Why Do Europeans Call It "MacDonalds" ???
Aug 31st, 2013, 06:47 AM
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Just wondering why it's called a Big Mac - where does the 'Mac' come from if not from MacDonalds?
From Wikipedia;
The third name was the name "Big Mac", which was created by Esther Glickstein Rose, a 21-year-old Advertising Secretary who worked at McDonald’s Corporate Headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois.
So according to PalenQ you are supposed to pronounce McDonalds as MICK Donalds, but it's most famous product is a MAC.
Doesn't make sense.
Now, back to discussing travel.
From Wikipedia;
The third name was the name "Big Mac", which was created by Esther Glickstein Rose, a 21-year-old Advertising Secretary who worked at McDonald’s Corporate Headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois.
So according to PalenQ you are supposed to pronounce McDonalds as MICK Donalds, but it's most famous product is a MAC.
Doesn't make sense.
Now, back to discussing travel.
Aug 31st, 2013, 09:26 AM
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We call it the "American Embassy" because like Americans you run into them all over the world. And frankly it is sometimes fun to try what other counties consider staple fast food, and to give some of it a try.
Sep 1st, 2013, 03:03 AM
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JoanneH, funny. There's no McSchnitzel on the menus here in Vienna! Last fall Vienna was a test market for McNoodles, your choice of a curry noodles box or a sweet and sour box. The Viennese didn't seem to consider the Asian-ish dishes staples, though, and the McNoodles disappeared from the menu after a few months.
Sep 1st, 2013, 04:02 AM
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bilbo: So you can get a pass for calling someone a "terrorist-supporting Yank moron" by throwing in some obscure info? I'm going to keep that in mind the next time I want call someone an arrogant, colonizing, beans-on-toast-eating limey.
Sep 1st, 2013, 07:00 AM
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So according to PalenQ you are supposed to pronounce McDonalds as MICK Donalds, but it's most famous product is a MAC.>
Well you can say it any way ya want but McDondals in their ads says MickDonalds and the Micky D comes from this I gather.
Well you can say it any way ya want but McDondals in their ads says MickDonalds and the Micky D comes from this I gather.
Sep 9th, 2013, 09:03 AM
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I'm going to keep that in mind the next time I want call someone an arrogant, colonizing, beans-on-toast-eating limey.>
doubt the beans on toast part - more like cavier on toast with a tony Cotswolds estate with a gardener - the upper upper crust Limey who no doubt eschews beans on toast as for the chattering classes riff-raff.
doubt the beans on toast part - more like cavier on toast with a tony Cotswolds estate with a gardener - the upper upper crust Limey who no doubt eschews beans on toast as for the chattering classes riff-raff.
Sep 9th, 2013, 09:13 AM
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I usually call it "whats that effing smell"
last time I was in a Mc Donalds was 7.00am 4th january 2010 Kuwait airport and the only reason i was there was because it was the only bloody place open.
last time I was in a Mc Donalds was 7.00am 4th january 2010 Kuwait airport and the only reason i was there was because it was the only bloody place open.
