AUSTRALIAN MCDONALDS LOOKS AWESOME 😲 American Reacts!
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- Thank you for watching my reaction to this video , 10 Things McDonald's In Australia Do Differently Than Us by BabbleTop! I am just a humble American discovering what mcdonalds is like in other places. Thank you.
I don't know where this woman got her fact from but 80% of them are incorrect .. not every Macca's are like that .. we don't put vegemite on burgers, you can buy any item off the menu solo, and the higher end Macca's are only selected restaurants
yeah, it was definitely not very accurate.
that being said, MacDonald's are slowly remodelling all the restaurants to be more 'higher end'. every time a one of their locations needs a refit, they tend to knock them down and rebuild to this new 'higher end' style. 2/3 maccas in our area have been bulldozed and rebuilt to this new style (with the 3rd having been done just before this new style came out) with more emphasis put on the drive thru. about 75% of the building is dedicated to kitchen area in our closest one, only a small seating/kids play area.
Yeah it trigged me so much lol
As an Australian I sometimes live off the dollar value menu… when it comes out every 3 years
Hungry jacks (Burger King) frozen drinks are superior. They cost $1 more but last 200X longer.
No flavour loss. No ice cube left in your cup.
I was just about to say the same thing thx for saving my time
"We don't call things burgers here in the United States that aren't beef". That is one of the most confusing things, I've come to realise, that Americans do. In Australia if it has a bun and it has stuff in the middle and it looks like a burger, then we call it a burger. I've heard Americans call it a chicken sandwich (confusing because we would think of a sandwich as stuff between 2 slices of bread). I've also heard Americans refer to pizza as pie, which is REALLY confusing.
In Aus its a burger if it has a burger bun!
Oh wow, I never realised.
Pizzas were originally called pies for sure. Pizza pie was a very common term years ago. It was an Italian thing that was new at the time. It does look like a pie only it's on a flat base.
Chicago-style deep dish pizza is definitely a pie. Not calling a chicken burger a burger is weird though. As someone else said, if it's in a burger bun - it's a burger.
I know! It's a nightmare. I hear a chicken sandwich and I'm like. Chicken between bread? It's irritating.
This woman is a complete drop kick, she has absolutely no idea what she is talking about, totally never been here!! Mc Cafe is inside the Maccas store, not seperate, the Cafe counter is next to the burger counter and that photo of cakes wasn't at Mc Cafe, Maccas is not in the signage in 99% of McDonalds in Australia. We do have sauces but for the 100% chicken breast nuggets, Australians don't really eat Ranch dressing, garlic aioli is much nicer but on salads we eat more Mediterranean style salad dressings... lots of these videos aren't made by Australians, even the way she says Maccas is wrong lol 😂😂😂 vegemite is a condiment at Maccas for toast, muffins not in a burger... Macarons are French sweet biscuits, completely shit if you ask me... And a Maccas frozen coke is $1 over summer.... we have a penny pinchers menu, cheeseburger $2 etc
Totally agree, stupid video. I have never seen a MACCAS sign. I must admit I have not seen every McDonalds in Australia.. But a bad representation of Australia's Maccas
They aren't macaroons they are macarons. Macaroons are a biscuit.
As an Aussie I can say some of that isn't quite right. There are a few places I have seen where there is only the McCafé ( just a coffee and cake to go sort of stand no burgers or anything else available). Most Macca's have swapped over their signage now - at least in cities and all new stores. A lot of Macca's have the McCafé counter in a different spot (one not far from me has it on the opposite side of the building to the main counter) and many of them do have a massive café display counter like the one shown - the one in the video clearly has the McCafé logo on all of the labels.
Lol, yeah, I agree
Mc Donalds coffee in Australia tastes burnt....I only by one on the highways were food is limited and Im desperate to stay awake
I just find it refreshing that you are trying to find out about what happens in the rest of the world. I really hope you make it to Australia one day…you may never leave!!
No self respecting Aussie would go to Starbucks. They serve sugar loaded dishwater. There is a reason they had to close most of their stores.
This is a good summary/story on why Starbucks failed in Australia ruclips.net/video/_FGUkxn5kZQ/видео.html
I agree with how bad their coffee is but there's one just near my place and I have literally not once never seen a massive line up for the drive thru, like all day long. Probably get more customers then the McDonald's across from it.
Their coffee brand sucks.
Get Starbucks on the regular. It’s often packed
Tried it once.
It tastes like the bottom of the maccas coffee you've left sitting to long 😂
Always question the facts when something like this type of thing is delivered by a non-aussie haha. Some things are "lost in translation" in what an Aussie McDonalds is really like and am glad you are wise to that.
This commentator has “deffo” never been to an Aussie Macca’s.
Absolutely! So bad 🤦♀️
Prolly never been to Straya either.
I agree. Neither her, nor her researchers, writers have ever been to Australia.
I did enjoy her extolling the virtues of travel so one can try different McDonalds menus...talk about broadening the mind...
