Macdonalds are you lot having me on! Best food in the world and you want to eat reconstituted head-meat and cows' feet. Have you ever seen how they make those things?
Termie, each to their own, but I have two problems with your statement. No, three problems actually.
First, it isn't always possible to sit down to a proper lunch and sometimes eating on-the-hoof is unavoidable. I think I can safely say without contradiction that French savoury fast food is easily the worst in the world. Slimy, salty, French chips are horrid beyond words, the kebabs would be banned in the UK and their burgers are an utter disgrace. And if anyone has ever been offered a baguette with a more imaginitive filling than jambon fromage then I will eat my Foie Gras.
Secondly, I hate McDs, and everything it stands for. But they do not put cheek meat, lips, bottoms or other mechanically reclaimed meat products into their burgers. They use good fore-quarter beef cuts, shoulder etc. A friend of mine is a beef farmer and he supplies McD's and he's been round the factory. Their "Thick Shakes" are 80% lard mind...
Thirdly, I cannot agree that French food is the best in the world. It relinquished that title about forty years ago. I mean, CHANGE THE BLOODY MENU! French food has not advanced one inch since my first trip in 1973, nor have their dreary net-curtained establishments. Taking a risk for a french auberge means putting the toilets next to the kitchen. The cuisine is stale and trapped in a post-war cliche of itself. Sure, some of it's cooked very well and some isn't but it always seems samey as if the Chef's given up trying. And as for the toffee nosed waiters, I'm surprised I haven't physically assaulted one yet. I'm not saying there's anything actually wrong with it but it's just so very ordinary these days. Offer me a chance to eat in either Rome, Barca, London or Paris and Paris would come last every single time. So it's my contention French cuisine needs a rocket under it. In the meantime I can be found at the Buffallo Grill....
