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Chart Of The Day: McDonalds Has Worst Month In A Decade

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Whether because eaters around the world and in the US would rather eat even fattier, more expensive, more calorific equivalents such as MCD-spinoff Chipotle, or because the global consumer/eater can not even afford the cheapest form of a dollar meal, is unknown, but what is quite clear is that the company which was once the bellwether of the US commodity eater, McDonalds, just reported global comp store sales which saw a decline of -3.7% from a year ago, its worst monthly print in a decade!

This was driven in big part by the US where comparable sales declined by 2.8% in August and have not posted a positive monthly print since December, but mostly due to Asia where as a result of the ongoing fast-food scare, comp store sales cratered by a record 14.5%. If indeed this is part of a secular shift away from made in the US fast food, and if this too is as a result of an Edwards Snowden-predicated backlash against all that is US, then Asians truly owe the NSA whistleblower: they just added some 10 years to their average life expectancy.

 

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Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:41 | 5197974 Spastica Rex
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American culture has worst month in a decade.

Same thing, I think.

Isn't there a new three dollar bill with Ronald's face on it?

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:47 | 5197987 Headbanger
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As I said here eallier,  at a 2% MOM decline,  Mcd's sales will be cut in half in only three years.

But at a 2.8% MOM decline it will take only TWO years to cut sales in half!

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:50 | 5198008 kaiserhoff
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Of course, they are under financial pressure.

The price of saw dust just went up.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:56 | 5198038 linniepar
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This is actually great news. In other headlines, there is also a decline in childhood obesity and colon cancer.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:02 | 5198073 john39
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finally some good news....

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:20 | 5198170 outamyeffinway
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I'm sure it has nothing to do with microcrystalline cellulose (sic), aka, sawdust, in their food.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:29 | 5198208 Stackers
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Whataburger Apple and Cranberry grilled chicken salad = Yummy "fast food"

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:53 | 5198215 Supernova Born
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Fake money can't sustain the production of real food.

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:54 | 5198327 Its_the_economy...
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Short Weyerhauser. The wood pulp industry is a derivative of MACD

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:19 | 5198455 Theosebes Goodfellow
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McWho?

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 20:28 | 5200007 mjcOH1
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"The price of saw dust just went up."

Shut up and buy the sawdust.   Somebody's entitled to $15/hr for heating that.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:29 | 5198212 toady
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It's our fault.

My youngest finally got over Ronald. The once or twice a month we pick up "window food" it's from his new buddy Carl Jr.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:28 | 5198200 Chief Wonder Bread
Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:35 | 5198240 yogibear
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More garbage to increase obesity and diabetes.

Like never-ending bread with fat sauce on it.

Go long fat carts at shopping malls for the obese. People getting run over by 500 lb people in their riding shopping carts.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:30 | 5198530 QQQBall
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Fattys driving the carts should have restricted shopping hours - like 1pm to 4pm monday - thursday. On off-hours, they have to limp around the ice cream/cookie aisle like other brokendown Murkins.. On the weekends they block every aisle as if the cart is a privilege - and there are so many of them.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:51 | 5198015 drinkin koolaid
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McShort!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:51 | 5198004 NoDebt
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McDonalds and Coca Cola are the two iconic "American" consumer brands.  As the perception of the US continues to decay on the world stage, you'll probably watch them both stagnate and slowly decline.

Coke started the year around 41.  Where's it today?  41.

Hard to believe when there are "millions joining the middle class around the globe every year."

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:58 | 5198044 Headbanger
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I said here some months ago the decline in fast food sales is due to the much fewer trips to the mall and especially fewer lunch sales cause nobody has a job for a lunch break in the first place.

I also notice much less road kill is left lying around.

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:59 | 5198058 Victorio
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Iconic brands that facilitated the iconic american fat diseased fuck.  Hard to root for what might be considered "american" anymore.  Corruption is a bitch.  Too bad these iconic brands couldn't produce anything life affirming.  

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:09 | 5198121 Freddie
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McDonalds is a Chicago Obama company catering to illegals and Obama voters with fake food.  They voted for this.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:39 | 5198260 yogibear
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When is McD's going to introduce a McObama burger to honor ther Chicago Illinois icon?

What will it contain?

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:21 | 5198474 PoliticalRefuge...
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Remember that Chik-fil-A is not up to Chicago's standards.

..something to do with gay sausage or something like that..