@@sheerluckholmes5468 never left his country most likely
This is such an American ad, That womans voice!!! And you can buy just a simple cheeseburger on its own. You don't have to buy total meal packs like she said. God.
McCafe's are inside Maccas stores - they're not in different premises like this video suggests. Sure, you go to a different counter, but you're still inside the McDonald's!!! All the cakes and pastries she goes on about are part of McCafe, although the ice cream desserts, apple pies etc are from the main counter. And while the McCafe coffee is okay as far as I know (I'm a tea person), most serious coffee drinkers go elsewhere for their caffeine.
Btw it's not called a "beetroot" burger, it's a "McOz" (FYI a couple of slices of beetroot is normal in a burger in Australia).
Yes you can get cheap things at Maccas! I rarely eat there but it doesn't cost anywhere near 20 bucks. Less than 10. She reeeeeely goes on about that one. There's also family menu options (ie. four of this and that, lots of chips etc) that are pretty cheap.
The "delivery" of food is only for people who order through the self-serve online screen. If you wait in line you get the plastic tray or the paper bag like normal. And it's way faster to do it that way than wait for someone to come with your food. 🤷🏻♀
They are seriously NOT high end. Just fast food trying to posh itself up a bit.
And on the mcoz it's pineapple on the bottom isn't it?
@@Robert-cu9bm I worked at maccas for 7 years mc oz/mc feast did not have pineapple. They also got rid of this burger along time ago, although it makes an appearance every now and again.
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Fair enough I thought it had, I'm not into beetroot so never bothered with it.
I too enjoy tea
Great someone else said it.
Also, the desserts menu has some of those items but not every maccas is created equally. Some will have half those options and some will only have a few. Most popular is still icecreams/sundaes.
I've also never seen the icecream with fruit on top.
Whoever wrote the script for this didn’t really know what they were talking about, it’s as if they just looked at a website and used that for their research instead of experiencing it themselves or asking anyone who has. In regards to your question about high end, all industries have an internal ranking system which often determines what they produce, who they sell to and how they operate. McDonald’s in Australia have been slowly moving their business model up this ranking shifting from low end fast food to low-mid level restaurant with the possibility of them shifting a little higher still in the future.
No, we don't do Vegemite burgers. It may have been a promo once or twice, but it's not something we covet. We call it Macca's, and some signage says "Macca's" but we have the standard McDonald's as well.
I remember only be able to get Vegemite if you got toast when they had that.
Maybe they could do a cheese and vegemite toasty
They are talking about condiments ie, butter, jam, Vegemite etc for toast.
I think she just meant you can get it with the muffins.
I'm Australian and never heard of a vegemite burger hahaha wtf 😂 I can guarantee you it's generally NOT on the menu
The fancy plate and table service is for their gourmet menu. Not your standard Big Mac.
And yes, it can cost up to $20 for a gourmet meal - but the workers are also on much better money.
The lady made a mistake about the value menu, we do have it. We've had it for years, it's usually AUD$2 or so per item. Also, you don't have to order whole meals when you go, you can order whichever individual items you like. And I'm wondering why she didn't mention the McOz burger? Pretty sure this lady just Googled this stuff without bothering to fact check anything.
They have gone up a lot in price over the years. Like I remember getting ice cream cones for 30 cents and $2 chicken and cheese burgers. Then they took out the cheese for the same price, then it was like over 4 bucks. Now days you're paying something like 7 bucks for it and it still doesn't have the damn cheese on it
@@riseofasinkingwarrior490 Adding bacon to the mcdouble was a #3 double beef'n'bacon back in the day.
Coincidentally, when they stopped allowing it, I stopped going to Macca's. They use to be fast and cheap, now they're neither, and it's really paving the way for other independent burger shops to enter the field. Onya Macca's for dropping the ball!
@@dellavie4319 Oh yeah, I remember getting those.
It's such a shame because I remember I'd buy like 20 of those cheap burgers to bring back to my roommates to have a massive pig out after a night on the drinks.
And the way she pronounced "beetroot" makes me want to get violent.
@@riseofasinkingwarrior490 Yeah because of inflation, but she said "never has been" like we NEVER had a value menu, which is a LIE.
You absolutely can still buy single items at maccas. It's not meal purchases only.
And we do have set price items like hamburgers for $2.
Best deals are found on the app though. $1 frozen drinks, $5 small burger meals, nugget deals etc are loaded pretty much every day.
Plus with the Rewards points you can get free burgers quite regularly, and coffees are 'buy 4 get your 5th one free'
The "Big Brekkie Burger" consists of hash brown, cheese, rasher bacon, egg, beef patty and BBQ sauce and costs AU$6.95
Im glad someone said it was a hashbrown 😂😂
@@megancooper859 - I'm in the UK and came here to say it was a hash brown. LOL !
From what I've been able to gather, American hash (brown) is either loose fried shredded potato, or pan fried shredded potato in a loose patty kinda like bubble and squeak. So not surprised he didn't recognise the deep fried hash browns we have here.
