July 16, 2008: Breaking (egg) News
 

From The Arab Aquarius blog, via Bifurcated Rivets.

A giant McDonald's billboard, shaped like an egg, in Chicago.
I'm not so sure of the word "hatched"... no chicken.

http://cellar.org/2008/hatchingegg.jpg

They're gonna have to sell a lot of eggs to pay for that sucker. :rolleyes:

Agree, I've seen and heard the word hatch misused a lot, even applied to mammals.

Quote from Wordnet:
hatch (emerge from the eggs) "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"

I think that's kind of neat.

It reminds me of this guy I used to work with at the bar. He was telling me he went to McDonald's at like 10:20 in the a.m. He asked for an Egg McMuffin and was told breakfast was over. He called the number he found for, I don't know, regional headquarters or something, and when they answered he said "Can you tell me what time it is?" "Yes sir, it's 10:27 a.m." "Then can you tell my why I can't get an Egg f*cking McMuffin?"

This is the same guy who was bringing me orders into the bar kitchen at an alarming rate. We were packed. We were packed with a group that was not quite typical for this bar (scary folks.) He said "I bet if we hit the trailer parks we could steal a ton of stuff, because they're all here tonight." I replied with "Yeah, but how many black velvet Elvis paintings do you really need?"

That egg is begging for a tagging.

I always willing to give shops/ restaurants/ fast food places some leeway on their official times in order to prevent waste.

However it is give & take.
If they follow the letter of the law when it comes to timing I would be more likely to create a fuss. I don't think I've ever needed a McMuffin enough to call the HQ :)

However I did squeal on my local deli. The owner and manager were out and the staff said they couldn't serve me because they were closing early. I only wanted olives - to take away. There were people eating, who would have been there for at least another half hour. But apparently they'd been packed all day and hadn't had time for a break. Yeah, welcome to the real world. I'm after olives, not a 4 person drink and sandwich order.

So I mentioned it in passing to the boss the next time I was in there. Serves the staff right - I was a regular customer up until that point and I think they should have acknowledged that. It wasn't even close to closing time.

Anyway. God I'm in a ranty mood today!
I love the egg. Very clever.
Just hope they're free range ;)

lol, knowing Heath he didn't need the Egg McMuffin, but loved the chance to push the buttons of the local McD mafia family! :)

Chicago, home of the gigantic silver egg called Cloud Gate. The billboard is a great idea but I wish it was for something better than McDonald's, like maybe the Field Museum's dinosaur exhibit.

Wait a minute, wait just a minute! Fresh eggs? Who do they think they are kidding? :greenface

Uh-oh--they aren't hatching those eggs, are they?! :eek:

What comes first? The egg? So where is that chicken?