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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think a lot of people do that though, right
if they're going to go overseas, where wherever they're gonna go, Yeah, Italy, Japan,
Paris or France or whatever. You'll hear people go, I
want to eat like the locals. Et I wanted. I
want to dine like the locals. And listen, I get that.
One day you may go, I want to go find
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like a like a real Parisian French restaurant.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Or you would say, like I'm in Japan, I want
to go to like a real sushi joint, like a
traditional Japanese sushi joint.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
But if you were gonna go, Diane, and you were
gonna you were gonna eat like the locals, and you
wanted to learn about the area and by talking to people,
by sitting down eating with them and talking with them,
where would you.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Go Like a neighborhood pub type.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Right, So a little neighborhood bar. No, but like where
you mean give me like you're you're going to eat.
You're going to eat, not just going to have a
beer and sit and talk at the bar. You're gonna
go eat. You're gonna go sit down.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Food at the pubs too.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You're gonna sit down and say, you know what this is,
this is where where the locals go, and I'm gonna
have some local fare while I'm here.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I think bar is too obvious and it's gonna be
something that sounds wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
What do you sounds wrong?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Is this going to be like the guy who does
the Thanksgiving lunches at the school cafeteria?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Are you having to sneak into No? No, no, no, no,
not sneak in at all. Not sneak in at all.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So it's not like a I don't know what their
version would be, but it's not like a spaghetti dinner.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
No, you're not going to like the church or the
y m c A or something like that. The No,
but you were like, you know what, I want to
learn about the area. I want to I want to
eat with the locals, the people who live here, and
I want to be able to get maybe some local
food as well, and like really get a taste for
what it's like to live in this area.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
That's why I keep going to the pub because that's
such a.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Neighborld it really is. I mean it can be and
it can service that, but you're running a risk. You're
running a risk. You don't know who's going there, you
don't know how crowded it is. I'm telling you you
could walk into this place and have a very local
experience and get to know all the locals.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Because you're right, because Diane keeps, even though you keep
telling her it's wrong, keep saying pub that seems like
it's going to attract a lot of Diane's and they're
not locals.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Could be, could very well be.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Where is it just locals?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So the person at the front desk is telling me
to go somewhere.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The front desk of the hotel.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, I would bet the front desk of the hotel
would never tell you to go to this place now,
but you should pardon me.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
They don't get a cut.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, no, but you should know. You know this place.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You don't need you don't need a you don't need
a concierge to tell you.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Is this a category or a specific place?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It is a specific restaurant. You can do it in Japan,
You could do it in Paris. You could do it
in the suburbs of each You could go to Spain.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Can you do it in Amsterdam? You can do it
in we just watched a video from there.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes you did. McDonald's. Why that face? Why that face?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm in a different country and I'm gonna go to McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Where do locals eat?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Fast food?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Mean fast food?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
If you came to the US, you're from where are
you from? Trinidad? You came to the US and you
were like, huh, where are.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
There a bunch of I want to go where the
locals go?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Where are there a bunch of no?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Because you're gonna try to paint the Americans as being
like fat the no, No, that restaurant's busy, that restaurant
and they all look American. That one's busy, That one's
busy McDonald's. Who eat at McDonald's locals there's there's not.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Just rushing in to get a quick lunch.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The maybe maybe they're right to get a quick lunch.
Maybe they're sitting down and having having dinner with their family.
But they're in there and they're busy, and and you
can't get some local fare. You go to a McDonald's
in Canada, you can get poutine.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, your your answer is you can accurate.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You can go into India and they don't have they
don't have any they have no meat products on the menu.
But while you're there, what's wrong what's wrong with sitting
down and going excuse me or not a thing or whatever.
I'm from out of town and to learn about the
area and to learn about what are some things to
go see? But in your mind you're like, oh, I
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could eat McDonald's at home, Why would I ever go there?
I need to go to Le Bernadine, Le coupe or
I don't know if that's a restaurant. I even I
don't even know what I said, but you would think like, oh,
that must be an exquisite French restaurant.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I got good news for you. You said nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Was it a McDonald's that we were looking at the
menu board when we were in Japan that had like
the weird hot dog with.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
The bone coming out of bone coming out of it
McDonald's And you know what, you should kick yourself that
we never went in.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh so you guys just looked at a menu? Was
it outside the restaurant?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You could see from the window what the menu were.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
It was like a big, big sort of marquilla with
a bone coming stranger and we never got it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We never went in. You should kick yourself because to
this day, should have you remember that because you don't. Odd,
but you don't know what it was, and what a
great opportunity to step in those doors. But it did.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It looked like a big like that, like rib bone
coming out of a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It was odd. Yeah, it was like you ordered the
Tomahawk's steak but instead but you got a hot dog
like that emoji.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I've never been able to decipher.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, kind of meat on bone?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
A hunk of unspecified meat on a white bone.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I had a friend who did this, but not to
meet the locals, but as a bit and he traveled
all over the place. He's dead, unfortunately. Oh so this
isn't radio no no, no, no no. But his bid
was he traveled a lot for work. He would eat
out of McDonald's everywhere. He went to try the local
McDonald's switcheroo. So I was reading this whole thing and
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they were talking about you really want to you really
want to know from locals what you should do and
use them as a resource and learn. Go to McDonald's
and everybody will have the exact same response.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, you were in Paris, Where did you go?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I went to McDonald's. Oh my god, you're a loser,
and you're not. You're actually very very smart.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Zach Roth check Ann's hello when he was in France
or he was there for a while studying abroad, right
when I landed there and made this my first stop,
you made fun of me.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I probably did.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But now did he do it just to get food
or did he do it to learn about the local
area and what was going on, because.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's also a big difference.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
It was a long time ago, but it may have
been just because of his familiarity.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And they said, listen, there's nothing wrong with going to
Tokyo and being like, I want to hop into it
like a noodle shop, or I want to hop into
like a sushi place. You should, but everybody swears off,
I'm not going all the way to Tokyo to eat
at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And you're really ripping yourself off.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Matthew says he did this in Tokyo, but with KFC.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I was just and I wish I would not have
been interrupted there because I was gonna say, if you
don't see a McDonald's, get your ass in a Kentucky
Fried Chicken. I didn't reach the other one that gets referenced,
they are. I think those two are more worldwide than
any other.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
That's what I was gonna say. I didn't know there
was such a global presence for KFC.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, I think those two because those both get mentioned
in here, and I think that those two may have
like the largest. There may be more of X, but
in terms of country reach, I think those are the
two biggies.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Brian says, I did this on a solo trip in Rome.