@@radioethiopiate9327 American hash browns are delicious.
We had McDonalds tonight. 1 x large cheeseburger meal with coke, 10 chicken nuggets, another large coke and tried the new(ish) mozzarella sticks. Approx $26. It can get pricey depending on what you order.
I think those Breakfast Burgers had a hashbrown in them.
I went to McDonalds in USA in 1995. I ordered a cheeseburger meal to “take away”, which is what we say here in Australia. The cashier didn’t understand me and kept saying “you want to take it WHERE?!”
I finally remembered USA tv shows and said I wanted it “to go”. She said exasperatedly “Well, why didn’t you just say so!!”
And yeah, that Maccas video was sooo unnecessarily long.
"Poor people deserve to eat out too....." Yes, they do. Fortunately, Australia has a much lower poverty rate than the US, because we have a minimum adult wage of $20.33 p/h, meaning hospitality workers and other lower-income employees can afford to eat out from time-to-time without relying entirely on tips or needing to work 2-3 jobs just to feed their kids.
I would have thought a video like this would discuss the nutritional differences between Aussie Maccas and the States; Aus french fries have 4 ingredients. The US fries have 19: Most of them unpronounceable chemical additives. Yes, McDonalds food is more expensive in Australia than the US. That doesn't make it "high end". It's just a reflection of our overall higher standard of living.
19 ? Why?
@@valsyaranamual6853 go check out the video food wars uk vs us McDonald's, it's lists all the ingredients for both countries mcdonalds.
Check out the big Mac index, that's take into account wages Vs the cost of a big Mac
Try every night.
@@jimreid9674 Haha yeah, junkies and ferals... 😂
The wood plank and basket isn't standard, it's a part of a promotional line of high quality burgers and 'create your taste' where you custom select toppings. I'm actually not sure if this is even still available. If you order a Big Mac meal it will come in normal packaging on a plastic tray.
The frozen coke with the icecream on top we call them "Spiders" not "Floats" so when I go through Macca's drive-thru I ask for a "Frozen coke spider"
You've not truly had coffee until you've had Aussie coffee.
Macca's has a "loose change menu" for discount food items. Also we do have dressings and condiments. Melbourne, Australia had the 1st Mc Cafe in the World.
Macca's employees in Australia are also paid a lot more than the USA $9.50 min wage
Australia pays a decent minimum wage most people get paid enough to survive and we have a virtually free public health system. Sadly in America there is no minimum conditions and if you don’t earn tips you can’t feed yourself or put a roof over your head or get medical care
Loose change is just a nice word for "pov cunts" menu
$9.40 is for a 15 year old, adults in Australia get over double that minimum wage
@@mehere8038 I was paid 15$p/h when i was 16 when working at maccas and that was many many years ago.
@Aussie Pom true they do and amazingly still make a healthy profit. Who knew 🤨
Those are macarons, a French fluffy and light biscuit with a filling. Macaroons are made with coconut and grated almonds with egg whites and have a cherry on top.
We DO have those condiments in Australia - but we mostly call them sauces. Also the McCafe is an Australian idea, the first ever being in Melbourne way back when... Plus l've never see or eaten a Vegemite burger! This must be an urban myth or something that might of popped up for a very short time years 'n' years ago as a gimmick.
I agree!
Mhm!
Same I’ve never seen it before in my like
I think she maybe referring to Vegemite on toast which I think maccas sells.
@@aaronsimmons5523 Yeah, maybe. Certainly not Vegemite burgers though!
Maccas food is still delivered the same way as it is overseas, on plastic trays, with food packed in paper and cardboard boxes. The wire basket fries and the wooden slab was specifically for 'Gourmet Creations', a limited time initiative where you could create a burger from scratch to your liking as a way to make it feel more high-end.
I don't know any Aussies that go to Maccas's for coffee, except some that might get one drive through on their way to work. Most people opt for smaller, private owned cafe's with actual Barista's, not McDonald Barista's.
Probably someone who is desperate when the cafes are closed
Also Starbucks was almost kicked out of Australia for their terrible coffee.
The coffee is good tho
Only time I get coffee there is on long car journeys - Eg Melbourne to Sydney. I have lived in Perth for 14 years now so that was a long time ago
@@playlisttarmac I am sorry for your loss.
I’ve never seen a Maccas with a whole cake and dessert bar (macaroon is a biscuit). Could be location specific. The McCafé does have basic pastries and the blueberry muffin is probably the best of the lot. Some things mentioned are limited time only.
If you ever try vegemite, treat it like wasabi. A teeny tiny amount goes a long way. But while wasabi is chilli 'hot', vegemite is just simply 50% salt.
Me just sitting here waiting for him to notice the infamous Yass sign in the image search 😂
We have one of the best coffee scenes in the world in Australia, Maccas coffee is pure convenience, most people would much rather go to a proper cafe
McCafe tastes overly bitter to me. I don't know if it's just their baristas being poor or their coffee is just shit. Plus they never ever stir the sugar in properly.
