Chinese KFC was really good before but now its fallen off (the big crunch equivalent is now this tiny rectangle, the chicken isn't as cripsy, and it kinda just tastes like salt) and domestic chains like Tasiting (sort of like if you made a burger but it was actually a fried chicken roujiamo) are really putting pressure on it. Honestly this might be a good thing if it means KFC in China sucks less, its super nostalgic because as a kid it was the "fancy western restaurant" for occasional treats.
For real I could spend 20RMB at most for the best meal I've ever had at a night market stall, or I can pay twice as much for an extremely disappointing burger.
I will tell you that is the strategy for fast food everywhere. Have a really good year or five (if you can afford it) of really good food, then cut the quality to the floor for as long and as low as you can.
I was there about 20 years ago, and it was straight up incredible. Probably the best fried chicken I've had to this day. Bummer that it's fallen off, but hopefully the government takes it over and MCGA.
Under the terms of the deal, Citic Ltd. and its investment management unit Citic Capital will acquire 52 percent of the business while another partner, Washington-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group, will own 28 percent. McDonald’s will retain a 20 percent stake.
Do you guys even bother to distinguish between the guys talking about how MLK Jr. talked about American ideals and the guys who say baristas are the labor aristocracy lol? Because I see a lot of people using patsoc and maga communist interchangeably.
Is Jill Stein a maga communist because she talked about how he was initially treated as a threat to the dem/GOP duopoly? Some of these people are just trying to work with the American that exists today rather than fantasizing about literally destroying it physically
if you're using the words patsoc or magacom to describe yourself, your just a fascist. just call yourself demsoc, or socdem if you still want to work within the system.
I watched Paul Jay's Reality Asserts Itself series of interviews with Finkelstein, and they talked about Finkelstein's die hard Maoist youth, with a funny episode about cops going to Finkelstein's house and seeing a bunch of Maoist posters in his room, his mom quickly told the police that Finkelstein liked Chinese people lol. After the death of Mao, the arrest of the Gang of Four, and Deng's reforms, Finkelstein drifted away from Maoism and pretty much Leninism. One of his profs (maybe a lib I don't remember) told Finkelstein that there will be a McDonald's in China soon when Deng opened up. Now if China nationalizes McD's, is that the CPC's turn back towards Socialism? lol
China has recently made positive strides on a number of issues like LGBTQ rights, so there's no reason not to hope they can also start moving in the correct direction when it comes to phasing out animal cruelty and meat consumption as well, as they continue to economically surpass the reactionary west. Their dedication to addressing climate change will also at some point demand the recognition that using animals as a major source of food is unsustainable.
Vaguely related, but I saw the menu of a KFC when I visited China and they had this “chicken taco” that was a giant breaded chicken patty shaped like a taco shell and filled with taco ingredients. It was pretty out of control and Xi should put a stop to that sort of thing.