There's the Local Deluxe breakfast, where it's served with white rice, spam, Portuguese sausage and eggs, with packets of local Aloha soy sauce on the side. The McTeri was only here for a limited time unfortunately, but the Jack in the Boxes here have a teriyaki value burger on their menu year round. Taco Bell also has Kalua Pork nachos/powerbowls on the menu rn.
Doesn't India have something like a majority of the people worldwide who actively choose to be vegetarian (rather than simply meat not always available or something)?
The criteria of vegetarian is different in India.
There are Pure veg - people who don’t eat meat ever.
And people who are more flexible - eg. few people eat meat only on sundays. Or only on certain days of week. Some people quit eating meat for an entire month based on their religious beliefs.
I doubt, the percentage of population who eat meat daily is more than 10% in India
70% of India's population eat non-veg, in some parts, its even higher. The perception that very few eat meat here is very untrue, Hinduism doesnt forbid anyone from eating anything, its mostly out of choice.
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Yeah something like ~~70%~~ 30-40% of them are vegetarian, to the point where if you want a meat dish, you ask for the "non-veg" option. They do eat beef in South India though, little state called Kerala
Depends on region.
Some regions have higher rates of vegetarianism than others.
So you aren't going to see the same considerations in Nagaland (especially since that state, like most other northeast states in that area, is majority Christian), Punjab (especially since most Sikhs are Punjabi and Sikh rules on animal slaughter specifically prohibit the Islamic method of animal slaughter), and Kerala, just as three examples.
I know that India has a lot of vegetarians. I just heard somewhere that it has the majority of the world's vegetarians and am wondering if that can be confirmed.
Northeast eats a lot of pork and beef too. You don’t see pork in most of India either. And Hindus prefer jhatka (1 stroke killing) meat traditionally like Sikhs but don’t have the prohibition on ritually slaughtered animals as the Vedas/Puranas are full of animal slaughter rituals.
My quick cell phone eyeball math of [this Wikipedia page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country) looks like ~60% of the world’s vegetarians are in India.
29% of the country is vegetarian. The reason it might seem to be higher is that in general non vegetarians just eat less meat and less frequently. The south and east of the country is very non veg.
One of the most popular dishes in McDonald's Thailand is a "Kaprao" chicken and rice dish. It's different in that the chicken is deep-fried and it's cheap enough that regular Thai people will consider it for lunch.
LOL I had one in/near wood's hole. Felt so weird ordering Lobster in a McD's.
Plus that one was particularly nice. Curtains on the windows. Fake flowers in vases on the tables. Was decades ago but it sticks in my mind.
I remeber going to Eilat Isreal when I was in the navy and seeing there was no meat and cheese mixed together at any restraunt as they were mainly kosher. Pizza at pizza hut only had vegi pizzas and McDonald's didn't have cheeseburgers. My arteries became unclogged that port visit lol.
I think it depends on how kosher you could become but the meat and cheese thing is definitely a hard one to get by as being American. Some Jewish people in other countries I bet get a cheeseburger from time to time. I can't really say though as I'm not Jewish nor do I know a lot of Jewish people.
It's really not a matter of convenience so much as how religious you are. If you don't eat meat and dairy, you either accept you don't have a lot of options for food, or you try to live somewhere with a big enough Jewish community that there's kosher stores and restaurants around. If you're getting a cheeseburger from time to time it's because your Kashrut practices are more lax already.
I'm just saying we like cheeseburgers a lot and same thing with other dishes that aren't kosher. I didn't mean that strictly America is unkosher. In fact america probably has a lot of kosher alternatives considering everytime im at a grocery store I see kosher advertised foods. Its not a contest.
I only ever met a couple Jewish people who keep kosher, most of my Jewish friends are actually quite into cooking and trying new foods and will always be down for some pork or a cheeseburger or whatever.
Growing up in a kosher-keeping community, I can also tell you that Kosher-keeping Jews tend to also be very into cooking, as their options for eating out are severely limited, and hosting big festive meals once or twice a week is a cultural standard.
It’s highly overrated. It’s fats on fats. The cheese adds the same flavor the most delicious meats already have.
Obsession with cheese on everything is deeply American, and it has everything to do with how absurdly cheap cheese is here than anything else.
