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I'll admit to eating at McD's about once a week on this trip. Back home I eat there probably once a year, but when I'm too tired to even judge the likelihood of a food stall selling Bad Stuff, McDonalds is there and it's uniformly predictable.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Sat Jan 24th, 2009 at 09:22:30 PM EST
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Re: oh lala (none / 0)

The consistency of product has always been the key feature of McDonald's and their knock-off fastfood brethren. Sure, this caters to irrational fears, excessive conservatism and promotes the idea that in life you can control your experience but they do succeed at offering the same lousy food from truck stop "A" to truck stop "Z"

also, in the US McDonald's is inarguably cheap. actual poor people skip the soda and fries and have say two hamburgers for $2. A man can live on that if he has to.

by paving on Sun Jan 25th, 2009 at 12:49:31 AM EST
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