McDonald’s has a lot of odd foods on their international menus.  It’s really quite interesting.  You should check it out.  But one food item on the McDonald’s menu in Hong Kong stood out to me in particular— the Shake Shake Fries.  Shake Shake Fries are basically flavored French fries.  They come in flavors like salt and pepper, French onion, chargrill, and seaweed.  I am about to McVomit.

For the next few days I will be driving across the country.  Thus, my posts will be about useless things learned on the open road.

E pluribus unum— out of many, one.    Before the Civil War, the United States was generally accepted as a plural noun.  For example, we used to say, “the United States are full of people seeking political freedom.”  Around the time of the Civil War, we started to view the country as a singular entity, rather than just a bunch of united states.  Now we say, “the United States is full of people seeking the new Big Mac Snack Wraps from McDonald’s.”   Watching the Olympics, I very often hear the commentators reinforcing the country’s singularity…  I also see a lot of McDonald’s commercials.