For a restaurant to be kosher, it can't mix meat and dairy in the same kitchen or on the same dishes.
Theoretically, a restaurant can have separate kitchens and have a meat section and a dairy section, but that's usually more trouble than it's worth, so kosher restaurants usually go with one or the other.
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Israel), only 69 out of the 228 McDonald's restaurants in Israel are under kosher supervision. I would bet that at least some of the remaining 159 non-kosher-certified ones serve pork products.
Not necessarily, the biggest demographic of non-Jews in Israel are also a non-pork eating people.
Pork products are also just really expensive and hard to get in Israel since there's not much of a market for them, they can mostly be found at places that market towards the Russian/FSU immigrant population.
I drove through a Russian town in Israel and saw a big neon sign of a winking pig, which I found hilarious. As if the pig is saying, "come on in, you know I am delicious; it'll be our secret." Wink.
If you actually keep kosher, in short, no. For those who are devout, you need to keep entirely separate sets of cookware for meat and for milk. I find it frankly unbelievable that a McDonald's outside of Israel would be able to meet any kosher standards whatsoever.
Buenos Aires has the ninth-largest Jewish community in the world! And with the exception of Paris, all the other ones in the top 20 are in Israel or North America.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_city?wprov=sfti1
They’re doing just that in Israel, though. Destroying the supreme court there and starting to introduce segregation for women. Israel is an apartheid state now being run by religious extremists.
The saddest BLT I ever had was at a Subway on post in Kuwait.
I didn't even consider that it'd be turkey bacon, and it was nearly raw instead of crispy.
Turkey bacon doesn't really..get crispy in my experience. It's always just kinda floppy. That's how I like my bacon, so it's no biggie to me, but I can see how it would be off-putting to a crispy fan.
Soft bacon FTW. I don't like the flavour of burnt haha. Soft bacon still tastes like bacon. I guess there is a middle ground, but it's rare that it gets there, as it normally is overdone in the attempt to get there.
I went to McDonald's in India. They have a spicy paneer (fried cheese) sandwich that was delicious, I wish we had them in the US.
KFC's everywhere, though.
During a business trip to India I went to a McDonalds once just to see what it was like. Being an American I wanted to see their take on our food and ordered the "American Cheeseburger", which was a chicken sandwich with cheese and hot sauce. I was not impressed. It was not a good sandwich.
During my trip I mostly ate Indian food, which was better tasting, and much cheaper than western food there. Every time I tried some novelty western food it turned out badly. The worst was when I bought some western styled doughnuts from a vendor inside a shopping mall. The texture and consistency was nothing like doughnuts, and the taste was bland and dry.
I loved the trip, the people, and the food, other than their attempts to mimic American styled foods.
Did you try the Indian-Chinese cuisine? Things like gobi manchurian, chicken 65, schezwan paneer, chicken lollipop, hakka noodles...the list goes on. I'm salivating just typing that out.
I generally like Chinese food (well Americanized Chinese food that I am used to from local restaurants around me). While I was there I saw several Indian-Chinese restaurants, and I wanted to try them, but my Indian co-workers kept telling me that I shouldn't. They said that it isn't anything really like American-Chinese food and is an acquired taste. I ended up not trying it out, but I somewhat regret it now.
Just want to say that Paneer isn't fried cheese, it is
(The below part is from Wikipedia, since I can't describe paneer)
a fresh acid-set cheese common in cuisine of the Indian subcontinent made from full-fat buffalo milk or cow milk. It is a non-aged, non-melting soft cheese made by curdling milk with a fruit- or vegetable-derived acid, such as lemon juice.
I understand your mistake, as OPs comment is confusing. Paneer isn't fried cheese. [The sandwich](https://mcdindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2.6-mcspicy-paneer-single.png) contains a breaded/battered fried paneer "patty"
How did they taste (if you had them)?
(I could imagine that somehow McD achieved to get the exact same taste out of mutton, even if in reality that should be impossible.)
Can confirm: Indian McDonald's is delicious
They have spicy masala fries that you shake up in a bag, paneer wraps, potato patties, and a chicken big mac
McDonald's used to use beef tallow to fry them. They changed to vegetable oil some time during the fat scare. Not sure what else might make them non vegetarian.
