I hope people in other parts of the world realise that not all Americans like McDonalds ( or any of the rest of fast-food swill ) or would eat there under pretty much any circumstances. I'll take fried locusts over happy meals.
I did notice, however, that McDonalds is wildly popular in France <s>
>>Besides, look at the crap the Americans shove down their throats! :-)
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>I'm proud to announce that in my city back home, McDonalds had to close shop - the sales were below the cost. And they had a perfect location (main street #1), even used some political pressure to get it open (aided by the neocommunist party of Sloba's wife) despite some sanitary issues. They even gave free meals when whole class would be invited from a nearby elementary school. Furthermore, their certified suppliers for buns and cheese were in the very same city.
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>But they simply couldn't keep up with the competition of various traditional fast food stands in the vicinity.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
