Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/31

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Subject: [Leica] French Café Women
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 20:29:33 -0400
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On May 31, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> I'd like to say that was an ironic comment on the pervasiveness of  
> US cultural imperialism in the form of the McDonalds arches  
> undermining European architecture - and in particular the dix  
> huitieme siecle architecture of Bordeaux, while, at the same time,  
> sabotaging European culinary identities and subsuming them under a  
> monolith of burger blandness,

They've done the same here

>  I would not visit a McDonalds in Bordeaux or anywhere in France

And I won't here either

ric
Replies: Reply from ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] French Café Women)
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Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] French Café Women)