@@XaviRonaldo0 It's both of those reasons. Plus, you can get a job making maccas coffee after doing a one day barista course. I was a barista for 8 years, a one day course is going to do nothing for you, you have to learn by doing it with people who actually really know what theyre talking about because they make high quality and high volume coffee for their job everyday.
@@XaviRonaldo0 That and the equipment they use is different to a good quality cafe.
Once upon a time, the price of lettuce went up to @$10.00 each and kfc used raw cabbage in all their burgers. Considering how little lettuce they actually put in a burger and the prices they charge, it was absolutely awful.
You can buy anything on it's own at Macca's, the statement you have to buy a meal is very incorrect. We don't have a dollar menu but we do have something similar items range up to 3 dollars I think.
Yeah the loose change menu. I don’t think the narrator has actually been to Australia
One big difference is corn syrup. Your tomato sauce or ketchup is made with it. Your drinks are made with it. In Australia we use cane sugar and it's much better. I know that a lot of Americans acknowledge that Mexican coke is better for that reason and ours is the same.
The video was made by McDonalds Own Advertising. The biggest difference is that Australian Macca's pays it's workers way better than in America
McCafé originated in Melbourne, Australia in 1993 before launching later in other territories including the US
The McCafe started in Australia.... with pastries and everything... Pretty much every Maccas has a McCafe in Australia. Oh...we don't have drip coffee either. We do the real stuff. The good stuff. It's part of why Starbuck failed in Australia. There are very few Starbucks in Australia any more. McCafe and local coffee shops just do it much better. If it's in a bun, it's a burger (it's in a burger bun).... sandwiches are just with slices of bread.
Starbucks have started their expansion again and have been seeing success this time.
They now target a different market - mostly americanized young people wanting a sugary drink - not a real coffee.
@@8888k For real. It's just a bag of sugar with a side of milk and a spritz of coffee flavour. It's yuck. Gloria jeans or McCafé any bloody day
There's a McDonald's in Wollongong in NSW who do Valentine's Day services. 2 separate sittings, set menu prepared by a gourmet chef brought in for the day. Tables are dressed, you get an entree, main and dessert all based around McDonald's menu items but created high end.
OK.. it's not known as a Beetroot burger, it's called a McOz Burger.
We have similar in NZ with beetroot and egg called the Kiwi Burger. It's to make it more like a traditional NZ burger.
The good thing about Aussie McDonald’s is that it’s ice cream machines don’t break down
In Australia we shorten everything and often give people nicknames, if your surname was McGreggor or McCarthur it would be abrieviated to macca, it’s quite common
Yeah we're shorten names... Everyone getsr the same..bloke or mate.
The second "patty" in the breakfast burgers is a hash brown. The breakfast burgers are basically the regular burgers (chicken/beef patty, cheese and BBQ sauce) plus egg, bacon and a hash brown.
If you do a vegemite video, the main thing to remember is that it should be spread VERY thin - as in, you should be able to see the bread or butter underneath. Don't treat it like peanut butter.
As far as I know, Aussie McDonald's do not have sandwiches.
If it's on a burger bun, it's called a burger. Fun fact: they try to source all ingredients locally (within the country), so you won't get the same sugary buns you are acclimated to in the US.
I used to eat cheese and tomato toasted sandwiches at McDonald's here in Melbourne, Australia 🦘🇭🇲
As far as everyone else in Australia knows, Maccas do Cheese, Tomato, and Ham toasties. They are toasted sandwiches and available at every McCafe.
Fun fact, frozen coke doesn’t use ice it gets its ice like texture from chemicals.
Never had sour cream? Aww man, potato with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce is the tits!
Besides a few specific things the Australian McDonalds is the same in Austria and Germany too. The McCafe is in the same place just a different counter and you can’t get these items via the McDrive. You will get served if you want to, either order per screen or ask the cashier.
Yes the service personnel is wearing nice blouses/shirts and black pants, sometimes there’s a special occasion where they wear additional McDonalds pullovers or something similar. The McCafe personnel wears even fancier clothes, usually black with a different apron.
There is one store, in Melbourne's CBD (Downtown), where the signage is changed to "Maccas" in January during the Australian Open tennis tournament, as a bit of fun. The burgers delivered by servers on wooden platters was a limited thing too. McDonald's was trailing a short lived concept to compete with gourmet burger joints that were popping up across Australia. It's plastic trays that you pick up from the counter when your order is ready just like in the US.
Not sure why this and similar videos always act like these things are standard down here. I guess the reality of 'there are some differences but for the most part it's the same and people order the same stuff as in the US' doesn't quite have the same wow factor'!
Your summation is correct. Pretty much the same but a bit better (especially regarding the quality of ingredients and produce used). That's a general thing in Australia. 'Cheap' food down here is of a much higher standard than 'cheap' food in the US.
