Posted on 01/08/2015 3:02:22 PM PST by mandaladon
Venezuela’s leaders aren’t taking the ongoing McDonald’s french fry shortage in their country too well.
Publicly sponsored news outlets, government officials, and even the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, have all responded to McDonald’s unthinkable french fry shortage, which spans all 100 outlets in the country, by publicly criticizing the chain, and its french fries.
One of the loudest responses came from Telesur, a state-sponsored news outlet, which wasted no time in getting to what it views as the heart of the issue. The outlet published a story headlined, “McDonald’s joins economic war against Venezuela,” not-so-subtly suggesting that the lack of fried potato sticks is somehow tied to a broader war being waged by the United States and its capitalistic ways. McDonald’s said there’s been a shortage since it had trouble importing potatoes. But Telesur says that’s all a lie.
“The U.S. multinational fast-food chain is claiming it cannot get potatoes in Venezuela, despite the fact other restaurants do not have the same problem,” the article begins.
Articles have also surfaced on Apporea, a pro-government website, about separate, isolated food safety scares at McDonald’s in other parts of the world (in this case, Japan and China). The article, titled “McDonald’s apologizes after a tooth and plastic are found in its food,” is one of the few pieces published this week by the outlet that is not about a domestic matter.
Public figures, including Venezuela’s president, have also taken to Twitter. This week, sandwiched between tweets about domestic issues and an international investment deal with China, President Maduro retweeted a tweet by news outlet Russia Today, which translates roughly to “Japan: Human tooth found in french fries at a McDonald’s.”
Maduro also retweeted a tweet by Roberto Hernández, Venezuela’s Minister for Labor and Social Security, which calls McDonald’s french fries cancerous.
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Hey Venezuela, McDonald’s suck. Make yer own.
Who put the straw in strawberries? Nature did.
Who put the freak in French fries?
There’s no freak n French fries!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdqIJabjTJk
They apparently do want fries with that.
I’d expect Maduro’s response to be to price control the French Fries... that aren’t there.
My boss said to me today, "Our problem is that we have allowed people to vote for a living."
He nailed it!
Fidel has all the gold from the Gitmo lease in his desk drawer. He’s been collecting it for years.
McDonald’s is air freighting fries to Japan.
It’s the Government they want and I wonder if they understand that fact.
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