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Is Chik Fil A OK to support now

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Korey said:
Chick Fil-A donates millions of dollars and actively campaigns to ban [your ethnicity here] from marriage. Supreme Court rules against them.

Do you still go and eat there? Of course not. Seems really fucking obvious to me.

"But...but...their chicken is so good!" ....I mean...what? I don't understand people sometimes.
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Because many people don't care what the CEO does with his money.

CFA service usually blows away other fast food places and the food is great. Employees apparently are treated pretty well too. That's what I'm going there for. Nothing more.
 
Escape Goat said:
Clearly he meant to buy food from them.
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The weird culture and affection that americans have for their fast food restaurants is pretty disturbing. I see threads on this very forum when a new hamburger comes out etc. Seriously, a god damn hamburger/sandwhich/whatever? That guy on YouTube, reviewing hamburgers, he who had that "song" made: "daauyyymn, daaaaauuyym DAAAAUYYYM"...? Laughable.
 
waypoetic said:
The weird culture and affection that americans have for their fast food restaurants is pretty disturbing. I see threads on this very forum when a new hamburger comes out etc. Seriously, a god damn hamburger/sandwhich/whatever? That guy on YouTube, reviewing hamburgers, he who had that "song" made: "daauyyymn, daaaaauuyym DAAAAUYYYM"...? Laughable.
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America the hive mind. Apparently.
 
waypoetic said:
The weird culture and affection that americans have for their fast food restaurants is pretty disturbing. I see threads on this very forum when a new hamburger comes out etc. Seriously, a god damn hamburger/sandwhich/whatever? That guy on YouTube, reviewing hamburgers, he who had that "song" made: "daauyyymn, daaaaauuyym DAAAAUYYYM"...? Laughable.
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Hey man, enough with the American culture shaming.
 
waypoetic said:
The weird culture and affection that americans have for their fast food restaurants is pretty disturbing. I see threads on this very forum when a new hamburger comes out etc. Seriously, a god damn hamburger/sandwhich/whatever? That guy on YouTube, reviewing hamburgers, he who had that "song" made: "daauyyymn, daaaaauuyym DAAAAUYYYM"...? Laughable.
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Your post is too edgy.

Yes, we work so much that we don't have time/energy to cook and many areas of this gigantic country have no market for small restaurants, especially not ones as cheap as fast food. So fast food is popular here. Doesn't mean it's bad or going to kill us all, as long as people actually count their calories and make a semblance of an effort to balance their diet. It's not weird--you eat a good chicken sandwich, and find that that good chicken sandwich is available in every town in a large portion of the country, why wouldn't you go back? Until something like this happens at least...
 
Nope. They may not be able to donate to anti-gay marriage groups, but the hate is still there.

It's moot in my case - we don't have any here to boycott.
 
waypoetic said:
The weird culture and affection that americans have for their fast food restaurants is pretty disturbing. I see threads on this very forum when a new hamburger comes out etc. Seriously, a god damn hamburger/sandwhich/whatever? That guy on YouTube, reviewing hamburgers, he who had that "song" made: "daauyyymn, daaaaauuyym DAAAAUYYYM"...? Laughable.
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Food reviews and videos made clearly made for humor exist nowhere else.
 
DOWN said:
There's always someone making that 'if you don't support all causes you can't talk about one of them' noise. As if there are lots of non-Foxconn options out there but almost no options for chicken sandwiches. Fact is, Chik Fil A is in a way more crowded space where there are plenty of options that don't have the added controversy they have.

And nah, stop with the 'just because they disagree on gay marriage' BS. The problem is that the executives stand by using their money earned at Chik Fil A to impose their disapproval into laws outside the US and inside. They have supported organizations that drive criminalization of LGBT people globally, both using the company money and their own. That's the controversy, not just some passive statement of beliefs.

I think this is a small battle, but people have every right to state the problem they have with the monetary action that the executives use.
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People are mainly arguing that its not immoral to eat there if you enjoy their food regardless of what they do with your money. Even if the fast food space is crowded, there's not really a substitute for their level of quality chicken sandwiches or their clean and professional non-greasy atmosphere they provide.
 
GoldenEye 007 said:
Because many people don't care what the CEO does with his money.

