Put down those chopsticks and pull that wok off the fire! McDonald’s has released a new menu here in Latin America – the 2008 Olympics “China Menu”. It may be coming soon to a McDonalds near you. Item #1 is the Hamburguesa de Beijing – a hamburger topped with chop suey:
Yes, that’s chop suey up in there. Wait – what is chop suey? The Chinese don’t know either – the closest translation is “mixed entrails”.
Taking cultural homogenization to a new extreme, McDonalds has hung lanterns and plastered red posters across its windows featuring dishes that pay homage to the Chinese but have absolutely nothing to do with China. At all. For instance, this alleged Chinese dessert, the “Sundae con Top de Bananas Carmelizada” (Sundae with bananas and caramel):
Nothing evokes the mystery of Old Beijing like a caramel banana sundae.
Scared yet? Don’t worry – if all this foreign food is just too much, the old standards are still on the menu, like the bass-heavy McNifica (closest translation: MacNificent):
-J
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Eryn // July 11, 2008 at 4:52 pm |
You know, McDonalds is rather creative in the rest of the world. In Switzerland I had a veggie curry burger that was sehr geschmackvoll.
I guess that just doesn’t fly over here in close-minded America. Where’s my Chop Suey Burger!!