/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16114650]

Cuisine wise, why is fast food like Mcdonald's seen as luxury and high quality places for dining in Asia and Western Europe? Is it the lack of standards and culture in these areas in regards to food, or is the more in the sense of these areas having less purchasing power?

[Anonymous No.16114658]

Being an American is seen as so prestigious, that any behavior seen as quintessentially American inherits that prestige.

[Anonymous No.16114659]

>>16114650
We do not see McDonald's as fine cuisine in Western Europe, it's fucking trash

[Anonymous No.16114678]

>>16114650
They want to be pure white Americans so badly lmao

[Anonymous No.16114687]

>>16114650
Because working at fastfood is normal in Asia compared to western society where you are lowest of lowest.

[Anonymous No.16114692]

>>16114659
Around 90% the faux-luxury looking Mcdonald's are in western Europe so it's very much seen as luxury there

[Anonymous No.16114696]

>>16114650
They feel American to foreigners, and if it feels fancy, it would be the overpriced fast food prices even higher in a foreign country.

For tourists, fast food is like stepping into their own country for a moment to guarantee a bathroom break. There will places in the world that charge for bathrooms, geesh, but in a fast food restaurant, it'll be free with purchase. Fast food is also known to have potable water used in the ice going into drinks, so no upset tummies.

[Anonymous No.16114704]

Standard psyop to remind the foreigners whose really allowing them to have cheeseburgers and nice things.

[Anonymous No.16114761]

>>16114692
No one thinks McDonalds is luxury anon.

[Anonymous No.16114866]

>>16114650
>why is fast food like Mcdonald's seen as luxury and high quality places for dining in Asia and Western Europe
It isn't. Your entire premise is false.

[Anonymous No.16114869]

>>16114761
Anon, I seriously don't know how to break it to you, but Mcdonald's is a luxury brand in Europe and many can't afford it

[Anonymous No.16114879]

>>16114692
Thats just cos our city centres are filled with historic buildings retard, literally no one sees mcdonalds as luxury lmao what world do you live in

[Anonymous No.16114889]

>>16114869
>t. never left American mid west

[Anonymous No.16114894]

>>16114879
Anon even AC is considered luxury in western europe

[Anonymous No.16114896]

>>16114869
>having a clean presentable shop front is 'luxury' too amerisharts
lmao

[Anonymous No.16114903]

>>16114894
America has lower standards in almost every metric. Normal raw food products like decent cheese and meats are premium luxuries in the states.

[Anonymous No.16114910]

>>16114903
>America has lower standards in almost every metric Normal raw food products like decent cheese and meats are premium luxuries in the states
Then why is Mcdonald's food which is literally shit lowest quality meats and cheeses seen as low tier in America but highly luxury in Europe
Your living standards are shit. Your purchasing power is shit. Your overall quality of life is shit

[Anonymous No.16114967]

>>16114650
it's overpriced dog food, nothing more

[Anonymous No.16115002]

>>16114692

McDonald's has to make them fit into the local architecture, you spastic

[Anonymous No.16115008]

>>16114910
>works 50 hour weeks and gets about five days holiday a year so Mr shekel keeps paying for his shitty health insurance which bankrupts him anyway
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHABAHA

[Anonymous No.16115016]

>>16114658
this 100%. europeans have severe cognitive dissonance about muh culture they are proud of shit that happened 1000 years ago and that the modern generations have absolutely nothing to do with. america liberated europe from the nazis who had basically destroyed everything and built europe as we know it yet they seem to like even the most basic gratitude. to this day america protects and defends europe who behave like spoiled little girls in return. it's actually quite sad.

[Anonymous No.16115025]

>>16115008
>works 50 hour weeks and gets about five days holiday a year with 50% of your income going to Mr shekel's taxe ponzi scheme so it'll keep paying for your shitty health insurance which you have to bribe doctors to get any treatment anyway
Also these are literally new houses in Europe lmfao

[Anonymous No.16115038]

>>16114761
I do.

[Anonymous No.16115056]

>>16115025

Cry more lel

[Anonymous No.16115067]

>>16115056
>We get a couple days more off at minimum but it's worth working 12 hours a day the rest of the time for the next 70 years lmao

[Anonymous No.16115072]

>>16115016
Huge cope

[Anonymous No.16115076]

>>16115016
>Europeans are the real life we wuz kangz
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.16115079]

>>16115067
??????

Not to mention off time is off time in Europe. No boss calling you to come in or sending you emails at 11pm expecting a response

[Anonymous No.16115084]

>>16115079
>Including part time workers

[Anonymous No.16115088]

>>16114910
Nobody thinks this at all, so much cope in this thread from mutts

[Anonymous No.16115091]

>>16115072
you are completely pathetic and don't even realize it. americans think of euros generally as spoiled petulant little girls. you are going to literally shit yourself and start crying if one day the us can't take care of you.

[Anonymous No.16115097]

>>16115076
lol yup.

[Anonymous No.16115104]

>>16115084
Cope slave

[Anonymous No.16115117]

>>16115091
Ok but cringe

[Anonymous No.16115139]

>>16114692
God bless your heart anon

[Anonymous No.16115147]

>>16115104
>Purchasing power is less then the Chinese slave state
You're essentially working for minimum wage lmfao

[Anonymous No.16115196]

>>16114896
That's not even what that picture is showing. That's as clean as most American McDonald's are, American McDonald's just don't normally have baked good cases. I have no idea how those are "luxury", at all. Fucking theme parks and shitty coffee shops have cases like that.

