107 points

Joke probably worked better 10 years ago when McDonald’s wasn’t priced like gourmet dining.

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14 points

That’s what I was thinking reading this

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53 points

If you go to a foreign country and think every local restaurant is overpriced then the problem may actually be you.

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One of the best parts of living in the SF bay area is literally anywhere you go isn’t particularly expensive per what you are used to. My wife and I went out to a particularly fancy restaurant on Santorini and the bill was less than we’ve often paid in Berkeley.

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I’m in SF right now recovering from medical stuff. Food prices here shocked me how relatively cheap it is compared to where I live in Seattle. Had Yamo the other day, best fried rice I’ve had since visiting Taiwan, only $30 to feed three people. That meal would have been like $60-80 in Seattle

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2 points

Must’ve forgotten to add the Healthy Santorini surcharge

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11 points

That entirely depends on where you live and where you go.

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8 points

“Wanting affordable meals? How dare I!”

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0 points

Wanting affordable meals

  • At the waitstaffs’ expense

That’s why you think other countries are overpriced, they’re paying their staff

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0 points

A decent wage, what a concept! Ring ring USA ($7.25 an hour, I ask you
).

Would be interesting to see grocery store/wholesale pricing too as that should be a factor too.

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-4 points

Make your own food then

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40 points

Well, here where I live, McDonalds IS the weird overpriced restaurant.

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Judging by your instance that’s wishful thinking
 Not saying maccas isnt garbage but it certainly isnt exotic or unusual here in Germany. I give you the overpriced part though, they went right along with the covid greed pricing.

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I didn’t mean weird in sense of exotic, more weird as in the atmosphere in there is kinda weird. To be fair, Burger King has a kind of similar weird atmosphere.

But yeah, it is expensive af. It was even before Covid.

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4 points

McDoof!

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3 points

I knew they call McDonald’s “Maccas” in Australia, but I didn’t know they did so in Germany too.

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4 points

Actually we call it Mecces, MĂ€ckie or McDoof (like McDumb).

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Yeah i translated it for the monolingually handicapped (see the other commenter)

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27 points

Is not McDonald weird overpriced restaurant?

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The overpriced part is a (relatively) recent development, but point taken

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5 points

I feel like charging for the garbage McDonald’s produced even before the price gouging was overpriced.

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3 points

McDonalds is a real estate company not a burger joint. Their burgers are good enough only to maintain the value of the brand and the land

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24 points

I’d go to the local places and mcdonalds. I want to know what they taste like in a country with actual food standards.

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7 points

Survey says: the same.

McDonalds tastes the same everywhere. Which is why it’s the go to home food for people who travel.

Just like Panda Garden is for Asian people at airports lol. It’s American food that’s close enough to what they’d actually prefer.

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13 points

Yes McDonald’s tastes the same but the menu can change wildly, with a definite sway towards local tastes for menu item variations.

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Oh absolutely. McDonalds and most other conventional American fast food joints can have crazy menus in some countries.

Japanese KFC and McDonalds look particularly fun.

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4 points

My day is ruined.

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McDonald’s seemed way different to me while I was in England. The burger’s actually seemed to have seasoning on them (despite being in England), they had rotating ‘Taste’s of America’ (called something like that) menus that featured interesting variants that I never saw over here. I think there was a really good one with a sour dough bun.

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