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##@§%*=--. LETS HEAR IT FOR .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. === MC DONALDS === .--=*%§@##
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§*--...... WHAT CAN I DO YA FOR ......--*§
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##@§%*=--. - NUGGETS - .--=*%§@##
§**---.... - DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER - ....---**§
##@§%*=--. - FRIES - .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. - CARBONATED WATER - .--=*%§@##
@§%=--.... - BEARNAISE DIP SAUCE - ....--=%§@
###@%*=--. - BIG MAC - .--=*%@###
##@§%*=--. - COFFEE - .--=*%§@##
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#@@§%*=--. IT ALL BEGAN A THOUSAND YEARS AGO IN .--=*%§@@#
#@§%===--. LIKE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. A DARK .--===%§@#
§§§§%*=--. FIGURE EMERGED FROM A TAVERN AFTER A .--=*%§§§§
@%%=--.... FEW YEARS APPRENTICESHIP, WITH AN IDEA. ....--=%%@
##@§%*=--. IT WAS ILLEGAL TO SELL FOOD IN THE .--=*%§@##
§%%%**=--. REGION FOR EVERYBODY EXCEPT THAT TAVERN. .--=**%%%§
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#@§*-..... BUT MARIGOLD DIDN'T CARE. .....-*§@#
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###@§%=--. SHE BEGAN PUTTING DRIED LIZARD MEAT .--=%§@###
@%**--.... BETWEEN TWO BREAD SLICES, OPERATING OUT ....--**%@
###@§*=--. OF A CART, NOT STAYING IN THE SAME .--=*§@###
##@§%*=--. PLACE LONG. IN THE DAY SHE SLEPT, IN .--=*%§@##
###@%*=--. THE EVE SHE SOLD HER WARES, AND IN THE .--=*%@###
§%===-.... NIGHT SHE POACHED. ....-===%§
##@§%*=--. .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. AFTER A FEW YEARS, MARIGOLDS FOOD CART .--=*%§@##
###@%*=--. HAD A REPUTATION. SHE CALLED IT .--=*%@###
§**=-..... -. THE GOLDEN M .- .....-=**§
§%**=-.... AND PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT THE GOLDEN M. ....-=**%§
##@§%*=--. THE OLD TAVERN HAD THEIR MONOPOLY AND .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. DIDN'T CHANGE THEIR MENU MUCH. .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. MARIGOLDS SECRET LIZARD FOODCART WAS .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. NEW AND FRESH. .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. .--=*%§@##
#@%**=--.. HOWEVER, SHE BECAME A LITTLE TOO WELL ..--=**%@#
##@§%*=--. KNOWN. THE TAVERNS MEN HOT ON HER .--=*%§@##
@%*--..... TRAIL, SHE COULD STAY A SHORTER AND .....--*%@
##@§%*=--. SHORTER TIME IN EACH LOCATION. SHE FELT .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. HUNTED. AND SOON ENOUGH THERE CAME A .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. TIME WHEN THEY STARTED WATCHING FOR HER .--=*%§@##
@@@§%*=--. AT THE GATES OF EVERY VILLAGE. .--=*%§@@@
@§%=-..... .....-=%§@
##@§%*=--. SO SHE HID THE CART, AND DISAPPEARED, .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. FOREVER. .--=*%§@##
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##@§%*=--. .--=*%§@##
§%%*--.... AFTER THIRTY YEARS, A MAN NAMED ....--*%%§
#§**---... NICHOLAS FOUND THE CART. HE WAS A ...---**§#
#§*=--.... CURSED ENTREPRENEUR (THEY ALL ARE ....--=*§#
###@§%=--. (CURSED, I MEAN)) AND AS SUCH HE OF .--=%§@###
##@§%*=--. COURSE THOUGHT IT A GOOD IDEA TO FOLLOW .--=*%§@##
§*---..... IN MARIGOLDS FOODSTEPS. .....---*§
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##@§%*=--. HE WASN'T ALL THAT OF A COOK, AND EVEN .--=*%§@##
@§%*---... THOUGH SOME RECOGNIZED THE GOLDEN M, HE ...---*%§@
##@§%*=--. QUICKLY FELL INTO INFAMITY. HOWEVER HE .--=*%§@##
#§§*-..... WAS KIND OF A HARDHAT AND DIDN'T STOP .....-*§§#
@§%%*=-... TRYING. THE TAVERN DIDN'T CARE FOR HIM ...-=*%%§@
###@§*=--. SINCE NOBODY BOUGHT HIS FOOD ANYWAY .--=*§@###
##@§%*=--. (AND ALSO THEY HAD EXPANDED TOO .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. QUICKLY, SUCCUMBED TO CORRUPTION, AND .--=*%§@##
@%*=-..... WAS IN THE PROCESS OF FALLING APART). .....-=*%@
##@§%*=--. .--=*%§@##
@%**--.... ANGRY AT EVERYONE FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING ....--**%@
§*=---.... HIS FOOD, HE VOWED TO LEAVE ....---=*§
@%=-...... KIRUGU VARGIR ENTIERLY. ......-=%@
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@%%*-..... WHICH HE DID. .....-*%%@
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###§%*=--. WE DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT HOW HE TRAVELED .--=*%§###
##@§%*=--. OR WHERE, BUT EVENTUALLY HE ENDED UP ON .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. EARTH IN THE FIFTIES. .--=*%§@##
@%=-...... UPON FINDING OUT THAT EARTH HOLDS NO ......-=%@
##@§%*=--. EDIBLE LIZARDS, HE SETTLED FOR COW MEAT .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. INSTEAD, AND TO HIS JOY, THE EARTH FOLK .--=*%§@##
###@§%*=-- LIKED IT! --=*%§@###
##@§%*=--. .--=*%§@##
###@§%*=-. THEN HE GOT SCAMMED OUT OF THE CART BY .-=*%§@###
##@§%*=--. A MAN NAMED MICKEY MAC DONALDS, WHO .--=*%§@##
@@§§%*=--. RENAMED THE BUSINESS AFTER HIMSELF. .--=*%§§@@
#@§§%*=--. WHILE NICHOLAS QUICKLY PERISHED, MICKEY .--=*%§§@#
#§*=-..... FUNNELED HIS INHERITED BILLIONS INTO .....-=*§#
##@§%*=--. THE PROJECT, AND QUICKLY EXPANDED ALL .--=*%§@##
##@§%*=--. OVER THE PLANET. .--=*%§@##
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