This dude, MrBeast, who I never heard of until yesterday, has over 100 million Youtube subscribers and eight billion views. He opened a burger joint in the NJ American Dream (nightmare, actually) this past weekend.
— Tens of thousands of people descended on the mall. although the opening was on a Sunday, thousands arrived on Saturday and slept on the floor. Some came from as far away as Nebraska and Denmark to sample his MrBeast Burgers. Here is an actual picture of the hamburger, not kidding.
Ummm. IT’S. JUST. A. FUCKING. HAMBURGER.
Q: What does this insane reaction to a hamburger say about America as a nation/culture …. or, am I making a mountain out of a Hamburger Hill?
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Me?
I don’t think I’m making a mountain out of a molehill. Very often it is the little and seemingly inconsequential acts which a person does which can tell a LOT about that person.
A kid who pulls the legs off ants tells me most everything I need to know about this little monster. A healthy man who won’t give up his seat to an elderly lady on a crowded bus tells me all I need to know about that selfish bastard. A person who downvotes me when I make a funny comment tells me clearly that they are a DDD sucking moran. And so on, and so on.
Yet, I just can’t put my finger on this truly bizarre phenomena of people going bat-shit crazy over a fucken’ hamburger! Is it a sign of advanced mental illness to put such high value on a piece of meat? Isn’t hamburger idolatry condemned in the Bible? After calculating for 7.5-million years, Deep Thought determined the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life was the number 42 …. but what if it’s actually “hamburger“??!! Is “hamburger!!” the answer to Victor Frankle’s book “Man’s Search For Meaning“?
I have so many questions … especially ‘what the fuck is wrong with these people‘ (if anything)????
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BTW, I am NOT knocking MrBeast (aka, Jimmy Donaldson). He is not doing evil shit by pushing burgers. In fact, he appears to be a philanthropist; raising over $20,000,000 to plant a tree for every dollar last year, donating more than 100 cars, giving away a private island, and so on. If he can make a shitload of money by capitalizing on dumbass shits with no life … well, good for him!
SOURCE: mrbeast burger joint at american dream mall
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Just a Hamburger Retard here…but the BEST hamburgers are found at…
Black Hills Burger & Bun Co. in Custer, South Dakota
Life made total sense after eating their burger for the first time. It is totally worth the long lines, sleeping on the ground, camping out overnight, traveling across the globe for, sacrificing your first born for, etc.
No point in even arguing with me as I’m right on this. Trust me. If passing through South Dakota, put this place on your list. Plan accordingly.
[I do not know the owners and do not get paid for telling y’all how amazing their food is. Just trying to give y’all a little slice of heaven.]
Been there. Damned fine burger! it only requires I drive over 650 miles one way, or else I would have them more often.
My oldest girl is bugging the crap out of me to go to Mt. Rushmore in March even though I told her it is still winter etc. Perfect opportunity to try this place assuming it is somewhere near Custer state park? Haven’t been there in 51 years so I imagine it has changed a lot.
Yes, not far from Custer State Park. I love the Black Hills area. When you go, don’t forget to check out Crazy Horse too. No federal money was used at Crazy Horse – all privately funded. Worth it.
There will be long wait times at the burger place, so be there before they open. Or, plan to shop around town while you wait for a table.
This has Klaus Schwab screaming loudly…
Greta just shit her pants.
Did she poop green?
Best hamburger–The Whistle Stop, Blanket , Texas.
The Bacon Cheeseburger at the Texas Roadhouse in Coralville Iowa flat out kicks ass! HR
The original Tommy’s in LA was awesome. But that was back in the day. Just another chain now.
FIE! In L.A. there is only one hamburger- Fatburgers! Tommy’s was always a good burger, but didn’t hold a candle. I just drooled on my keyboard from the memory.
It may be a combination of things, but I’m definitely leaning toward the idea that these people are desperately seeking an escape from reality, from looking within. If you were to lock any of these folks in a quite room by themselves they’d probably go insane. Whereas others who have spent the time doing the shadow-work, being introspective, would probably enjoy the time alone.
‘One of these things is not like the others!’ and there is something VERY different about these people.
That sounds about right to me, Gary. Introspection is work, but I try and make time to do it.
I see people all the time taking pictures of their plates and posting them. Strikes me as odd.