The first place I went to was a McDonald's. I
don't think there was one person in there who wasn't Italian.
It was the most immersed I felt my whole trip.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Because nobody again is going overseas to eat at KFC
except locals.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Now we've had the this person went.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
They ate at a McDonald's in Dublin, Paris, and Tokyo
and they said you were the best. They're not saying
the food was the greatest, but it was the best
stops they had during what.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Was like about a fourteen day trip.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
We've had the privilege of traveling overseas a couple of times. Yes,
you mentioned Japan, but I don't. I can't think of
another time more recently that we did this domestically, Yes,
Hooters in Jacksonville, Popeyes in New Orleans. Yes, Chris and
I know on our behalf you went to Outback in Charleston,
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North Charleston, North Charleston. But did we more recently did
we do this? I don't think we did.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
No, we didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And you didn't even do it in Japan.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So you've never done it? No, No, I never have.
I'm guilty.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You're an ily American.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I am, Yes, I am guilty because I would be
until right now, I would be one of the ones
that would say I'm not going all the way to
Amsterdam to eat a McDonald's. There is part of me
and this is this is very unfair of me to say,
but like there's part of me that goes eh is
the is the KFC in India gonna be as good
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as the KFC here, right?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And the answer is yes they have. They have, they
have food quality checks everywhere.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
And how many people went in Italy, I've like that
would be one of these.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It is the number one Italian arrest.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I remember when we were in Italy one time, we
were we were coming back and by the time, by
the end of the trip, we were so sick of
Italian food. We got Burger King at the airport. But
I remember I got like a whopper, just like a
whopper Junior. I didn't. I didn't venture into the you know,
oh Tobak and you know the other to Tobak and
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the other like offerings that they have, like the Bacon
King three point zero smoky.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But that was because you were so tired of eating
pasta and pizza, right, which is fine, you should eat
those things.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
What is but nobody's coming back from their trip to.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Italy going, oh my god, I ate, I ate that
this unbelievable little like it was in an alley and
it was a walk up window, but it may have
been the best pizza I ever had. Oh and then
I got the veo parmesan sandwich at McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
But kapi cento over a photo or two of the
menu at her Italian McDonald's. What is the cheese bar
that is just it looks like a snack size, like
almost like it's a candy bar, but it's parmesan.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, snack d parmisano regiano.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's on that is on the menu. Yeah, that's what
I mean. They'll give you.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Local food Also there's the I would eat a brick
of parmesan, It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
There's the Italian Panzeradi with tomato and mozzarella. There's the
Timi Siu on the dessert menu. But I want to
hear more about this cheese snack. You never have taken
just a big chunk of parmesan and eaten it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yes, what about the jaw off rice at the West
African KFC?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
In India, McDonald's offers a menu that is entirely free
of beech beef and largely vegetarian, with items like the
pea and potato makalou tiki burger ranking among their best sellers.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I would try that.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Now people are just showing off where they've been.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Now, everybody's like, oh, I have been to the KFC
in Guam.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
But if you aren't listening and you're just seeing your
friends post these odd flexes of incredible international traveling experiences,
but then mentioning the fast food of American fast food
they had there, it is a little strange.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yes, but here here's my question.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Everybody that's now saying they did it, Yes, did they
do it, so let's let's split.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Let's let's split that fork.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Right. Did they do it because it was fast easy,
I'm tired of eating Mexican food, Italian food, Indian food,
Japanese food, Chinese food, whatever? Or was it because they
wanted to either A dine with locals or b kind
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of see what McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
What is a mikaelu tiki burger?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Aungary says that while studying abroad in Venezuela, it was
required that they went and checked out the McDonald's to.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Get a local feel.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
That's what I'm guessing.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Think about it. If you're if that that is a
great point. Yeah, if you are, If you're if you're
a what do they call that? Oh, studying abroad for
an exchange student like dipty?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Can we not?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
If you are if you wanted to go see what
it's like for the locals around your around university. Perfect
place to go, perfect place to talk to people and
find out what else there is to do in the area.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
From Alex studied abroad in Jordan many years ago and
hit up the Golden Arches on day one.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There you go, there you go. Oh that's very smart.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
From KR excess, uh new Zealand went to McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
If you're backpacking across across wherever you would go, why not.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Now, Laca Fan says, I went to the KFC in
Tokyo and it ruined KFC everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
For me, they must have gotten the bone.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Was so delicious there. Oh, so you think is going
to do this?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I got nageary, I got a hamburger on rice.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Where am I going mine too? Hi? Elliott in the morning,
and how you doing?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Hey, Matt beer with me? For one second? Is anybody
who went to the KFC in Italy?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
In Rome?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I remember my buddy who traveled a lot who's no
longer with us, My buddy ken Hoffman. He went to
he went to the I remember distinctly him saying, he
went to the McDonald's in Rome. And there are like
statues of like David in there like it is no like.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It is marble statues. It's beautiful. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I'm sorry, yes, sir, back to you.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
No, not to your point. We actually go to the McDonalds.
I've been in nine different nine different countries from McDonald's.
