The Illuminated Donkey

An Illuminated Donkey Exclusive Special Insider Dispatch from Salt Lake City©: First in a Series! As I’ve mentioned, my younger sister Nancy is in Salt Lake City, where she is currently training to do production work for NBC during the Olympics. As the official Illuminated Donkey media representative in Salt Lake City, Nancy will be offering her unique perspective from behind the scenes, giving my readers the dirt they can’t get anywhere else.

In her first dispatch, Nancy talks about the McDonald’s in the Main Media Center at Salt Palace. It turns out that while McDonald’s may have flown in a "World Champion Crew" of 400 to work the Olympics restaurants (including including Shabid Memood and Saqib Zahoor of Pakistan and Svetlana Ilyina of Russia), they didn’t bother to fly in any Chicken McNuggets or her "favorite little hamburger value meal." Worst of all, they only offer one size order of french fries — large at $1.75 — which annoys my rather small sister. If these are, in fact, the best employees McDonald’s has to offer, they should be able to handle a full menu, or even special Olympics-only items (perhaps some sort of Gold Medla Mac with five interlocking meat patties?), as opposed to this abbreviated selection. Nancy describes the makeshift McDonald’s as "bootleg," a rather harsh review coming from her.

This has been An Illuminated Donkey Exclusive Special Insider Dispatch from Salt Lake City©: First in a Series!