CFA service usually blows away other fast food places and the food is great. Employees apparently are treated pretty well too. That's what I'm going there for. Nothing more.
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More like people don't care what the CEO does with his money as long as it doesn't personally affect them too much.

If people knew that every time they ate at Chick Fil A they were directly funding a group preventing their best friend from being able to get married, they'd care a lot more and we'd have a lot less "don't care, their chicken is good."

Like, if instead of gay people, CFA were donating their money to ban your specific ethnicity from being able to get married, you'd still give them your business? That boggles my mind tbh.
 
I never stopped going. I actually knew a gay guy in H.S. who worked there and when all this drama was going down he never stopped working there.
 
Korey said:
More like people don't care what the CEO does with his money as long as it doesn't personally affect them too much.

If people knew that every time they ate at Chick Fil A they were directly funding a group preventing their best friend from being able to get married, they'd care a lot more and we'd have a lot less "don't care, their chicken is good."

Like, if instead of gay people, CFA were donating their money to ban your specific ethnicity from being able to get married, you'd still give them your business? That boggles my mind tbh.
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Okay, I see what you're going for, and let me say upfront in plain language that I am not defending Chik Fil A and do not give them any significant amount of money since this happened.

However, I do have very close gay friends that both eat and work at CFA. And the operators of the stores themselves are generally friendly and positive to LGBT issues, at least from every story I've heard.

So, switching gears, did they not stop donating to those foundations from company money? Because I thought it was all coming straight out of the CEO's pocket at this point.
 
Dude Abides said:
Shit that's better than other shit is nonetheless still shit.
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I was wondering how long it would be until we saw a ridiculous post like this.

What do you food elitists even eat? I imagine your standards must be so high that nothing less than the best will satisfy you, so I'm curious.
 
Valnen said:
I was wondering how long it would be until we saw a ridiculous post like this.

What do you food elitists even eat? I imagine your standards must be so high that nothing less than the best will satisfy you, so I'm curious.
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Get mad because some criticized a fucking fast food place of all things. Very reasonable.
 
Valnen said:
I was wondering how long it would be until we saw a ridiculous post like this.

What do you food elitists even eat? I imagine your standards must be so high that nothing less than the best will satisfy you, so I'm curious.
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have you tried breading and frying your own chicken? it doesn't take that long
 
GoldenEye 007 said:
Because many people don't care what the CEO does with his money.

CFA service usually blows away other fast food places and the food is great. Employees apparently are treated pretty well too. That's what I'm going there for. Nothing more.
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Exactly. I know a lot of people who work at Chick-Fil-A and they are good people and i am good friends with the lady who runs the one near me. The kids are all friendly they get great benefits compared to other places and i go to support them and support them helping communities around here.

Gay marriage is legal there is nothing a bigoted CEO can do about that and honestly i just have better things to do with my life then worry about a old bigoted man.
 
Katori said:
Okay, I see what you're going for, and let me say upfront in plain language that I am not defending Chik Fil A and do not give them any significant amount of money since this happened.

However, I do have very close gay friends that both eat and work at CFA. And the operators of the stores themselves are generally friendly and positive to LGBT issues, at least from every story I've heard.

So, switching gears, did they not stop donating to those foundations from company money? Because I thought it was all coming straight out of the CEO's pocket at this point.
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It's nothing new that the majority of people associated with Chick-Fil-A isn't anti-gay people just hear that the CEO is a shit head and immediatly write it off as everyone involved is scum. They even ran a story about how Iowa Chick-Fil-A donated to gay pride as well and as far as i know after the shit that went down in like 2012 it hasn't happened since but i could be wrong.

I know a lot of great people who run and work at these places.
 
Valnen said:
Yes. It's not as easy as it sounds, I managed to fuck it up. Which was quite painful because oil isn't terribly cheap.
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practice makes perfect

you can shallow fry instead of deep frying if you don't want to waste oil but I still don't understand, vegetable oil and corn oil are super cheap
 
Korey said:
More like people don't care what the CEO does with his money as long as it doesn't personally affect them too much.

If people knew that every time they ate at Chick Fil A they were directly funding a group preventing their best friend from being able to get married, they'd care a lot more and we'd have a lot less "don't care, their chicken is good."

