Arches of Peace…
Johnno, the world-class blogger, bloke, parrot lover, and Foster’s swilling 
mate from Downunder (I made up that last part - I don’t know his brand), has pointed the way to world peace. He did not discover this himself, but pointed the way to it on Wikipedia.
Countries with McDonald’s have never warred with each other. Ergo, the obvious way to peace is to get the Golden Arches introduced to every country on earth. The major foil would be the Pentagon. Would they stand still while peace was breaking out all over, threatening to put them out of their warmongering jobs? Methinks not. More likely they would be ordered by the Whitehouse to capture Ronald McDonald and whisk him away under cover of night, to be incarcerated indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay.
A straw dream at best, but definitely worth a McNugget of a thought and Big Mac smile.
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Wow…what an interesting correlation. Maybe McDonald’s is even more powerful than the pentagon/military complex!
Em, you may be right, but even MickyD pales in the shadow of WalMart.
[...] Get fat for peace: Countries with McDonald’s have never warred with one another. [...]
This doesn’t hold true anymore. Two examples:
Israel v. Lebanon
U.S./NATO v. Serbia
“We eat fast food, Lord,
Kum ba ya . . .”
Any correlation to the Big Mac Index? haha.
There must be something in the burgers …
Wow. I just finished posting what will be a new regular feature on my blogsite, called Junkfood for Thought, and it’s logo is a Big Mac! Then I dropped in on you, only to learn that McPeace is breaking out all over. Cosmic, man. As the fellow once said, There’s something happenin’ here; what it is ain’t exactly clear. Great post.
Yeah, Mick… like cosmic, dude… We both should be afraid, very afraid, of MickyD’s legal staff.