The one here does booming business for breakfast then next to nothing for the rest of the day.
but re the thread question, edible only when hot
french fry scale: wendy's > BK & McD's tie > everybody else except Sonic > Sonic
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Sunday, 24 July 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"booming business for breakfast" referring to Hardees btw
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Sunday, 24 July 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i always feel kind of unamerican when the fast food threads come up
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 24 July 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd rank Checkers and Popeyes above McDonalds, most definitely... but I LOOOOOVE seasoned fries.
― writing down my vagina’s sorrows for all the world to see (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 24 July 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
The best fried potatoes are the ones I make out of a leftover baked potato. Always bake a couple extra spuds for fries the next day.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Sunday, 24 July 2011 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Who cares about free wifi? Don't you all have homes?
― am I diversified? (blank), Sunday, 24 July 2011 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like you've a profoundly distorted idea of the ilx demographic
― dell (del), Sunday, 24 July 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I do but I also like to watch people while drinking sparkling water.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 July 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
No outlets at home, just lamplight
― porkpie cokeheads (Eazy), Sunday, 24 July 2011 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
This is quite interesting: http://balkanist.net/im-lovin-it-mcdonalds-serbia/
There were also some early cultural barriers to the restaurant’s success. In 1988, the concept of “American-style fast food” hadn’t permeated Yugoslav society. After a meal, even at McDonald’s, people liked to sit, smoke and complain about corrupt government officials for several hours – a time-honored tradition that continues to this day. Americans, on the other hand, call that kind of activity “loitering” — a criminal offense. So in order to prevent too much post-Happy Meal lingering, McDonald’s hired several specially-trained workers whose only job was to make people eat and leave.
Some of the earliest manifestations of the mounting tensions between Croatia and Serbia before the breakup of Yugoslavia were in the songs Serbs sang about their McDonald’s at football matches. One late-1980s chant went “we have a McDonald’s, McDonald’s, McDonald’s, we have a McDonald’s, and where is yours?”
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 28 August 2014 07:05 (ten years ago) link
The tradition of whiling one's time away at a restaurant or cafe is one that is sadly missing in America
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/nyregion/fighting-a-mcdonalds-for-the-right-to-sit-and-sit-and-sit.html?_r=0
― 龜, Thursday, 28 August 2014 12:14 (ten years ago) link
did anti-loitering laws even exist before McD's? I didn't realise the US even had these?
― radioplay vs coldhead (dog latin), Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:28 (ten years ago) link
<3 these guys
― j., Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
Go to Starbucks then.
― pplains, Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:31 (ten years ago) link
Doesn't count if you're whiling your time away on a Macbook
― 龜, Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:33 (ten years ago) link
One of my favorite yelper scumbag complaints is whenever a coffeehouse doesn't have readily accessible outlets so people can plug in their laptops.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link
i'd never yelp about that or formally complain in any way, but it can be frustrating when you bring you go to a cafe to get work done, buy coffee and a muffin, and sit down and realize you can't plug in your laptop.
― lars von (Treeship), Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
I read a book called teh Macdonaldisation of Society when I was at University at the turn of teh millenium.That goes into the process of subconsciously making the customer leave as fast as possible. I remember when mcDonalds was first appearing in London in the mid 70s the benches were angled so you didn't become too comfortable and therefore left faster. I noticed that the Macdonalds in the centre of Galway seems to have far more comfortable chairs these days.
The book also went into the standardisation process whereby if you went int a Macdonalds anywhere the menu was going to be the same so you'd know what to expect and what it would taste like. Looks like that has changed a bit as the franchise has expanded into other cultures but it probably remains the same within each of those. Also the layout of the shop would be pretty much standardised. So you'd have some level of subconscious familiarity in any branch you went into.
I haven't eaten in Mcdonalds in years, probably had breakfast in there last time i did. I did eat in Burger King a couple of times a couple of months ago.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
i ate a value meal -- quarter pounder, fries, and coke -- while drunk one recent night. it was amazing.
― lars von (Treeship), Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Also the layout of the shop would be pretty much standardised. So you'd have some level of subconscious familiarity in any branch you went into.
There's a comic book store in my American neighborhood that used to be a McDonalds.
http://i.imgur.com/eABaMGm.png
There was something about it that seemed just a little off to me, and finally, after a year living around here, I realized it was because the drive-thru window was on the "wrong side" of the building.
I asked around and the people who lived in the long-ago tell me that the parking and eating area was on the left side of that photo and the kitchen was on the right. In the 70s, they added the drive-thru and the only place they could put it was on that side. Apparently, the line of cars would go around the front of the building.
