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One day, it occurred to Debbie that she had been to a lot of different McDonald's restaurants over the years. Just how serious was the problem? Let's gather up the photos on our site and see.
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Mumbai (Bombay), India, July 1997 We drove by so we didn't eat here. |
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St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2002 We drove by on a bus tour so we didn't eat here. |
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Moscow, Russia, July 2002 We drove by on a bus tour so we didn't eat here. |
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Kalmar, Sweden, July 2002
Why not try a McThomas at McDonald's? We had already had lunch aboard the ship, so we didn't sample Tom's tasty namesake. But we did photograph it, of course. |
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Pompeii, Naples, Italy, June 2004 We drove by on a bus tour so we didn't eat here. |
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Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2005 Tom had a Big Mac and Debbie had a McFeast (which was similar to a Quarter Pounder). |
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Auckland, New Zealand, March 2006 We at breakfast at the Auckland airport. |
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Huntly, New Zealand, March 2006 Tom had a burger called The Boss and Debbie had a Deli Selects sandwich. |
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Istanbul, Turkey, May 2007 We drove by on a bus tour so we didn't eat here. |
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Varna, Bulgaria, May 2007 We didn't eat here. |
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Odessa, Ukraine, May 2007 We didn't eat here. |
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Crimea, Ukraine, May 2007 We were on a bus tour so we just got a photo of the sign in a vineyard. |
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Athens, Greece, May 2007 Our meals came with tiny forks, which we think were meant to be used to eat the fries, but we didn't use them. |
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Kahului, Maui, Hawaii, July 2007 Debbie tried the local specialty of Portuguese sausage, eggs, and rice. It was quite delicious. |
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Oahu, Hawaii, July 2007 We didn't stop here but admired the attempt to give the restaurant a local look. |
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Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, March 2008 Debbie had a Filet-O-Ebi (shrimp burger) and Tom had a teriyaki burger. We planned a return trip to Japan in no small part because of the amazing Filet-O-Ebi. |
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Busan, South Korea, March 2008 We didn't eat here. |
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Beijing, China, March 2008 We never had an opportunity to eat at a McDonald's in China. |
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Hong Kong, March 2008 The menu in Hong Kong is nearly identical to the menu in Indiana, so we didn't eat here. |
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Fajardo, Puerto Rico, July 2008 Many of the stores advertise "Desayuno" on their signs, which we finally figured out means "breakfast," so we took them up on their offer. |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 2009 Tom had the Quarto de Libra (similar to a Quarter Pounder with Cheese) and Debbie had the McNífica (a cross between a Quarter Pounder and a Big Mac). |
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San José, Costa Rica, June 2009 We didn't visit, but we saw that McNífica was on the menu here too. |
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Tokyo, Japan, February 2010 Debbie had a Filet-O-Ebi (shrimp burger) and Tom tried a Big America Hawaii burger, consisting of beef, bacon, egg, cheese, and sauce. We also had breakfast several times -- the McGriddles use the Egg McMuffin-style of egg instead of the scrambled egg square we're used to. |
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Triesen, Liechtenstein, June 2010 We didn't visit. This is one of only two in the entire country. |
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Innsbruck, Austria, June 2010 We didn't visit. |
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Salzburg, Austria, June 2010 We didn't visit. |
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Somewhere in Germany, June 2010 This gem is the Shrimp Lemon sandwich, a brand-new German introduction. It was just as delicious as Japan's Filet-O-Ebi, if not more so. |
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Prague, Czech Republic, July 2010 The Czech McDonald's also have shrimp on the menu, but we didn't get to eat there. Mmmmm, shrimp. Not sure what the whale was for in the burger ad. |
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Somewhere in Poland, July 2010 Debbie had a McTost breakfast sandwich -- egg and cheese between round pieces of toast. Debbie took a picture inside of the menu and got yelled at by the staff so we had to delete the photo. |
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Tahiti, March 2011 We didn't visit the two regular restaurants we saw on the big island of Tahiti, but we had breakfast at the tiny one in the airport with the breakfast menu shown. We didn't see any McDonald's restaurants on the other French Polynesia islands we visited. |
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Barcelona, Spain, October 2011 The McDonald's on Passeig de Gràcia featured macarons in the McCafe section of the restaurant. Macarons! That's when we knew we were truly in Europe. We did not try one. The McDonald's on Plaça de Catalunya did not serve breakfast foods, so we had a snack wrap, fries, and a McIbérica, which is a beef patty on a square bun with tomato, lettuce, Manchego cheese, olive oil, and Iberico ham. It was an odd combination, but worth trying. On the poster at the entrance of the Plaça de Catalunya McDonald's, Debbie spotted something she had to try before leaving Europe: the Milka donut, which we also spotted in Andorra. She finally got to try the Milka donut at the Barcelona airport. Unfortunately, it was not as delicious as she had hoped, but the McRoyal Deluxe (basically a Quarter Pounder with cheese) was pretty tasty. |
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Portugal, October 2011 We didn't visit but we did try an NYCrispy in Andorra. |
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Agadir, Morocco, October 2011 We didn't visit.
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Marrakech, Morocco, October 2011 We didn't visit.
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Seville, Spain, October 2011 We didn't visit. |
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Andorra, November 2011 We had an NYCrispy and a CBO. We had the option of regular fries (patates frites) or wedge-cut potatoes (patates deluxe), so we got one of each. Tom ordered the CBO without having any idea what it was. It came with a packet of tartar sauce, so he figured it was a fish sandwich and spread it on. Wrong -- CBO stands for Chicken Bacon Onion. It was probably delicious without tartar sauce on it. Debbie's NYCrispy was a hamburger featuring crispy onions, BBQ sauce, and bacon and it was good. |
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