Very restrained there Flashy! My salmon was lovely BTW 😀
Salmon? Do they do a McSalmon now? 😉
Or is it a Fillet-o-Salmon?
A burger with fries once in a while is nowhere near as bad as sticky sugary sweet things ingested pretty much every day.
Yes, which is why I was criticising the junk food industry in general, not just McDonalds. Yes kids have long eaten sweets and drunk sugary drinks, just not in the industrial quantities they do now - with a strange correlation between that and obesity, and the massive increase in advertising spend on promoting such 'foods'.
But of course there's no connection.
This thread seems to have moved on a bit from its original question - but here's my tuppence worth anyway.
Yes, a lot of people are too 'anti' for their own good.
Nobody bothered with the place before, nobody bothered with it when it was empty and becoming derilict - how can anyone be 'anti' in this specific case?
There are instances where I can understand being 'anti' because of the hyper-aggressive tactics of some chains. For example, Starbuck used to have a policy (according to Naomi Klein) of setting up branches that deliberately cannibalised the sales of their own pre-existing branches as that would 'prove' that they had taken as much of the market as possible in that area and most likely killed off all competition. I doubt this would go down too well with shareholders in the current climate though.
This is erring towards simple bullying of small businesses by a big player - but those small businesses must also move with the times. Perhaps they needed to re-decorate or encourage a sort of localism by marketing themselves as niche, anti-Starbucks, fiercely independent etc.
When it comes down to it, there will always be successful independents - but they will be ones that are well-run (and so profitable), and offer some quality and character. Chains will always struggle to oust these as they are too rigidly rule-driven to adapt.
As a potential customer, if you let a particular business go to the wall by not frequenting it, then you can't expect to have the right to decide what should replace it.
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Binners or Grum earlier?
WTF is that!?
Whole wheat couscous and roasted vegetables for tea here btw. 🙂
I have eaten a McD product only once in my entire life; a Big Mac. And it was a crushing disappointment
Don't eat the burgers in McDs, they are awful. I always have something with chicken in it - either a wrap of some kind or chicken selects or something, which is quite nice fried chicken tenders.
Don't eat the burgers in McDs, they are awful
Snob. 😉
I quite like the 1/4 pounder with cheese. Not a fan of Big Macs at all.
Fortunately fried chicken is one of my favourite ever things - dunno why, but I could eat it all day 🙂
I quite like the 1/4 pounder with cheese. Not a fan of Big Macs at all.
Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder in France?
Is it to do with the metric system?
