"Let us arm ourselves more firmly with the revolutionary idea of the great
leader Comrade Kim Il Sung!" > wrote:

> I went to see the Chinese New Year parade in San Francisco yesterday
> and I was appalled to see a McDonalds float. Not only that, but they
> had set up a McDonalds tent in the vendor area, featuring cute little
> Asian boys and girls along with the evil Ronald McDonald clown.
>


Would you have been happier if they'd been in blackface...???


> I absolutely despise McDonalds, I have been boycotting them for nearly
> 20 years. I've decided that people will buy moldy dog shit if you
> market it heavily enough, and that is what McDonalds does. My insane
> brother came to visit me last year and we went to SF and despite being
> surrounded by a several thousand excellent and inexpensive Asian
> restaurants, he didn't want to eat at any of them, he absolutely had
> to eat at McDonalds.


BIG hairy deal...he didn't force YOU to eat there, did he!?


> Asians currently have some of the highest life expectancies of any
> ethnic group, widely believed to be a result of their diet. I've never
> seen a fat Asian kid, and here the evil clown is encouraging them to
> ingest lethal amounts of saturated fat.


Hey, while we're at it let's ban Spam so those Tongans, Samoans, and other
Pacific Islanders won't get so fat!


> Why was McDonalds allowed to participate in the parade? Every culture
> has good and bad parts, and in this case the best aspect of Asian
> culture is their food and it is being replaced by our worst aspect of
> mass-market blandness. I consider McDonalds to be an affront to
> American culture, and to try to impose it on Asians by brainwashing
> their kiddies with a slant-eyed Ronald McDonald is just disgusting.


Explain why France is McDo's largest and most profitable European market...

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Best
Greg