We actually go there kind of what you're seeing, to
see what it's like for the local food because because
each uh, because each menu is different, like you have sharma,
a chicken sorma and guitar with right and McGreevy. But
what we also do is you have to get a
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hamburger or a French fries. You know what the baselines
like of McDonald's. Because even that's better than it is
an American whoa.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Whoa, you're gonna tell me that that a quarter pounder
is better there than it is here?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
It is it is in Germany because they're competing with
the local restaurants. They're not competing with other fast food
restaurants because everybody has sit down restaurants everywhere you go,
so they actually up their game a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh that's interesting. That's interesting. Oh that's pretty good. That's now,
that's a good hack.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Yep. So we got hamburger, French fries and then we
go weird, whether it be like chicken sharma, yep, absolutely,
or or we get chili cheese fries right outside of
the Vatican row.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh, things like that.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
And if they have beer, you have to order it,
but a lot of it, especially in Europe, a lot
of them have beer.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And it listen to Pope Loves chili cheese fries, he said,
gets on his smock alette.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
So we have some chili cheese fries and some beer
and then we went to the Vatican.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Good for you, all right, dude, I appreciate it, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yes, Tyler from Jennifer, I go in whatever country I visit,
the Greek mac with feta and sazeki on a peeda
is the best, and the salads in Greece are incredibly
fresh tasting.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Could you imagine a Greek salad at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I bet it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And by the way, that that feta in what was it,
the Greek mac? Yeah, that sounds awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know what, you would.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Never have the Greek mac because your hoity toity ass
would never would never think to march into a McDonald's while.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
You were overseas.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Not in a million years.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Somebody did say, you gotta be careful.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
At the KFC in Ghana, they go more breading than chicken,
so you get a lot of just the breading.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
There's the Greek mac.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
By the way, Oh my god, that's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's pretty good. Yes, I do say that about commercials
domestically too, though.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But you would never get that. Where was it?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Somebody just opened internationally and it surprised me. Checkers just
opened internationally and I was like, are you serious?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I thought it would have been rallied.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Where do you count this?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
And wait?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Hold online six hold on.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I know sometimes you don't count it and I have
to intervene. But would you count going to a McDonald's
in Hawaii? A lot of people have mentioned how different
than menu is.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I remember the seeing like the macaroni salad. That's that's
like a big thing in Hawaii. But that was that
was macaroni.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's also a big thing at Wegman.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
No, but macaroniy salad was offered as a suicide.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, you know, I don't really think of Hawaii as
the US, But do they have like other than what
I understand?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
This beautiful macaroni salad?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Is it all the same stuff or is it like
you can go to is it McDonald somewhere in Boston
where you can get like a lobster roll?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Really? I think so?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Stewart says McDonald's in Hawaii is a religious experience with
their spam.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh that makes sense, like a quarter spam and cheese.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Oh and rev for the mixed spam breakfast is so
damn good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Okay, so yeah, so maybe am I am I right about?
Is it situate that has outside of Boston that has
like lobster rolls? Or am I thinking main there's a
McDonald somewhere. I know I've heard this. Why would I
commit that to memory? There is a McDonald somewhere that
has lobster rolls.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I do see lobster roll on McDonald's dot com. Let's
see Maine and New Hampshire maybe too, and h thank you,
But you're saying also Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I could be wrong about that, but I thought they did. Wow,
I thought they.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Did Atlantic lobster thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
You're not gonna get that going to cheers hi Elliott
the morning, which, by the way, that's that's something that
somebody would do. They would go to Boston and they go, oh,
we got to go to Cheers. But that's gonna be
all Taurius. You're not gonna get anybody local from there.
Go three blocks away, go right into McDonald's and it's yeah,
and then it's the guys from cheers at McDonald's. Okay,
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but I understand maybe hold one said excluding Hawaii, right,
But now you're taking it within the East Coast.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
No. I was saying, if somebody came from somewhere else
and went to Boston, they would go, oh, we got
to go to the come from DC, right, No, we
got to go to Cheers.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
What if you loved the show?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Okay, but then it's a bit, then you're going a
hard rock You.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Went to the office experience?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I did.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It was awesome in Chicago. There was overpriced, No, it
was a lot overpriced, but it was cool. It was
cool and there was nothing else to do in Chicago.
And there was no food, right, no chilling. Well yeah,
but it was on the floor. It was on the floor.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Hi, Elliott the morning more than Elliott and Sam.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Hey, I'm doing great. Who's this?
Speaker 8 (20:41):
This is Adam from Richmond.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I was.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
I was in the Navy for about six years on
a small boat that could pull into a lot of ports.
So we ended up hitting up about forty two countries,
and a good majority of those we would go to
McDonald's to figure out where to go.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Perfect, and I'm glad you finished with that. So it
wasn't it was like, hey, we're just getting off the boat.
We don't have much time. You would go to McDonald's,
strike up a conversation with the locals, and that's how
you learned where to go when you were in town.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
Yeah, we were trying to figure it out beforehand, like
we'd kind of see where proximity we would be kind
of pulling in and where McDonald's or even a Burger
King if they had one, or sometimes KFC. But we
had one in Ukraine. That was awesome. We ended up
leaning up with a group of friends and went bowling
for what was called Victory Day. You got to go
to a big old parade, fireworks and walked around drinking
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potato vodka out of a bottle for the rest of
the night.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It was a great time, freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That's great, and you got that because you went to
the McDonald's. But again, if I came back and told
Diane Dauma was like, oh, you went to Ukraine, where'd
you go?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh? I went to McDonald's, You'd be like, are you
kidding me? No, No, she.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Would because out of all of us, she has let
slip now twice that she has done this.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Okay, but Italy was because I was soired out of
all of them, that we've heard. What I really want
to try the Mcgreek. I want that in the worst way.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Where am I going? Line four? Hi?
