Posted on 03/17/2005 3:52:29 PM PST by srm913
I never tried it, but if you ever find yourself in Hong Kong and feel like a meal of illegal dog, just go to any hole-in-the-wall restaurant. The Cantonese words for "dog" and "nine" are the same; you can thus find "dog" on the menu by means of the euphemism "three-six." (3 + 6 = 9 = Dog! Voila!!!)
Lassie ain't comin' home...
As luck would have it, I once visited this place while touring Moscow in the early 1990's. I really don't care for McDonald's fare but I was curious as to how such a large operation worked. I found out that it was incredibly efficient. It has to be experienced to believe.
I can help you with the filet-o-fish. If you look close, you may see a couple white worms wigglin around. Plus, you can use the tartar sauce to seal postage. Also, the fat and calories aren't worth it. Acutally, the most nutritional thing might be the worms. Thank me. :)
Oh, that's bad. I've heard of foreign visitors to the states in the dog food isle, believing that the picture of the dog on the can was what they were buying.
Don't get me started! I was in Hong Kong as a missionary for two years, and I could go on for hours about some of the nauseating food. (I must be fair and say that a lot of Cantonese food is indeed tasty.)
There's an old saying in China:
The Cantonese will eat anything that flies but an airplane and anything with legs but a table.
(It's true.)
LA-LA-LA!! *Fingers Firmly Inserted in Ears* Can't hear you! LA-LA-LA!!
Actually, it IS the tar-tar sauce, I think. We went out for fish last night (Lent; Wednesdays & Fridays...but it's almost over!) and I actually brought home the leftover tar-tar sauce to make a tuna sammich for lunch, LOL!
Who's got that Kopy-Kat recipe for McDonald's Tar-Tar Sauce? Throw this girl a rope, LOL!
Sure...like Jerry Lewis movies in France and David Hasselhoff songs in Germany.
The few times I have eaten that filet of fish they call fish, I have scraped off the tartar sauce.
I never thought about that , maybe I could drop one in my lap and sue.
"The few times I have eaten that filet of fish they call fish, I have scraped off the tartar sauce."
Now don't corn-fuse me! Are the worms in the fish, or in the sauce? That makes a world of difference.
From the two eye-witness accounts I had, they were in the fish.
I haven't been in a McDonalds in years. Now I know how the Chinese feel about American Chinese restaurants.
Market Basket has some pretty good foods. They sell the yogurt with the cream layer on top and the pork rinds and the fresh turkeys. Good stuff cheap, all the time. They always have plenty of "Mediterranean Style" King Oscar sardines and fresh blackberries at reasonable prices.
Much better than those overpriced "yuppie" supermarkets like Whole Foods and Wild Oats.
You know what else they do?
At least where I live and shop, they hire the handicapped.
For real. And they work there for years.
I presume it's some corporate commitment sort of thing.
Yeah, and you go in there around Orthodox Easter and they've got the skinned sheeps heads staring up at you.
Jeez, a little too Hannibal Lecter sometimes.
But the best prices on, uh, Sam Adams, et al...
LOL!
It's true.
DeMoulas is a Greek family and they cater to that market.
Even in my town, which is largely Finnish, they market these Greek seasonal specialties like sheep and goat heads.
I purposely avoid the meat case at those times so as not to traumatize my 5 y.o. daughter.
Then I cook her a nice dinner of tripe.
Damn! I don't normally patronize Micky D's, but if they'd server Heine's on tap over here, I would reconsider.
Better than a Diet Coke any day!
Plus, I travel with children. Lunch at McDonald's is the perfect reward for good behavior when we've dragged them through a half day of sight seeing, etc.
It's not lava, it's stellar-fusion-plasma-filled. And yes, they still sell them.
The reason they haven't been sued is that when they're seen to burn a hole in the bag or the tray on the way to and through the floor and the inevitable trip through the Earth's core on the way to China, nobody is stupid enough to eat them until they cool off. And they've always had the eternal McD's understatement in labelling champion on them: "CAUTION: HOT."
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