PeteSpencer wrote:Cessna571 wrote:
McDonalds became “emergency food” for us about 10 years ago,...
..I prefer Burger King ..
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In Canada I much preferred Harvey's (Canadian chain) for quality and freshness of both meat and vegetable ingredients, the resulting bun being assembled in front of the customer. They do (or did) have outlets within some major airports, including IIRC Vancouver.
[Oh, and the Canadian doughnut chain, Tim Horton's, has been opening UK outlets; one is coming to Gloucester.
It is a matter of patriotic ideology for Canadians that they are MUCH better than the US 'Brand X', Dunkin Donuts
There may be some truth in this: the daughter of Canadian colleagues and friends worked for TH's in Ottawa and volunteered to do a secondment at one of their outlets in one of the Allied bases in Afghanistan where there was a sizeable Canadian Forces contingent. There was also a DDs' outlet there. Daughter reported that the TH's was much more popular than DDs' with US as well as other Allied troops
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However, McD was a great bonus in the summer of '84. We were on a transcontinental 6-week road trip with 3 small children (one very small), towing a pop-up camper, so at lunchtimes often sought fast-food outlets near major highways with large pull-through parking lots. The Olympics were 'on' in LA. At the beginning of the summer McD in US had announced a promotion whereby, if any US athlete won any medal, the following day every customer would get a random voucher against a future McD purchase, the vouchers being of greater value the higher the medal. Then the Soviet Bloc teams all pulled out in retaliation for the US-led boycott (followed by few others!) from the Moscow Olympics in '80 (after Soviet invasion of Afghanistan). The result was that US won many more medals, including a great many more Golds, than expected .. ISTR some Gold vouchers were good for a complete meal (burger, 'sides', drinks, dessert) for a family of 4 .. We had some VERY cheap lunch stops
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