“If You’re Skinny You Can Get 20% Off”: There’s a Controversy in a Thai Restaurant

We are in Chiang Mai, more precisely in Thailand, a country whose tourism from the West has grown enormously in recent years. Here the Chiang Mai Breakfast World restaurant is starting to make people talk (a lot) about itself. The reason? A super discount offer (up to 20%) if you manage to pass through an iron structure, divided by bars, whose accesses are increasingly limited. From 5 to 20%, the thinner you are, the less you pay for a selection of customers in which the heavier ones have no privileges.

Irony or Body Shaming?

An issue that some say was taken too lightly. Because the fact became news as soon as a user published, on his social channels, a video that portrays the inside of the restaurant with this real iron structure. A content that was watched by millions of people and went viral in a short time. There were many reactions on the web: some took it with irony, writing that they would probably have paid double, others made it a question of nationality, mocking Americans and claiming that none of them would have passed through those bars. There were also those in the comments, shrewdly, who suggested that airlines promote the same initiative.

Among the reactions, there are also those who condemned the Thai restaurant's gesture, downgrading it to total body shaming. This is because clearly, a more corpulent person would never be able to pass through those iron bars and consequently would never get the discount intended only for those who are really very thin. Among the comments of the video posted by the British creators, you can also read the comment of a user who pointed out that, in Asia, the obsession with thinness is too common. A gesture that perhaps wanted to be funny but that was not the case.