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Joke probably worked better 10 years ago when McDonald's wasn't priced like gourmet dining.

If you go to a foreign country and think every local restaurant is overpriced then the problem may actually be you.

Well, here where I live, McDonalds IS the weird overpriced restaurant.

Is not McDonald weird overpriced restaurant?

I'd go to the local places and mcdonalds. I want to know what they taste like in a country with actual food standards.

McDonald's here is charging the price of a local gourmet hamburguer for their trash, it's insane.

Maybe anon is from a country with a shitty currency and the only affordable food he found is McDonald's garbage.

I've done this. When traveling for a 3 week study abroad in college I got tired of the local food eventually and got burger king one night, dominos pizza another night. Some of my peers got American food every night though, I held out as long as I could

Local foods are part of the trip if you ask me.

Go to a grocery store. There's more interesting and authentic stuff there anyway. And you're guaranteed not to pay a tourist tax.

I often get restaurant fatigue when on holiday.

It's not the food or the price, it's just that I don't want to waste my holiday in these hour long waiting rituals that a typical restaurant experience is.

One argument I read about eating popular fastfood when traveling is that for people who might not have iron stomachs to eat unfamiliar food in foreign places, getting fastfood at mcdonalds for example allows a reasonable expectation of standard food quality and hygiene. That and since it’s familiar food, the risk of getting an upset stomach is lower.

aah going to a conference in Switzerland as a PhD student, wish I could afford a McDonalds. It was mostly migros bread, cheese and pasta

I did extensive traveling in 2018. I would be in a different country for a week or 2 at a time.

I would check out McDonald’s once per country just to see or try unique things on their menu.

There are so many meals to eat each day, so a single McDonald’s meal is no big deal.

I don't know the movie, but it depends on the country. I mean I wouldn't eat British "cuisine" if I could help it.

When I was visiting Scotland one of the first things I did was go to McDonald's, and I gotta say, it's orders of magnitudes better than in the US

The context kind of makes sense here. The image is from The Killer, about a supposed top-tier hit man who gets in over his head. But it turns out he’s a huge try-hard who kinda sucks at getting the job done and makes noob mistakes at every turn. Trying to blend in on a European street with a bag of McDonald’s breakfast on a park bench is perfect.

I did this exact thing when visiting Europe on a $50 a day budget (early 90's). I'm admittedly a coward when it comes to trying new foods and didn't want to pay for something I didn't like. Rarely do I eat McDonald's here in the US

i know its not brazil cause the cheapest mcdonalds burger is already wat too expansive

I don't recognize this, but it looks like the dude is "working" something shady.

I wouldn't wanna risk being stuck in a bathroom because I ate something local and don't have the antibodies to deal with it.

McDs is processed crap, shipped globally, with local favorites mostly avoidable. Its a safe bet. Plus, you can eat once and have your 2000 calories met for the day in 10 minutes.