In an attempt to further clog my arteries, I had McDonalds for breakfast this morning. At McDonalds, I had a McAmerica….err, thing, alleged foodstuff, which I think featured bacon, egg, cheese, a bagel and ketchup. Yes, in honour of the Olympic Games, McDonalds is serving up special breakfast items with a continent theme (is America a continent?). This amazing initiative also includes the McAsia, the McAfrica, the McAustralia and the McEurope. While I can’t confirm it, I suspect the McAsia is a bagel with bacon, egg, cheese and the blood of a Chinese sweatshop worker on it. So if you want to show your support for the home team, help induce a heart attack with a McAustralia (perhaps featuring bacon, egg, cheese, bagel and, err, tomato sauce). Incidentally, the McAmerica’s more tasteless than that video featuring Madonna and Justin Timberlake. It was truly awful tucker.
They’re probably not allowed to sell some of the US McDonalds breakfast items here on grounds of public health. Around 13 years ago, we stopped at a Micky D for breakfast near Disneyland and ate something called a Breakfast Biscuit.
It was the usual bacon/egg/cheese confection but wrapped in something that resembled shortbread instead of a muffin/crumpet thingy.
I swear I left the place 2kg heavier and the heartburn that accompanied this decorated lard lump was of olympian proportions. Truly the holy grail of bad breakfast food, only to be rivalled by Croque Madame from authentic, smelly Paris cafes. Neither the cheese eating surrender monkeys or gun-toting, lard snorting blowhards can make coffee either.
So why the hell would you eat there?
Please tell me they included beetroot in the Australia burger?
Ah, Croque Madame. I prefer the classic Croque Monsieur, myself.
No-one makes coffee like Melburnians. You can’t get a decent brew in the States. Just that awful burnt, black stuff.
The McAussie should hsve pineapple and beetroot together.
Ewwwww.
I had an unaccountable craving for Maccas the other weekend and my visit there made the makers of Mylanta and other indigestion cures temporarily richer.
Wow,
I hope LP got paid well for this add.
When Graham Kennedy made fun of products, sales soared. The essential ingredient in Kennedy’s marketing was brand recognition.
Job well done!
I saw this linked on Desci’s blog. If you think Maccas is bad, wait until you sink your virtual mouth into The Munchy Box!
Fine wrote:
And vegemite.
Haven’t they stopped putting tomatoes on their burgers overseas? sigh.
Some might say this is backdoor advertising now you’re getting the numbers…:)
That pic makes me sick. But as it’s you Darlene I’ll try to think otherwise…:)
Tho I imagine Mr. Murdoch would have been chuffed w/ that last thread’s pic.
“At least 25 people have been hospitalized during the outbreak, caused by a relatively rare strain of salmonella known as Saintpaul.”
(Huffington Post)
yea right, the attack of the killer tomatoes.
Just happens that bloggers & commentors having been making an issue about caged & overfed chooks related to friends of the Clintons…and the fast food industry in general, based on cruelty, wages etc…& the other daym Obama makes his big speech in St. Paul, Minnesota, gives the Repugs the finger in their own convention backyard…& suddenly tomatoes used as a mainstay in many vege & other dishes becomes the reason for a bacteria (Saintpaul) outbreak.
Gimme a break!
Something is VERY ROTTEN in the State of the Union in America.
Thank goodness the Labor Party here is starting to get on top of the NEGLIGENCE INTENTIONAL (?) shambles when it comes to food safety, customs & quarantine procedures left by the previous Howeirdians.
Actually, John Tracey, I have heard that the McDonalds business model is built on securing prime real estate in growing commercial zones. The food profits are only subsidising the property side of the business, or so I have been told.
So hooray for people like the residents of Byron Bay, who protested long and loud to stop Maccas opening up there.
“So hooray for people like the residents of Byron Bay, who protested long and loud to stop Maccas opening up there.”
I’ll second that. Sports & artery clogging food shouldn’t mix.