[Anonymous No.16115252]

>>16115104
Do you have a world one? This seems to be Europe only
Curious to see how e.g. Japan, China, and India rank

[Anonymous No.16115285]

>>16114650
market penetration is lower but individual examples are usually more interesting and have more diverse/exotic menu items. also going out for BIG AMERICAN is to them what going out for CHINAMAN ASIAFOOD is for us

>>16115016
>thread is about asia
>Y-YUROPeANS THO
ive been to europe (bongland, norway, germany, portugal(azores)) and while there were some fast food places they didn't look particularly popular. it's interesting that mcdos over there sells beer. it's really shitty beer though

[Anonymous No.16115292]

>>16115104
>Cope slave
americans get paid for work

[Anonymous No.16115298]

>>16115285
do you have some kind of severe reading comprehension deficit? is it that you can't read or that you can't understand what you read?

[Anonymous No.16115315]

>why [some retarded made up statement] ?
aren't you bored of making these threads yet?

[Anonymous No.16115355]

>>16115315
seethe harder, autistmo

[Anonymous No.16115461]

>>16115315
Why isn't bestiality legal in Canada?

[Anonymous No.16115491]

>>16114650
If true it's because that's how they decided to market/ build that brand in that area, in Saudi Arabia there was a Tim Hortons that sold it self as a luxury brand and sold high end coffee/ baked goods.

[Anonymous No.16115613]

>>16114650
>Viewed as high quality
>In western europe
Anon, its not even viewed as high quality in EASTERN europe ever since - not since about two weeks after the iron curtain fell, at least. Have you ever left the midwest?
>T. Swissanon

[Anonymous No.16115626]

>>16114692
Anon, are you genuinely under the impression that these buildings were built like this specifically to host a maccas and are not a century old - if not older - and are simply available to rent and set up shop in? Holy shit, I thought americans being retarded was a meme.

[Anonymous No.16115636]

>>16114692

This makes my blood boil

[Anonymous No.16115670]

McDonalds actually comes from outer space.

[Anonymous No.16115683]

>>16114692
its because some places don't want the bog standard McDonalds store in the middle of their historic city. you see this shit where the city actually cares how it looks. it's why in some regions in Japan mcdonalds have a traditional wooden style

[Anonymous No.16115720]

>>16115626
There's chain restaurants who did that in the US too. Go to Boston, NY, Chicago, Philly, etc. you'll see a McDs or Subway or Dunkins in an old looking brick building on every street. OP hasn't even left his dinky midwestern cow town.

[Anonymous No.16115750]

>>16115626
>Let's turn our century or older building into a fucking mcdonald's
>Also let's make the inside look like a Michelin Star restaurant
Ok anon lol

[Anonymous No.16115770]

>>16115750
If they pay the rent and there are no laws in place to ban specific shops and restaurants that aren't deemed 'classy enough' then idk what you want to happen? You want stricter laws and more red tape? Old buildings like like the pics are a dime a dozen in Europe, maybe try leaving your shithole cookie cutter suburb and travel a bit anon

[Anonymous No.16115799]

>>16114650
>the cute euros itt all bashful and flustered after being found out

[Anonymous No.16115804]

>>16115799
all I see is seething mutts
>nooo you can't have so many nice historic buildings that they even get used as fast food shops, my country is younger than that mcdonalds building!

[Anonymous No.16115805]

>>16114650
>Europe's most iconic downtown buildings are McDonalds

[Anonymous No.16115809]

>>16115770
You're allowed to say Mcdonald's is luxury in your country if they use these old buildings and we can call it a day

[Anonymous No.16115816]

>>16115809
>You're allowed to say Mcdonald's is luxury in your country if they use these old buildings and we can call it a day
But no one sees it as luxury lmao, those old buildings fill the city centres so they have to be used - they even get rented out for shitty phone repair and vape shops

[Anonymous No.16115830]

>>16114650
>Cuisine wise, why is fast food like Mcdonald's seen as luxury and high quality places for dining in Asia and Western Europe?
Is that why Mcdonalds in UK have to have bouncers because all the drunks kick off in there every fri/sat night without fail? What world do you live in where we see maccies as luxury hahahah

[Anonymous No.16115836]

>>16115816

[Anonymous No.16115861]

>>16115836
whats your point? the individual mcdonalds might put more effort into the interior if its in an old building but actual people don't see maccies as luxury. Do you have autism? What concept are you struggling with here?

[Anonymous No.16115868]

>>16115836
These kinds of trendy pilot programs are done in cities worldwide including the USA. Taco Bell has (or had) some dumb thing like McDonald's Next in Phoenix. You can find more "upscale" looking chain restaurants in the large American cities, too. OP is comparing his local, podunk McDs against the ones in capital cities in Europe is why he's so confused.

[Anonymous No.16115882]

>>16115836
>seething mutt

[Anonymous No.16115890]

>>16114650
It's not though. They're a cool exotic with overcharged pricing like sushi places in America

[Anonymous No.16115894]

>>16114650
>Mcdonald's seen as luxury and high quality places for dining in Asia and Western Europe?
How do you figure?
Never been to Western Europe, but McDonald’s in Japan is seen as McDonald’s.
Yeah it’s held in higher regard than McDonald’s in the US, but that’s because McDonald’s in Japan is like walking into a prop-McDonald’s used for filming commercials; typically the restaurant is spotlessly immaculate, the staff aren’t a bunch of stoner retards, orders are correctly prepared, and the service is actually good.
Pic is the McD’s in Shin-Osaka station; good if you’re catching an early train because most restaurants in the station aren’t open that early.

