Have there been protests or anything in Scotland when new McDonald's restaurants opened? I vaguely recalled the McMunchies case, but until today, I'd never heard anything more than generalized grumbling over the "big corporation stole our name" issue.
No nothing so much just a growing feeling of resentment, it might dissapate. People here are feeling less subjugated and more confident since the return of democracy -I think- so are maybe looking less for things to take it out on. I'd be interested to know what MacDonalds accounts look like over the past few years because I think I heard a news story that they are having to close down outlets, people are less interested in eating there these days.
Yeah, McDonald's everywhere hasn't been doing too well lately. They posted losses last quarter for the first time ever.
And I for one did a giddy little dance of "take THAT, you tasteless-food-making-bastards!" when the news came out.
Has anyone read "Fast Food Nation" cos I did and now it is difficult to eat fast food. I have the list of ingredients for *Strawberry flavour* on my kitchen door out of some kind of peverse fascination,
The only refs I'm finding are comments on discussion boards - nothing I would count as definitive. But it's worth noting that all those mentions say that McDonalds [the big American one]
lost
the case.
Yeah, that's a fascinating book. I only got halfway through it and then left it at my sister's place, so someday I'll get to finish it I hope. A real eye-opener in several ways.
Looks like we're well on the way to that second thread after all...
Uh, no. `We are early 1600s. 2nd thread is 10,000. And that is a really good straight line. I'll leave it for someone else to follow up on.
Huh. I just found out that the actual real Ray's will ship pizzas by FedEx to anywhere within the continental US. I cannot see how they can possibly still taste like pizza after being out of the oven for that long.