Except for nkit gathering material for Friday Fail
You’ve got the scent, but you’re not quite on the trail yet by my reckoning. Read my post below. Might give you a different perspective. In the end we can agree that the reason in this instance is less important than the outcome. That is not usually the case in life.
Correctly understanding dysfunction is not easy, but dysfunctional our society is.
Hey Stuck,
Don’t forget the dogs. You ought to be old enough to remember the dogs. You know, the dogs that were on the Today Show. The owners coaxed (maybe with a piece of hamburger, I can’t remember) the dogs to speak, regaling Dave Garroway or those idiots Walters/Downs as well as the viewing audience. One of the owners claimed that the dog said, “Hamburger” but all I heard was a series of high pitched squeaks.
Nossir, I don’t recall the dogs. Couldn’t find it on youtube either.
But, found this, and it’s pretty funny … and adorable.
https://youtu.be/uFyJwyeNkFU
Excellent analysis.
You’re very good at that. Talking about your Norway travelogue, of course.
AP,
I was going to simply say the McBeast is about people wanting to align with a hero.
Which is what you did in exquisite detail
Well,I don’t know whether I am or not a hamburger retard but must say I felt like a retard after reading this article.
With that out of the way,I feel even more retarded responding to said article!
And,even if possible more retarded:
That all sounds about right, too. Thanks for your thoughtful insight. I started going to this little church by me for more spiritual reasons, but we just did another few hours work today on restoring a section of it and I appreciate being part of a community. I don’t think being a hamburger consumer would quite fill that gap.
The number one thing we produce in America is stupidity. Being a moron is a national cult, it seems everyone wants to be one. It is little wonder the globalists want to enslave and wipe out huge numbers of us. I am willing to bet, a large percentage of the people waiting in lines for hours (or days) to eat a hamburger did not even have enough money to pay for it, and had to add extra debt to their credit balance to belittle themselves.
Don’t people do the same for phones or a certain pair of Nike Air sneakers? You could argue that a hamburger at least provides sustenance.
By the way, we make a mean burger in our house. The key is to mix minced mushrooms, grated cheese and finely chopped onions into the patties.
Call me Mrs. Beast from now on.
That sounds perilously close to turning into a meatloaf sandwich – which is good, but not a burger.
Reminds of those who dress up like a cow in order to get FREE food at Chic-fil-a. Same phenomenon.
Watched a video of cars lined up for a 2 hour wait at a Chic-fil-a. Imagine the cost to idle for 2 hours. Fat bastards couldn’t even park and walk to the counter. We are DOOMED!
What this is, is the psychological fallout from a society only subconsciously aware that their Government, in collusion with Big Business, is poisoning them through the food supply chain.
People are desperate for decent wholesome food. It becomes harder to find every day.
I think you missed an important point in 3.
Mr Mustache introduced the concept of ‘The Big Lie’ to the regular people of above average intelligence. As ze Germans had been lied to from all sides for a decade, that really struck a cord with them, and the above average intelligent could easily explain it in narrative form to the less smart.
So the Germans looked around and searched for a potential leader who was better, and Mr. Mustache happened to lie relatively little back then.
Now wait for the moment when the Americans wake up to the fact that everybody, from all sides has lied to them for a long time. What then happens, what comes out of that moment will be complete toss-up, especially as all Christian morality has been relativized away, if not inverted. (As was the case in Germany in the late 20’s.)
Sheep acting like lemmings. Must be a class thing…
I would never travel that far for a burger. I would like to go to New Haven Connecticut one day, though, and try all of those competing pizza joints that lay claim to having invented the American-style pizza. I’m a pizza snob.
Uhhhh …pizza was invented, and perfected, in NJ. Look it up. It’s one of the ONLY good things in this shithole. (Beaches are the other.)
invented in NJ eh? not in Italy before NJ was even in existence?
statements like this detract from your credibility.
We’ve tried the big three in New Haven: Sally’s Apizza, Modern Apizza, Frank Pepe Pizzeria.
Not a big fan of the black charred crust. To be honest, I prefer a Costco pizza. I must be a pizza noob.
So many thigs to say:
He didn’t build that!
Capitalism at its best!
Real charity!
And he likes cars. I hope they are run by ICEs.
In all fairness, it is a double burger with cheese.
Hamburgertards are raised from itty bitty kiddies. Well-tended and fertilized from the Tel Avi\/sion, doted upon by mommy and daddy (vestigial organs they may be) and further reinforced by everything from school lunches to the signage and patronage of local sports ball teams.
