McDonalds as a Middle Class Restaurant

As always parties at my house, which will soon be someone else's as I move in with my beloved, are always interesting and avoiding the usual DC thoroughfare of so what do you do, where are you from etc. The discussion items of the party focused on the role of corporate food chains as a status symbol in developing countries, as well as the wastefulness of Halliburton in destroying/rebuilding Iraq, in addition to media misleading individuals. I know that Dominos, Taco Hell, Burger King among others are overseas as well but none of them are as repugnant as McDonalds. As I learn more about the tobacco industry overseas and their methods of appealing to healthy clients, I see they are attracting clients by selling freedom, opportunity and a higher class through buying cigarettes. Images of New York are being used to sell tobacco. McDonalds does similar things in establishing chains overseas. I believe most people go for status and showing off purposes than food quality. In China for example, it is only affordable by those terribly well off. The same will surely be true in any country with 95% of their population barely able to eat due to high farm subsidies by the US, making farmers from foreign countries needing to sell off their entire crop just to buy medicine for school supplies for their children. In essence, individuals are no longer self-sufficient due to the attempt by America to control all.

The very existence of McDonalds is a way for foreign elites to encourage more development in their country trying to prove how stable their economy is that McDonalds is there. There is even Taco Bells in Latin America. It is unfathomable to me why someone may want to eat such garbage when next door their is a more authentic and perhaps healthier alternative.

One of the sick ways, McDonalds is appealing to kids is through challenging them to get more toys from Happy Meals than their siblings. To get more toys you need to start the process of supersizing yourself and digging you own grave.