McWord
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A McWord is a word containing the
McNugget), or are neologisms designed to evoke pejorative associations with the restaurant chain or fast food in general, often for qualities of cheapness, inauthenticity, or the speed and ease of manufacture. They are also used in non-consumerism contexts as a pejorative for heavily commercialized or globalized
things and concepts.
Examples
Official McDonald's products and branding concepts
- Mayor McCheese
- McCafé
- McDonaldland
- McInternet – A free Internet cafeservice offered in several McDonald's restaurants.
- McState, now McHire – The McDonald's job and career search service.
- McWorld – The term was used in a mid-1990s McDonald's advertising campaign depicting a world ruled by children. It is also used in a critical way to emphasize the deprecation of local culture in favor of a global culture prescribed by large corporations.
- McNuggets
- McChicken
- McDouble
- McRib
- McFlurry
- McArabia
- McMuffin
- McChurch – A megachurch.
- McDonaldization – the process by which a society takes on the characteristics of a fast-food restaurant.
- degree mill).
- McJob – A low-paying job in which one serves as an interchangeable cog in a corporate machine; originally appearing in an article in The Washington Post in 1986 and later popularised by Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.
- McLibel case and McLibel (film)
- McMansion – Quickly-built mansions; a group of large houses built in the same style in the same area.
- McMindfulness – A term coined by Ron Purser debunking the "mindfulness revolution".
- McOndo – A Latin American literary movement. The name is a spoof on the fictional village of Macondo.
- McPaper (or McNews) – A newspaper that is considered manufactured and "for the masses" because of its simplistic prose style and flashy use of colors. Typically used in reference to USA Today.[2]
- McRefugee – people who stay overnight in a 24-hour McDonald's.[3]
See also
- Cocacolonization
- Disneyfication
- Walmarting
- "Tesco Value" for a similar usage in the UK, referring to the supermarket Tesco's own budget brand.
- Internet-related prefixes
References
- ^ McDonald's: Serviços Archived 2007-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Prichard, Peter: "The Making of McPaper" Andrews McMeel Pub, 1987. Amazon Link
- ^ "'McRefugees' in Hong Kong?". USA Today. 1 May 2007.