[quote name='Drocket']The price is definitely high, but I would bet that a lot of that has to do with the fact that fast food in foreign countries IS of much higher quality than what we get here in the US. American fast food is predominately made up of whatever crud is left over after they ship the real food to supermarkets and quality restaurants. Trust me, the meat that goes into a McDonald's hamburger is stuff that you'd NEVER see in a grocery store - you'd have people vomiting at the meat counter. Heck, I suspect most brands of dog food use better quality meat than McDonalds. McDonald's hamburgers are made up of whatever is left over after the supermarket and Alpo take their picks, ground up with fillers, artificial flavors and laxitives (so you can poop the stuff out before it does real damage to you.) Mmm, tasty...
We Americans like to make fun of most of the rest of the world for the disgusting foods they eat, but in reality, a bowl of fried cockroaches would probably be better for you than most of the crap we shovel down our throats. If they actually served REAL American food at fast food joints overseas, they'd be out of business in a month. So, they use actual food ingredients in their food overseas. The high price is just the cost of that. Its pretty much what we'd be paying over here, if people would start refusing to eat cow heads in their hamburgers.[/QUOTE]
Oh horseshit. You make it sound like the Big Macs in Belgium are made from the tenderloin of a Kobe cow. The articles cited above dicsuss variation in fat content, and the largest source of that discrepancy is the oil used in the fryer. Don't kid yourself. A Big Mac is as bad for you in the country God loves (that's us) as it is in the nations he loathes (Europe).
They don't eat 4 of them a week, however. I do know that, statistically, the average American consumes 24oz (two cans) of soda per day, which accmulates to roughly 450 extra (empty) calories per day, or 3140 extra empty calories (and extra *entire* day and a half's worth of calories based on FDA dietary reccomendations). It may not all be Big Macs, bebe.
I do think that, after a righteous night of drinking, I may want to call Pizza Hut Japan and see if they can EMS one of those
ing Pizzas. $100 delivery charge!