Speaker 8 (22:08):
Elliott in the morning, Hey Elliott insta truck driver here.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
I went to Olsalvador over the summer to go to
a McDonald's and yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
It sucked.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Now what was wrong with it? I traveled?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I hate traveling.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Okay, Well that's that's on you. That is on you.
Say no, but you know what that made me think of?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Like, for example, my when when when I had my
broken ankle? Right, Daniel was so proud of of Peru
and his his his home country.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He loved it, he loved it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
But I he But we never discussed what would be
like if I went to a Peruvian McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
What's in there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
But wouldn't a local want you to go to a
mom and pop? Yes, to really get the money within
the economy where it's the most.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, probably, you know what I want to do? Would
they do it with us? Pardon me? Where's where's McDonald's.
Where's McDonald's national based out of?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Isn't it Illinois?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh? Illinois? Never mind?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Why why couldn't we do Why couldn't we team up
with McDonald's or KFC.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I like both, and just give away. Pick any McDonald's
in the world you want to go to a trip. Yeah,
that'd be pretty cool. Wouldn't that be awesome?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You win you qualified by winning local McDonald's, which I
would be more than happy with, and then the grand
prize winner. Yeah, pick any McDonald's in the world and
you go, Aaron, get on that. Don't let Caruso touch it.
Wouldn't that be awesome? I think that's really fun. Pick
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any McDonald's in the world.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
We just have to really explain the segment to those
that didn't hear the show this morning. What ranmprise?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Are we doing?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I wanted to go to Bonnaroo.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That's going on Bonneroo McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Hi Elliott the morning, Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (24:18):
This is Tap from Annapolis.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Speaker 9 (24:22):
Not much?
Speaker 7 (24:23):
I was calling because I've been to the McDonald's in.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Porto, Portugal.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
It's supposed to be like one of the most beautiful
ones in the country.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Are in the world?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Oh really? And was the restaurant beautiful?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
It was?
Speaker 7 (24:36):
They had like some crazy art decorps and chandeliers all
over it. I forget what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh my god, Tyler. Tyler just pulled up the picture.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Do you think people from Portugal come here and walk
into a McDonald's ago?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Its dump?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Are you kidding me? One of the greatest countries in
the world. Look at this garbage. They don't even pick
up off the floor.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Oh my god, Yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
We didn't even note about it at first. There was
a library down the street that was actually like a
hotspot because apparently it was an influence for the Harriet's
Potter series. So my wife and Octager kids there, and
then while we were there, some of the locals were like, oh,
you should go check this McDonald's out.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
And at first you're kind of like, we have it
in America.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Yeah, and then we looked into it and we're like, wow,
this is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Stained glass walls, chandeliers.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Okay, now, if I'm being fair, the McDonald's near me
also has stained walls.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Hey, can I.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Ask you this?
Speaker 9 (25:35):
They have a plate place set?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Oh? Very nice?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Hey do they have do they have anything that is
like for like that that is I kill if gun
to my head. I couldn't name anything that's strictly Portuguese.
But like, is there something on their menu that you
were like, oh, we got to try this because it's Portuguese.
They did.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
I'm drawing a blank to what they called it. But
see my wife that she's listening would kill me because
she knows what it is.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
I'm drawing it.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That's okay, all right, very good, very good. I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
From McDonald's dot pt. They have a lot of soups.
Oh like, is Portugal known for their soups? Eight different
soups on the menu? Are any of them? But are
they all? Like broccoli cheddar minnestrone?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Can I get a bread bull?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Like? Are any of them?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That you look at and you're like, oh, well, I've
never heard of this.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Uh sofa dey feyo verde so it's some green when
it's weird because it's yellow. There is a green one
sofa dey kaream de er vidajashu.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Vida has is in the back of the kitchen making cram.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Those are peas?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Oh, I like pea soup with ham line four?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Hi Elliott in the morning. Hi, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
Right this do I went to McDonald's India.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Went to McDonald's India. But the thing is the reason
why it's so popular even in India and China, they're
not competing with local restaurants too. The local restaurants are
much cheaper than McDonald's, right, they're competing with high end
Indian restaurants or middle and Indian restaurants. Here, the food
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quality may not be as good because you know, if
you go to sit down restaurant, it's expensive compared to
McDonald's here right there, if you go to McDonald's an experience.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Hey, have you ever had have you ever had the McAdoo.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Mcaluu whatever he said, mcalou mcalou mcalulu.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
Yeah yeah, Alluman said potato in Indindi. So it's mac Allians,
it's mec potato.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh yeah, but it is It is the best? Is
it really?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
It is the best.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I mean it's almost like eating you know, breakfast paddy,
but with a lot of flavors. Like it's not like
hash brown kind of thing. Right, it looks like a hashbrong,
but it has so much flavor.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It looks beautiful. Pulled it up. I love Indian food.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
You know that.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Yeah, they have they have rice and then nuggets. I mean,
it's it's an experience to go there. So a lot
of people go there to celebrate something.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Hey, so just so, but when you got to when
you got to America, did you go into a McDonald's
and Billy like, seriously, I did?
Speaker 9 (28:37):
Yeah, I did, and said, hey, can I have something vegetarian?
That lady looked at, you know, dead straight in my
eye and then gave me a burger with no patty,
no cheese, yes, bread and lettuce.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
The Hey, you take it to your ass.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
I know one of my friends bought cheeseburger. I think
it's made of cheese.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It is not chea all right, dude, Hey listen, I
appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Thank you my friend. All Right, we gotta get on that.
That's a great promotion with McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
It's different.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, any McDonald's in the world. I gotta get on that.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You gotta have a you got a passing. You have
to have a passport number one and number two. You
have to remember we talked about this today or it's
just gonna seem very bizarre.
