[Arthur Gordon Pym]

I remember, in the beginning of the 90ies, one of the first signs of coming of the new "wonderful" Western democracy and liberalism to the Eastern Europe was opening of numerous McDonalds restaurants in cities like Budapest, Prague, Bucharest, Warsaw etc.

When the first McDonalds opened in Zagreb in 1996, I remember one idiotic journalist and writer said it was sign of the coming of new age when it won't be possible any more to consume old-fashioned proper food, because everyone will be so busy as not to be able to cook a lunch.