Meaning of McDonaldsesque | Babel Free

Examples

“At $1.75 it was the best deal, because instead of a McDonaldsesque square of ground-up fish, you got an actual fillet that extended beyond the ends of a hot dog bun.”

“Moreover, in current global exchange structures, whether they are McDonaldsesque or Disneyesque or instead derive from worthy indigenous roots, cultural communities and values disperse only as widely as their reach permits them too,^([sic]) and worse, are routinely drowned out by other communities with larger megaphones who impinge on them.”

“[…]; and in 'This Spud's for You,' a chemical is added to growing potatoes so that the fries sold at the McDonaldsesque 'Burpo Burger' will transform consumers into forgetful and clumsy geriatrics.”

“The hybridizing of US country music with other forms – a kind of indigenization also familiar to scholars of global culture – contributes to the notion of the transnational rural without suggesting a McDonaldsesque ‘McCountry’ homogeneity (the kind of criticism usually levelled at country music mega-stars such as Dolly Parton or Shania Twain; Jensen, 1998).”

“For a look at how those “other” tourists are spending their vacation, let’s pay a quick visit to the Fort Street Tourism Village, a McDonaldsesque walled compound where the tender boats from the cruise ships dock.”

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