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December 09, 2004
The Nerve!
they closed my McDonalds! seriously! i thought places like that were like Starbucks. invincible, indestructible. but they went and closed the damn thing!
the McD's in question is across the street from my office. and to be honest, there really is only one meal that i can stomach eating from there -- breakfast. every so often i'll get this feeling creeping up on me during the train ride in to work. a McMuffin. i gotta have an egg McMuffin... with one of those giant tater tots too. you know what i'm talking about -- the thing they try to call hash browns, but it's not. not that there is anything wrong with that. it's such an addictive feeling too. once that seed of eggy/ham/cheesy goodness gets rooted in my mind, it's all i can think about. i've got to have one.
and as if those McD marketing people knew what they were doing, there it was -- my McD's -- right between the subway escalator and my office building. but while out walking at lunch yesterday, to my horror i saw that the sign had been removed and the windows papered over!
where the hell am i gonna get my fix? now the nearest McD's must be two blocks away! do they expect me to walk all the way over there -- i might get excercise or something! grumble grumble...
Posted by P at December 9, 2004 06:11 AM
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I never heard of a McDonald's closing! What is this world coming to?? I mean, I may not go to McDonald's but once every two years or so but I expect them to be right where I left them last! Downright unAmerican, if you ask me!
Posted by: Empress at December 9, 2004 06:27 AM
that is so tragic...I, unlike most people, adore eating at McD's. I know it's AWFUL in every respect, health wise, global ecology, etc...just bad, bad, bad...but I can't help it...I LURV THE 1/4 POUNDER WITH CHEESE!!!
Posted by: Miss Bliss at December 9, 2004 10:26 AM
oh those bastards! and that's the exact same meal I always get (everything else from McDs results in adverse side-effects), except I order TWO titanic tots, 'cause I'm a pig.
Posted by: sawni at December 9, 2004 12:04 PM
what?! there must be something seriously wrong! McDonaldses are like rabbits, they grow in numbers, fast.
what you've witnessed must be some kind of junkfood-mixamitoses!!
Posted by: eric.s at December 9, 2004 12:13 PM
There is no way that is possible, they never close McDonalds. They just remodel them into some lame marketing attempt that ultimately fails. The McDiner down the road from me is now just a regular McD's and all I can say is good riddance, that food was awful by anyones standards!
Posted by: Jeff A at December 9, 2004 01:02 PM
Considering how impossible it would be for a McDonadl's outlet to actually LOSE money, I must agree, it probably didn't close down.
But if it did, I am truly happy for you because now everyone in the area, for fear of walking too far, will get their grub elsewhere and maybe live longer.
see Supersize Me! the documentary for details :D
Posted by: anna. at December 11, 2004 08:12 AM
It's crazy!
The closest McDonalds to me is exactly three blocks away. I used to go there at least once a week. You see, I was raised by a hippie health food fanatic for a mom and never got to touch fast food until I was in highschool.
In gradeschool it was always fifty-two grain bread, turkey, lettuce, tomato sandwich, a "fruit leather" (if you don't know what that is, just picture exactly what it sounds like) and a carton of milk while other kids ate ham & kraft singles on wonderbread with a fruit rollup (or Hostess Cupcake! OMG!!!) and slurped down "squeeze-its."
When I moved to NY as an adult, and without my mommy's health conscious eye anywhere near, I started to love McDonalds. Oh those breakfasts. Those nothing-could-replace-that-when-you-have-a-hangover breakfasts. Soooo goood.
And yet, when you really think about what you're eating, SO GROSS!!! What is that? That's not an egg. That's a flat round white and yellow hockey puck sitting atop a god-knows-what-the-fuck-is-in-there-sausage, bedecked by a poor excuse for "cheese" and ultimately encased in what we have come to accept as a muffin, which is really the most processed piece of shit imagineable, not a single component having any nutritional value whatsoever. But those big tatertots are bangin. ;o) Really though. Let's be rational. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to stop eating McDonalds.
Last time I ate it I stopped in for two cheeseburgers and a small fries. It tasted fuckin good. Right down to the little sad "onions" on the burgers. But afterwards I went back to my desk and felt overcome by self loathing and an actual physical feeling of fatigue and queaziness. This is not how you're supposed to feel after you eat. You're supposed to be infused with energy. Recharged. McDonalds does the opposite.
So I decided never to eat McDonalds again. And I replaced my daily intake of coca cola with water. I went from 140 lbs to 130 lbs. almost instantaneously.
When I figure out how to quit smoking a pack of cigarettes and consuming three glasses of beer or wine per day, maybe you can actually congratulate me. Hahaa.
Please excuse the obscenely long post. You must have hit a nerve.
Posted by: Maria at December 14, 2004 05:55 PM