Posts Tagged ‘McDonalds’

Fast Food Nation: This Week in Consumer Web

McDonald’s teams up with Zynga to offer a their own branded farm in Farmville, MeYouHealth launches healthy online games to make healthy decisions fun, and RedBull works with Giant’s pitcher Tim Lincecum and Facebook Places to promote its energy softdrink. Yesterday the FDA asked for more funds to ” update its scientific tools” meanwhile consumer groups build out blogs and Facebook Pages to spread information. Looks like even when there are resources available for free, the U.S government still falls way behind the mark. Marketing is killing education in social media and our eating habits are starting to revolve around checking-in and reward points. How is this going to affect the future health of upcoming generations?

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Woman’s McNugget Rampage Goes Viral, But Where Are The Remixes?

McNugget Rampage

McNugget RampageBack in January, a Toledo woman named Melodi Dushane went on a rampage in a McDonald’s drive thru when she was told chicken nuggets weren’t available at 6:30 in the morning. She screamed and yelled, lashed out at McDonald’s employees and even broke the drive thru window, and now the security cam footage of the incident is on YouTube and spreading like wildfire. The clip has 537,000 views in two days and is getting coverage across the web but our question is, where are all the remixes?
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