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1. snopes.com: Capitals Without McDonald's ••••
Are Sarajevo and Pyongyang the only two world capitals without McDonald's restaurants?
  ...world capitals without McDonald's restaurants. Origins: Love it or hate it, one can't deny the amazing achievements of the McDonald's fast food...
  ...Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, in 1954 (after convincing Dick and Mac McDonald of McDonald's Restaurant in San...
  ...McDonald's has grown into a multi-billion-dollar international corporation with over 28,000 outlets worldwide. So ubiquitous and successful is...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:22:05 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/market/mcdonalds.asp

2. snopes.com: McDonald's / Wal-Mart Application ••••
Job seeker sends sarcastic employment application to McDonald's and is hired.
  ...--> McDonald's Is His Kind of Place McDonald's Is His Kind of Place Claim: Job seeker sends sarcastic employment application to McDonald's and is...
  ...This is an actual job application a 17 year old boy submitted at a McDonald's fast-food establishment in Florida . . . And they hired him, because he was...
  ...Origins: No, this was not a real job application submitted to McDonald's by a teenager (and therefore its originator was not hired for being so "honest...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:31:50 GMT http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/mcdonald.asp

3. snopes.com: McDonald's Beef Imports ••••
Is McDonald's importing beef for use in the United States?
  ...Claim: McDonald's is importing foreign beef for use in its restaurants in the United States and Canada. Examples: [Collected via e-mail, June 2002]...
  ...Guys We as cattle producers are very passionate about this. McDonald's claims that there is not enough beef in the USA to support their restaurants. Well...
  ...who made McDonalds successful in the first place, but we are not good enough to purchase beef from. We personally are no longer eating at McDonalds,...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:13:04 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/mcdbeef.asp

4. snopes.com: Free McDonald's Salad Hoax ••••
Is an Internet-circulated coupon good for a free McDonald's salad?
  ...Claim: McDonald's is distributing an Internet-circulated coupon redeemable for a free Premium Salad at McDonald's restaurants. Example: [Collected on...
  ...Origins: The McDonald's fast food restaurant chain, in yet another nod to more health-conscious consumers who prefer to eat something other than greasy,...
  ...offering a "Free McDonald's New Premium Salad" as plenty of netizens did in mid-2003 is hardly a shocker. The problem is that McDonald's maintains the...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:43:37 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/salad.asp

5. snopes.com: McDonalds Supports Injured Palestinians ••••
Is McDonald's donating money to injured Palestinians?
  ...Claim: McDonald's is donating a portion of their sales to injured Palestinians. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001] McDonald's has...
  ...attempt to win back customers who had been boycotting their restaurants, McDonald's branches in Saudi Arabia announced that during the month of Ramadan,...
  ...childrens' hospitals. That announcement brought calls for boycotts of McDonald's in other parts of the world (such as the U.S.) to protest their support...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:20:36 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/palestin.asp

6. snopes.com: McDonald's Shakes ••••
Do McDonald's beverages contain yucky non-food substances?
  ...Claim: McDonald's beverages contain yucky non-food substances. Examples: [Collected on the Internet, 1997] Supposedly, McDonalds restaurants...
  ...know about now, but it is apparently true that in the 70s (I think) that McDonald's did use a non milk shake, and used to use styrofoam balls as a filler...
  ...The fast food restraunt mcdonalds serves mcflurries that contain feathers, there was a girl who went to mcdonalds and ordered a mcflurry and then almost...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:33:03 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/mcdshake.asp

7. snopes.com: McDonald's Drive-Through Memo ••••
Memo from a McDonald's director advocates making a policy of omitting items from customers' drive-through orders?
  ...Claim: Memo from a McDonald's director advocates making a policy of omitting items from customers' drive-through orders. Example: [Collected via...
  ...Scanned image attached purporting to be a genuine internal McDonalds management letter. The letter is pretty disturbing on a number of fronts....
  ...people will stop coming to the store if they are often short changed. Is McDonalds really the evil empire? Origins: This scenario has played out in...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:13:19 GMT http://www.snopes.com/photos/food/mcmemo.asp

