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We are a nation of food connoisseurs, when compared to the largely obese population of our Atlantic neighbours in the USA. We like to eat out as much as the next country, but we are very specific of where we want to go, we are always very deliberate and planned.
Fast Food is not something you would normally associate with England... until now. The billion dollar companies such as Burger King and McDonalds are cropping up more and more frequently as they become ever popular. Convenient and easy, we are asking ourselves why we have been waiting 30 minutes for a meal when we can get one in a bag in 2 minutes (if that)?
In droves, we are beginning to dump the traditional restaurants, and instead plough our money into the bursting coffers of Ronald McDonald's all conquering family, and, well, the Joe Dirt who owns Burger King.
There are not too many towns or cities that do not have either of those beef palaces in them, they are literally everywhere. Everywhere is right, but their positioning is always very strategical. More often than not, rather cunningly, the two chains will set up shop precariously close to a school, or to a college... or next to a line of factories. Just because they are American does not mean that they are dumb!
They are kid magnets, far more so than Cadbury's Miniature Heroes for sure, kids love them. But is it for the flat burgers, or the weak Cola? Or, as is more the case, is it because of the promotions that are relentlessly run, handing out countless free toys in the process. The adverts are shoved down our throats whenever a new burger is launched (invariably just a basic burger), but with a sachet of smoky barbecue sauce thrown in for that "good 'ol Western feel"!
Slogans and puns aplenty, these chains are certainly advertising literate, which is more than can be aid for the local chippy, who might, on the odd occasion, throw a placard 100 yards down the street looking for that elusive business that is constantly being sucked away by BK and Maccy D's. There you go, another instance of slogans and puns that seem to follow the chains everywhere.
The restaurants, if that can accurately describe them, are so known and loved by the youth of our country that they have been given nicknames. "Fancy going up to BK?" Will always be more popular than "Would you care for a paced walk up to our local fast food eatery, Burger King?" You certainly don't have to be Stephen Hawking to work that one out. Burger King is a mogul of the food world, for goodness sakes, it is even in on the merchandising scam, tell me with a straight face you HAVEN'T seen a chirpy kid with a Burger King crown atop his head!
In all honesty though, the food is actually quite tasty, no, it is very tasty. The chips, or "fries" as they insist on being known, are so consistently tasty that I think Uncle Ben may have a case to sue! The salt that seems to have been woven into them is just right, and by no coincidence, leaves you chacking for a drink, as you end up getting another paper cup of Cola.
All very clever. The Burger's are nice too! As the advert rather cheekily states "It's all about the Burgers", low and behold a few weeks later we see an advert for Burger King's new sandwiches! Right, a slight memory lapse there then! But, credit where it's due, the spotty teenagers who cook the burgers do a damn fine job, although they always seem a little deflated when compared to the ones on the menu...
America are clean... The waste produced by the apparent amount of 3 million Burger King "Whopper" meals sold each day must be absolutely staggering, yet you will never see a black bin bag left outside the entrance of their doors. I don't know how they do it, but they do. We will probably all wake up one morning to face the realisation that all of the fast food chains are a secret post Cold War plot to completely ruin the Western world. The burgers will turn out to be made from dead horse carcasses, but Russia will have succeeded in making the general public massively overweight, and with mountains of rubbish stored under our schools (so that's why they were always positioned so close!), the day comes when the rubbish ruptures every school in the land, leaving our future generations completely stupid, thus finally on a par with the Russians!
But no, that won't happen. Burger King is just amazingly clean.
Burger King and alike, no matter how much the small restaurants may urge us to drop them, are just so incredibly tasty, they have grown on us all like a drug, and everyone knows you can't give up a drug. They will be around for may, may years to come, they have even started their own Hotel chain now, so it is not good news for The Codfather on Bridge Street, but good news for the next generation of soon to be fat kiddies. Their love of Rugrats will be allowed to grow and grow through the "Happy Meals" and "Kids Club".
Oh well, look on the bright side, if we carry on like this we may have a participant in the Sumo World Championships. How delightful that will be!
