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How? How is this even possible? Well, maybe I am overreacting. HOW????!!
I'm gobsmacked. How the times have changed.
Yes, it is just a place to have another (not so healthy) meal. Maybe I am just being - sniff sniff - a snob. A purist. Bloody hell. The Golden arches in the Louvre.
Whodabloddythunkit. I don't think even Donald Trump would have the audacity to pull that one off. Not even JR Ewing. Oki maybe JR.
Paint France's famous museum the colour of ketchup and mustard.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/default.aspx?feat=1305102>1=33002
'Market Update
Does Mona Lisa like McNuggets?
McDonald's is banking on it, opening an outpost in Paris's Louvre museum.
Posted by Elizabeth Strott on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:51 AM
The Louvre, Paris © Roy Rainford/Robert Harding World Imagery/Getty ImagesSacrebleu!
McDonald's (MCD) plans to open its 1,142nd outlet in France next month to celebrate its 30th anniversary in the Gallic country, according to the U.K. paper The Daily Telegraph, and the location is at the pinnacle of all things cultural and classy: the Louvre.
Visitors to the museum will soon be able to enjoy their Le Big Macs and pommes frites after studying the likes of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" or the Winged Victory of Samothrace at McDonald's new burger bar and a McCafe. They will be sited in the underground approach to the museum in central Paris, known as the Carrousel du Louvre.
But gastronomes and aesthetes are outraged.
"This is the last straw," one art historian working at the Louvre told the Telegraph. "This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odors in the context of a museum," he told the Daily Telegraph.
Another expert was equally horrified. Didier Rykner of the Art Tribune Web site described the idea as "shocking," the newspaper said.
But "the Louvre welcomes the fact that the entirety of visitors and customers, French or foreign, can enjoy such a rich and varied restaurant offer, whether in the museum area or gallery," the museum said in a statement.'
McDonald's says France is its biggest market outside the U.S., the Telegraph reported, adding that the Louvre is the world’s most-visited museum.
I'm gobsmacked. How the times have changed.
Yes, it is just a place to have another (not so healthy) meal. Maybe I am just being - sniff sniff - a snob. A purist. Bloody hell. The Golden arches in the Louvre.
Whodabloddythunkit. I don't think even Donald Trump would have the audacity to pull that one off. Not even JR Ewing. Oki maybe JR.
Paint France's famous museum the colour of ketchup and mustard.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/default.aspx?feat=1305102>1=33002
'Market Update
Does Mona Lisa like McNuggets?
McDonald's is banking on it, opening an outpost in Paris's Louvre museum.
Posted by Elizabeth Strott on Monday, October 5, 2009 9:51 AM
The Louvre, Paris © Roy Rainford/Robert Harding World Imagery/Getty ImagesSacrebleu!
McDonald's (MCD) plans to open its 1,142nd outlet in France next month to celebrate its 30th anniversary in the Gallic country, according to the U.K. paper The Daily Telegraph, and the location is at the pinnacle of all things cultural and classy: the Louvre.
Visitors to the museum will soon be able to enjoy their Le Big Macs and pommes frites after studying the likes of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" or the Winged Victory of Samothrace at McDonald's new burger bar and a McCafe. They will be sited in the underground approach to the museum in central Paris, known as the Carrousel du Louvre.
But gastronomes and aesthetes are outraged.
"This is the last straw," one art historian working at the Louvre told the Telegraph. "This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odors in the context of a museum," he told the Daily Telegraph.
Another expert was equally horrified. Didier Rykner of the Art Tribune Web site described the idea as "shocking," the newspaper said.
But "the Louvre welcomes the fact that the entirety of visitors and customers, French or foreign, can enjoy such a rich and varied restaurant offer, whether in the museum area or gallery," the museum said in a statement.'
McDonald's says France is its biggest market outside the U.S., the Telegraph reported, adding that the Louvre is the world’s most-visited museum.
