Subject: McDonald's Corporation

• We Deserve a Break Today

  July 25, 2006

• And So It Begins...

  April 20, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Beating Dead Horse

  August 23, 2007

• $13 at Cali Sandwich & Fast Food

  September 28, 2007

• $13 at Cali Sandwich & Fast Food

  September 28, 2007

• Boycott McDonalds -- Unless You're Gay

  July 15, 2008

• And We Now Return to John Royal for Another Report from North Downtown…

  August 5, 2008

• The Tunnel Mole's Got A Lotta Problems With You People

  September 4, 2008

• Chicken & Sausage Gumbo at Al-T's

  For Houston drivers headed east on I-10 towards Beaumont and Louisiana, the small town of Winnie, Texas is not much more than the usual collection of truck stops, McDonald's and Super 8 motels that mark such highway oases. But just as I-10 bends north towards Beaumont, if you look to the south you'll see a parking lot that's usually filled with pickup trucks in front of an unassuming building. Perched on top of the building's metal roof are neon letters beckoning the weary traveler to the ric

  December 23, 2008

• I Have Seen the Devil, and His Name Is Big Mac Snack Wrap

  You know, F. Scott Fitzgerald was right about American lives having no second acts. I found that to be sadly true yesterday as I sat down at the McDonald's near the bus station off Main and jumped teeth first into an American tragedy. Somewhere in a cold and sterile boardroom at McDonald's headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, a head of marketing surmised that you as a consumer were stupid. That you were nothing more than a mass of hair and intestines. The venerable burger people concluded tha

  January 9, 2009

• Guitar Goddess

  November 7, 1996

• Once, Twice, Three Times a Lunatic

  They don´t serve nuggets in jail. Trust me on this one.By now, you've probably heard the news about the gem of a lady in Florida (there's a reason Florida has its own tag on FARK, you know...) who called 911 not once, not twice, but three times to report that her local McDonald's had run out of Chicken McNuggets. Latreasa Goodman -- who, at 27 years old, is old enough to know that 911 really ought to be reserved for incidents like raging infernos, attempted murder and seventeen-car

  March 4, 2009

• Area Man Asks: What's It Gonna Take For McDonald's To Fix All Those Ike-Damaged Signs

  Photo by Chris MacGregorChris MacGregor has a bone to pick with McDonald's and the Facebook group to prove it. "Six months ago Houston was hit hard by Hurricane Ike," he writes on the page he calls McDonald's Broken Arches Are a Blight on Houston.    "Six months later you can drive through most of our communities and only see small signs of the damage left by Ike," he continues, "unless your community happens to have a McDonald's restaurant. For some reason McDonald's hasn't repaired t

  March 18, 2009

• Healthy Big Macs, Only In Houston

  Photo by Chris MacGregor Why the hell is your Big Mac so small? Because you live in Houston. Houston is apparently the only US test market for McDonald's new "Snack Wrap Mac," which looks to be a  smaller Big Mac in a tortilla. We're sure grosser things have been contemplated before, but then again maybe not. Nation's Restaurant News reports that Houston and Canadian markets are the guinea pigs for this attempt at healthy eating.  This introduction marries two trends in quick se

  March 23, 2009

• Snippy, Snippy

  November 18, 1999

• Oh, the Noise, Noise, Noise

  August 10, 2000

• $13 at Bill's Cafe

  Photos by James HolmesWhere: Bill's Café, 22845 Loop 494, Kingwood, 281-358-6198 What $13 gets you: Basically anything on the menu, from burgers, fries and beer to chicken wings and fried mozzarella sticks. This unpretentious burger joint doesn't put on airs or gouge its customers. Bill's is a long-held Kingwood secret. It looks a lot like an icehouse, made up of a small trailer and what's basically a garage with picnic tables. Bill's advertising runs along these lines: Someone exclaims, "Wh

  April 8, 2009

• Through Being Cool

  March 12, 2009

• Ike, hooters, Snack Wrap and Budge and Bistro

  January 22, 2009

• Wesley Willis

  Wednesday, April 23

  April 17, 2003

• Best Burger in Texas?

