Risus Sardonicus

McDonald's has had to defend itself against a Sardinian gangster who violated its intellectual property rights by adding the prefix Mc to the name of his establishment. Fiendishly, he wanted to give the place "a fast-food feel" without democratically enfranchising it into the kind of crap-and-plastic emporium for alimentary abuse to which we are accustomed in the developed world. The so-called snack bar specialises in "a Sardinian form of stuffed pasta filled with local sheep's cheese, potato and mint", evidently with little or nothing in the way of McSteroids, McOffal, McColouring, McFlavouring, or battery-farmed, genetically mutated McCowpat, thus forcing the American nutrotainment chain to intervene and protect its good name. The gangster, who despite his vicious traffic in cheese and potatoes claims to lack the funds for a McLawsuit, has concealed the prefix with a plank and put the word censored over his shop door. Doubtless the McLawyers will be keeping a benevolent eye on him.