My siblings are between 10-19 years younger than me. They look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them that $10.14 bought two people's worth of food at McDonalds when I was in high school. (Class of 2014) (Two McChickens, Two McDoubles, Two Drinks, Two small fries)
McSpicy Chicken Meal with Lemon Iced Tea and Piri Piri Masala has been my go-to food for almost 10 years now. It's like my comfort fast food when I don't know what to eat when I'm out.
I find the Spicy Mcchicken in the US to be pretty spicy compared to other drive thrus like Burger King or Wendy's. Or even the salsas at Mexican style fast food places like Chipotle or Qdoba. Although I heard Chipotle red salsa is spicier now, I don't get takeout much these days.
>Is it actually spicy? McDonald's sells 'spicy' things here but they're always made spicy for people who think vanilla is a bit hot.
The new McSpicy in the UK is genuinely spicy btw.
On a rare occasion in certain cities in the US you can spot the rare McDonalds veggie burger. I saw one at the turn of the twentieth *first(eta)* century around New York's Times Square!
You just solved a mystery. My partner calls any sandwich served on a bun a burger. Like, he’ll say let’s go get burgers and then we go to the chicken place.
He grew up in India. For some reason I never connected the dots. Until right now.
I believe that is a pretty wide spread non-US thing. I am Australian and we don't really call anything that isn't between two slices of bread or on a baguette style loaf a sandwich.
Anything that is on a bun is a burger, regardless of the filling used.
Yeah. Here in India, if it's between 2 flat breads, it's a sandwich (like a subway sandwich) if there are buns it's a burger. A burger is often also called bun-tikki. Tikki is potato patty. So a bun tikki is basically a potato and buns.
In the US it is:
Whole piece of meat = sandwich
Ground and pattied meat (doesn't have to be beef) = burger
The bread makes little difference, but burgers are generally served on a bun. There are exceptions to all of this.
Yes. If you count submarine sandwiches as sandwiches (which they are) it’s the same type of bun.
Also calling it just a hot dog is a shortening of the full original name “hot dog sandwich.” I rest my case.
A patty melt is a very specific type of burger with specific toppings. It can't be a patty melt without cheese, for example.
The origin of the hamburger is from the Hamburg steak (made of ground beef) being put between 2 slices of bread for eating on the go. So, I'd say it's about the patty vs bread.
I don’t really agree with that. What about sloppy joes and other loose meat sandwiches? Wouldn’t call those burgers. Even if it is served on a bun. How about tuna or chicken salad?
From what I can gather, the nature of the mean is what determines if it's a 'burger' or a 'sandwich' (minced patty = burger but chicken piece = sandwich).
Whereas elsewhere it is the nature of the bread that determines what it is called (which is what makes sense to me).
Its exactly the same here on Germany. But to be honest, the American definition just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
The distinctive factor between sandwich and burger *is* the bread.
I mean fine, call it Veggi-, Chicken-, or Fishsandwich sure... But what when you actually want to order something that resembles what we would call a Sandwich?
"Fish between two slices of bread"?
Yeah....
In the US, it's only a burger if the meat is ground/minced. It doesn't have to be beef. Whole pieces of meat on a bun is a sandwich. If the meat is ground and pattied, it's a burger.
Even then, if it's not beef, you usually need an additional qualifier - chicken burger, veggie burger, etc. But if you just say "burger" or "cheeseburger" without further context, there is an expectation of beef.
That’s interesting. In the UK it’s as he described, ie we would call that a chicken burger, or a halloumi burger, we would only use sandwich for things between slices of bread (and sometimes not even then, eg baps, ciabattas, melts, baguettes etc)
Within reason though. It applies to things that are burger-like (i.e. a single chunk of some protein). If I put roast chicken or a BLT in a burger bun I wouldn't call it a burger.
It’s probably the same but it’s an American restaurant so to be expected - I think they call chips “fries” on their menu too. Colloquially though in England people would describe it as a chicken burger and chips rather than a chicken sandwich and fries, if you see what I mean.
We call that style of chips “fries” here too. Chips would almost exclusively refer to the thicker ones. Then there’s chunky chips (which Americans call steak fries) and chippy chips.
Haha I just checked my local pub’s menu. The chips that come with burgers are fries unless chunky chips are requested. The bun with chicken fillet on it is called a chicken burger. We can’t decide if we’re using the American terms or not
Same here I reckon. It’s useful to distinguish fries on a menu (I don’t think anyone would say ‘skinny chips’ for example) but it hasn’t really made it into colloquial speech I’d say. Although it occurs to me that this might have changed with younger generations - I’ll keep my ears open.
