Sundar Pichai Offered To 'Drop Everything' To Discuss An Emoji. Here's Why

We're not sure exactly how serious author and media analyst Thomas Baekdal was when he called for a discussion on the burger emoji, but a discussion is what he got. And much to Twitter's amusement, the discussion even got Google boss Sundar Pichai involved. 

Here's what happened.

Roughly 14 hours before writing this, Mr Baekdal tweeted a screenshot of the burger emoji as displayed by Google and Apple, writing: "I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top."
 

I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top pic.twitter.com/PgXmCkY3Yc

— Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal) October 28, 2017

Seems innocuous enough, right? 

Except it was retweeted over 1,000 times and generated quite the debate on Twitter:
 

Obviously, cheese must be on top of meat. But lettuce must be insulated by the tomato - so both are in the wrong.

— Tero Kuittinen (@teroterotero) October 28, 2017

 

They're both wrong. Google's cheese is wrong, Apple's lettuce is wrong. The correct order, from bottom up, is burger - cheese - toppings pic.twitter.com/lF1AUu64ht

— Mark Goodge (@MarkGoodge) October 28, 2017

 

The Samsung one is even worse. Lettuce *between* the burger and the cheese. pic.twitter.com/v5pLXllvJl

— Salman Sajid (@sajidcreative) October 29, 2017

 

Mozilla solved the problem by totally avoiding the lettuce and tomato. pic.twitter.com/o5oUiu9Zcw

— Daniel Lo Nigro (@Daniel15) October 29, 2017

 

God damn .. Did I just wakeup to a first world problem and that too an emoji one. My god now I want to all emojis to be investigated.

— Prabodh Meshram (@prabodhmeshram7) October 29, 2017

Mr Baekdal's tweet even managed to elicit a response from Mr Pichai, who joked he would drop "everything" to discuss this most important matter at work on Monday. Except the offer came with a caveat. 
 

Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday:) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this! https://t.co/dXRuZnX1Ag

— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 29, 2017

Mr Pichai's witty response - 'liked' over 4,400 times and retweeted over 1,800 times -  had many laughing out loud:
 

If Sundar says they'll do it, then consider it bun

— (@hunterwalk) October 29, 2017

 

So proud to work at a company which has it's priorities right.

— Neha Malhotra (@NehaMalhotra) October 29, 2017

 

Trust Sundar to diffuse any situation

— Sajid (@ngsajid) October 29, 2017

Meanwhile, a number of thrilled desi Twitterati usurped the burger emoji discussion to call for a vada pav emoji, because, priorities!
 

That's why you need a Vada Pav emoji. pic.twitter.com/4feMkg8VEG

— Nitish Saxena (@nitishsaxena_) October 29, 2017

 

@sundarpichai  let's create a vada paav or masala vadai Emoji I say :)

— Ram (@ram8192) October 29, 2017

 

That's why in India we go for Vadapav instead. No confusion.

— Dvijen Trivedi (@DvijenT) October 29, 2017

 

. Beat this pic.twitter.com/OP6Ixrhq5c

— Saint Pablito (@Jhaalar) October 29, 2017

Hungry, kya?