McDonald's. Is it good or is it bad? I guess it all depends on your point of view on life. Grease sure tastes pretty damn good but at the same time you're probably decreasing your lifespan by valuable seconds or minutes. Eat about a thousand fries and how many seconds are you knocking off your life, clogging your arteries and increasing the chances of a heart attack.
Well, you only live once and what's the point of living a life full of worries. Eat up the grease!
I wouldn't consider myself an avid fan of McDonald's since I only eat there two or three times a month. Just a casual fan... like the casual gambler (I don't think this makes much sense).
My earliest memory of McDonald's must be when I was about nine years old. My family had this strange habit of dumping all the fries together on the thin piece of paper that's always on the tray – a “communal” kind of thing. At that time, my friend W was with us. My parents had treated him to whatever he ordered and he was quite horrified when we put all the fries together saying something like, “Hey, those were my fries!”. Perhaps, something twisted in his brain when we did this because W later turned into a pedophile (this is a true story)... I guess my family'll have to accept responsibility for his bad habit of rubbing little boy's chests (that was how he started in grade seven). I heard many years later that he was in court for “rubbing” more boys. Sad, sad, sad.
Come to think of it McDonald's might the best place for pedophiles. I mean what other restaurants has a playground where pre-pubescent children jump up and climb things. Well, I should probably stop talking about this...
In high school, I killed quite a bit of time sitting in McDonald's with my friends. We would always squirt out the ketchup packets, tear up the napkins and use the cardboard from the fries, Big Macs or whatever to make some bizarre “objet”. Those were the days... carefree times.
I do remember a few people I knew in high school worked at McDonald's. Two of them worked “so hard” that they became employee-of-the -month. They would have their picture displayed on a plaque for a month on the wall next to the cash registers. Hell of a way to make people getting paid a pittance to get motivated about their crap working conditions.
I did fill out an application form to work at McDonald's when I was about 15. Fortunately, they never called me. I guess I just didn't meet their standards. Shucks!
Japan's McDonald's has the same “great” taste. I see absolutely no difference in how it tastes. The menu has a few different things such as the Teriyaki burger and the Tsukimi burger (it's a burger with an egg). Most recently, they've had the Big America series. Every month a new burger with the image of various American cities are made. I enjoyed eating the Las Vegas burger several weeks ago. It's got a quarter-pound slice of beef with sliced marinated beef and cream cheese. Very tasty and extremely unhealthy.