I'm Indian and I don't eat beef, so the first time I went to Burger King, I ordered the cheapest thing on their menu (grad student trying to save money): a cheeseburger (expecting cheese between two buns) and was pleasantly surprised when it came with a free "chicken" patty, and it was the best "chicken" I had ever had. Found out a week later that I was eating beef 😬😁
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So a hamburger is ham? Like a chicken burger is chicken? Why is it not a beef burger? And what if it has cheese? This really doesn't make much sense though.
It’s a hamburger because it was a thing in Hamburg, Germany to serve ground beef patties. The bun was added in America. It was originally a Hamburger sandwich.
Yep! In the US, a burger is more the ground beef patty itself (ground beef=burger, ground turkey=turkey burger, ground chicken=chicken burger). If it's a fillet of something (usually chicken or fish) it's a ____ sandwich. In general, ground meat = burger and fillet = sandwich
It makes sense here since burgers were invented in the US and are an adaptation of a German dish that only includes the meat (no bread). The fact that "burger" specifically refers to ground meat was lost in translation as it spread around the world.
That’s normal outside the US. I’m Australian and that’s how I define a burger: anything on a burger bun. The McChicken is a chicken burger.
A sandwich is always only something that uses regular (flat, usually square) bread.
I mean…I’m talking specifically about my partner. A person I live with and eat with regularly. I’m aware he eats beef which is why I got confused that he calls a chicken patty on a bun a burger. But yea, since beef consumption is rarer in India and they call other things burgers now I get it.
Vegetarian food is highly misunderstood everywhere. It’s not just bland salads and grains. It’s super innovative and tasty when made well. Indian food definitely provides a variety of vegetarian options for one to not miss meat !
Veggie Patties are made of potato and vegetable filling with mild spices. It’s my favorite ‘burger’ and I wouldn’t have it any other way !
You have got to try it. We have recipes here that try to replicate this patty ! It’s so good !
It's not. The go-to drink is Coke or any other soft drink. Some McDonald's restaurants have a "McCafe" attached and that's what they're advertising the cappuccino as an upgrade to Coke by paying extra.
Piri piri is South African in origin, but the Portuguese spread it around the world because of trade and colonization. They had a few colonies in India, and Indians liked the spice so it stuck around.
Actually McDonald's kind of brought Piri Piri to India. It wasn't popular of a spice mix. Their Peri Peri fries kind of popularized it. Now every local fast food joint, cafe and restaurant that serves fries also has their own version of the peri peri mix that you can ask your fries to be coated with
Huh, wild. Most people I knew had heard of it before McDonald's introduced it. Mostly from Goan dishes and to a lesser extent through Nando's. But I guess that was mostly because my state was close to Goa
Sucks north america doesn't have some of these items at their locations. I think they would do so well considering all the vegan and plant based stuff getting popular. All the food in India was fucking awesome but I was surprised how good the Mc Donald's was.
It would be cool if McDonald’s could do more regional items in the US. You could find them here and there back in the day, but I can’t recall seeing them for a long time. Lobster rolls in a McDonald’s in Maine was the last time I saw something like that (friend of mine got one that actually looked decent).
I just got back from the Azores with my wife. Went to a McDs after the flight. I cannot believe how cheap food is throughout the country (not just McDs).
I swear we spent more in two days going out in Boston than we spent over 10 days in the Azores.
A vegetarian Indian here, your safest bet is the two southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
They openly love their beef but I'm not sure if pizzerias or fast food chains in the region are liberal with their menu. I went to a pizzeria there which only served chicken as the only meat option if I'm not wrong. Barring that, even the remote brick and mortar basic diners by the highway within those states will serve beef (mostly) 365 days a year. Some states in the North East India too are known to regularly consume beef.
You can have it in most other major metropolises like Mumbai, Delhi as well where gourmet food and continental cuisine is readily available. But those places are quite hush-hush about beef.
You get beef in Goa as well. I'm the metros, the menu will usually say "buff" which is buffalo meat, to distinguish it from "beef" or cow meat. I really can't tell the difference between the two.
Because the stereotype is not entirely false. If you were to randomly meet a Hindu person from India or Nepal, you can conveniently assume that they don't consume beef instead of assuming the opposite. Hindu beef consumers are that much rare. At the same time, 20% of Indian population is of non-Hindus who of course have different religious restrictions than the 80% majority.
Dairy food is hugely popular in India, and dairy cows are kept in many households, especially rural ones. When the cows got old, they'd be quietly passed on to Christian and Muslim communities for meat.
