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Not So Happy Meals

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If they replace McDonalds servers with machines, where will get our humanities-graduate jokes from?

7,000 European McDonald’s locations will install the technology in an effort to make the customer’s experience more convenient. Steve Easterbrook, president of European operations, says that the company is looking to update the ordering system, which has not really changed much over the past “30-40 years.”

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Toying with the Fat Kids

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You can take away their happy meals, but McFat kids will keep coming back bigger than ever.

New York City Councilman Leroy G. Comrie Jr. of Queens has attacked a piece of Americana by proposing to ban “Happy Meal” toys in fast food restaurants.  And while legislators and public health advocates are correct in looking for ways to reverse skyrocketing childhood obesity rates, toys and kids’ foods have been synonymous for almost a century, ever since Cracker Jacks began adding surprises to each package in 1912.

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Food Terrorists Bag Ronald McDonald

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Where with the food terrorists strike next? We can only pray the family of Colonel Harland Sanders are safe
Aaaaaaaaaaand this is the weirdest thing you’ll see all day. A group in Finland calling themselves the “Food Liberation Army” has apparently stolen a statue of Ronald McDonald from a local McDonalds and made a series of “terrorist” videos in which they blindfold and then behead it, all in the name of “better quality and ethicality of consumption.” On Fox News, Megyn Kelly attempted to be outraged by them imitating videos of people actually being killed but, in the end, just embraced how utterly and amazingly absurd it is.
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