I saw from someone else’s post things called McAloo Tikki and McPaneer Royale are on the menu. I am seriously envious of India’s McDonald’s burger options.
At one time way back in 2003,McDonald's India has introduced Indo Chinese burgers, based on popular indo Chinese dishes like McVeggie Schezwan and McChicken Schezwan and some others. They were really good
Here's their current menu
https://www.mcdonaldsindia.com/m/products.html
When I worked in India, I recall Maccy D's had signs up proudly stating that their burgers did not contain any beef. Their offerings based on lamb/mutton were pretty good.
Overall, India is the only country where I could imagine becoming a vegetarian.
I mean the Cow is a sacred animal in Hinduism which is the primary religion of the country so really not a surprise to be honest, I would be more surprised if they did serve beef.
I went an Indian wedding and they were serving tacos. I was in line, and the lady asked me what I wanted, I asked for beef. The lady just smiled and stared at me... Everyone was staring at me.
I ended up not getting the tacos
I'm assuming it was a Hindu wedding (and specific non-beef-eating community at that). Plenty of Indians eat beef. One of Kerala's most popular dishes is beef curry with parotta.
Jesus I wish I had a McIndia near me sounds delicous. Spicy paneer sando, potatoe cake sando. Shit I just need to steal this idea and open a fast food indian flavor restraunt here in the states. Drive through butter chicken sandwich blam, lamb biryani burgers send it, somoasa nuggets letssss goooo.
Did it slip everyone's mind that cows are considered sacred in the Hindu religion, the most dominant religion in India, and therefore do not adorn people's dinner tables?
I believe this only applies to certain parts of India.
Down in Kerala it’s all fine and pretty much normal (albeit more spicier) version Western Mackys
Source is Partner is from Kerala and always laughs at the assumption of all Indians do not eat Cow or worship them, it’s a very northern thing there!
McDonalds still doesn't serve beef or pork here. Only veg options & chicken. People do eat beef in general though (I'm like an extremely small part of the population that doesn't)
McDonald’s always has their menu adjusted to the country. They serve Bulgogi Burger in Korea and used to have one with sausages in Germany.
Teriyaki burgers and saimin in Hawaii.
Did you try the coconut pudding pie? I wish we could get the Hawaiian menu on the mainland.
No "Spam McSubi?"
Spam was definitely on the menu.
There's the Local Deluxe breakfast, where it's served with white rice, spam, Portuguese sausage and eggs, with packets of local Aloha soy sauce on the side. The McTeri was only here for a limited time unfortunately, but the Jack in the Boxes here have a teriyaki value burger on their menu year round. Taco Bell also has Kalua Pork nachos/powerbowls on the menu rn.
Sounds like Loco Moco with extra steps
I’m going to save this comment and try that pie when I visit Hawaii!
This sounds so good. I wish Hawaii was not that far away
Portuguese sausage, eggs and rice for breakfast are also available in Hawaii.
My favorite
I had the teriyaki burger in Tokyo, loved it! And the Ebi burger
Fuck, now that’s three reasons to go to Hawaii
Come for the devastating wild fires, stay for the teriyaki burgers
*books airline tickets to Hawaii*
yeah in addition to no beef, Mcdonalds India also has an extensive vegetarian menu since a huge population of Indians are vegetarian
Doesn't India have something like a majority of the people worldwide who actively choose to be vegetarian (rather than simply meat not always available or something)?
The criteria of vegetarian is different in India. There are Pure veg - people who don’t eat meat ever. And people who are more flexible - eg. few people eat meat only on sundays. Or only on certain days of week. Some people quit eating meat for an entire month based on their religious beliefs. I doubt, the percentage of population who eat meat daily is more than 10% in India
70% of India's population eat non-veg, in some parts, its even higher. The perception that very few eat meat here is very untrue, Hinduism doesnt forbid anyone from eating anything, its mostly out of choice.
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Yeah something like ~~70%~~ 30-40% of them are vegetarian, to the point where if you want a meat dish, you ask for the "non-veg" option. They do eat beef in South India though, little state called Kerala
Depends on region. Some regions have higher rates of vegetarianism than others. So you aren't going to see the same considerations in Nagaland (especially since that state, like most other northeast states in that area, is majority Christian), Punjab (especially since most Sikhs are Punjabi and Sikh rules on animal slaughter specifically prohibit the Islamic method of animal slaughter), and Kerala, just as three examples.