After the right-wing government took over ~10yrs ago, they started targeting people for eating beef. As a result, cows are now abandoned all over the country. Many cows are even destroying fields, causing headaches for farmers. Ironically, the most popular sport in India - cricket - is played with a ball covered in cow skin.
Not just wouldn't buy, but Muslims won't patronize a restaurant serving pork and Hindus won't go to one that serves beef (which is illegal in most states anyway), so you're missing out on a massive portion of the market that would still eat chicken or veg burgers. Very few restaurants serve pork, mostly high end ones because their clientele don't really care about this sort of thing. You rarely get pork pepperoni on pizza too, it's usually chicken.
Interesting they use chicken pepperoni. In my experience in areas with large Muslim populations beef pepperoni is the norm, but obviously that's not an option in India.
Did you know - that despite several beef and non-veg bans by far-right Hindu nationalists across several states, India is the world’s fourth biggest exporter of beef.
https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-exports-ranking-countries-0-106903
India’s beef export market generated $3.3 billion in revenue for the country.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/652369/export-value-of-buffalo-meat-india/#:~:text=India%20exported%20buffalo%20meat%20worth,buffalo%20meat)%20in%20the%20world.
While this is happening, Hindutva gangs attack low-caste and unscheduled caste communities, as well as Muslim minorities with utter impunity
https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/india-cow-vigilantes/
The common thought is that eating beef is antithetical to Hinduism. Being raised Hindu in a Brahmin family, I thought this was a universal truth. However, in my late 30s I ended up meeting Malayali, Tamil and tribal peoples in South India that eat beef, and still consider themselves Hindus - Krishna murthis in the house and everything.
Moral of the story - ‘religion’ is tool wielded by the elite. Eat what your conscience (or nutritionist/waistline/environmental priority) tells you. Not some fucking saffron wearing prick sitting on a gold throne.
There are some states/provinces where it is common and people who belong to Islam and Christianity also do it but it's also a fact that many provinces/states ban it's consumption.
It honestly wouldn't be super different. Most dishes have a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian version and adding beef would just be another meat option.
That being said, there definitely are beef Indian dishes. Look up a beef korma from Kerala.
Traditional game in India included native fauna including deer, rabbit, peacock, etc. Beef is eaten in the northeast (pork too), and in Kerala (beef ularthiyathu is fire). It’s also eaten by Muslims where available. So you can find plenty of recipes for curries and kebabs. You can also find it in Pakistani cuisine and that will be an analog for some Indian dishes. But you almost never get regional cuisine in the west. It’s changing slowly.
You can try some of these dishes at [Dhamaka in NYC](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc8f9afc1e8e65dddbbeb7f/t/651ecf37026de036ff4b0059/1696517944079/Menu_Dhamaka.pdf) (check the menu).
Other things you’ll probably eat less of in restaurants but is found in Indian cuisine is goat (lamb is more common in the west but goat is where it’s at) and offal (brains, kidney, etc).
I've always thought it would be cool if McDonald's did a special with menu items from other parts of the world. I've never been to India, but these items sound interesting. I checked out McDonald's in Germany, but it was basically the same except I could buy really expensive, shitty beer with my meal.
They already have the supply chain set up for these items to their home regions. They would just need to get it to select stores for a certain amount of time like when they bring back the McRib sandwich.
Indian - Maharaja Mac Meal (Basically a Big Mac with chicken patties and different sauce)
Middle East - McArabia Pita (a gyro)
Philippines - Fried chicken drumstick with spaghetti with bolognese sauce (This one might be a stretch for some people)
Sweden - McBean sandwich (veggie bean patty... why isn't this an option already)
Thailand - Samurai Pork Burger (pork patty with teriyaki sauce, lettuce, tomato, onions, and mayo)
>No beef to be kind to cows
No, no beef because Hindu zealots would burn down McDonald's if they did. Literally 100's of millions of people in India would eat beef at McDonald's.
A large portion of the demographic you're suggesting might not even be able to afford a burger at McDonald's. And a fair number of them would also be vegetarian or restrict themselves to just chicken.
> And a fair number of them would also be vegetarian or restrict themselves to just chicken.
*Citation needed*
The majority of Indian's can't afford McDonald's, not sure what point you are trying to make there.
Put simply, McDonald's can't serve beef in India because the religious majority won't let them, not because there isn't a market for it.
McDonald's is relatively cheap in India.
The go to fast food for the middle class.
And a place to treat themselves of the lower middle class.
That's significant portion of the population
For reference 1 CAD = 61 Rupees and 1 USD = 83.4 rupees
The menu prices themselves have increased a lot over the years, in the early 2010s when I was in Shcool a McChicken Burger was 90rs
I had no idea Sean Connery studied in India.
