14 minutes ago, transam said:

Weeeeell, I wouldn't eat Thai street food if it were free, at least with McD's stuff is clean, and the staff have a toilet and washing hands facilities eh...

You're in the back room observing staff using said facilities? Do you know what a McNugget is? Ground up chicken skin. Maccas and KFC are more a fashion statement for Thais.

I eat 80-90% Thai food, some of it street. Not hard to pick the good stalls and restaurants, they're the ones with plenty of customers.

McDonalds's can increase their prices all they want to, because I am not a customer. Better food elsewhere, and frequently a lot cheaper.

 

1 minute ago, Eindhoven said:

 

Is that why it is more successful than any Thai restaurant?

The ugly clown?

Maybe marketing?

5 minutes ago, transam said:

No you don't know how the food got to your plate, only the bit you see....????

I never eat in McDonalds, last time i did was my daughters 7th birthday party, she is now 43.

Regarding how my food got to my plate, my dinner today, turkey, veg ect, i grew myself, so yes i do know how it got there.

Just now, Lacessit said:

Do you know what a McNugget is? Ground up chicken skin.

Actually they are now made from 100% breast meat.

1 minute ago, Yinn said:

The ugly clown?

Maybe marketing?

 

Do Thais try to eat the clown? 

Yes, marketing for children.

3 minutes ago, Eindhoven said:

 

Is that why it is more successful than any Thai restaurant?

Another triumph of marketing over substance.

5 minutes ago, transam said:

Theres a lot you don't understand, you carry on munching on your chili's..????

Transam is English right?

 

i think have Thai restaurants every western country. Because thai food is delicious. 

England food restaurant is popular anywhere? Outside England?

3 minutes ago, SteveK said:

Actually they are now made from 100% breast meat.

Is that what they tell you, or what you know?

2 minutes ago, Eindhoven said:

 

Do Thais try to eat the clown? 

Yes, marketing for children.

No, the clown cook the food.

 

Marketing for children. Transam like it more than Thai food.

 

IMO I think it tasteless. IMO

Edited December 25, 20196 yr by Yinn

28 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Is MSG natural? I guess sugar is.

actually, to a nutritionist or a doctor, sugar is a poison..

2 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

actually, to a nutritionist or a doctor, sugar is a poison..

Yes, but to a Thai it is a neccessity. (Other nationalities are available)

 

And that is why the sugar MUST be completely fermented out.

Edited December 25, 20196 yr by wgdanson

1 minute ago, wgdanson said:

Yes, but to a Thai it is a neccessity. (Other nationalities are available)

Yes, it's literary an addiction and part of the reason alcoholics crave it when abstaining (a lot of sugar in alcohol). I still consume some for I'm weak but have cut back substantially. I've noticed now that some things are too sweet for me that before I used to whack back by the handful..

17 minutes ago, tropo said:

Yeah, much better to eat Thai food that has been fried in lavish quantities of cheap oils and spiced so intensely that you can't taste it. They have the best cooking oil in the world to use at a decent price (coconut oil), but instead they use palm oil.

 

On a serious note, suggesting that all Western food is garbage is a ridiculous comment. Most of my food is Western food that I cook myself, and it is far from being garbage. Obviously we use much of the same produce, but just cook it better.

 

I have no idea why anyone would eat McDonalds. If I did need an occasional McDonald's burger, I wouldn't complain about a 50 baht increase. It's a treat for some people, right?

I was speaking to 'fast food' western garbage lol not all 'western food' (we were on a thread about mcdonalds right?). I cook 99% of all the food my wife and I eat, I don't like most food cooked here by others. Yes, Thais look at western 'fast food' as a treat though dying a slow death doesn't seem pleasurable to me.

24 minutes ago, Yinn said:

McDonald’s the most popular farang restaurant in the world.

 

i really not understand why you guys love it. Really.

 

Tasteless food made by an ugly clown.

 

We don't.

 

It's just the cheapest fast food you can get in the west, like 1 USD per cheeseburger (30 thb). That's why it's popular. Popular with working class, students, family. Fast,cheap and easy. Here it's not cheap so i don't see a point in it.

 

The only other  reason to eat MCD is if you are in a country like Indiea where everything else results in food poisoning.

27 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

You're in the back room observing staff using said facilities? Do you know what a McNugget is? Ground up chicken skin. Maccas and KFC are more a fashion statement for Thais.

I eat 80-90% Thai food, some of it street. Not hard to pick the good stalls and restaurants, they're the ones with plenty of customers.

McDonalds's can increase their prices all they want to, because I am not a customer. Better food elsewhere, and frequently a lot cheaper.

 

Tell me how many have sued McD's in LOS over food poisoning. Then tell me how many people in LOS get food poisoning in LOS every day....

Edited December 25, 20196 yr by transam

1 hour ago, EricTh said:

I am surprised people still go to McDonald and eat that junk food at exorbitant prices.

 

Thai food are much healthier and cheaper.

 

White rice or noodles healthier than a small bread bun?

OK, I do agree that KFC is absolute rubbish nutritionally as it is simply chicken coated in some breadcrumbs and deep fried in something. But the odd MaccyD will not harm you.