Just weird that there was this one time in history when McDonalds restaurants really were just these hamburger stands and weren't standardized at all.
― pplains, Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
is McDonald's serving healthier food and using healthier oils or whatever than when we were kids?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
sure sure
― famous instagram God (waterface), Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
That goes into the process of subconsciously making the customer leave as fast as possible.
That's a thing at chain restaurants like Applebee's, Chili's, T.G.I. McScratchy's Goodtime Foodrinkery, etc: they have the a/c cranked and the music loud so you'll eat it and get out.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
healthier, sure yes
They stick a bag of apples into each Happy Meal, so I guess that's "healthier".
― pplains, Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
― lars von (Treeship), Thursday, August 28, 2014 6:46 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's on the customer not the establishment, gotta research that shit first.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
tarfumes do you have a link on that? I'd like to read more on chain uncomfortable-ization, like not just on fast food places
― Euler, Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
Unfortunately, no...I think I read about it in Fast Food Nation, but I don't have a copy handy.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
train seats are like this, but i think that's to stop people sleeping on the train. it doesn't work though.
― radioplay vs coldhead (dog latin), Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
http://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/mcdonalds.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
was just gonna take issue with pp about the side of the building the drive-thru window goes and then remembered we drive on the other side of the road, looks like senility's kicking in
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
I actually went back and typed American neighborhood because of that! I am very sensitive!
A life in four parts:
http://media2.intoday.in/indiatoday/images/stories/wwi-video_650_062814041202.jpghttp://littlelucylavendar.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/ivan-peter-pawle-17.jpg?w=650http://en.president.az/photos/inline-gallery/25206-73e7475e6163f4e5b2ecd72f71310e3f.jpghttp://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/mcdonalds.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
anyway McDonald's are wankers and old dudes loitering is a good thing obv
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
did anti-loitering laws even exist before McD's?
they certainly did in the USA, where they date back to the late 19th century
― Aimless, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
How delicious.
― example (crüt), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
i would shit very quickly if i ate this garbage today
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
Just makes your mouth water, don't it?
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/files/2011/09/appleslices.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
I'd like to think those old people were kicked out of McDonald's for standing in front of the menu going "ummmmm....." for five minutes.
Anyway, McDonald's shakes are good. I get them once or twice a year.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
Someone told me once that Grimace was supposed to be a (cupless) shake. So I went to the wikipedia for confirmation, and instead found this backstory:
Grimace – A large, purple monster-like character who was first introduced in November 1971 as the "Evil Grimace". In Grimace's first three appearances, he was depicted with two pairs of arms with which to steal milkshakes. "Evil" was soon dropped from Grimace's name, and Grimace was reintroduced in 1972 as one of the good guys. In 1974, Grimace was redesigned, going from two pairs of arms to the single pair he had later. Grimace's role continued to grow, and by the mid-1970s, he was a major character in McDonaldland. Commercials and merchandise generally portrayed Grimace as a well-meaning simpleton whose clumsy antics provided a comic foil to Ronald McDonald. His appearance changed to reflect this characteristic in 1985, from a giant purple slob with a pink mouth and small pupils to a gentle giant with movable eyebrows and eyelids, and a kid-friendlier smile with a black mouth and a pink tongue. The character was retained after the streamlining of the characters in the 1980s, and soon details of Grimace's background and family life began to emerge. The character's Uncle O'Grimacey first appeared in 1978 (see below) and would visit only one month per year, around St. Patrick's Day, bringing Shamrock Shakes. Additional family were revealed in a McDonaldland VHS tape The Legend of Grimace Island: Grimace had an unnamed mom, an unnamed dad, a grandma named "Winky", a great-great grandma named Jenny Grimace, and might have had a brother named "King John Bailey", who was the king of all Grimaces. In "Grimace's Odyssey", Grimace was portrayed as a ham radio enthusiast who used a homemade transmitter made from a colander. Grimace was played by Patti Saunders (1971–1984) and voiced by Frank Welker in the commercials, Larry Moran in some commercials, and by Kevin Michael Richardson in The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
Grimace's Odyssey by Robert Fagles
― famous instagram God (waterface), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
GRIMACE by john gardner
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
and might have had a brother named "King John Bailey", who was the king of all Grimaces.
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
how is this uncertain?
it was written, but it may not be grimace canon?
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
did someone whisper it on his deathbed?
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
Seriously the Epic of Grimace y'all let's do this
― famous instagram God (waterface), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
wiki.epicofgrimace.org
― famous instagram God (waterface), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
Grimace Apocrypha imo
― shower cretin (brownie), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
re: King John Bailey
― shower cretin (brownie), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link