Congratulations Bolivia!!

[Narz]

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews...loses-all-their-restaurants-in-bolivia/12787/

Bolivia will become the first McDonald’s-free Latin American nation, after struggling for more than a decade to keep their numbers out of ‘the red.’

After 14 years in the nation and despite many campaigns and promos McDonald’s was forced to close its 8 Bolivian restaurants in the major cities of La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

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Fast-food represents the complete opposite of what Bolivians consider a meal should be. To be a good meal, food has to have be prepared with love, dedication, certain hygiene standards and proper cook time.

Props to Bolivans for rejecting the eyesore, bellysore, imperial environmentally noxious entity that is McDonalds!

Hopefully next Coca-Cola will be completely rejected by the Bolivans!

http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/bolivias-evo-morales-putting-coca-back.html

 

[Quackers]

Huh, I wonder why Bolivian MacDonald's failed so much when they have seen such success in lots of different areas of the globe. Nothing wrong with having the occassional MacDonald's now and again anyway it can be quite nice.

 

[Virote_Considon]

Well, so long as they manage to keep KFC I guess...

 

[ParkCungHee]

You mean Popeye's.

 

[Theige]

How is McDonalds environmentally noxious? And while it isn't the cleanest place in the world, I'd imagine they're cleaner than most in a country like Bolivia

 

[Narz]

How is McDonalds environmentally noxious? And while it isn't the cleanest place in the world, I'd imagine they're cleaner than most in a country like Bolivia

If they had to be stewards of the Earth in their farming & animal rearing practices they're burgers would cost more than $1. They're responsible for a large amount of waste and deforestation (to rear animals or grow grain crops to feed them), supposedly they're trying to spin themselves as "green" but this seems more PR than anything.

 

[_random_]

Man, sucks to be Bolivian.

 

[stormerne]

Maybe it just looks and tastes different in Bolivia. It's easy to make the mistake expecting that these fast food chains serve the same food in every location in the world, but this simply isn't true. For example, Burger King in the UK serves vastly superior burgers than in the US in terms of both quantity and quality, size and flavor. I used to eat at one but no longer at the other. Perhaps it's also true in this story (in reverse).

 

[Elta]

For example, Burger King in the UK serves vastly superior burgers than in the US in terms of both quantity and quality, size and flavor.

I hope this is true, because when people from Europe say how awesome BK is I just -

 

[Azale]

And not much of value was lost...

 

[downtown]

If folks in Boliva don't want McDonalds, thats totally fine (although I'd be interested in knowing more about why they flopped so badly there when they work in other Latin American markets)....but I don't see it as especially worthy of praise. I suspect other fast food companies operate there.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Also, what I've seen of Bolivian cooking, I imagine it probably wasn't the health concerns that caused them to avoid it.

 

[amadeus]

To be a good meal, food has to have be prepared with love, dedication, certain hygiene standards and proper cook time.

Ah, the noble savage Bolivian!

Love: love is all you need!

Dedication: because nutritional value and flavor of food is diminished without sufficient devotion.

Hygiene: low-income South American countries are renowned for sanitary food preparation areas.

Proper cook time: the time interval in which food, for no reason other than waiting, becomes healthy.

 

[Quackers]

Aye I read that too ama. It's terrible journalism and can probably be said of virtually any culinary culture anywhere on earth. I want to see the proper reason for it

 

[amadeus]

I don't care much for the implication that because McDonald's is closing in Bolivia now means that Bolivians do or will always have a preference against fast food. Check out these snippets of one of the responses on the forum:

I am from Bolivia - born there, raised there - go back all the time. There is fast food everywhere - EVERYWHERE.

The Bolivians who made this documentary should be ashamed of themselves for allowing their ideology against big chains to propagate lies about our culture. This is type of stuff that marginalizes cultures. It makes people believe we belong in a fish tank, as an ideal, as opposed to an even plane.

I do not even know where to start talking about all the different types of fast foods available- some are empanada like, others are plates, but are meant to readily available as a “fast food” - that are sold in every corner - some by Bolivian or international chains. Look up “salchipapa” - that is sold everywhere. You know, we live busy lives and have jobs and sometimes we don’t have time to cook a meal “with love.” I used to eat at the Mcdonald’s that used to be in “El Prado” in La Paz. It tasted nasty and different from the McDonald’s other places I’ve been to in the world- and that is why it closed down. But the Burger King, which is still currently in El Prado - tastes pretty good.

 

[asbestos]

oooh. Rejected!

Not that I care either way, but epic pwn is epic pwn.

 

[Murky]

I don't care much for the implication that because McDonald's is closing in Bolivia now means that Bolivians do or will always have a preference against fast food. Check out these snippets of one of the responses on the forum:

Ah, it must be true because it was posted on an Internet forum.

 

[Theige]

If they had to be stewards of the Earth in their farming & animal rearing practices they're burgers would cost more than $1. They're responsible for a large amount of waste and deforestation (to rear animals or grow grain crops to feed them), supposedly they're trying to spin themselves as "green" but this seems more PR than anything.

McDonald's owns farms?

 

[Old Hippy]

I don't care much for the implication that because McDonald's is closing in Bolivia now means that Bolivians do or will always have a preference against fast food. Check out these snippets of one of the responses on the forum:

i checked it out ... in the west, we call that the "slow food movement"...

 

[TheLastOne36]

Well, so long as they manage to keep KFC I guess...

KFC?

In Latin America?

Come off your high horse, in Latin America, we actually like real chicken, not that deep fried baloney you call "chicken".

I never saw a KFC once in Venezuela.