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:32 | 5198229 Wile-E-Coyote
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This is the excuse to wheel out the robots.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:36 | 5198564 QQQBall
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Good call Wile. Eithre 'bots or argue against higher min wage

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:41 | 5198591 JRobby
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McDonalds & Downer Cows.  YUM!  Downer Burger ! "I am so sleepy after my McD meal"

http://www.rense.com/general46/human.html

http://consumerist.com/2012/08/23/mcdonalds-usda-stop-buying-beef-from-c...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/We-re-Eating-WHAT-McDonal-by-Martha-Ros...

 

This is a corporation of sub-human filth pumping death disguised as food to idiot consumers.

And the coffee is too fucking hot you arrogant fucks!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:46 | 5198616 j0nx
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$3.25 for a scrawny ass egg mcmuffin and they wonder why their sales are in the shitter. You could make the same thing at home for less than $1. Who are they kidding with those prices!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 16:45 | 5199200 Ruffmuff
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That's bad news, some people might live a little longer. Or go there and choke on a muffin.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:42 | 5197975 the not so migh...
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PINK SLIME OVERLOAD

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:50 | 5197976 JRobby
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Suddenly the phrase "can't even finance a Happy Meal" once reserved for the poorest people, begging and eating at shelters, applies to the middle class in the USSA

 

But it really wasn't so sudden was it?

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:54 | 5198023 drinkin koolaid
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They need to offer " Happy Endings" for the Dads.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:21 | 5198174 john39
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have you seen a mcdonalds worker recently?  happy ending seems like a real stretch...

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 16:48 | 5199203 Ruffmuff
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Yep, that happy ending with your weiner shaped into the new pretzel. Just loving it!!!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:10 | 5198120 Wait What
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speaking of finance... why hasn't McDonalds jumped on the subprime bandwagon? they could easily pull a GM, where they provide credit to customers for Happy Meals, a 'low monthly payment,' and some absurdly low apr. cuz all that inventory of unsold McFood is doing no one a favor sitting around on 'dealer' lots.

time to get creative, ladies and gentlemen.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:16 | 5198429 JRobby
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At the end of the "mortgage boom" many of those "unable to finance a Happy Meal" were "approved" for mortgages.

That is where I first heard the phrase. Underwriting was just a place where the app. would "be" for a few days before funding would occur.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:43 | 5197977 Mi Naem
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Actually, I hear they're planning to begin serving hot dogs, modeled after their highly successful Big Mac. 

They're test marketing the "Big Johnson" in Racine.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:45 | 5197984 stinkhammer
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Barry loves to eat a big johnson

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:49 | 5198000 Mi Naem
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"I'm lovin' it!"

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 17:01 | 5199254 Ruffmuff
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If it is hard enuff, then the women will love it.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:53 | 5198013 JRobby
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He takes them wherever he can from what I am seeing. Eating is just the "hello handshake"

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:41 | 5198272 yogibear
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And Reggie's big Johnson.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 03:15 | 5200896 StychoKiller
Tue, 09/09/2014 - 19:21 | 5199734 Trucker Glock
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Johnson?

The "Big Unit" named after Randy Johnson.  Under sandwiches section...

http://www.alicecooperstown.com/menus/menus.html

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:43 | 5197978 socalbeach
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Obama was right for once, "there will be costs".

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:44 | 5197979 pods
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McDonald's has made it's bed by going ghetto.  Most locations I wouldn't hit the drive through after dark.  Not that I would anyways but that shit is downright scary now.

pods

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:50 | 5198014 NotApplicable
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Funny, there's one here about a mile away from the country club that they remodeled in a way that looks nothing like a McDonald's.

Didn't help get people into the dining room though. Instead the double drive-thru is constantly packed with SUVs galore going all the way around the building, while the inside is empty.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:54 | 5198029 tarsubil
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Driving from my McMansion to the McDs in my McTank! Life is good! Ow my chest! .... *Wakes to a fiery lake.* Wait! What?! I can't take that worthless shit with me!?

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:56 | 5198334 PTR
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I see that laziness doesn't discriminate.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:58 | 5198037 NoDebt
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That's why you don't see Ronald McDonald around much any more.  He's doing 5-7 for posession of a MAC-10 converted to full-auto and a small amount of marajuana.  And, of course, resisting arrest.  Cops hate clowns.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:57 | 5198041 kaiserhoff
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True, but have you ever seen a Popeye's Fried Chicken?