Grew up on oxo, bovril and marmite. Marmite snacks are pure delight, you'll just love to eat.... That nourishing treat. That's my marmite....
In Australia we have coke with icecream, which is called a 'spider'.
I've never thought of getting a Spider at Maccas. Will have to ask for one next time I'm there.
Certainly the food in MacDs here in Ireland uses proper food, and while our ''fries'' are still extruded cardboard they do at least only contain a couple of ingredients, specifically potatoes and fats. But I did just discover - looking up ingredients for fries - that we now have halloumi fries. Looking forward to trying them.
There's so many things about this video about McDonald's Australia that aren't correct.
Yeh we call it Maccas which comes from the Mac/Mc in McDonald's.
We have had limited runs of ranch sauce but again they were limited time only.
A lot of those other things they mentioned were also for a limited time only. They're always doing limited runs of limited edition burgers..
Also, a lot of people don't know this, but the first McCafe was actually an experiment by McDonald's Australia in Melbourne in 1993 at the Swanston St store in the city centre. In fact, I still remember it when they built it. The US didn't get McCafe for another 8 years which was 2001.
Also, if you're going to try Vegemite, don't put it on your toast thick. Smear it on thin or you'll go cross-eyed. It's quite strong in the taste department
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As an Queenslander, I've never seen vegemite at Maccas.
The beef brekkie burger doesn't have chicken on it, both variety have hash brown on them though.
And Maccas does have a value menu from what I remember, there's a $1 ice cream cone is on it and so is the $2 hamburger.
We did have a value menu a few years ago, you could get a frozen coke or Fanta for about $1 or a cheese burger for $2 and there were a few other options.
We can just order a burger by itself or a serving of fries if we want.
The cakes and everything that were shown are an option for us but they are pretty expensive. The wagyu and Angus burgers in a large meal end up coming to about $15aud, so they are pretty expensive. But even a big Mac alone is about $7.50
We don't have the wagyu all year round. It is promotional. the Angus though we do
i got a cheesebuger the other day from macca's cost $4
as an aussie i tried not to violently implode while watching this
only americans would pronounce "aussie" as "ah-see".
We didn't have a Maccas in Canberra until 1976. I remember my father taking the family to try it and how disappointed we were. At that time, we would get burgers from non-franchised local takeaways. These burgers would be 50% bigger in diameter than a Maccas burger, have freshly ground beef mince patties topped with lettuce, tomato, beetroot, cheese, fried egg, bacon and pineapple. They were awesome. Also, no fries but proper chips cooked to perfection. Maccas fries are too thin and they absorb too much oil so that is what they taste like.
Lady did waffle on lol. Haven’t been to Maccas for a while , last time I went, McCafe was in same store as ordinary Maccas. Cuppa and cakes were great. Staff were lovely and delivered to our table. When I had been for burger etc, staff always polite and friendly where I got mine. My daughter does drive through with her kids. We always get a smile, and smile back. Personally never had a problem, even patient when I used to um, um lol
By the way, the Aussie term "to waffle on" is to extend a conversation with useless content or even part-truths, to ramble or dribble.
@@heywoodjablome5630 I known what waffle on means, I’m a born and bread Aussie, I can waffle on for hours lol. She waffled on more than Aussie Maccas staff do here, I find them always polite but never that much talking.
@@bernadettelanders7306 I was providing extra detail to the clueless or inexperienced overseas reader/ viewer. The comment was not directed at you.
@@heywoodjablome5630 oh, sorry lol, Aussie mush for brains here 😂.
@@bernadettelanders7306 you're fine. That's why I started with by the way.
In future, I'll try to start with "not to diminish the previous statement, but to explain further..."
Party on Bernadette. Novocastrian here.
I love you called the commentator right out 😂. She had no clue, a lot of inaccuracies
It was a hash brown in the beef burger. and the chicken burger with bacon. No of course you can buy single items, The meal deals just make it a bit cheaper. A large meal deal can be up to $17 depending on the burger or wrap.
I remember when it was $5
Ranch dressing is a very specifically American thing. I've lived and worked in six countries across three continents and never seen it anywhere.
The Brekkie Burger doesn’t have chicken & beef. It’s one or the other with egg, bacon, cheese & a hash brown (that’s what you’ve mistaken for chicken in the vid😉). Macca’s here are pretty good if you like that kind of thing & are now generally a bit more “up market” design wise, but not considered an up market venue. The McCafé is not a separate restaurant but can be a separate counter which is handy & they do have a large selection of nice cakes etc. Their coffee is definitely better than the sludge they used to serve😂 but, again, not as good as a privately owned café in my opinion ✌🏼
Ok so I'm Australian listen up no burgers have Vegemite onto hem unless you request and most signs will say like Macca's 2.1km and we drive on the left side of the road and the steering wheel on the right side
McCafe started in Australia. their coffee was shithouse for many years, its certainly not "hyped" among baristas or coffee nthusiasts,.. but it fills a gap. we are some of the higher per capita coffee-drinkers in the world, and Maccas just gets their slice. There are as more Aussies who never go to McDonalds than who do, and although it has its die-hard fans who probably eat there multiple times a week, many people would NEVER dream of buying.coffee from there~! Like the rest of the McCafe menu, its "okay" but nothing at all to write home about.
