[Daniel_Plainview]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('basil_hayden', 'T')hat sandwich looks awesome; admit it - you're a jealous vegan.

It may give me a reason to go to KFC.

Would work great for Atkins; that breading is probably less than 5 grams of carbs - squat.

[basil_hayden]

If you knew anything about Atkins, you'd know that after induction and attaining your weight target, you can re-introduce carbs until you gain weight, then back off. Some folks (not me) can eat 40 or more grams of carbs per day and not gain any weight. This tasty morsel would fit well into the maintenance portion of Atkins. And as SPG said, throw in a salad and you're good to go.

The vegan comment was a joke, get over it.

[Daniel_Plainview]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('basil_hayden', 'I')f you knew anything about Atkins, you'd know that after induction and attaining your weight target, you can re-introduce carbs until you gain weight, then back off. Some folks (not me) can eat 40 or more grams of carbs per day and not gain any weight. This tasty morsel would fit well into the maintenance portion of Atkins. And as SPG said, throw in a salad and you're good to go.

The vegan comment was a joke, get over it.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roy', 'S')o even whole grains? I was under the impression that whole grains released their sugars/carbs more slowly than the refined flours in white bread etc, which supposedly doesn't spike the insulin level as severely.

Of course I defer to your expertise and appreciate your reply.

[Serial_Worrier]

Screw insulin resistance and glycemic load. That's for wussies. I'm going to get me one of these bad boys for lunch, then stop by Hardee's for a Monster Thickburger with large milkshake to wash it all down baby!

[efarmer]

Careful with that milkshake, don't let it dribble on your chins and get them
all sticky.

[vision-master]

[dbruning]

well...in her defence, she only has one chin....that thing under her chin doesn't qualify.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dbruning', 'w')ell...in her defence, she only has one chin....that thing under her chin doesn't qualify.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid. East of the Mississippi, there’s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of meager gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia.

For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern Oregon, the rugged wilderness of Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains, and the conspicuous well of blackness on the high plains of northwestern South Dakota. There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer.

Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!

http://www.weathersealed.com/

[SeaGypsy]

I live in the rural area 120km north of Manila; Chow hing and Jollibee are evreywhere but so far no Maccas in the 2 regional cities nearby.
In outback Northern Territory where I work in Australia there are only 2 Maccas towns in the State; which is 3 times the size of Texas and has a population of 200,000.
I ate there once when I was 7 years old and never again.

[VZR1800]

Midwest City, Oklahoma is not really all that big in the scheme of things.
But there are six Mickie-Ds here, last count. Two are in Wally-World Super-Centers.

NO! I do not eat there very often! At 6' 2" 170 pounds MDs is not my favorite place to eat. And that is with my .45 on!

[vision-master]

I have one three blocks away - sure is nice....

[allenwrench]

Maybe 3 or 4 miles to a MCD



http://www.amazon.com/Super-Size-Me-Joh ... B0002OXVBO


Highly recommended. Get it from your library. Showcases the poisonous diet that is being pushed off to Americans.

[JJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'I') live in the rural area 120km north of Manila; Chow hing and Jollibee are evreywhere but so far no Maccas in the 2 regional cities nearby.
In outback Northern Territory where I work in Australia there are only 2 Maccas towns in the State; which is 3 times the size of Texas and has a population of 200,000.
I ate there once when I was 7 years old and never again.

[JJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('allenwrench', 'M')aybe 3 or 4 miles to a MCD



http://www.amazon.com/Super-Size-Me-Joh ... B0002OXVBO


Highly recommended. Get it from your library. Showcases the poisonous diet that is being pushed off to Americans.

[SeaGypsy]

In my village here I can go to any one of 20 restaurants or 50 street vendors and get a meal for $1 to $4. Jollibee & Chow King are an hour away, $2 - $5 a large meal. I can't see Maccas competing here, the average wage is about $5 a day and there are very few foreigners or tourists.

[JJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'I')n my village here I can go to any one of 20 restaurants or 50 street vendors and get a meal for $1 to $4. Jollibee & Chow King are an hour away, $2 - $5 a large meal. I can't see Maccas competing here, the average wage is about $5 a day and there are very few foreigners or tourists.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t is a move which has managed to get both France's art lovers and gastronomes choking on their Gitanes.

Lovers of France's two great symbols of cultural exception – its haute cuisine and fine art – are aghast at plans to open a McDonald's restaurant and McCafé in the Louvre museum next month.

America's fast food temple is celebrating its 30th anniversary in France with a coup -the opening of its 1,142nd Gallic outlet a few yards from the entrance to the country's Mecca of high art and the world's most visited museum.

The chain faces a groundswell of discontent among museum staff, many already unhappy about the Louvre lending its name and works to a multi-million pound museum project in Abu Dhabi.

"This is the last straw," said one art historian working at the Louvre, who declined to be named. "This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odours in the context of a museum," he told the Daily Telegraph.

Didier Rykner, head of The Art Tribune website found the idea "shocking".

"I'm not against eating in a museum but McDonald's is hardly the height of gastronomy," he said, adding that it was a worrying mixture of art and consumerism. "Today McDonald's, tomorrow low-cost clothes shops," he said.

McDonald's confirmed that a restaurant will open next month. The Louvre confirmed it will be positioned in the underground approach to the Louvre, known as the Carrousel du Louvre.

The stonewalled gallery was opened in 1993, five years after the famous Louvre pyramid. The Carrousel's initial remit stipulated that its "commercial activities will be regulated and restricted to cultural or tourist activities".

The Louvre has the right to protest against boutiques it considers fail to meet such criteria. However, the museum told the Daily Telegraph it had agreed to a "quality" McCafé and a McDonald's in place by the end of the year, which it said was "is in line with the museum's image".

"The Louvre welcomes the fact that the entirety of visitors and customers, French or foreign, can enjoy such a rich and varied restaurant offer, whether in the museum area or gallery," the museum said in a statement.

The McDonald's would represent the "American" segment " of a new "food court", and would be situated "among (other) world cuisines and coffee shops," it wrote.

It added that the franchise owner "has taken the utmost care in ensuring the quality of the project, both in culinary and aesthetic terms".

Many in France view "McDo" as the Trojan horse of globalisation and the scourge of local produce and long lunches.

José Bové, the mustachioed anti-GM crusader shot to fame after bulldozing a McDonald's in 1999 to protest against malbouffe (junk food).

However, even if there were a last-minute u-turn at the Louvre, statistics suggest the battle of Le Big Macs has already been lost. France has become McDonald's biggest market in the world outside of the US, according to the chain. While business in traditional brasseries and bistros is in freefall, the fast food group opened 30 new outlets last year in France and welcomed 450 million customers – up 11 per cent on the previous year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6259044/McDonalds-restaurants-to-open-at-the-Louvre.html