When I'm travelling, I like to try out the local cuisine. I was on a coach trip in Poland a few years ago and we went down the motorway past all those stopping places with the tour guide saying "they won't be able to cope with coaches" despite the signs up saying "coaches welcome". Got to Katowice (I think that's how you spell it) and stopped at the McDonald's. I used the toilets but refused even to have a coffee. I think it had something to do with back-handers, but we never stopped at another one that trip.

A few years previously in Prague, my wife and daughter went off to the McDonald's in Wenceslas Square on the assumption that they'd get a cheap meal there. I went into a local deli and got a foot long baguette filled with a great selection of local meats at half the price.

Anyway, isn't McDonald's the hardware store in Kyle-of-Lochalsh - it was 50 years ago.