, honesty and respectability in America would rise considerably if more corporate upper-floor dwellers would go dwell in places other than America.

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[47of74]

1. Yeah, I wasnt' a fan either even before their crap move.

Their food seemed really greasy and the fries weren't all that great most times. Plus the locations where I live leave a lot to be desired. The night before my Grandpa died they not only messed up my order but my aunt's order as well. Haven't been in one since.

[yeoman6987]

2. I liked their satisfries

But I must have been the only one as they stopped selling them. I ate there today. I forgot. Too many places to boycott to keep up. You guys seem to be doing it for me. Thanks!

[Nitram]

3. I've been boycotting BK since they were the largest donor to Nixon's presidential campaign.

[JayhawkSD]

4. I'm not boycotting the local businessman who owns a Burger King.

The guy who runs the Burger King in Mission Valley is a local businessman. He bought that franchise some dozen years ago and spends about 12 hours per day in it. He is behind the counter hustling orders and directing his employees, comes out to bus tables, clean the drink machine, and do everything else that his employees do. It is clear that his employees like him. He is friendly to his customers and thanks them for coming in. He owns the store and needs the income from the store in order to pay his mortgage and feed his family. I've seen him leave work driving a six year old car.

I will not boycott him in a self righteous fit of anger over what some corporation over which he has no control has done.

[Lenomsky]

5. +1

It's Corporate not the Franchisee!

[JayhawkSD]

6. Yes, and almost all (99%) Burger Kings are franchised. nt