I think a lot of people do that though, right
if they're going to go overseas, where wherever they're gonna go, Yeah, Italy, Japan,
Paris or France or whatever. You'll hear people go, I
want to eat like the locals. Et I wanted. I
want to dine like the locals. And listen, I get that.
One day you may go, I want to go find
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like a like a real Parisian French restaurant.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Or you would say, like I'm in Japan, I want
to go to like a real sushi joint, like a
traditional Japanese sushi joint.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
But if you were gonna go, Diane, and you were
gonna you were gonna eat like the locals, and you
wanted to learn about the area and by talking to people,
by sitting down eating with them and talking with them,
where would you.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Go Like a neighborhood pub type.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Right, So a little neighborhood bar. No, but like where
you mean give me like you're you're going to eat.
You're going to eat, not just going to have a
beer and sit and talk at the bar. You're gonna
go eat. You're gonna go sit down.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Food at the pubs too.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You're gonna sit down and say, you know what this is,
this is where where the locals go, and I'm gonna
have some local fare while I'm here.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I think bar is too obvious and it's gonna be
something that sounds wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
What do you sounds wrong?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Is this going to be like the guy who does
the Thanksgiving lunches at the school cafeteria?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Are you having to sneak into No? No, no, no, no,
not sneak in at all. Not sneak in at all.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So it's not like a I don't know what their
version would be, but it's not like a spaghetti dinner.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
No, you're not going to like the church or the
y m c A or something like that. The No,
but you were like, you know what, I want to
learn about the area. I want to I want to
eat with the locals, the people who live here, and
I want to be able to get maybe some local
food as well, and like really get a taste for
what it's like to live in this area.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
That's why I keep going to the pub because that's
such a.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Neighborld it really is. I mean it can be and
it can service that, but you're running a risk. You're
running a risk. You don't know who's going there, you
don't know how crowded it is. I'm telling you you
could walk into this place and have a very local
experience and get to know all the locals.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Because you're right, because Diane keeps, even though you keep
telling her it's wrong, keep saying pub that seems like
it's going to attract a lot of Diane's and they're
not locals.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Could be, could very well be.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Where is it just locals?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So the person at the front desk is telling me
to go somewhere.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The front desk of the hotel.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, I would bet the front desk of the hotel
would never tell you to go to this place now,
but you should pardon me.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
They don't get a cut.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, no, but you should know. You know this place.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You don't need you don't need a you don't need
a concierge to tell you.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Is this a category or a specific place?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It is a specific restaurant. You can do it in Japan,
You could do it in Paris. You could do it
in the suburbs of each You could go to Spain.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Can you do it in Amsterdam? You can do it
in we just watched a video from there.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes you did. McDonald's. Why that face? Why that face?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm in a different country and I'm gonna go to McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Where do locals eat?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Fast food?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Mean fast food?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
If you came to the US, you're from where are
you from? Trinidad? You came to the US and you
were like, huh, where are.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
There a bunch of I want to go where the
locals go?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Where are there a bunch of no?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Because you're gonna try to paint the Americans as being
like fat the no, No, that restaurant's busy, that restaurant
and they all look American. That one's busy, That one's
busy McDonald's. Who eat at McDonald's locals there's there's not.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Just rushing in to get a quick lunch.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The maybe maybe they're right to get a quick lunch.
Maybe they're sitting down and having having dinner with their family.
But they're in there and they're busy, and and you
can't get some local fare. You go to a McDonald's
in Canada, you can get poutine.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, your your answer is you can accurate.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You can go into India and they don't have they
don't have any they have no meat products on the menu.
But while you're there, what's wrong what's wrong with sitting
down and going excuse me or not a thing or whatever.
I'm from out of town and to learn about the
area and to learn about what are some things to
go see? But in your mind you're like, oh, I
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could eat McDonald's at home, Why would I ever go there?
I need to go to Le Bernadine, Le coupe or
I don't know if that's a restaurant. I even I
don't even know what I said, but you would think like, oh,
that must be an exquisite French restaurant.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I got good news for you. You said nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Was it a McDonald's that we were looking at the
menu board when we were in Japan that had like
the weird hot dog with.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
The bone coming out of bone coming out of it
McDonald's And you know what, you should kick yourself that
we never went in.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh so you guys just looked at a menu? Was
it outside the restaurant?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You could see from the window what the menu were.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
It was like a big, big sort of marquilla with
a bone coming stranger and we never got it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We never went in. You should kick yourself because to
this day, should have you remember that because you don't. Odd,
but you don't know what it was, and what a
great opportunity to step in those doors. But it did.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It looked like a big like that, like rib bone
coming out of a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It was odd. Yeah, it was like you ordered the
Tomahawk's steak but instead but you got a hot dog
like that emoji.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I've never been able to decipher.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, kind of meat on bone?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
A hunk of unspecified meat on a white bone.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I had a friend who did this, but not to
meet the locals, but as a bit and he traveled
all over the place. He's dead, unfortunately. Oh so this
isn't radio no no, no, no no. But his bid
was he traveled a lot for work. He would eat
out of McDonald's everywhere. He went to try the local
McDonald's switcheroo. So I was reading this whole thing and
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they were talking about you really want to you really
want to know from locals what you should do and
use them as a resource and learn. Go to McDonald's
and everybody will have the exact same response.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, you were in Paris, Where did you go?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I went to McDonald's. Oh my god, you're a loser,
and you're not. You're actually very very smart.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Zach Roth check Ann's hello when he was in France
or he was there for a while studying abroad, right
when I landed there and made this my first stop,
you made fun of me.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I probably did.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But now did he do it just to get food
or did he do it to learn about the local
area and what was going on, because.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's also a big difference.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
It was a long time ago, but it may have
been just because of his familiarity.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And they said, listen, there's nothing wrong with going to
Tokyo and being like, I want to hop into it
like a noodle shop, or I want to hop into
like a sushi place. You should, but everybody swears off,
I'm not going all the way to Tokyo to eat
at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And you're really ripping yourself off.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Matthew says he did this in Tokyo, but with KFC.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I was just and I wish I would not have
been interrupted there because I was gonna say, if you
don't see a McDonald's, get your ass in a Kentucky
Fried Chicken. I didn't reach the other one that gets referenced,
they are. I think those two are more worldwide than
any other.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
That's what I was gonna say. I didn't know there
was such a global presence for KFC.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, I think those two because those both get mentioned
in here, and I think that those two may have
like the largest. There may be more of X, but
in terms of country reach, I think those are the
two biggies.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Brian says, I did this on a solo trip in Rome.
