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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @strasbourgerelsass1467
    @strasbourgerelsass1467 Год назад +6

    The food capital is Lyon.

  • @BerishStarr
    @BerishStarr Год назад +10

    In Sweden we call McD for "Donken". McD have accepted the nickname and use it in their ads, for example "Donken Deals". The big difference here is much more vegetarian options and sauces. Lot of sauces.

  • @fa.l.2113
    @fa.l.2113 Год назад +2

    VG
    In Germany it is also forbidden to use disposable plastic as food packaging. Only leftover stocks may still be used up, but yes France does a lot more and shows what a state is able to do to protect the environment and to force corporations. Many who say that this restricts economic freedom forget at the same time that someone who opens a company is still a part of society and has to protect it from damage. In the German Basic Law there is a clear sentence "Property obliges" and that means that you have responsibility has towards its employees and society as a whole

  • @paul1979uk2000
    @paul1979uk2000 Год назад +3

    The moral of the story is, Europeans are not opposed to American corporations, what we tend to be opposed to is American corporation business practice they do in the US, which a lot of Europeans don't want that crap in the EU countries, and it works, it forces these companies to adapt to the local laws and regulations, sometimes to the degree that the company almost seems like a different company compared to North America.
    It's what I love about the EU, it's got the bicep, and it's willing to flex it to force companies to change and a lot of Europeans benefit from this a lot more than they realise whereas Americans are really getting the short end of the stick a lot of the time because of the hands-off approach by the government, basically, allowing corporations to get away with a lot more, which usually ends up at the expense of the American people.
    Also, that meat issue is still going on with the EU and US, I think it's been going on for almost 30 years with a trade war against each other, but it would be almost impossible for the US to win that one because of the broad support among Europeans in wanting higher quality standards, especially when it comes to food, if the EU was to water that down, it wouldn't be a pretty sight, because people across the continent would likely rise up against it.
    But what I find remarkable is how Americans are willing to put up with such low standards when it comes to food.

  • @horstschafer1839
    @horstschafer1839 Год назад +5

    Meanwhile in Austria, think all of Europe, the Prices.for a meal at Mc Donalds, Burger King, Subway's,etc...raised that much that I'd rather join a real restaurant instead. (Regular Big Mac with 0,5 Coke and fries is about 12 Dollars)

  • @ls317
    @ls317 Год назад +5

    4:38 He probably made a mistake: according to french wiki, the first mcdonald in France opened in the 70s.

  • @susijosyntyessaan
    @susijosyntyessaan Год назад +15

    recycling and laws around it in EU are great. Next is producer responsibility of textiles which I am interested about how it is going to be settled.

    • @greenspringy1
      @greenspringy1 Год назад

      We can do most things as long as it’s within the law and the laws are a benefit to us all . Some people abuse the laws , but there are imbeciles and trash everywhere As for buying rented properties, you can take on a mortgage, meaning paying part rent and part purchase price. There are restrictions on where anyone can build , planning permission etc , but you know the best things to us all are different East , West , Homes best , you are both very sweet xx

    • @Dark42nty
      @Dark42nty Год назад

      Hmm possibly paper drinking straw in plastic cover? 🤣 hi from EU. EU is stupid and demented, it's always making up crap that often unnecessarily restricts people. Their reasoning is illogical and they're just throwing money away.

  • @Martini923
    @Martini923 Год назад +4

    Following trials in October 2021, the chain rolled out its first ever plant-based burger to every restaurant across the UK and Ireland in January. Joining forces with Beyond Meat, over three years they developed a patty to add to some other vegan options on their menu.26 Jul 2022

  • @peterdonecker6924
    @peterdonecker6924 Год назад +29

    Besides hormonised meat we as well would never accept chlorine bathed chicken or chlorine washed eggs nor DNA-manipulated corn😅

    • @NneonNTJ
      @NneonNTJ Год назад +2

      With "we" i'm guessing you mean Europe, and in Europe we most definitely use "GMO's" which means genetically modified organisms, in fact almost the entire world allows them as there hasn't been any negative downsides to these.

    • @markusolofzon
      @markusolofzon Год назад +3

      @@NneonNTJ 19 countries in the European Union have partially or fully banned GMOs.

  • @tudor3232
    @tudor3232 Год назад +5

    Lynda with ur culinary backround u should open a small fast food joint but implementing the EU laws for the care of meat supliers,or design of tablware,etc.