8. snopes.com: McDonald's Coffee Stirrer Coke Spoon ••••
Did McDonald's do away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons?
  ...Claim: McDonald's did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons. Examples: [Collected via e-mail,...
  ...So, I really remember years ago that McDonald's miniature spoon coffee stirrers were pulled off the market because people used them to snort cocaine. Now...
  ...I have a "rumor" that I believe is "fact". In the '70s, McDonald's used tiny spoons as coffee stirrers. They now use paddles. The rumor is the change was...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:38:27 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/mcdspoon.asp

9. snopes.com: Ronald McDonald Busted ••••
Photograph shows Ronald McDonald being carried off by police officers.
  ...Claim: Photograph shows Ronald McDonald being carried off by police officers. Example: [Collected via e-mail, March 2007] I received this in an...
  ...Origins: Has Ronald McDonald fallen in league with the Hamburglar? Has the fast-food farceur decided follow in the footsteps of that criminal mastermind,...
  ...had been bolted to a bench outside the Ronald McDonald House in Billings, Montana. The abducted McDonald's icon was discovered by a pedestrian who...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:21:08 GMT http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/ronald.asp

10. snopes.com: Worm Meat Used in Fast Food •••
Do McDonald's hamburgers contain worm meat?
  ...Claim: McDonald's hamburgers contain worm meat. Origins: Common sense should tell us this rumor is false. Pound for pound, earthworms cost more than...
  ...additive rumor has long bedeviled McDonald's. (In some locales, the local Jack in the Box is fingered instead of McDonald's.) Dating to 1978 (it might...
  ...of damage a rumor like this can do, the experience of one owner of four McDonald's in Atlanta, Georgia, was typical. Back in 1978 he saw his sales plunge...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:38:31 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/wormburg.asp

11. snopes.com: Cow Eyeballs •••
Is McDonald's the world's largest purchaser of cow eyeballs?
  ...Claim: McDonald's is the world's largest purchaser of cow eyeballs. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1999] A few weeks ago I was watching...
  ...a remark in a quite serious voice that the Billion dollar fast food chain Mcdonald's, is the largest purchaser of cow eyeballs. Now I've hear about...
  ...using camel meat and stuff, but this one was new to me. And the fact that Mcdonald's doesn't have an email address to contact them nor a toll free number...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:36:00 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/coweyes.asp

12. snopes.com: McMoose •••
Photograph shows a moose poking its snout into a McDonald's drive-through window.
  ...Claim: Photograph shows a moose poking its snout into a McDonald's drive-through window in Maine. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2005] MEET...
  ...Origins: The town of Madawaska, Maine, has at least one McDonald's restaurant, and moose are known to inhabit the area, but the critter pictured above...
  ...moose at a McDonald's in the city of Homer, Alaska, not Madawaska, Maine. Coincidentally, Homer, Alaska, was the setting for a series of McDonald's...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:26:49 GMT http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/mcmoose.asp

13. snopes.com: Justin Mallory •••
Are McDonald's and Pizza Hut donating $1 per e-mail forward towards the medical care of Justin Mallory?
  ...Claim: McDonald's and Pizza Hut will donate $1 towards the medical care of Justin Mallory, a 12-year-old epileptic, for every e-mail forwarded....
  ...doctors tell me that I will not live another year. Through a donation with McDonalds and Pizza Hut these companies have agreed to donate $1 for every...
  ...no 12-year-old epileptic named Justin Mallory, no $1 per forward, and no McDonald's or Pizza Hut involvement. Everyone wants to help sick children get...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:18:07 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/mallory.asp

14. snopes.com: McDonald's Shakes •••
Do McDonald's beverages contain yucky non-food substances?
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:25:21 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/mcdshake.asp?print=y

15. snopes.com: Pull Tab Redemption Rumor •••
Do pull tabs from aluminum cans have special redemption value for time on dialysis machines?
  ...recycle value. While a handful of charitable concerns (including McDonald's Ronald McDonald House and Shriners Hospitals for Children) accept donations...
  ...folks were bound and determined to collect pull-tabs for charity, in 1987 McDonald's found it a good idea to get into the act. Their Pop Tab Collection...
  ...McDonald's are taken to a local recycling company, and the money made from selling them for their scrap value is given to the local Ronald McDonald House...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:34:50 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp

