Les Jones

I just got back from a trip to Hawaii. With all their value meals, they serve fresh pineapple in addition to the sandwich and fries. Also, they have a few sandwiches with Spam and the Polynesian special (which I think was Spam, rice, and something else).

And if anyone in France is reading this, I'm dying to know what the French call a Big Mac and a quarter pounder.

Please tell me you're joking.

(BTW, our MacDs have Breakfast Burritos here in the Nash.)

Craig:

Whoa, I didn't even think about Hawaii. I work with a woman who grew up in Hawaii and she says people really eat that Spam sushi all the time.

I wonder if they serve crab legs or salmon at the Alaskan McDonald's?

Kat:

"Please tell me you're joking."

Oh yeah. Click the "Robot Culinaire" link above for Pulp Fiction-ey goodness.

"(BTW, our MacDs have Breakfast Burritos here in the Nash.)"

I think a lot of Mickey Ds have them now due to the increasing Hispanic population, but it was sort of novel back in 1990.

It freaked me out the first time I saw a McDonald's that sold pizza.

I went to the McDonald's in a riverboat by the St. Louis arch once. But all they had was mediocre fast food (even per McD's standards).

When I lived in Spain, most of the McDonald's that I ran across in Europe sold beer.

That was the most striking thing to me.

I saw a .jpg a while back of a McDonalds menu in India featuring veggie samosa value meals.

Maine was one of the states McDonalds chose to test-market the McLobster, that thing they tried to pass off as a lobster roll a few years back.

The only problem was they debuted it at the height of tourist season, when every Mom-n-Pop clam shack up and down the coast had fresh lobster rolls for $4.99. I think the McVersion was maybe a couple quarters less than that.

Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to predict which lobster rolls were preferred by the throngs of lobster-seeking tourists.

I figured I go to the source. Apparently it's called a "Big Mac" :) I'm pretty sure that's what it was called in Germany when I was stationed there too. But a 1/4 pounder with cheese was a fiertel pfunder mit kaese.

McDonalds Norway has started to sell Salmon wraps.

www.mcdonalds.no

In Quebec a quarter-pounder with cheese is "quatre-livre avec fromage." Of course, any Parisian will tell you that what they speak in Quebec is not French.

The inventor of the Filet of Fish died last year. In his obituary it was noted that he developed it in Cincinnati for Lent, in the now-forgotten days when Catholics ate no meat then. Ray Kroc wanted to go chain-wide with a single pineapple slice on a bun.