How much do you bet they blame the organic growers for the outbreak? Better yet, Mexicans. Or even organic growers in Mexico. There has been a concerted effort to destroy the organic foods market. Mr. Murdoch’s Sky News in the UK was using so called Mums who buy organic foods to say they couldn’t afford it anymore w/ the high cost of food prices…back to the regular stuff. Now I see why the Busheviks & their Corporate mates got countries to hold back their foodstuffs in a media led PANIC. After corporations & property developers w/ the aid of governments grabbed as much small farmer land & water as possible…& did the ethanol thing in some of the wrong places. A deliberate attempt to f*ck up Obama & Gore who are pro-ethanol, unlike McCain…& to keep this grotesque fast food industry pumping along…& kill the organics in the process. And think of who might have shares that benefit. Disgusting!!!
Don’t feed THE MACHINE LP…please.
The Breakfast Biscuit sounds bloody horrible….
“So why the hell would you eat there?”
Fair question, Steve. I think there are times when one thinks something is going to be good (cheap, hot, tasty, immediately satisfying) even though logically you know it’s not. So, like many people, I’ve been suckered into believing that McDonalds provides those kind of meals. As English comic Karl Pilkington says about having a “chippy” (hot chips), the idea is always more satisfying than the reality.
Oh my gawd, pineapple and betroot and vegemite on a bagel. I feel patriotic (and sick) already.
Perhaps the owners of McDonalds have shares in the company that make Mylanta. Ewwww, indeed.
Mmmm, not sure my little post is going to impact on sales of McDonalds.
Interesting about the Graham Kennedy thing though. Obviously people liked him so much they were prepared to go with whatever he said regardless of what he was saying about the product.
Arrghh, the Munchy Box is…words fail me. And look how cheap it is. Imagine being a poor family and knowing you could buy a Munchy Box and it could last you a couple of meals (we poor folk have strong stomachs). Is that beef on top of the chips and stuff?
No backdoor advertising…just thought it was kind of funny that McDonalds have this campaign going. Not sure how America is represented by bacon, egg, cheese etc on a bagel. Of course, why I got suckered into buying an inedible load of crap says as much as me as it does McDonalds.
Darlene wrote:
Well…
Sadly, it was actually pretty good, “biscuit” being the pan fried variety (corn-pone I think is the other name), nice salty bacon etc.
It’s only when the gorge starts rising in the back of your neck when you try to unwedge yourself from betwixt fixed chair and table that you know you’re in trouble. I think I can still taste it! Urp!
gandhi wrote:
They should apply to become recognised as a religion - it’s the same business model.
You go there, you know what you are going to get. If you do not want them in your neighbourhood, boycott it. If enough people do that, they go away. Simple, effective, direct, action.
Personally the last time I had McDonalds was about 6 months ago. I think that is about right. Twice a year is punishment enough.
A ‘biscuit’ in the States is essentially a scone (crossed with shortbread), usually with lard instead of butter. Before they’re cooked, I swear you can see the dough quiver as the gluten and carbohydrates struggle to hold the fat together.
ummm…yummy…& nutritious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ljW5YEdao&feature=related
(McDonalds Food - The Truth)
the attack of the killer tomatoes
ROFL Nasking!
Good to see you back, Darlene. What about that concoction of chips and gravy and cheese they have in the US and in the UK too - popular hangover food - I’m not sure what it’s called?
In my family, our preferred Death food is the cheese kransky (preferably from Andrew’s of yarraville.) Fatty smoked sausage WITH cheese inside it. You can hear your arteries crying “Nooooooooo!!”
Yay Helen!
I was surprised to find cheese Kranskies so thin on the ground over in Victoria - in WA they’re a grease-box fixture. Yarraville’s a long way to go though - I only ever want one when I’m horribly hung over.
Is America a continent?
To the marketdroids, it might was well be. Consider the alternatives… North McAmerica, McNorth America, Latin McAmerica, etc. I guess their intention was McAmericas, except that the plural form confuses customers.
