crappy American meat

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>At 12:46 PM 8/7/2002 -0700, eric wrote:
>
>>I would rather have a world where people eat McD while
>>listening to Miles Davis than a world where they eat
>>sushi listening to enya or yanni or any other such
>>crap.
>
>
>McD is not just mediocre food, it is a cultural icon of the 
>triumphant American capitalism over local tastes and cultures. That 
>is, I guess, why many people are so vocal about it. In that respect, 
>Yanni and Bic Mac belong to the same genre.

Leave aside whether McD is mediocre food or not, but what makes it 
any more a cultural icon of triumphant American capitalism over local 
tastes and cultures than, say, Miles Davis, other than that some 
people here prefer Miles Davis to Yanni and think he makes better 
music?