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Nefilim · May 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">and stupid names</div> I really wish the fast-food industry would keep the names of their foods simple. Trying to be "catchy" only makes the customer uncomfortable when trying to order. For example:

<b>Man:</b> Hi... I'd like... uh... a... ahem. I'll take the... smilingcrispychickensandwhich. Make it large with a coke.
<b>Cashier:</b> Sir, could you speak louder?
<b>Man:</b> I'll take a... *eyeroll* smiling... crispy... chicken sandwhich. Make it large with a coke.
<b>Cashier:</b> Sir, you'll have to speak louder than that.
<b>Man:</b> I'LL TAKE A SMILING CRISPY CHICKEN SANDWHICH. MAKE IT LARGE WITH A COKE. ARE YOU HAPPY!?
<b>Cashier:</b> So a smiling crispy chicken sandwhich... happy sized.
<b>Man:</b> No, large.
<b>Cashier:</b> We only have happy-sized and EXCITED-sized, sir.
<b>Man:</b> Augh! Fine, make it happy.
<b>Cashier:</b> What would you like as a side order?
<b>Man:</b> Fries.
<b>Cashier:</b> We have smiling sticks and laughing chips.
<b>Man:</b> ... You know what? Forget it. Just give me a number three with a coke.
<b>Cashier:</b> Would you like to make it happy or excited?
<b>Man:</b> *drives off*
<b>Cashier:</b> Sir? Are you there?

cshank4 · May 2004

pretty true

crack · May 2004

no problems here. and if there is i drive up. if theres cars waiting i leave.

TychoCelchuuu · May 2004

Huh? I haven't heard of any fastfood with ridiculous names lately. Unless "Double Quarter Pounder" is your idea of silly.

Starchy · May 2004

Heh I wouldn't know, I either buy food from the supermarket or go out. Never drive-thru, they smell. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

AllUrHiveRblong2us · May 2004

I would eat anywhere where they sold smiling sticks. That sounds like about the most fun-tastic food ever.

Omegaman · May 2004

On a side note about McDonald's....Look at <a href='http://www.i-am-asian.com/' target='_blank'>this</a>...I lost all respect for McDonald's after seeing that...It would be hilarious if it was a parody of them, but it's not...

Cold_NiTe · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Omegaman! @ May 7 2004, 06:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> On a side note about McDonald's....Look at <a href='http://www.i-am-asian.com/' target='_blank'>this</a>...I lost all respect for McDonald's after seeing that...It would be hilarious if it was a parody of them, but it's not...  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Wow.

I want a brain enema to remove all memory of having seen that from my mind.

TychoCelchuuu · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Omegaman! @ May 7 2004, 08:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> On a side note about McDonald's....Look at <a href='http://www.i-am-asian.com/' target='_blank'>this</a>...I lost all respect for McDonald's after seeing that...It would be hilarious if it was a parody of them, but it's not...  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
You... shall be purged. For posting that where innocent people can see it.

Swiftspear · May 2004

Comon guys, its reaching out to the comunity....

...by spitting in thier face.

BadKarma · May 2004

If i cant see them make my food from where I order it, i dont eat from it.

P.S. I just saw the gaping anus guy for the first time. God.
P.P.S. I just wrote a story in fan fic. Damnit im creative like that.

SoulSkorpion · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Omegaman! @ May 8 2004, 07:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> On a side note about McDonald's....Look at <a href='http://www.i-am-asian.com/' target='_blank'>this</a>...I lost all respect for McDonald's after seeing that...It would be hilarious if it was a parody of them, but it's not...  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
*bursts into uncontrollable laughter*

panda_de_malheureux · May 2004

again, everyone go paint a US flag on your local mcdonalds and hopefully someone will suicide bomb it.

CommunistWithAGun · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Omegaman! @ May 7 2004, 06:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> On a side note about McDonald's....Look at <a href='http://www.i-am-asian.com/' target='_blank'>this</a>...I lost all respect for McDonald's after seeing that...It would be hilarious if it was a parody of them, but it's not...  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Whats worse is you actually had some respect for them in the first place

Omegaman · May 2004

What can I say, they had the saltiest french fries within a 5 mile radius. I got a thing for salt.

CommunistWithAGun · May 2004

I prefer burger king because you can actually taste potatoe in their fries still.

Cronos · May 2004

They actually SALT the chips around your area?

Wow.

We get soooo gibbed here in Aus, the only places you can get salted chips is from local shops. Thankfully, those local shops beat the living pance of Maccas and thus I'm able to circumvent the Macdonalds diet entirely, going to a saltier, healthier, and ultimately less demeaning diet.

