While these Fast Food joints do occasionally localise their food offerings, they rarely make any effort to fit the restaurants in with their surroundings. I was living in Moscow when McDonald’s opened their first outlet in the USSR on January 31st 1990. The locals were somewhat bemused as the store, on beautiful, historical Pushkinskaya Square (Пу́шкинская пло́щадь), not only featured McD's usual the garish colour scheme but sported the famous ‘golden arches’ which people complained were reminiscent of the Moscow Metro sign, albeit the latter was, of course, red!
KFC have done a little better, least in one restaurant. This one is in Fuzhou, capital of China’s Fujian Province.
Meanwhile, McDonald’s are getting even more local! In fact, up close and personal! They, or more likely someone else, are offering McDonald’s perfume! This comes in three carefully blended scents.
1. Original French Fries
2. Garlic and Black Pepper
3. Seaweed and Plum
They have obviously spared no expense on the formulation as they are selling these for the equivalent of $4 USD per millilitre.
Which do you fancy?
