"McSploring"

Sep 24, 2008 19:45

A friend of mine came up with a concept called "McSploring".  When he's in a new place, he looks up local McDonalds online and then goes to them under the philosophy that even though you only discover the hidden treasures of a place with time, you can find the more obvious commercial areas of a community by finding the McDonalds.  While this idea ( Read more... )

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nickyhopkins September 25 2008, 01:30:31 UTC
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=20089

I saw him on the Travel Channel. He looks like a skinny pedophile and is obsessed with fucking McDonald's.

Intentional.

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zootsaxismyaxe September 25 2008, 03:29:15 UTC
Was that the same guy that was interviewed during that annoying 'documentary' "Supersize Me"?

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nickyhopkins September 26 2008, 13:58:24 UTC
Don't believe it was the same fellow---you're talking about the man who eats two Big Macs or something, and who ranted about the time his friends made him eat a Whopper...

I remember working in TGIFriday's all those years ago, and dealing with customers who'd get adamant when they couldn't have Coke or Pepsi (depending on their brand of record), people who'd occasionally bring their own sodas in and ask for a cup of ice.

To date, I'm unable to contemplate such people without immediately being possessed by despair, which often morphs into rage and fantastical daydreams in which I'm a dictator with a massive death squad at my disposal.

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mkwhite September 25 2008, 02:01:36 UTC
Back when I was traveling for work, I used to do roughly that, only I'd look for the Applebees and the Borders. There was almost always something passable within a few blocks of those places. In an interesting town, that wasn't the best route, but since I got sent to a lot of military towns in southwestern Georgia, and the like, it worked out pretty well.

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zootsaxismyaxe September 25 2008, 03:33:56 UTC
When I was in New Mexico earlier this year and Arizona last year, I really had to go out of my way to NOT eat at a place like Applebee's/Chili's/Friday's/etc. Of course, in both cases I was staying in places that ten years ago either a) didn't exist or b) had a tiny fraction of the population that it has today.

For a while I've been tempted to try a Route 66-style vacation, but I haven't (in part) because I'm worried that I'd find that such a thing no longer exists with how franchises are in modern America. ...well, that and I hate driving for long periods of time :)

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suzyq72 September 25 2008, 16:24:22 UTC
See this is on of those things I should have known about you...b4 I agreed to the whole "rest of our lives together thing..." Aka we're not doing that type of vacation as a Honeymoon...

But I do know that there are still rural route 66 areas that do exist...

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zootsaxismyaxe September 25 2008, 21:39:39 UTC
While there is still a decent amount of things on the old Route 66, it no longer seems to be as much of a "Great American Adventure" (tm) as it once was. I read a book on Route 66 last year and, while the author tried to put a positive spin on it, the general tone seemed to be "don't bother".

Fortunately, there's plenty of other places out there...

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