  May 29, 2008

• Mexican-American Culture

  Tied to mami's apron strings?

  August 16, 2007

• Big Mac Boogie

  Would You Like Fries with Those Lyrics?

  July 26, 2007

• Wabs and Gabachos on Leprecanos

  November 30, 2006

• There's the Beef

  Richard Linklater's ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good

  November 16, 2006

• Butt In

  Rugrats run amok at the H-E-B Children's Festival

  March 31, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  December 9, 2004

• Playbill

  October 7, 2004

• McRibbing

  A man eats fast food for a month -- guess what happens

  May 13, 2004

• Chingo Bling

  The Tamale Kingpin (Big Chile Enterprises)

  May 13, 2004

• Mushroomhead, and Dope

  Thursday, February 5

  February 5, 2004

• Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

  Wednesday, December 17

  December 11, 2003

• Double Standards?

  Plus: Defining Moment, Egg on the Face, Get Off Death Row!

  January 30, 2003

• Goat Doughnuts Go Global

  The Hot Breads franchise serves unique pastries to a worldwide audience

  January 23, 2003

• Globalization's McBacklash

  Guatemala’s Pollo Campero has American fast-food franchises running scared

  January 16, 2003

• Mac Attack

  A cancer patient sues McDonald's, contending a peppered burrito caused his nosebleed

  January 16, 2003

• Tom Joyner's Classic Soul Tour

  Friday, March 22

  March 21, 2002

• Under $5

  Darband Shish Kabob is as cheap as McDonald's, but that's about the only similarity

  December 13, 2001

• Pig in the City

  A foodie saint is tainted by fast food's evil empire

  November 22, 2001

• Image Versus Reality

  MFA exhibits shatter two things that America loves: Its myths and its marketing

  September 27, 2001

• Dominic Quijano

  September 20, 2001

• Best Place to See Houston's Cannibal Ducks

  Hermann Park

  September 20, 2001

• Born in the USO

  Created by the folks who provide "entertainment" to military bases, VQ Live hopes to keep the non-GI Joes happy

  June 22, 2000

• Capsule Art Reviews: Bryan Wheeler: The Souls of Texans Are In Jeopardy In Ways Not Common To Other Men, "Casual Encounters", Round 30: Home. Space. Place.

  May 21, 2009

• Ten Classic Restaurant Commercials from the 1980s

  If you're a child of the '80s, much of your misspent youth was misspent in front of the television taking in shows like Mr. Wizard and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But just as those classic TV shows from your childhood have remained with you all these years, so have the equally classic commercials. Who hasn't found themselves mysteriously and involuntarily humming the Showbiz Pizza tune to themselves while grocery shopping, or antagonized a boyfriend by asking "Where's the beef?" while he's wal

  June 9, 2009

• A Chat With Chef John Watt

  Tulsa-bred Chef John Watt has long toiled in the kitchens of Houston. He helped found Trevisio (6550 Bertner Street) and Prego (2520 Amherst), both recipients of Wine Enthusiast accolades, among many other culinary plaudits. Trevisio was named one of 2002's best new restaurants by My Table Magazine, while Prego is listed as one of America's best Italian restaurants in the latest Zagat guide. Eating...Our Words recently spoke with Watt via phone as he got in a little exercise on the treadmil

  July 16, 2009

• This Week In Deliciousness

  In the mythical land of Awesomevania, burritos are used as currency, and having two or more stents in your heart is a sign of great personal wealth.​Welcome back to Eating Our Words' weekly roundup, where we use meat loaf as the bread in our sandwiches. Hey, if we're not supposed to do that, they never should have started calling it a "loaf". This week got off to an irritable start with J.C. Reid posing the question: how often does your restaurant bill get inflated? If you're in It

  August 14, 2009

• McDonald's Halloween Mansion

  October 22, 2009

• City of Coffee: Houston Coffee Culture

  November 12, 2009

• Top 5 Food Shortage Nightmares

  ​Simultaneous shortages in Libby's canned pumpkins and Eggo waffles in the last week have led to some puzzling moments of hysteria. The situation got us thinking about which foods we'd totally freak out about if, suddenly, we couldn't get them.

  November 23, 2009