The first place I went to was a McDonald's. I
don't think there was one person in there who wasn't Italian.
It was the most immersed I felt my whole trip.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Because nobody again is going overseas to eat at KFC
except locals.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Now we've had the this person went.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
They ate at a McDonald's in Dublin, Paris, and Tokyo
and they said you were the best. They're not saying
the food was the greatest, but it was the best
stops they had during what.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Was like about a fourteen day trip.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
We've had the privilege of traveling overseas a couple of times. Yes,
you mentioned Japan, but I don't. I can't think of
another time more recently that we did this domestically, Yes,
Hooters in Jacksonville, Popeyes in New Orleans. Yes, Chris and
I know on our behalf you went to Outback in Charleston,
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North Charleston, North Charleston. But did we more recently did
we do this? I don't think we did.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
No, we didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And you didn't even do it in Japan.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So you've never done it? No, No, I never have.
I'm guilty.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You're an ily American.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I am, Yes, I am guilty because I would be
until right now, I would be one of the ones
that would say I'm not going all the way to
Amsterdam to eat a McDonald's. There is part of me
and this is this is very unfair of me to say,
but like there's part of me that goes eh is
the is the KFC in India gonna be as good
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as the KFC here, right?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And the answer is yes they have. They have, they
have food quality checks everywhere.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
And how many people went in Italy, I've like that
would be one of these.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It is the number one Italian arrest.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I remember when we were in Italy one time, we
were we were coming back and by the time, by
the end of the trip, we were so sick of
Italian food. We got Burger King at the airport. But
I remember I got like a whopper, just like a
whopper Junior. I didn't. I didn't venture into the you know,
oh Tobak and you know the other to Tobak and
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the other like offerings that they have, like the Bacon
King three point zero smoky.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But that was because you were so tired of eating
pasta and pizza, right, which is fine, you should eat
those things.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
What is but nobody's coming back from their trip to.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Italy going, oh my god, I ate, I ate that
this unbelievable little like it was in an alley and
it was a walk up window, but it may have
been the best pizza I ever had. Oh and then
I got the veo parmesan sandwich at McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
But kapi cento over a photo or two of the
menu at her Italian McDonald's. What is the cheese bar
that is just it looks like a snack size, like
almost like it's a candy bar, but it's parmesan.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, snack d parmisano regiano.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's on that is on the menu. Yeah, that's what
I mean. They'll give you.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Local food Also there's the I would eat a brick
of parmesan, It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
There's the Italian Panzeradi with tomato and mozzarella. There's the
Timi Siu on the dessert menu. But I want to
hear more about this cheese snack. You never have taken
just a big chunk of parmesan and eaten it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yes, what about the jaw off rice at the West
African KFC?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
In India, McDonald's offers a menu that is entirely free
of beech beef and largely vegetarian, with items like the
pea and potato makalou tiki burger ranking among their best sellers.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I would try that.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Now people are just showing off where they've been.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Now, everybody's like, oh, I have been to the KFC
in Guam.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
But if you aren't listening and you're just seeing your
friends post these odd flexes of incredible international traveling experiences,
but then mentioning the fast food of American fast food
they had there, it is a little strange.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yes, but here here's my question.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Everybody that's now saying they did it, Yes, did they
do it, so let's let's split.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Let's let's split that fork.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Right. Did they do it because it was fast easy,
I'm tired of eating Mexican food, Italian food, Indian food,
Japanese food, Chinese food, whatever? Or was it because they
wanted to either A dine with locals or b kind
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of see what McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
What is a mikaelu tiki burger?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Aungary says that while studying abroad in Venezuela, it was
required that they went and checked out the McDonald's to.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Get a local feel.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
That's what I'm guessing.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Think about it. If you're if that that is a
great point. Yeah, if you are, If you're if you're
a what do they call that? Oh, studying abroad for
an exchange student like dipty?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Can we not?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
If you are if you wanted to go see what
it's like for the locals around your around university. Perfect
place to go, perfect place to talk to people and
find out what else there is to do in the area.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
From Alex studied abroad in Jordan many years ago and
hit up the Golden Arches on day one.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There you go, there you go. Oh that's very smart.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
From KR excess, uh new Zealand went to McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
If you're backpacking across across wherever you would go, why not.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Now, Laca Fan says, I went to the KFC in
Tokyo and it ruined KFC everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
For me, they must have gotten the bone.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Was so delicious there. Oh, so you think is going
to do this?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I got nageary, I got a hamburger on rice.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Where am I going mine too? Hi? Elliott in the morning,
and how you doing?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Hey, Matt beer with me? For one second? Is anybody
who went to the KFC in Italy?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
In Rome?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I remember my buddy who traveled a lot who's no
longer with us, My buddy ken Hoffman. He went to
he went to the I remember distinctly him saying, he
went to the McDonald's in Rome. And there are like
statues of like David in there like it is no like.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It is marble statues. It's beautiful. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I'm sorry, yes, sir, back to you.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
No, not to your point. We actually go to the McDonalds.
I've been in nine different nine different countries from McDonald's.