  • @WookieWarriorz
    @WookieWarriorz Год назад +1

    theres plenty of fast food drive throughs throghout europe the thing is theyll generally be a bit away from the city centres or areas with restricted car access, youll find them along motoways or at retail parks/malls and airports. Nothern ireland is filled with drive through tim hortons these days, theyre popping up everywhere

  • @joachimkylhammar5084
    @joachimkylhammar5084 Год назад +1

    swedens first McDonald's-restaurang opend on Kungsgatan 4 i Stockholm den 27 oktober 1973. back then an Big Mac cost 4,75 sek today it cost 89 sek

  • @ikeettgaming
    @ikeettgaming Год назад +1

    There is 90% of the restaurant that are affordable for everyone a certain degree and there is top place very expensive but food can be very good everywhere , but more home just cook , we go to restaurant with friend or for occasions .
    mac do is popular in france but in fact a standart familly goes there one a month of little more if kids are annoyings :)
    its like pizza 2 a month and kebabs 2 a month
    that make 5 "fast food " 1-2 restaurant in a month the rest of the time we cook and eat at home like civilized peolple ( 4-5 meal are sandwitch in front of tv or pc ) but most of the time we use fork to eat not hands ;)

    • @ikeettgaming
      @ikeettgaming Год назад

      Personaly i didnt go to mac do since 1995 but i know my familly go sometimes du to is location, a mall ,you leave the place you pass in front of it :)@@thordsalmond8189

  • @siriuspyramid7441
    @siriuspyramid7441 Год назад +5

    Hi Loners! Every french region has it own traditional food. Paris too but it is full of tourists traps like every tourists areas in France. It is also the same thing in every Mc Do in France (but I personally never try yet).

  • @XanagiHunag
    @XanagiHunag Год назад +1

    I've been to a brasserie, in Paris, one or two years ago. We ate good food, a full meal with a lot to eat. We paid the full price and it came down to be... Cheaper than if we had eaten at McDonald's.
    Of course, most restaurants will be more expensive than McDo, but most of the time, you'll be able to find non-fast food restaurants that have prices lower or around the price of fast food. Some of them are even quite fast when it comes to serving you your meal, because they are made for workers (simple menu with few options, for cheap).
    On the habits of consumption : it's not uncommon to have trouble finding a place to sit down at McDonalds in France. And yes, in some, you do have table service : you order either at the counter or on a big touchscreen, pay, pick up a plastic sign with a number and then go take a sit and wait for your order. However, they say things that leads people to believe that we do not have the option to takeout : we do, we have drive-ins, it's not that uncommon. In some places without much car traffic, you'll even have a counter similar to the inside one, through a window, for pedestrians.
    The EU is one of the main reasons that we don't have hormones forced into us without us being aware of it. We also have laws to insure some trackability on our meats as well : where the animal was raised, where it was killed, where it was processed...

  • @diazjulianms
    @diazjulianms Год назад +2

    I mean the EU literally force Apple to make their iPhones USB-C capable so yeah they really are powerful

  • @solokom
    @solokom 10 месяцев назад +1

    6:50 1997 was a mistake, they twisted numbers. It was 1979. You can also tell from the footage, which looks way older than from 1997.

  • @siriuspyramid7441
    @siriuspyramid7441 Год назад +1

    Ryan were right, I think this is in France. My country take cares of themselves in a minimum. (But whatever, who can care about the French traditions).

  • @LowPlainsDrifter60
    @LowPlainsDrifter60 Год назад

    Lol, that resembles a promo vid & idealises both McDonalds & the Parisians. There are at least 73 McDos in Paris & most are busy, noisy, smelly places which resemble the feeding time at a zoo more than a chic restaurant. That's probably why they illustrated with animated images & not the real thing.

  • @tzutzumo
    @tzutzumo Год назад +1

    In Germany you have the choice between reusable dishware or one time usable. They even made a test between BK, McDo & Subway who produces the most trash. The looser was Subway, because the used too much plastic. Even on the covers for mugs. BK was the winner they only used thin paper, wich is recycable. McDo was second place because besides paper the also used cardboard. Still recycable but a bigger amount of trash. But you can choose to get it on reusable dishwareon all 3. You give back after you finished. I personally mostly go to BK. Not because they make less trash, just for the fact that i live between two BK's (i can nearly fall out of the home right into the BK's) and McDo i have a good way to go. Also BK has my favorite burger that i can't get at McDo but i also use it if there is one on my way. Subway i rarely use and i have also a longer way to go. Even longer than McDo. Btw. you don't get cutlery with the one time version. You have to use your own stuff. But mostly you don't need it. I never ate a burger with knife and fork or spoon. It's possible that in some parts of germany it's different. I don't know.

  • @FacelessJanus
    @FacelessJanus Год назад +6

    To point out the directive on plastics, the Dutch government directed supermarkets to surcharge products that are in plastic by 5 to 25 eurocents. At the moment this is a strong advice, but they can enforce this directive. (After the upcoming elections.)
    The meat issue still exists, but the same applies to GMO's. Basically those are not allowed within the EU. Than again if one takes a closer look at what the FDA approves for human consumption one wonders why it is not declared a terrorist organisation.