I’m waiting for the McEurasia. Not that I care what’s in it, or will shell out for it, but it sounds big. There must be some
markscustomers that want to eat big food from McChucks.“A ‘biscuit’ in the States is essentially a scone (crossed with shortbread), usually with lard instead of butter. Before they’re cooked, I swear you can see the dough quiver as the gluten and carbohydrates struggle to hold the fat together.”
Oh my lard.
Fair enough, Andrew, although the relationship between what it eat and why we eat is quite complex (although that could sound like I’m trying to make excuses). And sometimes it’s nice to pig out….oh my lard.
Thanks, Helen. The “cheese kransky”….mmmmmm, as Homer would say. Love the kranksys at the Vic Markets, but I bet the ones at Andrew’s are better. What about the horrific Dagwood Dog? Are they popular down here in Melbourne? They used to be an annual Ekka, ummm, treat.
In relation to “America”, when Don Watson appeared at Readings to promote his book a chap in the audience had a go at him for using the term “America” as if it just meant North America as opposed to the whole darn thing. The McEurasia would probably just be a bagel with cheese and bacon and egg with ketchup. If that combo can represent America, it sure as hell can represent Eurasia…:)
Ah yes, the cheese sausage. Hydraulically recovered carcase material, combined with byproducts from the rubber industry and blessed with a defense mechanism, against predators, of, when punctured, releasing a high pressure stream of gooey stuff at a temperature somewhere above the melting point of lead, allowing the sausage the opportunity to escape from the predator’s grasp and roll away to hide under the driving seat or down a drain.
I love ‘em, but only since my Citizenship ceremony. I think there must have been something mind altering in the warm cask white or the curly Sunblest sandwiches.
Haven’t had a McD’s for over 20 years and haven’t noticed a great yawning gap in my life.
While I was in a large group of people on a tight travel schedule I once had the misfortune of having nowhere to eat breakfast other than the aforementioned establishment. I ate there twice and both times got given barely lukewarm (at best) muffins and pieces of toast for the cost of buying a whole loaf or a whole pack of muffins. Loving it? More like “Meh.”
Haven’t eaten at McDonald’s since 1989.And that was because of the ankle-biter then in my care. I couldn’t resist the pester-power. Won’t go back, of I can help it.
I do occasionally order a pizza though, brought to the door, to eat while watching DVDs. And I don’t mind KFC.
Once went into KFCs with a mate. We ralked very loudly about whether it was chicken or rabbit.
Won’t generally eat hamburgers, unless I make them.
Sp. talked not ralked @ 23.
I’ll go one better Paul. I have never eaten at a Maccas, though did have a coffee a few years ago on the basis of the ‘bottomless cup’ generosity. And I think I’m your vintage.
What’s wrong with rabbit? Staple meat of the English peasant for several hundred years.
pablo, true about the coffee. From memory it tastes like dishwater.
The Intellectual Bogan, hey? I don’t think I’ve come across you before. Great nickname. You have a very entertaining way with words
Love your description of the cheese sausage. When did you officially become an Australian: back in 1955? Sunblest sandwiches and warm cask wine. Tee hee.
Good point, dj. The other day I purchased a loaf of bread for $2 (at a store in Brunswick) and the McAmerica cost $4.25 (I think).
When it comes to KFC, Paul, I have to admit to finding the chips and gravy a bit of a treat. It’s rabbit, but nothing wrong with that
Pablo, I admire your strength. The coffee at McD’s is a travesty.
Actually Darlene, I doubt whether they still use rabbit at KFC (it costs more than chicken, at least in Adelaide) - it’s more likely cat.
Whadya reckon a McAfrica would be, a bagel with a high-protien biscuit (and no sauce)?
KFC isn’t rabbit - rabbit is far too expensive for KFC to buy and process. I think it’s cane toads moulded onto recycled chicken carcases. Where do you think the chicken bones go after Coles strips all the meat off them for chicken breast fillets?
At least, that’s what it tastes like.
the McAfrica is a UN water bottle and a handful of rice, but only once a week when the planes come in.
the McSouthAfrica is a handful of Biltong, served next to a fabulous picture of a three course breakfast.