We actually go there kind of what you're seeing, to
see what it's like for the local food because because
each uh, because each menu is different, like you have sharma,
a chicken sorma and guitar with right and McGreevy. But
what we also do is you have to get a
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hamburger or a French fries. You know what the baselines
like of McDonald's. Because even that's better than it is
an American whoa.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Whoa, you're gonna tell me that that a quarter pounder
is better there than it is here?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
It is it is in Germany because they're competing with
the local restaurants. They're not competing with other fast food
restaurants because everybody has sit down restaurants everywhere you go,
so they actually up their game a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh that's interesting. That's interesting. Oh that's pretty good. That's now,
that's a good hack.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Yep. So we got hamburger, French fries and then we
go weird, whether it be like chicken sharma, yep, absolutely,
or or we get chili cheese fries right outside of
the Vatican row.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh, things like that.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
And if they have beer, you have to order it,
but a lot of it, especially in Europe, a lot
of them have beer.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And it listen to Pope Loves chili cheese fries, he said,
gets on his smock alette.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
So we have some chili cheese fries and some beer
and then we went to the Vatican.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Good for you, all right, dude, I appreciate it, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yes, Tyler from Jennifer, I go in whatever country I visit,
the Greek mac with feta and sazeki on a peeda
is the best, and the salads in Greece are incredibly
fresh tasting.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Could you imagine a Greek salad at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I bet it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And by the way, that that feta in what was it,
the Greek mac? Yeah, that sounds awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know what, you would.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Never have the Greek mac because your hoity toity ass
would never would never think to march into a McDonald's while.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
You were overseas.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Not in a million years.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Somebody did say, you gotta be careful.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
At the KFC in Ghana, they go more breading than chicken,
so you get a lot of just the breading.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
There's the Greek mac.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
By the way, Oh my god, that's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's pretty good. Yes, I do say that about commercials
domestically too, though.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But you would never get that. Where was it?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Somebody just opened internationally and it surprised me. Checkers just
opened internationally and I was like, are you serious?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I thought it would have been rallied.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Where do you count this?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
And wait?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Hold online six hold on.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I know sometimes you don't count it and I have
to intervene. But would you count going to a McDonald's
in Hawaii? A lot of people have mentioned how different
than menu is.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I remember the seeing like the macaroni salad. That's that's
like a big thing in Hawaii. But that was that
was macaroni.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's also a big thing at Wegman.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
No, but macaroniy salad was offered as a suicide.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, you know, I don't really think of Hawaii as
the US, But do they have like other than what
I understand?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
This beautiful macaroni salad?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Is it all the same stuff or is it like
you can go to is it McDonald somewhere in Boston
where you can get like a lobster roll?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Really? I think so?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Stewart says McDonald's in Hawaii is a religious experience with
their spam.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh that makes sense, like a quarter spam and cheese.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Oh and rev for the mixed spam breakfast is so
damn good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Okay, so yeah, so maybe am I am I right about?
Is it situate that has outside of Boston that has
like lobster rolls? Or am I thinking main there's a
McDonald somewhere. I know I've heard this. Why would I
commit that to memory? There is a McDonald somewhere that
has lobster rolls.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I do see lobster roll on McDonald's dot com. Let's
see Maine and New Hampshire maybe too, and h thank you,
But you're saying also Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I could be wrong about that, but I thought they did. Wow,
I thought they.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Did Atlantic lobster thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
You're not gonna get that going to cheers hi Elliott
the morning, which, by the way, that's that's something that
somebody would do. They would go to Boston and they go, oh,
we got to go to Cheers. But that's gonna be
all Taurius. You're not gonna get anybody local from there.
Go three blocks away, go right into McDonald's and it's yeah,
and then it's the guys from cheers at McDonald's. Okay,
(19:58):
but I understand maybe hold one said excluding Hawaii, right,
But now you're taking it within the East Coast.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
No. I was saying, if somebody came from somewhere else
and went to Boston, they would go, oh, we got
to go to the come from DC, right, No, we
got to go to Cheers.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
What if you loved the show?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Okay, but then it's a bit, then you're going a
hard rock You.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Went to the office experience?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I did.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It was awesome in Chicago. There was overpriced, No, it
was a lot overpriced, but it was cool. It was
cool and there was nothing else to do in Chicago.
And there was no food, right, no chilling. Well yeah,
but it was on the floor. It was on the floor.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Hi, Elliott the morning more than Elliott and Sam.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Hey, I'm doing great. Who's this?
Speaker 8 (20:41):
This is Adam from Richmond.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I was.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
I was in the Navy for about six years on
a small boat that could pull into a lot of ports.
So we ended up hitting up about forty two countries,
and a good majority of those we would go to
McDonald's to figure out where to go.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Perfect, and I'm glad you finished with that. So it
wasn't it was like, hey, we're just getting off the boat.
We don't have much time. You would go to McDonald's,
strike up a conversation with the locals, and that's how
you learned where to go when you were in town.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
Yeah, we were trying to figure it out beforehand, like
we'd kind of see where proximity we would be kind
of pulling in and where McDonald's or even a Burger
King if they had one, or sometimes KFC. But we
had one in Ukraine. That was awesome. We ended up
leaning up with a group of friends and went bowling
for what was called Victory Day. You got to go
to a big old parade, fireworks and walked around drinking
(21:26):
potato vodka out of a bottle for the rest of
the night.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It was a great time, freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That's great, and you got that because you went to
the McDonald's. But again, if I came back and told
Diane Dauma was like, oh, you went to Ukraine, where'd
you go?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh? I went to McDonald's, You'd be like, are you
kidding me? No, No, she.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Would because out of all of us, she has let
slip now twice that she has done this.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Okay, but Italy was because I was soired out of
all of them, that we've heard. What I really want
to try the Mcgreek. I want that in the worst way.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Where am I going? Line four? Hi?
