rant · moment 18 of 19

Fighting China Back With Fast Food

from Baby's Gotta Go | The Tim Dillon Show #339 · #339

3 min

Tim jokes that if China is using TikTok to mess with American kids, the U.S. should retaliate by exporting fast food chains like KFC, Pizza Hut, and Domino's to make Chinese citizens fat and unhealthy.

In this bit7 moments
  • Tim proposes fighting back against China by getting their citizens fat with American fast food.
  • List of American fast food chains operating in China: KFC, McDonald's, Burger King, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell.
  • The strategy: make Chinese citizens so obese they can't leave their chairs or walk.
  • Weaponizing stuffed crust pizza, McDoubles, mozzarella sticks, and Oreo McFlurries to turn China into diabetic slobs.
  • Pizza Hut arrived in China in 1990, Domino's in 1995, both expanded aggressively through the 2000s.
  • Pizza Hut delivery in China gives people with limited food access the ability to order pizza on demand.
  • Globalization presents a trade-off: fast food expansion abroad comes with geopolitical consequences.
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Kentucky Fried ChickenChinaPizza HutDomino'sTaco BellPapa John'sMcDonald'sBurger KingOreoStarbucks

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