Langston and David answer a listener's email about fast food menu pairings targeting Black communities and if it's intentional.
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It does. Comedy does live forever. You know what I was thinking about with comedy the other day. And then we'll get into this great email. You ever notice whenever you see a documentary about someone's downfall, and like the time of the downfall, they always show a stand up comedy clip, you know what I mean? It always wanted the sex, being like he was an idiot, and then you find out that he was like very troubled and the whole thing was like not what it was portrayed. It's always comedy. Age is so bad.
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And it's like, oh, actually, actually, guys, if if, if you look at it, she actually was a pretty decent woman.
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She's got a great sense of humor now, written a few books.
Yeah, she did pretty well. Yeah, Bill, on the other president, it would be a wrap for me.
I oh man, no fucking way.
Yeah, I'd have been been right about it. So hats talk to you, Monnica Lewinsky. Anyways, Uh, what are you?
We got an email?
You got a good email.
A person by the name of Sam sent us an email with the subject line McDonald's in sprite. Am I racist? And we don't know yet but probably probably Sam. We're gonna go so far as to say probably you're a racist, but when you follow this podcast, you know that we don't think that's a deal breaker. Nope, and in fact, that makes my ears perk up. Yeah, you're completely honest. It doesn't make me think you're a good person, but it does make me curious. Yeah, you found this one. You want to read this one?
Yeah? Sure, I will read it. It says, hello Langston and David exclamation point. I like that day one fan. I noticed years ago that fast food men used nearly always pair hamburgers with coke and chicken with sprite.
Uh oh oh No.
I always figured because the chicken products were being marketed towards black people. Is it racist? Or am I being racist? Other restaurants do this as well. I'm black and thought everyone noticed this, but none of my white friends have ever noticed tail as old as they don't.
Know, the white people are noticing that. They don't give a fuck.
Brother, they don't notice when you get a haircut. They're upon the nuances. Why is the spy.
That's just a white dude in his card.
No, that's that's our ship.
They don't give a fun.
They don't give a shit about it. Anyways, Thanks for all the chuckles, best, Sam, and I do think it should be noted this also says sent from my Verizon Sam, some Galaxy smartphone get out looked for Android. Uh, I did not mean to blow up your spot, Sam, but it was part of the email.
You gotta remove that signature. Sam. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Got it. It's because it's like, there was a time where I was impressed that you had a smartphone and that you were emailing me with it. That's true. There was a whole era that's far gone, and now I'm judging you.
Now. Now I'm judging you, and you're not even emailing me, frankly from a phone that we respect.
So had it been from the new Google phone, I would be like, oh, you're just text savvy.
What if what if they were like emailing you from Google Glass, I'd be like, whoa cool?
Look at you, Sam, you're doing it.
You have that.
But like Samsung, I'm pretty sure you can get those for free at best Buy.
Yeah.
Like they're like, you took the time to come into a best Buy physically, you get a Sam shuck.
Come on, you get a Samsung. Hey, we don't like our customers to leave empty handed. Grab a Samsung.
Grabbing Samsung and some Dreamcast games or whatever.
Did you know Reese's tried making a sour candy. You can have some. We got a whole bunch of leftovers room.
I think we got a projector in here.
Some shit. Yeah, Sam, shame on you for emailing us this way. But but it is a good question. I've never considered that they were pairing the sprite in the coke like fine wines that that never occurred to me once that chicken only paired with sprite and uh and burger only paired with with coca cola.
Here's the I hate to be this guy. Yeah it does.
I listen. I didn't disagree with that, Okay, okay, it's as I was reading it, I was like, oh, huh.
Like there's a reason that we love lemon pepper chicken.
Yeah, you need that zing.
You need that zing to go with the zang.
Yeah?
And coke red meat red?
Can you want to red.
Red meat on the inside, brown on the outside or brown? It's like a reverse coke cane.
Yeah you wanna you want a full bodied cola with with your burger, whereas.
Something more more robust.
Yeah, you chick, something a little lighter with your chicken.
Exactly. It's like it feels like we're doing bad yeah, no.
It doesn't. It doesn't feel good to say this out loud, but I guess I got it. It is the most important thing, and and yeah, it never it never occurred to me until it was sort of said this explicitly. Do you feel that McDonald's is specifically separating those advertisements so like our our niggas not getting the burger ads and thus the coke ads are we were getting both evenly? I guess it's a question.
