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At the Olympics, if you run a fish and chip stall, you’re not allowed to serve chips on their own, because McDonald’s are the Official Greasy Potato Snack of London 2012!
Apparently, McDonald’s are so terrified of off-brand chips that they will only let you buy them as part of a British Heritage Ye Olde Fishe and Chippes package. Heaven forfend you should try to ask for just the chips. I dare say they’ll get one of the Eastern European hammer-throwers to hurl you bodily from the venue.
I’ve put in a call to Locog in an attempt to find out whether this is some weird hoax, but it went to answerphone and that’s the limit of my investigative journalism skills. If they get back to me I’ll confirm it. But if it’s real, and I think it is, then can we remember this as the moment that corporate sponsorship finally lost its mind? I nominate “sponsored the chips” as a modern-day replacement for “jumped the shark” or “nuked the fridge”.

(Source: john--117, via youknowyourebritishwhen)