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"We are concerned that people needing a firearm to eat a cheeseburger might not be the be the best (Original Post) Horse with no Name Jul 2015 OP
Oh snap. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #1
I am not sure Horse with no Name Jul 2015 #3
Highly unlikely they'd diss their own product...but still funny. Lizzie Poppet Jul 2015 #4
There is no way that is real. yeoman6987 Jul 2015 #55
No, the customer is not always right ! :ROFL: eppur_se_muova Jul 2015 #2
Hope it's true because Whataburger is really the best! Dustlawyer Jul 2015 #48
Pretending to play Gunslinger SuperHero is hungry work. Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #5
Collective IQ of those two prizes hifiguy Jul 2015 #15
and your IQ is still higher LynneSin Jul 2015 #19
They're infromed people. Unknown Beatle Jul 2015 #30
LOL, they think they are getting news. Kevin from WI Jul 2015 #40
Imagine walking into a restaurant and seeing this Kevin from WI Jul 2015 #39
I most definitely Aerows Jul 2015 #62
I'm not the tallest dude around TlalocW Jul 2015 #57
It is truly a sad day when an open carry enthusiast cannot justhanginon Jul 2015 #6
now, to make cheese burgers for lunch/dinner irisblue Jul 2015 #7
I suspect this is bs. bluedigger Jul 2015 #8
You "suspect"? RiverLover Jul 2015 #45
You misinterpret me. bluedigger Jul 2015 #54
Way to fire, Customer Service! (nt) Paladin Jul 2015 #9
"Customer Service" is satire. Brickbat Jul 2015 #10
And a very funny site. GoneOffShore Jul 2015 #47
You have a right to firearms but not to cheeseburgers. tclambert Jul 2015 #11
Customer Service is a joke fb page -- not Whataburger Customer Service Heddi Jul 2015 #12
Kinda like the one for God. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2015 #26
Yep! He's a FB friend too Heddi Jul 2015 #31
You would think the "Gay people are usually smart enough to avoid Cheeseburgers" would have been PoliticAverse Jul 2015 #56
"I have been a fan since a child." Since a child WHAT? Since a child decided he just HAD TO calimary Jul 2015 #13
WHAT A BURGER!! Sophiegirl Jul 2015 #14
I know this is fake awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #16
I've never felt the need to pack in a WhataBurger too. bvar22 Jul 2015 #32
Definitely at Wendy's awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #33
Funny! Made me chuckle. nt brush Jul 2015 #50
Crazieness!! lark Jul 2015 #17
I suspect this is a fake, given the comment about cheeseburgers, but jtuck004 Jul 2015 #18
That response seems dubious - a little too abrupt for a business. LeftinOH Jul 2015 #20
See post #12 n/t Contrary1 Jul 2015 #21
I sent the opposite letter to Kroger SCantiGOP Jul 2015 #22
Clean up on aisle nine. stage left Jul 2015 #35
but that Luby's lady is sure she could've taken the gunman! MisterP Jul 2015 #23
Oh, my...give customer service a gold star...Bwaaahaaaaaa! Surya Gayatri Jul 2015 #24
Trolling. Iggo Jul 2015 #25
Just fantastic. GoneOffShore Jul 2015 #49
Man, I loved Whataburger when we lived in Tucson! ladyVet Jul 2015 #27
right now, HBO has a very good documentary about JUST 2 MONTHS of gun deaths. just using material pansypoo53219 Jul 2015 #28
This may be fake but unfortunately what they had the bozo say is probably an actual thought cui bono Jul 2015 #29
K & R SunSeeker Jul 2015 #34
Whataburger will have to make amends Turbineguy Jul 2015 #36
I cannot JackInGreen Jul 2015 #37
But you just might *need* a gun for those ocassions when your burger is still a little TOO rare! Ghost in the Machine Jul 2015 #38
My thought exactly pinboy3niner Jul 2015 #41
Just make sure you're loaded with ground rounds... n/t Ghost in the Machine Jul 2015 #42
If I carried, I would certainly be primed! pinboy3niner Jul 2015 #43
Aim for center mass, you wouldn't want to risk grazing the cow! Ghost in the Machine Jul 2015 #44
Well done! nt brush Jul 2015 #52
Maybe they are afraid of a 3 legged cow appearing, wanting its steak back. jtuck004 Jul 2015 #46
I don't know.. some Dave's Insanity Sauce *might* put it down! Have you ever read the label on that Ghost in the Machine Jul 2015 #60
I think that's the first food item I have ever seen that I thought might need a carry permit. n/t jtuck004 Jul 2015 #63
When my daughter was 16, her first boyfriend thought it was going to kill him one night! I literally Ghost in the Machine Jul 2015 #64
You know 500 dads just ran out and bought a case of this. jtuck004 Jul 2015 #65
LOL! My bad! n/t Ghost in the Machine Jul 2015 #66
I love Whataburger Gothmog Jul 2015 #51
Great. Glenn's confederate flag avatar is more proof most gun toters are racists. Hoyt Jul 2015 #53
I like what Bill Maher said: Initech Jul 2015 #58
Agreed. Shadowflash Jul 2015 #59
It'd be a great comeback if it were true d_legendary1 Jul 2015 #61
 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
4. Highly unlikely they'd diss their own product...but still funny.
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 11:02 AM
Jul 2015

