This is the first drive-thru, fast-food joint to infest China. McDonald's plans to build 20-30 drive-thru stores this year alone in order to capitalize on the exponential growth of personal automobile ownership there. China is transitioning rapidly from a bicycle culture to an automobile culture like the U.S. From the looks of that guy in the picture, they are rapidly transitioning from a healthy culture to a lazy, obese culture like the U.S. as well.
Decades ago, the Chinese adopted the tried and true American practice of killing themselves with cigarettes. Be on the look out now for a rise in rates of heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, and other adverse health conditions associated with the over-consumption of fast-food.
As the world's pioneers of self-destructive behavior, we in the U.S. can claim that we didn't know smoking and obesity were bad until people started dying from them. You'd think a country with 1 billion people who're good at math would be able to avoid our mistakes.....but you'd be wrong.
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