Report links Red Lobster’s endless‑shrimp saga to talks about Greenland seafood
A private-equity firm bought Red Lobster in 2014 and sold the restaurants' real estate for $1.5 billion, saddling the chain with rents that helped drive later bankruptcy and closures. A White House official said, "My view is that the United States could take all the seafood Greenland could produce, and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China," arguing that control of Greenland's seafood could let U.S. buyers restore promotions like Red Lobster's "endless shrimp." The reporting matters because it ties corporate financial engineering to geopolitics, showing how supply‑chain and food-security concerns can be invoked to justify major strategic moves.
...... i'm sorry, they wanted to invade greenland because red lobster nixed the unlimited shrimp promotion? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Sky Marchini225we're reaching levels of nostalgia slopulism that I didn't think were possible
Pwnallthethings70invading greenland so china is never able to develop red lobster technology
25,098 words (I'm back writing!)45I’m reminded of the time the staff ecologist for McDonald’s (yep) told me they decided not to do a shrimp sandwich because they would fish the world’s oceans clean of all shrimp in 3 years.
Finding Facility33Red Lobster was a victim of private equity enshitification. Anything good people like could be more profitably efficient for shareholders, in this case by making the restaurants pay rent they can't afford. I wish anyone in charge of anything had to know, or be correct about, anything whatsoever.
Municipal Fox19“Chinese emperor about to lose the Mandate of Heaven” type behavior
poster14I waited tables one time in my life, but it was a fall at Red Lobster, which meant endless shrimp, and that was my Vietnam. I sent people home with blood scampi levels approaching 0.2%
Dave Fortin9And yet we keep screwing Gulf Coast shrimpers by fouling their waters with oil. Here’s are real shrimp from Mobile Bay:
Jusqu'ici tout va bien 🇨🇦🇨🇵8So the plan was to starve out the Greenlandic people? Great stuff.
Occam’s Shaving Cream II8This is just a veiled attempt to ensure that panda express doesn’t get rid of their three proteins and a side for $9.99
A_M_F7This is bullshit, we should be trying to revive the Sizzler
Cadence “Known Sewage Gremlin” Andrysiak7I… You know, I legitimately believe this, lmao
ESC Riley 🏳️🌈6No, no, THIS. THIS is the dumbest thing I will ever hear in my life
Acornloaf6But the shrimp comes from Vietnam!!!
The Return of Sexy Boy6Does Greenland have Cheddar Bay biscuit tho?
economymedicine.bsky.social5This is all Beyonce's fault by gatekeeping Red Lobster
suncloudswe.bsky.social4The one thing that never ceases to surprise me is how utterly dumb the imperialist oligarchy is. Like ending NATO over lobster buffets?
Daniel Lenski3It sounds like there are exactly two dudes in Greenland who are into the whole US annexation thing. This one reminds me of some other Trump supporters… there's a certain je ne sais quoi about him… see if you can put your finger on it 🤔
CatFrat3Yeah, I had to look up the article because I was 95% convinced that *we need Greenland to bring back Red Lobster endless shrimp* was an obvious joke
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl2where do they think shrimp come from. shrimp are tropical. they do not come from Iceland. these idiots.
The Crusader Project2Sure it sounds crazy but it’s not the most insane reasoning in the Trump regime.
Brainmist2Every time I think this timeline can't possibly get any stupider, Republicans reveal a while new depth to the stupid.
robust soldier crab ball gate2glonzo is frozen in the arctic circle after eating all the shrimps!!! we gotta break him out to find the shrimp queen and bring em back
trump trying to declare war on a NATO ally to reinstate Red Lobster's endless shrimp promotion and deputizing every shitheel cop from Cousinfucker, AR to pursue his delusion that antifa is tainting hisreflecting pool are things which you would laugh at as obvious slander if Procopius wrote them
Isaiah Bishop44showing this to a person 10 years ago
Astreia20Wait what's this about red lobster
Chrononaut16If I were making a living by writing fiction I'd just give up and walk into the woods The very real things we now see daily couldn't have been imagined by a tabloid writer on drugs a few years ago bsky.app/profile/chro...
dog drinking beer 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦4i didn't believe it when i read it on posts on here
Smellbringer3Great, now we have to reconsider whether Nero really did fuck that horse.
Welp, sorry yall, I’m a fascist now. It’s clear imperialism is the only way forward. I need unlimited shrimp every day or I can’t feel at ease. Meet me at red lobster and let’s celebrate life.
Odrok the Deceiver10What these fools fail to realize is that it's the garlic biscuits that made the whole thing work; without those the endless shrimp are meaningless.
Sensitive Algae4Have we tried buying the shrimp from them or is an invasion the only way we can get some delicious shrimp? How do other countries get shrimp?
Outside context problem3we've got ourselves a new lobster war!
Captain Tom2I can't even tell if this is satire or not. I am tired.
Will Kaufman2Okay, but there are fewer than 500 Red Lobsters left. Who do we have to invade to secure unlimited Red Lobsters?
