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Hundreds of food outlets at Olympic venues have been forced to take chips off the menu, because of a demand from sponsor McDonald's.
Olympic chiefs have banned all 800 food retailers at the 40 Games venues across Britain from dishing up chips because of 'sponsorship obligations.'
The only loophole in the agreement, announced in a memo to staff, is that chips can be served with fish - safeguarding Britain's most famous dish.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172168/London-Olympics-2012-McDonalds-force-Olympics-bosses-ban-restaurants-selling-chips-unless-FISH.html#ixzz20PLJd6Ko
JHB
(37,160 posts)...and 'pommes frites' in France, Belgium, and Amercia.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)A good part of Belgium calls them "Flemish Fries".
JHB
(37,160 posts)Which part? Is it the Flemish claiming them as their own? Or the Walloons saying "eh, don't blame us, it belongs to the other guys"?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It's like VD, everybody blames someone else.
RandiFan1290
(6,232 posts)Free market and all that
They are scared to death of competition. Even they know their food tastes like crap.
TlalocW
(15,381 posts)And call them French Fries.
TlalocW
Javaman
(62,526 posts)sorry, I don't believe anything they print.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Javaman
(62,526 posts)but using the daily fail as a link for "truth" just doesn't wash withme.