 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just wrong, but perhaps well priced for a slope side meal in Sweden.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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"Wrong", or just not to your liking? That's ok, I don't need a Big Mac either, but I'd slide up there for a quick coke/water/OJ and wish I could do that everywhere. Only seen that (skis on) once, on top of Les Menuires IIRC. I think a quick & easy beverage stop up on the hill at some logical location is an unfulfilled need.
I'm a foodie but there's room under my tent for McStomachache, as we call it. Heading for the mountain or golf course at 6am you can get a decent breakfast sandwich there when nobody else is open. The rest of the day, sure, there are better offerings almost anywhere.
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I don't see anything wrong or unethical with this !
Great idea, good marketing, hopefully their food offering is good but McDonald's won here !
BTW, it is in Sweden !?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm with @Scooter in Seattle, on this. I'm also a foodie, but nothing wrong with MacD sometimes. We often stop by one on the way to fishing, the bacon rolls are pretty good and the coffee is excellent. I hate to admit it, but I also have a thing for the sausage and egg macmuffin. It is so wrong in so many ways (round sausage patty, egg and cheese is just wrong) but somehow seems to hit the spot after one or two too many whiskeys the night before....
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I might be old fashioned, but I think I'd want to take my skis off and sit down to eat my burger though. The outdoor serving hatch is decent idea though. Probably also need to factor in a ski thru loo too!
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How are you going to hold your paper bag of McGoodness when you've also wrangling ski poles? You're going to drop your nuggies in the snow.
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Must say on a skiing holiday I'd rather be somewhere a little more atmospheric if I feel the need for a coffee. I can't say I've ever had one in McDonalds so I don't know the quality.
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Please tell me it’s right at the top of a mogul field 
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We had a long and rambling chat on a ski lift about the technical aspects required to make a ski through loo work. I think we ended up with hatches in salopettes and some kind of conveyor over a trough....
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@turboblackbeard, maybe some things are best to take some time over to do right. If anyone has gone dog sledding you'll know that the huskies are not above attempting to park their breakfasts while on the move and it rarely ends well for anyone behind them.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| T Bar wrote: |
| Must say on a skiing holiday I'd rather be somewhere a little more atmospheric if I feel the need for a coffee. I can't say I've ever had one in McDonalds so I don't know the quality. |
A requisite would be a gap under the urinals to slide your ski's through so you can get close enough, and a privacy wall for good form. I think ladies would probably want to stick to a more traditional indoor loo.
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
| @turboblackbeard, maybe some things are best to take some time over to do right. If anyone has gone dog sledding you'll know that the huskies are not above attempting to park their breakfasts while on the move and it rarely ends well for anyone behind them. |
Getting dog sleds out to our camp skiing in Greenland many moons ago quickly dispatched with my idyllic imagined experience. The dogs were constantly trying to fight or hump each other while s**ting constantly, dragging us along via lengths of the ubiquitous "blue rope" in a ramshackle pack and trying not to get run over by the sled on the downhills. I was glad we kept some around when camping as a bear deterrent though.
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You know it makes sense.
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I don’t go all the way to foreign climes to eat a less than mediocre American inspired burger owned by a faceless multinational that markets to kids for pester power.
I’d much rather eat local food in a local establishment.
But they do do good fries
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@turboblackbeard, I've still got a set of ski overalls that have a "Hatch in the back".
Never had to use it though.
Mine were made by "Nike"
but that was as required as a ski pass pocket then,
and that was the gear to wear in all the "Gortex Towns" like Stanton & Chamonix
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Poster: A snowHead
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I don’t see a problem. I recon if you opened a macdonalds sit-in in any ski place it would be rammed. Just as long as the scenery is not ruined by the BigM.
Up at Glencoe up the hill the hut serves pies, bridie and beans, rolls’n’bacon, sausage Rolls etc and it is busy.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I seem to remember that about 25 years ago, there was a furore in La Rosiere when for an April Fools' prank the suggestion was made on the local radio news that the old Fort overlooking the resort was to be turned into a ski-through McDonalds.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Are there many ski towns/resorts in Europe that have a McD's?
I've skied a fair few places but don't recall too many. Maybe I've forgotten...
Zermatt and Ziller Valley branches are near the ski slopes but others like Albertville (x2) and Bourg St Maurice are well down the valley. Come to think of it, I do have a vague recollection of a Kitzbuhel McDonald's 
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McDs was only allowed to open doors in Cambridge near the colleges in Rose Crescent if it toned down its branding, so not for it the brash red and big golden arches, all small branding and muted tones instead.
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