Two Nicelanders are talking. Subject: Croatia.
“They’re pretty backward. They’re about 10 or 15 years behind.”
“Yeah. I hear they don’t even have a McDonald’s or a Kentucky.”
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[THAT backward. Can you imagine?]
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LOL!
Would that I lived somewhere “that backward”!
There are places other than the US that have a Kentucky?
Oh, the poor poor people, really missing out on the good things in life
I think I’ve been dissed!
I’d move to a country for that reason. Sick of these clonetowns like they have in england. In England there is no point in going anywhere other than the nearest town because they all have the same shop. Even the same mass-produced partygirls that fill them
I was really distressed, the first time I visited Australia (~14 years back), to discover that not only were there Kentucky Fried Chicken establishments EVERYWHERE, a good number of Australians thought the franchise came from Australia! (I ask you — where is Kentucky, Australia? But anyway) And here I thought I was getting away from it all..
I love San Diego, but a lot of it is strip-mall central. There is nothing good about this. Croatia sounds like paradise in this regard.
That’s one of the things that somewhat surprised me in Niceland, it’s that , except for a couple of them, there are not a lot of global franchised names around.
Even if I spotted a ‘Taco Bell” somewhere between the airport and Reykjavik, it seems it was a lonely one, “Shell” is not the most seen gas station, “H&M” seems totally absent…
And after all, this is probably a good thing !
That’s just sad. Maccas = progress. Some Icelanders’ value systems need serious overhauls
I’m partial to a Maccy D’s or a KFC now and again, I confess. But if they weren’t there, I wouldn’t miss them. And I certainly wouldn’t feel “backward”! (I’d feel healthier, if anything!)
Oh that’s just sad. I usually get embarrassed when I hear ignorance from North Amerikans abroad for the same reasons. But on an extended walkabout in South America I went to where few gringos dare tread and was happy to almost never see global branding other than colas and smokes. I did however see Dunkin Donuts (and they deliver). I’m not happy to now hear that McCrappys has now invaded the countries way south, I guess that is considered progress. Ever wonder why the ugly franchises that we consider low rent only appear in other countries when they’ve reached a certain level of prosperity?
Sign on a road side dinner in the outback of Colombia: “Comidas Rapidas”, meaning “Fast Food”. It was exactly what it said, good home cooked food that is fast to serve. A Mac’s just wouldn’t be the same.
Please blog about some of the good food you eat there!
I’m living in Romania at the moment, and while most people would say that things here are more backward than most places in Europe (expat comrade-in-arms commenting after a visit to Krakow: “Poland’s about 50 years ahead of Romania!”), the country is, unfortunately, overrun with McDonald’s and, in the bigger cities, KFC. So I think there needs to be a new standard for ‘backward’, and I’d personally agree that proliferation of miserable sub-par American fast-food chains is not an indication of a forward-thinking culture.
(But, imagine my amazement when I went into my local health-food store–and my amazement that I HAVE a local health-food store–and found Lýsi cod liver oil. 3 blocks from the McDonald’s …)
But it wasn’t all that long ago that Iceland didn’t have Maccas or KFC!
maja – precisely! Which makes it even more absurd.
Don*t telling shits about Croatia!There are a lot of McDonald*s – unfortunately – I just won*t us to be fat and unhealthy…………..
So, if we are 10 or 15 years behind (who??????????) than I wish we can be 25………….
aida – with all due respect, I think you’re missing the point.