16. snopes.com: Breaded Rat or Chicken Head •••
Did a chicken restaurant serve a customer a batter-fried rat (or a breaded chicken head)?
  ...deep-fried chicken head was found in a box of chicken wings purchased at a McDonald's in Newport News, Virginia. Katherine Ortega says she discovered the...
  ...announced they had hired a lawyer and were contemplating a lawsuit against McDonald's. Legal experts don't think the family would win an award much...
  ...however, has yet to be examined by experts. John E. Smith, owner of the McDonald's in question and two others, states "My ability to conduct a thorough...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:37:39 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/friedrat.asp

17. snopes.com: Heroin Needle in the Ballpit •••
Did Kevin Archer die of a heroin overdose after being stuck with a syringe in a playground ball pit?
  ...(important) McDonalds Playground Some of you might not be parents, but you may have nieces, nephews, grandchildren or friends with children this will...
  ...and I lived in Sugarland, TX. On October 2nd, 1994 I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday. After he finished lunch, I allowed him to...
  ...in that city. And, of course, McDonald's says there's nothing to this: Thank you for taking the time to contact McDonald's Corporation directly to...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:27:47 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/archer.asp

18. snopes.com: Liz Biz •••
Does designer Liz Claiborne refuse to make clothes for black women because their hips are too big?
  ...has been voiced about McDonalds, a company one would think would be blessed with an unassailably wholesome image. McDonalds chairman Ray Kroc appeared on...
  ...on television admitting to Satanism and bragging about financial support McDonalds supplied to the Church of Satan. The rumor spread as fact through...
  ...golden arches, and children even quit their McDonald's-sponsored Little League teams. In October 1978 McDonald's vice president Doug Timberlake was sent...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:33:13 GMT http://www.snopes.com/racial/business/claiborne.asp

19. snopes.com: Snakes in the Ball Pit •••
Are venomous snakes lurking in the ball pits at fast food restaurants?
  ...McDonald's and Burger King are both named as places where this tragedy supposedly occurred, with the nod going to McDonald's as the most frequently...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:44:13 GMT http://www.snopes.com/critters/snakes/ballpit.asp

20. snopes.com: Tumor in Chicken Sandwich •••
Mayonnaise on a chicken sandwich turns out to be pus from a tumor?
  ...When given, the name of the fast food outlet varies: McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Subway have all been tied to this rumor....
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:33:25 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tumor.asp

21. snopes.com: Forwarded Video Clip Hoax •••
Will forwarding a message cause a cool video clip to play out on your monitor?
  ...taco bell dog run across your screen . if you send this to 8 people ronald mcdonald comes out and attacks the taco bell dog. it is really funny and it...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:40:07 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/videoclip.asp

22. snopes.com: Cow Eyeballs •••
Is McDonald's the world's largest purchaser of cow eyeballs?
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:18:07 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/coweyes.asp?print=y

23. snopes.com: Microsoft Staff in 1978 •••
Photograph shows eleven staff members of Microsoft in 1978.
  ...Marc McDonald (second row, second from right): Marc McDonald is generally identified as Microsoft's (then "Micro-Soft") first employee, hired in 1976 to...
  ...a couple of other people had worked for Microsoft on a contract basis, McDonald was the first hiree to draw a regular salary.) Marc left Microsoft in...
  ...staffer Paul Allen's new company, Asymetrix. In an amusing coincidence, McDonald eventually ended up back at Microsoft when it acquired Design...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:45:58 GMT http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/microsoft.asp

24. snopes.com: Blackhawks Attend Wake •••
Members of the Chicago Blackhawks attended a wake for the father of the team's general manager?
  ...hungry. To the shock of the patrons and workers at this small hockey town McDonald's, a professional team walks out of two rickety buses and into the...
  ...did mob the local McDonald's. (The coaching staff ate at the local Harvey's, a Canadian fast food hamburger chain.) That particular McDonald's happened...
  ...Blackhawks Make Pit Stop at McDonald's (Blackhawks TV) Last updated: 15 December 2008 The URL for this page is htt...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:22:51 GMT http://www.snopes.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks.asp