I I don't. I truly don't know, because McDonald's has always been very black in my opinion.
Yeah, they beat the ship out of our community in a way that us do you know what I mean? Like this, This wasn't just like we got in a fight because we randomly bumped into each other. Nigga, you've been waiting outside my house my whole life and jumping me every day since I was a boy.
McDonald's trying to try because they stay when they should leave. It's like an abusive I mean type in McDonald's fight. So do I think? I don't know that I have noticed this specifically until it was brought up in the email, But because I wonder too, do black people eat more chicken? At McDonald's or I don't. I don't really know. Yeah, I'll be honest. I think of the Big Mac as a black burger. I think black people like Big Macs.
Maybe that's that's not true, but but that's what I always think of when I'm like, black people want a burger?
The Is it weird that I think I think of whoppers as a black burger. But I think it's because so many of those coupons.
I think I'm speaking more specifically to McDonald's. I agree with you that the whopper is the preferred black burger, Okay, but not when at McDonald's. Within McDonald's, you would send the McDonald's universe. Yeah, in the McDonald's cinematic universe.
In them, I would say, over the McChicken, over the hot and spicy McChicken.
Well that's what I'm saying. If we're going burgers, right, but if but then you get into the chicken territory, and we especially back when they had them dollar chicken sandwiches, we went.
Crazy, changed my whole shit up.
We were absolutely nuts that like two and a half years that they were like, you can get a chicken sandwich for.
We were because you remember and you could also get a medium fried so you could get out that bitch. Did you ever have add ons? Did you do that? Have like little tricks or moves you would do?
Oh, you mean, like get a meal, but then add on fry so that you can have like.
I'm talking about, I have three eight cents. I'm coming in. I'm getting a double cheeseburger with Big Mac sauce, right, and then I'm getting hot and spicy, make chicken with cheese, and then a medium. You know what I mean.
I got you You're you're You're making you're you're Frankensteining a full meal.
I'm not even with a Big Mac.
Yeah.
Yeah, however you want out of what should have never been.
However you want to handle that.
They said it was impossible, but you said nay, name my brother. Watch this.
Excuse me, garsh San.
You know a pack of that Big Max sauce. I know you don't charge for that.
Brother.
You're gonna go ask somebody. You're gonna be mad, your man agers gonna say that's illegal. But trust me, brother, I've looked at the code. It is not. Please give me your Big Max sauce.
I lived down the street.
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I also wonder about this and this is a good time to bring us up as any do white people.
Drink a lot of right, certainly not at the clip that black people are drinking it.
That's because I'm trying to I'm just like trying to go in my head now and think about like I'm trying to imagine a white man with a can of sprite in his hand, and I can't even pull up a picture.
I've seen it a lot. I'm not going to pretend like it's it's it's like the impossible, right, But I think they have a similar relationship to sprite that black people have to like mountain.
Dew okay, interesting where it's a thing.
Yeah, most of us don't drink that, But then every once in a while you drink, you meet someone who does and they drink it exclusively, and you're like, whoa you you wold nigga. That's how I feel about you in a good way. Again, And I can't emphasize this enough. I don't drink Mountain do at all anymore. I just I just had an era where I did.
But we could get you back, right.
I don't drink sodas anymore. I think that would be the harder challenge it's getting me back on. So I think at the point that you could give me back on. Hell yeah, I'll do the do for sure. I'm not above And that's always been my issue with people's response to the mountain dew of it all. It's all poison, right, Not one of these versions of the thing is like organic and good for any part of you.
It's blue.
Yeah, it is all just hot evil sugar flowing through all the parts of you that should not have it. So yeah, I'm gonna take meon please.
Yeah, I get that. No, listen, we've talked about my love for blue drinks. I'm not here to put you down at all. Wait, Olivia says here in the chat. Back in the day, McDonald's had a website for black people called black three sixty five dot com. WHOA, first of all, it's crazy that McDonald's got to that domain name first before.
Love Black three sixty five dot com doesn't mention McDonald's at all. They just were making a website for black people.
Do you think it was like black Planet?
Oh, like a like a social media site. But but McDonald's sponsor.
Yeah, like you could meet girls on black.
