drat fink references a Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker piece about McDonalds, which I had seen earlier today via Arts & Letters Daily. I couldn't quite believe what I was reading: Gladwell's proposals for "better junk food" include using Olestra (of "anal leakage" fame) to make McDonalds fries, and reviving the McLean burger (the processed meat was good, he says, all it needed was better promotion). The piece reads like an advertorial for scientifically-enhanced food: it made me wonder who's paying the New Yorker's bills these days.
the article was a little strange. but who can tell a flack from a free thinker? i was a little concerned when i read his article on ron popeil a few months back. gladwell said that indoor rotissiere chicken, which has that ever present infomercial, was the best chicken he had ever tasted. seemed like a mighty large claim at the time. gladwell wrote that tipping points book, right? anyone read it?
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- Tom Moody 3-05-2001 3:43 am
the article was a little strange. but who can tell a flack from a free thinker? i was a little concerned when i read his article on ron popeil a few months back. gladwell said that indoor rotissiere chicken, which has that ever present infomercial, was the best chicken he had ever tasted. seemed like a mighty large claim at the time. gladwell wrote that tipping points book, right? anyone read it?
- dave 3-05-2001 5:40 am [add a comment]