Good lord this presenter has clearly never been to an Aussie Macca's. No one thinks Macca's coffee is good! I only buy it if I don't have ANY other choice, and it is disappointing every time! They really need to improve their bean quality
@@maisaif5779 maccas coffee is "good enough" to get up with. But there's so many better places 😂
No Aussie calls it Root Beer or Root Beer Float, it's known as a "Spider" when it has ice cream in it. They started off bringing the Fries in the metal baskets and Burgers on the wooden boards until they all got stolen, it was too expensive to replace them, now it's just on a plastic tray like when you eat a meal you take to the table yourself if they could be bothered bringing it to you
Yeah, root beer is mostly a US thing. Closest we have to it would be sarsparilla though! Also Dr Pepper is part of the same 'herbal' tasting soft drink/sodas.
I have heard that American Macca's fries have 19 ingredients and ours only has 4, so there is that. I believe our chicken nuggets are real chicken pieces as well not that whole nasty processed stuff the US sell. We are basically a harder crowd to please,which is why Starbucks nearly went broke here, we are use to better quality so went somewhere else. This is probably why Macca's upped their game.
I used to believe our nuggets were real chicken pieces too. they are not. They can do DNA tests now which show how little chicken is in this stuff - including Subway "chicken". I dont go there anymore. Its mostly not real "food". You're better off going to your local pub and getting a decent burger for $6 more.
Dafuq are they putting in their fuking sauce???
American maccas fries taste weird imo. Ours are better by far.
@@dmr8914 Its real chicken bro. Just like Devon is real meat. You're getting the cheapest parts, but its real chicken. Any DNA claims about McDonalds are from conspiracy shit here on YT. I would recommend a pub over Maccas though as well - not because Maccas isn't real chicken or beef, but because a pub is better value overall.
Only 3 ingredients in Aussie fries. Potatoes, canola oil, and salt. They're flash fried and snap frozen to prevent discolouring and allows them to crust on the outside. Australia has a far higher standard of coffee, as coffee shops opened by Greek and Italian immigrants in the 50s and 60s roasted their own beans on site, and great care was made in its production, as coffees at the time were never taken away but enjoyed within the establishment. The establishment's success hinged on regulars and positive word of mouth. Contemporary Australians expect nothing less from their coffee.
As for the prices that is AUD.. the cheeseburger medium meal is around $10AUD mark and for the Angus medium meals are closer to $15-20AUD depending on which one. We have loose change menu which start at $2AUD and some $4AUD
I have NEVER seen a separate McCafe to McDonalds (Maccas). McCafes are usually inside and part of McDonalds stores.
As for the name Macca's, Aussie have a tendency to shorten words, name etc and this is focusing on the Mc part of McDonalds. Most McDonalds stores are usually called McDonalds, but we call them Maccas for short. Actually changing the written name outside the shop isn't that common.
There was one time where I saw a separate stand for McCafe but it was in a Westfield shopping centre. Since done away with. They couldn't sustain the sales because it was too expensive.
There is a separate McCafe at my local Westfield still working, but that is only I know.
,McCafes customarily adjoin or are part of a regular McDonalds.
Most McDonalds are signed as just that, a couple of locales were renamed Maccas as more of a publicity thing, that being what most Aussies call the chain.
Vegemite-based menu items have been done now and then as a kind of novelty thing, but are NOT part of regular menus.
There are various package / low-cost /value items that can be bought from McDs.
Yeah...Macca's is expensive....mainly because we respect our workers and the minimum wage is $20.33. You eat what you pay for when it comes to wages in the U.S.
Comparatively we come out vheaper post conversion. US averages $5.81USD for a big mac, Australia averages $4.59USD (Or did earlier in this year when the comparison charts from). Always account for the fact the Aussie dollar is worth less than the USD.
It is McDonald's - but we just called it Macca's - so McDonald's Aussified (rebranded) themselves as Macca's
Brekkie Burger - that's a hash brown on there
Wagyu Burger - $11.20 AUD ($7.60 USD)
The desert selection - McCafe not Macca's (some Macca's do have McCafe inside though)
You don't have to buy a full meal - you can just buy fries or just a burger or whatever.
Frozen coke - yes, a slushie. (and it's soft drink not soda pop).
Are they dressed like that there - no, no they're not.
And the burgers are better at Hungary Jacks ; D
Maccas ice cream machines are also almost never broken
Where the hell do you live? Wether I'm in Brisbane, Melbourne or regional NSW the machine is never working 😭 I need my frappes to function lol
Lol. You mean almost never working.
