People may question why McDonaldâs brought out their new chicken Big Mac. Iâm just wondering why it took them so long. Some might say the taste is a little bland after their palates have been accustomed to the normal Big Mac. But McDonaldâs will quietly wait while those old taste palates become accustomed to the new offering.
When McDonaldâs began, chicken meat was more expensive than ground beef. Changes in the shape of chickens (due to selective breeding) has changed this factor. Now chicken is the cheaper meat and McDonaldâs is now waiting (and hoping) that they can change our taste buds to liking chicken better.
Wait for it. The Quarter Pound Chicken with Cheese is next up. But I expect McDonaldâs to hedge their bets and keep offering hamburgers, too. If the consumer is going to try to be cheap about their purchases, McDonaldâs has that covered. If the consumer prefers the taste of hamburgers, McDonaldâs will have that covered as well.
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Thereâs a little bit of surprise in the air that Succession is having itâs last season be the 4th season. It used to be that shows would pull out all the stops to make it to the 5th season. Why the 5th season? Well this is the magical year when most syndication deals are possible.
However, with the advent of streaming, and marathon small screen watching, making it to the 5th season isnât quite as important. In other words, network television is losing some of its pull.
And the show creators all remember what happened to Babylon 5. It was planned to be a 5 season show from the outset. But I guess, 3rd season numbers werenât what the network wanted to see. So they gave the warning: finish it off in the 4th season because that is as long as the show would get.
So the most important story ideas were finished off early. Everyone wanted to see how all the arcs would tie together in the end. Viewership went up. So much so, that at the end of the 4th season the network relented and said there would be a 5th season.
Now all the arcs didnât get tied up in the 4th season, just most of the more important ones. Still the 5th season became known as an almost pointless season.
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Some people are so adverse to losing that they will take me up on my next idea. If youâre going to play âshe loves me, she loves me notâ with a flowerâs petals, why not use a trillium? This 3 petaled flower basically guarantees a win.
Assuming that âshe loves meâ is a win, that is. If you are playing the game with with a she or he or a they that is so repugnant you canât believe it, the answer is to play with a poppy. This four petaled flower guarantees that she/he/they will love you not.
And for those who donât like winning for whatever messed up reason, use a poppy when itâs good to be loved and a trillium when itâs bad to be loved.
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