A McDonald's Is Never More Than 107 Miles Away

[Canuckistanian]

Saying McDonald's is ubiquitous in the United States isn't terribly newsworthy. But blogger Stephen Von Worley has creatively figured out the farthest distance any hamburger-loving American could be from the Golden Arches. (Hat tip to BuzzFeed)

The answer? 107 miles. Here's Von Worley on the exact spot in the U.S. where you'd be furthest from a Mickey D's:
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/a-mcdonalds-is-never-more_n_297153.html

Blog link:
http://www.weathersealed.com/2009/09/22/where-the-buffalo-roamed/

[Happyhippychick]

1. Good to know McPoison's is right around the corner whenever obese America needs a fix!

[Libertas1776]

2. Well, now I am just

depressed...........I think I need a Big Mac. I always eat when I'm sad :(

[KharmaTrain]

3. I've Been Mickey D Free For Well Over 25 Years...

I've long avoided most the fast food claptraps but McDonalds has always been at the top of the list. I credit my mother who back in the 60's thought the food there was junk and not good for you. No matter where I am, there's always an alternative...preferably a locally owned restaurant or diner who have better food and customer service.

[AsahinaKimi]

4. Hmm, Seems the City of San Francisco

Has greatly limited the amount of McDonalds in the City. I only know of a few.. Now..
Starbucks on the other hand... We have a ton of them!!

[Stephanie]

5. I'd love to see health statistics for Glad Valley, South Dakota

I wonder if you could chart health stats against this map?

[FarCenter]

13. This area would be in the western part of the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Indian Reservations

Health statistics might not have much to do with MacDonalds.

See

[Stephanie]

15. Thanks n/t

[subcomhd]

6. I'm surprised you can't get a couple of hundred miles away from everything.

Is this possible? You know you have to ask for ketchup now at the drivethrough.

[stuball111]

7. Quit doing the burgers...

since I last bought one two years ago, and I got 5 miles down the road and went to eat the bugger and found they left the meat out!
( I rarely ate there anyways, only when desperate) But I still drop in for an Iced coffee and an order of fries, they do make the best fries I think.

[appamado amata padam]

8. Where I live, it's Dunkin' Donuts;

some areas average one every four or five blocks.

[NoPasaran]

9. Spew all the hatred you want, they make a fine cup of coffee

[Buzz Clik]

10. Interestingly, McDogfood may have shot themselves in the foot with one strategy.

Along the interstates, they've starting teaming with gas stations to create a "rest stop" that part gas station, part convenience store, part McPuke. Some of those combos are so repulsive that no one is going there.

[liberal N proud]

11. I used to think it was great

You could find a place to eat quickly when traveling and know what to expect (sort of).

I have grown up and realized that the mom and pop restaurants are usually the best places to eat, you get a better flavor for the area you are traveling through and we all need to get out of our cars to eat.

Now we are stuck with a fat America who visit an over saturated network of fat injecting outlets.

[FarCenter]

12. This only applies to the 48 states.

I'd bet that there are islands in the Aleutian chain that are more than 105 miles from a MacDonalds. Same for the northwesternmost islands of Hawaii.

[Lance_Boyle]

17. but there are krustyburgers on the oil rigs. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

19. You forgot Guam

Although, if there are TWO McCoronaries on Guam, my statement is invalid.

[Broken_Hero]

24. agreed, even in the panhandle

towns like Petersburg, or Haines had to have Mc D's flown in by float plane.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. That's too far! The food snobs can have fun with this, but...

that two years I spent in the cash register business with restaurants as the primary customers taught me too much.

Too many of the local mom&pop places were the ones with the mystery meat deliveries, roach problems, warm refrigerators... The chains generally were far cleaner, better maintained, and got better ingredients.

Chain owners set standards that had to be met, and they were usually higher than the local health department's. This doesn't mean ALL local places are disease factories, but if you don't have access to the kitchen, you don't know, do you?

(I still shiver over the service call for a jammed kitchen printer in one local place popular with seniors-- I found it jammed with cockroaches!)

[OffWithTheirHeads]

16. I think this is bullshit.

There are still vast expanses of this country where there is nothing. No development at all. All you have to do is get on an airplane to see it.

That said, I don't think you can go more than 30 feet in any populated area without finding someone with one of those
Michelin man type body's by McDonald's

[TransitJohn]

18. LOL

No, there isn't vast expanses of this country where there is nothing. Maybe Alaska. I say this as a lifelong resident of the 8th largest geographically and least populated state. We have McDonalds, and movie theatres, and cable tv, and computers. Sheesh.

[anigbrowl]

23. Yes, those are the places which are far away from a McDonalds

The greatest distance is mentioned as 107 miles. do you realize that that's like being in the middle of a circle of area ~32,000 square miles? Do you realize also that the farthest distance from a McD's is by defnition only half of the distance between the two branches farthest apart?

[BlooInBloo]

20. To eyeball it, it appears that the McD's center of mass is southern IL?

[greenbriar]

21. I LOVE EGG McMuffins

mmmmmmmmm good

[BlooInBloo]

22. Sausage muffin with egg and bacon added on for me, please.

[BuyingThyme]

25. Notice that the UFO hotspots have the least McDonald's (McDonald'ses?).

[OwnedByFerrets]

26. I'm proud to say I've not been in one in years.