They don't say broken, they say it's 'cleaning'
It's widely known it's a racket.
They showed video of soft serve ice cream dipped in chocolate. We don't have the chocolate but you can have half a chocolate flake pushed into the ice cream. Also that was not chicken and beef on one burger that was beef and a hash brown or chicken and a hash brown. You're right who waits for frozen coke to melt haha. Australia has been doing the coke and ice cream at home and in cafes etc for years and we call it a spider (not at Maccas). Australia abbreviates everything so, years ago we started calling it Maccas. Some outlets sign it as Maccas but it is technically MacDonalds. Finally a sandwich in Australia is 2 pieces of bread with butter or margarine (optional) and filling. If it's made with a bun, burger bun, bread roll, bagel, wrap etc, it's not called a sandwich.
The STRUGGLE i had in America trying to get a 'normal' breakfast burger, I had to go to a more rural store and point to different things lol. The biscuit thing confused tf out of me. We call those 'scones' and eat them with sweet stuff.
I ordered a McGridle in LA, it ruined me.
We put an a or o on the end of a lot of words hahaha, when my hubby and I go to Bunnings hardware store, we say let’s go too Bunno’s ! MacDonalds is shortened to a nickname ….Macca’s
A lot of blokes with the name Ryan in Australia are nicknamed Ryno hahahah
We actually do have a value menu. I used to buy from it on the way to my friend’s place. It’s called the “Loose change menu.”
Also 9:32 the brekkie burger includes a hash brown, not chicken at the top.
Im watching this video now not for the content but to see little things like a hash brown in the breaky burger being called chicken little things like that make me realise “hang on are we the only one that do that?”
We have the "loose change menu" which is similar to the value menu
Us Aussies like to shorten every name we can, or give nicknames. McDonalds is Meccas, a service station is a servo, a liquor bottle shop is a bottle-o, a crocodile is just a croc, a sandwich is a Santa and condiments are sauces (which we have lots of, e.g. tomato sauce, not ketchup). We also do it with names. Your friend Steven is Stevo, Thomas is Tommo, Gary is Gazza, Karen is Kazza and Sharon is Shazza- and you get the idea. Also, very few of us ever use the words fair dinkum, strewth, true blue, tucker or bonza. We arent as ocker as tv makes us out to be. We do use mate, barbie (BBQ/barbecue); and the phrases 'she'll be right'(it's going to be okay), no worries ( similar to 'de nada', we'reacknowledging a thank you or an apology), come off it (we don't believe what you're saying) and we use the C word as mucb as you use 'd*ck ( I'm not sure why it's so offensive to Americans, especially women) when y'all call people a 'd*ck). So turn about is fair play! And finally- we do love Vegemite. I think most Americans find it too salty, but we never have it on burgers at Maccas, and we never eat it by the spoonful. You spread it on bread/toast sparingly, not thick like peanut butter (peanut paste colloquially) or jam (jelly). Keep doing your thing, it's hysterical to watch 😂
Maccas is the nickname we give McDonalds here in Australia but not all stores are labelled as “Macca’s” on the sign. Some are. It’s more something we say. Australians shorten a lot of words. “Afternoon” is “arvo” and one you’ll know is “good day” is shortened to “g’day” etc. As for “defo” meaning “definitely “…that’s not something I hear in ever everyday Australian. It may be a regional thing somewhere here but I’ve never heard it. I’ve been to the US many times and our McDonalds is pretty much the same with a few minor differences. Also we have the “loose change menu” which is like the value range in the US. We can also most certainly buy a burger or drink on its own. Not sure where that video got its info but it’s incorrect as you suspected. Re the cost of a McDonald’s meal. Remember our wages here are higher than in the US (our minimum wage is about $20 an hour, but most earn more) so it’s kind of hard to compare but an average McDonald’s is about the same price as the US. Craig - Australia
The main coffee difference is that if you ask for coffee in the USA, you get drip coffee if you want real coffee, you have to ask for expresso-based drinks. Also what the USA calls biscuits are scones!
OMG! That video was like waiting for the JWST to finally take a bloody picture. Are we there yet?
And of course you don't have to buy a whole meal. You can pick one thing if you want. Where'd they get that from?
McCafe is part of and inside McDonald's! You order at the same place! It's just a separate counter space for the coffee machine and signage.
i got so pissed when he didn’t know the “ham” was bacon😭🤦♀️
It's still McDonald's. The nickname "Maccas" became so well known that Australia McDonalds made it part of the marketing. Probably cheaper to make signs with less letters too.
@15:10 That's a lie. You can get individual burgers or fries. Plus, we have the "Loose Change Menu", which is things under $2 (as our $1 & $2 are coins).