  Lawsymassie!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:10 | 5198117 lester1
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Im lovin' it !!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:16 | 5198151 Freddie
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You need a McFlak jacket if you go into MCD's day or night.  Make sure you are carrying a McGun too.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:21 | 5198481 Bawneee Fwank
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Have you seen the new K-Mart comercials, talk about going after the FSA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRaoFivQYSk

 

I thought this shit commercial was satire when I first viewed it..dog, awwwwhhhhh?!?!?!?!?!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:44 | 5197980 SethDealer
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need to do away with the penny

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:44 | 5197981 Shizzmoney
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This is an awesome trend for liberty

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:44 | 5197983 Kprime
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awesome. 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:44 | 5197985 brucef9321
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is chipotle higher in fat and calories than mickey d's?...cramer seems to feel chipotle is healthier..

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:55 | 5198034 JRobby
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Cramer? (laugh track deafening)

I would pay to watch two talking Magpie's heckle him while they peck him to death.

 

 

 

I know, I am seeing someone about it

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:41 | 5198275 irie1029
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ROFLMAO!  I gotta remember that line.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:20 | 5198169 Freddie
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They both suck but MCD is worse.  The chicken at CHP is nothing special.  MCD used to own CHP so I am sure CHP learned how use wood pulp and other fillers.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:26 | 5198509 PoliticalRefuge...
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..smoky red cedar sawdust for the burgers, white ash for the chicken macsomethings.. right?

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:46 | 5197992 Yen Cross
Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:53 | 5197998 benb
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Chicken McNuggets - comprised of up to 49% precursor of silicone. My dog wouldn't even eat them. Of course you can always get your GMOs and toxins over at Taco Bell where they serve you horse meat in your 'Beef' taco.

What was Stallone told in Demolition Man? "All restruants are Taco Bell."

And of course Ronald McDonald is exempt from ObamaCare...

Corruption. It's the New America

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:17 | 5198160 optimator
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benb, my dog wouldn't go closer than two feet to a dish of what they call ice cream.  And my dog just loves anyone elses ice cream.  I looked it up on the web and found our why they have to call their milk shakes, shakes!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:55 | 5198668 canucck
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My first job was in Packaging Design at Nabisco.  I got to know the sales guy from Mobil Chemical really well, as they sold us the plastic that we wrapped a lot of our products.  One day, I asked him who the next customer that he was going to visit that day.  He replied, "McDonald's".  He went on to explain that after Nabisco, McDonalds was his second biggest customer, purchasing "edible plastic".  What was that used for, I asked.  The answer was their shakes.  There is not enough milk in one of those things to legally call them a milkshake.    Going to the grocery store or fast food joint these days is much worse than those days, and getting pretty dangerous to your health.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 02:02 | 5200850 benb
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No lie you guys... If one didn't know how evil and rotten the people who run the show are you wouldn't think this stuff could be true.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:47 | 5197999 FoodStampPrez
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Don't worry, they will lobby (buy) Congress and get them to pass leglislation that will allow the use of EBT at McDonald's. 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:52 | 5198019 NoDebt
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McDonalds already accepts EBT cards.  Have for years.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:45 | 5198047 JRobby
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That wil be a $3.95 service charge included with that pile of lard, flour, sugar, diseased meat and sawdust you just purchased.

 

Thank you.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:42 | 5198278 yogibear
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One way to kill off the EBT collections. Eat at McD's long enough and you'll die quickly.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:53 | 5198021 Smoker
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I've thought for a while now the reason MCD sales were down was becasue their traditional customers were busy buying lobster and steak with their EBT cards at grocery stores. If MCD can start takng EBT cards their sales will go through the roof!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:49 | 5198001 pan
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It was the weather bitchez.....

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:51 | 5198011 Uber Vandal
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Is there a way to blame a "Polar Vortex" in that chart somehow?

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:53 | 5198018 Tenshin Headache
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Their prices have gone up enough that it makes sense to eat at healthier places. $4.80 for a Big Mac?

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:59 | 5198054 JRobby
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Food cost $0.39, advertising cost $1.86

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:32 | 5198223 Seasmoke
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Just wait until $15 minimum wage .......oh boy, we will all starve. 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:23 | 5198175 MassDecep
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Thats a pound of burger at the grocery.

We bought local 1/2 cow for $2.89 a lbs. All we eat.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:40 | 5198265 irie1029
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Way more filling as well.  I have not eaten processed food local grass fed only for year and 1/2 and god I feel great and lost a bunch of weight.  

