Where's the Beef?

Jiro Su0 HN recommenders · 2013–2022
6.2M views · comedy · evergreen · Uploaded 2006-05-12

A one-minute clip of the famous 'Where's the Beef?' catchphrase from a classic fast food commercial.

Used purely as a joke when a thread involves beef, the name Beef, or a lack of substance.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@SiVal2013 · in “Google Zeitgeist 2013”

No, you're not alone. When they offer data, a lot of us think, "Oh, goodie, some interesting data!" We hustle over there to learn something new and learn it quickly. If instead we are treated to a demonstration of javascript media virtuosity that buries the actual data too deeply to be worth extracting, we get annoyed and complain: "Where's the beef?" (But I don't think there's anybody back there[1].) [1] [VIDEO]

@49para2020 · in “Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language”

Yes, why ensure that you will never be able to raise this with senior management as a serious option ? From then on you will be known as the "where's the beef guy" [VIDEO]

@lob_it2022 · in “Meta lays off 11,000 people”

"Where's the vaporware? Under the pickle...." is best portrayed by the younger types. [VIDEO] You know why the food sucks so bad when you know who they are catering to :p