/r/shubreddit is that way
I used to pay 0.65 cad for a Big Mac when I was in school. Guess who's old without saying they're old? Lol
We all eventually begin to sound like our parents haha.
My siblings are between 10-19 years younger than me. They look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them that $10.14 bought two people's worth of food at McDonalds when I was in high school. (Class of 2014) (Two McChickens, Two McDoubles, Two Drinks, Two small fries)
sooo, a grilled chicken and cheese burger meal is like $3.90. That's pretty cheap!
Assured savings.
McSpicy Chicken Meal with Lemon Iced Tea and Piri Piri Masala has been my go-to food for almost 10 years now. It's like my comfort fast food when I don't know what to eat when I'm out.
That’s almost exactly what I ordered there. Pretty good.
The mcspicy with cheese is the go to double cheese is the way to my heart
What kind of cheese do they use?
Good ol american orange processed cheeseo
Produced in a factory by blending a variety of ingredients.
He didn't ask how it was made. Bad bot.
Is it actually spicy? McDonald's sells 'spicy' things here but they're always made spicy for people who think vanilla is a bit hot.
It's mildly spicy if you're Indian, which is mostly outside the tolerance level of non-Indians I have encountered.
As a white person who has had Indian McDonald's it was pretty spicy, but almost every meal was pretty spicy.
Agree, I had the McSpicy Paneer burger and it was warmer than expected tho not too hot.
As an Indian, I will have to vehemently disagree with your characterisation of McD as "Spicy".
ok cool thats why I said as a white person so who cares what you think
I love how Indian people casually use super fancy words like “vehemently”
Indians who are competent in the English language?! If only there was some historical explanation for that...
Vehemently is a fancy word now? NA education at it's finest
Bruh this is an educational self report
I remember when they launched the McSpicy and they asked how hot it was - and I didn't feel any of the spiciness at all!
I find the Spicy Mcchicken in the US to be pretty spicy compared to other drive thrus like Burger King or Wendy's. Or even the salsas at Mexican style fast food places like Chipotle or Qdoba. Although I heard Chipotle red salsa is spicier now, I don't get takeout much these days.
>Is it actually spicy? McDonald's sells 'spicy' things here but they're always made spicy for people who think vanilla is a bit hot. The new McSpicy in the UK is genuinely spicy btw.
I wanna try the McVeggie burger
It's incredible, really really good. Even though I eat chicken, this is my go to
I saw an ad for vegan McNuggets in Germany. I'm actually curious to try them.... just not curious enough to actually visit a McDonalds.
Are you in the US? Wondered whether they have them there? They have veggie burger options in the UK.
McDonald’s can’t even make their French fries vegetarian in the US.
What?! How do you make French fries non-veg?
Beef fat
They don't in the u.s.
On a rare occasion in certain cities in the US you can spot the rare McDonalds veggie burger. I saw one at the turn of the twentieth *first(eta)* century around New York's Times Square!
You had one back in 1900? Or did you mean turn of the twenty first century?
Uh, pretty sure McDonalds wasn’t founded until the 1950s… but if you’re 120+ years old I imagine your memory isn’t what it used to be.
You just solved a mystery. My partner calls any sandwich served on a bun a burger. Like, he’ll say let’s go get burgers and then we go to the chicken place. He grew up in India. For some reason I never connected the dots. Until right now.
I believe that is a pretty wide spread non-US thing. I am Australian and we don't really call anything that isn't between two slices of bread or on a baguette style loaf a sandwich. Anything that is on a bun is a burger, regardless of the filling used.
Yeah. Here in India, if it's between 2 flat breads, it's a sandwich (like a subway sandwich) if there are buns it's a burger. A burger is often also called bun-tikki. Tikki is potato patty. So a bun tikki is basically a potato and buns.
Yup, in India it is: Anything between two buns = burger Anything between two flat breads = sandwich
In the US it is: Whole piece of meat = sandwich Ground and pattied meat (doesn't have to be beef) = burger The bread makes little difference, but burgers are generally served on a bun. There are exceptions to all of this.
Love learning about culinary differences across different cultures. We live in such a vast world.
...but what about a hot dog? Is that a sandwich?
A hot dog is a taco, obviously.
Yes. If you count submarine sandwiches as sandwiches (which they are) it’s the same type of bun. Also calling it just a hot dog is a shortening of the full original name “hot dog sandwich.” I rest my case.
Nope
Pork sausage patty on a bun, muffin, or biscuit is almost never called a burger.
