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I was riding in the back of a bus with a few Elders through northern Ecuador years ago and one of them said "Hey, i have something to show you" and pulled out a bunch of pictures of... cheeseburgers and fries from TGI Friday's in Quito, they were "just like you get in Salt Lake!".

This kind of showed the challenges they were having in remote parts of Ecuador, close to the Colombian border. A couple of them didn't speak Spanish very well, but they were coping well, in my estimation. So I see the connection