25. snopes.com: Nicotine in Tim Hortons Coffee •••
Does coffee from Tim Hortons contain nicotine?
  ...since 1987, McDonalds was putting nicotine into hamburgers to make them addictive. [Collected via e-mail, 2002] I heard that McDonald's...
  ...with some friends of mine, we started talking about McDonald's and my friends kept telling me that McDonald's add an ingredient that prevents people from...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:38:39 GMT http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/timhortons.asp

26. snopes.com: Police Gang Warning - Dalton, Georgia •••
The Dalton (Georgia) police have warned local stores to be on the alert for gang initiation abductions.
  ...lot, her rape and death." Officer Chris McDonald says the email is false ... there is no such initiation. McDonald: "It's a lot of time spent trying to...
  ...McDonald says if such a situation were to ever take place, the police would notify the public immediately. Last updated: 7 June 2007 The URL for this...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:11:53 GMT http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/dalton.asp

27. snopes.com: Coke Donates to Israel •••
Has Coca-Cola announced that it will be donating four days' worth of income to Israel?
  ...Israel. McDonald's and Coca-Cola are frequent subjects of boycott calls, the former becoming a target a few years ago when Saudi Arabian McDonald's...
  ...in both Israel and Middle Eastern countries, as (unlike the case of the McDonald's brouhaha mentioned above) no Coke-related business is currently...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:21:41 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/nocoke.asp

28. snopes.com: Toilet Seats in Dishwasher •••
Employee at well-known hamburger chain in Sweden discovered washing toilet seats in restaurant's dishwasher?
  ...Two Swedish publications have stated that the restaurant was a McDonald's, but both publications drew their information from TT, the Swedish news agency,...
  ...which in turn got it from Nya Wermlands-Tidningen. (There is indeed a McDonald's in Arvika.) Because everything flows from a single source (Nya...
  ...Sources: Aftonbladet. "McDonalds körde toasits i disken." 21 November 2002. GT. "Hamburgerbaren körde toasitsarna i diskmaskinen." 21 November 2002....
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:31:03 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/toilet.asp

29. snopes.com: Annie Jacobsen 'Terror in the Skies' •••
Article details reporter's encounter with terrorists on U.S. airline flight.
  ...instrument cases thin, flat, 18 long. One wore a yellow T-shirt and held a McDonald's bag. And the sixth man had a bad leg he wore an orthopedic shoe and...
  ...in coach (seats 17A, 17B and 17C). The man with the yellow shirt and the McDonald's bag sat across the aisle from us (in seat 17E). The pleasant man with...
  ...men spent excessive time in the lavatories. Another man carried a large McDonald's restaurant bag into a lavatory and made a thumbs-up signal to another...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:35:32 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/skyterror.asp

30. snopes.com: Statue of Liberty Subway Ad •••
Did Subway sandwich store tray liners used in Germany depict a fat Statue of Liberty?
  ...of fat, comparing these seven (which range from 200 to 311 calories) to a McDonald's Big Mac (590 calories, 34 grams of fat) and a Burger King Whopper...
  ...all-McDonald's diet, links the U.S. fast-food industry to the nation's obesity problem, particularly pointing the finger at Subway's competitor,...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:37:52 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/subwayad.asp

31. snopes.com: Anna Svidersky Death •••
E-mail reproduces news account of the stabbing death of 17-year-old Anna Svidersky.
  ...Thursday, April 20th 2006 in the evening she was stabbed and murdered at Mcdonalds while working. She didnt deserve this, at all. There is so much...
  ...co-workers while she cleaned a table near the end of her work shift at a McDonald's restaurant. She died at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland about an...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:13:25 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/svidersky.asp

32. snopes.com: So I Volunteered •••
E-mails by a volunteer relief worker detail behavior of New Orleans evacuees?
  ...food in disgust and DEMAND burgers, pizza, and even McDonalds! Jason's deli is better than McDonalds! Only 1 out of ten people who took something would...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:15:07 GMT http://www.snopes.com/katrina/personal/volunteer.asp

