These silly rumours spread ever more quickly these days, thanks to the Internet and those farsebook and Twatter things.
Remember the rumour that McDonald's funded the Irish Republican Army? That caused all sorts of harumphing, but the truth was that when
McDonald's first came to the UK in the 1970s, the payslips they used for UK staff were imported from the USA. These included printed reference to the American equivalent to National Insurance pension contributions - the 'Individual Retirement Account' - or 'IRA' for short.....
