Aint McDonalds Trendy!

Yesterday i was out shopping for a couple of DVDs with various family members. We were in a place called "the glades, Bromley" which is basically a shopping centre and highstreet and as you can probably imagine it has its fair share of McDonalds "restaurants"

Every time you walk down a shopping centre highstreet your pretty much guaranteed to walk past at least 5 or 6 McDonalds all situated within a mile of eachother. I dont get it. Is McDonalds so self indulgent that it believes we need 5 different restaurants to choose from just incase when we come out of one, we need another one? then when your finished there you could roll your morbidly obese body to the next McDonalds and get a Mc Flurry.

One quite confusing thing i have noticed about McDonalds recently though is how much is seems to be changing. Not food wise, i think they still use the same plastacine to make their burgers. No im talking about asthetically. The whole image has changed. As much as the food in McDonalds sickens me there has always been one minor thing i half respected about them and thats that you knew where you stood with a McDonalds. You knew it was junk food. You knew its evil marketing campeighn was aimed at children helping to create fat children (Fat children is not a problem to me. if kids are fatter they won't leave their house and i wont have to see them again) But now McDonalds is all...well trendy. And its quite confusing. The moment you walk through the door you see the type of 70s throwback furniature familiar with "a clockwork orange" and the outside of the McDonalds buildings are now not all happy and child inviting colours with Ronald McDonald on the walls. Its now a military green. "One big mac please" "would you like to enroll for the armed forces with that?"

But as were on the subject of the food, the fact that McDonalds is no longer aimed primarily at children leaves me confused on how its going to stay open. I know a lot of adults like McDonalds. i have seen them. They are usually tattoo clad, England football shirt wearing bufoons who storm in, cut the line (which often enough is more of a mob of hungry teletubbies shouting for service) and then proceed to order miltiple "food" items. But the thing is without the child fanbase there just arent enough adults to keep it running. where are kids going to eat now? remember the days when if you had £2 in your pocket you could get a happy meal? Well now you can get a tofu burger and carrot sticks...MMM Im Lov'in that!

I dont hate all fast food, i quite like burger king...but only becasuse their burgers actually resemble the taste of meat...whatever meat they might use. A McDonalds burger tastes like a wet carpet sample.

One more "beef" before i go (get it?)

If anyone remembers the chocolate bar "whispa" which is insanely nice and no longer available...hows this for a marketing campeighn.

What they did was: Brought out Whispa...got rid of it...Brought it back again...recently just got rid of it again...and now its only available in McFlurry form....conspiracy?

YES