Like, if instead of gay people, CFA were donating their money to ban your specific ethnicity from being able to get married, you'd still give them your business? That boggles my mind tbh.
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What are you talking about? That's the entire reason people boycott it as well. Do you honestly think that people would boycott this company, regardless of their stance, if it were something difficult to give up? They wouldn't.

BTW, the gay men I know eat at CFA, so I'm not sure why it matters anyway.

daviyoung said:
have you tried breading and frying your own chicken? it doesn't take that long
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I have, and it's damn good, but sometimes I'm on the go or just don't have the time. CFA is vastly superior than my other fast food chicken options. Even Zaxby's which is nice doesn't really have a decent plain chicken sandwich.
 
hey_it's_that_dog said:
It's not just a matter of "same views" when money is being put toward actively harming your fellow citizens. People can believe whatever they want, but when they try to impose their vision of society on everyone via their wealth, isn't that shitty?
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This thread is revealing a lot about some posters here. Apparently chicken sandwiches are more important than not funding anti-gay hate. Fucking pathetic.
 
Korey said:
Like, if instead of gay people, CFA were donating their money to ban your specific ethnicity from being able to get married, you'd still give them your business? That boggles my mind tbh.
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Being that wealthy white people own so many industries/companies in America, chances are a good amount of the owners or board of directors are either racist, support the current bigoted GOP party, and/or support legislation that actively hurt minorities. What am I suppose to do, not shop anywhere? Only shop at black owned businesses? Me buying a CFA sandwich is irrelevant. As long as I'm not posting a photo of me and a chicken sandwich w/the caption "Support CFA!" like a jackass, I don't see what the problem is. I wanted to try their shitty sandwich before the debacle, and had a chance post-controversy. Tasted mediocre as hell and I moved on with my life. Fin.

Some asian person contemplated or committed suicide while working in slave-like conditions to build my PS3. An African unjustly has their country plundered and was beaten to a pulp to provide minerals for my phone. How much do the Saudi royal family make everytime I fill up my car? etc... As long as you spend money in America, you are complicit in the suffering of others.
 
Korey said:
More like people don't care what the CEO does with his money as long as it doesn't personally affect them too much.

If people knew that every time they ate at Chick Fil A they were directly funding a group preventing their best friend from being able to get married, they'd care a lot more and we'd have a lot less "don't care, their chicken is good."

Like, if instead of gay people, CFA were donating their money to ban your specific ethnicity from being able to get married, you'd still give them your business? That boggles my mind tbh.
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We weren't directly funding anything. The CEO was, but the actual business of CFA was not writing checks directly from the company account if I'm remembering correctly. Besides that, no I can't really get up in arms that the fractions of a penny of profit my sandwich generated potentially went to the CEO's paycheck which in turn went to a reprehensible cause.

Millions of people support things directly or indirectly that are horrible. You can replace ban on interracial marriage with child slavery and immoral working conditions. Many seem ok with that. Or at least gets nowhere the scrutinization as the CFA thing. It also didn't hurt that despite what the CFA CEO wanted, he was going to fail miserably. He was supporting a lost cause.

Siegcram said:
And the post they replied to called CFA a "damn near 5 star restaurant". I know which statement I'm more comfortable with.
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The rest of the post was "...compared to other fast food places." Not all restaurants.
 
Chmpocalypse said:
This thread is revealing a lot about some posters here. Apparently chicken sandwiches are more important than not funding anti-gay hate. Fucking pathetic.
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And I'm sure you shop for or possess products you may or may not truly need that are made by companies completely free of immoral practices or support too.
 
I live in a house with lumber likely sourced from a rain forest, full of electronics effectively made through slave labor with materials which could very well be sourced from a warlord who controls their territory with a child army.

I drive a car which was a potential for catastrophic failure, which is just unlikely enough to happen to make a legal settlement more cost effective than a recall. The fuel for this car comes from a county were the government will do nothing when a girl is going to be raped and then murdered by her village by stoning for being impure.

Everything is paid with an account with a bank who will manipulate currencies and markets to their liking to increase profitability. Should they get desperate for money they will just abuse the legal system to foreclose on accounts in good standing. If they ever get caught or punished for these abuses they'll pay eight hours of profits, change their name, and give every executive a raise for being so clever.

