Eating fast food in Paris

Okay, so we went to the McDonald's in Versailles.  If we had not, I would have missed out on a new experience.  Order here and pay with credit card or take the bill to a counter where you pay cash. Then you stand in line until your order is completed.  The McDonald's we went to had 5 machines or the ability to have 10 people order at once.

We assume this is all about efficiency.  Not customer service.  I don't think there is anywhere that you can tell them to take off the onions or that you do not want their fry sauce.

I was busy eating my fries when the Professor asked me why I wasn't eating my burger.  The result was that I took a bite of the big and tasty that we had ordered.  Whoa here.  This is not a hamburger from the store in Provo or Orem.

We decided that it was the creamy white sauce (no ketchup or mustard) that made it taste so strange. The Professor had no problem adapting to the whole new flavor of a hamburger, but I ended up
eating the paddy and leaving the bun, lettuce, tomatoes and sauce behind.

Okay apparently I am a picky eater.  The burger looked huge and gorgeous.  Just the taste...



The short video from Frankfurt airport is in English and the one from Paris is a bit of a mix, I think.  But you will get the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB4wqyVRn7o

A video from the Frankfurt airport.

Ordering at the Louvre McDonalds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlTYBh7_XnM






All of this was a clear memory of some past experiences I have had eating McDonald's hamburgers in Europe. It took only one experience for me to decide that I did not want a hamburger that badly to ever try it again.  I thought that it tasted as if it was dripping in BBQ sauce.  In any case it was obviously made to satisfy the Finnish eater.  Not to remind tourists of home.



In Leipzig the Professor went out to dinner and a lecture (that he was giving) in an out of town location.  Left on my own, I decided to go for a burger at the McDonald's across the street from our hotel.  The hotel was located very close to the railway station, but the neighborhood did not have much to offer in the way of food.

As soon as I took a bite of my sandwich, I remembered why I decided not to eat a McDonald's hamburger in Europe again.
The interesting thing is that it is possible buy a really good hamburger.  I went with my friend Ruth to lunch and they had a burger that you put together yourself.  Delicious.
We did pass a place here that specialized in hamburgers but neither of us wanted to pay 16,70 Euros for a hamburger.
The strange thing is that both McDonald' and Burger King in London tasted just like one made in the USA.  Okay, we kept getting these coupons in the throw-away so eat ate more hamburgers then we usually would.  Buy one get one for next to nothing for the second.

I'll have to let you know how I feel about McDonald's when we are back on the other side of the Atlantic.



A menu from Leipzig
Not sure if these reflect the prices all over Europe.  When we were there 2 years ago we discovered that Leipzig must get a little financial boost from the federal government.  Everything we looked at there cost less than in Paris and other cities.