Is it any wonder that children driving in a car will nearly always have a loud and precise automatic response when passing by one of the ubiquitous hamburger joints that super-saturate the USSA landscape? If their favourite the commotion doesn’t stop until the kids get fed. Don’t forget the fries and a large high-test Coke or Pepsi.
It’s one of the few things that the people can actually agree on. A good burger is good to eat. OK, irrespective that the NWO/Beast system just force multiple injections of an experimental substance into ones or one’s children’s bodies. That’s too much work. But discovering which sandwich tastes the best – EZPZ. A topic fraught with disagreement but always politically correct except if one works for or supports PETA.
MrBeast Burgers success is just another sign of the times which should scare the crap out of anyone paying the slightest attention to the environment. Although it is preferable to having a Swabb & Harrari WEPH nightcrawler burger. Never enough ketchup for that, comrades.
The inner hamburgler’s gonna burgle. (The midgets with the motusaches gonna eat burgers.)
The inner hamburgled is gonna heed the bugle. (Eat me, mustachioed midget.)
Were the burgers better way back when?
(Or were you just newer on scene, younger tastebuds, etc?)
Either way, “the good old days” are another burgle-burgled pair o’ copulators.
So Burger-As-Time Machine is a possible motive.
Them as need leaders is shit on a shoe made of shit out of (the) Luck (I’m your father /cool hand/ Luke) Fuctory.
Them people’s everywhere.
Shitlection pressure’s intense.
The avg node do wanna be networked & outta the projected/misperceived-weather under that bell curve umbrella that retains some of the turd shape, but thru relentless polishing has been turned into the white house. (when’s that racist moniker/color gonna be repaired? Even albinos don’t turd white.)
But the avg don’t define “human” unless affirmative action defines “competence.”
Follow the leader ya’ pied meatpies ya’: Weef, it’s what’s fer dinner.
It’s just Ground Chuck.
Chuck?
Nooooo … I’m not getting into any cannibalism shit …
It’s the same as folks standing in line for hours or days for concert tickets — for iPhones — for … anything …
Even if it is THE best hamburger on Earth — personally, I think it takes some pretty bizarre priorities in life to do anything but walk in and pick up one …
Geez – what’s all this about burgers? You Yanks are obsessed with these things. Here in UK we salivate over Steak & Kidney (suet) Pudding, just like grandma used to make in the war. And her rabbit pie was to die for. We also have so many field mushrooms in the autumn (weather permitting) we have to make gallons of soup. But the field ‘Puff Balls’ are even better than mushrooms and can’t be beaten with smoked bacon, coffee and fresh toast (home-made of course with Spelt).
Then there are the sloes to pick in the hedgerows (and hazel nuts too)to make sloe gin for Xmas and gooseberries arrive in September together with blackberries (with apples for a fine pie), red currents, black currant and rhubarb for amazing country wines and puddings and crumbles. Our over and under 12 bores rough shooting gets us pigeon and rabbit for more pies and the occasional beaver which have arrived recently.
Who says we need corporates’ supermarkets and burgers to feed us? It’s all around us in SW England if you know what to look for.
Spent two weeks in England on a business trip. Gotta tell ya …. please don’t be offended …. but, Brit food generally left a bad taste in my mouth. After about 4 days of disappointment I stuck almost exclusively with fish ‘n chips. The fish portions were huge, greasy, and …..delicious!!
Ah yes, Stucky – you are right – I guess you were eating crap hotel-type food; the standard city fare. I was speaking of the real, home-cooking in the countryside. But Fish ‘n Chips is everyone’s favourite. I can’t think of even one Brit that doesn’t like FnC – the gift that keeps on giving!
I really appreciate a good burger. There are a lot of good ones out there and there is some real crap. A great burger is the one you like kinda like wine. I’m not going to sacrifice one of my children for one though.
I like a really good burger–which I make myself with fresh everything…I’ve found a few bars that also make really fresh burgers, but fast food, ugh…
Whether I agree with you, or disagree, your responses are ALWAYS well thought out and articulated. You’re one of the best at that here on TBP.
You’re analysis of Hamburger Retardism was ……… TRULY BRILLIANT.
Thanks for taking the time and effort ….. not just here, but through the years.
It’s a well known Scientifical Fact that the best hamburgers are Aussie hamburgers. Experts all agree that Australia also grows the best milkshakes and meat pies.