McDonald’s Is Serving Caviar. That’s… Not a Great Sign.

McDonald’s just announced real caviar for McNuggets—and this must be what the end of the Roman Empire felt like: bread and circuses, but with a spoon you can Instagram.

McDonald’s is now serving caviar. Yes—real caviar. Tiny black pearls, crème fraîche, a mother-of-pearl spoon… for Chicken McNuggets.

That’s late-stage Rome behavior: decadence as distraction. When the empire starts wobbling, you don’t fix anything—you throw a fancier party and hand the crowd something shiny to talk about. Bread and circuses, upgraded. Th…