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The Colonel Axes Trans Fats

The Colonel Axes Trans Fats

According to the New York Times, KFC chicken will no longer contain trans fats.

EXCLUSIVE: McDonald’s Promotes Monopoly Game With Flogs

4railroads follows “Stanley Smith,” obsessed with getting all four railroad pieces. The site also boasts a series of cinema verite videos purporting to document Stanley’s exploits.

McDonald’s Monopoly Won’t Make Anyone A Millionaire

McDonald’s Monopoly Won’t Make Anyone A Millionaire

When I was a kid, I always looked forward to McDonald’s Monopoly rolling around. It always seemed like a million bucks was just one Boardwalk sticker on the back of my small fries away. Of course, I didn’t know the odds, but as McDonald’s Monopoly rolls around again, Fast Food News has been kind enough to tell you exactly how unlikely you are to get anything at all.

McDonald’s Unleases Spyware On Japan

McDonald’s Unleases Spyware On Japan

Catch It… If You Can!

Things sure have changed in McDonald’s since this training film was made in the 1970’s, hasn’t it?

McDonald’s Opens The Debate With Hummer Opponents… When Pressed

McDonald’s Opens The Debate With Hummer Opponents… When Pressed

McDonald’s Corporate Responsibility Blog made lofty promises when it went live to be transparent and engage with customers about things McDonald’s was doing. They seem to be doing a good job with that, if you replace “transparent” with “obtuse” and “engage” with “control.”

Starbucks/McDonald’s Global Dominion Graph

Starbucks/McDonald’s Global Dominion Graph

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Things That Disquieted Us in Today’s Business News

Things That Disquieted Us in Today’s Business News

• McDonald’s number two man quits via flameout email screed. Grimace gets the nod.

43 Rules’ Joanna Fired from McDonald’s

43 Rules’ Joanna Fired from McDonald’s

Joanna — the spitting, rage-filled contaminator of fast food who wrote the 43 Things Not To Do At McDonald’s List — has been fired.

Get a Hummer With Your Happy Meal!

To the spittle-spraying vehemence of environmental groups, McDonald’s is giving away a free Hummer with every Happy Meal.

Joanna Debunks Her 43 Things Not To Do At McDonald’s

Joanna Debunks Her 43 Things Not To Do At McDonald’s

A Digg user claims to have gotten in contact with Joanna via her Myspace (before it was made private) and had a conversation with her about her poor attitude. She says it was all just a lark:

UPDATE: 43 Things Not To Do At McDonald’s Pulled. We Restore!

UPDATE: 43 Things Not To Do At McDonald’s Pulled. We Restore!

Apparently, that 43 Things Not To Do When Visiting McDonald’s list, illuminated by the sober dawn of reflection, was deemed not a wise career move by Joanna from Walker, Louisiana.

43 Things Not To Do At McDonald’s

43 Things Not To Do At McDonald’s

A joyless, thankless job, the McDonald’s register gimp. Well, “thankless” if you’re considering it as an intellectually challenging and socially fulfilling long-term career prospect. But perhaps less so if you get your kicks hawking throat phlegm into the burgers of uppity patrons.

Chicago Alderman Regally Summons Fast Food CEOs to Explain Trans Fat

Chicago Alderman Regally Summons Fast Food CEOs to Explain Trans Fat

In a city seething with corrupt officials, rife with crime and poverty, what’s public enemy number one to the city alderman? Why, the gelatinous blob of trans fat stalking through the city streets, engorging itself upon hapless citizens.

UPDATE: McDonald’s Closes Mouth Mid-Stream

UPDATE: McDonald’s Closes Mouth Mid-Stream

With respect to full journalistic disclosure, we wanted to make sure you got all the views of the McDonald’s toilets pulled from Dutchland after a US tourist complained.

McDonald’s Closes Mouth Mid-Stream

McDonald’s Closes Mouth Mid-Stream

Wait, you mean you don’t want to piss in Ronald McDonald’s mouth?

McDonald’s Christens Playgrounds as Gyms

McDonald’s Christens Playgrounds as Gyms

Just stop trying, McDonald’s. Go back to selling unhealthy cheese burgers, dripping with fat; tall gelatinous shakes, so cold and sweet they give brain freeze along with diabetes to all who taste them. That’s what you did best. You never should have caved to the vegetarians, the health-conscious, the Spurlock Collective: just told them to eat somewhere else.

The News; Enron Curses All Who Penetrate Its Tomb

The News; Enron Curses All Who Penetrate Its Tomb

• Personally, we’re a slut for love. [NYT] “The Taming of the Slur”