I drove the 18 wheeler over the road for 8 years. I was out on the road at night about 300 days of the year. I was eating at fast food places and restaurants, 300 days of the year. One night, I was at a nice Mom n Pop truck stop in Louisiana, they had a warming tray right by the cash register. Stainless steel with a glass door. They had some pizza slices, and some egg rolls in there, which had been cooked in their kitchen, they had a nice Cajun restaurant in that truck stop. I bought two of those egg rolls and went back and ate them in the truck. Tasted good.
The next morning I was sick as a dog. Vomiting, then crapping. Had to call dispatch and take two days off, I was sick as a dog for 3 weeks. Food poisoning, the egg rolls had been in that warming tray a little too long.
For this truck stop, they sold diesel. In the big store, they sold souvenirs, and oil, all kinds of stuff. Out front, they had 8 gas pumps and sold a lot of gas. And they had a restaurant. For them, the warming tray was just a side light.
And I thought about McDonalds. What all do you see in the warming tray there? Nothing, there is no warming tray.
You order that egg McMuffin, you have to wait 4 minutes, because they cook it while you wait. Food is all McDonalds does, and if people started getting sick from their food they would go out of business. McDonalds are experts at food handling.
I started eating frequently at McDonalds after that, and no more warming trays for me. McDonalds eggs are really good, that egg McMuffin is a tasty dish, and good for you. Lots of protein and low in fat.
It is easy to make fun of McDonalds but they are in fact a good fast food joint and their food won't make you sick.
Dood, I'm sorry but this is absolute BS. McD's has everything under warming lights. "Experts at food handling"? They hire retards.
Dooood, I am sorry but you are wrong. You sit and wait 4 minutes for the Egg McMuffin, even if you are the only customer in the store. And you watch them cook it I have done it two hundred times.
Yes, they hire retards but even a retard can be trained to handle food in expert fashion.
I mean no disrespect, but she got this big 3 pound cochlear implant i guess attached to her head. Like Data from Star Trek. One eye is looking toward the drink machine the other eye looking out towards the flagpole. Like an iguana.
I dont ever see her doing the food. Just tables and sweeping.
Working all the time, never see her goofing off, sets a way better example than most of them SEIU drum beaters.
Well, that's great! Hopefully it didn't do much damage on that northward path. I was surprised to see it go.clear up to NY. It didn't seem to have much steam at that point looking at the map.
"By 1970 H.R. Pufnstuf was the top-rated Saturday morning TV show, and the Kroffts began getting calls from ad agencies hoping to get in on the action. One series of calls came from the ad agency Needham Harper & Steers, which was wooing McDonald’s. Needham figured a campaign featuring the popular H.R. Pufnstuf characters might be just the thing to land the business. In a letter dated August 31, 1970, Needham told the Kroffts that it was going ahead with a McDonaldland campaign based on the Kroffts’ work and that they could expect a fee for creative services. But a short time later Needham told the Kroffts the campaign had been canceled.
Those devious ad agency guys! In truth Needham had gotten the McDonald’s account and was proceeding with the campaign but apparently figured it could stiff the Kroffts out of their fee. “Former employees of the Kroffts were hired to design and construct the costumes and sets for McDonaldland,” a federal appeals court later wrote. “Needham also hired the same voice expert who supplied all the voices for the Pufnstuf characters to supply some of the voices for the McDonaldland characters.” Needham reps even visited the Kroffts’ LA headquarters seeking creative advice. But no cash was forthcoming.
After the first McDonaldland commercials began airing in January 1971, the Kroffts sued for copyright infringement. When the case went to trial in 1973, their lawyers showed the jury several H.R. Pufnstuf episodes and McDonaldland commercials and pointed out the obvious similarities. McDonald’s and Needham responded that the show and the commercials weren’t exactly the same. For example, Mayor McCheese and Pufnstuf were each the mayor of a fanciful land, but McCheese was a cheeseburger in pink formal wear while Pufnstuf was a dragon. Big difference!
The jury, and later the appeals court, didn’t buy it. “We do not believe that the ordinary reasonable person, let alone a child, viewing these works will even notice that Pufnstuf is wearing a cummerbund while Mayor McCheese is wearing a diplomat’s sash,” the appeals court wrote. The court held that the defendants had wrongfully appropriated the “total concept and feel” of H.R. Pufnstuf, anticipating the “look and feel” argument made by litigious computer software developers years later. The Kroffts were awarded a big chunk of dough.
McDonald’s had no comment on the whole mess. Discussing the case in his book Sid and Marty Krofft: A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Children’s Television, 1969-1993, Hal Erickson quotes Red Skelton: “Imitation isn’t the sincerest form of flattery — it’s plagiarism.”"