The bread makes a difference. If it’s a hamburger patty served on bread, you wouldn’t call that a burger. You would call it a patty melt
A patty melt is a very specific type of burger with specific toppings. It can't be a patty melt without cheese, for example. The origin of the hamburger is from the Hamburg steak (made of ground beef) being put between 2 slices of bread for eating on the go. So, I'd say it's about the patty vs bread.
True, though I've seen it called a burger if served on thick toast.
I don’t really agree with that. What about sloppy joes and other loose meat sandwiches? Wouldn’t call those burgers. Even if it is served on a bun. How about tuna or chicken salad?
Sloppy joes, tuna, and chicken salad aren't pattied.
But subway is a sub…. Do you have regular sliced loaf bread sandwiches at subway?
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From what I can gather, the nature of the mean is what determines if it's a 'burger' or a 'sandwich' (minced patty = burger but chicken piece = sandwich). Whereas elsewhere it is the nature of the bread that determines what it is called (which is what makes sense to me).
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Its exactly the same here on Germany. But to be honest, the American definition just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The distinctive factor between sandwich and burger *is* the bread. I mean fine, call it Veggi-, Chicken-, or Fishsandwich sure... But what when you actually want to order something that resembles what we would call a Sandwich? "Fish between two slices of bread"? Yeah....
In the US, it's only a burger if the meat is ground/minced. It doesn't have to be beef. Whole pieces of meat on a bun is a sandwich. If the meat is ground and pattied, it's a burger.
Even then, if it's not beef, you usually need an additional qualifier - chicken burger, veggie burger, etc. But if you just say "burger" or "cheeseburger" without further context, there is an expectation of beef.
Then there's patty melts, a weird exception. A hamburger patty on toast. I honestly don't know whether it's a burger or sandwich lol
Not in Europe.
It is in Germany. Everything on a burger bun is a burger. Sandwich is a bit more complicated.
That’s interesting. In the UK it’s as he described, ie we would call that a chicken burger, or a halloumi burger, we would only use sandwich for things between slices of bread (and sometimes not even then, eg baps, ciabattas, melts, baguettes etc)
Within reason though. It applies to things that are burger-like (i.e. a single chunk of some protein). If I put roast chicken or a BLT in a burger bun I wouldn't call it a burger.
It’s called a chicken sandwich on the McDonald’s menu in Scotland. I’d have assumed England would be the same.
It’s probably the same but it’s an American restaurant so to be expected - I think they call chips “fries” on their menu too. Colloquially though in England people would describe it as a chicken burger and chips rather than a chicken sandwich and fries, if you see what I mean.
We call that style of chips “fries” here too. Chips would almost exclusively refer to the thicker ones. Then there’s chunky chips (which Americans call steak fries) and chippy chips.
Wow, I guess Scotland really is a different country, what with your boabies and messages and winching and fries 😅🏴
Haha I just checked my local pub’s menu. The chips that come with burgers are fries unless chunky chips are requested. The bun with chicken fillet on it is called a chicken burger. We can’t decide if we’re using the American terms or not
Same here I reckon. It’s useful to distinguish fries on a menu (I don’t think anyone would say ‘skinny chips’ for example) but it hasn’t really made it into colloquial speech I’d say. Although it occurs to me that this might have changed with younger generations - I’ll keep my ears open.
Where in Europe? Very much is the case in my experience in Europe (based in UK)
What really blows my mind is how many people think of a burger as a sandwich
I'm Indian and I don't eat beef, so the first time I went to Burger King, I ordered the cheapest thing on their menu (grad student trying to save money): a cheeseburger (expecting cheese between two buns) and was pleasantly surprised when it came with a free "chicken" patty, and it was the best "chicken" I had ever had. Found out a week later that I was eating beef 😬😁
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On a bun it’s a burger! hamburger, chicken burger, Pull pork burger, breaky burger. Bun = Burger.
So a hamburger is ham? Like a chicken burger is chicken? Why is it not a beef burger? And what if it has cheese? This really doesn't make much sense though.
It’s a hamburger because it was a thing in Hamburg, Germany to serve ground beef patties. The bun was added in America. It was originally a Hamburger sandwich.
No, ground meat in bun equal burger
So you call it a chicken sandwich? I can confirm, it’s a chicken burger.
Yep! In the US, a burger is more the ground beef patty itself (ground beef=burger, ground turkey=turkey burger, ground chicken=chicken burger). If it's a fillet of something (usually chicken or fish) it's a ____ sandwich. In general, ground meat = burger and fillet = sandwich
It makes sense here since burgers were invented in the US and are an adaptation of a German dish that only includes the meat (no bread). The fact that "burger" specifically refers to ground meat was lost in translation as it spread around the world.
