Friday Funny: Chicago's Supersized McDonalds
20 May 2005 - 1:00pm
McDonald's tries to pack value into design in its huge new 50thanniversary restaurant, which opened in Chicago.
"A great deal of attention has been paid to the size of this McDonald’s. Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin, for one, compared it to 'swelling McMansions, gargantuan, gas-guzzling SUVs and baseball players who bulked up by injecting themselves with steroids.' In other words, an example of mindless giantism."
"...The food, of course, remains the same."
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SUPERSIZE MOI!
Source:
The Slatin Report, May 19, 2005
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