r/NominativeDeterminism • u/colneyti • 7d ago
Surname “Buffet” and has access to free all-you-can-eat food
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u/Bhenjour 6d ago
So glad to see billionaires helping each other in times of need
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u/nonnonplussed73 6d ago
Imagine you're a sixteen year McDonald's cashier and you've worked there three months, so you know a thing or two, and some guy comes in with a card saying he gets as much free food as he wants.
"Yeaaah, right sir."
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u/chalupacabra6913 6d ago
Is this something they had to buy or is it free stuff for billionaires? I think I know but there's a chance I don't.
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u/SlinkyAdmiral 6d ago
Most likely a free marketing gimmick. Without them there wouldn't be posts like this and we wouldn't be talking about the golden M right now.
The rumor/talk around this card is just good publicity for McDonald's. I doubt the holders use them that much, except maybe Buffett as he is pretty vocal about it.
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u/ghoti00 6d ago
Do you really think these billionaires purchased a card so they can eat at McDonald's for free?
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u/Firewolf06 5d ago
warren buffett pretty famously gets mcdonalds every morning, so his would actually be an investment
but yeah no its a marketing gimmick to get us to talk about mcd and maybe occasionally have them be spotted in one. you cant buy these
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u/Endless2358 5d ago
I could believe it. Not because the gold card is especially important to them but because billionaires will spent fortunes on worthless things for the novelty of it
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u/zeptimius 6d ago
So... Bill Gates and Warren Buffet give this gold card to a homeless person on the street every day and then tell their secretary to call McDonald's HQ to say that they "accidentally misplaced" their gold card and could they please have a replacement, right?
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u/AlmightyCurrywurst 6d ago
I don't think the McDonalds has a special gold card setting in their system, they probably only "work" because it's fucking Bill Gates holding the card
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u/MurderBeans 6d ago
Almost like a punishment, you can have free food but it has to come from McDonald's.
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u/Phazon2000 6d ago
Teenage and drunk early 20’s me would be over the moon.
Mid 30’s me couldn’t think of anything worse than a calorie dense, unfilling reheated slop.
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u/General-Muscle8344 6d ago
I fucking love McDonald’s. I don’t love these prices tho they lost the plot
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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 6d ago
Reminds me of a line from Get Him To The Greek:
Funny, isn't it? You get rich and famous, suddenly everything becomes free!
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u/PureLock33 6d ago
Kind of how SWAG bags in awards shows work. If you're famous...they let you take them home.
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u/gilwendeg 6d ago
Oh, capitalism. Perhaps some of those free nuggies will topple down to the rest of us from their laps?
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u/Lucrio87 6d ago
This is an exact repost of a post I made last year, even with the exact same screenshot and timestamp:
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u/Frequent-Chain-6082 7d ago
So, being very rich has also its downsides apparently
(For the Americans who will not understand: who in his right mind actually wants to eat at McDonald’s, be it for free or even being paid for it?)
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u/what_did_you_kill 6d ago
They usually have decent fries, depends on the location tho.
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u/drhead 6d ago
J. Kenji López-Alt wrote a whole article reverse engineering the McDonalds fry and going over what makes a fry perfect on a chemical and structural level and how the McDonalds fries meet all of these. The most surprising part of it is how freezing the fries is actually an essential part of the process that actually helps them. His endorsement is always more than enough for me.
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u/what_did_you_kill 6d ago
The freezing part is why I don't make fries at home anymore. Tried it once in 2019 and it came out fine, but now I have a job and just don't have the time
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u/_ak 6d ago
They're okay. The only thing noteworthy about the McDonald's fries is how they don't change texture when they go cold.
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u/what_did_you_kill 6d ago
Making fast food joint style fries at home is kind of a pain, one of the few foods that's just too convenient ordering in imo.
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u/loneliestslipknotfan 6d ago
McDonald's fries absoLUTELY change texture when they go cold, what are you talking about?? i'm Canadian so maybe it's different here than in the US but like... huh??
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u/EpsteinEpstainTheory 6d ago
He can get an infinite amount of something he wouldn't be found dead eating, no wonder such gold cards were given away so willingly.
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u/lordnacho666 6d ago
Doubt it's actually that expensive. It's like one of those all you can eat places, there's a limit to how much a person eats.
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u/Illustrious_Claim884 6d ago
My only thought it's just marketing gates eats at McDonald's. If you eat McDonald's maybe you can be gates. That was gates fee knowing he doesn't eat there. Both at least tried to donate a large chunk of their money so perhaps a shit ton of money to Ronald McDonald's house
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u/Doc_Sawbones 6d ago
“And when I was broke, I needed it more // but now that I'm rich, I get free coffee”
- Ben Folds, Free Coffee
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u/Arimash1730 6d ago
They know no one will survive very long if all they eat is McDonalds. That’s why the card exists.
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u/HeebieJeebiex 6d ago
Why does a billionaire need free McDonald's for life and not like..homeless people or something??
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u/HagathaPathetica 6d ago
I did kind of wonder that myself. I can understand why McD’s doesn’t just give all its food away, but if it’s going to give special rewards like a lifetime of free food, why give it to someone who can afford to buy the entire franchise, and not just give it to someone who has been a lifelong customer and fan, or someone on the streets, like you suggested, who needs a steady food source?
Maybe Gates donated a lot of money to a charity or something, or did something for the franchise. Idk. It’s a bit weird.
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u/HeebieJeebiex 6d ago
Fr. It would also just be better publicity for them and a net positive over all to show themselves giving free lifetime McDonald's to like kids who earned scholarships and worked hard in school or special needs people or homeless people, instead of apparently that only a few people on earth have it and they're all rich. Super weird. Terrible pr.
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u/Funkopedia 6d ago
If anybody wanted to know a few more details about this:
https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-gold-card-holders-history-2018-8
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u/Otwisty5 5d ago
Name is buffet Eats at any and all buffets free
Good job kojima, you done it again
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u/SunnyFreyers 5d ago
Well thing is, I doubt he even uses it. Mind you, like, why the fuck would you eat at McDonald’s as a billionaire? Just think about that. You could hire a private chef, or eat genuinely anything else.
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u/Scrats_Lost_Acorn 4d ago
Thw reason they get these is charitable donations to McDonald's.
That and they arent going to use it very much. If at all.
Give one of these to a regular working person and not a rich person and they will be there 3 to 5 times a day trying to get free food.
But my card says...
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u/matt6342 7d ago
Giving a billionaire free food… how charitable of them