McDonalds Minus the McDonalds

Over in Japan, it looks like McDonalds has decided to minimalize by taking out basically the whole menu and reducing down to just one thing.

That ONE THING is none other than…the quarter pounder??

Yeah. So it’s like basically just a burger stop. Only it’s a Quarter Pounder shop. Completely owned by McDonalds. Same thing you would buy at a regular MCeeDees, but now they’ve just cut out all your other choices. Does it make sense?

Well it’s definitely different. And in a way, I think that it can actually be a success. As long as a new place doesn’t pop up for each value meal on the menu, it’s cool…like a McDonalds express.

No advertising. No clown. No toys. Just the Quarter Pounder.

I’m lovin’ it.

-Ryan

‘British’ Considered Offensive?

A Welsh council bans the term ‘British’ and ranks it with ‘negroes’ as not to offend Scots, Welsh, or minorities. Creepy and much too PC, usually when I think of ‘British’ I think of English though (not Scottish or Welsh).

According to the BBC

In a section on what words or phrases not to use to avoid causing offence, the leaflet solemnly informs the council’s 9,000 workers: ‘The idea of “British” implies a false sense of unity – many Scots, Welsh and Irish resist being called British and the land denoted by the term contains a wide variety of cultures, languages and religions.’

But the article may have a point. I ask my Scottish friend if he considers himself British.

“It’s hard to say, Britain is some made up union of 3 nations, to the outside world (America especially ) British is English and vice verca so I can never feel I am truly a ‘Briton’, I’m 100% a Scot, at the end of the day I’m pro independence. If Ireland can go it alone then we can. “