rant · moment 23 of 29
Buffalo Mac and Cheese: Keeping the Fat Population Docile
from Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas) · #148
3 min
A comedic riff that the rich intentionally keep the population overweight and sedated with absurd food combos (Denny's pancakes, Starbucks drinks) and oxycontin so they won't revolt.
- Buffalo mac and cheese is designed to keep poor people docile so they won't chase down the rich.
- Denny's and Starbucks serve nonsensical flavor combinations—salted caramel banana cream pancakes, banana coconut mocha mint—that make no sense.
- People can wash down these ridiculous foods with oxycontin to really check out of reality.
- Rich people's schools used to be only slightly better than middle-class schools, but now the divide is completely different—everything is private.
- Rich people don't use public transportation or care about city infrastructure at all.
- The country used to be united by shared ethnicity and religion, but now it's global and diverse with competing groups from all over the world.
- There's no overarching national theme anymore—the Cold War and World War Two are gone, so nothing unites the country.