[Anonymous No.16115895]

>>16115836
>I've never left the US but some clickbait site says there are luxury mcdonalds in some big Euro cities that must mean all Europeans think mcnuggets are luxury cuisine
I honestly don't know what to say to mutts anymore

[Anonymous No.16115905]

>>16115861
The point is in these countries Mcdonald's is seen as a higher tier. It's seen as a luxury brand. they can sell random cheesecake and other stuff because the stigma of higher class is there, mainly since it costs much. That adds in with the attempts at higher class buildings that mimick expensive locations. It's really not this hard

[Anonymous No.16115922]

>>16115905
>The point is in these countries Mcdonald's is seen as a higher tier.
Are you from these countries? I am and I'm telling you that they are NOT seen as higher tier. Try leaving your country and making your own opinions instead of basing them off random clickbait articles

[Anonymous No.16115939]

>>16115922
McDonald's is a luxury restaurant in yurop

[Anonymous No.16115942]

>>16115939
Yes please tell me more about my own country that you have never visited

[Anonymous No.16115949]

>>16115830
based and truepilled

[Anonymous No.16115950]

>>16115922
>Try leaving your country and making your own opinions instead of basing them off random clickbait articles
The irony coming from Europeans talking about America

[Anonymous No.16115956]

>>16115942
I know it seems like a lot for your poverty sensibilities but for us who are willing to pay a little bit more for the luxury its quite a deal in these times

[Anonymous No.16115961]

>>16115939
Maccies is bottom-tier fast food in Europe, same as KFC and burger king. When most people get maccies they get it via drive-thru. Mid-tier fast food is places like waga-mamas and arguably nandos. Just because fast food places rent out historic buildings and look clean and respectable compared to your shithole country doesnt mean anyone here think them a luxury lmao, we just have more class and higher standards than you

[Anonymous No.16115962]

In Italy the only "people" degenerate enough to eat there are tourists

[Anonymous No.16115966]

>>16115950
If this whole troll-thread was started just to make this point it might actually not be a completely stupid waste of time.

[Anonymous No.16115967]

>>16115950
Average European is far better travelled than the average mutt. retard argument

[Anonymous No.16115968]

>>16115961
>Maccies is bottom-tier fast food in Europe, same as KFC and burger king
fucking lol if it was then it wouldn't have frills and cheesecake

[Anonymous No.16115971]

>>16115905
We have toilets that are more fancy than these mcdonalds, you just have a straw shack level of architecture.

[Anonymous No.16115975]

>>16115968
>frills and cheesecake
I've literally never seen that, must be a few one off places in France or some shit - either way selling cheese cake doesnt make a place high class you disgusting mutt hahaha

[Anonymous No.16115976]

>>16115971
You pay for the right to shit lol

[Anonymous No.16115980]

>>16115976
>pays for the right to not die of cancer

[Anonymous No.16115985]

>>16115967
Being able to drive for an hour and pass through twelve countries doesn't negate the fact that you drooling retards constantly talk about the US like you're some sort of an authority because you follow a bunch of Americans on Twitter and watch our TV shows.

[Anonymous No.16115993]

>>16115976
>sharts in marts

[Anonymous No.16115995]

>>16115980
You mean Europeans right? Because your waitlist is so large for cancer treatment you have to bribe doctors to be moved ahead and not wait a year

[Anonymous No.16115999]

>>16115985
never claimed any of that. This thread was made by amerisharts makings laughably false assumptions about europe

[Anonymous No.16116000]

>>16115967
>Average European is far better travelled than the average mut
You guys think you can get to New York to San Francisco in a weekend
You guys don't understand size because you don't travel

[Anonymous No.16116007]

>>16115966
In a sense yes

[Anonymous No.16116015]

>>16115999
No it wasn't. It was made by a bored person who wanted to make a bunch of Euros whine for his entertainment. Or, I should say formerly bored person because it certainly looks like his plan worked perfectly

[Anonymous No.16116018]

>>16115995
>Most well known US tv show is based on teacher turning to meth trafficking to pay extortionate cancer treatment
Both of my two family members who got cancer were treated well and immediately and are in remission (for free). Get out of your fox news bubble

[Anonymous No.16116024]

>>16115830
>Mcdonalds in UK have to have bouncers because all the drunks kick off in there every fri/sat night without fail?
Where the fuck do you live mate? I'm in Lincolnshire and I've never seen a Maccies with a bouncer.

[Anonymous No.16116027]

>>16116018
>for free
One day you'll learn "free" does not mean free if your 50% taxes are paying for it more then you would have under the us system

[Anonymous No.16116028]

>>16116000
I've travelled across 5 continents, where have you been?

[Anonymous No.16116032]

>>16116024
Is this a joke? You must be an absolute shut in then. Go to any maccies in a town or city centre on a friday or saturday past 6pm and there are bouncers

[Anonymous No.16116039]

>>16116027
Americans actually pay more in tax towards healthcare than we do but okay

[Anonymous No.16116040]

>>16114658
>Being an American is seen as so prestigious, that any behavior seen as quintessentially American inherits that prestige.
I am an American and I am confused how this could possibly be the case. I thought when the rest of the world heard about us, they mostly just heard about our mass shootings and inner city crime and stuff. How could being American be seen as prestigious?

[Anonymous No.16116049]

>>16116018
I realize this is secondary to your point, but Breaking Bad is nowhere near the most well known US tv show. I feel like it's probably the Simpsons worldwide, but there's probably a few dozen others more popular than BB.

