Fun fact: by court order, no Burger King franchise is allowed to operate within this black circle, a 20 mile radius around an independent local restaurant named Burger King that had used the name first
habitable zone
I’ve wanted to visit it for years. The town it’s in also has a Bagelfest that looks extremely entertaining.
In Ireland the prefix Mc or Mac on a second name is part of our history and language. A lot of people have names like McGraw or McGuire. Also in Ireland, as a left over of how Irish language works, its not unusual to give someone a sort of nickname by adding ‘young(small)’ or ‘big’ in front of their name. (it flows better in Irish but we still do it). This combined with an abbreviation of second names being used as their nickname youd end up with people being called ‘Young Dave’ or, and I’m sure you can see where this is going, ‘Big Mac’
In 1978 one such person opened a fast food restaurant called Supermacs and they just happened to sell a burger called a Big Mac. They became wildly popular and can be found in most towns in Ireland. Their food is actually pretty good.
Now, a certain large restaurant chain didn’t take kindly to this cuz they thought they owned the idea first (they didn’t) and they brought the relitively small fast food chain to court to force them to stop using the name ‘big mac’ and anything with the prefix Mc. Yaknow, the way Irish people have named ourselves since before Irish was a written language.
In a wild twist they lost and in doing so lost all exclusivity of the prefixes in all of Ireland so now any restaurant can sell a ‘big mac’ and they do. Most chipshops do a Big Mac of some variety.
Unfortunately McDonalds weren’t happy with this for some reason and brought the case to the European Courts in 2019 or so… and THEY FUCKIN LOST AGAIN.
So, if you’re ever in Ireland you should treat yourself to a Supermacs. Not cuz they’re food is amazing, it’s not, it’s just ok but by god the idea that some rich fuckin assholes spend years in courts and spent a fortune trying to sue a small buisness out of their family name and then lost, twice, sure does make it taste amazing.
When the author describes a character’s appearance way too late and you have to quickly redesign the image you already have for them in your head:
This is why if you want people to know your character has long raven-black hair with red streaks and eyes like limpid tears, you need to make sure you say so in your first paragraph. Christ. Imagine someone thinking your character’s a prep.
