McDonald’s UK apologizes for angering the US
By Callum Gunn
McDonald’s UK issued an apology to their friends over in the US due to a new burger recently introduced to the fast food giants menu.
Being a leading global industry comes with its own set of problems. Most of them are problems such as local business tariffs, local laws, customs, etc. Common problems that are easily dealt with on a day to day basis. Some problems, however, are not so common and are usually to do with one country annoying another, and that is exactly what happened with McDonald’s.
The fast food giants, the UK version anyway, managed to go and anger their US counterparts with the introduction of their new menu item.
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Introduced to the McDonald’s UK menu earlier in the week, the Kansas City Stack burger is the burger causing on the fuss, especially those from Kansas City.
Aside from the bizarre caption accompanying the burger, “Yee-haw,” because that is exactly what all Americans say, the burger itself is making locals from Kansas City scratch their head in wonder at exactly why this particular burger is apparently associated with them.
Because as far as the locals are concerned, they have never seen anything like it on their menus.
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Essentially, it is a double bacon cheeseburger with a smokey steakhouse type sauce. And it is probably a fine tasting burger, but it has nothing to do with Kansas City as so many locals pointed out.
Yeehaw! The Kansas City Stack has arrived. Available until 25th June 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/FwfW3iykCp
— McDonald's UK (@McDonaldsUK) June 18, 2019
Dafuq?
— Fred the Great (@fredontwittur) June 18, 2019
In what universe does two beef patties and some bacon qualify as “a taste of KC?”
Unless you smoked some brisket or beef ribs for 14+ hours and ground *that* into your patties, no. Just no.
Uhh... no... we’re known for burt ends and pulled pork not a slice of bacon on a burger 😂😂
— Chiefs Bandwagon (@1arrowheadway5) June 18, 2019
This is not KC. You're doing it completely wrong McDonald's. You've obviously never been to KC
— Kyrst (@kyrsting) June 18, 2019
Clearly, with so much outrage, someone didn’t do their homework on whether such a burger like this best represented the US city and clearly McDonald’s UK has realized this as they went and apologized for the error. Fingers crossed they learn from such a mistake and introduce menu items that actually represent the places they are being associated with, whether it be in the US or elsewhere in the world.
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So what do you think of the foolish error McDonald’s UK did? Are you from Kansas City? If so were you annoyed by this burger? Drop a comment just below sharing your thoughts below.