[Anonymous No.16116064]

>>16116040
You see the world through us-focused and based media which always is critical of us. Europeans who speak English are the insane minority but they'd view news through these sources also which makes them more critical
Same as you think Europe might be a utopia because you don't see their news in their languages only or what's really going on

[Anonymous No.16116066]

>>16116040
>How could being American be seen as prestigious?
Its not, thats just a in insecure amerishart spewing bullshit. Americans are pretty widely derided and mocked by most people. Definitely not seen as prestigious lmao hahaha. See In Bruges for the general Euro attitude towards mutts

[Anonymous No.16116091]

>>16116064
>Europeans who speak English are the insane minority
wrong by a mile

[Anonymous No.16116113]

>>16114894
AC is a rarity in climates that don't need it. In places like Spain, it's standard.

[Anonymous No.16116127]

>>16116066
In Bruges is really just a slice of how Europeans view vacationing Americans in vacation spots. I wouldn't say that provides a sufficient picture. I wouldn't say the US is "prestigious", especially not now, but there's a nugget of underlying truth in it. The US in the 20th century was seen as extremely, flamboyantly affluent and their movies, tv, music, and most media is still the most heavily exported of any country's. For that reason among English speaking artists the US is the most prestigious place you can ply your trade as it is for many other avenues of business. See older media such as Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" for a tongue in cheek look at the US reputation of affluence in the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.16116128]

>>16116091
Knowing how to say hi doesn't mean everyone is fluent in english pedro

[Anonymous No.16116167]

>>16116127
Well I'll give you my experience of americans at uk unis then - they get a lot of shit and banter and usually tend not to handle it that well. The general consensus of americans as a whole is loud, obnoxious and dumb and people are fairly upset about us having to start accepting us quality food standards etc.

[Anonymous No.16116177]

>>16116167
Well I'll give you my experience of euros at american unis then - they get a lot of shit and banter and usually tend not to handle it that well. The general consensus of euros as a whole is loud, obnoxious and dumb and people are fairly upset about having to start accepting not getting arrested for making fun of people etc.

[Anonymous No.16116185]

>>16116167
-to add, whatever this weird romantic view of Euros seeing Americans as 'prestigious and wealthy' is long dead. We see you as lacking class. No doubt if you go to third world country that view still goes but thats just because they see American tourists as an easy mark

[Anonymous No.16116192]

>>16116177
>they get a lot of shit and banter and usually tend not to handle it that well
Case in point lmao, imagine thinking that was a funny response

[Anonymous No.16116193]

>>16116185
>We see you as lacking class
See there we go
We say something that isn't kneeling for blm and you want us arrested

[Anonymous No.16116196]

>>16116192
You aren't handling the banter well at all dude

[Anonymous No.16116200]

>>16116018
Same. American conservatives have no ideology or culture to conserve, they're just selfish, and not even in a smart way. If they're told dying from easily curable sickness is manly and self-sufficient they'll do it.

[Anonymous No.16116201]

>>16114650
Really sad how uncultured and lowly these places are.

[Anonymous No.16116202]

>>16116167
Right, what I should have made a bigger issue of was the difference between views of "Americans" and "America" which is what I meant to get at more. Americans are loud and obnoxious and arrogant (they'll tell you that, they like that reputation). But America itself has "prestige" under a narrow definition in that it's kind of the "Show" or "Big Leagues" for a lot of different pursuits due to population and purchasing power. Listen to how many British comedians and bands talk about "breaking America" for instance. That never used to be a concern for Americans with other countries, though filmmakers now do it with China and other media will continue to care more and more about that market.

[Anonymous No.16116206]

>>16116193
>>16116193
blm is your own thing lol dont try pin that shit on us. All that identity politics drivel is waaay more extensive in the US thanks to your awful media

[Anonymous No.16116215]

>>16115016
>america liberated europe from the nazis who had basically destroyed everything and built europe as we know it

[Anonymous No.16116220]

>>16116206
Europe created Bilderburg, Soros Open Society Foundation, Frankfurt School, Rothschild Foundation, World Economic Forum, UN
So i mean

[Anonymous No.16116225]

>>16116167
americans dont handle it well because they get way more shit and banter than anyone else. when euros banter with each other, its very lighthearted, but when doing it with americans they do it with the intent of shitting on them as much as possible.

[Anonymous No.16116228]

>>16116225
Nah I think we handle it well
Euros are actually really insecure seeing by how quickly this thread got replies

[Anonymous No.16116255]

>>16116228
euros gets really fucking butthurt if you joke about their culture to their face. usually it looks like they are about to start crying.

[Anonymous No.16116273]

>>16116228
I'm really starting to appreciate this thread. Let's recap: Europeans thought someone saying you can't sell cheesecake or you're fancy (that case in France is literally exactly like what American cafeterias in hospitals and theme parks look like), or have clean looking spaces in nice buildings (literally every major American city has Macca's that look like that), and then just answered with his original statement to every challenge was totally not trolling. Then they turned their bait-taking into a discussion on how Americans were stupid and can't banter.
It's honestly kind of beautiful.

[Anonymous No.16116289]

>>16114650
>>16114692
>>16114869
>>16114910
>>16115750
>>16115836
>>16115905
my fucking sides, the cope in this thread is unreal. so many americans have never seen a genuine, good looking building that it's pretty embarassing. you should try to visit vienna, budapest, paris, rome, or london and try to wrap yourself around the idea that people actually LIVE here, europe is not a meme. if mcdonald's wants to turn a profit they have to be where tons of people pass by (hint: historic city centers with shitloads of tourists). pic related: i used to live close to this mcdonald's in strasbourg. the whole fucking city center is UNESCO classified. if they want to be here, we're not going to bulldoze a historic building with centuries of history so they can buy a shitty box looking hangar. maybe our mcdonald's food seems better than yours, but i can guarantee you that no one will ever look at it as "classy" food. it's at the same level as pizza, kebab or fried chicken restaurants: disgusting low tier junk food, but people eat it so it's there. i'm living in paris and only lower class people are not ashamed to be seen eating this garbage here.
thanks for the laughs.

