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McNuggets Violence

McDonalds doesn’t start serving breakfast until 10:30, see.
So if you pull up to the drivethru window at 6:30 am, dont expect to be able to order Chicken McNuggets. You won’t get ‘em.
If you are really nice, maybe they will give you some Spicy Mustard or BBQ sauce dipping packets to go with your Egg McMuffin - but you won’t get McNuggets.
Apparently, Melodi Dushane of Toledo, Ohio didn’t realize this during her new years day drunken rampage - when she went McCrazy.

After realizing it was too early to get the mcNuggets fix, Dushane reached through the window and punched a drive-thru attendant in the face. More violence ensues - including a beer bottle being thrown through the window and some hair pulling.

Go to 1:15 to skip the silent dialogue and view the tantrum. The best part of this, is after Melodi “I’m just so crazy for those McNuggets” Dushane drives away, another car drives up, and a McDonald’s worker calmly hands him his order.
“nothing to see here, move along, move along”

WKRG.com News

McRib Locator

I heard that the McRib was making its rounds…like the ephemeral Shamrock Shake, the presence of the McRib brings peals of laughter to the devotees of the Golden Arches.  And there is a site devoted to the tracking of the famed sandwich chock-full-o-sauce and reconstituted pork meat, shaped in the form of a phake rib.  Check it out.

There is an Awesome Caption For This Somewhere…

No More Big Macs in Iceland

The multitudes of readers of this blog will recall from my prior ramblings about McDonalds that McDs is an economic index of sorts - a bell-weather of global financial bust and booms.  Yesterday, the Golden Arches announced that they are shuttering all of their Icelandic restaurants with no plans to ever come back.  Yikes!  Now, recall that prior to the collapse of their banking sector last year, Iceland was one of the wealthiest nations per capita.  Reykjavik was an international financial hub providing support for all sorts of European assets…now their economy is at crisis levels.  And McDs is saying that the global economy that the Icelandic business model relies on is too precarious to ever come back to, even after people start spending more Kronas on Big Macs. 

See, the closings aren’t just about shifts in the demand curves - not just about people jonesing for that oh-so sweet-and-fatty taste of the McChicken Sandwich.  It’s also about the challenges of operating within the Icelandic economic profile - an economy that relies heavily on the Global Economy. Mainly, the sensitivity to import costs.  Most ‘ingredients’ come in from Germany; hence, die bestandteile prices have nearly doubled their costs due to the recent currency shifts (Krona way down, Euro up).  This cost function shift pushes the prices of menu items far above what consumers would pay in a sensible economy, let alone in a down economy.

Ok, ok, so what’s the punchline?  McDonalds is showing us that the underpinnings of harnessing your nation (esp if you are a small island of 300,000 people in the middle of the Atlantic) to the Global Economy spigot is not quite mature enough a system to bet the farm on…especially when currency rates are variables in your operating cost function…no insulation from the effects of macro-economic shocks to the global markets.

Black Jack Tacos from Taco Bell

Fast food product packaging, IMHO, is fascinating…like that of the McDLT and the 7 eleven Big Nachos with Free cheese.  So you can imagine how floored i was when i saw commercials for the Black Jack taco from Taco Bell…Where the brilliant marketing geniuses at Taco Bell decided to let the food itself be the packaging.  Brilliant.  Really.  No, no…i am being serious.  My guess is that this will be a very popular Taco Bell menu item, similar to the McDonald’s shamrock shake and McRib sandwich which make their appearances only on special occasions, and when they do….look out!

“I’ll have the supersized #5 Value meal…and ooh!  throw in a McRib too!”

Mark my words, the 89 cent Black Jack taco is the next Shamrock Shake.

For only 89 cents you can get 210 calories and 17 grams served up in a blackened taco shell…