I know they're old and all that...

...and I'm all for going back to the same restaurant again and again and again, but isn't this all a bit well... bloody sad?

"Lee and I first ate in the Eastbourne McDonald's in 1990 and we've been back every weekday ever since. We had just moved over from Vancouver and we just fell in love with McDonald's.

We call it "the office" now and our relatives will ask us how the office is and have a little joke about it. We almost have our own table and if someone else is sitting there then, oh boy, I have to sit somewhere else and I feel like I'm lost. We never go to any other restaurants, you'll never see us anywhere else.

What do we love about it? McDonald's has always been very pleasant, and the people who work and go there are always very polite and friendly. In all these years, we have never, never had a cross word from anybody. We have people coming to sit with us who are a quarter of our age, and I love listening to the young kids and the students. And if they haven't got time to talk to us, then they'll just wave and go about their business.

We both order a double hamburger with one portion of chips between us, Lee has a cup of coffee and I give him one of my hamburgers, so I have one and he has three. I did once try the Big Deli sandwich and, I tell you, I couldn't walk out of the door it was that big!

We don't eat big when we come home, we like to sit down in the afternoon and watch Deal or No Deal with a Magnum chocolate-covered ice cream. We sit there licking it like two little old kids.

I've heard it said that people who go to McDonald's all put on weight - don't you believe it! I'm very slim and so is Lee. It's just nonsense about McDonald's not being healthy. Lee will have a bowl of cereal in the morning, and I'll make him a pre-cooked roast beef at the weekends, but there's 400 calories in our ice cream so we don't eat much else.

We were there all through that terrible time of the BSE crisis when they said don't eat beef. We were just fine and we're still healthy now. We're both 84 and there's nothing wrong with either of us. They're always going to criticise McDonald's and I don't understand why - it is one of the cleanest places you'll ever go to and we just love it." From The Guardian.

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Comments

[ourman]

Well, if my grandparents were still alive they'd be roughly the same age and tucking into their usual spam sandwiches this lunchtime. The spam was usually several days old as it took them a while to get through a tin.

When it came to the rest of their tastes ther were very "wartime" in what they chose. As I kid I dreaded having to eat there.

Food was largely, to my taste, off and the "meat" wasn't so much meat as fat.

With all that in mind, McDonalds seems like a much more palatable and even healthy option.

Personally though I'd go for Burger King ;o)