Man Eats McDonald’s Three Times a Day for 100 Days, Loses 60 Pounds
A 57-year-old Nashville man claims that he has managed to lose 60 lbs (27kg) of body weight by eating McDonald’s fast food three times a day for 100 days straight. If you’re trying to lose weight, fast food is probably the first thing you cut out, but one Nashville grandfather’s dieting experiment will probably make […]
McDonald’s Replaces Chairs With Stationary Bikes So You Can Burn Calories as You Eat
McDonald’s restaurants in China are replacing regular table seats with stationary bikes in an apparent effort to promote exercise. Viral TikTok videos that have been doing the rounds online over the past week show stationary bikes being used as seats at McDonald’s eateries in Gunagdong . Made out of recycled plastic, the bikes not only […]
Woman Sues McDonald’s For Making Her Break Fast With Aggressive Advertising
A Russian woman is reportedly taking fast-food giant McDonald’s to court for making her break fast during Lent with its aggressive advertising showing delicious burgers. Ksenia Ovchinnikova, an Orthodox Christian from the Russian city of Omsk, is suing the world’s largest fast-food restaurant chain for allegedly making her break fast for Lent two years ago, […]
This Arizona McDonald’s Is the Only One in the World With Blue “Golden Arches” Logo
The “Golden Arches” McDonald’s logo is one of the most recognized commercial symbols in the world, but there is one place where the arches are actually blue instead of yellow. On the inside, the McDonald’s fast-food restaurant in Sedona, Arizona, looks just like the thousands of other McDonald’s eateries around the United States, but step […]
German “Mr. McDonald’s” May Be the Fast Food Chain’s Biggest Fan
A 32-year-old man nicknamed “Mr. McDonald’s” has been eating at the world’s most popular fast food chain every other day for the past two decades, and has invested a small fortune in McDonald’s-related clothes and memorabilia. David Geyer, a gardener from Bergheim, Germany, first ate at a McDonald’s fast food restaurant in 1997, and the […]
Man Eats McDonald’s Menu 14 Months After Burying It in the Ground
Matt Nadin, a father of three from Barnsley, in the UK, wanted his 40th birthday to be special, so he celebrated it by eating a McDonald’s Big Mac menu that he had buried in his friend’s backyard a year before. Just before his 39th birthday, Nadin came up with the “McDonald’s 365” challenge, which basically […]
The Last McDonald’s Burger in Iceland Just Turned 10 And It Still Looks Edible
Iceland is one of the few countries in the world where McDonald’s doesn’t operate in. The fast food giant closed its last restaurant in the Northern-European country a decade ago, but the last burger they ever sold has been carefully preserved and it still looks surprisingly edible. On October 31st, 2009, Hjortur Smarason had the […]
McRefugees – The Hong Kong Poor Who Call McDonald’s Home
They are known as “McRefugees” or “McSleepers”, homeless or lonely people in Hong Kong who spend their nights at 24h McDonald’s restaurants, and their number is apparently growing at an alarming rate. Hong Kong is notorious for its obscenely expensive housing market and the inhumane cage-like dwellings that some of the island’s inhabitants are forced […]
Adventurous McDonald’s Fan Travels the World to Try Fast Food Chain’s Regional Dishes
Canadian software engineer James McGowan is so passionate about McDonald’s that he’s traveled to 53 different countries just to sample their regional dishes. In the past four years, he’s reviewed over 300 items from the chain’s wide-ranging regional menus on his blog, Traveling McD’s. James started his McDonald’s tasting trips in 2005, sharing pictures of every meal with […]
World’s Oldest Burger Still Looks Edible after 20 Years
A couple of Australian men claim to possess the world’s oldest burger – a 20-year-old quarter pounder with cheese that still looks remarkably edible! Eduard Neetz and Casey Dean purchased the burger from a McDonald’s outlet in Adelaide when they were 13 and 14 years old respectively. They were out buying food for a party, […]
Mac Sabbath – A Crazy McDonald’s-Themed Black Sabbath Cover Band
You would think McDonald’s and heavy metal don’t really mix very well, but a new band is actually ‘rocking’ the combination. L.A. based ‘Mac Sabbath’ is a heavy metal group made up of four rockers who dress up as McDonald’s characters – Ronald Osborne, Grimace, the Hamburglar, and Mayor McCheese – and perform Black Sabbath songs […]
McDonald’s Restaurants Becoming Popular Wedding Venues in Hong Kong
More and more young couples in Hong Kong are turning to McDonald’s fast-food restaurants to fit their shoestring wedding budgets. With prices starting as low as $350 per wedding, the place is pretty much a steal – the deal includes the venue, decorations, audio equipment, food, gifts and invitations. The dream wedding has only one […]
Norwegian Teen Tattoos McDonald’s Receipt on His Arm as a Dare
When 18-year-old Stian Ytterdahl’s friends dared him to get a tattoo, they gave him only two options to choose from – Barbie on his buttocks or a McDonald’s receipt on his arm. They’re both terrible, but I suppose you can’t blame Stian for choosing the latter. “Some of my mates thought I had been a […]
Science Teacher Eats Only McDonald’s Fast Food for 90 Days, Loses 37 Pounds
Now this is what I call a dream diet. John Cisna, a school teacher from Iowa, ate only at McDonald’s for three whole months and managed to lose 37 pounds (16 kilograms)! He even made a short documentary on his experiences. John’s project was inspired by the 2004 documentary film, Supersize Me. It featured an […]
14-Year-Old McDonald’s Burger Looks Good Enough to Eat
In 1999 a man from Utah bought a McDonald’s hamburger and kept it around for a month just to show his friends how it would look exactly the same because it was full of preservatives. Fast forward 14 years, the burger is almost unchanged . David Whipple originally intended to hang on to his burger […]