[Anonymous No.16116309]

>>16116289
>WE WUZ KANGS AND SHIEET

[Anonymous No.16116325]

>>16116289
>Our buildings are 100 years older despite none of the original foundation existing so they are better
Fucking lol if any of your shit had any worth there wouldn’t be a McDonald’s in there

[Anonymous No.16116348]

>>16116289
I don't know if this thread is a pretty funny troll on Euros or a ploy from a McDonalds ad exec to have people talk about their nice new buildings, but the whole premise of this thread is ridiculous. There are McDonalds that look as nice as or even extremely similar to pretty much every "fancy" example in this thread in every major city in the US. City McDonalds and city fast food in general tend to have nice buildings in their flagship, downtown locations in major cities. Y'all are lost in the weeds talking about why Europe has nicer looking McDick's and you don't even realize the whole premise is false.

[Anonymous No.16116369]

>>16116200
>American conservatives
You mean Neocons, who are a cancer on politics all over the place.
>>16116225
It's a superiority complex really, the Euros want to shit on America & its people in order to make them feel better about being America's bitch.
>>16116289
>only lower class people are not ashamed to be seen eating this garbage here
Imagine unironically caring about being seen in a McDonalds.

[Anonymous No.16116380]

>>16116309
>>16116325
if none of our shit has any worth, how come we are literally the most touristic country in the world? we have to put some mcdonald's here and there so the muricans don't die from eating unpasteurized cheese and keep bringing $$
>>16116348
show me these "nice" buildings.

[Anonymous No.16116443]

>>16116380
>how come we are literally the most touristic country in the world
who are we? basically the worth of your country and economy is shit built centuries ago. you're just welfare niggers and cucks now.

[Anonymous No.16116445]

>>16116220
It also created America and by extension anything they made too

[Anonymous No.16116453]

>>16116225
>>16116228
>>16116255
>>16116273
Absolute shameless samefag or the most cringe circlejerk I've ever seen. So which is it - are mutts amazing at banter or they just take it badly cos yuros are extra meanies to them.

[Anonymous No.16116454]

>>16116380
>show me these "nice" buildings

Keep in mind what's shown in this thread are promo images and most of them are really just "nice" not exactly fancy and expensive. But there's a lot I can think of that are comparable and I looked some more up. So: Hyde Park in NY is quite nice (picrel), Boston has a pretty decent one in an older building on Washington and even the Chinatown one looks decent from the outside, Chicago has the flagship McDick's and it's obviously very fancy, I'm not spending all day on this and there's not even a lot of good examples for Euro one's in this thread. I'm literally googling (city) McDonald's and I can see some every time that look "luxury" compared to your highway-side McDs. In older American cities like Boston, Philly, and New York there's even some in historic looking buildings like people are arguing about.

[heh No.16116460]

>>16116453
heh

[Anonymous No.16116461]

>>16116453
Or C) you're seeing patterns like a schizo. Cuz the last one is my only (You).

[Anonymous No.16116471]

>>16116454
Whoops, forgot my pic.

[Anonymous No.16116476]

Americans are inherently insecure due to a lack of their own unique culture. This is why they lash out at euros and other countries with centuries of history and cultural identity. They grip blindly at whatever scraps of culture they can
>I'm Irish cos my great-great grandfather was from Cork
and then have funnel all that into the most corporate, materialistic caricature where they must buy as much cheap plastic shit as possible and drink cheap knock off guinness. The average brit has more Irish ancestry than the usual 'Irish American'.

[Anonymous No.16116481]

>>16116460
So it's cringe circlejerk then, even worse

[Anonymous No.16116498]

>>16116443
i'm french.
>the worth of your country and economy is shit built centuries ago
how is that supposed to be a bad thing exactly? kek
>>16116454
>>16116471
your pic seems to be the most soulful mcdonald's building in america. even the "flagship" (whatever that means) building in chicago is absolutely soulless and just feels like any other mega corporation. my pic is a random mcdonald's in riga, latvia. this is definitely not the most affluent country in europe but it's still leagues upon what i see when i look for american mcdonald's.

[Anonymous No.16116501]

>>16116476
>This is why they lash out at euros and other countries with centuries of history and cultural identity
We wuz kangz n sheeit
Also that's why the american bait thread lasted 2 whole days and this one will last 12 hours. Because you Euros are more insecure

[Anonymous No.16116505]

>>16116481
>nooo it's not europearinos who are crying assblasted faggots
>it's american's who are cringey for making fun of us

[Anonymous No.16116514]

>>16116498
>how is that supposed to be a bad thing exactly?
kek it means you're a pathetic irrelevant faggot. your culture and people have been obsolete for centuries.

[Anonymous No.16116529]

>>16116476
basé et rougepilulé
>>16116501
>wuz
this is what mcdonald's can look like in my country. show me your best ones, i'm waiting.
>>16116514
so by your logic, americans are pathetic, irrelevant faggots because china cucks you now AND you have no culture? i'm not really seeing how that's supposed to make you feel better

[Anonymous No.16116533]

>>16116501
>Because you Euros are more insecure
if you say so pal

[Anonymous No.16116538]

>>16116529
>china cucks you now AND you have no culture
LOL i'm really enjoying the irony here. your whole country is based on catering to insectoid tourists from asia wanting to take photos of shit rebuilt by americans after they liberated you in the war. you fags still can't even actually defend yourselves in any meaningful way.

