McDonald's drive-thrus in Korea to adopt Hi-Pass payment system

A Turkish kebab has either a yoghurt-like dairy drink or a grape-wine-like milky drink; to wit, never a beer recommended.

Meat pies, sausages or haggis are usually more associated with kebab.

And I'm still confused. What on Earth is going on?

YOU SAID THE BOLDED PART IN THE QUOTE. What does this mean????? ANSWER THE QUESTION.

Did you mean to say that "Meat pies, sausages or haggis are usually more associated with BEER?" Is that what you meant?

You used to write for a newspaper, right? COMMUNICATE CLEARLY. It's maddening, Jesus Christ.

And I'm still confused. What on Earth is going on?

YOU SAID THE BOLDED PART IN THE QUOTE. What does this mean????? ANSWER THE QUESTION.

Did you mean to say that "Meat pies, sausages or haggis are usually more associated with BEER?" Is that what you meant?

You used to write for a newspaper, right? COMMUNICATE CLEARLY. It's maddening, Jesus Christ.

It's a classic VanIslander skirt around.  He knows he made no sense and he wants to avoid acknowledging that so is just muddying the waters.  And, he had no idea what haggis was?  This guy has lived a sheltered life. 

This guy has lived a sheltered life. 

For sure! Some of the stuff that flies over his head leaves me slack jawed at times. not to say it doesn't happen to most people every now and then, but the basic stuff he doesn't know (also guilty), gets wrong, or misses, is way above the norm.  And like T.Ajumma said, he was a writer, why are his prose indecipherable more often than not...what gives? Muddying the waters is a good reason August! Also clarifies the lack of understanding, on his part. Maybe it was his near-death experiences that he posted about the other day that have caused this problem  (still want to know how he nearly died a few times).

Just had a thought...I'm probably wrong...but maybe he's trying to imitate 'taking the piss'. Attempting to give a bit back for all he gets, just getting it horribly wrong.

Nah, couldn't be. The sheltered life theory holds best!

Just had a thought...I'm probably wrong...but maybe

Nah, couldn't be.

It's all part of his charm. He keeps you guessing

Yeah Emmett, hand picking through bullshit is a great way to spend a day! Like a good mystery novel, but it's interactive 

I eat fast food once a month or two. Had McD's today because I was hungry and it was there. It's fast and convenient and I don't have to wait long to eat. McD's being only for kids or people with kids is such a super bizarre assertion that I don't really know how to address it, lmao. Reminds me of the guy who claimed that it's not manly for men to use umbrellas. 

Burger King is better in the States, imo. The burgers just taste different here. But I'll still eat them and prefer them to Lotteria. I think Lotteria burgers are straight-up shit. If McD's food is cardboard, then Lotteria is the glue in that cardboard. I'd only ever eat the chicken sandwiches from there.

Hey, don't equate me with the umbrella guy. I was being partly facetious, partly snooty, partly curious. That guy really seemed to believe that showing up to work sopping wet, walking around in dripping clothes and leaving ass-shaped damp patches all over the place was the ultimate redpilled alpha male move. Dry clothes are a total soyboy thing.

I might not be as crazy as you think when it comes to the McDonald's thing. Personally, yes, it's very difficult to imagine going there willingly to like, just eat the food, unless I was on a long road trip and I had to choose between that and a gas station corndog. For 20+ years, I've thought of it as a place where you reluctantly take your nephew becasue he wants to run around on the playground while you sit in miserable silence, inhaling car fumes from the adjacent parking lot and using an artificially sweetened milkshake to coax greasy french freedom fry residue out of your throat. Or you go there because you're sixteen and the school had a half-day so you and five of your friends crowd into a table and throw lettuce at Jake's table, but then it gets out of control when he throws like a whole container of Super Size fries at you guys, and then the manager comes over and gives YOU a warning even though Jake started the fry thing, but it's funny because Jake is flipping off the manager behind his back and you're trying not to laugh, trying so hard to look serious, but then Jenna just BUSTS UP and dribbles milkshake all over the table. And then she's laughing EVEN HARDER and it starts coming out of her nose and the manager gets REALLY PISSED. And Jake KEEPS FLIPPING HIM OFF!