The McFrance is a fried ham sandwich with a garnish of cigarette ash, served in a surly manner after being dropped on the floor.
The McNewYork is a McFrance x 4 with bacon and cheese.
The McSingapore is a normal McMuffin, but plastic coated for looking at.
Darlene, it was 1999, but in a small town in WA, so we were a bit behind the times. The whole ceremony was gloriously amateurish and smacked of school assemblies of 30 years ago. I loved it.
Love the kranksys at the Vic Markets, but I bet the ones at Andrew’s are better.
Yes, Andrew and Immanouille win the sausage division at the Royal Show every year. They describe themselves on their shingle as ‘the Sausage Kings’ without a shred of levity. As they should.
What about the horrific Dagwood Dog? Are they popular down here in Melbourne? They used to be an annual Ekka, ummm, treat.
You can only get them at the aforementioned Royal Show, which of course corresponds to the Ekka. I think there’s some kind of law requiring that.
It’s more likely cat, David. Oh my gawd, one day my Spotty shall be a chicken wing.
A McAfrica would be a bagel with a small starving child in the middle.
David @ 4.15pm - hilarious stuff. Particularly love the New York one.
That’s wonderful, IB (about your ceremony experience). You must have had to wait a bit for the Citizenship Ceremony to come to town. I believe they only go to small areas every so often. They’re more frequent in urban areas.
Right, that might be the Dagwood Dog Act 1955. They’re so bad those Dogs. I’m going to make a special visit to Yarraville to grab me one of Andrew’s bangers. Where is he located?
Back in my Uni days I had an annual pilgrimage to Macca’s for a cheeseburger and chips. In about third year, I realised that the experience held no enjoyment for me at all. Since then, I have been to Macca’s five times: once to drive-through as a starving breastfeeder with a sleeping baby in the back of the car, and the rest when Other People were organising a meeting/eating place. The chips are as salty as ever but the apple pie is cooler and contains more choko. That McHealthy stuff is… just odd. But some of them have great play areas.
‘Twas conducted by the local Shire, in their function room. The whole place was a veritable shrine to the 1970s, complete with bizarrely patterned olive green and brown carpet and lots of brown bricks and woodwork. They were doing the ceremonies about every 5-6 months at the time. Couldn’t go the first time round as it coincided with the birth of our daughter, but the delay did mean it coincided with my Dad being over from the UK so he could do the proud parent bit.
Don’t try the McAntarctica. The pickle is frozen solid.
Once in my home country town, offpsring no 1 (he was about 9 at the time) and I had only McDonalds to choose from for brekkie. I whinged about it so much that I innoculated him against the dreaded arches for several years, until he became of an age when he fell in line with his peers.
And some years previously we were once on holiday in England in a New Town - we couldn’t find the bloody High St (there wasn’t one) but we did find one restaurant - you guessed it. Appalling, I would have killed for a doner kebab at the time.
“Don’t try the McAntarctica. The pickle is frozen solid.”
No, as a result of global warming it’s now luke warm.
McDonald’s has recently gone very much down hill in my book. Not that I ever used to eat it all that frequently, but I swear in the old days, the best bit about it was the fact that it was seriously FAST… you would line up, order your Big Mac and in the time it took for the front counter staff member (crew member?) to turn around and retrieve said burger from the under the hot lamp where it had been warming, you were good to go.
NOW they have this whole “cook on demand” idea… so suddenly, instead of lightning fast artery clogging goodness, you line up, place your order and then wait many minutes, if they are busy and/or understaffed as they so often seem to be now, for the same old slop.
Dis. Grun. Tled.
If you happen to be in Indonesia or Thailand, McDonalds is great because it’s air conditioned. Only problem is, you have to eat the food, but at least some of it’s different to the Aussie offerings. Last time I had a Prosperity Burger, which was some sort of reconstituted alleged meat, coated in a dark brown glutinous sauce which had the flavour of nothing much other than glue. But hey, the air conditioning was turned up high.
One of the many good things about Cambodia and Laos is that there are no McDonalds to be seen.