[Anonymous No.16116541]

>>16116538
>shit rebuilt by americans after they liberated you in the war.
>amerimutt education

[Anonymous No.16116553]

>>16116541
LOL we all know how the french men and women completely embarrassed themselves as worthless cowards it's not an amerimutt education conspiracy

[Anonymous No.16116556]

>>16116538
if you say so pal. go on /k/ and you'll see how they jerk off french rifles, army and foreign legion.
>>16116541
can't really blame him, no one ever told him any better

[Anonymous No.16116564]

>>16116556
LOL i don't go on /k/ but i can tell here that you euros are completely delusional faggots

[Anonymous No.16116566]

>>16116553
Im British not French, remind me when Britain got conquered in WW2?

[Anonymous No.16116568]

>>16115091
no i dont. euros are cool, i like their stuff, they make some cool stuff. you just got some kinda mental issue dude.

[Anonymous No.16116570]

>>16116556
>how they jerk off french rifles
LOL i just caught that. i honestly can't tell if you're trolling or really that delusional.

[Anonymous No.16116574]

>>16116568
>they make some cool stuff
like what?

[Anonymous No.16116576]

Why are mutts by far the easiest group to bait and enrage?

[Anonymous No.16116583]

>>16116192
made me laugh, u gotta get your funny bone checked

[Anonymous No.16116586]

>>16116576
This thread suggests otherwise

[Anonymous No.16116587]

>>16116576
>euros crying
>americans laughing
>why are you so enraged!!!????
LOL

[Anonymous No.16116590]

>>16116574
Almost everything you eat, use, the language you speak, your laws etc.

[Anonymous No.16116598]

>>16116586
It suggests precisely that judging by all the seething martsharters ITT
what happened to 'we dont think about you at all'

[Anonymous No.16116600]

>>16116590
>WE WUZ KANGZ AND SHIEET AND MADE EVERYTHING AND TAUGHT YOU HOW TO CLEAN YOUR ASS AND SHIEET

[Anonymous No.16116612]

>>16116587
doesnt seem like you're laughing lmao seems like you're trying to convince me that you're not enraged which just sounds like insecurity

[Anonymous No.16116616]

>>16116574
i dont rlly got a list or anything, but im sure tons of shit i use comes from them.
anyways i dont understand why this board is so obsessed with americans and europeans. it seems like theyre so insecure and desperate to look better than the other when it doesnt matter at all. especially on a food board, like literally everywhere on the planet makes tasty ass food

[Anonymous No.16116618]

>>16116612
LOL not at all i think you're a hilariously delusional faggot

[Anonymous No.16116622]

>>16116600
Yea and you forgot how to do that and just shit yourself in walmarts now

[Anonymous No.16116626]

>>16116616
>i dont rlly got a list or anything, but im sure tons of shit i use comes from them.
LOL holy shit

[Anonymous No.16116629]

>>16116618
sure thing pal, spending a lot of effort to convince me of that tho!

[Anonymous No.16116634]

>>16114650
They're a lot better desu they don't put mcdonald's in the ghetto in Asia. And there's no niggers there.

[Anonymous No.16116637]

>>16116629
LOL no

[Anonymous No.16116731]

>>16116498
But Riga's still the main city in its country. Its downtown still has fancy architecture that McDs either rents from or has to build to fit in with. I'm saying I think OP is trolling all of you by bringing up examples like that of a downtown McDonalds in a nice part of town and comparing it to your idea of American McDs because you stopped at one of our 14000+ locations that aren't in the downtown of a big city. My argument was that American McDonalds in our downtowns do the same thing as the European ones in their cities and try to fit in with the somewhat fancy architecture that surrounds it. I wasn't really looking to get into an architectural argument or worried about HOW nice the McDs look subjectively. There's no doubt that Chicago McDs is meant to look luxurious even if it does look soulless and corporate, that's just what Chicago's downtown looks like in some places.

All I'm really saying is OP is playing off a function of the number of locations in the US vs. individual European countries. The US has five times the PER CAPITA Mcdonalds of Latvia despite having some 60 or whatever times the total population. We put our McDs everywhere. Latvia and really the rest of Europe other than maybe the UK tend to have the McDonalds in their main population centers and maybe a smattering elsewhere. Main population centers have nice buildings in their downtowns so McDonalds has nice buildings in downtown locations. It won't look exactly the same in the US as Europe since US cities are generally newer and follow different architectural trends but it's definitely still "fancier" than the thousands of locations that the US and Canada have in podunk highway towns all over the place.

[Anonymous No.16116735]

>>16115976
>Ameripoors can't afford european toilets

[Anonymous No.16116742]

>>16114650
>Cuisine wise, why is fast food like Mcdonald's seen as luxury and high quality places for dining in Asia and Western Europe?
They're not, maybe in some places like Russia shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but for most developed countries McDonalds is just seen as a fast food chain as any other, but more recognizable.

[Anonymous No.16116941]

In China the first few KFCs were established right before the country opened up and had deep connections with the government/tourist bureaus. Hence why they were able to procure nice/luxurious storefronts and were seen as a symbol of status.
Nowadays though it's a very different beast. I'll xpost from /int/
>KFC became popular in China since it was the first big fastfood player to come in. However it stayed popular by literally becoming a "local" fast food chain.
>It offered rice congee, rice ball/roll, youtiao (chinese churro), chuan'r, Sichuan-style offal and whatnots.
>Mind you the original recipe is still the favorite, but KFC in china must be a fascinating case study for international fast food chains.