"Gay people are usually smart enough to avoid cheeseburgers in the first place..."

If that was written by an actual Whataburger customer service person, then I'd imagine they'll be looking for a new job real soon. The bit about IQ even more so...

Still a funny image, though. Open carry activists are counterproductive tools.

eppur_se_muova

(36,269 posts)
2. No, the customer is not always right ! :ROFL:
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 10:58 AM
Jul 2015

K&R for more eyeballs. Whataburger was founded in TX, IIRC, so they're going against the stereotype here.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
5. Pretending to play Gunslinger SuperHero is hungry work.
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 11:13 AM
Jul 2015


Makes you want to weep for all the cultural mass psychopathy in NRA enslaved America, doesn't it?

"The free market has spoken". No come back from a gun tot'n freedim-loving, limited vocabulary NRA-lover to that!

Kevin from WI

(184 posts)
39. Imagine walking into a restaurant and seeing this
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 04:27 AM
Jul 2015

I would turn right around and walk out. I think most people would. I don't get it, or understand why this is even legal. Look how proud they are. America in 2015 is a very strange place.

TlalocW

(15,384 posts)
57. I'm not the tallest dude around
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 09:56 AM
Jul 2015

But man, that guy on the right is suffering from Short Man's Disease if anyone is, and he's chosen a gun that makes him look like he's twelve-years-old.

TlalocW

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
6. It is truly a sad day when an open carry enthusiast cannot
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 11:14 AM
Jul 2015

take the love of his life out on a date for a good old hamburger and fries. What is this country coming to?

irisblue

(32,980 posts)
7. now, to make cheese burgers for lunch/dinner
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 11:40 AM
Jul 2015

extra extra onions and ketchup, spicy mustard and a decently grilled bun

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
8. I suspect this is bs.
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 11:42 AM
Jul 2015

I went to their FB page and didn't see it, but there were a couple of 2A fetishists posting there to complain about it.

I can't imagine a real CS person would have posted that. But I've been surprised before, so who knows?

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
45. You "suspect"?
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 05:50 AM
Jul 2015

Wow.

Its what they would say if they could. It humorously highlights the idiocy of comparing gay rights to open carry people's rights.

Heddi

(18,312 posts)
12. Customer Service is a joke fb page -- not Whataburger Customer Service
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 12:10 PM
Jul 2015

I'm a "friend" of theirs on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/benpalmercustomerservice?fref=ts

they troll FB pages of large corporations and offer 'helpful advice' to knobs with petty problems. Usually they are spot on, as in the example above, but they are not associated with Whataburger or any of the other companies whose page they respond on.