What's in a pizza....bread, tomato sauce, ham, cheese....nothing dangerous.

25 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Transam is English right?

 

i think have Thai restaurants every western country. Because thai food is delicious. 

England food restaurant is popular anywhere? Outside England?

My Thai wife in a Thai restaurant in England told me this is not Thai food, it is Thai food "doctored" for the farang...????

1 minute ago, transam said:

Tell me how many have sued McD's in LOS over food poisoning. Then tell me how many people in LOS get food poisoning in LOS every day....

I wouldn't know. However, I would say suing any large corporation in LOS would be the ultimate exercise in futility.

I've been here 10 years, and the only case of food poisoning I got was from a packaged meal from a well-known supermarket. Quite spectacular for ten hours. Have never had a problem with street food here. Mind you, it does have to be cooked in front of me.

BTW and FYI. Australia averages about 5 million cases of food poisoning per year in restaurants, despite stringent health regulations. Not bad for a population of 23 million.

I sometimes think excluding pathogens from our diet weakens our immune systems.

 

31 minutes ago, Yinn said:

No, the clown cook the food.

 

Marketing for children. Transam like it more than Thai food.

 

IMO I think it tasteless. IMO

You are Thai, you cannot eat anything without chili's, salt and sugar in it, and you are telling farangs their food is tasteless, when you are brainwashed into eating the same thing day in day out, chili's....... ????

4 minutes ago, transam said:

My Thai wife in a Thai restaurant in England told me this is not Thai food, it is Thai food "doctored" for the farang...????

 

it happens an awful lot in thailand too, most restaurants who target the foreigner market 'doctor' their thai food to the western taste.

 

many westerners simply can't enjoy extremely spiced food and meat dishes that use almost all the animal and/or parts of the animal that are discarded (or put into sausages/burgers) back home. just look at what's on offer, and loved by the locals, at some food vendors... no thanks.

 

1 hour ago, Sundown said:

I laughed at their face and turned away immediately thinking it was a stunt of that particular restaurant.

 

Well....that sure showed ‘em 

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

I wouldn't know. However, I would say suing any large corporation in LOS would be the ultimate exercise in futility.

I've been here 10 years, and the only case of food poisoning I got was from a packaged meal from a well-known supermarket. Quite spectacular for ten hours. Have never had a problem with street food here. Mind you, it does have to be cooked in front of me.

BTW and FYI. Australia averages about 5 million cases of food poisoning per year in restaurants, despite stringent health regulations. Not bad for a population of 23 million.

I sometimes think excluding pathogens from our diet weakens our immune systems.

 

The only time I have heard of McD's being sued was over something daft like spilled coffee. I have been eating BigMacs for decades, never a problem. In LOS, I have had food poisoning a few times, now I make my own grub with the occasional McD....

Imported products SHOULD BE cheaper not more expensive.  The THB has risen 8% against the USD in the past 12 months.  That means that fewer THB are needed to buy import products.  I see the same thing though.  Price increases despite the stores and importers reaping a windfall by paying less for things they sold last year. 

1 hour ago, transam said:

I think you are confusing venues with your normal hangout, you know, the place where a dustbin full of water with a pooh stained scoop is in the loo to manually flush your offering, whist rinsing off your hands and making your feet wet...????

You've never gone into the bathroom at Central or other shopping malls and seen the 'chefs' in their Fuji/MK/Oishi uniforms at the mirrors after exiting a cubicle? 

 

Let's just say, no water is to be mentioned in this post. 

 

There was a thread about it a while ago and one of the women on here mentioned that back at home you have to queue up twice on a night-out.

 

Once to get a toilet, and again to get a sink.

 

Here they only need to queue up once....

Edited December 25, 20196 yr by Happy Grumpy

An off topic post has been removed. 

I hit up the drive through atleast 3 mornings a week for breakfast to eat on my drive to work, 1 sausage and egg mcmuffin and 2 has browns used to cost me Bt.177.00 was surpised to see it jump to Bt.199.00 a few weeks back.

6 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

I hit up the drive through atleast 3 mornings a week for breakfast to eat on my drive to work, 1 sausage and egg mcmuffin and 2 has browns used to cost me Bt.177.00 was surpised to see it jump to Bt.199.00 a few weeks back.

Where I am a BigMac has gone from 119 to 125 in one hit, as I always eat two, 250bht seems a tad over the top....

2 hours ago, Henryford said:

Like everything in Thailand, costs more than the West now. Look at Starbucks !!

I was with my gf in Burgerking ( BK) yesterday in blue port mall ( hia hin) ...i realy famcied some western junk food. First time since long at BK in Thailand. Here also prices gone up...! Right now certainly on par with my " heimat" Germany. Crazy....if you think that Thai wages are much lower!!!

 

Hans

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

McDonald’s the most popular farang restaurant in the world.

 

i really not understand why you guys love it. Really.

 

Tasteless food made by an ugly clown.

And always plenty of Thais scoffing it 

1 minute ago, roo860 said:

And always plenty of Thais scoffing it 

Yeah I dont reckon Thai's earning minimum wage is their target market... always plenty of people in the one I use, even at 6am and some seem to have money looking at the beemers and mercs in the parking lot.