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I refuse to go to a Starbucks or McDonald’s when I’m abroad. I also refuse when I’m in my home country, but especially abroad. Parasitic franchisees.
As much as I want to avoid McDonald’s, they are (were?) often the only fair-priced food place when you’re in a large, touristic area.
I’m going to bring up Taiwan again, specifically Taipei. Food there is amazing and cheap and I’m honestly shocked that the couple McDonald’s I saw can stay in business. There are restaurants and food stalls every 10 feet. You can get a full meal in a couple minutes (or seconds depending on the stall) for like $2usd even in the touristy areas
It depends on the location. I admit I’ve been to McDonald’s in Asia, just because my stomach couldn’t take the pain anymore. The price of a small menu was the same as a full meal elsewhere, but they treat you like you’re in a fancy place.
It’s kind of hard sometimes. They’ve basically cornered the market on fast food. Local fast food places do exist, but they are rare.
Maybe in the US. Go to London and you’ll get some really good takeaway from Indian, Pakistani, West Indies, and many other nationalities that are so much better than Mc Donalds. Same goes for pretty much any place outside of the US. Walk into pretty much any bakery in France, Croatia, Lithuania, Finland or Poland and they’ll have better stuff.
For health reasons I stopped eating fast food more than 10 years ago. I’m still amazed so many people do. It feels like something you do when you’re a kid to me. I know it’s not that way for many. It is very unhealthy food though. I highly recommend not going. Best of luck.
Fast food is very definitely unhealthy, but eating it in the rare instance when you have 20 minutes to find food and eat isn’t that bad.
