[satire] McDonald's in VN

[ianb@sun670.telecom.tandem.com (Ian Bui)]

New news, old joke... :))

> HO CHI MINH CITY -- McDonald's Corp. will open its first restaurant in
> Vietnam in 1998, the Saigon Times Daily reported Monday. It would be the
> first U.S. fast-food hamburger restaurant in the country. McDonald's is
> planning first to form a joint venture with a Vietnamese company to raise
> cows to guarantee a stable supply of beef, the report said. 

What the report didn't report was that McD is planning a marketing
blitz to Vietnamize its world-renowned menu which will now include 
the following post-war but still politically tasteless item:

The VC Combo -- a hot "dog",
                a large Dien Bien Phu French Fries,
                and a medium Agent Orange juice

... all for under one hundred thousand dong!!! 

Don't miss it! :))

ian (the irreverent)