On my first visit to London in 1960, I thought that the hamburgers at Wimpy's on Piccadilly Square were better than acceptable, although the fried egg was a bit "over-the-top".
In the UK I find KFC is by far the best.
Nice pieces of chicken breast.
McDonald's just do chicken burgers here.
Nice pieces of chicken breast.
McDonald's just do chicken burgers here.
I don't know of Currywurst being invented in Berlin. When I was living in SW Germany in the 70's, Currywurst was made with "Bavarian Weisswurst". It is a skinless sausage made for the most part with veal meat, very tasty. They cut the sausage in pieces, poured ketchup over it and powdered it with curry spice. A bun was included in the price. Last year I visited Berlin and ate Currywurst in several places. They use red sausage and "All in One" sauce. The bun is extra. Not bad, but could not "touch" the Bavarian. In the 70' I travelled all over Europe and the worst food I encountered was in Sweden, sorry folks. No hot food, the bred was sweet and the hotdogs were pink.
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How hot do they make the coffee on your side of the pond? Locally here, the McDonald's are using Franke Coffee Systems, which does make a pretty good coffee if you are into that type of thing - we bought a smaller volume Franke system for our C Store because my wife likes the McD coffee's, but even on the manual override, I would prefer the coffee to be hotter.
Temperature preference must vary world wide because while the seat heaters on our Jaguars will eventually get warm, on our Pontiac G8 ( in reality, a Holden Commodore ), they start off on temporary sterility and increase to cruel and unusual punishment.
When I was a kid, we had a local fast food chain that was, in some respects, the prototypical fast food joint, except that they made a really good hamburger, that has not been equaled since, imho. The Radar Deep Dish Pie was a real treat as a kid, even if you couldn't talk for the rest of the day. Perhaps that was part of its appeal to parents.
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Fun fact: the BigMac can be used to compare exchange rates between countries. The Economist (a very well respected magazine/journal) came up with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
Mc D's is not only garbage, it's expensive garbage. I don't get more ambitious than the crispy chicken sandwich on the rare occasions when I cave in to convenience and go there. I never feel quite right after eating the stuff, either. Even a TV dinner sets better, is loads cheaper, and with the proper choice, will at least have a vague nod at some vegetable content.
BTW, the best KFC I ever had was in Taipei - crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside, just like fried chicken should be. The usual lot of KFC is only fit for packing bearings...
BTW, the best KFC I ever had was in Taipei - crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside, just like fried chicken should be. The usual lot of KFC is only fit for packing bearings...
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Patio Mexican dinners circa 1964 with Tarzan movies on Saturday afternoon. They sometimes dissolved part of the pan while in the freezer.
Well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, as they say. Back when I was still living in Florida, one of our church congregation died after eating a Mexican TV dinner - botulism?
If I eat TV dinners at all, it's usually Marie Callender's, and only a select few of those.
If I eat TV dinners at all, it's usually Marie Callender's, and only a select few of those.
Just to be perverse, you could you could take the "mouth watering" of the thread title to be the pre-vomit gush of saliva....
That, and the special process that turns what could be nice chicken into gooey, greasy bearing packing. If I have the yen, I can always eat bearing grease straight from the can - much cheaper.
AFIK, that particular KFC franchise in Taipei isn't around any more - maybe they violated the rules by departing from the sacred formula and making fried chicken that was actually edible. I used to travel regularly to Taiwan with a sales rep, and during some nocturnal wanderings, we came across an American expat who had married a Taiwan gal and set up a fried chicken outlet. They did the product right, and it fairly flew out the door. Fried chicken with sweet corn on the cob sold briskly, the same chicken paired with mash plus gravy didn't. Hearing the guy talk on the phone was interesting - Mandarin with an American accent.
AFIK, that particular KFC franchise in Taipei isn't around any more - maybe they violated the rules by departing from the sacred formula and making fried chicken that was actually edible. I used to travel regularly to Taiwan with a sales rep, and during some nocturnal wanderings, we came across an American expat who had married a Taiwan gal and set up a fried chicken outlet. They did the product right, and it fairly flew out the door. Fried chicken with sweet corn on the cob sold briskly, the same chicken paired with mash plus gravy didn't. Hearing the guy talk on the phone was interesting - Mandarin with an American accent.
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KFC goo doesn't make good bearing packing grease.....it can't take the heat and won't stay where you put it.
Something else I learned in my youth. The special sauce that oozes out of a Big Mac will clean your hands after a particularly slimy job of fixing a $200 car just as good as GoJo, Gunk, or whatever they call automotive hand cleaner these days.
Something else I learned in my youth. The special sauce that oozes out of a Big Mac will clean your hands after a particularly slimy job of fixing a $200 car just as good as GoJo, Gunk, or whatever they call automotive hand cleaner these days.
Maybe so, but do you want your hands smelling like a Big Mac for the rest of the day? Not that the insipid industrial perfume they put into GoJo smells much better...
I'm worried about my hands after I ate the flippin Big Mac? I was about 17 or 18 years old when I learned how to break cars and then fix them. My usual hands and parts cleaner was gasoline.....it was 28 cents a gallon then. After a messy job I had to jump in the lake before being allowed back in the house.
It's the high pressure deep fryer. I worked a competing franchise out of a corner of a supermart. Nothing particularly bad going on, we used the same eggs and chicken that we sold in the store with the "secret" breading mixture from the vendor and 100% peanut oil that we filtered through diatomaceous earth every night. The process involved their cooker which had two huge lead screws that pulled the lid down tight to create a pressure cooker/deep fryer.
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