Rule of traveling: never eat anywhere you can back home (which is pretty much any chain restaurant)
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
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…
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.)
it is interesting to see what they do differently though.
I dunno, I got a kick out of visiting Tim Hortons in Saudi Arabia. My Canadian friends on facebook were amused by it.
Or do, when the alternative is street food served in bowls washed in sewage water. KFC is still better than dysentery.
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.
I feel like being a “picky eater” is something that a lot more people want to admit to. So, they get introduced to food they never experienced before, likely with novel tastes or textures that are not like what they eat at home.
They treat kids for being picky eaters, but that generally requires parents to have the knowledge and finances to get their kid help.
I don’t think there is anywhere on earth that does that
Corporate colonialism turning the world into shit
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
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.
Some people when they travel: go to a new place to eat the same shit as at home, and if that isn’t possible, complain about “how everything is different here”. If you wanted more of the same, why did you travel?
McDonald’s owned the WcDonald’s title a few months back. They printed manga on every takeout bag.
I’m not a fan of huge chain restaurants but that was pretty funny.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…”
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.
Reminds me of the penultimate verse of the Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris (2010) by Pig With The Face Of A Boy.
And now the wall is down, the Marxists frown There’s foreign shops all over town When in Red Square, well don’t despair There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there The US gave us crystal meth And Yeltsin drank himself to death But now that Putin’s put the boot in, Who’ll get in our way?
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.
I would just so I can try their localized menu. I take joy in how their system works there vs. at home.
Horrendous take lmao
