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Zut Alors! French Attack Big Macs at Louvre

Wake up and smell the French fries, Mona Lisa

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 5, 2009 3:30 AM CDT
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(Newser) – News that a McDonald's will open just yards from the entrance of the Louvre museum has sent lovers of French culture into conniptions. “This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odors in the context of a museum,” sniffed one art historian who works at the museum.

Museum officials told the Telegraph that the restaurant will simply represent the American portion of a new food court, and insisted that management “has taken the utmost care in ensuring the quality of the project, both in culinary and aesthetic terms.” To critics, however, such statements merely put lipstick on a pig. The president of the Louvre "just had to say one word to stop the whiff of French fries from wafting past the Mona Lisa's nose,” said culture website Louvre Pour Tous. “He chose otherwise."

Wake up an smell the fries, Mona.
Wake up an smell the fries, Mona.   (AP Photo/Amel Pain, File)
The Louvre gets ready for Big Macs.
The Louvre gets ready for Big Macs.   (©imgdive)
The smell of Mcdonalds' fries will soon be wafting over the world-famous Louvre.
The smell of Mcdonalds' fries will soon be wafting over the world-famous Louvre.   (©flavouz)
When it comes to McDo's, hold everything, say the French.
When it comes to "McDo's," hold everything, say the French.   (AP Photo/Rich Kareckas,File)
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SilenceDogood
Oct 6, 2009 12:00 PM CDT
Do you think it is racism to talk about the demise of French society because Muslims out-birth? the French by 500%? If you do, then I am a racist, I prefer to say I am a man seeing the death of a great society in 30 years, and asking why?
Fondue
Oct 5, 2009 12:46 PM CDT
@stuck, that's probably why they are saying “This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism,"
Doctor-Zaius
Oct 5, 2009 12:36 PM CDT
McDonalds is the Fox News of food.

 
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