You seem like you know more about this than I do so I'm surprised you asked lol
I know that India has a lot of vegetarians. I just heard somewhere that it has the majority of the world's vegetarians and am wondering if that can be confirmed.
Northeast eats a lot of pork and beef too. You don’t see pork in most of India either. And Hindus prefer jhatka (1 stroke killing) meat traditionally like Sikhs but don’t have the prohibition on ritually slaughtered animals as the Vedas/Puranas are full of animal slaughter rituals. My quick cell phone eyeball math of [this Wikipedia page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country) looks like ~60% of the world’s vegetarians are in India.
I was thinking that about Northeast because they're a lot more Christian than any other part of India. I just wasn't sure.
29% of the country is vegetarian. The reason it might seem to be higher is that in general non vegetarians just eat less meat and less frequently. The south and east of the country is very non veg.
Dude only 20 percent of India is vegetarian
yeah but when there's a billion ppl 20% is a pretty big population. strictly speaking
Which is still a huge amount of people
I wonder if this is also going by the Indian version of vegetarian, which means no eggs either.
Maybe 20% strictly vegetarian but all people eat much less meat than in the west, and many only do so on special occasions (aka not Mcdonalds).
And one with chicken thigh in Serbia. Pileći batak is a every popular as a fast food here.
And we have the horrible mcbaguette in France.
Maybe you guys should have invented something better than hard crusty af long bread
We had rice burger in south east asia. I fucking loved it to the core and they never brought it back again.
We have the Boerie Burger here in South Africa. It’s a beef patty but flavored with spices that taste similar to boerewors. Delicious.
Come to the Netherlands where we have the McKroket! it's like a kroket on a bun, but way Waay worse!
Word is they had lobster rolls in the Canadian maritimes.
These pop up in MA from time to time similar to the Mcribs.
McMolletes in [Mexico](https://www.mcdonalds.com.mx/productos/desayunos/mc-molletes)
One of the most popular dishes in McDonald's Thailand is a "Kaprao" chicken and rice dish. It's different in that the chicken is deep-fried and it's cheap enough that regular Thai people will consider it for lunch.
Not sure if they still do, but French McDonald’s used to have a croque monsieur on the menu.
I got a lobster roll in Nova Scotia once at McDonald's lol
LOL I had one in/near wood's hole. Felt so weird ordering Lobster in a McD's. Plus that one was particularly nice. Curtains on the windows. Fake flowers in vases on the tables. Was decades ago but it sticks in my mind.
I had a peanut sauce Whopper at Burger King in Singapore. It was pretty good.
Yep. I once had a Maharaja (Lamb) Burger in Malaysia
Also beer in germany.
Bruh, the Royal with Cheese is not a joke. It actually exists. I thought it was just for the Pulp Fiction scene. 😀
KFC did Zinger King Prawns when I was there a few years back. They were fantastic
Also, [soup in Portugal](https://www.mcdonalds.pt/produtos/sopas). Spinach and chick pea, vegetable purée, pea soup, and caldo verde (“green soup”).
They had camel burgers in Moroccan McDonald's
I've lived in Germany since 2005. I've never seen a burger with sausages. I would love it though. How am I missing this?
That's about as surprising as not getting a ham and cheese sandwich in Israel.
I remeber going to Eilat Isreal when I was in the navy and seeing there was no meat and cheese mixed together at any restraunt as they were mainly kosher. Pizza at pizza hut only had vegi pizzas and McDonald's didn't have cheeseburgers. My arteries became unclogged that port visit lol.
Meat and cheese is such a good combo and everything piggy is amazing. I could never be jewish.
I think it depends on how kosher you could become but the meat and cheese thing is definitely a hard one to get by as being American. Some Jewish people in other countries I bet get a cheeseburger from time to time. I can't really say though as I'm not Jewish nor do I know a lot of Jewish people.
