From the Sad, Sad Irony Department
McDonald’s chairman and CEO Jim Cantalupo died of a heart attack yesterday. No doubt stand-up comedians are already preparing jokes about this. A bit unfair, perhaps, since Cantalupo is the man who axed the word “Supersize” from the McDonald’s vocabulary in response to increasingly outspoken criticism of the company’s menu by health advocates.
(citations: Associated Press and ABC News)
The removal of supersize was a retort to the accusations of McDonalds making America fat. This is a petty attempt as “reclaiming” your reign in the fast food industry, and at the same time, a it’s a completely useless one. Granted the option is gone, this will just force the people who want more fries and drinks to buy more of them. Seems to me like a nasty marketing campaign spitting in the faces of fat people for blaming McD’s for making them fat.
Regardless, I don’t give a shiest. I don’t even like McDonalds.
As for comedians; you are right. I’m sure we will here some nice cracks at the heart attack versus McDonalds scenario. I’m also sure they wont mention what kind of stress and craziness it takes to be a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. I’m sure it weighs a little heavy on the heart, yeah?
But who cares, lets laugh at the fact that he was unhealthy because he worked for McDonalds!
He probably didn’t even eat the shit anyway.
Comment by Sean — April 20, 2004 @ 1:01 pm