In pictures: McDonald's at 50
Degree zero

Too homogeneous for many, perhaps.

McDonald's has become the bane of the - largely Eurocentric - "slow food" movement. Jean Baudrillard, the French hyperrealist theoretician (and probably no lover of the McNugget) called the Big Mac "the degree zero of food" - a product ubiquitous to the point of invisibility.

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