Bailey Legull wrote:

> [...] Just a few
> months ago, though, I drove across the U. S., and let me tell you -- I
> don't think you can drive twenty miles in the U. S. without passing a
> GREAT local restaurant.

Wha**** you talking about, homes? There are vast stretches of the USA
where there are *no* towns or restaurants. There are also plenty of
stretches where there is a town, but the sole eatery there is little
more that a ptomaine palace serving heaps o' greasy fried junk. No
thanks. Way too many Place That Suck dot the highways and byways of
this big-ass hurkin' place we call America.

You'll have to provide extraordinary proof for your extraordinary
claim. Google maps API would be a good start.

> There's no reason for McDonalds to exist any
> more. Now if we could just get people to stop going. . . .

There's plenty of reason. Lots of people have never outgrown having
the palates of six-year-olds. McD's appeals to such folks, and it
does so consistently, everywhere. Ditto with Burger King, Wendy's,
Applebee's, and the rest of the chain junk that blights the American
landscape.
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dgs