33. snopes.com: Stella Awards •••
A bouquet of outrageous lawsuits demonstrates the need for tort reform?
  ...In 1993, McDonald's was unsuccessfully sued over a car accident in New Jersey. While driving, a man who had placed a milkshake between his legs, leaned...
  ...distracted and ran into another man's car. That man in turn tried to sue McDonald's for causing the accident, saying the restaurant should have cautioned...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:15:30 GMT http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp

34. snopes.com: Procter and Gamble and Satanism Rumor •••
Procter & Gamble and rumors of Satanism
  ...from spreading. Similarly, in 1977 the rumor mill had it that Ray Kroc of McDonald's also made the startling admission on a TV talk show that his company...
  ...upon not only did customers boycott the golden arches, but kids quit their McDonald's-sponsored Little League teams over the slander. Barbara "devil's...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:16:54 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp

35. snopes.com: Rescuing Hug •••
Dying newborn saved by her twin sibling's hug?
  ...McDonald, Carol. "Miracle Babies; Nicholas and Daniel Dinsdale." Worcester Telegram & Gazette. 21 December 1997 (p. A1) McDonald, Carol. "NICU Knows...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:18:57 GMT http://www.snopes.com/glurge/hug.asp

36. snopes.com: KFC Mutant Chickens •••
KFC does not use the word 'chicken' because it serves meat from mutant animals which cannot be classified as 'chickens'?
  ...food chain gets its own urban legend these days, from claims of worms in McDonald's hamburgers to roaches in Taco Bell tacos to snakes in Burger King's...
  ...KFC no more raises its own chickens than McDonald's maintains vast herds of beef cattle to turn into hamburgers or the International House of Pancakes...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:22:03 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.asp

37. snopes.com: Caribou Coffee •••
Is an Islamic bank the majority owner of Caribou Coffee?
  ...to address its operating issues. In 1999 the Pucketts were replaced by McDonald's veteran Don Dempsey as chairman and chief executive, but by the end of...
  ...Islamic fatwas, or decrees, on issues like the need for Muslims to boycott McDonald's restaurants, and on husbands' right to beat their wives as long as...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:26:32 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/caribou.asp

38. snopes.com: Clown Statue •••
Did a clown statue that spooked a babysitter turn out to be a man hiding in the house?
  ...a figure attacking someone. In 1992, in Noblesville, Indiana, a Ronald McDonald clown statue toppled onto a six-year-old girl, severing the fleshy part...
  ...Sources: The Legal Intelligencer. "McDonald's Found Negligent in Statue Accident." 27 October 1995 (p 4). [Missouri] Riverfront Times. "Best of St....
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:30:13 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/statue.asp

39. snopes.com: Red Lobster Refuses to Donate to POWs •••
Red Lobster restaurant refuses to donate gift certificate to POW's family?
  ...or merchandise. Every place they went, gave over & beyond what was asked. McDonald's gave $150 in food certificates to Dave's family and also stated they...
  ...all FRG (Family Readiness Group) Meetings and provide child care w/Ronald McDonald. These meetings take place once a month, but what a nice gesture....
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:31:43 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/redlobster.asp

40. snopes.com: Black American Express Card •••
Does American Express issue a special black card that allows its holders to buy anything?
  ...Neiman-Marcus now sells a chocolate chip cookie, and McDonald's (on behalf of its Ronald McDonald Houses) collects pull tabs for a charitable cause....
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:36:04 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/blackcard.asp

41. snopes.com: Windshield Washer Robbers •••
Is a naked woman distracting drivers by washing their windshields while her partner robs the cars?
  ...them and offer them a tip, they say 'No' and instead ask you for a ride to McDonalds. You agree and they get into the back seat. On the way, they start...
  ...$1.99 at K-Mart and bought them out. Also, you never will get to eat at McDonalds. I've already lost 11 pounds just running back and forth to Home Depot....
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:40:18 GMT http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/windshield.asp

