posted on Feb, 10 2010 @ 03:09 AM
I uess I won't be much help. But I recall after the fall of the USSR, and I won't get into how I believe this was a plan enacted by Reagan and
Gorbachov, performing for their puppet masters, heh, did I just get into that? Oh, where was I? Yeah, I recall that McDonalds set about creating a
market, and the corporation insisted that the particular potatoes that were used for the french fries , the seed potatoes were imported into Russia,
so as to maintain quality control. You understand that, perhaps, wherever you go in the world to eat at a McDonald's restaurant, the french fries
must taste the same. That is the soul of McDonalds, at least in the way back times. Quality control, no matter where you go, you will order and get
just what you expect. Forgive me for not having links, etc. I just recall the business plan of that particular corporation at that time. I have long
since not given a damn about such things.
As a side note, however, when I lived in Germany in the 1980's, the hamburgers tasted too much like soy burgers, and I had to pay extra for ketchup,
What? 10 pfennings for ketchup? lol. But the french fries were excellent, just like what I got home "in the world".