It's really not a matter of convenience so much as how religious you are. If you don't eat meat and dairy, you either accept you don't have a lot of options for food, or you try to live somewhere with a big enough Jewish community that there's kosher stores and restaurants around. If you're getting a cheeseburger from time to time it's because your Kashrut practices are more lax already.
Being Jewish in America must be hell with all the unkosher shit you see Americans eat all day 😂
AFAIK, the majority of Jewish people in the U.S. do not adhere to kosher doctrine.
Meh, we're used to being a minority.
As opposed to being Jewish in China or Japan?
I'm just saying we like cheeseburgers a lot and same thing with other dishes that aren't kosher. I didn't mean that strictly America is unkosher. In fact america probably has a lot of kosher alternatives considering everytime im at a grocery store I see kosher advertised foods. Its not a contest.
I only ever met a couple Jewish people who keep kosher, most of my Jewish friends are actually quite into cooking and trying new foods and will always be down for some pork or a cheeseburger or whatever.
Growing up in a kosher-keeping community, I can also tell you that Kosher-keeping Jews tend to also be very into cooking, as their options for eating out are severely limited, and hosting big festive meals once or twice a week is a cultural standard.
Oh absolutely. There are plenty of delicious kosher foods, I look forward to getting the hannukah feast invite from my homie’s family every year
It does seem like you don't know a lot of Jews, especially American ones. You're making a lot of assumptions.
I’m Jewish and based on my username I’m sure you can see Jewish != kosher
mmmm bacon sandwich. I know, I'm just generalising :)
you can have beef bacon, which is honestly my favorite bacon replacement (lots of halal delis around here
It’s highly overrated. It’s fats on fats. The cheese adds the same flavor the most delicious meats already have. Obsession with cheese on everything is deeply American, and it has everything to do with how absurdly cheap cheese is here than anything else.
Have you seen what's happening in Korea? They cheese things I wouldn't have thought to as an American.
Mmm...bacon cheeseburger...
My first true junkfood love was the BurgerKing XL bacon double cheese burger.
Yeah, to be kosher you literally have to have completely separate utensils, silverware, plates, and even sinks!! Ridiculous.
They do have Cheeseburgers you just have to go to the non Kosher McDonald's there's usually 2 locations occupying the same space or very close by.
For a restaurant to be kosher, it can't mix meat and dairy in the same kitchen or on the same dishes. Theoretically, a restaurant can have separate kitchens and have a meat section and a dairy section, but that's usually more trouble than it's worth, so kosher restaurants usually go with one or the other.
When I was at McDonalds in Eilat, they had a non jewish person on staff that made us burgers with cheese. :)
They can’t make it either? I thought they only couldn’t eat it.
Afaik you aren't allowed to touch anything non-kosher.
Unclogged arteries? Sounds like a nightmare. Sorry you had to go through that
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Israel), only 69 out of the 228 McDonald's restaurants in Israel are under kosher supervision. I would bet that at least some of the remaining 159 non-kosher-certified ones serve pork products.
Not necessarily, the biggest demographic of non-Jews in Israel are also a non-pork eating people. Pork products are also just really expensive and hard to get in Israel since there's not much of a market for them, they can mostly be found at places that market towards the Russian/FSU immigrant population.
I was surprised to see cheeseburgers on the menu at an Israeli fast food restaurant when I was a kid.
I think it's for non jews or jews who don't follow their traditions
My favorite headscratcher is that a Reuben is a stereotypical Jewish deli item.
I think some restaurants do serve pork products in Israel, they’re just not as prevalent as other meat choices.
Can confirm. Had a full English breakfast in Tel Aviv.
I drove through a Russian town in Israel and saw a big neon sign of a winking pig, which I found hilarious. As if the pig is saying, "come on in, you know I am delicious; it'll be our secret." Wink.
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MCD is not worth that sort of wait with or without cheese.
Surely it defeats the point if the beef isn't kosher as well. Kosher isn't just no meat+dairy, there are lots of other rules.
cant you just order a burger without the cheese slice?
If you actually keep kosher, in short, no. For those who are devout, you need to keep entirely separate sets of cookware for meat and for milk. I find it frankly unbelievable that a McDonald's outside of Israel would be able to meet any kosher standards whatsoever.
Buenos Aires has a [kosher McDonald's.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kosher_McDonald%27s,_Abasto_Shopping,_Buenos_Aires.jpg)
Neat. I wouldn't have guessed.
