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I can't imagine what it would be like to live in a place where the majority of people are veg*n.....to the point that McDonalds opens up totally veg restaurants! But it looks like taht is teh case in India:
They are going to have things like a McAloo patty (spicy potatoes).
Sounds good to me, but some Indians are opposing it since it is a business very associated with cow slaughter and so many Indians are Hindus. Would you patronize an all-veggie McD's?
There are already McDs there that serve meat products. This I imagine is the veggie-only version.
I went to a restaurant there in 1999.
I am always cheezed off that other countries get all sorts of awesome different flavors/etc at McDonald's and all we get is the crap flavorless stuff.
If I were in India, there would be so many other wonderful places to eat. Why waste my time at McDonald's?
I was never a fast food fan even before becoming veg*n so I can't see traveling half way around the world to a place with a notably delicious cuisine and dining in a fast food restaurant.
Sheena12, when you travel alot, sometimes, it is nice to go to a "familiar" place. The only problem...fast food places in other countries, even though they are "Subway" or "McDonald's", still have completely different foods, and menus. But, at least it feels semi like you are going to get something you sort of "know"...
Well, yeah.
A fried potato is a fried potato.
Being 'Indian' or 'veggie-style' doesn't make the potato any healthier.
Funny, I distinctly remember the very first meal of Indian food I ever tasted, homecooked at a friend's place near the University of Chicago more than 40 years ago. It included a patty of mashed potato with what I thought was a tiny amount of chopped fresh green chilis, fried in clarified butter.
It was, up until that time at least, the spiciest bite of food ever to reach my mouth, and I immediately dove for the fresh yogurt to try to cool it down. My friends had a good laugh at that.
There's nothing inherently unhealthy about a fried potato, and they have been popular with Indian people long before fast food was even invented. Like most everything else, moderation and balance are key.
There's nothing inherently unhealthy about a fried potato, and they have been popular with Indian people long before fast food was even invented. Like most everything else, moderation and balance are key.
I'm not saying it's unhealthy. Just saying that it's not necessarily healthier prepared one way or another.
As an Indian person who has eaten all kinds of Indian food, I can attest that there is plenty of Indian junk food out there...freshly prepared and delicious.
I definitely would. Remember, also, that apparently there is a very cruel trade of cow hides (leather) run from India, which provides this hideous product to American companies. So not all of India is cruelty free.
The problem with being vegan is that it is impossible to be 1000%. There is glue in books, in stringed instruments (along with horsehair, bits of leather--but violins are held together by hide glue); there is glue on wallpaper. We're living amidst a very primitive culture, still, and human beings still have the emotional makeup of primitive peoples. We have a long, long way to go. But just because we can't be perfect in every way, doesn't mean we shouldn't try. And keep trying.
As an omnivore, I don't go to McDonald's now. If they turned vegetarian and I started eating vegetarian again, I still wouldn't eat their food. I try to avoid fast food mass-marketed crap. If I'm in the mood to eat something as tasteless, bland, and nutritionally pathetic as McDonalds food, I'll eat a candybar instead.
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