Wait until anon discovers a hamburger with a glazed donut for a bun and the entire thing is deepfried.
served with a side drink of milkshake with double cream on it
Is it a five dollar shake?
Only with coupons
Haha. At this point a fast food shake probably costs $5.
I think you think you are joking but that is a real beverage option for said burger. They even add a stick of butter for extra fat content.
No I don’t, I have encountered many americans trying to convince me that this is a reasonable combo…
Wait till Americans discover deep-fried candy bars, the one area where the Europeans (well, Scots in particular) area ahead of Americans in deep-fried tech.
We’ve had that for nearly a century, it’s just state fair food because even Americans have standards.
Forcing Presidents to eat Iowa Goy Slop on national television like it’s a TLC reality TV show called “My 1000 lb Family” is a rite of passage in this country.
Haha that’s cute! That’s where deep frying starts here. We even deep fry butter.
Comes with a side of insulin I hope. $800 combo
Anyone who looks at the U.S. and thinks it’s a fucked up country because of the food just isn’t paying attention.
It may not be the only issue but it is definitely on the list.
Agreed to both of these points, though as an American I will say there are healthier options, it’s just that they make those cost twice as much as the cheaper, unhealthy options.
Go to a Mexican restaurant. Fajitas are $25 or more. It’s just vegetables with some meat. I can make that at home for like $3. We don’t eat out much.
Agreed. It’s just not where I’d start changing things.
I dunno. As the saying goes,“You are what you eat.” And our elected “leader” advocates the leading producer of junk food.
Maybe if the American populace had actual nutrients in their bodies instead of butter and lard, we’d be able to critically think for once
Try high fructose corn syrup
Butter and lard aren’t the problems with the American diet.
It’s almost impossible to find anything still made with lard anymore.
The food stands out. Like Australia has too many fat people too, but our restaurants don’t cater to them like America’s - don’t try to feed everyone a meal suited to a 200kg man trying for 300.
Most of the food comes from fast food along stroads. It is a core part of the problem. The education system is probably the root, but I wouldn’t expect a tourist to understand that.
Anyone who (likely) intentionally writes the word “snicker” wrong to include a slur doesn’t think the actual bad stuff in America is bad.
Most american comment ever
Real
Snigger is just a variant form more common in the UK, where snicker is the preferred one in the US. Though I wouldn’t put it past a 4chan user, it’s also a perfectly normal word they may have learned being taught and exposed to UK variants of English.
That’s so weird, I’ve literally never seen that form used even by people from the UK.
I guess it’s plausible that they’d just write it like that, I guess.
The secret third option is that they know that it’s a way of spelling it and prefer to use it because hehe n word.
I thought, and a quick Google confirms, that it is used in the Harry Potter series a few times. Obviously, you might not have read them, but for people in my cohort, that was likely our largest exposure point to British culture.
Big food is kind of a marketing thing in America. Restaurants want to give their customers more " bang for their buck" (or at least appear to), but they don’t want to lower prices. Instead, they increase portions. This has lead to a size arms race where every restaurant wants to claim they have the biggest food in town. This is especially the case for burger joints. It doesn’t matter to the restaurant if customers eat all their food, since they pay for all of it either way. I’m guessing Americans are more culturally susceptible to this marketing tactic, since bigger-is-better is common here, and hence things have been taken further than in other countries.
This seems to be another case of someone throwing reason out the door for the sake of insulting Americans. There is no way you would be getting “shit eating grins” for ordering a kids meal. And if your large burgers are smaller than a kids meal, you either have very little size variation, or the small would be like a single bite.
Yeah, that worker is one of two in the entire restaurant. She has to take your order plus the five behind you, the drive-thru orders, make fries, bag it all up, take your monkey, clean tables, make coffee, refill the ketchup/soda/milkshake/yogurt contraptions with their various bags of sugary goo, restock counters/tables with all the varied plastic and paper geegaws, take out the trash, stock the walk-in, clean the bathrooms somebody sprayed with liquid shit, then count out and get to her other job by 3pm so she can then do it all again tomorrow. She doesn’t give a fuck what anyone orders, it’s just a blur of colors and lower back pain.
If she makes a face it’s probably the best she can do to fake a smile because you might be a secret shopper who is going to ding her points for not saying, “Welcome to McDonald’s Home of the McFlurry™ now with DoubleStuff™ Oreo™, what can I get started for you today because It Just Tastes Better!!℠” with the proper amount of obsequiousness.
There’s plenty of reasons to hate the hellscape, no reason for anon to invent some.
She can’t have my monkey!
They didn’t give you a pack of cigarettes with your meal? How un-yurapeein!
that’s france and finland specifically not all of europe
Germany is pretty smokey in some cities
I REALLY wish they would have went to Five Guys.
Guy 3/5: fills 32 ounce cup with fresh hot, salt slathered fries. Drops cup in a large bag. Takes another full scoop of the fries and throws them in the bag. Easily 4-5 potatoes worth.
