The Fast Food Thread

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McCheese

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Most overseas McD's are way, way nicer than here. I think it's a combination of a few factors:

1) Overseas most McD's are newer, so by default they're going to be cleaner/nicer
2) McD's is an American product (i.e., foreign for them), so it's viewed as something a little more special than how we think about it
3) In a lot of countries overseas, they don't have nearly as strong a stigma against working in fast food as we do. Here it's literally a job that some people would never due purely from a pride standpoint, whereas in a lot of other countries it's a solid job. This is also probably connected to wage and cost of living in the countries.

I think all that combines to result in better service, better food quality, and better presentation like in the above picture.
 

Tarrant

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It's like that with most America fast food places really. Overseas locations are always ah nicer and better quality.
 

Joeboo

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Royal

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I thought it was a primate that made that super expensive poop coffee?
Ok I now I have to look it up. It's the Asian palm civet.

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Apparently they're being captured, kept in small cages like puppy mill dogs, and fed coffee beans to meet the increased demand for their anally enhanced java. The hipsters should be proud.

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Soygen

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I have to imagine it's mostly Asians drinking that stuff. They have a genetic imperative to do as much mean shit to animals as possible.
 

Chysamere

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Civet poop coffee? Pffft, real hipsters drink Elephant poop coffee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Ivory_coffee

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Black Ivory coffee has been described as "very smooth without the bitterness of regular coffee" and is among the world's most expensive coffees, at US$1,100 per kilogram.[2] It has limited availability, and at a few luxury hotels it is available at the price of US$50 a cup
 

Chanur

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Tell them its responsibly harvested from the endangered white elephant. Then tack on another 30% to the price.
 

Xevy

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A couple of weekends ago I was in Gatlinburg, TN for a bachelor party and I ordered a calzone at this brewery place. Their calzones came in the same sizes (8", 12", 16") as their pizza. Why? They literally take their pizzas and fold them over and pinch them. Obviously I got the 16" which was probably like 3 pounds of dough. I only ate about half of it because I had 5 pretzels with beer cheese right before. I felt so ashamed.
 

Lanx

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I have to imagine it's mostly Asians drinking that stuff. They have a genetic imperative to do as much mean shit to animals as possible.
actually no, they do this horrible puppy mill style torture to these civets, and hipsters will gladly say it's no different than fois gras. Now it's at the point they've identified the specific chemical makeup of it, to make sure it's real poop coffee.

But this stuff gets exported to white ppl, it's sold for 50bucks a cup or 300bucks a lb
 

Khane

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Hipsters: People who portray themselves to the world as figurative shit eaters while literally drinking shit.
 

Royal

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I have to imagine it's mostly Asians drinking that stuff. They have a genetic imperative to do as much mean shit to animals as possible.
The first time I ever heard of this stuff was like three or four years ago on this coffee around the world type show and they showed them collecting it off of the ground beneath the coffee plants where the civets pooped while dining on more beans. The show said it was the most expensive coffee in the world even then, so they might have had them in poop mills as well and they just decided not to show the ugly side of it.