Storm Raven
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The Shaman said:Is McDonalds the 'best' food because of its sales figures?
For the market segment that McDonalds represents, probably. Lots of people forget what McDonalds (and its subsequent imitators like Burger King and Wendy's) mostly replaced: the greasy spoon style restaurant. The truck stop/road house.
Some of those places were real good. Most had food that tasted like total crap, and cleanliness standards that would make a pig frightened. If you knew where the good ones were, you could eat well. Otherwise, you were left guessing. In the town I live in, I know which restaurants are good and which are bad. But if I'm driving from Virginia to Illinois, and need to stop in Nowhereville, Tennesee for lunch, I'm probably going to go with McDonalds or the equivalent, because I'll know what I'm getting.