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Lol, Burger King DID cut off their franchises in Russia... but of course, all the Russian franchise owners just keep operating them. What is BK corporate gonna do, send the SEALS in to blow up their stores? Kind of a good lesson in the difference between financialized funny money, and the actual operation on the ground that produces all the value.
They should rename themselves to Kurger Bing and just pretend they're a spin off brand
Is that literally "cheeseburger" transliterated? I get burger but they couldn't translate cheese?
Edit: Apparently Burger King has a separate product called Сырбургер (Syrburger, Russian word for cheese + burger) and it has cheese sauce instead of sliced cheese.
I can't read kyrillic, but i wouldn't be surprised, they're also just called cheeseburgers in German, without translating it to Käseburger.
Edit: This goes for all cheeseburgers in German restaurants, not just BK. You see the same at McDonald's or at non-franchise burger places.
Soviet union doesn't have word for cheese because so poor. Even milk was made of styrofoam for decades.I mean, in polish we don't transliterate buuuuut we do just say "Burger" or "Hamburger" and sometimes someone will say a very polish sounding "Czizburger".
I heard on one of the dumb podcasts about nothing I listen to that burger king is actually decent in the States? And that a&w is bad? Bizzaro world
Whoever said that is absolutely wrong, Burger King sucks shit. Absolute bottom tier fast food. I don’t know how they stay open.
When is the last time you had it? It went from dog shit to mid at some point in the last decade. McDonald's is way worse imo
Hmm interesting, it has been more than 5 years at the least so it’s possible
As a vegan, I need this fast food struggle session to blossom.
"Don't anyone here disparage Wendy's!"
Back in my day it was a BK Veggie and it fucking sucked, spoiled kids these days
This is amateur hour. The real fast food struggle session is to pit regional fast food against each other. We need an In-and-Out vs Whataburger struggle session.
Absolutely not, Burger King is in the lowest-tier of the fast food joints, comparable to gas station burgers.
This is my takeaway as well. Currently, between BK, McD's, and Wendy's, Wendy's is just slightly better. They're all so overpriced though, I'll just go to 5 guys or buy from a local restaurant. If I want cheap fast food, personally, Taco Bell is the best option, that, or Cumberland Farms has really upped their food game locally. Get 2 pizza slices and a drink for $4.
It's better than McDonald's for sure. The whopper is a mid tier but legitimate hamburger with all the stuff on it, lettuce pickles tomato mayo ketchup, and most of the time it's pretty fresh
It used to be a lot worse a while back.
But most states now have a Culvers, so just go there. Every other hamburger joint people rave about is HORSESHIT. In n out, so fucking mid. Shake shack, so fucking mid. Five guys, just drink from a grease trap you animal.
Culvers is better than 90% of sit-down specialty hamburger restaurants, and better than 100% of fast food restaurants. And they have bomb salads, bomb fish fry, and BOMB ASS frozen custard.
Five guys, just drink from a grease trap you animal.
Accurate but I'll still eat that slop every so often.
Nationwide fast food is universally trash and is broadly acknowledged as such even by Burgerlander standards. You need to get to regional fast food before you have people vouching for them, and even then, a lot of it is tied to regional pride more than the quality of the food if we're being perfectly honest. But most of them are still a notch better than the nationwide franchises.
Barely on topic but I noticed burger kings meals are like 15 dollars now but they also, at the same time, for either 15 or 20 dollars depending on the location will sell you six sandwiches, half whopper half smaller normal cheeseburger, and 3 fries. That's like 2-3 dollars for a burger essentially. Literally if you are buying 2 whopper meals you can go oh whoops, hold up, please pay me 10 dollars and give me 3 cheese burgers, a whopper and fries. Inflation is fake as fuck
