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[–] 81 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But the restaurant, a symbol of the country’s Western aspirations,

I promise I'm no tankie but this line in reference to McDonalds is cursed

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  • [–] 78 points 2 months ago (22 children)

    But is ice cream machine broke? y/n

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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    "As long as the ice cream machine still stands, this fight is not lost" ~ George Washington

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    Only in America where there's an exclusive service contract that forces franchisees to use a very expensive third party to fix the machines. The machines throw error codes that can only be cleared by a service visit for something that should be as simple as a clean and reset. It incentivizes machines that fail often and disincentivizes the franchisee from actually keeping the machine running.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I think that's an America only thing. Sure I'm not the most loyal McCostumer (like I'm only go there if I'm out of other options) but I've never seen one out of service here in Europe. On the other hand I've heard that McDonald's coke is better in the USA, while this side of the pond is the most watered down, flat, ass-tasting liquid one can buy legally.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    There's a servicing contract thing that happens with them here, so they're probably engineered to break down often. Walk into a modern factory anywhere in this country and tell me their machines break down like that. It's absurd.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's rather that the machines give generic errors with no useful info, requiring calling for service. And if the minimum wage workers don't follow the instructions correctly for cleaning it will fail, but won't give an error until the end of the process hours later.

    They're not actually broken, it's just a cleaning process that is easy to do wrong when you don't care because you're paid pennies.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    The legend behind the Coke being better at McDonald's is supposedly the ratio of syrup to carbonated water is just a hair off, it's stored cooler than mandated and the straws are (or at least used to be) wider than average straws to allow for bigger gulps.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Fuck these stupid reddit jokes stfu about the ice cream machines already

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Did they get Putin’s order wrong back in 2009 or something?

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Big "the house burned down but the bible survived" vibes lmao

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah what exactly is being celebrated?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The ability of people to have some shed of normalcy to preserve their psycho amid totally fucked up situation?

    Recently russia just flies reactive shahed in circles around Kyiv so the alarms would play nonstop. So you don't even go to shelters cause otherwise you'd have to live there 24/7. That, and half-empty shelves in the shops cause the storehouses are being targeted.

    So, yeah, just order for some burger and coke is celebrated.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    And the ice cream machine?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Outside of America ice cream machines work. The rest of the world doesn't do monopolies very well, so mcdolands can actually fix their machine when it's broke, instead of waiting forever for an authorised fixer from one company. Also, people get a living wage working there, so they care a bit more.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Paywalled beyond the first paragraph

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    One of the most annoying things citizens can do in the enemy's eyes, is continue to live their lives like the war isn't happening. Of course, they don't have much choice, because they still need food on the table, and the bills don't fucking stop.

    Keep calm, and carry on.

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    Maybe it identifies as a waffle house?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    But Thomas Friedman said

    No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Well yeah he's a dumbass. ~~ I think Peru and Ecuador went to war disproving this like 30 years ago~~. Nvm i totally botched the countries but yeah it was already false when Friedman said it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-countries-war/

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Communism suffered its first Big Mac attack today as McDonald's opened a restaurant in Yugoslavia, and police were called in to keep customers who lined up for hours from getting too unruly under the golden arches.

    Calling this a Bread Line and suggesting it was proof of capitalism's failure.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    I hate to agree with russia, but all mcdonalds should be destroyed. It's poison garbage food and you all should know it.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    it's garbage, but don't forget, russia used to have mcd's themselves. and even now, russia has a knockoff mcd'z.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I find it very curious how russia does some interesting things like that. One of the few places that invest heavily in sovereignty and makes resistance to us brands. A pity they kind of do that for the wrong reasons and are imperialist themselves

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    yeah it's wild how they can despise the west... but also, want to be the west themselves? they despise capitalists... and have hollowed out their own country with crony capitalism.... they're a failed petrostate who are losing a war to a tiny neighbor, 1000-1600 dead every day, going on longer than WW1.

    oh and they have the second largest pile of nuclear weapons in the world (or first, depending on whose numbers you trust)....

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    What's interesting about this? MacDonald's left after the fullscale invasion, and someone bought the assets to make a cheap kickoff.

    It is not about sovereignty, they try to preserve Moscow as "rich and just like the West", cause it's the place foreigners visit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If more countries had their "cheap kickoff" instead of the us brands, the us wouldn't be as powerful and influential as it is today.

    If only people resisted the giant us brands by themselves, as a cultural thing...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    McDonald's is so In. Indestructible, Indigestible food, Inhumane working place, ...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    There is something interesting about adults who can go out and eat or cook pretty much anything they want and go sit in a McDonald's

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Wait until the war is over, then shut it down out of spite.

    And because McDonald's is shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    A stray piece of shrapnel is to strike a building now?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Mcdonalds are like cocroaches now?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago
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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    The manager: “you’re still coming in today right?”

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    wHy WoN't YoU jUsT FuCkInG dIe aLrEaDy!!! hahaha

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    How much is NBC getting paid for this article, I wonder?

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