When you’re travelling with kids in Australia, McDonalds is a bit of a welcome relief - the toilets are clean and in good repair and while the food is woeful, at least it’s consistent. This rule isn’t universal though, the US McDonalds don’t have the same attitude towards the dunnies and don’t get me started on the state of the one I stumbled into in Paris (it made the feet-either-side-of-pit arrangement in various countries look like the height of civilisation).
Denny’s, on the other hand, know about toilets. They can’t cook or serve to save their lives but at least it’s clean.
Why do we Aussies need McDonalds? Surely we have chains of our own? Why feed the American artery clogging machines? I don’t do fast food…but there has to be some out there that hooks more efficiently into local produce, right? I remember going to places in Brissie years ago that served beetroot, pineapple, fresh tomato etc. w/ the steak burger.
And we used to go heaps to a vege burger place at Surfer’s Paradise. Now that was yummy.
When in Rome do as the Romans do. (Rome = America) Seems these days the Romans are everywhere. And local custom & culture kowtows to them. That’s why we enjoyed our trips to Byron Bay…a bit of originality. Tho I’ve heard that the Roman virus is spreading thru there too…it’s invasive like a cancer.
I have no problem w/ Americans starting up restaurants here…but they need to diversify, get w/ the feel of THE LAND. Too much pushing of their culture onto ours for my likings. And sucking capital out. I’d like to see REAL American stuff here. Not just manufactured cheap costume franchises.
The Death of Ronald or Suddenly Last Summer
He claps his
gloved hands,
face a plaster
cast death mask,
little does
he know it.
“Now boys and girls .
(the target;
squeezing
every red cent
from their
upturned faces,
exposing
their throats to him -
from their
perspective he
is all teeth and
mouth and nostrils).
Then, suddenly
so it seemed —
“We’ve had enough.
Sloppy nonsense”
And they point
to the dawn of a new day
grinding
their teeth, saying
in unison
“no more, no more”.
They turn on him
with rage in them
rising
all those years of abuse,
aware of themselves at
last.
Alarmed, Ronald retreats
collapses
in on himself
and
at the edge
of a sea of
cattle bones,
on the shore of
a treeless
dustbowl,
beneath a bald mountain,
he expires,
is buried,
stiff as a board
as he always was.
They wash their hands
of him,
his flame-red
juice
slooshed away.
“And they’d better not
send any more of ‘em”
*Tom Pearson
Read this:
http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve03/1131mcdon.html
Why darken the Tawdry Arches?
Pablo @25 hit half the spot - especially in the Great OS (more especially if the Oz$ is at pathetic levels). The caff-fix isn’t bankrupting. The other half? Toilets are CLEAN & FREE!!!
If in London & not with Brekkie thrown in, the English Breakfast is almost edible (if you avoid eating the most compelling argument for removing “Give us this day our daily bread” from the Lord’s Prayer) - though we only had to do it once.
Our only Oz Macca “meal” was of necessity (crashing blood levels & the next servo&cafe 30 mins away). OH had a Big M, I had something called ‘a chicken fillet burger’. We both agreed that the lettuce (Iceberg) actually had some taste.
Reminded us of English cooking before Asian etc immigrants introduced food which actually TASTED like food - the only ?????”cuisine????? in which something bland (in England’s case “water”; in Macca’s “fat”) was the only identifiable taste.
Down and out @ 19, the McNAFTA Burger?
Oh dear, Darlene, I’ve just found out that distaste for McDonalds is LEFT WING WHINING! Tim Blair went to Maccas and came away “spiritually uplifted”! See this profound post from “RWDB”:
http://rwdb.blogspot.com/2008/06/positive-versus-negative.html
We stand loudly condemned.
I saw this morning too and wondered where’s McLatinamerica??? It’s a dry stale bun with nothing on it: like the Amazon rainforest when Maccas get thru with it.
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It’s a joke Maccas, a joke. Don’t sue please!!!!
That’s priceless, Kim you influential lefty you.