Fast Food is not something you would normally associate with England... until now. The billion dollar companies such as Burger King and McDonalds are cropping up more and more frequently as they become ever popular. Convenient and easy, we are asking ourselves why we have been waiting 30 minutes for a meal when we can get one in a bag in 2 minutes (if that)?
In droves, we are beginning to dump the traditional restaurants, and instead plough our money into the bursting coffers of Ronald McDonald's all conquering family, and, well, the Joe Dirt who owns Burger King.
There are not too many towns or cities that do not have either of those beef palaces in them, they are literally everywhere. Everywhere is right, but their positioning is always very strategical. More often than not, rather cunningly, the two chains will set up shop precariously close to a school, or to a college... or next to a line of factories. Just because they are American does not mean that they are dumb!
They are kid magnets, far more so than Cadbury's Miniature Heroes for sure, kids love them. But is it for the flat burgers, or the weak Cola? Or, as is more the case, is it because of the promotions that are relentlessly run, handing out countless free toys in the process. The adverts are shoved down our throats whenever a new burger is launched (invariably just a basic burger), but with a sachet of smoky barbecue sauce thrown in for that "good 'ol Western feel"!
Slogans and puns aplenty, these chains are certainly advertising literate, which is more than can be aid for the local chippy, who might, on the odd occasion, throw a placard 100 yards down the street looking for that elusive business that is constantly being sucked away by BK and Maccy D's. There you go, another instance of slogans and puns that seem to follow the chains everywhere.
The restaurants, if that can accurately describe them, are so known and loved by the youth of our country that they have been given nicknames. "Fancy going up to BK?" Will always be more popular than "Would you care for a paced walk up to our local fast food eatery, Burger King?" You certainly don't have to be Stephen Hawking to work that one out. Burger King is a mogul of the food world, for goodness sakes, it is even in on the merchandising scam, tell me with a straight face you HAVEN'T seen a chirpy kid with a Burger King crown atop his head!
In all honesty though, the food is actually quite tasty, no, it is very tasty. The chips, or "fries" as they insist on being known, are so consistently tasty that I think Uncle Ben may have a case to sue! The salt that seems to have been woven into them is just right, and by no coincidence, leaves you chacking for a drink, as you end up getting another paper cup of Cola.
All very clever. The Burger's are nice too! As the advert rather cheekily states "It's all about the Burgers", low and behold a few weeks later we see an advert for Burger King's new sandwiches! Right, a slight memory lapse there then! But, credit where it's due, the spotty teenagers who cook the burgers do a damn fine job, although they always seem a little deflated when compared to the ones on the menu...
America are clean... The waste produced by the apparent amount of 3 million Burger King "Whopper" meals sold each day must be absolutely staggering, yet you will never see a black bin bag left outside the entrance of their doors. I don't know how they do it, but they do. We will probably all wake up one morning to face the realisation that all of the fast food chains are a secret post Cold War plot to completely ruin the Western world. The burgers will turn out to be made from dead horse carcasses, but Russia will have succeeded in making the general public massively overweight, and with mountains of rubbish stored under our schools (so that's why they were always positioned so close!), the day comes when the rubbish ruptures every school in the land, leaving our future generations completely stupid, thus finally on a par with the Russians!
But no, that won't happen. Burger King is just amazingly clean.
Burger King and alike, no matter how much the small restaurants may urge us to drop them, are just so incredibly tasty, they have grown on us all like a drug, and everyone knows you can't give up a drug. They will be around for may, may years to come, they have even started their own Hotel chain now, so it is not good news for The Codfather on Bridge Street, but good news for the next generation of soon to be fat kiddies. Their love of Rugrats will be allowed to grow and grow through the "Happy Meals" and "Kids Club".
Oh well, look on the bright side, if we carry on like this we may have a participant in the Sumo World Championships. How delightful that will be!
Evenin......
We're looking at doing the Elterwater route tomorrow.
Meet at the Walthwaite Bottom car park at 09:00
For those that aren't sure of the way to the car park, meet at the first lay-by on the A590 after leaving J36 M6 at 08:30
Ring 07972 710 440 to arrange a meet-up at the lay-by.