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:55 | 5198025 oddjob
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I guess they overestimated the amount of mindless chumps willing to pay $3 for a sliced apple.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:47 | 5198297 Quinvarius
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They should put the apples in a colorful box with a beanie baby and charge $6.  Merica!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:54 | 5198031 LG_Knight
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It's worse in US: they've raised Dollar menu prices by 10-20+% this summer. That makes unit sales likely >10% decline vs last year. This company is imploding....

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:55 | 5198035 Hephaestus
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Screw wood chip burgers. The very moment I found out they were actually listing wood as an ingredient I quit completely. Just last weekend a friend tried to buy some wendys to bring over. Instead I talked him into eating some real food. Also Pepsi has this dirty little program that uses cells from abortions to try and figure out how to make humans crave their product. What the hell happened to decency in this country? Screw them too. NO more KFC Taco Hell or anything else.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/07/10/329767647/from-mcdonalds-to-organic-valley-youre-probably-eating-wood-pulp

"Using isolated human taste receptors, we created proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems that provide a biochemical or electronic readout when a flavor ingredient interacts with the receptor."
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/pepsi.asp

Forget the Fetal angle long enought to realize they are trying to figure out how to make humans crave and pay for piss water. Why the hell cant they just make good pop?  WTF

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:11 | 5198128 Occams_Chainsaw
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But plants crave Brawndo....

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:15 | 5198149 Hephaestus
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When I first saw Idiocracy I thought it might be the future. Now I know its the past/present!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:08 | 5198386 StupidEarthlings
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Wood Pulp.

Its from plants..so its like a veggie burger technically. 

;)

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:47 | 5198621 PoliticalRefuge...
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d'ass right brother.. been clean for over twenty year now and never regretted a day..

- take it one step at a time..

The Big Mac like the greenback used to represent something we could be proud of.

Clean, actual food items, open kitchens we could watch fairly decent young people learn valuable jobs skills, a pretty fair deal for the hard earned buck..what passes today was not exactly Ray Krock's vision.

Now and a blue moon I stop at In and Out, it's not changed much since I used to eat there all over So. California in my teens, still using humans to run the place.. that's the beauty of a privately owned franchise, you aren't forced to bow to idols.

It's about the only thing from California I can think of that has worked now that I think about it.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:57 | 5198036 Jano
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Becase it was a bad weather in January: snowing.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 12:58 | 5198052 Frank N. Beans
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McD's oatmeal is pretty decent, and their coffee, that's about all I can afford.

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:00 | 5198064 JRobby
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If you can fuck up oatmeal you can fuck up a two car funeral and therefore, should stay home or euthanize yourself.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:15 | 5198145 Augustus
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The Egg McMuffin is pretty healthy.  Breaks down to be about perfect for the Zone Diet.  I bring them home, add parsley on the cheese side and salsa on the other.  Only about 300 cal.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:42 | 5198279 pods
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Beer's got whole grains in it but that don't make it healthy.

pods

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:53 | 5198324 Quinvarius
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That is why you drink it while eating honey nut cheerios.  They go together like wine and cheese.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:21 | 5198480 JRobby
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Well then! Vodka! It's for breakfast now!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:47 | 5198622 QQQBall
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MCD oatmeal with that shitty maple/sugar bullshit. Needs and insulin chaser. And the fruit they put in it stays fresh longer than twinkies. Coffee is good at MCD and is .99 for a large cup with tax.

One thing that has gone downhill at MCD are the restrooms - they used to be clean - now they look like a TJ jailhouse restroom. I won't even shit at MCD

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:01 | 5198072 XRAYD
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MCD customers have been saving to buy new iPhone!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:01 | 5198077 Grouchy-Bear
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McDonald's is taking a beating in Russia. My last count put it at 30 plus stores shut down. I realize no one is talking about it, but these stores are shut down for 90 days at a time. Lots of money and profit being lost and it looks to be going to get worse for McDonald's in Russia. Now Burger King is loving it in Russia and the rumor is that Burger King will fill any store McDonald's vacates... just a wishful rumor....

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:02 | 5198083 orangegeek
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sales at McCracks are cratering

 

more bullish news!!!!  fuck yah!!!!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:06 | 5198099 lester1
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I feel fat just thinking about McDonald's food.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:19 | 5198163 MassDecep
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I feel toxic just thinking about all that plastic they put in their food. At least, it smells like plastic...

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:22 | 5198487 JRobby
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Ever notice the smell your car has for days if you transport a bag of that shit even a short distance?

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:08 | 5198109 GlobalCtzn
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I stopped eating McDonalds when i woke the fuck up! I would like to think there are more and more people doing the same...........