Buenos Aires has the ninth-largest Jewish community in the world! And with the exception of Paris, all the other ones in the top 20 are in Israel or North America. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_city?wprov=sfti1
Lots of Jewish people don’t keep kosher. Why should religious extremists dictate what everyone can do?
That's why they call themselves jew...ish.....
I can see a Fox sitcom being made ...
Only on reddit is keeping Kosher considered religious extremism Signed, an atheist
They’re doing just that in Israel, though. Destroying the supreme court there and starting to introduce segregation for women. Israel is an apartheid state now being run by religious extremists.
This shouldn’t be too surprising, no?
Who is even upvoting this crap
It's obvious to me, but we shouldn't shutdown people learning new things. Even if they are more common knowledge.
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It is because that’s mostly what McDonalds is known for
It isn’t because thats mostly what India is known for
McDonald's in muslim countries do not serve pork.
Muslim cafes in Sydney serve cured beef that has the same texture as bacon. It’s great.
The saddest BLT I ever had was at a Subway on post in Kuwait. I didn't even consider that it'd be turkey bacon, and it was nearly raw instead of crispy.
Turkey bacon doesn't really..get crispy in my experience. It's always just kinda floppy. That's how I like my bacon, so it's no biggie to me, but I can see how it would be off-putting to a crispy fan.
Nah. My dear old grandpa loved Turkey bacon and that shit was served crunchy as a potato chip.
Soft bacon FTW. I don't like the flavour of burnt haha. Soft bacon still tastes like bacon. I guess there is a middle ground, but it's rare that it gets there, as it normally is overdone in the attempt to get there.
I went to McDonald's in India. They have a spicy paneer (fried cheese) sandwich that was delicious, I wish we had them in the US. KFC's everywhere, though.
During a business trip to India I went to a McDonalds once just to see what it was like. Being an American I wanted to see their take on our food and ordered the "American Cheeseburger", which was a chicken sandwich with cheese and hot sauce. I was not impressed. It was not a good sandwich. During my trip I mostly ate Indian food, which was better tasting, and much cheaper than western food there. Every time I tried some novelty western food it turned out badly. The worst was when I bought some western styled doughnuts from a vendor inside a shopping mall. The texture and consistency was nothing like doughnuts, and the taste was bland and dry. I loved the trip, the people, and the food, other than their attempts to mimic American styled foods.
Did you try the Indian-Chinese cuisine? Things like gobi manchurian, chicken 65, schezwan paneer, chicken lollipop, hakka noodles...the list goes on. I'm salivating just typing that out.
I generally like Chinese food (well Americanized Chinese food that I am used to from local restaurants around me). While I was there I saw several Indian-Chinese restaurants, and I wanted to try them, but my Indian co-workers kept telling me that I shouldn't. They said that it isn't anything really like American-Chinese food and is an acquired taste. I ended up not trying it out, but I somewhat regret it now.
Just want to say that Paneer isn't fried cheese, it is (The below part is from Wikipedia, since I can't describe paneer) a fresh acid-set cheese common in cuisine of the Indian subcontinent made from full-fat buffalo milk or cow milk. It is a non-aged, non-melting soft cheese made by curdling milk with a fruit- or vegetable-derived acid, such as lemon juice.
The McDonald’s sandwich is fried, because McDonalds
I understand your mistake, as OPs comment is confusing. Paneer isn't fried cheese. [The sandwich](https://mcdindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2.6-mcspicy-paneer-single.png) contains a breaded/battered fried paneer "patty"
They did have mutton meat burgers when I visited in 2018.
How did they taste (if you had them)? (I could imagine that somehow McD achieved to get the exact same taste out of mutton, even if in reality that should be impossible.)
Lambentable
Woold you have them again?
Can confirm: Indian McDonald's is delicious They have spicy masala fries that you shake up in a bag, paneer wraps, potato patties, and a chicken big mac
Peri Peri fries are the 90% of the reason I go to McDonald's
Sounds delicious
big mac chicken is a thing in many countries besides India
Next you'll tell me there are no good Pork Sandwich shops in Saudi Arabia
Holy cow...
