Bak 2 Skool 11: Fast Food

Dan's subject at last

1 meal out of a week (assuming 3 meals a day) is 1/21 ~ 4.7% so that checks out.

@Jan Yo isd this th eright version of the video? heads up, some of the videos they play have no sound on them. The first one does, but the ad after and the ways they get you to spend money video has no audio

Edit : It seems to kick back in around the 31 min mark

When you're raising Dan Ryckert, you basically have to manage a Taco Bell at some point for the employee discount.

@goosemunch: that's assuming that all those 3 meals are equal in size. Which wouldn't anywhere close to true for me.

Not that it matters, good for Dan!

@splodge: I kinda cracked up at the sound

"dead silence"
Dan: "my dads ears just perked up"

Were those clips supposed to be muted?

The post credits clip was a thing of absolute beauty.

Thank you.

"I never got lettuce on any Taco Bell until I was 30"

"You heard nothing, we're just going to right on by..."

Please never do an episode on cryptocurrency. GB has such an uninformed hate boner for crypto that I would spend that whole episode rolling my my eyes and facepalming at the gish gallop.

White Castle:

• Founded in: Wichita, Kansas on 9/13/1921
• Current headquarters: Columbus, Ohio
• White Castle has not operated a location in the Wichita, Kansas since 1938.

Which clips? What time in the video?

@rorie minute 27:00-30:00, some classic commercials and part of the Business Insider video.

Thanks, we'll look into this and see about republishing. Going to leave the video up for now though!

Wait, is Dan teaching this one?!?!?!

I want the final exam to include a question "What is Jeff's age?" that is worth 50% of the points.

Re: "Why does #1 brand coca-cola continue to spend advertising money?" Just the other day I heard a piece on Marketplace related to that. It's a pretty brief blurb glossing over the result of some researcher's findings.

Coca-Cola nearly doubled its advertising this year - Marketplace

Part of it is to remind customers to use their product and to remain "top of mind" (stay the default option in customer's minds). And yeah, for 2020 Coca-Cola cut back their marketing spending because of the pandemic and they are ramping back up. And the spend isn't always on traditional commercial slots.

Dan is on video on this website saying he thought sour cream was good. On THIS website!

What a person. He's incredible.

After all the years of the Beastcast, Bakalar has honed his "nope, not taking the bait, we don't have time to even acknowledge that" skills.

I think they should do an episode next season on crypto since alot of the crooks in it have landed in the hoosegow lately for scamming.

Noice

I just watched this video from Vox on why the buildings all look alike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml-ZP-_e_o4

a hot dog is just an american taco

In that Cheddar video those food handlers should have been wearing gloves.

I really do wish this episode was about the food crisis and how it affects the environment and people in poverty, and how fast food plays a part in that.

Thanks for refusing to talk about crypto! Few people properly understand it. Just like other technologies, crypto is in its infancy and it'll take time to get the details figured out.

Actually an episode on crypto and nft's would be timely, not enough people know how much of a pyramid scheme it all is and crypto enthusiasts love to tell you otherwise (for no particular reason I'm sure..).

Good thing Dan is here to protect the reputation of the fast food industry!

I've watched the stream Dan did where he ordered as much stuff on the Taco Bell as the woman would allow him when he asked for everything. I'm pretty sure he said he liked the sour cream that was in some of it, as he had never had it before.

The ending of the video is just *chef's kiss*

How was this episode not sponsored by Taco Bell?

This made me order taco bell. I hope you guys got paid for this.

I'm calling right now. Dan's next career will be working in the Taco Bell kitchen making new creations

He'll be a Shingy-like figure who gets paid an annual salary of millions to come in one or two times a year to randomly utter a food idea to executives.

"Grilled Cheesy Dorito's Crunchwrap" *boardroom erupts in cheers*

@larmer: Me and my pal had this exact same conversation last week. It's a bit uncomfortable how much ignorance is on show.

@heatdrive88: Right? Or about the production process, or the food science they've done to manipulate satiety, or really just anything deeper than simple marketing practices that occur in every industry.

I usually love this series, but I swear somehow Jeff must have found the three most disinteresting, sanitized videos about the fast food industry on the entire internet. This episode didn't need to be Fast Food Nation or Earthlings or whatever, but it could have had *some* kind of depth or teeth to it.

@treasurecat: Absolutely. I'd have practically labelled a lot of these videos they watched as fast food marketing propaganda, if anything.

Oh crap. Audio issues!?! 29min in? video has no sound?

LOL. Dan didn't like hearing that the blu ray was being used by the dog.

Does anyone else only have the Audio option now? The video option seems to be completely gone. Bummer.

Inditex is the world's second biggest clothing brand (they own Zara and a bunch of other chains). They have a zero TV advertising policy. They do in-store ads, obviously have storefronts and I think they may do some print stuff, but no TV, no traditional ads. The idea is not stupid. If you're everywhere and you're the go-to maybe all those showoff-y big traditional ads make no sense, particularly in the modern world of on-demand content. I hate to say it, but this may be one of those where Dan has a point and bunch of it is just the inertia of some of these brands being associated to traditional creative media advertising.

@larmer: fuck nfts

Even a big brand like Mc Donalds needs to advertise because while you'll have regulars and stuff that always will go regardless not everyone is tied to a specific place like that which is why there is a constant revolving door of new promotions going on that they advertise with.

"I like big, bold swings"

>tacos with only meat and cheese

@dornath: Glad I'm not the only one that remembers this. He's regressing!

The real S3 plan! Speedy service system!

I did the math and Jeff is 2 years and 3 months older than Dan.

I thought Dan couldn’t out-Dan himself further, but then he goes and says “Katjuh cheese.”