# Burger King (once again) serves up snark

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burger-king-once-again-serves-up-snark/922286>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [October 5, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burger-king-once-again-serves-up-snark/922286 "2020-10-05T23:39:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burger-king-once-again-serves-up-snark/922286/1 "2020-10-05T23:39:40Z")

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Burger King is well-known for it’s snarky, sometimes edgy, advertising and stunts. Here’s the latest one.

> Burger King’s Danish arm decided to scan the McDonald’s [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ZDNet/) page. There, inevitably, was a multitude of complaints about the company’s customer service. That’s what Facebook is for. Well, that and the dissemination of extreme politics.
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> Burger King deployed some of its hard-working staff – and, I fear, some of its ad agency’s highly relaxed staff – to send reply after reply to unhappy McDonald’s customers.

> **[Burger King used the simplest tech to expose McDonald’s customer service](https://www.zdnet.com/article/burger-king-used-the-simplest-tech-to-expose-mcdonalds-customer-service/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=23130827606874289216281367746581&mid=13091371&cid=717483244)**
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> How do you try to fix McDonald's customer service issues? If you're Burger King, you use tech to get personal. Yet it's not as if Burger King is personally so perfect, as I soon discovered.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burger-king-once-again-serves-up-snark/922286/2 "2020-10-06T03:38:02Z")

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I wish I had a Danish Arm…

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**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burger-king-once-again-serves-up-snark/922286/3 "2020-10-06T05:43:31Z")

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I remember a stripper that incorporated the Danish Arm into her act. . .you just don’t see that kind of dedication to the craft anymore.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burger-king-once-again-serves-up-snark/922286/4 "2020-10-06T14:10:43Z")

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I expect any day now to hear of teh backlash as McD’s deploys an army of online meat-bots to trawl (and troll) BK’s complaint-filled pages.

IOW: Petard? Meet hoist.

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burger-king-once-again-serves-up-snark/922286/5 "2020-10-06T15:12:07Z")

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> [@Bootb](#):
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> Danish arm

[Homer voice] mmm…Danish arm…[HV]

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**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burger-king-once-again-serves-up-snark/922286/6 "2020-10-06T18:39:34Z")

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I’d give my right arm …