Macdonald's, Burger King or Neither?
I use to like Macdonald's but hardly go in nowadays
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Neither!!
Nor KFC, Subway, Costa, Starbucks or Cafe Nero.
All down-value, up-price stuff sold on a spurious air of fashion merely by being American.
Costa - as false-Italian as calling plain coffee "Americano" - originated in London but is now American-owned, which did not make it any better. I call it "Costalotta".
I had a spell of using a MacD late in the evening when waiting for a train home after a weekly evening-class course. The shop, near the station, was the only refreshments outlet open late at night. On one and only occasion I also had what was called a "burger": merely a floury bread-roll holding a reconstituted meat-disc daubed with chutney to disguise both having no flavour.
Tried a Subway sandwich once. Reasonable quality, fair value; but when I asked why no salad-cream among the large selection of condiments, I was told they cannot stock it because the menus are dictated from New York! Ironically, the leading make of the salad-cream that has sold so well in the UK for so long is American (Heinz).
Nor KFC, Subway, Costa, Starbucks or Cafe Nero.
All down-value, up-price stuff sold on a spurious air of fashion merely by being American.
Costa - as false-Italian as calling plain coffee "Americano" - originated in London but is now American-owned, which did not make it any better. I call it "Costalotta".
I had a spell of using a MacD late in the evening when waiting for a train home after a weekly evening-class course. The shop, near the station, was the only refreshments outlet open late at night. On one and only occasion I also had what was called a "burger": merely a floury bread-roll holding a reconstituted meat-disc daubed with chutney to disguise both having no flavour.
Tried a Subway sandwich once. Reasonable quality, fair value; but when I asked why no salad-cream among the large selection of condiments, I was told they cannot stock it because the menus are dictated from New York! Ironically, the leading make of the salad-cream that has sold so well in the UK for so long is American (Heinz).