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:26 | 5198196 Seasmoke
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I personally don't have much against McD as far as corporations go. (Although their shit makes you FAT)  

I like you, just woke up and stopped going. 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:10 | 5198122 spooz
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The Big Mac Index supports the fact that food inflation outstrips the CPI.  With flat wages and under/unemployment, people make choices about where to indulge, and I would argue that McDonalds has never been an indulgence, merely tasty, cheap fast food. No longer cheap, its easy to skip. 

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/08/31/big-mac-index-reveals-true-...

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:12 | 5198134 FreeNewEnergy
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Their dollar menu is a thing of the past. It's now the "Dollar Menu and More," mostly Moar, as in Moar money for the same shit. Thank Greenspan, Bernanke and Old Yellen for that.

I'm old enough to remember the 15-cent hamburgers that McDonald's sold back in the day (late 60s). Ray Kroc was a businessman, a true American and a good guy. Once Wall Street types got ahold of his company they bastardized it, just like everything else they touch.

They can't bury Wall Street and the Fed fast enough for me.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:14 | 5198142 sidiji
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well i tried a big mac other week for old times sakes' and it was neither big nor a mac...tasted like cardboard and much smaller than I remembered...well wont be buying anything from MD again after that experience.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 18:02 | 5198287 spooz
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Sorry to say that Big Macs are still a guilty pleasure for me, had one on the road last month and it was the same sloppy, delicious mess as always. I fell in love the first time I tasted the "secret sauce".  It could have something to do with what Psychology Today describes as memories tied to eating them, which creates preference,  since I've been eating them since I was a child, and they still taste the same to me. Its just not worth $5, and I enjoy cooking enough that I am rarely in need of fast food.

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:16 | 5198148 Bell's 2 hearted
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august down 3.7% globally?

 

Yikes

 

McDonalds in july:

"As such, full year 2014 global comparable sales are expected to be relatively similar to year-to-date June performance,"

 

ytd thru june ... +1.0%

 

http://news.mcdonalds.com/Corporate/Press-Releases/Financial-Release?xml...

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:17 | 5198159 Ban KKiller
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Fast but not food. Serfs are remembering how to cook for themselves. Some even are starting a garden. Pigs better roll out the military surplus stat!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:19 | 5198166 FreeNewEnergy
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MCD close to its 52-week low. Puts are bargain-basement right now. Nobody's shorting, obviously, but this may be the time to get some November puts in the 85-88 range - super cheap. Just sayin'

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:26 | 5198190 huggy_in_london
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Thats really funny cause I went to a macdonalds last month for the first time in almost a decade!

It tasted like sh1t btw (still).

 

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:26 | 5198192 huggy_in_london
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fuk its spelt McDonalds???

 

sheeeeeet......

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:27 | 5198201 Make_Mine_A_Double
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I have revised my opinion on childhood obseity. I now think Starbucks is even more destructive than the clown.

But Pods nailed it - when they went McGhetto that is a one way ticket.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:57 | 5198340 yogibear
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Thought I saw that iconic Starbucks lady weighing 500 lbs and driving a shopping cart at WalMart.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:51 | 5198636 QQQBall
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yeah - a iced frappacino with 80 squirts of vanilla and chocolate - with 1 splenda... SBUX - over-roasted/burnt coffee into a business model. unreal.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:35 | 5198235 foodstampbarry
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Gluten, soy, dairy fried up in mountains of grease and 15000 other lab created concoctions. You need your head examined if you eat that shit.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:37 | 5198255 Seasmoke
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Ray Kroc didn't build THAT. 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:40 | 5198258 SillySalesmanQu...
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What? No one wants a Big MacSlime and celluose shake to wash it down...plus whatever else might be added by disgruntled minimum wage workers. Havin it their way.... Yum!

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:40 | 5198262 Milton Waddams
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In the immortal words of "Ice Cube".... you thinking lobster, huh. I'm thinking Burger King

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 15:56 | 5198273 JuliaS
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McD employees sure picked the best time to demand wage hikes and to unionize.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:44 | 5198283 Quinvarius
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Warren Buffet should stick to gov bailouts and buying options just before he uses other people's money to do buyouts.  He is unable to analyze economic events or trends.  You should not be in this bubble market, Warren. 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 17:17 | 5198312 Eman Laer
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Good quality dietary fats are not the evil that most Americans percieve them to be. Carbs, especially those represented by white flour and sugars, are the real culprits in the obesity problem in America and around the world. 

