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I refuse to go to a Starbucks or McDonald’s when I’m abroad. I also refuse when I’m in my home country, but especially abroad. Parasitic franchisees.
I don’t know about your Sbix and WcDonalds but ours are absolutely unpalatable ever since they started doing mobile orders, the counters are all lined with trash melted drinks nobody ever picks up and it takes ten years for your order because they have to make a bunch of drinks nobody ever picks up.
Rule of traveling: never eat anywhere you can back home (which is pretty much any chain restaurant)
Tbf, I want to go to Kuwait just for the Taco Bell (and then maybe swing by the Afghan/Pakistan border to check out the market and buy some cool hand engraved shit, but,) Kuwait is the only country that has Volcano Tacos still. I want to bring home, portion out, and freeze an entire bag of that fucking sauce and then I can turn taco bell here into Volcano Tacos (without the red shell but who cares, the secret’s in the sauce.)
I ate at the first ever Carl’s Jr in Japan right after it opened because it’d been 3 weeks since I’d been home and was dying for some home food
Walk in and it’s themed after LA and SACRAMENTO (home) of all places, and there was a California expat family eating there so we sat next to them and raced about how the food tasted just like home but s little better
Then the news can say and interviewed the lady and her son
Sometimes it’s worth visiting those places lol
Can confirm food in Japan is just better even at the same fast food restaurants.
McDonald’s is the one restaurant that I will eat at internationally because they have different menu items. It is interesting to see what is popular in that country and the local interpretation of American culture. But even then it’s one and done and only if I absolutely have to eat a quick meal to make a reservation or something
it’s just funny how america known for its fast food has the worst mcdonalds menu in the world. Even the one special thing they had of having cheap items is gone.
I moved to London in 2011. When Five Guys opened here in 2013, I think I ate there at least once a week for 2 months.
Also, what the fuck. It was expensive back then, and it’s just absurdly priced now. Also I don’t eat hamburgers as often which is definitely a good thing…
I dunno, I got a kick out of visiting Tim Hortons in Saudi Arabia. My Canadian friends on facebook were amused by it.
it is interesting to see what they do differently though.
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That’s an interesting way of saying you’ve never left the US.
I was in the US Navy and you would be surprised at how many people will say things like that and eat at chili’s or whatever else when there is something perfectly good and new (to you) to try. Just never understood why some of the people I served with insulated themselves from seeing and experiencing new things.
Only time I got food poisoning when traveling was in the US lol and I’ve eaten pretty sketchy places all over the world.
I don’t think there is anywhere on earth that does that
Corporate colonialism turning the world into shit
I’ve been traveling for a long time. Easily one of the worst a things I’ve seen happening culturally is globalization of brands that “dumb down” local foods and crafts. Doesn’t matter where you go, particularly the westernized world, it’s the same shit everywhere. The same brands. Even some of the food is moving towards sameness. Want to find a local gift to bring home? Good luck. It’s all the same stuff made in China, each store has the same stuff on the shelves.
You’ll have better luck outside the metro areas, but usually if you’re traveling to see the sights they are often in more metro/touristy areas.
The first night my wife and I visited Tokyo, we went to a Burger King. Still ashamed of myself 14 years later.
China’s home grown Starbucks is called Luckin and their logo is a buck backlit by the moon.
I find that hilarious.
They do like to copy things
In Russia, after the war started and McDonald’s left, it was renamed Vkusno i Tochka (Tasty and Dot)
I landed at Domodedovo in Moscow in 2013. Ready to see this incredible new place I’ve never experienced before, I walked out into the main arrivals area, and right there was a Cinnabon.
I believe my exact words were “We did it. We beat communism…”
Remember the WcDonalds campaign from earlier this year? Now I’m hungry. I got marketeered.
That sauce was actually good though. The WcNuggets may have been your regular ol’ McNuggets, but damn that sauce was good
I wouldn’t know, I tried to get it 3 separate times and they were consistently out. Guess that does say something about how good it is or it says something about false scarcity being good advertising.
Horrendous take lmao
