Trevor Noah offered a tongue-in-cheek solution to the food industry’s recent woes this week, suggesting that Americans take a super-sized approach to meal consumption during the coronavirus crisis.
On Wednesday’s installment of “The Daily Show,” Noah pointed to recent reports that found a spike in food waste across the U.S. With school cafeterias, restaurants and hotels closed, some suppliers have had to destroy or dispose of eggs, fresh vegetables and even alcohol as demand from their usual buyers has plummeted.
Belgium has proposed an unusual solution to limit such waste. Specifically, residents are being urged to consume more French fries to help support the local potato industry.
Joking that being asked to eat more French fries would be a “dream come true,” Noah suggested that Americans to “step up” and do their part. At that point, the segment gave way to a mock PSA in which “Daily Show” correspondent Roy Wood Jr. quipped that America had been “training for this crisis our entire lives.”
“We’re the country that invented supersizing, hot dog eating contests and fighting to the death over a fried chicken sandwich,” Wood said. “So America, I need you to join with me and stuff your faces like your lives and your country depend on it. Because it does.”
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