42. snopes.com: Famous and Powerful of 1923 •••
The fates of rich and powerful men from 1923
  ...McDonald, Forrest. Insull. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Smitten, Richard. Jesse Livermore: The World's Greatest Stock Trader. New York:...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:11:59 GMT http://www.snopes.com/glurge/fortune.asp

43. snopes.com: President Bush and the Grocery Scanner •••
Was President Bush amazed by a grocery scanner?
  ...filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a "look of...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:14:59 GMT http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp

44. snopes.com: Warning From Terrorist •••
Woman who performs a kindness for a stranger is warned by him of an upcoming terrorist attack.
  ...Or he comes up short at a gas (petrol) station. Or he's at the local McDonalds. Sometimes he's an Arab, and sometimes he's Irish. When he's Irish, the...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:15:18 GMT http://www.snopes.com/rumors/warning.asp

45. snopes.com: M and E.T. •••
Did M&Ms turn down the chance to be the candy used in the film 'E.T.'?
  ...snoozer Mac and Me could fairly be described as a ninety-minute advert for McDonald's and Coca-Cola, with an alien thrown in whenever things were running...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:15:51 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/market/mandms.asp

46. snopes.com: Chain Letters •••
A discussion of the history and various types of chain letters.
  ...to spontaneously begin playing either humorous animated clips (e.g. Ronald McDonald beating up the Taco Bell dog) or videos of lusted-after celebrities...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:16:51 GMT http://www.snopes.com/luck/chain.asp

47. snopes.com: Timberland and Maya Angelou •••
Does a poem by Maya Angelou assert that Timberland is owned by the KKK?
  ...is transmuted by those who hear it into something associated with McDonalds, or anything to do with fried chicken devolves onto KFC. Timberland...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:17:25 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/timberland.asp

48. snopes.com: Songs Played at Funerals •••
An inappropriate song is mistakenly played at a funeral
  ...McDonald, Claire. "How to Have the Very Last Laugh." The [London] Times. 12 June 2000 (Features). Vergnault, Olivier. "Why Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:17:32 GMT http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/miscues/bitedust.asp

49. snopes.com: Arby's Liquid Meat •••
Is the meat Arby's uses made from a paste, gel, powder, or liquid?
  ...other fast food outlets has been the subject of whispers too. In the 1970s McDonald's was deviled by the rumor that its hamburgers were made with worm...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:18:38 GMT http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/arbys.asp

50. snopes.com: Rachel Arlington / Bryan Swim / To My Daughter •••
Will forwarding an e-mail help Rachel Arlington, a girl suffering from leukemia?
  ...Just for this afternoon, I will take us to McDonald's and buy us both a Happy Meal so you can have both toys. Just for this evening, I will hold you in...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:19:29 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/arlington.asp

51. snopes.com: Cut Onion Contamination •••
Does bacteria on cut onions and potatoes cause more food poisoning than spoiled mayonnaise?
  ...most of the sauce formula. He's even developed sauce formula for McDonald's. Keep in mind that Ed is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:20:10 GMT http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/cutonions.asp

52. snopes.com: Being Overweight Protects Against Disease •••
Study produced by fast food companies proves the more overweight one is, the healthier one is?
  ...The study was funded by a research grant from McDonald's, Burger King, Jack in the Box, Taco Bell, Domino's Pizza, Starbucks, Haagen Dazs, Sara Lee, and...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:20:41 GMT http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/overweight.asp

53. snopes.com: Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins Hospital •••
Did Johns Hopkins issue a 'cancer update' about the spread and treatment of cancer?
  ...legend, no matter where it originates, will inevitably be told about McDonald's), so do many of the spurious medical articles circulated on the...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:21:40 GMT http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp

54. snopes.com: Cocaine on Money •••
Does a large percentage of U.S. currency bear traces of cocaine?
  ...get him high, or that the act of paying for his burger and fries at McDonald's will cause him to fail a random drug test. Only those whose jobs call upon...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:23:18 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp

