In the Slavic languages, double quotes are used to indicate names. This is not true for English. Instead, such quotation marks suggest that the writer wants to keep an ironic distance, and that there is something ridiculous about the name.
They went to "McDonalds", having been quite recently to "Kentucky Fried Chicken", and they each had a "Quarter Pounder".
Martin Rundkvist
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