But personally, I feel sorry for the folks that WORK there. Not the managers, just the people doing their job. They must either be depserate enough to want to work there or are getting paid a helluva lot to put up with it. Poor **** <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

Nemesis_Zero · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (version91x @ May 8 2004, 05:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> again, everyone go paint a US flag on your local mcdonalds and hopefully someone will suicide bomb it.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I know it's absolutely politically incorrect, but this still made me actually laugh out loud <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Jim · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cronos @ May 8 2004, 04:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> But personally, I feel sorry for the folks that WORK there. Not the managers, just the people doing their job. They must either be depserate enough to want to work there or are getting paid a helluva lot to put up with it. Poor **** <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
The McDonalds in town pays quite a good rate, but I wouldn't work there for double it :/ (I live in the UK, I don't know what the pay's like in the US)

Speed_2_Dave · May 2004

Just my .02, as an employee of one of those "evul" Fast food places (Hey, call'em Quick Service Restaurants, dangit!), it's not that they want to make everything "unique." Just the opposite is the problem I have working at Burger King. Only TWO (TWO!!!!) Chicken products we sell do not contain the word Crisp somewhere. The chicken nugget/strip variant at Burger King? Oh yeah, it's a crispy chicken tender.

Then we have the sandwich, the TenderCrisp. What about the Spicy Tendercrisp? Or what about the other Chicken sandwich? Yeah, it's got crisp in there somewhere, and I haven't figured out where, exactly, and I catch hell because of it.

So, for the sake of BK employees out there, just order your fries, take an Icee, and stick to the whoppers. Thanks. (I'm kidding, by the way)

Venmoch · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cronos @ May 8 2004, 09:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> But personally, I feel sorry for the folks that WORK there. Not the managers, just the people doing their job. They must either be depserate enough to want to work there or are getting paid a helluva lot to put up with it. Poor **** <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
**cough**
Compared to the other places that I could work in this little area of the UK McDonalds is probably the best employer.

And I work for them.

And no I am not working there because I have to I just like having money, and with University looming, I'm gonna need a lot.....

-EDIT- Oh and the fringe benefits are nice..... -EDIT-

cshank4 · May 2004

Meh the managers aint bad neither are the employees... sometimes (We got some hot girls that work at the one near my house!)anyhow, it's the MCD's HQ (or whatever) that manages what the things are named, and I doubt they'd name their products like that if it weren't for their already being sandwhiches like that at different restaurants named it. Like Chicken Sandwhich, 3 restaurants have that as the name...whats the point of eating at another place? It's all psychological.

Nemesis_Zero · May 2004

According to that logic, nobody would be eating fries, drinking Coke, or gobbling hamburgers at MDs...

GaryM · May 2004

Here in Dundee (the one in Scotland) you can regularly see people go in to McDonalds, ignore all the adverts for stuff like Super-Sized French Fries, and say, "Gie's a burger an a wee poke o' chips", to which the reply is usually, "Are ye eatin' here or gaun oot?"

Also, at <a href='http://www.i-am-asian.com/trivia/' target='_blank'>http://www.i-am-asian.com/trivia/</a> it says, "The oldest structure to house a McDonald's restaurant is located in Shrewsbury, England. One of the restaurant's exterior walls dates back to the thirteenth century." - I find that rether saddening myself.

cshank4 · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (GaryM @ May 8 2004, 10:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Here in Dundee (the one in Scotland) you can regularly see people go in to McDonalds, ignore all the adverts for stuff like Super-Sized French Fries, and say, "Gie's a burger an a wee poke o' chips", to which the reply is usually, "Are ye eatin' here or gaun oot?"

Also, at <a href='http://www.i-am-asian.com/trivia/' target='_blank'>http://www.i-am-asian.com/trivia/</a> it says, "The oldest structure to house a McDonald's restaurant is located in Shrewsbury, England. One of the restaurant's exterior walls dates back to the thirteenth century." - I find that rether saddening myself.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Hm, I wanna move to japan, they have rice dishes there, and what do we have in america? Grease on bun with cheese and onions with a side order of grease plus Coca Cola.

Speed_2_Dave · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (cshank4 @ May 8 2004, 06:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Hm, I wanna move to japan, they have rice dishes there, and what do we have in america? Grease on bun with cheese and onions with a side order of grease plus Coca Cola.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
In Europe they sell *shudder* beer, if you're man enough to risk a McBeer...

Afr · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ May 8 2004, 03:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I prefer burger king because you can actually taste potatoe in their fries still.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
So true.

Zig · May 2004

i like the catchphrase foods.

especially the In n Outs. 4x4 Animal Style, plz.

GaryM · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I wanna move to japan, they have rice dishes there</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
If you were in Japan and you wanted rice, would you go to McDonalds? Only once for the novelty of it I hope.

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> In Europe they sell *shudder* beer</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
They don't in the UK, but I'm pretty sure you get McBier (or whatever) in Germany and I'd assume McDonalds beer would suck but on the other hand Germany has laws about beer quality...

When I first went to McDonalds (about 10 years ago) they didn't sell Coca-Cola or any other brand name soft drinks, you only got foul McCola or something. You can get Coke now though.

I bet Scotland is the only country where you can get Irn-Bru in McDonalds. There was an American girl at my school who described all Scottish soft drinks as "toxically sweet" -hey, at least chocolate doesn't suck here.

TenSix · May 2004

Theres no way I'm walking into Baskin Robbins and asking for this...
<img src='http://www.x-entertainment.com/updates/pics/shrek2/6.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

GaryM · May 2004

Quite right. Where I live we have our share of McDonalds and Burger Kings, and in the last year KFC have moved in, but if you you want ice-cream (or fish & chips) you still go to small family-run places. Hurrah!

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