{"id":136,"date":"2005-08-23T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2005-08-23T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T17:27:00","slug":"the-mcdonald%e2%80%99s-conspiracy%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/the-mcdonald%e2%80%99s-conspiracy%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"The McDonald\u2019s Conspiracy\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a few titles for this stories, instead of deleting them like usual, I decided to add them all \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Banalities of Life<br \/>The Golden Double Arch Mystery<br \/>Lunch-break-thoughts of an office clerk<br \/>Brainwashed?<br \/>The Mc Files<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then I visit McDonalds, or the \u201cAmerican Embassy\u201d, as I tend to call it, during my lunch break . Today, once again my addiction for fat and fast food took over and my stomach called for some French Fries, Diet Coke and a Hamburger Royal TS (quarter pounder), my standard meal. It\u2019s like a recorded message when I place my order. It\u2019s almost ridiculous on how standardized the procedure has become for me.<\/p>\n<p>Today I noticed something that has never occurred to me before. My college and I went to McDonalds half an hour earlier then usual, to prevent a queue. Unfortunately there were already people waiting in line, I assume due to the fact that only two counters were open. While I was standing in line I watched the huge pictures of salads, different kind of burgers and various side-orders. I decided to add a tuna salad to my standar meal. No big deal to add \u201cand the tuna salad\u201d to my tape-like standard order.<\/p>\n<p>At that very moment I had this strange thought if McDonalds is actually interested in having people stand in line? Making us watch those huge pictures of food for a few minutes to increase sales? If I just walk in to an empty counter, I probably wouldn\u2019t have thought of adding the extra salad. By spending some extra time, thinking of how delicious the salads on the picture look I changed my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if that is indeed the plan and I\u2019m light-brainwashed into spending more money on fast food then I intended to, I might should quit fast food for good. (Just kidding\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a few titles for this stories, instead of deleting them like usual, I decided to add them all \u2013 Banalities of LifeThe Golden Double Arch MysteryLunch-break-thoughts of an office clerkBrainwashed?The Mc Files Every now and then I visit McDonalds, or the \u201cAmerican Embassy\u201d, as I tend to call it, during my lunch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/the-mcdonald%e2%80%99s-conspiracy%e2%80%a6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The McDonald\u2019s Conspiracy\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}