Three blackthree sixty five dot com and now I'm on Black three sixty five dot com. It now seems to carry black history cards, black literature, African Americans, and stem it's. It's got all kinds of weird calendars and and generic T shirts. There's again still no mention of McDonald's or even a former relationship to McDonald's.
I'm gonna tell you the truth. This website is a downgrade from the old Black three sixty five dot com.
Yeah you remember a more dare I say robust Black sixty five dot com? No?
I never went there. I wasn't, man, I wasn't on the Internet every day until like two thousand and nine, twenty ten, when did the first android come out? The droid?
Oh, we gotta ask Sam. Sam clearly uh fucking loves him.
Because I had that before I ever had a personal computer. That was so that was that was the first time I started going to Internet every day.
Damn I I didn't start going on the computer every day probably till similarly like two thousand No, that's not true. It was probably closer to like two thousand and five, two thousand and six was that for wirk No, I'm in college. Facebook really was like finding its groove, you know what I mean. And you're sitting there and you're like, I had a a girl at the time. My girlfriend was a long distance She lived in back in Illinois and I was in Michigan, and so I was like, oh, this is this is my only connection to her world and ship.
Did they even have directed? Were you guys just like talking around each other's walls back then?
I think that's what you had to do. You just had to be like a miss you baby.
You had to code that little You had to code that little for the glitter text.
Yeah, he damn this man knows computers.
Yeah, and love and love.
Uh.
So, as far as the conspiracy of all this, where I'm at is, Yeah, I think this is racist.
Do you think it's racist on Sam's part to acknowledge or you think no, no, no, I mean the marketing. The marketing was purposeful and racist.
Yeah.
I think the marketing is probably very purposeful. I think historically Sprite and most of its commercials seem to very clearly be targeting black people. Greenstone, that's true, damn fuck all, Like mental cigarettes aren't green They just did that. Yeah, they just decided that that was going to be the Association. Yeah, yeah, fuck, that's true.
That mint.
Like you have us. I just mean that, uh, they'll make me. That may be.
That that's not what I'm saying, you stinky monkey, you sky.
Filthy fucking animals. I'm not saying that. I'm saying, like mint chocolate ain't for black people, and it's really they're not aiming that at us.
That is that is interesting. How did men break through? I don't know because yeah, Junior Min's I don't feel like are Yeah m hmm, wow, there's probably some something to it. It's probably science here for Yeah, I'm sure Eddie Brenees had something to do with it. But that man was the devil. Eddie. He's a father of modern marketing. He was a Freud's nah few Oh yeah, really interesting shit but dark dark damn.
All right, I'm gonna look up Eddie Burnez.
Yeah you should. He's very interesting.
But yeah, I do think certainly the targeting of sprite at the black community and the targeting of I would say, chicken products out of McDonald's feels very like. I don't I don't know that they're not aiming for us to eat burgers, but I know they're really hoping we eat the chicken. Definitely, they're they're happy for us to eat the burgers, and they advertise the burgers at us as well. But man, do they get pumped when we choose chicken? Yeah, that's yeah, definitely, So, yeah, it makes perfect sense.
That's why they're making the McNuggets. It's like you can get like one hundred for five bucks or some shit.
Now, yeah, they still they put this shit like a Louis v.
Briefcase.
They've changed every other price tag at McDonald's, you know what I mean, Like there is no three dollars and eighty cent meal anymore at McDonald's. But them nuggets you can still get at a fair decent price, and that feels intentional.
You gotta eat them within twenty minutes.
Or that the hardest piece of meat you've ever felt in your life.
You will get cancer outside of that. Don't put them shits in the microwave tomorrow. You just you eat them. Nah, You check the bag to make sure they're all there, and then you eat them.
Putting up McDonald's nugget back in the microwave feels as close to putting a fork in the microwave as you can get you know, it's.
Like you're never doing good, You're never nothing. Things aren't going right in your life. If you're putting McDonald's in the microwave, you gotta just finish that. Yeah, man, just finish it. Throw the back away so your girl doesn't see, and keep.
It moves as be done. So, Sam, I think if we wrap this thing up, it sounds like we're in agreement with you that these are probably very intentional ads targeted at black people, and subsequently black people seem to be the victims of said ads. And we pray for you and your Verizon Samsung Galaxy smartphone that you get to help you deserve and.
So desperately need.
All right, well we did it.
Yeah, that's good. That's it.
That was fun.
Uh.
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