55. snopes.com: Hippo Eats Dwarf •••
Was a circus dwarf swallowed by a hippopotamus?
  ...McDonald, Patrick and Simon Yeaman. "Hard to Swallow." The [South Australia] Advertiser. 16 July 1999. The [Sydney] Daily Telegraph. "Hippo Eats...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:23:57 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/hippoeatsdwarf.asp

56. snopes.com: Grade D But Edible Meat •••
Do fast food restaurants and school cafeterias use 'Grade D but edible' meat?
  ...food chain more than to any other (although it has also been pointed at McDonald's and Subway). Also, those who are by circumstance forced to rely upon...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:25:01 GMT http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/badmeat.asp

57. snopes.com: ICE Badges •••
E-mail describes ruse intended to scare away littering Mexican construction workers.
  ...Mexican laborers working at the construction sites and included bags from McDonald's, Burger King and 7-11, plus coffee cups, napkins, cigarette butts,...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:25:56 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/ingenuity.asp

58. snopes.com: First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants •••
First Lady Michelle Obama has an unprecedented number of staffers working for her?
  ...less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:28:13 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/firstlady.asp

59. snopes.com: Salt Water and Vending Machines •••
Will pouring salt water into the coin slot will induce vending machines to dispense free product?
  ...McDonald, B. "Vendor Vandalism Sparks a Salt Water Solution." Beverage World. 1 February 1991 (p. 57). Poovey, Bill. "Alabama Supreme Court Reduces...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:30:09 GMT http://www.snopes.com/science/saltwater.asp

60. snopes.com: Colonel Sanders and KKK Rumor •••
Did Colonel Sanders leave money to the KKK?
  ...and the KKK. Such rumors have dogged, at one time or another, Ray Kroc of McDonald's, Carl Karcher of Carl's Jr., Dave Thomas of Wendy's, and Harland...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:30:17 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/sanders.asp

61. snopes.com: Menudo Finger •••
Was a human finger found in a can of menudo?
  ...So, when someone claims to have found a chicken head in her McDonald's fried chicken but won't hand it over to be examined, there's good reason to be...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:31:04 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/menudo.asp

62. snopes.com: Cockroach at Taco Bell or in Envelope Glue •••
Did a girl swallow roach eggs from eating at Taco Bell or licking envelopes?
  ...Origins: McDonald's and KFC have long had their special yucky food contamination legends, so it's about time Taco Bell got their own. Although informal...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:33:30 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tacobell.asp

63. snopes.com: Hurricane Rules •••
Did comedian George Carlin write a list of 'Hurricane Rules'?
  ...the free and the home of the brave, but you gotta work for what you want. McDonalds and Walmart are always hiring, get a damn job and stop spooning off...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:33:50 GMT http://www.snopes.com/katrina/soapbox/carlin.asp

64. snopes.com: Payphone Poison •••
Are gang members putting a mixture of LSD and strychnine on pay phone buttons?
  ...strychnine with the LSD they sell. (The latter item, like the claim about McDonald's adding worm meat to their hamburgers, is implausible because it...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:35:01 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/payphone2.asp

65. snopes.com: Text Message for Heart Transplant Child •••
Forward a text message so phone company will donate $2 for a baby girl's heart transplant?
  ...Arlington leg pull (brain cancer sufferer in need of an operation) and McDonald's and Pizza Hut in the Justin Mallory prank (epileptic in need of...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:35:51 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/hearttransplant.asp

66. snopes.com: Bruce Delburg Appeal •••
Verizon Wireless to donate $1 per 7 forwards of a text message for care of Bruce Delburg?
  ...Arlington leg pull (brain cancer sufferer in need of an operation) and McDonald's and Pizza Hut in the Justin Mallory prank (epileptic in need of...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:35:59 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/delburg.asp

67. snopes.com: American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper •••
Text reproduces a Pravda editorial touting the 'American descent into Marxism'?
  ...affects their lives. They care more for their 'right' to choke down a McDonalds (sic) burger or a BurgerKing (sic) burger than for their constitutional...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:37:15 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/pravda.asp

68. snopes.com: First in Piece •••
Was John Hanson the first president of the United States of America?
  ...McDonald, Forrest. E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1965. Morgan, Edmund Sears. The Birth...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:37:19 GMT http://www.snopes.com/history/american/hanson.asp

