The Green Picture: How Far Away Is The Nearest McDonald’s? |
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| By Michael d'Estries in Food | September 25, 2009 | |
Thanks to Stephen von Worley at Weather Sealed, we now have a pretty decent visual of how fast food chain McDonald’s dominates our country. Worley mapped the 13,000+ locations of McDonald’s across the lower 48 states — presenting a beautiful, but depressing look at the density of the Mickey D’s empire. From his report,
“For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map. There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer. Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!”
Note to self: Move to Dakota.
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Chuka Eze said,
WOW. That map is very interesting. I am sure there are plans to reduce that distance of 145 miles by adding like 50 new locations in between.
Kevin Moran said,
An interesting map to overlay would be a map representing the youth obesity issue by state…