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    ...and France may never recover...:p

    Amid the doom and gloom, time for some lighter [albeit fattier] fare:
    ...the fast food chain's chief executive, Jim Skinner, said in an interview published Monday that the reason McDonald's is such a hit in France, where it has over 1,000 outlets, is that "we are perceived as a French enterprise."...
    Hmmm. Must be those French fries...
    McDonald's to become Mona Lisa's new neighbor

    PARIS — French culture and American convenience will come together in December — thanks to plans by the McDonald's restaurant chain to hang its shingle in the shadow of the Louvre.

    The McDonald's will be installed in the food court of the underground mall adjoining the museum, known as the Carrousel du Louvre, as the fast food chain fetes its 30th anniversary in France, McDonald's France said...

    ..."Rendezvous in December for a Mona Lisa Extra Value Menu," it wrote, contending that the Louvre could have, and should have, put its foot down...

    ...European art and what passes for American cuisine have crossed paths before. The former chief of Italy's McDonald's chain, Mario Resca, now supervises that country's chain of illustrious museums...
    The Hamburgler as the new Louvre mascot??

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    Re: McDonald's Gets Culture...

    Le Big Mac.

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      Originally posted by cjppjc View Post
      Le Big Mac.
      Royale with Cheese!
      Every interest bearing loan is mathematically impossible to pay back.

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        Originally posted by ricket View Post
        Royale with Cheese!

        Metric system?

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          Fat French to the Forefront!

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            Originally posted by don View Post
            Fat French to the Forefront!
            A flashback...

            Evidently they didn't like their Happy Meals:
            Published on Monday, August 13, 2001 by the Associated Press



            French Farmer José Bové Leads New McDonald's Protest




            MILLAU, France –– Militant farmer Jose Bove and two thousand supporters returned Sunday to the same McDonald's restaurant he helped dismantle two years ago, this time holding a more restrained rally to protest unchecked globalization and demand support for farmers.

            The mustachioed sheep farmer and fellow members of the Farmers' Confederation, a radical union, rode tractors into the southern town of Millau and surrounded the fast-food restaurant before addressing the crowd

            About 70 police officers cordoned off the parking lot to prevent the protesters, many wearing shirts that read "The world is not merchandise," from approaching the McDonald's.

            Large signs that read "closed due to threats" were hung on the restaurant's windows.

            Bove and his allies pledged to continue their protest as long as necessary to gain support from the French government for farmers hit by a U.S. surcharge against Roquefort cheese, which is made in a nearby village.

            The protesters have targeted McDonald's as a symbol of how unchecked globalization can trample local culture – such as French cuisine...

            ...In March, an appeals court in nearby Montpellier upheld a decision ordering Bove to spend three months in jail for vandalizing the fast-food restaurant on Aug. 12, 1999 while it was under construction...

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              U.S. surcharge against Roquefort cheese,


              That's too funny.

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                Originally posted by cjppjc View Post
                U.S. surcharge against Roquefort cheese,


                That's too funny.
                My theory is that this is the real reason the French didn't side with the USA in the runup to the Iraq invasion two years later...

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