seeing american tourists going to have lunxh ina McDonalds is actually what makes me want to die the most ever

@fiore total McDonald's death ‼️

@amalthea do that and your parents will actually never aee you again

@amalthea good

@fiore its so crazy because italian food isnt even like this weird foreign thing its so ingrained in american cuisine already

@autumn italian mcdonalds is waaayy higjer quality than american , but still . yea

@autumn @fiore tbf i usually lunch at mcdonalds when im somewhere unfamiliar because idk if any given restaurant gives people diarrhea or not

mcd is consistently terrible but also consistently edible

@halva @autumn dude its a fastfood restaurant thousands of miles away from where youre used to . what makes u think its gonna be exactly the same as it is in america ???

@autumn @fiore like idk this isn't an american thing this is just people being cautious

@halva @fiore i dont think its that, its probably just familiarity. like it sucks but people are more likely to go to something they recognise than something they don’t.

like if there was a massive chain of italian restaurants then someone from abroad would go there in italy than a local place even if it would be better in every way

@fiore @autumn im not american lol

but it's more or less because they're the lowest common denominator of edibility

like if im out in an unfamiliar region and i have to choose between a random local rundown cafe (i literally know nothing about what they're doing in the kitchen) and a fast food chain (they most likely do more or less the same thing they do absolutely anywhere else on earth with some slight local specifics)

im picking the latter, even if it theoretically costs me some charm lol

@halva @autumn ig that makes sense haha

still, being a local and seeing that , its like . so ickyyy

I'm gonna go to Italy and eat McDonald's. But not for lunch. For dinner.

@eris shoots u

@fiore @autumn like mcdonalds """left""" russia

and the new owner totally could chain everything about how they do things, but he just didn't

they already make food in the most cost efficient way possible without technically breaking the law at any point

so the only changes were in branding lol

hnngh

@eris cmon

Yes? 🥺

@eris <3 id never shoot u

@FiringSquadsEnjoyer i thought u were a comnunist , why u doing touristic colonialism

@FiringSquadsEnjoyer im joking dawg sorry 😭

@fiore what's the point of going at that point

@Dionysus @fiore categorical imperative to waste fossil fuels

@apophis @Dionysus hitlerite impulses