Certainly the academic legitimacy of Date's historiographical framework is at least partially correct, and only somebody completely ignorant of the porous and often baffling nature of McHistory would attempt to deny that his claims are in fact very plausible. Let us not forget however, the work of Doctor Barnaby P. Smith, whose theorem of cross cultural pollination and the influence of the Fried Chicken franchise civilisation as early as 1952 could in fact explain how Grimace anticipated the coming of the McNugget with his form which as Smith put it 'is clearly indicitive of influence from attempts to break through the barriers of form and shape by archaic deepfrying artists of the late 50's.
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