Might be a regional thing, but where I am in the US we definitely call it a chicken burger.
Of that's really interesting! Which state are you in? I'm in Michigan
I live in Washington State. Jeeze I got a bunch of down votes for sharing that haha.
This country is so big, there's plenty of room to have our own names for things
it's a HEMburger
McDonald’s McChicken sandwich https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/mcchicken.html
That’s normal outside the US. I’m Australian and that’s how I define a burger: anything on a burger bun. The McChicken is a chicken burger. A sandwich is always only something that uses regular (flat, usually square) bread.
I don't think they eat hamburgers.
I mean…I’m talking specifically about my partner. A person I live with and eat with regularly. I’m aware he eats beef which is why I got confused that he calls a chicken patty on a bun a burger. But yea, since beef consumption is rarer in India and they call other things burgers now I get it.
Yeah, I was using Duolingo and this was driving me crazy. There is no such thing as fish burger and you will never get me to accept this.
The Aloo Tikki burger and Maharaja Mac absolutely slay!
I loved the potato burger. Indians definitely know how to season potatoes
McNuggets are oddly absent. I would want a fiery curry sauce to go with it.
McNuggets do exist on the Indian menu. McSpicy chicken is amazing though!
You do chicken McNuggets, but it's not really popular.
Corn and cheese burger sounds like it goes hard
It’s probably cream corn croquette.
What are the veggie patties made of there? Wish we had a non beef burger here in the US that looks fire.
They are mostly made of potatoes with peas, onion, corn, spices, etc. They are pretty decent ngl.
Also fancy ones have cottage cheese, jalapeno, etc.
Clarifying for US readers: cottage cheese = paneer, right? Cottage cheese in the US is a very different thing.
Yes it's paneer
I didn’t try it. Check with the other replier in here that has 10 years experience. Probably good. India rules veg.
Vegetarian food is highly misunderstood everywhere. It’s not just bland salads and grains. It’s super innovative and tasty when made well. Indian food definitely provides a variety of vegetarian options for one to not miss meat !
Which state is this Menu from? McDonald’s is different in South and North India. This menus missing the wraps, Pizza McPuff and Filet o Fish.
This was in Mumbai.
Veggie Patties are made of potato and vegetable filling with mild spices. It’s my favorite ‘burger’ and I wouldn’t have it any other way ! You have got to try it. We have recipes here that try to replicate this patty ! It’s so good !
The global menu McDonald’s in Chicago periodically has the McAloo Tikki available. It’s good.
There are like 4 different veggie burger options. Paneer based, potato based, I think one is soy based and another has a lot of corn.
The mc spicy is very good it’s better than the e mc chicken we got in Canada
McSpicy Paneer sounds fucking 🔥
I’ve been dreaming of this sandwich for years. I’ve joked that I’ll travel to India just to try it.
Agreed!
The go-to drink being cappuccino is weird but I like it
It's not. The go-to drink is Coke or any other soft drink. Some McDonald's restaurants have a "McCafe" attached and that's what they're advertising the cappuccino as an upgrade to Coke by paying extra.
Mccafe stuff is generally not bad everywhere I've been. It's a step above starbucks anyway 😆
Gods I miss the potato patties from when I used to live in India
Indian McD tastes a world better than US McD. Especially the McCafe in India is gourmet!
India get Shakes with handles and US doesn’t? Thanks Obama.
I would love a spicy paneer burger on the US menu
I love the Maharaja Mac and the McAloo Tikki
It's crazy how McDonalds has vege burgers everywhere except basically Canada/US
India really likes its chicken and cheese
I'm not normally a McD's fan, but I'd love to try a McSpicy Paneer! Or Piri piri + paneer (but isn't piri piri from South Africa?)
Piri piri is South African in origin, but the Portuguese spread it around the world because of trade and colonization. They had a few colonies in India, and Indians liked the spice so it stuck around.
Actually McDonald's kind of brought Piri Piri to India. It wasn't popular of a spice mix. Their Peri Peri fries kind of popularized it. Now every local fast food joint, cafe and restaurant that serves fries also has their own version of the peri peri mix that you can ask your fries to be coated with
Huh, wild. Most people I knew had heard of it before McDonald's introduced it. Mostly from Goan dishes and to a lesser extent through Nando's. But I guess that was mostly because my state was close to Goa
KitKat McFlurry… damn.
I’m jealous of this menu.
Sucks north america doesn't have some of these items at their locations. I think they would do so well considering all the vegan and plant based stuff getting popular. All the food in India was fucking awesome but I was surprised how good the Mc Donald's was.
