“I have a theory about McDonald’s, that is, everything they make is all one thing, and in the back they have this big vat full of this stuff, these little molds combining, like SPLURT ‘Hamburger!’ SPLURT ‘Malt!’ SPLURT ‘Paper box!’ SPLURT ‘Here’s your change, thank you!’”
— Steve Martin
Reminds me how back at the tail end of the cold war I speculated that McDonalds was secretly a government run enterprise (because really, how could they spread to every corner of the globe if the food was all they had going for them). The operating concept I assumed was that every time a McDonald’s opened worldwide (Russia, China, all over South America, etc) a small squad of crack covert special forces soldiers moved into the basement and were ready to be emerge and bring heat if the President ever gave the word.