mcdonalds

  • burger king vs jack

    The King is dead: Burger King shuts out mascot

    For the second time in its 56-year history, Burger King’s large-headed mascot has been retired in an effort to step up the struggling chain’s advertising and business model.  First retired in 1989, The King was brought back in 2004 to star in commercials focused on the creep factor, peeping...
  • Wisconsin man somehow lives long enough to consume 25,000th Big Mac

    To say that Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, loves him some Big Macs would be the understatement of the century.  The retired prison guard’s love of the famous McDonald’s sandwich has stretched out over the last 39-years—he ate his first one back on May 17, 1972—and this...
  • broken glass

    Glass? In your Big Mac? It’s more likely than you think

    Chicago resident Vjollca Lecaj ordered a spicy McChicken sandwich from McDonald’s in August of 2010.  What she found upon biting into the sandwich was mostly chicken and condiments, but also contained a significant quantity of broken glass. According to her lawsuit, Lecaj “sustained severe and permanent oral injuries as...
  • Man claims to have eaten at 15,000 different McDonald’s restaurants

    A St.Paul Minnesota man claims to have eaten at more than half of the McDonald’s restaurants in the world, and live to tell about it.  Quickly doing the math, if there are 33,000 of the famous chain worldwide, then that means Paul Dickinson has eaten at 15,000 of them....
  • Woman Sues McDonald’s, Claims Employee Spat on Her—Food Unharmed

    Now, is that better or worse than the employee doing the usual and spitting in your food, unbeknownst to you? Sarah Thienes is suing a Chicago area McDonald’s after she claims an employee spit on her while she was going through the drive-thru on December 13, 2009.  Thienes visited...
  • Do you want fries with that?

    In what can only be described as a crazy stunt by the local radio station, a McDonalds restaurant in Australia is following in the footsteps of the Hong Kong chain and offering to host that ‘special day’ – a wedding…. of sorts.  Edith, 61 and Denis Schultz, 63, will renew their 1966...