Speaker 8 (22:08):
Elliott in the morning, Hey Elliott insta truck driver here.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
I went to Olsalvador over the summer to go to
a McDonald's and yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
It sucked.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Now what was wrong with it? I traveled?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I hate traveling.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Okay, Well that's that's on you. That is on you.
Say no, but you know what that made me think of?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Like, for example, my when when when I had my
broken ankle? Right, Daniel was so proud of of Peru
and his his his home country.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He loved it, he loved it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
But I he But we never discussed what would be
like if I went to a Peruvian McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
What's in there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
But wouldn't a local want you to go to a
mom and pop? Yes, to really get the money within
the economy where it's the most.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, probably, you know what I want to do? Would
they do it with us? Pardon me? Where's where's McDonald's.
Where's McDonald's national based out of?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Isn't it Illinois?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh? Illinois? Never mind?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Why why couldn't we do Why couldn't we team up
with McDonald's or KFC.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I like both, and just give away. Pick any McDonald's
in the world you want to go to a trip. Yeah,
that'd be pretty cool. Wouldn't that be awesome?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You win you qualified by winning local McDonald's, which I
would be more than happy with, and then the grand
prize winner. Yeah, pick any McDonald's in the world and
you go, Aaron, get on that. Don't let Caruso touch it.
Wouldn't that be awesome? I think that's really fun. Pick
(23:51):
any McDonald's in the world.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
We just have to really explain the segment to those
that didn't hear the show this morning. What ranmprise?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Are we doing?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I wanted to go to Bonnaroo.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That's going on Bonneroo McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Hi Elliott the morning, Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (24:18):
This is Tap from Annapolis.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Speaker 9 (24:22):
Not much?
Speaker 7 (24:23):
I was calling because I've been to the McDonald's in.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Porto, Portugal.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
It's supposed to be like one of the most beautiful
ones in the country.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Are in the world?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Oh really? And was the restaurant beautiful?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
It was?
Speaker 7 (24:36):
They had like some crazy art decorps and chandeliers all
over it. I forget what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh my god, Tyler. Tyler just pulled up the picture.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Do you think people from Portugal come here and walk
into a McDonald's ago?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Its dump?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Are you kidding me? One of the greatest countries in
the world. Look at this garbage. They don't even pick
up off the floor.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Oh my god, Yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
We didn't even note about it at first. There was
a library down the street that was actually like a
hotspot because apparently it was an influence for the Harriet's
Potter series. So my wife and Octager kids there, and
then while we were there, some of the locals were like, oh,
you should go check this McDonald's out.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
And at first you're kind of like, we have it
in America.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Yeah, and then we looked into it and we're like, wow,
this is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Stained glass walls, chandeliers.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Okay, now, if I'm being fair, the McDonald's near me
also has stained walls.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Hey, can I.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Ask you this?
Speaker 9 (25:35):
They have a plate place set?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Oh? Very nice?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Hey do they have do they have anything that is
like for like that that is I kill if gun
to my head. I couldn't name anything that's strictly Portuguese.
But like, is there something on their menu that you
were like, oh, we got to try this because it's Portuguese.
They did.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
I'm drawing a blank to what they called it. But
see my wife that she's listening would kill me because
she knows what it is.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
I'm drawing it.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That's okay, all right, very good, very good. I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
From McDonald's dot pt. They have a lot of soups.
Oh like, is Portugal known for their soups? Eight different
soups on the menu? Are any of them? But are
they all? Like broccoli cheddar minnestrone?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Can I get a bread bull?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Like? Are any of them?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That you look at and you're like, oh, well, I've
never heard of this.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Uh sofa dey feyo verde so it's some green when
it's weird because it's yellow. There is a green one
sofa dey kaream de er vidajashu.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Vida has is in the back of the kitchen making cram.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Those are peas?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Oh, I like pea soup with ham line four?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Hi Elliott in the morning. Hi, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
Right this do I went to McDonald's India.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Went to McDonald's India. But the thing is the reason
why it's so popular even in India and China, they're
not competing with local restaurants too. The local restaurants are
much cheaper than McDonald's, right, they're competing with high end
Indian restaurants or middle and Indian restaurants. Here, the food
(27:32):
quality may not be as good because you know, if
you go to sit down restaurant, it's expensive compared to
McDonald's here right there, if you go to McDonald's an experience.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Hey, have you ever had have you ever had the McAdoo.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Mcaluu whatever he said, mcalou mcalou mcalulu.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
Yeah yeah, Alluman said potato in Indindi. So it's mac Allians,
it's mec potato.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh yeah, but it is It is the best? Is
it really?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
It is the best.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I mean it's almost like eating you know, breakfast paddy,
but with a lot of flavors. Like it's not like
hash brown kind of thing. Right, it looks like a hashbrong,
but it has so much flavor.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It looks beautiful. Pulled it up. I love Indian food.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
You know that.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Yeah, they have they have rice and then nuggets. I mean,
it's it's an experience to go there. So a lot
of people go there to celebrate something.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Hey, so just so, but when you got to when
you got to America, did you go into a McDonald's
and Billy like, seriously, I did?
Speaker 9 (28:37):
Yeah, I did, and said, hey, can I have something vegetarian?
That lady looked at, you know, dead straight in my
eye and then gave me a burger with no patty,
no cheese, yes, bread and lettuce.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
The Hey, you take it to your ass.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
I know one of my friends bought cheeseburger. I think
it's made of cheese.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It is not chea all right, dude, Hey listen, I
appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Thank you my friend. All Right, we gotta get on that.
That's a great promotion with McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
It's different.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, any McDonald's in the world. I gotta get on that.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You gotta have a you got a passing. You have
to have a passport number one and number two. You
have to remember we talked about this today or it's
just gonna seem very bizarre.
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