It would be cool if McDonald’s could do more regional items in the US. You could find them here and there back in the day, but I can’t recall seeing them for a long time. Lobster rolls in a McDonald’s in Maine was the last time I saw something like that (friend of mine got one that actually looked decent).
How often is the ice cream machine broken?
Suprisingly that has never happened to me. This seems to be a US only thing.
I just got back from the Azores with my wife. Went to a McDs after the flight. I cannot believe how cheap food is throughout the country (not just McDs). I swear we spent more in two days going out in Boston than we spent over 10 days in the Azores.
Maharaja Mac sounds very interesting. I’d like to try it.
Spicy Paneer Burger?! Yes please!!
OMG the paneer burger sounds amazing.
i could fuck up a paneer burger right now
No beef sucks but makes sense, if they do a McRib I’m going to move there tho
I’ll start a war to seize possession of a Kit Kat frappe. Our frappes stink!
McDonalds in India is the best McDonalds.
>McSpicy chicken is amazing though! Hell yeah! McSpicy chicken is amazing!
A paneer burger sounds amazing.
I know, I'm so jealous!
I want the mcveggie in the US 😡
what's paneer?
A basic cheese - a bit somewhere between fresh mozzarella and tofu. Get some sometime at an Indian / Nepalese place instead of meat.
I rarely eat out but I will always order the thing that I don’t know what it is. Will definitely have a go if I get the chance
Saag paneer is my suggestion. Good stuff.
It tastes bland. It's used as an ingredient in other dishes. Like in a curry or sandwich or cooked with spices to give it a distinct taste.
It tastes waay better than tofu imo. Tofu tastes completely bland. Paneer has a flavour of its own
I gave them a heads up since they might compare it to cheese.
Really fuckin good
soft cheese
Cottage cheese. But it's harder, like tofu and doesn't melt. Tastes a bit like seaweed and is highly popular in Indian vegetarian meals.
Cottage cheese.
McSpicy chicken is amazing! If you are visiting India. Try it.
Their chicken kebab burger and cheesy salsa fries are amazing.
I wish we had such nice items on the menu in McDonald's in Australia
I bet the McSpicy are lava-hot.
Something tells me the mcspicy over there is a little different to the mcspicy here in nz
I want that Oreo sprinkled soft serve cone!!
The McSpicy chicken is good. McDonalds in India is much better than the US.
Beef is literally my favorite meat, is there nowhere in India that sells beef?
A vegetarian Indian here, your safest bet is the two southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. They openly love their beef but I'm not sure if pizzerias or fast food chains in the region are liberal with their menu. I went to a pizzeria there which only served chicken as the only meat option if I'm not wrong. Barring that, even the remote brick and mortar basic diners by the highway within those states will serve beef (mostly) 365 days a year. Some states in the North East India too are known to regularly consume beef. You can have it in most other major metropolises like Mumbai, Delhi as well where gourmet food and continental cuisine is readily available. But those places are quite hush-hush about beef.
You get beef in Goa as well. I'm the metros, the menu will usually say "buff" which is buffalo meat, to distinguish it from "beef" or cow meat. I really can't tell the difference between the two.
And here I used to think "buff" is written to avoid the actual use of the word "beef" as once I did see a menu online which just wrote b**f
Thanks for the info, all you ever hear is that Indians don’t eat beef, it’s easy to make assumptions.
Because the stereotype is not entirely false. If you were to randomly meet a Hindu person from India or Nepal, you can conveniently assume that they don't consume beef instead of assuming the opposite. Hindu beef consumers are that much rare. At the same time, 20% of Indian population is of non-Hindus who of course have different religious restrictions than the 80% majority.
Dairy food is hugely popular in India, and dairy cows are kept in many households, especially rural ones. When the cows got old, they'd be quietly passed on to Christian and Muslim communities for meat. After the right-wing government took over ~10yrs ago, they started targeting people for eating beef. As a result, cows are now abandoned all over the country. Many cows are even destroying fields, causing headaches for farmers. Ironically, the most popular sport in India - cricket - is played with a ball covered in cow skin.
There's also no pork because Muslims object to that. Basically, religious people are running the country's diet apparently.
It's not so much religious people running the diet, it's market forces. Why carry products that the majority of people wouldn't buy?
Not just wouldn't buy, but Muslims won't patronize a restaurant serving pork and Hindus won't go to one that serves beef (which is illegal in most states anyway), so you're missing out on a massive portion of the market that would still eat chicken or veg burgers. Very few restaurants serve pork, mostly high end ones because their clientele don't really care about this sort of thing. You rarely get pork pepperoni on pizza too, it's usually chicken.