The weather is predicted to be fine with a cool start :)
We're looking at doing the Elterwater route tomorrow.
Meet at the Walthwaite Bottom car park at 09:00
For those that aren't sure of the way to the car park, meet at the first lay-by on the A590 after leaving J36 M6 at 08:30
Ring 07972 710 440 to arrange a meet-up at the lay-by.
The weather is predicted to be fine with a cool start :)
We are a nation of food connoisseurs, when compared to the largely obese population of our Atlantic neighbours in the USA. We like to eat out as much as the next country, but we are very specific of where we want to go, we are always very deliberate and planned.
Fast Food is not something you would normally associate with England... until now. The billion dollar companies such as Burger King and McDonalds are cropping up more and more frequently as they become ever popular. Convenient and easy, we are asking ourselves why we have been waiting 30 minutes for a meal when we can get one in a bag in 2 minutes (if that)?
In droves, we are beginning to dump the traditional restaurants, and instead plough our money into the bursting coffers of Ronald McDonald's all conquering family, and, well, the Joe Dirt who owns Burger King.
There are not too many towns or cities that do not have either of those beef palaces in them, they are literally everywhere. Everywhere is right, but their positioning is always very strategical. More often than not, rather cunningly, the two chains will set up shop precariously close to a school, or to a college... or next to a line of factories. Just because they are American does not mean that they are dumb!
They are kid magnets, far more so than Cadbury's Miniature Heroes for sure, kids love them. But is it for the flat burgers, or the weak Cola? Or, as is more the case, is it because of the promotions that are relentlessly run, handing out countless free toys in the process. The adverts are shoved down our throats whenever a new burger is launched (invariably just a basic burger), but with a sachet of smoky barbecue sauce thrown in for that "good 'ol Western feel"!
Slogans and puns aplenty, these chains are certainly advertising literate, which is more than can be aid for the local chippy, who might, on the odd occasion, throw a placard 100 yards down the street looking for that elusive business that is constantly being sucked away by BK and Maccy D's. There you go, another instance of slogans and puns that seem to follow the chains everywhere.
The restaurants, if that can accurately describe them, are so known and loved by the youth of our country that they have been given nicknames. "Fancy going up to BK?" Will always be more popular than "Would you care for a paced walk up to our local fast food eatery, Burger King?" You certainly don't have to be Stephen Hawking to work that one out. Burger King is a mogul of the food world, for goodness sakes, it is even in on the merchandising scam, tell me with a straight face you HAVEN'T seen a chirpy kid with a Burger King crown atop his head!
In all honesty though, the food is actually quite tasty, no, it is very tasty. The chips, or "fries" as they insist on being known, are so consistently tasty that I think Uncle Ben may have a case to sue! The salt that seems to have been woven into them is just right, and by no coincidence, leaves you chacking for a drink, as you end up getting another paper cup of Cola.
All very clever. The Burger's are nice too! As the advert rather cheekily states "It's all about the Burgers", low and behold a few weeks later we see an advert for Burger King's new sandwiches! Right, a slight memory lapse there then! But, credit where it's due, the spotty teenagers who cook the burgers do a damn fine job, although they always seem a little deflated when compared to the ones on the menu...
America are clean... The waste produced by the apparent amount of 3 million Burger King "Whopper" meals sold each day must be absolutely staggering, yet you will never see a black bin bag left outside the entrance of their doors. I don't know how they do it, but they do. We will probably all wake up one morning to face the realisation that all of the fast food chains are a secret post Cold War plot to completely ruin the Western world. The burgers will turn out to be made from dead horse carcasses, but Russia will have succeeded in making the general public massively overweight, and with mountains of rubbish stored under our schools (so that's why they were always positioned so close!), the day comes when the rubbish ruptures every school in the land, leaving our future generations completely stupid, thus finally on a par with the Russians!
But no, that won't happen. Burger King is just amazingly clean.
Burger King and alike, no matter how much the small restaurants may urge us to drop them, are just so incredibly tasty, they have grown on us all like a drug, and everyone knows you can't give up a drug. They will be around for may, may years to come, they have even started their own Hotel chain now, so it is not good news for The Codfather on Bridge Street, but good news for the next generation of soon to be fat kiddies. Their love of Rugrats will be allowed to grow and grow through the "Happy Meals" and "Kids Club".