See their screenshots at the facebook link above

Heddi

(18,312 posts)
31. Yep! He's a FB friend too
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 05:14 PM
Jul 2015

I like spoof pages...like Your Tattoo Makes You a Horrible Mother and Christians for Michelle Bachmann

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
56. You would think the "Gay people are usually smart enough to avoid Cheeseburgers" would have been
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 09:55 AM
Jul 2015

a tip-off (what company would post that a group is smart enough to avoid its product), but apparently for some not.

calimary

(81,312 posts)
13. "I have been a fan since a child." Since a child WHAT? Since a child decided he just HAD TO
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 12:13 PM
Jul 2015

turn into a public menace by parading into a burger joint outfitted like he's in the Green Zone?

Hey, if this is a spoof, and I suspect it is, no matter. I STILL like the point being made!

"If you still feel the need to dress up and play Charles Bronson, we suggest finding a shooting range and cooking your own food"!!!!!

Sophiegirl

(2,338 posts)
14. WHAT A BURGER!!
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 12:16 PM
Jul 2015

I grew up in Texas and Whataburger's hamburgers are in fact...THE BEST FASTFOOD BURGER ever. I live in VA now. I miss those burgers.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
16. I know this is fake
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 12:22 PM
Jul 2015

but if Whataburger has an anti-gun policy then I salute them. I have never felt the need to be packing when I get an A-1 Thick and Hearty burger, and I am not sure I want to be around those paranoid enough to think they do.

lark

(23,105 posts)
17. Crazieness!!
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 12:40 PM
Jul 2015

This whole "Open-Carry" thing just baffles me. WTF does society tolerate white men acting like fools and setting themselves up to be murderers for little/no cause? Guns cause death, that's all they are good for. Very few people are saved by people with guns. The so-called "good guys with guns" just create additional collateral damage. SCOTUS totally got this one wrong with their turning the 2nd amendment backwards and ignoring the plain language of militas. Scallia is all about perfect wording, until he doesn't give a shit due to political ramifications, the turd.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
18. I suspect this is a fake, given the comment about cheeseburgers, but
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 12:43 PM
Jul 2015

that suggestion "Dress up like Charles Bronson, find a shooting range and cook your own food" is perhaps the best advice I've seen given to any of them.

LeftinOH

(5,354 posts)
20. That response seems dubious - a little too abrupt for a business.
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 01:08 PM
Jul 2015

Is this a real 'Whataburger' response, or a phony viral meme?

SCantiGOP

(13,871 posts)
22. I sent the opposite letter to Kroger
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 01:12 PM
Jul 2015

Since SC has open carry they allow it in their stores. I wrote them and said I was not going to go into a store where I might encounter someone with an automatic rifle over their shoulder. Their canned response was that they were just following the lead of the state legislature.

Remember a Jon Stewart segment from a while back: what happens when Open Carry encounters Stand Your Ground? That is exactly what could happen and I don't want to be walking in a grocery store when a shootout starts on the next aisle.

ladyVet

(1,587 posts)
27. Man, I loved Whataburger when we lived in Tucson!
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 02:18 PM
Jul 2015

We tended to eat out at places we didn't have back home, like Jack-in-the-Box, Whataburger and Taco Bell. The best times though, were going to Casa Molina.

I'm not afraid of the gay guy who might be sitting next to me getting mad about something and pulling his dick out. I don't think he'd kill me. The right-wing freak on the other side, though? That scares me.

pansypoo53219

(20,978 posts)
28. right now, HBO has a very good documentary about JUST 2 MONTHS of gun deaths. just using material
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 02:44 PM
Jul 2015

cops or Facebook. many ammosexuals out there killing themselves.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
29. This may be fake but unfortunately what they had the bozo say is probably an actual thought
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 04:49 PM
Jul 2015

by some idiot out there, that somehow being gay and carrying a gun are the same thing, meh, I didn't word that right, but you know what I mean.