There was one McDonald's that I did frequent for a few years as an adult, but only for late night toilet emergencies. The idea of actually eating there is insane.

The McDonald’s on the corner of Haight and Stanyan closed last week, making way for City Hall to bulldoze the structure and erect affordable housing after San Francisco bought the lot for $15.5 million last year.

Located across the street from the entrance to Golden Gate Park, the fast food diner was a neighborhood mainstay, but also a chronic nuisance because of reports of drug dealing and other petty crime.

Between 2012 and 2015, Haight residents called police to the McDonald’s site some 1,100 times. Days before Board of Supervisors President London Breed announced plans to purchase the site, an unidentified man was shot at the fast food spot. (He lived.)

“This McDonald’s may be part of Dante’s circle of Hell designed to torture the gluttonous,” a Yelp user complained of the diner in March. Another in 2017 claimed, “I’ve had to intercede with homeless people walking behind the counter and threatening staff.”

https://sf.curbed.com/2018/4/2/17188892/haight-steet-mcdonalds-closes

Haight St. location (RIP) aside, I think there's a general regional factor at play. I honestly don't know anyone back home who would go to McDonald's by choice. If my friends and family were really in the mood for a fast-food burger they'd go to In-N-Out, and if there wasn't one available they'd probably choose something like Carl's Jr. over McD's. According to this website, there isn't a single state that ranks McDonald's as its favorite fast-food chain, and a good dozen or so rank it as the worst for burgers:

https://www.cashnetusa.com/blog/most-popular-fast-food-by-state/

On this one, some states do rank it within the Top 5, but not California: https://topagency.com/report/most-popular-fast-food-by-state/

If nearly all your post-childhood experiences of a place involve crackheads, teenagers and other people's children, its appeal is going to be pretty mysterious. 





 

@bud havent bothered looking up stats or anything but im going to just assume its because theres more mcdonalds (or if not numerically more they are at least a bit more evenly spread). especially when you start getting out into the sticks a lot of small towns arent gonna have an in-n-out or whatever, just a McD's, subway, probably also a dollar general.

realistically speaking for most people the choice usually is between mcdonalds, BK, and wendys.

McD's appeal is its consistency and probably for each person, they have one menu item they really like. While McD's overall isn't as good as any of the others, what it does deliver are some individually appealing products. Be it the fries/McNuggets/Apple Pie/Quarter Pounder/McRib/Whatever it seems that while most everyone agrees that most of McD's menu is crap and not as good, everyone has one thing they really enjoy but it's different for everyone. When you hear people talking about which place is better, with people saying BK, they usually just say "BK". They might say a Whopper is better than a Big Mac, but that's usually it. WIth McD's people tend to say a single menu item as the reason- "McD's for me. Gotta have my McNuggets." There's nothing relative about it. And they're not talking about the overall place, just one single thing they REALLY like.

I dunno, this is totally anecdotal, but I wonder if other people notice the same thing.

Ahh! The McRib. Thanks for the reminder of how much I loved this. I wonder why it never arrived in Korea.

Ahh! The McRib. Thanks for the reminder of how much I loved this. I wonder why it never arrived in Korea.

You say that, but they're actually selling a fast-and-loose version of the McRib right now called the Prosperity Burger and another one that has a hash brown in.

No idea if it's similar at all.

Gordon Ramsay's Burger place in Jamsil is actually doing a gastro-parody version of that Korean equivalent McRib. It's going to look the exact same but be cuisined using only the most expensive replacements. Organic Jeju Black pig, BBQ sauce from a Ramsay/Manimal collab. Only the best buns from French bakeries in Seorae Maeul and a drizzle of Organic First Pressing Greek olive oil.

It's going to be caled The Pro's Parity Burger.

You say that, but they're actually selling a fast-and-loose version of the McRib right now called the Prosperity Burger and another one that has a hash brown in.

No idea if it's similar at all.

I know about it, but for some reason thought the patty was shrimp. It's not, It's beef, I just looked it up. So, I'll give it a shot next time I'm in town. Who knows, it might be similar enough.

It's going to be caled The Pro's Parity Burger.

 

I can think of someone who might believe you