{"id":33098,"date":"2018-04-13T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33098"},"modified":"2018-04-13T15:03:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:03:45","slug":"politicizing-food-this-is-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33098","title":{"rendered":"Politicizing Food–This Is Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Yorker<\/a> has posted an article about the arrival of Chick-fil-A<\/a> in New York City<\/a>. The article is titled, “Chick-fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City.” Wow. I never knew fried chicken was capable of infiltration.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

New York has taken to Chick-fil-A. One of the Manhattan<\/a> locations estimates that it sells a sandwich every six seconds, and the company has announced plans to open as many as a dozen more storefronts in the city. And yet the brand\u2019s arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism. Its headquarters, in Atlanta, is adorned with Bible verses<\/a> and a statue of Jesus washing a disciple\u2019s feet. Its stores close on Sundays. Its C.E.O., Dan Cathy<\/a>, has been accused of bigotry for using the company’s charitable wing to fund anti-gay causes, including groups that oppose same-sex marriage. \u201cWe\u2019re inviting God\u2019s judgment on our nation,\u201d he once said, \u201cwhen we shake our fist at him and say, \u2018We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.\u2019 \u201d The company has since reaffirmed its intention to \u201ctreat every person with honor, dignity and respect,\u201d but it has quietly continued to donate to anti-L.G.B.T. groups. When the first stand-alone New York location opened, in 2015, a throng of protesters appeared. When a location opened in a Queens mall, in 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio<\/a> proposed a boycott. No such controversy greeted the opening of this newest outpost. Chick-fil-A\u2019s success here is a marketing coup. Its expansion raises questions about what we expect from our fast food, and to what extent a corporation can join a community.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I noticed that word\u2014community\u2014scattered everywhere in the Fulton Street restaurant. A shelf of children\u2019s books bears a plaque testifying to \u201cour love for this local community.\u201d The tables are made of reclaimed wood,\u00a0which creates, according to a Chick-fil-A press release, \u201can inviting space to build community.\u201d A blackboard with the header \u201cOur Community<\/a>\u201d displays a chalk drawing of the city skyline. Outside, you can glimpse an earlier iteration of that skyline on the building\u2019s fa\u00e7ade, which, with two tall, imperious rectangles jutting out, \u201cgives a subtle impression of the Twin Towers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This emphasis on community, especially in the misguided nod to 9\/11, suggests an ulterior motive. The restaurant\u2019s corporate purpose still begins with the words \u201cto glorify God,\u201d and that proselytism thrums below the surface of the Fulton Street restaurant, which has the ersatz homespun ambiance of a megachurch. David Farmer<\/a>, Chick-fil-A\u2019s vice-president of restaurant experience, told BuzzFeed<\/a> that he strives for a \u201cpit crew efficiency, but where you feel like you just got hugged in the process.\u201d That contradiction, industrial but claustral, is at the heart of the new restaurant\u2014and of Chick-fil-A\u2019s entire brand. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Cows.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link to read the entire article. Needless to say, I feel that the writer is totally overreacting (but I may be prejudiced–I love Chick-fil-A). Was the writer this upset when Hooters or the Playboy Club<\/a> came to New York?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Yorker has posted an article about the arrival of Chick-fil-A in New York City. The article is titled, “Chick-fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City.” Wow. I never knew fried chicken was capable of infiltration. The article reports: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11603,125,9854],"class_list":["post-33098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chick-fil-a","tag-new-york-city","tag-the-new-yorker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33102,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33098\/revisions\/33102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}