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Iceland says goodbye to the Big Mac

A stack of McDonald's Big Macs and French Fries

Source: AFP

A stack of McDonald's Big Macs and French Fries

The Big Mac, long a symbol of globalization, has become the latest victim of this tiny island nation's overexposure to the world financial crisis...Costs had doubled over the past year because of the fall in the krona and high import tariffs on imported goods, Ogmundsson said, making it impossible...

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