McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) loves hedgehogs -- Ananova reports that McDonald's in Germany is redesigning the holders for its McFlurry ice cream treat after reports that hedgehogs were dying for their love of the confection. Apparently, the creatures would wriggle into the containers to reach the last juicy bits in the bottom, become stuck, and suffocate. The new packaging is currently being tried out on a group of test hedgehogs before going into production.
McDonald's also loves loyal customers like Lee and Mary Humphrey of East Sussex, England. The octogenarians have eaten the same meal in the same McDonald's every day for the past 17 years. After more than 6,000 meals and $50,000 worth of their standard meal, a double hamburger each and shared fries, the couple claims their health is fine. Take that, Super-Size Me!
Won't we ever learn? The Cox News Service reports that, as gas prices level out a bit, Americans have quit seeking out used hybrids and returned to SUVs. Cars.com's Consumer Search Index showed that searches for used Ford (NYSE: F) Escape, Honda (NYSE: HMC) Civic and Toyota (NYSE: TM) Prius hybrids dropped precipitously in favor of gas guzzlers like the Buick Enclave and Ford Expedition EL.
Want to work for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)? Prepare for a different kind of interview. According to Business 2.0, the company might challenge the candidate to estimate the charge for washing all the windows in Seattle, or calculate how many golf balls would fit in a school bus. The company made news a few years ago by posting math problems on billboards in Silicon Valley, inviting those who solved it to respond, thereby developing a pool of potential hirees from the area's best and brightest.
Answers: About 500,000 golf balls. About $10 million to wash all the windows.
Working for google
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9-01-2007 @ 4:32AM
Patty said...
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9-04-2007 @ 12:38PM
Brian Patterson said...
My son got e coli 0157 H:7 from eating a McDonalds meal in August of 2002. He was on morphine for 7 days. Both McDonalds and Zurich Ins. denied any liability yet the CDC National PulseNet database found isolated and random PFGE matches. My advise to anyone is to save their receipts and a uneaten portion of their McDonalds meal for further testing, confirmation and proof of purchase.