I’m speaking with Fabio Parasecoli about his new book, Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics, at the Museum of the City of New York at a session chaired by Krishnendu Ray at 6:30 pm. Information is here and the ticketing link is here. This is a preview of the museum’s forthcoming exhibit, Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate (opening September 16) and is co-presented by MOFAD (Museum of Food and Drink).
by Marion Nestle
Apr
27
2020
Tone-deaf ad of the week: Whopper’s Couch Potato Patriots
Q. If you are running a fast-food place, how to cope with having to close and lose sales during the Coronavirus pandemic?
A. Run an ad: “Stay Home of the Whopper”
Your country needs you to stay on your couch and order in…Do your part. Staying home doesn’t just make us all safer, it makes you a couch potatriot.”
Never mind that couch potatoism puts you at higher risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and, therefore, higher higher risk for the most damaging effects of this virus.
The company is also offering 250,000 free sandwiches to health care workers.
Thanks to a reader, who wished to remain anonymous, for alerting me to this one.