When I sit down for dinner tonight it will almost certainly have some item that comes from a company that pulls in a billion dollars in profits (because they own the genetic IP of bananas) who's CEO is literally trying to burn the company to the ground to earn their golden parachute; all while refusing in increase the pay of their factory workers from $7.25/hr to $7.60/hr because it's not "economically feasible". If I'm very lucky this food producer will have had the decency not to ship food known to be salmonella/listeria/E. coli contaminated.

I feel like drawing the line of where we will tolerate unethical behavior or abuse of power at chicken sandwich to be silly. They were pissing in a wind. It was never a fight they any hope of winning. If I had to only consumed food from sources I support philosophically I'd starve.
 
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Their spicy chicken is delicious and the strawberry milkshake is god tier. One just opened near my office so I've been eating there a lot lately
 
Ehh I moved from the States so I cant actively eat there but I never stopped. Its seems really silly to boycott a franchised chain like this. So many individual franchises have shit to do with what the corporation decides to do with money. Yet they employ good hard working people who have good families to support. I can do without the fake shaming thank you.
 
They've always been "ok" to support.

That said, I wouldn't eat there. I prefer to not support companies that fuck over minorities. Yes, I purposely go out of my way to choose brands that fuck over people less when given the option. If there are two comparable brands, why wouldn't you?
 
I don't care what they do, the lemonade there is too good to pass up. Also, their service is incredible, at least here it is.
 
Obviously the OP cares about if CFA Corporation, through its charitable arm The WinShape Foundation, is still donating to organizations and causes that are dedicated to doing harm to GLBT people, not if you find their food tasty. I'd be interested if they're still giving to groups "curing" homosexuality and groups like Family Research Council and Exodus International too, since I haven't eaten there myself since this blew up.
 
We get catering from them all the time at work. Having party trays full of nuggets, strips and waffle fries? Heaven is real.
 
I think this is worth a read: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2564379

Additionally I know a few owners and managers of CFA restaurants. All of them hired gay employees and see no issue with it. They also voted to legalize gay marriage in our state. They have no problem whatsoever supporting hem as equal in every way.

I don't agree with the CEO, but there are a lot of organizations I feel that way about when it comes to human rights issues. I don't know if the entire CFA organization has earned the broadly sweep demonization it has received. Part of that is the fault of the Christian Right though for heralding CFA as "Christian" restaurant.
 
Chmpocalypse said:
This thread is revealing a lot about some posters here. Apparently chicken sandwiches are more important than not funding anti-gay hate. Fucking pathetic.
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Exactly how much has CFA funded "anti-gay hate" organizations over the past 2 years? And what is the trend going forward? Are they funding less or funding more?
 
Valnen said:
He implied all fast food is garbage.
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All fast food is garbage.

Valnen said:
What do you food elitists even eat? I imagine your standards must be so high that nothing less than the best will satisfy you, so I'm curious.
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But to answer this question. I'm far from a 'food elitist'. I eat the same bland thing every day (bagel, sandwich with meat/cheese, and usually oatmeal or cereal). But the ingredients are fresh and not calorie dense. So I at least know I'm not going to feel sick after eating it like I do whenever I intake fast food these days. There was a time I could eat fast food everyday, but a year after cutting that out of my diet the stuff just sits in my stomach and feels gross.
 
As an aside, I find it notable how many people say they don't care what CFA does, as in there is nothing that would stop them from eating tasty chicken. It's not "I don't care they funded hate groups" it's "they literally could not have a business practice that would stop me from eating there".

I must be missing out from some damned good chicken. o_o
 
Acerac said:
As an aside, I find it notable how many people say they don't care what CFA does, as in there is nothing that would stop them from eating tasty chicken. It's not "I don't care they funded hate groups" it's "they literally could not have a business practice that would stop me from eating there".

I must be missing out from some damned good chicken. o_o
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I kind of wanna eat it just to see what's the big deal but we don't have then in Toronto I think. But then again my threshold for really good chicken sandwiches are the one's from KFC or Popeyes.
 
metalslimer said:
They donated money to groups that helped in the Ugandan kill the gays Bill so not really if you ever were
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I think that turned out not to be true. Still though, I still haven't eaten there due to what they did besides that.

Yeah, good food, but I can eat somewhere else.
 
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