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You’ve seen those articles showing all of the very different and interesting menus that fast food restaurants feature in international locations. The problem is that if you’re exploring faraway places you’re going to want to experience the local food and not eat fast food.
So if you’re in Lisbon, Portygal you’ll want bacalao and if you’re in Parma, Italy you’re going to want parmesan cheese and prosciutto. Your time is limited on vacation and you can’t be messing with fast food with so many other delicious cuisines to devour. Thankfully, McDonald’s is doing the next best thing — they’re bringing unique dishes from their restaurants around the world to your local Mickey D’s.
McDonald’s is bringing some of its favorite international menu items to the United States. The Golden Arches is bringing you four menu items from their restaurant chains in Netherlands, Spain, Canada and Australia.
McDonald’s will soon start to off Americans a taste of the rest of the world with a Stroopwafel McFlurry, the Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger, the Tomato Mozzarella Chicken Sandwich and Cheesy Bacon Fries. These international flavors will be available at participating McDonald’s locations nationwide starting on June 5.
- The Stroopwafel McFlurry features vanilla soft served mixed with a caramel swirl and chopped Dutch Daelmans caramel waffle cookies.
- The Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger is a quarter pounder topped with thick cut Applewood smoked bacon, McBacon sauce, Gouda cheese, and slivered onions.
- The Tomato Mozzarella Chicken Sandwich comes with either grilled or crispy chicken and topped with tomato & herb sauce, mozzarella cheese, slivered onions, lettuce, and sliced Roma tomatoes on an artisan roll.
- The Cheesy Bacon Fries are the same as the ones that were briefly on US menus earlier this year — topped with cheddar cheese and chopped Applewood smoked bacon.
Stroopwafels are criminally underrated and should taste delicious when paired with vanilla ice cream.
“We know our US customers are curious about McDonald’s international menu items,” said Linda VanGosen, McDonald’s vice president of menu innovation. “Because we are always innovating our menu, we are thrilled to leverage our global scale and offer popular flavors from around the world next month.”
“Americans are increasingly traveling to international destinations, and there’s added excitement around menu items that have been developed for these global markets,” said Jill Failla, foodservice analyst for the research firm Mintel. “It makes a regular menu item more exotic and fun.”
“These are fairly easy to do, fairly easy builds,” said Sam Oches, editorial director of Food News Media at QSR magazine. “They might see it as … an easy marketing win without stretching the operations too much,” he said. McDonald’s has been trying to streamline its menu to increase speed and efficiency, and to ease the burden on franchisees. The international items don’t require many new ingredients.
The food items will only be available for a limited time only. Perfect for a quick trip for your taste buds.