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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
 
#6: Now that just seems wrong.

It’s hard enough trying to get your head round the idea that McDonalds are now serving “healthy” food. But in the wake of the film “Super size me” they do seem to have made a big effort to provide a more varied menu including Salads, sandwiches, and porridge.

Actually going on a tangent for a minute I can not believe that people gave “super size me” the time of day. Firstly it work on the ground breaking concept that “fast food is bad for you”, really is that a fact! We all Know that fast food is bad for us, tasty, but bad for us. Secondly the man ate every meal until in was physically sick for a month, and then he got a doctor to tell him that this was, wait for it, “damaging his health”. I found that really unfair do honestly think the film would have received the same c overage he had been trying this tactic at Michelin star restaurants, although having said that just the thought of snail porridge has me feeling a bit queasy.

Anyway dispute the unfair conclusions reached by “Super size me” McDonalds have bravely pushed ahead with the new healthy marketing strategy. The only problem is that the staff that work for the wages that McDonalds pay are often the sort of people who think “This job may pay barely above minimum wage but I get as many free Big Macs as I can eat”. in sort they are on the large size and in its self there is nothing wrong with that. The problem is that McDonalds now has its staff wearing T-Shirts advertising salads on the front and “Sprite Z” on the back, the irony seems to be lost on the management that the staff are wearing XXXL T-Shirts.


posted by Carneade @ 6:25 PM ¦