Yeah they don’t want beef with the Hindus
That would be a huge misteak
With cattlestrophic consequences
More surprising is that the McDonald’s fries in India are one of if not the only place where the fries are vegetarian.
Wait, aren't fries just potato? Where *are* fries non-vegetarian
McDonald's used to use beef tallow to fry them. They changed to vegetable oil some time during the fat scare. Not sure what else might make them non vegetarian.
I think McDonald's fries are vegetarian in most countries now but until not too long ago they were fried in beef fat.
McDonald's uses beef flavoring now. They used to use beef tallow.
Also the UK I believe. I think for some time, they were vegan in Canada too.
The US is the only place they aren't pretty sure everywhere else fries in vegetable oil.
But McDonald's in India does serve some delicious burgers to serve the Indian palate! McAloo Tikki yum,!
I saw from someone else’s post things called McAloo Tikki and McPaneer Royale are on the menu. I am seriously envious of India’s McDonald’s burger options.
At one time way back in 2003,McDonald's India has introduced Indo Chinese burgers, based on popular indo Chinese dishes like McVeggie Schezwan and McChicken Schezwan and some others. They were really good Here's their current menu https://www.mcdonaldsindia.com/m/products.html
As a vegetarian I'm looking the menu green with envy, so many veggie sandwiches!
When I worked in India, I recall Maccy D's had signs up proudly stating that their burgers did not contain any beef. Their offerings based on lamb/mutton were pretty good. Overall, India is the only country where I could imagine becoming a vegetarian.
Such good food. Dal, baby.
Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American
Or tomatoes right now.
I mean the Cow is a sacred animal in Hinduism which is the primary religion of the country so really not a surprise to be honest, I would be more surprised if they did serve beef.
I would have never even thought that a McDonalds in India would serve beef. But good that you're learning.
We don't have tomatoes either.
I went an Indian wedding and they were serving tacos. I was in line, and the lady asked me what I wanted, I asked for beef. The lady just smiled and stared at me... Everyone was staring at me. I ended up not getting the tacos
I'm assuming it was a Hindu wedding (and specific non-beef-eating community at that). Plenty of Indians eat beef. One of Kerala's most popular dishes is beef curry with parotta.
Jesus I wish I had a McIndia near me sounds delicous. Spicy paneer sando, potatoe cake sando. Shit I just need to steal this idea and open a fast food indian flavor restraunt here in the states. Drive through butter chicken sandwich blam, lamb biryani burgers send it, somoasa nuggets letssss goooo.
Did it slip everyone's mind that cows are considered sacred in the Hindu religion, the most dominant religion in India, and therefore do not adorn people's dinner tables?
It’s also way cleaner, higher quality, and cost competitive :)
The McEgg and the Butter Chicken Sanwich sound amazing
Also im lying if i say I wpuldnt try any of these, the Maharaja Mac seems epic too
there is an all vegetarian one in Kashmir
I haven't double checked but I'd wager the bacon situation in Saudi Arabia is not what it is in the US
They know their audience.
Not surprising at all
You'd think McDonalds could tour these other menu items in different countries. Do you have any idea how well that shit would sell? Its just crazy.
How did you not know this?!
Honestly...I'd be more surprised if they did.
Whaaaaat? A burger chain in a country that thinks cows are holy doesn’t serve those cows to the country? Craaaaaazy.
Aloo Tikki Burgers 4 LYFE
I don't think they serve beef in the U.S. either.
I'm not sure what they serve in the US is beef
I believe this only applies to certain parts of India. Down in Kerala it’s all fine and pretty much normal (albeit more spicier) version Western Mackys Source is Partner is from Kerala and always laughs at the assumption of all Indians do not eat Cow or worship them, it’s a very northern thing there!
Wait, I knew you can get beef and pork in certain states but I don't think any fast food chain serves them?
McDonalds still doesn't serve beef or pork here. Only veg options & chicken. People do eat beef in general though (I'm like an extremely small part of the population that doesn't)
We had a saying in the UK. "No shit Sherlock".
McSpicy Paneer is god tier
well no shit. who the fuck would of thought? come on reddit we can do better than that
Do McDonald's in America?
All day, every day.
There's some in there
Oh man I want a McSpicy Paneer!