Ghost in the Machine

(14,912 posts)
38. But you just might *need* a gun for those ocassions when your burger is still a little TOO rare!
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 04:13 AM
Jul 2015

What if it starts moving on the plate??

Even as a gun owner, who never carries in public, I can find the humor and or sarcasm in posts like these.

Peace,

Ghost

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
41. My thought exactly
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 04:34 AM
Jul 2015

Not a firearm owner, but I understand there may be occasions when you need to stand your ground beef and put that rare patty DOWN!

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
46. Maybe they are afraid of a 3 legged cow appearing, wanting its steak back.
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 08:04 AM
Jul 2015

You wouldn't want to go into such a confrontation with just a serrated knife and a bottle of sauce, now would you?

Ghost in the Machine

(14,912 posts)
60. I don't know.. some Dave's Insanity Sauce *might* put it down! Have you ever read the label on that
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 03:05 PM
Jul 2015

stuff? It says it can strip grease from concrete. It also advises to use "one drop at a time to flavor your food". Now, I can eat some pretty hot stuff and I had made a 20QT stockpot full of red beans and rice one night. I made me a good sized bowl, and added 3 drops to it and it was so hot that I couldn't even eat it. I dumped the whole bowl back into the 20QT pot, stirred it up, and it was still spicy, but edible.



Peace,

Ghost

Ghost in the Machine

(14,912 posts)
64. When my daughter was 16, her first boyfriend thought it was going to kill him one night! I literally
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 06:39 PM
Jul 2015

laughed so hard I almost peed myself. I could NOT STAND the little maggot, but I tolerated him as it was her "first love", and I figured that if I tried to stop her from seeing him that it would only drive her to him more. I used to call him Dildo, because he was a phony little prick. Being a single father is hard with a daughter, I knew what to do with my son, but girls need a mother figure or woman to talk to. Luckily, my parents and younger sister live just a few houses from me.

Anyways. we were eating some pizza one night and my son and I had a pretty good sized glob of the Dave's Insanity poured out inside the pizza box, and we were seeing who could eat more of it. Dildo walked in, grabbed a slice of pizza, and dragged it through the hot sauce, thinking it was marinara sauce. We didn't tell him any different. When he took his first bite, you could see his face start turning red, then he broke out sweating... then screamed like nothing I have ever heard before... or since! We found him out in the front yard with the water hose stuck in his mouth as he was scraping his tongue with the edge of a spoon. Again, I damned near pissed myself laughing. He was always careful about what he ate after that.

He wouldn't go out on my boat with me either because I told him one night that I was going to take him for a boat ride, wrap him in a 25' logging chain, then toss him overboard in one of the sections of the lake that was over 300 feet deep. Then I was going to take my boat back to the trailer, go to the opposite end of the County, put into the Tennessee River there, then call the cops and say that he had been abducted from the boat by a UFO! I told him they would never find him, because they would be looking at the wrong end of the County!

He actually thought I was serious!

Peace,

Ghost

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
65. You know 500 dads just ran out and bought a case of this.
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 07:03 PM
Jul 2015

And a few feet of logging chain, just to hang on the gun rack.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
53. Great. Glenn's confederate flag avatar is more proof most gun toters are racists.
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 09:11 AM
Jul 2015

Even if fake, it shows most people know the truth about people who need a gun to go out.

Initech

(100,080 posts)
58. I like what Bill Maher said:
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 10:13 AM
Jul 2015

"You're not a gun enthusiast, you're an ammosexual. And before you try to deny that you have an intimate relationship with your gun, consider this: you're taking it out to dinner."

Shadowflash

(1,536 posts)
59. Agreed.
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 10:25 AM
Jul 2015

If you are SO paranoid that you can't go to a restaurant, grocery store or Wal-Mart without your gun for protection, then you have already proven yourself to be too mentally unstable to own one.

d_legendary1

(2,586 posts)
61. It'd be a great comeback if it were true
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 03:31 PM
Jul 2015

Sadly no place in their right mind would test the I.Q. of their patrons.

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