Exhaust_FumesI’m watching the #nyc mayor & DCPW commissioner eat taco bell on C-Span to promote the labor settlement with local franchises. It’s…kinda weird
They’re drinking baja blasts too
Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith@VCP We watched some of that last night, too! Apparently it's a genre of Korean vlogging called mukbang...
@grvsmth the thing I found weird was that Taco Bell was not following labor laws & had to be sued. And then after the settlement, they're getting free advertising and the mayor is rating the crunch wrap a 9/10? i guess since they settled with the city they get rewarded? still weird.
@VCP I think the rating was honest and he just likes the crunchwrap. But yeah, I guess he rewarded the settlement by eating the food on YouTube.
More than anything, I think he enjoys being an influencer and felt he was far enough from the standard mukbang script talking about clopenings and didn't want to push it further by eating food from a competitor.
I was surprised my wife wanted to watch as much as she did, but she's a former union VP and a fan of the mayor..
Karl SteelWhat if it were at Margaritaville
@karlsteel.bsky.social if they were eating at margaritaville after margarittaville had violated labor laws, that too would be weird
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