Have a Big Mac on me, J F Beck or the McBeckster as he’s known around these parts.
Well, I left McDonalds with a distinct case of rumbling guts (an official medical term), which might be construed as some kind of intellectualism or moaning on some level. I’m not going to live longer because I ate the shit.
That’s hilarious, Adrien.
Off topic, but for fans of Ricky, Karl and Steve, you can download their NME radio show on Pilkipedia:
http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Karl sounds rather grumpy and not happy to be there, but as always it’s good listening.
I don’t go to McDonalds cause the food is terrible. Its got nothing to do with me being a leftie. I wouldn’t eat KFC, if my food choices were guided by my politics. And I wouldn’t use Microsoft software. And I wouldn’t … oh, hell, the list is endless.
Good points, Paul. Some people just see everything in terms of politics and everything in terms of good ol’ Cold War divisions. Life is infinitely more complex (and thank Colonel Sanders for that).
I assume that Hewlett Packard (the makers of the computer I am using) aren’t a small collective based in some Third World nation.
While I only get McDonald’s maybe twice a year at best I did try the McEurope burger last week. Tasted alright and had chicken in it but couldn’t tell you what was so “European” about it.
Yes. I take it y’all don’t do geography down there?
America = the continent; North America = Canada & the USA; South America = all them Southy countries.
Memo Aussie Leftoids: Save your McMuffin money & treat yourself to an atlas instead.
Memo Dumb Yank: Mexico and a whole lot of southy countries right down to Panama are part of north America. You need the atlas more than we do.
Ouch, Dumb Yank. That stings. I understand an Aussie Leftoid is a left-handed android with a fondness for beer. Boom tish.
See, I grew up in Queensland during the reign of Joh (think Huey Long, but without the charisma and radical politics). We didn’t place much stock on this education business. Still don’t. So I’m going to tuck into another McAmerica and leave geography and other such things to you yanks.
So Jacques, the McEurope has chicken in it? Mmmm, that says to Europe to me
Nothing says Paris or whatever like a piece of chook.
I’m a RWDB (polishes pistol) and a resident of Ohio. But I have to say McDonalds’ food sucks regardless of whether you’re eating in one in the US, Europe, or Australia. And regardless of whether you’re leftwing or rightwing.
But just FYI, most Australian McDonalds are owned by Australians as franchises. Capitalism and free enterprise and all. They still suck though.
“Tim Blair went to Maccas and came away “spiritually uplifted”!”
hmmm…wasn’t this the guy who was ill recently. Some vege juice & pulses might do him some good rather than crap fat from animals w/out choice.
Thanks for the info about McDonalds and the way it runs, Wronwight. Interesting. Now put away that pistol, partner
True that we all have to take responsibility for our own health, Nasking, and the correlation between eating certain foods and certain illnesses/diseases are clear (although there lots of other factors at play as well). And I say this as someone who’s a bit of junk food junkie.
Naw. It eez not ze taste of Europe. Zey talk to me, McDonald’s, about zere new plans for le Big Mac and ze Royale wiz Cheeze. I say to zem ze McEurope most have ze taste of France. Fuck ze Italians zey know fuck all, were vary locky in ze world cup and are harry too. Zo I zay we get ze snails, we get ze garlic sauce we put it on ze seasame seed baguette. Yom yom.
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Zey did not go for it. Stupid fockin’ Americans. Chicken. Eez a joke. Mer-DAH!
Why doesn’t McAustralia have beetroot? Beetroot is the key to the ‘Strine burger and one of our greatest contributions to world culture.
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The ad’s right. The burgers are better at Hungry Jacks. And even better at a non-franchise.
Never been to Hubgrt Jacks, but I was warned off them by a friend.
Meant Hungry Jacks.
“although there lots of other factors at play as well”
That’s for sure Darlene…dem genes, dem toxins in the pine and paint and carpets, dem damned asbestos thingies everywhere in Australia, dem pollutants, dem bad things are bein’ pumped out left right and centre…dey can even be found around & under poor returned vets from WW2 in cheecago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altgeld_Gardens%2C_Chicago
(Altgeld Gardens)
dat was when that poli fella on de TV was doin’ darn good things…he got a nice smile but some smelly friends…he need to do some summer cleanin’…w/ the help of dat Robert R. fella.
