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In my experience, yes. A Big Mac is a Big Mac pretty much everywhere. The non-US stores do often have some menu items that are targeted to local tastes, that you would not see in a mainland US store.
The McDonalds in Rome near Termini had an amazing desert bar!
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Interesting that it only happens on the west coast, eh? You’ve never seen a homeless person anywhere else?
Yes, but there is significantly more of it happening, optically, on the west coast than anywhere else in the United States. What is San Diego's unofficial name? "The Home of the Homeless". Before you flame, I spent years touring the United States, living and photographing homeless people and communities. West Coasters should really stop getting defensive and take action, if it actually matters to you all. All that we…
For your own benefit, or for theirs?
> if it actually matters to you all
You were there for a while, apparently. What did you do about it?
Here's the recipe for the Colonel's original herbs and spices seasoning: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2016/08/19/kfc-recipe-reveale...
Could someone copy and paste it here for us lowly EU folks?
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Dunno, I never eat KFC food. I'd rather eat bacon than hormone infused chicken, fully grown in less than a month, pressure fried in a crust of MSG saturated dough, which is supposedly halal and Colonel Sanders actually hates. In fact I just went to the Italian store and bought almost half a kilo of porchetta because of what I read here. It'll keep us well fed for at least two days and has all the collagen my wife oth…
You realize that KFC chicken is just the same chicken you buy at the supermarket? It's an urban legend that KFC somehow raises its own chicken that is somehow different, whether genetically, chemically, or speed of growth. I mean, if you prefer the taste of pork over chicken then great. But the idea there's anything uniquely bad about the chicken supplied to KFC is just factually untrue. Also, since you really like I…
Fake supermarket parmesan? Probably. Parmigiano Reggiano DOP, not really.
"The only additive allowed is salt, which the cheese absorbs while being submerged for 20 days in brine tanks saturated to near-total salinity with Mediterranean sea salt."
> Moreover bacon contains nitrates and nitrites, which is known to cause cancer, unlike msg
We don't buy bacon treated with nitrates and nitrites. That's 95% of supermarket bacon. We mostly end up buying prosciutto, which is just dried, salted and nitrate free or use home made bacon, which is basically 100% pork fat in my country. The Italians also make it, it's called lardo and it's cured with herbs. We only cure it with salt and smoke it. I'm not much of a fan of 100% pork fat or lard, but it does make good fries.
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imho it comes from western states not simply rounding them up. in atlanta, before the peach bowl the cops would descend on downtown, arrest all the homeless, bus them up to cherokee, and then the time it took them to return was greater than the length of the event. now that's a little less common and the yearly doctor conference has noticed the homeless and is complaining about it. i think homelessness is a consequen…
Thats why I said "optically", I actually agree with the sentiment that homelessness is often much worse and unseen in other parts of the United States- but! CA could do a-lot more given its wealth and desire to be seen as "thoughtful".
Uhh, what? The state that produced Nixon, Reagan, Prop 13; the capital of NIMBYism and the state that had more Trump voters than any other?
Sure, California is wealthy and spends a lot on its citizens, especially the needy, but it also has strong countervailing pressure, more influential than you might think given the makeup of its legislature.
A state is a big amorphous group and can't hardly have a "desire".
The first and second times I visited KFC in the US I was shocked there were no vegetables in their sandwiches. Other than the corn, and coleslaw, no lettuce or other ingredients in the sandwiches. In europe, and China and any other country I’ve seen KFC they have amazing Zinger sandwiches with lattice and sauces and grea flavor. We make it a point to never go to KFC in the US.
One thing I find utterly depressing is how literally every American fast food chain has infinitely better quality and taste in their overseas locations. Evidently they save their absolute worst products for their home market.
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That's because the US is a profit farm for US corporations (& a tax farm for those making bank on US foreign policy) so they can subsidize the rest of the world. Food, medicine, you name it — bottom-of-the-barrel service & quality for the average person & below in the US at top-dollar prices, & the people in the middle & below classes think they're doing well because it's all they know.
>That's because the US is a profit farm for US corporations....so they can subsidize the rest of the world. Do you mean the corporations subsidise the rest of their corporations (ie cheap usa kfc supports mmm-lovely jpn kfc etc), or the subsidies extend to 'the rest of the world' in general?
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Yeah, the rest of the world has laws that demand minimum product quality.
I’d love to hear the inside baseball on how a committee determines “minimum product quality” for a fried chicken sandwich.
Here's the recipe for the Colonel's original herbs and spices seasoning: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2016/08/19/kfc-recipe-reveale...
Could someone copy and paste it here for us lowly EU folks?
These Glen and Friends Cooking videos of North American cuisine development are top notch.