If you ever want to come to Sydney Australia you're more than welcome to stay with us and we can show you around
When McDonald's first came to Australia, the only coffee you could get was percolate coffee. McCafe was developed by a franchisee in Melbourne, and from there it spread to all franchises across Australia.
from Macca's... my go-to is the Filet'O'Fish, the fries in the Macca's soft serve is also AMAZING... even on the burgers & the frozen cola w/ the ice cream is called a "spider"
I went to the US along of years ago, my big awakening was the fries and drinks were way bigger than Australia at McDonald's, p.s. Kentucky Fried in Australia doesn't have popovers, we have chips (thick fries) with a special salt, not unlike chicken salt that is so good.
Australia used to do the mega sizes, but due to obesity they removed them... And now no one in Australia is fat.
@@Robert-cu9bm Huh?????? Seriously?????? What part of the country do you live in. There is a serious obesity problem in Australia.
Re vegemite. Invariably you will hate it. So try mixing a teaspoon of Vegemite with a stick of butter and treating it like a flavoured butter for steak (work up to the level of saltiness that suits you). Slice a bit off and stick it on a steak. Put a teaspoon in your stews and work your way up to it on toast. Vegemite is for people who really like the taste of that 'stuff' that sticks to the bottom of a baking pan when making a roast. Or scraping 'the good stuff' off the side of the pot when making pasta sauce. Also US bread is incredibly sweet compared to AUS bread. Vegemite isn't suited to regular US bread (It has the same level of sweet as brioche, I've found). Ya gotta find a good authentic cob or sourdough that has very little sugar.
McCafe is directly next to a Macca's store.....sometimes McCafe is in the same store at smaller locations. We give it that name to Aussify the brand. Oh yes, we do not use the word defo and if you do find vegemite in a Macca's store, use it sparingly.
Ranch sauce isn't a big thing here because it is very high in saturated fat, and we have our own sauces to use instead.
McCafe is very good coffee.
Never seen a McCafe that wasn't inside the McDonald's store.
Having eaten at both US and Aussie Maccas, give me Aussie any day. No sugar loaded buns, better beef and all round better presentation
If you haven’t tried the American apple pies at McDonald’s, I suggest not to ;) Australian apple pies actually have flavour ;)
FYI Macca's McCafe started in Australia, and most MacDonald's stores have a McCafe in store as well. we do have a value menu, soft drinks and deserts and hamburger etc are examples, you can buy a burger on its own or just the frys or drink and what do you call a chicken burger if its not a burger? a typical big mac or bigger burger is about $15 AUD so probably $9-10 USD. The outfits and look is correct and that display stand with the bakery products is accurate to most stores. Have never seend the food delivered on wood boards but they will deliver to your table and you leave your basket etc on the table for the staff to collect or return to the table next to the bin on the way out. final hint - stay away from the vegimite! its terrible! if yo must try it do not use too much its meant to be very minimal and not as much as online pictures will show you.
The McDonald's fries in Australia taste so much better. Almost heavenly. I missed it when living in the US.
Our salt contain 7 ingredients instead the 2 ingredients in America chip. With salt more ingredients mean less table salt. with the rest of the stuff contain less ingredients.
That's because we don't use corn syrup to water everything down
4:00 Vegemite is great - only when prepared correctly. Too many Aussies have set foreigners up for fails when either serving Vegemite or talking about drop bears.
Suggest nice hot toast with a good helping of real butter and vegemite spread evenly but in a small quantity (akin to serving hot english mustard). Then expect it to be savory.
A nice way to ease into it is to serve it with either a helping of cheese (toasted or melted) on top, or sliced/smashed avocado.
The Brekky burgers had hash browns as well as either chicken or beef Pattie. we can buy everything individually here in OZ. we have Value Meals which is cheaper than buying burger, fries & drink separately
There is a couple of things not really mentioned. 1. McCaffe actually started in Australia hence there is a better following for it. 2. In most locations McCaffe is just a different counter in a McDonalds restaurant.
Some of this stuff is just wrong - all those desserts are not at Maccas. You can get some at McCafe. also, we have lots of condiments, we call them sauces. Anyway, the burgers are better at Hungry Jacks.
No one mentioned that all the burgers are essentially customisable, people often make a habit of adding 3 extra ¼pound beef patties to their ¼pounders here, most recently there seems to be doubles of every burger on the menu already advertised, having said that, the ratio of meat to condiments on these doubles often leaves them tasting rather bland, however, at least there's a possibility that you might actually subdue your appetite with the extra protein.
Aussies abbreviate words & names. The Melbourne Cricket Ground is abbreviated to the MCG but we know it just as well as the G.
Australia has some the best coffee on earth. Starbucks went out if business in Oz coz they're crap
It's true many people call it maccas, but we still know it's McDonald's, and the name change is relatively recent, and not universal. Also there is a value menu , though the available items change regularly.
The large frozen cokes are only $1. About 68 US cents. It's nice here on the border of SA, Vic and NSW, in the hot desert part of Australia where the temperature gets to 45°c at times.
Never had my Maccas served to me like that and I think you're right, that woman has never been to an Australian McDonalds 😂🙏
ETA: yes they have nice uniforms at Maccas