What's your favorite restaurant? McDonald's, right? Not if you are from Australia. If you are from Australia, your favorite restaurant is "Macca's."

McDonald's, a machine for turning cow fat into money, is really into America, Christmas, Kwanzaa, holidays, whatever the fuck, assuming those holidays are celebrated at a McDonald's restaurant, or sitting in a parked car in a McDonald's parking lot, forcing down McDonald's food as tears stream down your face. All you have to do is to look at McDonald's advertisements to realize that McDonald's has the utmost respect for family, togetherness, happiness, America, freedom, blah blah buy some french fries. McDonald's would open a location at your mother's funeral if it thought it could sell one additional Filet-O-Fish.

If you order anything from McDonald's breakfast menu aside from hot cakes or some sort of biscuit sandwich, you deserve to be disappointed and/or disgusted. That said, no ordering mishap, not even one as egregious as that, merits the discovery of a nose ring in your breakfast burrito.

Canada's National Post and the AP note a photograph, posted to link-sharing website Reddit, of failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney visiting a McDonald's sometime yesterday. "Mitt Romney loves his McDonald's and has said so on many occasions," the article reads.

Do you hear that sound? That's the sound of my heart breaking because you motherfuckers are not doing your part keep McDonald's afloat.

How much would you pay for a sauce if you happened to be eating a sandwich without sauce? $65? $10,000? An infinite number of dollars and promises and begs? What if the sauce was 20 years old? How much would you pay to taste the sauce of glories past?

America's premiere coffee shop, McDonald's, is offering a free small premium roast today at New York-area locations.

An unidentified prankster dressed in full Burger King regalia danced around inside a Rome, Georgia, McDonald's earlier this week, prompting the manager to phone the police.

McDonald's, the world-wide leader in burger-based foods, announced today plans to open its first all-vegetarian restaurant in the northern Indian city of Amritsar.

A Tennessee man who lost his cool after a McDonald's employee handed him a sundae with the hot fudge on the bottom was convicted of assault and could spend up to a year behind bars.

Midnight. Noontime moontime. 00:00 o'clock.

A McDonald's in Croatia allegedly stayed open and served food without interruption despite the fact that a woman had dropped dead inside the store and her body remained in the corner for nearly 90 minutes.

"The only loop hole to this is if it is served with fish," reads a statement from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG).

It's an open secret that the city of London's Olympic bid was nothing more than a brazen attempt to lure America's most popular fast food corporations to open up franchises in that dusty, far flung corner of the world. Now The Guardian reports London is finally getting what it craves: its very first fifty-first McDonald's.

Police arrested a Massachusetts man for allegedly assaulting his stepdaughter with a dangerous weapon. His weapon of choice? A batch of McDonald's French fries.

A McDonald's restaurant in Tampa apparently had so many health code violations it initially barred a state health inspector from entering the kitchen.

Around the same time that Ryan Hart was spitting out his Arby's junior roast beef (now with extra human finger), Redditor LinkBoyJT was biting into his order of hash browns from McDonald's. Just before consuming the last morsel of his King Size french fry, he says he suddenly "felt something on the bottom."

Last week, French McDonald's franchises announced a new addition to their menus: the McBaguette sandwich, a Frankenstein's monster of culinary culture clash.

Was there a brawl on St. Patrick's day at a McDonald's? Why are you even asking? [NYP]

Wendy's ended Burger King's 40-year reign as America's number two-selling hamburger chain in 2011, CNNMoney reports.