McD's- A contrarian view

Old Nov 4th, 2007, 08:08 AM
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GSteed - I avoid all "soft drinks" as a rule.

Good point Robjame.

It really isn't that hard to avoid ersatz foods, at least where I live.

When you're not used to the modified foods, they don't even taste good, never mind the possible health, econoomic, environmental, etc. issues.


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Old Nov 4th, 2007, 08:48 AM
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What is McD?
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Old Nov 4th, 2007, 08:59 AM
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Ronald McDonald.

http://tinyurl.com/337wp3

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Old Nov 4th, 2007, 12:54 PM
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There is only one of them then?
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Old Nov 4th, 2007, 02:14 PM
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Hopefully there is only one of that guy.
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Yeah - he scares me! Even worse than a clown.
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Willard Scott created Ronald MacDonald. No wonder he scares you.
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Old Nov 5th, 2007, 05:31 AM
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I loathe McDonald's, perhaps unfairly because of the movie Supersize Me, but admit that in Tokyo they are clean and a delicious alternative to Japanese food (which I am not wild about). Served by lovely ladies in clean, pressed uniforms of skirts and blouses wearing stockings and pumps, I almost felt like we were on Air Japan. I've never felt the need to eat in a McD's in Europe, though.
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Old Nov 5th, 2007, 06:05 AM
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<to us The Beano is a kid's comic that's been around since God was an altar boy.

God know's what it is to you lot. Do i really want to know?>

farce previously said the queues are a sign of a civilized society - but i ask you how civilized a society can it be that doesn't have beano?
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How civilized is a country that requires Beano?

Our backsides are purely ornamental.
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Old Nov 5th, 2007, 06:45 AM
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you certainly could not tell that from the many U.K. posts on Fodor's - seems to be a great need for beano in England especially.
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Old Nov 5th, 2007, 06:49 AM
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The Irish eat more beans that the English.
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Old Nov 5th, 2007, 07:20 AM
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The first baked bans were imported (from America, natch - probably the windy city) and sold in Fortnum and MAson's for the modern equivelent of £2.80 a tin.
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Old Nov 5th, 2007, 07:29 AM
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Yet another example of American culture sweeping aside English culture - culinary

where did Mushy Peas come from?
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Old Nov 5th, 2007, 08:22 AM
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Satan's rear end.
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Old Nov 5th, 2007, 08:34 AM
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so it's yet another American import?
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You really believe, that Iran an North Korea export peas to the rest of the world?
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Old Nov 5th, 2007, 09:04 AM
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Iran is the world's biggest supplier of pistachio nuts.

CHOLMONDLEYTRUFACT.
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CHOLMONDLEYTRUFACT

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California now produces a lot of pistachios - have to research to see who is more

i'm so old i remember red pistachios - red dyed that is
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