Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I still cannot get over having a grand piano in a McD's. That's a real 1st!
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon Our DD went to McD's in Belgium and she said it was much the same there. Chandeliers and white tablecloths! Totally blew her away! Wish she'd taken pictures! Remind me, Dave, to pack my own coffee and coffee maker if we ever come out to the UK!
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove <<I suppose in a few years we'll all just shrug and shell out our $25 for a gallon of gas and our $229.50 for a big mac "value meal" and pine for the good old days. >> From your lips to the oil-producing nations' ears. <<And coffee beans digested by cats and recycled for $110.>> THAT'S what's intiguing me....eww.
Originally Posted By X-san ***Sarah is right, for ease I have been using a 2 for 1 exchange. That burger was not a misprint, it is being trialled in 3 BKs in the UK (it will not sell well). Anyway, yes fastfood lunch here runs about $10. A big mac on its own is $7. a cup of coffee at Stabucks is 4. A dominoes pizza is 30.*** Wow. Tokyo is now officially far cheaper than the U.K. (although...I'm not familiar with the yen to pound exchange so that could make a difference). Being that the dollar is so close to parity with the yen these days, doing the conversion is pretty easy. A fast food meal runs, in general, from about $6 up to maybe $7 or $8 in some of the more pricey establishments (McD's is $5.90 - $6.90 I believe, they just raised prices), with a Big Mac costing $2.90 at present. A small coffee at Starbucks is $2.80. For some reason we're both paying the same for pizza though (is that a pizza with "the works", or lots of toppings? if that's a PLAIN pizza then Japan is cheaper, $30 would be a very maxed out large pizza).
Originally Posted By X-san Those are Greater Tokyo prices, by the way. Away from the city it's a touch cheaper for fast food and other stuff.
Originally Posted By jdub You know, I bought some of those coffee beans, but then demanded a refund when I discovered they're not actually digested by CATS!
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon I've heard about the cats digesting the coffee beans but why cats? Won't some other animal do? Not that it would make any of it seem more palatable or appetizing... Anyone know? And how do they get finicky cats to eat coffee beans in the first place?
Originally Posted By DAR <<Our DD went to McD's in Belgium>> Did she have a Royale with Cheese? I had a freaky experience at McD's once. They got my order correct while I went through the drive thru
Originally Posted By jdub <<And how do they get finicky cats to eat coffee beans in the first place?>> LOL, that's what I was saying in the first place, these are not beans, uh, "processed" by CATS-- the animal in question is a CIVET, a "cat-sized mammal." And when you see the photo at this link, you'll probably guess that maybe it's not as finicky as a housecat! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Palm_Civet" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...lm_Civet</a>
Originally Posted By X-san "Kopi Luwak is coffee that is prepared using coffee cherries that have been eaten by the animal, partially digested, and harvested from its feces." From wiki. I'd say we have a new candidate for "world's worst job"...Civet harvester!
Originally Posted By jdub I still think it's the people who facilitate breeding of bulls/elephants/horses/whatever are either underpaid, or total sickos.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<I figured $140 was actual U.S. Dollars... But even if you halve THAT...$80 is too much a burger king burger.>> Oh, man, these cultural differences never cease to amaze me... Here in the US, when we halve $140 we get $70.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Dave, I hear ya... seeing a grand piano in a MickeyD's must have been bizarre. Similar to DAR's experience... I find it a bit surreal when I walk up to a McDonald's counter and the counter-worker actually stops screaming toward a co-worker in the back about somebody's baby-momma and takes my order.
Originally Posted By X-san I was using Japanese quantum mathematics, Inspector. I can understand your confusion.
