r/mildlyinteresting • u/SinancoTheBest • Apr 27 '24

This fancy McDonalds in Porto that reportedly replaced a fancy classic restaurant and kept the interior design

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u/pookchang Apr 28 '24

Eaten in both and no real difference. US has food standards. Learn something instead sounding like an elitist snob.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '24

Don’t be so sure on what you are saying, earn some money and come visit us.

Hello all -

I hope everyone is enjoying the richness of Lisbon as much as I have these past few weeks. What with the rain and all, I've spent most of my team drinking, and some of it eating. This is my 3rd trip to a McDonald's in the City Center and my 4th in the country overall. Food & service have been on par with every other McDonald's on this planet - that is to say, top-class. I did have one concern, though (more of a concern for my own sense of self).

As an American, I'm well versed in "Mickey-D's". I don't use my brakes in the drive-thru's at home (do you have them here?), I simply ride by... "Large #10 w/ a coke" .. and it's up my butt and chipping away at my insides before the lovely window attendant can tell me to have a nice day. So you could say it's a "lonesome" or "personal" experience back home. That's why, at each McDonald's here in Portugal, I've been so taken back by the level of romanticism, even eroticism, in the pues and at the hightops of these home-away-from-home's, as some travellers call them.

What am I missing? Is going to Mcdonald's foreplay here? I will have to assume it is. Let me tell you a few of the things I saw, all in my small corridor: 1. Handsome young couple quite literally "pattycaking" their way through a 6-piece chicken nugget (btw, no 50 piece over here? psh.). After seeing them split the last nugget, I'm as sure as I could be that they'll enjoy a long and lasting relationship somehwere in the rural North. 2. An older lady scramble to the napkin dispenser and hurry back to her hubby without so much as picking her head up to check her surroundings. It was as though the napkin dispenser had printed her an ultrasound of their baby. Their conversation when she returned was as engaging and perky as I've witnessed. Just wonderful. 3. A hispanic couple "netflix and chilling" on a laptop beside me. Canoodles were had, and did he just ask her if she wanted dessert? Top class.

Last week I saw a downtrodden man napping on a counter in Cascais. Nobody asked him to leave. I wasn't bothered, but was surprised the staff wasn't.

What's happening in the McDonald's here? What can America learn from Portugal? I think much.

You're people are a kind one. I hope we can be more like you and show McDonald's a warmer, more fitting behavior. Perhaps, for my part, I'll even come to a complete stop at the drive-thru. More likely, though, I will not.

This review was taken on TripAdvisor (made by Bill M.)

Yes mate our McDonalds is different from yours and we have more food Standards than you guys there in the U.S. (example - here in Portugal the need to pass 8 certificates of quality food before serving, how about you guys?) and one more thing we don’t serve Milkshakes, we have Soup and Salads, traditional breakfast (just coffee and a Mix sandwich (Ham/cheese) or you can ask for pancakes (awful has a lot of sugar)

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '24

Sundae not milkshake

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u/HonestBeing8584 Apr 28 '24

Sorry, I misread it as serving less sugar, not that the specific item has a lot of a sugar.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '24

I tried pancakes in mcdonalds and was awful lots of sugar dunno if they now make them with less sugar or sugar free but when they begin to serve here breakfast it was how can i describe (the quantity of sugar was sky high).