Comments on: McDonald's Gitmo is hiring!

By: insert

insert — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eating a Big Mac — now that’s torture.

By: InsertFingerHere

InsertFingerHere — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m bother that the inmates can get a Big Mac, but not a fair trial.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maybe they could waterboard prisoners with the orange drink dispenser?

By: dbarak

dbarak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

All the McRibs the detainees can eat! (Think about it…)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I used to pull into Gitmo on occasion when I was with the Coast Guard. At one point I saw students providing car washes to pay for some school event or other. Gitmo is not exactly small nor without facilities.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Are they paying relocation costs?

By: Loony

Loony — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

When did Mildenhall get a 7-11?

By: knodi

knodi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s just the cognitive dissonance of something as routine and normal as McDonalds, in a place as infamous and secretive as Guantanamo. Do you really not get that?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Burger King in CCAFS gets a lot of business, I just wish their operating hours were longer!

By: mrbill1234

mrbill1234 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m willing to bet those burgers aren’t Halaal. Ooops.

By: Loony

Loony — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I forgotten about the no pennies. Something about it being too expensive to ship pennies overseas, I believe. Though they did dump a bunch of Susan B Anthony’s on us. From what I understood nobody in the States were using them.

By: Loony

Loony — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The fact that there is civilian fast food restaurants on military bases is giving me cognitive dissonance. Used to be just AAFES.

By: dbarak

dbarak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, we had a few places on base in the Navy in the mid 1980s. I’m sure we had a McDonalds, and maybe a Pizza Hut or something like that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My father was a doctor at Guantanamo Bay Naval hospital. He, my mother, and I lived there from 1984-1987.

My mom told me the day McDonald’s first opened in Gitmo, the line was two blocks long.

I was a baby, but I remember having my first Chicken McNuggets from a six-piece happy-meal from the Guantanamo Bay McDonalds.

The base is very small — maybe 50 miles total, but the civilians live on maybe a third of that. They’re glad of anything that reminds them of home.

By: Loony

Loony — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Figures, I’m just old. I hope you didn’t have to pay off base prices for the food.

By: paradoxcycle

paradoxcycle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@knodi: YES, thank you. It’s so ridiculous to think that every article needs some justification to be posted. If you can’t figure it out, move on to something else.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Would you like lies with that?”

By: caffeine addict

caffeine addict — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Only thing I remember of Mildenhall is a bowling alley and a car dealership. No idea why I chose a 7-11…

By: dbarak

dbarak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

THAT I can’t remember. Although I’m sure at that age, we would have paid any reasonable price to not eat the junk at McDonald’s and not the junk at the mess hall.

By: Axx

Axx — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

>The base is very small — maybe 50 miles total, but the >civilians live on maybe a third of that. They’re glad of >anything that reminds them of home.

That’s curious! It’s Guantanamo that reminds the rest of the world of their home.

By: Mike The Bard

Mike The Bard — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hire the inmates. Perhaps terrorism can be eliminated through the mind-numbing apathy caused by working a menial, low paying service job.

Studies show that after prolonged employment, any intention the subject may have had of causing meaningful or disruptive change in the world tends to dissolve in a haze of self-medicated cannibis and reality TV.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I once worked at this MCDonalds

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Though they did dump a bunch of Susan B Anthony’s on us. From what I understood nobody in the States were using them.

The Nuclear Power Plant I worked at used Susan B Anthony Dollars in the vending machines which I found fantastic. The vending machine food was great (at least the ones in the nice breakroom) and because the Susan B Anthony dollars were just a bit larger than a quarter they didn’t take up much space. The Susan B.s were a hell of a lot better than the Sacagawea dollar and all that have come since, the coating wears off all of them.

By: efergus3

efergus3 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There was also a shopette (no pennies please) and the Bob Hope Rec Center.

By: caffeine addict

caffeine addict — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Am I missing something? Why exactly is this noteworthy? Company has branch in army base; needs new staff. Is this just because it’s Guantanamo, or will you being telling us when Mildenhall need someone new at their 7-11?