On Wednesday, Fox News published an article purporting to link a shortage of Chick-fil-A's signature sauce on "Joe Biden's America." The evidence? A number of tongue-in-cheek remarks by politicians on Twitter.
"Following multiple reports of the popular fast food restaurant limiting how many Chick-fil-A sauce packets each customer is allowed, social media users took to Twitter to express their outrage – not at the restaurant – but at President Joe Biden," noted the article, quoting facetious remarks by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CA).
The Fox News article does not explain how any of Biden's actions as president have impacted Chick-Fil-A's supply chain.
Chick-fil-A sauce shortage blamed on 'Joe Biden's America'https://fxn.ws/33ARyP7— Fox News (@Fox News) 1620857349
As Fox soon discovered though, social media is a two-way street — and their article linking Biden to sauce shortages at a Christian fast food restaurant was met with widespread mockery.
This page is getting more pathetic by the day lmao. Imagine blaming a sauce shortage on Biden with a straight face lol. It\u2019s the type of headline you would see on a parody account.— hurb Dontana (@hurb Dontana) 1620869404
I will *always* take "Joe Biden's America" \u2014 where apparently a Chick-fil-A sauce shortage is considered a national crisis worthy of writing about over @FoxNews \u2014 over the clusterf*ck of a #COVID disaster zone that was "Trump's America."\n\nEvery.\n\nSingle.\n\nTime. https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1392602776404910084\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/o1MxvW9dos— Dean Wallace \ud83d\uddf3\ud83d\uddfd (@Dean Wallace \ud83d\uddf3\ud83d\uddfd) 1620875967
This is the dumbest headline ever. I literally cannot believe that this is not an Onion article. An editor approved this.https://twitter.com/foxnews/status/1392602776404910084\u00a0\u2026— Breonna Taylor was murdered by Louisville Police (@Breonna Taylor was murdered by Louisville Police) 1620878057
If things are going so well that the worst thing we have to complain about is a sauce shortage then we\u2019re doing great.— John (@John) 1620857440
This has to be parody, right?https://twitter.com/foxnews/status/1392602776404910084\u00a0\u2026— justjess (@justjess) 1620877415
I would rather be blamed for a sauce shortage then the death of 600,000 Americans. But I guess to Fox News, sauce is more important.— Ray (@Ray) 1620861705
What even is news anymorehttps://twitter.com/foxnews/status/1392602776404910084\u00a0\u2026— Jackson Porter (@Jackson Porter) 1620861688
Someone hacked Fox\u2019s Twitter account and is just randomly putting words together as news articles, aren\u2019t they?— Guy_at_the_Bar (@Guy_at_the_Bar) 1620857477
They gonna blame the McDonald\u2019s ice cream machine being broken on him too, just watch.https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1392602776404910084\u00a0\u2026— Steph of House Moderna (@Steph of House Moderna) 1620859432
Fox with the scoop. I see a Pulitzer coming.— David Burnette (@David Burnette) 1620863795
