stackyFACTSIt takes true national resilience to completely banish the golden arches.
It takes true national resilience to completely banish the golden arches. During the brutal 2008 financial crisis, the sheer cost of safely importing the strictly regulated onions and beef to the remote island of Iceland made running a McDonald's fundamentally unprofitable. The last location completely shut down in 2009, and one local hero actually preserved the final hamburger under glass, where it sits today, terrifyingly refusing to decompose.
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