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by tharne 1541 days ago
> The answer is always that popularity doesn't correlate with merit.

Exactly. If we used popularity and usage rates as the measure of merit, we'd have to conclude that the highest quality restaurant in the world is MacDonald's.
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eimrine 1541 days ago
> the highest quality restaurant in the world is MacDonald's.

Isn't it so? The meal is enough healthy (for hard-workers only, not for calories-gathers), calorage as I have mentioned is excellent, waiting is minimum, non-meal payings (keeping the restaurant attractive) are the lowest possible, the most important thing is that in poor countries (my is in the bottom of bigmac index) the prices are lower than anything else available in big cities.

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BeetleB 1541 days ago
I'm one of those who actually likes McDonald's burgers. However, in the last year I decided to stop going there because of multiple experiences with restaurants near me where I ordered to go, and parts of the burger were cold. As in fridge cold.

As for price - not sure what you mean by "poor" countries. In the ones I've traveled to, McDonald's is considered a high end restaurant and is not cheap by the local standards.

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paperclipp 1540 days ago
>The meal is enough healthy Have you been sleeping under a rock for the last 20 years ? McDo food has never been healthy. The nutrient content is poor, potatoes are cultivated with nasty insecticides, shit in the meat, etc, etc
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eimrine 1539 days ago
> McDo food has never been healthy

What do you think is needed to be add or to be removed?

> The nutrient content is poor

Can you disclosure your information a little bit? Maybe you have a link to some publications or anything better then just an opinion.

> potatoes are cultivated with nasty insecticides

Of course they are, or you know any better protection from colorado beatle? If you are living in America or in another place where transportated species are not a problem for your local nature - you can not even imagine what a hard problem is to beat a specie which has no nature enemies.

> shit in the meat, etc, etc Well, I don't know where to get better ingredients then MacDo has gotten. I definitely not sure that meat in my fridge has no shit tbh.

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scns 1541 days ago
High quality ingridients are costly too.
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