    • @Gert-DK
      @Gert-DK Год назад

      0,67 euro cents here in DK. 5 kr.

  • @ikeettgaming
    @ikeettgaming Год назад +2

    A expl of differential culture : if a french goes to USA oppening a restaurant he will use the same rules as in france for environement even if its not required , but i dont think mac donalds does it outside of france for the planet , its just because he's forced to here , thats another hypocrysy we find in the american way of thinking .
    even if we like the people and the culture the capitalism and the exess are very hard to ignore :)

  • @billyo54
    @billyo54 Год назад +2

    Nice vid Loners. Yeah, we're on the right track with the plastic here in Europe. Most of the additives in American McDonald's is banned here as well. Still, a culinary experience it is NOT.

  • @yammybobo
    @yammybobo Год назад

    We (Ireland/Northern Ireland) have drive-throughs, but that a fairly recent thing. Probably 2000's.

  • @eld0ntyr3ll
    @eld0ntyr3ll Год назад +2

    Joséééé Bovééééé !!!
    (probably the first time i see him on youtube)
    Yes we have a rather small number of drives through in France, quite often found outside cities where large malls are located.
    Also mcdo is actually quite expensive in France and i would assume in europe in general, it's usually a shocker for US tourists to see the prices here.
    No matter what it's still quite clear to any french people that fast food, not only mcdo, is junk food and is better avoided as much as possible.
    I'm no expert on the subject, i've probably eaten mcdo only 5 times in my life, but every other year i hear reports on mcdo trying to improve the food quality of their stores, introducing new salads or vegetable fries, whatever that is.
    Anyways it's most likely that kebab and pizza joints have overthrown mcdo for quite some time now, maybe not in revenue but in numbers no doubt about that.
    cheers

  • @module79l28
    @module79l28 Год назад +1

    A McDisease's opened around 20 years ago here where I live in Portugal, near the roundabout of one of the city's main entrances and right across the street from a high school. In the beginning there wasn't a single day that it wasn't jam-packed with people and long queues of cars waiting in the drive-in. With time it started declining and was busier only on weekends.
    Some months ago, a Burger King opened on the other side of the roundabout, across from the McDisease's. In the first weeks the affluence of people was high but not to the levels of when the McDisease's opened.
    Recently, a KFC opened on the remaining "corner" of the same roundabout, half-way between the McDisease's and the Burger King. Very little affluence since the begining.
    Nowadays, you see very few people on any of them at any time of the day but if you go to the restaurants that exist in the vicinity, some of them older than the McDisease's, they're usually packed.

    • @cesarneves
      @cesarneves Год назад +1

      Well, I think I know which one you`re referring to :D Used to go there every friday night. That`s the only McD I ever complained about a cold burger xD

  • @MyvIsLove2
    @MyvIsLove2 Год назад +1

    its always weird to me that americans are surprised how european mcdonalds looks like. im german and the buldings are quite fancy with table service and even games u can play. ppl do spend time there a lot, its just like a normal restaurant for us. i mean u do have the machines for ordering without a person or the drive through, but many ppl still wanna sit down and have interactions

  • @worldhello1234
    @worldhello1234 Год назад

    If you want to get tons of mayonnaise and ketchup or other sauce freebies, it is worse. You pay extra for each additional package.

  • @pahis1248
    @pahis1248 Год назад

    this was quite interesting video. ty :)

  • @solidkaka
    @solidkaka Год назад +1

    Well in EU we try to avoid that places at least some of us, they can try convince us but we know is crap food. For sure is most better than in the USA but ... xD The video tells that as France POV but is like that in all of EU. Hi from Spain btw :3

  • @christianc9894
    @christianc9894 9 месяцев назад

    McDonald's managers quickly understood that France would never accept US domination in food.
    So they adapted. And it works really well for them.
    Walmart tried to impose US "culture" in Germany and it failed.
    Reminder: PARIS is not France, only 2,000,000 inhabitants out of 66,000,000. And the capital of gastronomy is not PARIS but LYON.

  • @siriuspyramid7441
    @siriuspyramid7441 Год назад

    And Christmas is from my cousins From Germany 🇩🇪 😘.

  • @Gert-DK
    @Gert-DK Год назад +2

    More McDo.🙂
    Check out this video: "How DENMARK Took Down McDONALDS".

    • @Gert-DK
      @Gert-DK Год назад

      @DudeDastardlyYeah, think about it. Good union vs minimums pay. We don't have minimums pay in DK.

  • @mariomoravcik6398
    @mariomoravcik6398 Год назад

    yes in mcdonalds here we have table service..

  • @nadeansimmons226
    @nadeansimmons226 Год назад

    We have table service in McDonalds in NZ too

  • @siriuspyramid7441
    @siriuspyramid7441 Год назад +1

    OGM beef are illegal like it doesn’t profit to the eaters and the animal itself so wtf?!

