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Re: Tohunga question
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lugnet.technic.bionicle
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Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:43:02 GMT
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In the small print under some of the "favorite fries" taglines, McD defines
being the favorite based on "volume served". It's all Marketing trickery
based on three truths. 1) McD serves more fries than anyone else. 2) Other
fries taste better than McD (independent tests show this). 3) McD had to say
something good about their fries because Burger King was hammering them in
the "taste" portion of the fry wars several years back.
Until the Bionicle giveaway, I haven't had fast food fries in the last 3
years. I wish I can say that they have improved since then, but they haven't....
In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Ray Kremer writes:
> I've been getting two McNugget Happy Meals every night. I can recall McD's
> "America's favorite fries" commercials. The fries are crap compared to real
> restaurants.
> I've scored 6 each of Maku and Jala and 2 each of Onepu and Kongu
I have 3 Huki, 3 Onepu, 5 Jala, 5 Kongu and 6 Matoro. (That's a lot of Happy
Meals). One store gave out Matoro on the 2nd day.
Mark Chan
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| (...) Really? BK fries are foul. They were fouler before they got all starched up, but they're still a good number of notches below Mickey D's fries. Granted, there are still a LOT of sides that are tons better than even McDonald's. (...) Ah. Well, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| I've been getting two McNugget Happy Meals every night. I can recall McD's "America's favorite fries" commercials. The fries are crap compared to real restaurants. I've scored 6 each of Maku and Jala and 2 each of Onepu and Kongu so far, alternating (...) (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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