this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
294 points (93.2% liked)
Not The Onion
21760 readers
989 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
And that's a valid thing to be excited by. It's the same as wandering the streets of Vietnam or Tripoli late at night to eat the street food. And you should do it because it's not something you can experience back home very easily.
So if you're in the US, try some Burger King and Taco Bell by all means. And if you are really adventurous and daring, eat a gas station hotdog too.
I don't think that's a good comparison at all. From everything I've seen, you can get some outstanding food from a random cart in Vietnam for very cheap (probably like 1/3-1/4 the price a BK meal at this point), and it's going to be 1000x better than anything you could ever find in an American fast food place.
That said, the US also has incredible food, including street food and food carts in many places, that also blows fast food out of the water.
If you come here, and only eat fast food, I honestly feel really bad for you. Especially since it's not even cheap anymore.
The amazing food (and variety of it), is one of the biggest, most visible benefits of the US' multiculturalism. Anyone who has lived in a US city knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Oh, I agree with you. We have a very diverse and tasty cuisine in the US. Filled with foodstuffs that will blow even the most jaded gourmand away.
But if you're a tourist here for the first time in your life, this might well be the only time you get to eat a “real” Big Mac, Whopper, or burrito and potatoes ole. These are things you've read about and seen in movies and probably TV. So there ain't no shame in getting some chicken nuggets and dipping them in ranch dressing and really enjoying the food. And the most important part, where you ate that crappy chicken. It will be a lifetime memory.
If you say so. I disagree completely. I find the idea of visiting a foreign country, only to eat some of the worst food that exists in that country (because why, you saw ads for it? Really?) to be absolutely idiotic.
No but really though, why? These are massive corporations who do not deserve your money. Their product is shit and insanely overpriced. And they're corporations, so their existence is a cancer on society.
Seriously, who is thinking about fucking McDonald's when visiting another country? Disgusting.