cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/4802929
TIL A restaurant in Long Beach, CA, was found to be serving Popeye’s chicken and passing it off as their own. They would buy the chicken at Popeyes and upcharge for their own chicken and waffles d…
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Original Title: TIL A restaurant in Long Beach, CA, was found to be serving Popeye’s chicken and passing it off as their own. They would buy the chicken at Popeyes and upcharge for their own chicken and waffles dish. Once found out the owner refused to apologize.
But what if… I were to purchase fast food and disguise it as my own cooking?
That’s how you get Aurora Borealis in your kitchen.
At this time of year? At this time of day! In this part of the country! Localized entirely within your kitchen!?
Yes
Who among us has not? Let he who is without guilt serve the first dish.
Is this wrong because it’s on retail level? Because above retail level this kind of rebrandind is business as usual.
I think worse is that companies buy meat from Brazil, New Zealand, East-Europe and China, pack it and rebrand it domestically and sell it as domestic meat.
People were upset about this because it seemed deceptive.
The first two words on the yelp page for their now-closed restaurant are “House made”
“Most of my stuff from here is made from scratch” said the owner.
So people who have that expectation in mind are clearly going to be upset when they find it was pre-made all along.
It’s about honesty and expectation.
If I go to some nationwide chain restaurant then I obviously expect all their breaded chicken is coming out the freezer in bags - and that’s fine because it’s not deceptive.
If I go to a small restaurant which strongly implies in their wording and branding that the food is all made from scratch, then it’s deceptive when it isn’t.
Typical Plankton. Always plotting to get the Krusty Krab secret recipe.
I remember this - so weird. The owner claimed that it was just one “ingredient” that they used lol
