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Drive-thru superstars: These guys bring a little fun to their fast food runs Hilarious video from a McDonalds drive through -http://www.yahoo.com/s/440968 Very Funny!!!

Anyone remember the last time they saw a McDonalds advertisement for their Big Macs, Quarter Pounders with cheese, french fries, egg mcmuffins, etc.? You know, all the unhealthy stuff that made life worth living? It seems these days the only items on their menu they advertise for is their salads and chicken sandwiches and nothing else. The last time I recall seeing a McDonalds tv commercial that promoted their Big Macs, fries, shakes, egg mcmuffins, was when I was a kid. And whatever happened to their tv advertisement characters like: Hamburglar, Grimace, Mayor McCheese? I miss those guys.

Assistant manager Donna Summers called Ogborn into her office, locked the door, ordered the teenager to take off her uniform and confiscated her cell phone and car keys. According to reports by the Louisville Courier-Journal and ABC News “Primetime,” the McDonald’s manager demanded that the employee remove her underwear (presumably to be searched for contraband) and confess to the crime. Ogborn was given a greasy apron to cover her naked body and was later forced to do naked jumping jacks and perform a sex act on Summers’ fiance, Walter Nix.

Clinton to be Sued for Missed Restaurant Reservation? May 25, 2005 Bill Clinton’s legendary eating habits have long been the butt of jokes, but it was an allegedly skipped dinner at one of Rome’s most fashionable restaurants that now seems to be needling the ex-chief of state. Whatever the reason for Clinton’s no-show, the restaurant owner is apparently none too pleased. According to reports, the owner may sue the former president who, the owner claims, didn't bother to cancel his reservation. Just weeks after his surgery, the president said while hitting the campaign trail for John Kerry, "If this isn’t...

And in Hospital Lobby, McDonald's Fights Back CLEVELAND -- The Pizza Hut is shuttered, its neon sign collecting dust on the floor. But knocking down the Golden Arches has proved far more difficult for Toby Cosgrove, the new head of the Cleveland Clinic. A heart surgeon who has cleaned out a career's worth of clogged arteries, Cosgrove didn't think Big Macs, supersize fries and inch-thick, six-cheese pizzas belonged in the lobby of a hospital renowned for its cardiac care. So he decreed the fast-food joints had to go. Pizza Hut went quietly. But McDonald's, halfway through a 20-year lease, has...

Gay Governor McGreevey and his playmate Golan Cipel's prom picture in tuxedos are on the cover of the supermarket trash publication "Globe Magazine." The Globe edition also carries a number of articles that include reports on Cipel's $50 million shakedown. The Globe also says the gay guv cruised gay bars and gyms, and asks whether McGay will take an AIDS test. The Globe edition currently on news stands contains pictures and three pages of shock news tidbits. The Globe reports McG's first wife allegedly found love letters from another man. It is also alleged that in gay circles McG likes...

A Detroit-based businessman of Iraqi origin who financed a film by Scott Ritter, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector, has admitted for the first time being awarded oil allocations during the UN oil-for-food programme. Shakir Khafaji, who had close contacts with Saddam Hussein's regime, made $400,000 available for Mr Ritter to make In Shifting Sands, a film in which the ex-inspector claimed Iraq had been "defanged" after a decade of UN weapons inspections. The disclosure is likely to raise further questions about the operation of the oil-for-food programme, which is already the subject of Congressional investigations and a separate...

The "Big Mac", epitome of American culture and the junk food revolution, receives an unexpected thumbs-up from two leading French nutritionists in a "good food guide" to supermarkets and fast food restaurants published yesterday. The relative fat-to-protein content of a Big Mac is considerably healthier than classic French snacks such as quiche lorraine and better than many other sandwiches or fast foods on the market, the authors say. "Strangely enough, the products which are the most demonised are not necessarily the worst," say Jean-Michel Cohen and Patrick Serog, who analysed 5000 forms of food readily available to consumers in French...

Woman gets 10 years for running over McDonald's manager By ANDREW TILGHMAN Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle A McDonald's customer who flew into a violent rage when she was denied mayonnaise on her cheeseburger got 10 years in prison today for running over the restaurant's manager. Waynetta Nolan, 37, could have received as much as 20 years in prison for hitting Sherry Allen Jenkins with her car, dragging the employee across the parking lot and breaking her pelvis at the McDonald's in southwest Houston. Nolan showed little emotion this afternoon when the jury came back with the punishment after four hours...

COMMENTARY: KATHLEEN PARKER Food for thought: Eating should be pleasurable Kathleen Parker July 16, 2003 Acareful reading of the day's headlines reveals this poetic tension: God and America's tort lawyers are on opposite sides of the war on fat. Playing his parenting role as surely he intended it, God is inspiring people such as Lucille Johnson of Denver to take personal responsibility for her actions. Johnson is one of 150,000 overweight Coloradoans who have joined the "America on the Move" program, vowing to walk 2,000 extra steps per day and to eat 100 fewer calories. Although the program isn't church-affiliated,...

The cheapest Big Mac in the world can be bought in China, while the Swiss have to pay nearly four times as much for the same burger. The Economist magazine's annual Big Mac Index found that McDonald's charged $1.20 for its burger in China and $4.52 in Switzerland. The Index said these statistics showed that the Chinese yuan was the most undervalued currency in the world, while the Swiss franc was the most overvalued. The Big Mac Index, introduced in 1986, compares burger prices in countries around the world, using the index as a rough guide to currency valuations. Euro...

<p>CHICAGO (AP) -- A Cook County judge is delaying the division of a $10 million settlement from McDonald's over beef-laced french fries until the tax-exempt status of some of the vegetarian recipients is clarified.</p> <p>Judge Richard Siebel on Tuesday asked attorneys for plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit to determine the tax-exempt status of some groups and find out whether others affiliated with tax-exempt groups intend to seek the status for themselves. He set a new hearing date to award grants March 25.</p>

<p>News item: McDonald's seeks to serve you in less generic settings. That was all it took to get our writers' imaginations cooking.</p> <p>It used to be that no matter where you were in the world, you always knew what to expect when you walked into a McDonald's. The most noticeable difference between a franchise menu in New Bedford, Mass., and one in Bedford, England, was the change from dollars to pounds. McDonald's always has prided itself on its red-and-yellow plastic seating and the predictable formula of its products. All together now: "Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."</p>

McDonald's to pull out of Middle East LONDON — American fast food chain McDonald's has announced plans to cease operations or close down its restaurants in a number of Middle Eastern countries. Without specifying which markets will be affected, the corporation said the pullout is a result of lagging returns on investment.

New from McDonald's: the McAfrika burger (don't tell the 12m starving) Andrew OsbornSaturday August 24, 2002The Guardian McDonald's has been accused of extreme insensitivity after releasing a new sandwich called the "McAfrika" in Norway, one of the world's richest countries, at a time when 12 million people are facing starvation in southern Africa. The launch of the new hamburger has infuriated the Norwegian equivalent of Christian Aid and the Norwegian Red Cross and generated a storm of bad publicity for the American fast-food giant. The concoction of beef, cheese, tomatoes and salad in a pitta-style sandwich is said to be...