{"id":15557,"date":"2025-06-04T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15557"},"modified":"2025-06-04T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:34:58","slug":"golden-arches-anthropophagism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15557","title":{"rendered":"Golden Arches anthropophagism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photograph below popped up in your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s social media feed this morning.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/mcds_cannibals.png\" alt=\"Sign reads Restroom is for eating customers only!!!\" width=\"482\" height=\"271\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/mcds_cannibals.png 482w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/mcds_cannibals-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>Judging by the use of the term <em>restroom<\/em>, the sign was apparently affixed to the door to the toilets of a fast food outlet somewhere in the USA, allegedly in a branch of junk food giant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McDonald's\">McDonalds<\/a>, according to the original social media post.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Note the three exclamation marks at the end of the phrase. One is usually sufficient.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It is not known how long the chain itself &#8211; or indeed the United States as a nation &#8211; has permitted cannibalism either within or outwith toilet facilities, let alone endorsed the practice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>One pertinent question springs to mind: &#8220;Do you want fries with <em>that<\/em>?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bon app\u00e9tit !<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Just ignore the smell and the sound of running water&#8230;<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photograph below popped up in your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s social media feed this morning. Judging by the use of the term restroom, the sign was apparently affixed to the door to the toilets of a fast food outlet somewhere in the USA, allegedly in a branch of junk food giant McDonalds, according to the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34],"tags":[36,16,25,22,35],"class_list":["post-15557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-food","tag-language","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15557"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15578,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557\/revisions\/15578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}