McDonald's just mocked America (and made a mess of it)

I've just come back from a trip to Europe.Every single European I talked to -- on discovering I live in the US -- wanted to talk about one thing. Well, one person.I tried to offer reassurance, explanation, uplift or even incomprehension when it came to their concerns about my Uncle Samuel. It's still odd, though, what people over there think of people over here.Which leads me, painfully, to McDonald's. The company's British arm has just released some ads that are supposed to attract British people to eat a variety of American-themed burgers.Still, the shtick here is that there are burgers named after Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee and New York and, as these Brits describe them, they turn into people from those states.The only slight issue residents of these states -- and other sane people -- might have is that the images portrayed here have little or nothing to do with those states.Instead, it's a desperate patchwork of clich sewed by a possibly inebriated Brit who searched online for "bad jokes about Americans."