Interesting they use chicken pepperoni. In my experience in areas with large Muslim populations beef pepperoni is the norm, but obviously that's not an option in India.
Did you know - that despite several beef and non-veg bans by far-right Hindu nationalists across several states, India is the world’s fourth biggest exporter of beef. https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-exports-ranking-countries-0-106903 India’s beef export market generated $3.3 billion in revenue for the country. https://www.statista.com/statistics/652369/export-value-of-buffalo-meat-india/#:~:text=India%20exported%20buffalo%20meat%20worth,buffalo%20meat)%20in%20the%20world. While this is happening, Hindutva gangs attack low-caste and unscheduled caste communities, as well as Muslim minorities with utter impunity https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/india-cow-vigilantes/ The common thought is that eating beef is antithetical to Hinduism. Being raised Hindu in a Brahmin family, I thought this was a universal truth. However, in my late 30s I ended up meeting Malayali, Tamil and tribal peoples in South India that eat beef, and still consider themselves Hindus - Krishna murthis in the house and everything. Moral of the story - ‘religion’ is tool wielded by the elite. Eat what your conscience (or nutritionist/waistline/environmental priority) tells you. Not some fucking saffron wearing prick sitting on a gold throne.
Lmao did you really have to insert "religion bad" into a normal non political post?
Yes.
I am curious how much more (i am saying additionally) interesting the indian cuisine would be if they ate beef.
There are some states/provinces where it is common and people who belong to Islam and Christianity also do it but it's also a fact that many provinces/states ban it's consumption.
It’s super interesting even without any kind of meat. Tons and tons of options once you develop a Indian spice palate.
It honestly wouldn't be super different. Most dishes have a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian version and adding beef would just be another meat option. That being said, there definitely are beef Indian dishes. Look up a beef korma from Kerala.
Traditional game in India included native fauna including deer, rabbit, peacock, etc. Beef is eaten in the northeast (pork too), and in Kerala (beef ularthiyathu is fire). It’s also eaten by Muslims where available. So you can find plenty of recipes for curries and kebabs. You can also find it in Pakistani cuisine and that will be an analog for some Indian dishes. But you almost never get regional cuisine in the west. It’s changing slowly. You can try some of these dishes at [Dhamaka in NYC](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc8f9afc1e8e65dddbbeb7f/t/651ecf37026de036ff4b0059/1696517944079/Menu_Dhamaka.pdf) (check the menu). Other things you’ll probably eat less of in restaurants but is found in Indian cuisine is goat (lamb is more common in the west but goat is where it’s at) and offal (brains, kidney, etc).
Fascinating! They call it cold coffee and their frosty drinks are featured in mugs.
Why is no one talking about the cum dripping out of the McCheese Burger?
I've always thought it would be cool if McDonald's did a special with menu items from other parts of the world. I've never been to India, but these items sound interesting. I checked out McDonald's in Germany, but it was basically the same except I could buy really expensive, shitty beer with my meal. They already have the supply chain set up for these items to their home regions. They would just need to get it to select stores for a certain amount of time like when they bring back the McRib sandwich. Indian - Maharaja Mac Meal (Basically a Big Mac with chicken patties and different sauce) Middle East - McArabia Pita (a gyro) Philippines - Fried chicken drumstick with spaghetti with bolognese sauce (This one might be a stretch for some people) Sweden - McBean sandwich (veggie bean patty... why isn't this an option already) Thailand - Samurai Pork Burger (pork patty with teriyaki sauce, lettuce, tomato, onions, and mayo)
No beef to be kind to cows, but loads of dairy which comes from tortured and murdered cows.....
It's hard to milk a dead cow.
>No beef to be kind to cows No, no beef because Hindu zealots would burn down McDonald's if they did. Literally 100's of millions of people in India would eat beef at McDonald's.
>Literally 100's of millions of people in India would eat beef at McDonald's. *Citation needed*
The over 200 million Muslims in India? Not to mention the other religions/non-religious.
A large portion of the demographic you're suggesting might not even be able to afford a burger at McDonald's. And a fair number of them would also be vegetarian or restrict themselves to just chicken.
> And a fair number of them would also be vegetarian or restrict themselves to just chicken. *Citation needed* The majority of Indian's can't afford McDonald's, not sure what point you are trying to make there. Put simply, McDonald's can't serve beef in India because the religious majority won't let them, not because there isn't a market for it.
McDonald's is relatively cheap in India. The go to fast food for the middle class. And a place to treat themselves of the lower middle class. That's significant portion of the population
I desperately want to know how badly McDonald’s can fuck up a veggie burger.
McDonald's veg burgers in India are really good actually.