I couldn't get the link to work... but since I've visited one... I can't say it was bad. It was better in some ways. Automated kiosks for the win.
I fixed the link, it should work now
Quite disappointed/très déçu that there is no mention in that article of a royale, avec or sans cheese:
Could our fellow female-foot fetishist Quentin Tarantino have lied to us? Nah, c'est ridicule; he's probably a clandestine member of the TMF too, and nobody here ever makes anything up.
Lol. Actually after I watched Pulp Fiction for the 1st time (I am too young to have watched it in theaters, so I saw it on TV when I was 15), I went to a MacD to check if they had that a Royal. Unfortunately they did not; it seems it has been discontinued, although I heard they roll it out infrequently for a limited amount of time.
Le Big Mac is still the most popular item in France
I almost never go to MacDonald's, neither in France nor in Beijing. When I feel like having a burger, I usually go to my favorite Irish pub; they make a killer spicy burger and I can get a huge pint of Guinness with it, yummy!
As for Tarantino... guys, just imagine if he had a tickling fetish on top of his foot fetish! Can you imagine the kind of movies he'd make?
I'll cut him some slack though, his films are already awesome as they are (although I did not like the last ones). Ned, have you seen that interview when French journalist Daphné Roulier literally offered her bare feet to him? I think it was in Cannes. She took off her shoes, placed her feet on his lap, and told him he could do whatever he wanted with them as long as the interview lasted. I felt so happy for him
You can look it up on Youtube if you haven't seen it.
When I was a kid, France was waging a culture war against fast food chains being allowed into their country. There was a big push, or at least a push that was being made a big deal of here, to force them to use only french words for food on their menus.
You are absolutely right. French people used to be very protective about their cultural heritage. There are remnants of this in the anti-globalization movement, but sadly this fight has been mostly lost. A generation of idiots has been bred since the late 80's by the even bigger idiots who opposed De Gaulle in the late 60's, and now most people bow to free market and the Golden Arches. What can I say, the only thing that allows evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
One thing came to pass though: the obligation for McD and other fast-food brands to use local products. Back in France, regulations on food are the toughest in the world; we have extensive labels and regulations on meat and vegetables that makes most American-grown food illegal to sell there. It gets the American food companies really mad, but that's how we remain (relatively) healthy. Even when eating at MacDonalds, haha (did anyone say "French paradox?)