China's Mixue is now the world's biggest food-and-beverage chain by number of locations, surpassing McDonald's.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26973091
President Xi ny people yearn for Mixue
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Never even heard of it. Tells you a lot how unknowing we in the west are about what happens in the rest of the world
小Lin说 has a video explaining their business model and history, is very interesting.
Its basically a supply chain company that happens to sell beverages, and is now doing donghua lol
So basically little caesers in the US
Wonder if they have sugar-free options.
There was a discussion earlier on Lemmygrad about a potential problem of fiction positively portraying monarchs. I'd like to give my two cents but for now seeing that even a company from the PRC does it with its mascot at least helps me believe it's not that inherently harmful of a phenomenon.
Lol context matters.
A tv series whitewashing historical royal families, like the Romanovs, sure its reactionary propaganda. Its easy to see whats wrong in that.
Now for Mixue mascot being some sort of king of ice cream, its a bit insane to think there is something wrong in there. Mixue has a donghua studio developing series about its mascot, i dont really know anything about it but i can't imagine it spreading monarchist propaganda lmao.
Fictional/cultural portrayals of concepts like monarchy are probably only harmful to the extent the audience has no serious education on the topic. It may not be an issue in China if they have a higher level of political education among everyday people.
True, and I was thinking that kind of education can help people think critically about the setting the monarch is in and how advanced the productive forces are. After all, I think feudalism was once a progressive force against slave society much like how capitalism was once progressive against feudalism. Once we live under communism for a long time, positive portrayals of early socialism may similarly be seen as regressive to the uneducated.
I don't think he's ever portrayed as the king of anything, he's just a snowman with a funny crown. Incidentally I've been there a lot and their stuff is good, very affordable for sure.
URA!
ah, so the mascot wars have borne fruit (context)
sample image:
But they don't have burgers!
ok now this is unforgivable what do they expect people to eat /s
Will they expand in my area? (Eastern USA)