On the Web: Eating McDonalds makes you caucasian!
Den Fujita, McDonald's Japanese President
"The reason Japanese people are so short and have yellow skins is because they have eaten nothing but fish and rice for two thousand years… if we eat McDonald's hamburgers and potatoes for a thousand years we will become taller, our skin become white and our hair blonde."
Behind the Arches, the authorised biography of McDonald's found on McSpotlight.org
I don't know if McDonalds is hiring mentally challenged primary school dropouts for their international management team, or perhaps they search educational systems the world over, to find the ones that allow students to progress to advanced management training without having to take any basic biology classes in primary school? Clearly, the lesson here is you are what you eat. So, by Mr. Fujita's logic, African Americans only have about 800 years to go before they become white*, and that will be the end of bigotry and racism in the US forever!
God Bless McDonalds! Fighting the good fight to end racial divisiveness throughout the world!
*This is, of course, assuming they've been eating the same food as their while overlords, rather than trying to replicate their skin-darkening African diet on US shores.
Sounds like a misunderstanding of nutrition. I know at McDonald's the shock! Japanese people are getting taller and the main reason is nutrition as they adopt a more Western style diet.
I doubt they are going to turn into the nordic ideal though.
17th February 2008 at 2:03 pm | permalink |Yeah, I could almost chalk it up to a misunderstanding, if it weren't for the parts about white skin and blonde hair … and the fact that this is their fucking CEO.
Sounds more like misinformation to me.
17th February 2008 at 5:07 pm | permalink |You are probably right. It is kind of funny to read though.
17th February 2008 at 9:01 pm | permalink |Can you *imagine* if the US CEO had said that? Dear god, he'd be drawn and quartered!
18th February 2008 at 5:12 pm | permalink |*blink*
19th February 2008 at 10:28 pm | permalink |@v: Exactly.
20th February 2008 at 3:11 pm | permalink |Actually, it was a Japanese guy who said it. If I remember correctly. Read about it in Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser
22nd February 2008 at 12:27 am | permalink |I've always wanted to be Japanese, gimme my fish and rice! Haha.
If anyone believes Den Fujita, shame on you.
That would be cool if we were what we eat though.
23rd February 2008 at 7:31 am | permalink |@sam: Yeah, it was McDonalds' Japanese CEO. egad!
@aimee: Pretty sure I don't want to be Japanese … but bring on the sushi!
26th February 2008 at 3:45 pm | permalink |I think that if any group ate nothing but McDonald's food for a thousand years they would be dead.
29th February 2008 at 9:03 pm | permalink |.. and time travelers
.. and stupid
@garrowolf: Don't forget "enormously fat"!
29th February 2008 at 10:05 pm | permalink |wow… very amusing, but very sad.
11th March 2008 at 5:26 pm | permalink |those who depend on rude language will be visited by the
4th April 2009 at 8:26 am | permalink |unintended consequences they never expected. Their egotism
will back up on them like stomach acid after a night of revelry. Evil is what you take for granted as being A badge of self importance.——Doug
This might be the BEST non-sequitur comment ever! Equal parts moral superiority and total cluelessness. Nice!
4th April 2009 at 2:23 pm | permalink |