The burgers were better back in the old days…a little shop in Caloundra used to do a great burger. The real kind.
Why do you guys whinge and whine about McDonalds so much. They sell hamburgers and lots of people like ‘em. Please get over it. The way the Left goe son you’d think the McHappy Meals came with a re al live cluster bomb as the novelty toy.
McDonlds - the most endlessly whinged about company in the world.
Looks like I could have afforeded to have done a spell check on my previous post - I blame McDonalds for advertisng 10am saturday mornings between cartoons - the fiends
Because we can…..and can I say, the whole left/right split bores the shit out of me. Couldn’t give a McHappy Meal about it. I’m sorry, but use that bait on someone who cares.
I would’ve thought the Scientologists are the most whinged about company in the world. The thetans have ways of making you eat a Big Mac.
Isn’t there an older post here which dissects this left-right foodism crap?
I won’t go to McDonalds until they serve me an unwooded, locally made Chardonnay with my Organic Lentil Burger, the McFart.
That’s funny, Sam.
Mind you, I think they already serve McFarts.
Drum roll…soon we’ll all be eating the Osama Bin Laden fried BS burger…thawed from the freezer like fish fingers w/ the ice scrapped off, the greatest terrorist on Earth will be flame grilled & then served by foxes & drudgers alike to a potentially starving audience…just in time to divert from the impeachment of a President & his mob that get CROSS everytime they play out their Big Bro roles these days…the GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH is about to offer the most wanted man in history…ladies & gentleman, let the SHOW begin:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4138791.ece
(Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush)
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the audience spat the burger out & stated w/ calm & steely voice
“that tastes like bull sh*t to me”
More on the attack of the killer tomatoes…seems as usual it comes down to food safety, potentially corruptable private contractors, Neo-Liberal/Neo-Con govts & INTENTIONAL NEGLIGENCE…or mebbe just outright greed, penny-pinching, covering up to assist corporate/business mates & plain old incompetence:
The Food Protection Plan is itself a mix of lofty promises and suspect strategies. One element of the plan, for example, would allow the FDA to designate third parties, including private contractors, to inspect food on the FDA’s behalf. That is a pander to conservative anti-government orthodoxy; there is no evidence that outsourcing food inspection to private contractors would work better than an effectively managed and adequately funded government program, and there is plenty of reason to suspect that a private contractor would be more susceptible to corruption and less accountable to the public.
All of which suggests that the Bush administration wants to appear as if it is concerned about food safety, but doesn’t want government to do the hard work of actually protecting the food supply. To the extent that it does, it does so kicking and screaming in response to political pressure.
(Behind the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, By Isaiah J. Poole,
June 13th, 2008)
More here:
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/behind-attack-killer-tomatoes
Thank goodness the Rudd govt. is taking this stuff seriously.
I was trying to think of that stuff which was the ultimate in lardy McLard.. Now I remember. There’s a picture - probably NSFW (if only that you’ll throw up on your keyboard.) Probably in the “tastes better than it looks” category.
And Darlene, Andrew and Immannuel(?) have their shop on Anderson st, Yarraville. It’s between the railway line and Ballarat st, although I can’t remember the number.
“I won’t go to McDonalds until they serve me an unwooded, locally made Chardonnay with my Organic Lentil Burger, the McFart.”
:0… Sam Clifford, i don’t fart heaps after eating lentils, and I eat heaps of them. Including:
Organic lentil, leek & chilli burgers w/ tomato, canadian or polish dill pickles, dijon mustard & tomato sauce/hot Nandos sauce in dark rye bread/rolls
…lentils in the potato, vege gravy, homegrown herbs & vege (carrots, leek or onion, carrots, peas, capsicum, brussles) bake w/ sliced tomatoes & pastry on top…add cheese under the pastry. I still haven’t kicked the luv for cheese, wish I could…we buy non-animal rennet stuff.
lentils in curry…& used in spaghetti sauce instead of mince…delicious.