  • @Ohjeezno
    @Ohjeezno Год назад +2

    Hey Loners, it would be so cool to hang out with you some time. If you ever plan on visiting The Netherlands, just hit me up 😊

  • @marcusfranconium3392
    @marcusfranconium3392 Год назад +1

    Ah well a mcdonnalds in my home town in the netherlands went bust , it was only that mcdonalds it self poored money in to this location to make it survive , and here is the funny bit they build this location next to europes largest indoor market . where foods from all over the world are served at bargain prices . as this area was only visited in the weekends you guessed it it did not go well , it still exist to day with a few customers a day but its a joke location . paying 5-7 euro for a bugger while across the street you could get shaurma , Gyros , salted cod bunns , chicken sandwiches . lomito sandwiches , vietnamese loempia ,indonesian foods etc etc . a mcdonalds will lose out every time . AS those are usualy larger in quantity and quality for the same or even cheaper price than a burger .

  • @metalvideos1961
    @metalvideos1961 Год назад +2

    Because we dont use artificial crap like you do in the US. our fries are literally Fries. just potatoes and salt thats literally it. not the american fries for example that contains 20 more ingredients for some reason. Meat is not pumped full with Hormones. our Lettuce and other vegetables are not GMOs. And on top of that it looks even better when you receive it then the American version.

  • @ALANL4460
    @ALANL4460 Год назад

    I've been to Paris and while it has fast food they dont really need it. You can find great food at reasonable prices anywhere and because its Paris the places serving food all try to live up to the citys reputation

  • @danobanano2505
    @danobanano2505 Год назад

    Great reaction ❤. 20:13 you have rracted on video's on ingredients banned in the EU but not in the US. It really makes a difference and the food is much better in general. This includes fastfood ❤

  • @felixthecat02
    @felixthecat02 Год назад

    From the UK, one word . Greggs😁

  • @joachimkylhammar5084
    @joachimkylhammar5084 Год назад

    oh did you ever get to see Against the Wind 1978

  • @maxxie84
    @maxxie84 Год назад

    For the lab meat it is really difficult, i see it as the best healthiest and most animal welfare way to eat meat, it’s sad for the environment and all the people unable to eat meat in the world to ban it

  • @Gert-DK
    @Gert-DK Год назад +2

    When we reach 2027 (I think) all phone manufactures has to produce, so we all can change the battery without special tools. This is another EU legislation.
    I am sure that law will be felt worldwide. I can't see Samsung or Apple to produce 2 kinds of phones, it will be too expensive.
    It will be the prof of, how powerful EU are. What do you think?

  • @laur4a768
    @laur4a768 Год назад

    you can't import and export beef, you can chicken tho

  • @siriuspyramid7441
    @siriuspyramid7441 Год назад +4

    All Michelin stars restaurants are not expensive. It depends on the location, ingredients, reputation of the chef and it’s domaine, ingredients, numbers of stars ⭐️, and it is the same everywhere in the world. But you can find great restaurants without stars (sometimes chefs refuse it too) with different prices for exemple « LES GRANDS BUFFETS »(in Narbonne, south ouest of France, close to Spain) unlimited great food around 50€ per person except wines 🍷 it’s the biggest buffet in Europe and biggest cheese 🧀 choice (over 300 🤤).

  • @chrisshelley3027
    @chrisshelley3027 Год назад

    Culinary food

  • @mattsmith5421
    @mattsmith5421 Год назад +5

    Because our food aint full of shite

  • @yammybobo
    @yammybobo Год назад

    i emailed you a couple of clips

  • @mattsmith5421
    @mattsmith5421 Год назад +2

    That "outrageous french accent" makes the video

    • @tubekulose
      @tubekulose Год назад +2

      I get the quote but this guy has a German accent.

  • @mcorrelje
    @mcorrelje Год назад +1

    The advertisement at 7:03 is a Dutch advertisement. The word Tijdelijk means "Now temporarily (on promotion) for 7.50". Not sure why it presented as French?

  • @SonOfBaraki359
    @SonOfBaraki359 Год назад

    How make it better ?

  • @whymeeveryone
    @whymeeveryone Год назад

    any food with chemicals is bad.

  • @michellesolitaire2507
    @michellesolitaire2507 Год назад

    I need to go to a McDonald’s in Paris now!!! 🙌🏼

  • @Nekotaku_TV
    @Nekotaku_TV Год назад

    Design looks good? Those plastic packaging looks bad.
    That title is misleading, it hardly had anything to do with it.

  • @Chaos9669
    @Chaos9669 Год назад

    Mc in France is bad compared to other eu countries. This looks nice but the food is terrible. I don't know why, generally the food is great in France, but in every other country mc is much better