[Anonymous No.16117014]

Euros aren't allowed to have stuff like ovens, AC or refrigerators so they go big on the few luxuries they can have.

[Anonymous No.16117815]

>>16114650
it's not

[Anonymous No.16117817]

>>16115636
ARRGHHHHH AN OLD BUILDING IS USED FOR SOMETHING MODERN AHHHHHH IM GOING INSANE

[Anonymous No.16117830]

>>16114650
>>16114658
Slight kek, nice larp fatties

[Anonymous No.16117833]

>>16114869
This photo could have been taken at any Australian McDonalds, they all have a McCafe section stocked just the same as this.
Is this the norm elsewhere, or is this the exception?

[Anonymous No.16117836]

>>16114650
>seen as luxury and high quality places for dining >in Western Europe
Who's told you this? are you just baiting?
Only teenagers go to mcdonalds in Europe. A cheap/stuck-in-high-school friend of mine still insists on going to this kind of places and it's one of the reasons why we hang out less and less every year.

[Anonymous No.16117842]

>>16114650
it's not
t. western Europe

[Anonymous No.16117865]

>>16117842
>>16114650
OP is either baiting or retarded enough to confuse eastern and western europe. But unless you're in the abandoned parts of siberia or something there's mcdonalds everywhere and nobody likes it. And it definitely isn't seen as "luxury and high quality" after the age of 10

[Anonymous No.16117891]

>>16115968
this nigga thinks cheesecakes are a luxury item

[Anonymous No.16117900]

>>16116128
in the netherlands most can speak better english than niggers and hispanics

[Anonymous No.16117902]

McDonald's is in the lowest tier of food establishments in Denmark, where only sandniggers and desperate drunks unable to find any other food at 6 in the morning go.

[Anonymous No.16117921]

>>16114903
This is actually true; non-artificial cheese is considered super fancy in america. Run of the mill cheeses which Europeans eat daily, like Havarti, Gouda and Emmentaler are reserved for special occasions in the US. They don't even put them on bread because they're seen as too luxurious for anything but the best cheese platter to bring out as the main event when having over the boss or the wife's children's father.

[Anonymous No.16117950]

>>16115636
this is at the helsinki railway station right?

[Anonymous No.16118036]

>>16115968
They introduced McCafe in order to appear a little bit higher quality and not just as the place to go to get deep-fried, edible cardboard.

[Anonymous No.16118056]

>>16114650
Oh shit i was there bunch of years back.
My first time smoking a blunt, took a shitload of hits and booze and basically i was standing there craving those damn tasty fries.

Those were some good fries.

[Anonymous No.16118062]

>>16114692
Mcdonalds used to have this "get in and get out" mentality a few years back.

They've changed their whole selling proposition as "we are a green company, please enjoy your stay!".

Although everyone still sees mcdonalds as a bad fastfood place.

[Anonymous No.16118065]

>>16115008
>mfw Dutchfag with 49 days off a year + bank holidays + insurance is 100 eurobux a month and I get to eat bitterballen with mustard

[Anonymous No.16118077]

I think i saw this thread like 6 times now and it always looks the fucking same.
Get a life OP.

[Anonymous No.16118080]

>>16118065
netherlands has 0.5 public holidays a year on avg, don't make me laugh you smelly surinamnigger

[Anonymous No.16118131]

>>16117817

Kys walmart sharter

[Anonymous No.16118144]

>>16115985
>you're some sort of an authority because you follow a bunch of Americans on Twitter and watch our TV shows.
But American culture literally is Twitter and TV shows?

[Anonymous No.16118167]

>>16114650
Just cuz us Dutch built a fancy MC doesnt mean this is true. You guys are the ones idolizing fast food.

[Anonymous No.16118172]

>>16114692
>faux-luxury looking
they do this to make the streetscape look more upmarket, not because mcdonalds is thought of as "luxury" you absolute spoon.

[Anonymous No.16118195]

>>16114650
they're already established in america as a cheap franchise, but being shitty and cheap really doesn't bring a good image, so when entering foreign markets they go for a more modern and trendy design. all the fast food franchises are doing it, you can find draft beer at taco bell china nowadays

[Anonymous No.16118216]

>>16114650
>>16114650
>>16114692
anon, just because they try to market it as luxury doesn't mean people actually think it's the case.

Also your second screenshot is just a repurposed old building, that's what the average building looks like in an old European city.

[Anonymous No.16118260]

>>16115894
McDonald's in Japan tasted noticably better than ones in America.

[Anonymous No.16118295]

>>16114650
Cleaning those windows must be a bitch of a job. I always wanted to buy a house in this style but just thinking about how much maintenance would be required to keep it clean is insane. You could hire someone but I don't want some random dude walking around my crib.

[Anonymous No.16118308]

Asia and Western Europe has a street food culture, people can buy good cheap food from locals making their specialties at dirt cheap prices.

Americans dont really have a street food culture due to how vast their country is and that's even depending on where you live as well. Mcdonalds and fast food is dirt cheap and the equivalent of the cheap street food you find in other countries. When Mcdonalds expanded to those countries, they really couldnt compete with the vast variety of cheap high quality foods you find in asia and europe and chose to target a different market by aiming for a more upscale higher quality crowd through the novelty of their burgers and other american style foods that you dont really find in those other countries.

[Anonymous No.16118330]

>>16114650
Exquisite bait thread op, 11/10

[Anonymous No.16118459]

>>16114650
Same reason why cheap Asian food is seen as high quality in America. Foreign food is always elevated in other countries.

