McDonalds sponsers Olympics!! :eek: :D

harmless_little_f***

'I would like an official olympics triple cheeseburger, please - you know, the one with the works, which comes with a large fries and a strawberry milkshake complete with chicken fat? Yeah. That's the one. Thanks. Can I have it 'to go'? Can't stay, I've gotta run.'

Collin

Kann wrote:

I don't know if you ever saw the movie supersize me. But whatever I remember when I hear the "plot" of the movie (a guy eats mcdonalds every meal for 30 days, everyday) I thought "man, he's gonna die". My brother thought the same, my friends too. In fact I can't think of one person whose first reaction wasn't : those 30 days are going to do serious damage to his body.
I think that's the reason people aren't too happy with McDonalds : the food they serve is unhealthy in every sense of the word and for a restaurant...
Even more if they sponsor the olympics!

Well obviously it can't be good, but he ate breakfast, lunch and dinner there, everyday, of course it's not going to be healthy. To say their food is unhealthy in every sense is in my opinion a huge exaggeration.

Uncle Leo

This is, at worst, an amusing irony. I certainl don't find it appaling.

But TV sports is not about healthy athletes but the slobs that watch them on the tube.

As for McDonald's, anyone who eats there more than a handful of times a year should know better.

LikeAnOcean

Kann wrote:

I don't know if you ever saw the movie supersize me. But whatever I remember when I hear the "plot" of the movie (a guy eats mcdonalds every meal for 30 days, everyday) I thought "man, he's gonna die". My brother thought the same, my friends too. In fact I can't think of one person whose first reaction wasn't : those 30 days are going to do serious damage to his body.
I think that's the reason people aren't too happy with McDonalds : the food they serve is unhealthy in every sense of the word and for a restaurant...
Even more if they sponsor the olympics!

He would have been dead if he ate at Burger King for 30 days.. McDonalds is the healthier of the big fast food joints.

LikeAnOcean

Kann wrote:

Actually that was my point.
It's unhealthy food so it may seem strange for a company with such a reputation to sponsor the olympics. All the posts saying mcdonalds is not alone (burger king, bud, coke) do make a point : why does the cio allow these sponsoring? does it not taint a bit the healthy sport image the olympics should convey (already tainted though with the drugs but that's another issue)?

I don't think fast food is so bad if you counter-act it by working out 12 hours a day. In Super-size me he didn't do anything active as well.

Boom The Cat

I love a fine slice of irony

Uncle Leo

Boom The Cat wrote:

I love a fine slice of irony

What about a greasy, cheesy, ketchup covered irony with a side of fries and a coke?

HunterandHunted

McDonald's Rocks! I had a birthday party there once and ol' Ronald was there doing party tricks and I even got to sit on his knee and he told me jokes and started tickling me and then he showed me where the magic McDonald flavour for the ice-creams came from...I thought it was a little hot at first but he said it was like that because it melted the ice-cream to perfection and it blended the colour properly...I was really excited and so was he! Then he took me out back to see the customer appreciation society...All the employees were there and they had a goat and everything...It was swell! I was lovin it...Don't know about the goat though...

dkst0426

HunterandHunted wrote:

McDonald's Rocks! I had a birthday party there once and ol' Ronald was there doing party tricks and I even got to sit on his knee and he told me jokes and started tickling me and then he showed me where the magic McDonald flavour for the ice-creams came from...I thought it was a little hot at first but he said it was like that because it melted the ice-cream to perfection and it blended the colour properly...I was really excited and so was he! Then he took me out back to see the customer appreciation society...All the employees were there and they had a goat and everything...It was swell! I was lovin it...Don't know about the goat though...

Started tickling you, huh?

Started a get a little hot, huh?

He got excited, huh?

HunterandHunted

dkst0426 wrote:

Started tickling you, huh?

Started a get a little hot, huh?

He got excited, huh?

He sure did! At first I thought it was just his big get-up jumpsuit or the air-conditioner was broken or something but he kept telling me how special I was and how he always got really hot around special kids! And I was like wow! I'm one of Ronald's special friends! And he made me an honourary special ice-cream taster! The best birthday ever! God bless McDonald's!