The cup of fries should be 1300 calories, they easily put twice as many in. That’s a daily food intake worth of calories for the side alone.
The calorie count is accurate for what they give you, not what fits in the cup. They just use a cup that’s way too small to trick you into thinking they’re giving you more than what you paid for.
It’s supposed to be 1.2 lb I’ll circle back in the next time I go there.
I would sure fucking hope I get a few potatoes worth after paying $45 for one burger combo…
a few potatoes worth after paying $45 for one burger combo…
Lol yeah, took the fam there it was $75 for 3 plates of fast food.
Pretty good tho…
Falsified and homosexual. No Yuroopeens allowed
Americans shop for calories per dollar.
Please don’t look at why they do that, we’re the best country ever!
It’s the gateway drug to insulin. Corn syrup infused fats, no vitamins or any other important stuff.
Ragebait, am European, love American Food!
In Europe, the portions are European sized. In the US, they are whale-sized.
In Europe you pay 20€ for a semi decent micro Burger some Hipster slaps together, wearing black Nitrile Gloves thinking his shitty minimalistic “Burger-
ShopArtisery” will become the next big joint.I think both cultures have their issues when it comes to food. Europeans are just more pretentious about it.
America has pretentious, expensive burger joints though, and Europe has fast food. The real battle isn’t “American vs. European”, it’s “the people in power vs the people that aren’t”, in both places. Trying to draw divides like “Europeans are more pretentious about their food” is just a distraction from that.
I don’t know where you live, but either you live in an expensive city, only eat burgers at hipster places, or are memeing. I can still find perfectly good burgers for 12€ in my city and they fill me up. It’s not necessary to get stuffed and roll back home like a US landwhale.
I can still find perfectly good burgers for 12€ in my city and they fill me up.
Where do you live? I’m in The Netherlands and I don’t think a burger/fries combo can be had under €17 at any restaurant in the country, with the exception of American fast food chains (which are kinda trash). I think restaurants in this country are very expensive compared to the average in Europe.
Exaggeration for the sake of the Argument. The US has loads of small restaurants and fusion kitchens with local diversity (soul food). Regarding the amounts I don’t mind to have a “cheat day”. I was at SaltLick BBQ in Texas and I was sad when I was filled up because of how good it was (Brisket!! pecan Nut Pie!!! Spearribs!!!).
While I love me a cheese assortment with fine wine in Europe or similarly awesome food.
It’s just hard to compare fine dining with food you just want to inhale asap.
You compare literal apples to oranges (and are pretentious about it, sry).
Heresy! There must be rivalry between the continents in all things!
Changing $12 for what is functionally agricultural waste product is so fucking funny.
Ground beef is what’s left on the cow after all the choice bits have been carved off. The bun is so thick with preservatives most organisms literally can’t eat it. The sauces are just colored corn syrup. The produce is bottom of the barrel.
This isn’t food, it’s industrial runoff. You’d eat better picking through the trash of a real grocery store.
Found the vegan. lol.
I don’t even think the stereotypical giant american burger is a thing anymore unless you go to places that specifically market a special large burger. Now a $12 burger is just regular sized. And an $18 “artisanal” burger has a thin disc of meat and is taller than it is wide.
I think the point here is that “regular” for Americans is not the same as “regular” for Europeans.
A European “large drink” in a fastfood restaurant is 500ml. In the US, 473ml is a small one.
I understand that. I was referring to shrinkflation specifically, where the typical regular american size burger is the same as anywhere else now and not like the stereotype before where everything is bigger in the US. I agree it still applies to soda drinks though.
Well that’s pretty much only true at McDonald’s because of their immense market share. Most other places still serving large patties and large burgers. Carl’s Jr., Wendy’s, etc. God knows what Burger King is doing, but I think the Whoppers are still pretty big. Disgusting, but big.
Does OP even Taco Town?
There are other places to eat, though? Why travel and get fast food? Get something local - anything that is a nationwide chain is nonsense, the US is too big to have one cuisine.
Here, get a Cuban sandwich, black beans, and fried plantains. You will still have enough for two meals, they aren’t wrong about the portions, but at least it will be good.
Just watch Bowling For Columbine to find out exactly how fucked up the USA is.
Wait 'til you see the child size soda.
It’s 512 ounces, or roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It’s a real bargain at $1.59.
Straight from the orphan crushing machine. Delicious
512oz = 15.14L. Literally soda in a size of a child.
Who The fuck is able to drink that much? That’s a fucking bucket just with soda.
What the actual fuck?
'Tis a SitCom.
Damn, 15L of coke is like 5700 calories. More than double a daily intake only in a fucking soda.
If you drink diet Coke, you could drink about 15-20 of them before you get to the lethal limit of sodium in a grown adult.
So room to grow!
If you can’t beat’em sweetems :)
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