Poll of the Day > One of my acquaintances from college is taking a recreational trip to Italy...

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...and she's eating fucking mcdonald's on her snap story

Like are you cereal? This is someone who

A.) while she has graduated college roughly one year ago (May '16), is still unemployed. Like don't get me wrong, I'm all for traveling and seeing the world and taking a gap year and whatnot, but YOU CAN GET MCDONALD'S ANYWHERE.

B.) is only there for 8 days (she posted her itinerary in a prior snapchat). Like I understand how one might "want a taste of home" if they're away for a long time - I was in Taiwan for two months, and I went to McDonald's once, but even that is because we were at the Taipei Zoo and it was the only place within sight, and we were hungry from walking around all day.

I've been to Rome, and I had some of the best pizza of my life out there. I can't even fathom wasting one of roughly 24 meals (assuming 8 days and 3 meals a day) on something I can get literally across the street from me back at home.

inb4It'sSomeoneElse'sLifeSoTheyCanDoWhatTheyWant

Yes I know, and I'm not going to tell her to change her ways, but holy shit. Why go abroad when you don't want to try something new? Just seems like a huge waste of money.

I even checked the time change and the time of said snap story to see if maybe it was late at night and it was the only place open, but it was definitely dinnertime (and I bet there were places to get food too, whatever the Italian equivalent of late night bar food might be).

tl;dr: ok
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I have been guilty of that sort of thing myself, largely because experimenting with unfamiliar restaurants alone is kind of intimidating. There's often a massive selection, and it can be overwhelming to try and figure out which ones are worth spending on of those 24 precious meals at (and while it seems silly, I would kind of be more inclined to completely waste the meal by going to a fast food place than to risk trying to make good use of it and ending up with something mediocre). That, and if I'm traveling alone, that means I'm eating alone, and going into a sit-down restaurant to eat alone isn't completely comfortable. It's silly, and a waste of a great opportunity to try new foods, but I can sort of understand the lure of familiar things.

Now, I say this having never traveled alone anywhere particularly well-known for its local cuisine. In such a case, I would probably be interested enough in the local fare to take some chances and step outside of my comfort zone, and when I've visited such places with other people, we've done so. But I can understand where she's coming from.
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I had McDonald's when I was in Rome, mostly because I wanted to see how different it was then in the states (given I had heard stories about how different it was). In reality: The fries have less salt. That is pretty much it.
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Like, I get what you're saying. But, like, it's like, her trip.

McDonald's usually have different menus in different countries to cater to their peoples if you don't already know, curiosity to see and try new things. Pretty normal
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My cousin and her husband took a 3 month trip to Thailand and told me that they few real tired of random Asian food after awhile and that any day they had KFC or McDonald's was a blessing
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