[Anonymous No.16118461]

>>16115799
Holy shit EVRObros how can we recover from this? Should we plead for America to save us from ourselves again?

[Anonymous No.16118488]

>>16118308
Actually a good answer

[Anonymous No.16118544]

>>16118330
This

[Anonymous No.16118588]

>>16115016
Yeah it would have been really bad if the nazis had won a-aha thanks

[Anonymous No.16118641]

>>16118195
Euro here, this is true except for kfc and subway. They really cant into our market its pathetic

[Anonymous No.16118660]

>>16118167
>You guys are the ones idolizing fast food

[Anonymous No.16118895]

>>16118641
>kfc and subway. They really cant into our market its pathetic
They seem to be popular in Bongerland
>>16118660
Careful, Americans are afraid of hatchbacks.

[Anonymous No.16118954]

>>16114692
the interior of the restaurants has nothing to do with people perceiving it as luxury, which they dont.

its just fast-food, but with quality control.

its still also a place for kid families, but less than when I was a kid >30yrs ago.

[Anonymous No.16119113]

>>16114869
doesn't look like that anywhere in ireland

[Anonymous No.16119128]

>>16114650
>Mcdonald's seen as luxury and high quality
Literally never heard this take in my life.

[Anonymous No.16119448]

>>16117921
Maybe if you have multiple mouths to feed on welfare.

[Anonymous No.16120072]

>>16116731
so what you're saying is europe is just fancier in general, not our mcdonalds.
>>16118895
bongerland is not europe anymore. and judging by their food.... they've never really been part of it.

[Anonymous No.16120105]

>>16120072
>judging by their food.... they've never really been part of it
Nah, the Industrial Revolution just fucked our cuisine up something fierce and it's only started to recover with the past few decades.

[Anonymous No.16120123]

>>16117830
>larp
>on the internet
Go back to FaceBerg.

[Anonymous No.16120124]

>>16120105
the only "recovery" you had came from colonizing india. as if industrial revolution didn't happen in other countries.

[Anonymous No.16120136]

>>16120072
>so what you're saying is europe is just fancier in general, not our mcdonalds.
Europe is a collection of third world countries in a gucci belt

[Anonymous No.16120141]

>>16114650
Because that's how bad Europeans normally eat

[Anonymous No.16120147]

>>16114879
Are you trying to dismiss this by saying "yeah we let mcdonalds set up shop in our 700 year old historical sites what's the big deal"
Christ at least we only shove a Starbucks and a McDonald's into new buildings

[Anonymous No.16120273]

>>16120124
>as if industrial revolution didn't happen in other countries
Yeah, but most of those countries were able to retain their peasant cuisine through it, we didn't and for many years working class food had such delights as Dripping on Toast.

[Anonymous No.16120285]

>>16118065
For some reason i had a strong craving for bitterballen a while back, but anytime i eat them i feel nothing. Appelmoes might be required. It's great with bittergarnituur.

[Anonymous No.16121920]

>>16114650
Not a single person in Western Europe regards McDonalds as fancy

[Anonymous No.16122566]

>>16120136
Top kek tier cope

[Anonymous No.16122591]

>>16114903
>Normal raw food products like decent cheese and meats are premium luxuries in the states.
We pasteurize our foods and as a result have far lower rates of food borne illnesses than yuropoors stuck in the 17th century

[Anonymous No.16122773]

>>16115079
How are the greeks working 39 hours a week and still so deeply in debt?

[Anonymous No.16122837]

>>16122773
you believe greeks do 39 hours of actual work a week?

[Anonymous No.16123123]

>>16114650
Truth: it isnt seen as luxury

[Anonymous No.16123129]

>>16114692
You are fucking delusional

[Anonymous No.16123145]

>>16116028
azeroth, mostly.

[Anonymous No.16123199]

Only poor people and families with children eat at McDonalds in Europe.

Regular people would rather see the chain banned.

[Anonymous No.16123258]

>>16115905

[Anonymous No.16123833]

>>16114650
>>16114658
>>16114678
>>16114692
Samefag.
He makes this same thread every day.
Nigger is jealous of Europeans to the extreme

[Anonymous No.16123863]

>>16118308
>street food

[Anonymous No.16123869]

I fucking hate europeans.

[Anonymous No.16123893]

>>16114650
McDonald’s used to only have these goofy looking buildings, but ever since the 80’s they’ve been occasionally making fancy restaurants, usually to mark some kind of milestone for their company. Stores like these can be found all over the US as well.

[Anonymous No.16123908]

>>16123869
Cheer up Lil buddy, some day, if you work hard enough, you can reach our record living standards

[Anonymous No.16123975]

>>16116040
Everyone in the world still subconsciously clings to 1950s America. Hard not to - it was the most prosperous era in modern history for average people. However, that admiration today is just a lingering habbit. People still have that subconscious admiration even though consciously they understand America isn't even a shell of its former self.

[Anonymous No.16123985]

>>16114658
If you keep yelling about how great you are, eventually someone is bound to belive you

[Anonymous No.16124100]

>>16117921
>8/10 bait
Breddy gud.

[Anonymous No.16124445]

>>16115084
I have had two different full time jobs in Sweden. Employers have to beg you to stay overtime and even then, you make a lot of money so a lot of workers try to stay overtime, most can't since it costs the company too much.
A worker didn't take his vacation so the bosses had a talk with him and pretty much forced him to take a month off during the summers, paid.
And that was a shitty company..

[Anonymous No.16124454]

>>16115799
Chuck is the most handsome person in Springfield. Change my mind.