69. snopes.com: Osama bin Laden in Utah •••
Has Osama bin Laden been sighted in Utah?
  ...spotted on the freeway, in the mall or enjoying a Big Mac and fries at McDonald's." FBI Special Agent Kevin Eaton is quoted in that same article...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:37:42 GMT http://www.snopes.com/rumors/utah.asp

70. snopes.com: Golf Ball Hit on Runway •••
Did a wily golf pro win an impromptu driving contest by hitting his ball on an airport runway?
  ...Airport in Cleveland in 1993, Quail Hollow pro Tony Milam won the McDonald & Co. Long Drive Championship by sending his ball 625 yards, with second- and...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:39:22 GMT http://www.snopes.com/sports/golf/runway.asp

71. snopes.com: Inboxer Rebellion (Boycotts) •••
Calls for boycotts circulating on the Internet.
  ...McDonald's is importing small amounts of lean beef from foreign sources to augment supplies garnered from American ranchers.* A USPS stamp commemorates...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:39:53 GMT http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/boycotts/boycotts.asp

72. snopes.com: Pollster Nudity Scam •••
Are perverts pretending to be pollsters getting folks to take off their clothes?
  ...successfully carried out in eateries around the nation, hitting Taco Bell, McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Ruby Tuesday, Applebee's, Perkins, and...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:40:43 GMT http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/pollster.asp

73. snopes.com: Most Valuable Brand Names •••
What are the world's most valuable brand names?
  ...out the top ten are (in order) General Electric, Intel, Nokia, Disney, McDonald's, Marlboro, and Mercedes. Additional information: The Top 100 Brands...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:40:57 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/market/brandnames.asp

74. snopes.com: Turkey Causes Sleepiness •••
Does eating turkey make people drowsy?
  ...henchman, we'd be falling asleep at the wheel on our way home from KFC or McDonald's. Yet tryptophan may not be wholly innocuous. During the 1980s...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:41:50 GMT http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/turkey.asp

75. snopes.com: Bozo the Clown Rumor •••
Did a youngster tell Bozo to 'Cram it, clown' on live TV?
  ...children still enjoy characters such as Barney the dinosaur and Ronald McDonald, older children have increasingly seen them as worthy targets of verbal...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:41:53 GMT http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/bozo.asp

76. snopes.com: Grapes of Wrath Mistranslation •••
Was Steinbeck's famous novel translated into Japanese as 'The Angry Raisins'?
  ...and there is probably some truth to that. You'd get a blank look at McDonald's, too, if you asked for a slice of meat between two discs of bread. Still,...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:42:32 GMT http://www.snopes.com/language/misxlate/raisins.asp

77. snopes.com: Crown Air Fresheners and the KKK •••
Are those crown-shaped air fresheners produced by the KKK?
  ...Procter & Gamble ("We tithe to the Church of Satan"), and Ray Kroc ("McDonald's shares part of its profits with the Church of Satan") slanders, to list...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:42:47 GMT http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/crown.asp

78. snopes.com: Using Regular People •••
Account of a Denver physician who helped a woman in distress.
  ...up her car completely, and while it was fueling walked to the next door McDonald's and bought 2 big bags of food, some gift certificates for more, and a...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:43:41 GMT http://www.snopes.com/glurge/denver.asp

79. snopes.com: Gold in Goldschlager Rumor •••
Does Goldschlager liqueur contain gold flakes to make small cuts in the throats of drinkers?
  ...folks fear might well be in there (e.g., concerns over what lurks in McDonald's shakes) but rather with components that are not only apparent to the...
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:44:02 GMT http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/goldschlager.asp

80. snopes.com: Breaded Rat or Chicken Head ••
Did a chicken restaurant serve a customer a batter-fried rat (or a breaded chicken head)?
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:25:52 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/friedrat.asp?print=y

81. snopes.com: Semen in Fast Food ••
Did the semen from seven HIV-infected men turn up in a pizza topping?
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:42:50 GMT http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/semen.asp

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