Archive for the ‘mcdonald’s’ tag
Southern Tea #
October 6th, 2008 | In Worth Considering
Strange Maps points to an interesting one: you can map the northern extent of America’s South by seeing how far north in Virginia McDonald’s has sweet tea.
Economics, Big Macs, and Coca-Cola #
July 28th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
I’ve documented before The Economist’s penchant for unusual economic indicators. The classic example, the Big Mac index — in which the price of the sandwich serves as a proxy for purchasing power parity (PPP), has been unveiled for 2008.
Perhaps more novelly, the magazine’s Africa correspondent, Jonathan Ledgard, offers the intriguing possibilty that sales of Coca-Cola are a signal of how peaceful and prosperous a given area of the continent is. (via Passport)
The McDonald’s Diet #
June 23rd, 2008 | In Worth Distraction