Oh well, look on the bright side, if we carry on like this we may have a participant in the Sumo World Championships. How delightful that will be!
Fast Food is not something you would normally associate with England... until now. The billion dollar companies such as Burger King and McDonalds are cropping up more and more frequently as they become ever popular. Convenient and easy, we are asking ourselves why we have been waiting 30 minutes for a meal when we can get one in a bag in 2 minutes (if that)?
In droves, we are beginning to dump the traditional restaurants, and instead plough our money into the bursting coffers of Ronald McDonald's all conquering family, and, well, the Joe Dirt who owns Burger King.
There are not too many towns or cities that do not have either of those beef palaces in them, they are literally everywhere. Everywhere is right, but their positioning is always very strategical. More often than not, rather cunningly, the two chains will set up shop precariously close to a school, or to a college... or next to a line of factories. Just because they are American does not mean that they are dumb!
They are kid magnets, far more so than Cadbury's Miniature Heroes for sure, kids love them. But is it for the flat burgers, or the weak Cola? Or, as is more the case, is it because of the promotions that are relentlessly run, handing out countless free toys in the process. The adverts are shoved down our throats whenever a new burger is launched (invariably just a basic burger), but with a sachet of smoky barbecue sauce thrown in for that "good 'ol Western feel"!
Slogans and puns aplenty, these chains are certainly advertising literate, which is more than can be aid for the local chippy, who might, on the odd occasion, throw a placard 100 yards down the street looking for that elusive business that is constantly being sucked away by BK and Maccy D's. There you go, another instance of slogans and puns that seem to follow the chains everywhere.
The restaurants, if that can accurately describe them, are so known and loved by the youth of our country that they have been given nicknames. "Fancy going up to BK?" Will always be more popular than "Would you care for a paced walk up to our local fast food eatery, Burger King?" You certainly don't have to be Stephen Hawking to work that one out. Burger King is a mogul of the food world, for goodness sakes, it is even in on the merchandising scam, tell me with a straight face you HAVEN'T seen a chirpy kid with a Burger King crown atop his head!
In all honesty though, the food is actually quite tasty, no, it is very tasty. The chips, or "fries" as they insist on being known, are so consistently tasty that I think Uncle Ben may have a case to sue! The salt that seems to have been woven into them is just right, and by no coincidence, leaves you chacking for a drink, as you end up getting another paper cup of Cola.
All very clever. The Burger's are nice too! As the advert rather cheekily states "It's all about the Burgers", low and behold a few weeks later we see an advert for Burger King's new sandwiches! Right, a slight memory lapse there then! But, credit where it's due, the spotty teenagers who cook the burgers do a damn fine job, although they always seem a little deflated when compared to the ones on the menu...
America are clean... The waste produced by the apparent amount of 3 million Burger King "Whopper" meals sold each day must be absolutely staggering, yet you will never see a black bin bag left outside the entrance of their doors. I don't know how they do it, but they do. We will probably all wake up one morning to face the realisation that all of the fast food chains are a secret post Cold War plot to completely ruin the Western world. The burgers will turn out to be made from dead horse carcasses, but Russia will have succeeded in making the general public massively overweight, and with mountains of rubbish stored under our schools (so that's why they were always positioned so close!), the day comes when the rubbish ruptures every school in the land, leaving our future generations completely stupid, thus finally on a par with the Russians!
But no, that won't happen. Burger King is just amazingly clean.
Burger King and alike, no matter how much the small restaurants may urge us to drop them, are just so incredibly tasty, they have grown on us all like a drug, and everyone knows you can't give up a drug. They will be around for may, may years to come, they have even started their own Hotel chain now, so it is not good news for The Codfather on Bridge Street, but good news for the next generation of soon to be fat kiddies. Their love of Rugrats will be allowed to grow and grow through the "Happy Meals" and "Kids Club".
Oh well, look on the bright side, if we carry on like this we may have a participant in the Sumo World Championships. How delightful that will be!