#pork futures

[bakedbakermom]

this might be my favorite footnote yet

[welpmeout]

why buy apple products when you can buy apple stock, why buy bacon when you can buy pork futures, why do anything that is not focused on bringing in as much money as you can so you can sit in your empty mansion, letting the towers of change that you've accumulated from not tipping fall just so so it sounds like macklemore's thrift shop while you giggle to yourslef

[gainfulunemployment-blog]

The McRib was, at least in part, born out of the brute force that McDonald’s is capable of exerting on commodities markets. According to this history of the sandwich, Chef Arend created the McRib because McDonald’s simply could not find enough chickens to turn into the McNuggets for which their franchises were clamoring. Chef Arend invented something so popular that his employer could not even find the raw materials to produce it, because it was so popular. “There wasn’t a system to supply enough chicken,” he told Maxim. Well, Chef Arend had recently been to the Carolinas, and was so inspired by the pulled pork barbecue in the Low Country that he decided to create a pork sandwich for McDonald’s to placate the frustrated franchisees. But the McRib might not have existed were it not for McDonald’s stunning efficiency at turning animals into products you want to buy.

A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage | The Awl

A singularly brilliant analysis of the McRib as a way McDonald's exploits commodity market price fluctuations. McRib appears when pork prices go down. Due to the volume handled by McD (and consumed by the world), a few cents fluctuation in price could mean millions of dollars in lost or gained.

Who knew that McRib was the thinking economist or broker's fastfood sandwich.

[deoptimize]

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