The journalist, who took pictures of McDonald’s all over the world

A few years ago, Gary was standing in McDonald’s in a Moroccan village during the Islamic month of Ramadan, when he had a moment of Urika.

The New York -based writer and photographer noticed that the fast food joint had a special list of Iftaar, the period when Muslims break daily fasting during Ramadan.

“I saw this meal, which included a lot of sweets, local dates, silk soup, and milk yogurt drink. I told myself, like this, this is very local,” said this translator. ” As it happens Nil Kӧksal host.

“I couldn’t find anything about it online. As a food journalist, I just said, how could this be the largest chain of restaurants in the world that was not documented somewhere?

This is how he was born MakatlaIt is a new book for self -published photography that displays the fast food chain sites everywhere and the elements of the list around the world, from a quiet Japanese tea garden, and even driving that can only be reached by high skis in the Swedish mountains.

“I have no accurate number, but I definitely went to hundreds of McDonald’s in 55 countries and six continents,” he said. “There is a lot of walking involved when you do it a lot. So, fortunately, balance.”

Using a brand to tell a human story

He wants to explain one thing: his book has not been funded, nor is it accredited, by McDonald’s.

“As a journalist, you want to tell stories with meaningful and connected, right? There is not really a more connected brand in the world or the restaurant in the world more than McDonald’s,” he said.

He says, the Americans are taking an incorrect assumption that if you see McDonald’s, you have seen them all.

But in reality, McDonald’s says it meets different cooking cultures. There is McPoutine in Canada, McSpaghetti in the Philippines, Mcaloo Tikki in India, and McCCPAGOWATE in France, to name a few.

“I think a lot of people say, yes, when I am outside I want to try local food. Well, this is a kind of goal of the book, right? This is the local food.”

“Without these elements of the very translated menu – some of these rice dishes, pasta dishes, or what you have – all over the world, (McDonald’s) was not able to stay and prosper the way they have. I mean, it’s the largest for some reason.”

“Starbucksing” and other Globetrotting adventures

Alex C Park, California -based journalist has written widely on the industry of international fast food, He recently argued in the New York Times This fast food is the best way to get a truly authentic dining experience when traveling.

Park told CBC: “Often, as you know, when we seek a strong intention for this type of authentic experience, we end up in a place that we are surrounded by people like us,” Park told CBC.

But in the Queen of Dairy or Tim Hortons, he says, the local population lives their daily lives.

Park said: “This type of performance element is not. It is a kind of place that goes beyond this country, as it seems strange,” said Park.

There is Globetrotrots who take Park and Park’s approach – YouTubes who travel around the world try various elements of the McDonald listTravel Blogs that retreat Kentucky sites.

One blog goes in the name of winter documents it Mission to visit every Starbucks in the world – A hunt calls it Starbing. He claims to have visited more than 15,000 in the United States and Canada, and 5,000 others abroad.

The winter argues that the coffee chain usually falls where people live and work. So what is the best way to see a really place as it is?

Park says that tourists, especially from the United States and Canada, have a fantasy about what life is in other parts of the world that does not adhere to reality.

“I think it is very easy to start activating people in foreign countries and a kind of thinking that they have different desires and desires from us,” he said.

“Not everything about daily life, in another country (another) is a kind of excitement, interesting, interesting and different and there is for entertainment. Sometimes it is that Just a type of Prosaic and normal in a way that may be recognized for us. “

Globalization costs

While Park says fast food can show us what is common between all of us, this does not mean that it is all sunlight and roses.

It has concerns about global capitalism that creates a mono culture, and the way in which global fast food is affected by local economies and environments.

Brazil, for example, has Be the largest producer in the world for soybeansWith a large environmental cost, all so that it can provide poultry farms, pork, and pork in Europe and Asia.

“Certainly I do not mean to glorify fast food,” he said.

However, Park says that countless people in the various countries he visited told him that eating in fast food chains makes them feel contact with the world, which allows them To skip outside the local cuisine that tourists are searching for enthusiastically, but it is worldly and normal for them.

For him, work on Makatla He transferred him to some really unexpected places – and even magic. One of the memory that highlights his journey in December to McSKI, which was described as the only Ski-thethru in Lindsvall in Sweden.

“The snow was still new. It was like grinding on the floor, and I had to ski on a window,” he said. “I really like it.”

Then McDonald’s is located in a Japanese tea garden in Singapore.

“McDonald’s meal will be the most quieter that you will get in your life, as you know, you see this blessing Koi with fish and turtles swim while eating McSPIICY.”

He was asked about his experience in the two pent -up experience in Canada, hesitation.

“We only say it is enough,” he said. “I don’t want to say anything to make my friends hate me north.”