We alternate…sometimes use chick peas & nuts…or mushroom…or when rushing buy vege burgers from the frozen section of the supermarket. Not too often tho. Worried about the fats…the heart ya see.
Strangely, I fart heaps after drinking too much wine…puts the balance in my gut out. Also puts heaps of weight on me. Since I lessened my drinking I’m losing much weight…and finding more motivation to walk & garden.
It’s good McDonalds are selling vege burgers…but it’s the history & other ongoing things that bother me. But heck, change happens on the inside too…the seeds of good things spread etc…
Helen…lol on the Poutine, reminds me of a Canadian animated show I enjoyed on the Comedy Channel a while back…Chilly Beach…ya know, I used to eat regularly at Harveys as a teenager. But was more a meat burger guy in those days.
How things change eh? After a teacher during the senior years showed us a video of the slaughterhouse I began to see things differently. Took some time to grow in my mind. Gradual shift & all that. Until I sicked up chook claws from a Chinese yum-cha oneday…about 1991…then my wife & I went vegetarian. I used to eat anything…including snails in garlic sauce at a German Canadian mates house. Sigh. I think it’s disgusting they don’t offer students choice & reality by showing such vids here.
Had Poutine a coupla times. Yikes. I luved the way Canadian restaurants often had water jugs on the table back then. And pictures of Bobby Orr, Bobby Hull & other hockey players…:) A game that seemed to become far more violent when the Philadelphia Flyers decided to win the Stanley Cup by using violence & skill…& didn’t the media play it up…:(
You guys are cute, read below, for purposes of the Olympics “America” is one contienet. Most Latin Americans view the term America as meaning the Western Hemisphere, and get quite irrate when gringos refer to themselves as Americans, so dumb Yank was right.
However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Though colourful explanations about the symbolism of the coloured rings exist, the only connection between the rings and the continents is that the number five refers to the number of continents. In this scheme, the Americas are viewed as a single continent, and Antarctica is omitted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_flag
Also, you must get over this myth that you have the best coffee in the world, it’s good and admire the fact that you have options at many different venues but to think you can’t get similar or better quality in New York, Austin or Paris is amusing.
No carry on trashing maccas, everyone enjoys that.
Dumb yank is correct, for the Olympics America is considered a continent, in fact most Latin Americans believe the term America means the entire Western Hemisphere and get very upset when gringos refer to themselves as Americans.
“However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Though colourful explanations about the symbolism of the coloured rings exist, the only connection between the rings and the continents is that the number five refers to the number of continents. In this scheme, the Americas are viewed as a single continent, and Antarctica is omitted.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_flag
Here’s an interesting article…tho I think you got there before me Helen…;)
http://theseniortimes.com/article/2008/06/vegging-out-fast-food-experience.html
Gotta watch your salt-intake tho. It takes a Murdoch media et al to remind us of that…lol. And don’t forget, as the History channel reminds us w/ its DOOMSDAY shows about how the world will survive w/out us (post 2012 I imagine going by the media & blog beat-up…Mayan calendar anyone?….YAWN)…if you don’t know how to munch on meat then you might get eaten…or somethin’ like that…SCARRYYYY. I wonder if the Fox people wear boogeyman masks on their time off?
The more you FEAR, the more ANXIOUS you get…the more they HOPE you will be hooked into their shows & faux debates. And the more money they make from ads. Murdoch is the ringMASTER of this kind of SHOW.
sorry to dig up an old post…
but does anyone know of any online video or discussion of the relatively recent mcdonald’s advertisements that captured ’special’ macca’s moments? For example, one was a young bloke who had just got his driver’s license and he takes his mates down to macca’s for a feed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
found this
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/mcdonalds-ad-made-a-meal-of-driving-safety/2007/12/01/1196394682307.html
but if anyone knows of a copy online I would really appreciate a link
Never heard of that advertisement. Thanks for the link.