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  There seems to be a preponderance, among non-whites, of confusion as to how prefixes in names work vis-a-vis Irish vs. Scottish. Specifically in the arena of McDonald’s. It is not a “MacDouble,” as the black woman ahead of me in line today called it, but a “McDouble,” and so much is clearly laid out on their menu. There is no ‘a’ in “Mc.” I love the show “30 Rock,” but when Salma Hayek made such a big deal out of her favorite desert being the MacFlurry, I rankled just the slightest bit. She’s lucky she’s so hot. Some of you are not so lucky, and this seems to be happening more often than not. I don’t know if you know you’re doing it, but there is a very specific difference involved here. Ronald McDonald is Irish, man. The Irish are serving you the shitty, heat lamped foods. Think of it this way: when you are Puerto Rican and somebody cavalierly calls you Mexican, you get rather pissed off, no? And rightly so! I do not presume to equate fast food ordering with the vast cultural differences of our differing minorities, but some consideration could be employed. It’s not a coincidence that the restaraunt pimps its green milkshakes on St. Patrick’s Day, just by the way. Some apologists argue that these people should be forgiven because one of McDonalds’ menu items is called the Big Mac. How can you expect people to get it straight every time? At the very least these people can be forgiven for their conclusion. Nay, says I. First, sound out your words. Most words that have a hard ‘a’ sound say so in the word. Second, the ‘Mac’ in Big Mac is the subject of the phrase, not the prefixed racial addition. If you can’t … Finish reading this sumbitch!