 

The more you know...

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:53 | 5198316 Senseless Urina...
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Ray Kroc rolling over in his grave heard saying "they make my hamburgers out of what . . ?"

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:59 | 5198345 10mm
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For those old enough to remember.  Nothing was more better than a Gino Giant.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:02 | 5198353 SheepDog-One
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McD's should just apply to be a bank like GS and get free money, easy problem to solve.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:02 | 5198354 Jack Burton
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I have not set foot inside a McDonalds for ten years. One day when my Daughter and I were doing prep work for tear down of an old property to be replaced with new construction, we were so busy and got so hungry, I made the stupid decission to go through McDonalds drive through to save time in a 12 hour day. That was the last time I ever went. The food disgusts me, and now that I know the pure evil that goes into their fake food, I never go anymore. The brugers are chewy like the connective tissue of animals, died red like meat, filled with chemicals and fake flavoring to mimic meat. Given to you in a thin soggy sloopy bun like dough ball. Now that I have researched their foods, I get ill thinking I ate there a decade ago. Chicken McNuggets, made of chiken beaks, feet, toes, and combs, ground up and filled with chemical flavorings, then battered and fired. Jesus God Almighty, slave labor in Soviet Gulags at least got fish head soup and vegetables! Probably fresh fish at that, since Russia has some of earth's greatest fresh water fishing, and sea food as well.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:05 | 5198366 overmedicatedun...
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paronoia, that's whats caused this drop in sales..mcd's scare us as a people..soon wall mort will induce anxiety, I am told ebola is added to the special sause, and wall mort uses high dose radiation emitters at every door..people do fear they are being poisoned thru cheap food and omnipresent wallmort high energy weapons, so we stay away..before we turn into zombies, fat& stupid as a toothless ozark inbred. it may be people have seen the way of Mcd's&wallmorts, and something just clicked..mc'ebola burgers and wall mort induced obese morons the horror the horror.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:37 | 5198570 Supernova Born
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Spot on assessment.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:07 | 5198378 jughead
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no matter what you think of the food, McDonald's has forgotten the three basic principles that their success was built on:

1. Keep it Simple

2. Keep it Clean

3. Keep it Fast

 

Now the menu is bloated, the facilites are disgusting and the service is slow. 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:34 | 5198549 JRobby
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McDonalds & Downer Cows.  YUM!  Downer Burger ! "I am so sleepy after my McD meal"

http://www.rense.com/general46/human.html

http://consumerist.com/2012/08/23/mcdonalds-usda-stop-buying-beef-from-c...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/We-re-Eating-WHAT-McDonal-by-Martha-Ros...

 

This is a corporation of sub-human filth pumping death disguised as food to idiot consumers.

And the coffee is too fucking hot you arrogant fucks!

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:34 | 5198558 BrokusDickusMaximus
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Did they ever sell that metric assload of Mcwings that they were trying to get rid of a few months back? I wonder how many metric tons of fish Mcbites are housed in those frozen warehouses too.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 14:57 | 5198674 22winmag
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McDonalds may be inexpensive, but squirrels are free.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 15:22 | 5198818 franzpick
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$5 for a $2 burger and a $1 drink?  $5 for a $2 pastry and a $1 coffee?

Obola's Common Core math subtraction method makes it all good.

Merge them into StarMac, or McBucks.

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 15:48 | 5198925 Duc888
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They should try selling food again.  Who knows, it might just work.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 15:49 | 5198931 Duc888
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22winmag :McDonalds may be inexpensive, but squirrels are free.

 

Indeed, chicken of the trees.

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 17:09 | 5199285 Monty Burns
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So the Sawdust Burger hasn't taken on then?

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 15:54 | 5198956 besnook
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the best thing about mcd is how it so reliably takes care of constipation.  you are good to go within a half an hour.

in the asian markets western food is still an acquired taste. the western fast food outlets compete with cheap street food. it is no surprise that even in a totally westernized tokyo a bowl of noodles or donburi is a better alternative than a big mac. the other asian countries all the way to pakistan have their own local food yum brands and the rest have to compete with.

in the usa it is a matter of choices also but i bet it has more to do with budgeting than choice. i am surprised starbucks is still cruising along.

 

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 17:18 | 5199307 all-priced-in
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Bring back the McRib!

 

 

/s/

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 18:03 | 5199455 Casey Stengel
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McD in China exposed for using way out of date beef. Pulled the beef and just served breakfast all day till they could get more beef. All over China KFC is kicking them to the curb.

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