I Went to a Bootleg McDonald's in Algeria
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Okay so it seems I didn't make this super clear in the video. But when I mention the 51% tax, that only affects international chains, not local businesses.
Don't worry, McMerc didn't have to pay 51%!
and what if its because they are reta.... i mean religious and thus have different eating rules? i heard some people are still religious over there despite the process of evolution being well understood these days
@@yoshtg No it's not lol. It's a combination of other reasons:
- avoiding french domination on the economy
- Algeria was also playing with the USSR/USA rivalry during the cold war, and it was done to avoid giving too much room to the americans
- the algerian gov is overall very corrupt and greedy
Algeria, like many other countries in the Maghreb and the Levant, wasn't very religious until quite recently. It's not Saudi Arabia. They even used to drink alcohol (light beers mostly) casually. And anyway, MacDonald has no trouble adapting to local habits (and not just religious taboos).
@@yoshtg China impose similar tax to foreign companies, afaik. Chinese government is as atheist as you can get. You'll like it there.
They do this to protect local economy. I think it's good that Algeria does this, otherwise local businesses couldn't thrive.
McDonald's could easily adhere to local customs and religion. Take India's McDonalds menu, they don't serve beef.
thank you
@@nimay13 sorry, but why do you assume that i would like it in China? because they have a secular government? but most countries these days have a secular government. only a few very uneducated countries have fairy tales aka religion that guide their rules
PLEASE MAKE THIS A NEW SERIES. It will give you extra content for when you travel. Honestly just local foreign restaurant reviews in general would be enjoyable.
agree, this was fascinating!
Big agree, want to see more of this!
I would definitely watch these
Same
Hey. Just a little correction about WHY there's no McDonald's here. It's not that they're not ALLOWED per say, because they technically are (we have pizza hut and KFC and a bunch of french fast food chains) it's just that they are only allowed if they comply with the 51/49 rule, which isnt that the government needs 51% of the profits, it just means that the company needs to be 51% owned by an Algerian citizen in order to operate in the country.
Is there really a KFC in Algeria, I don't know 😮
@@YOESEF.15 opens in late October this year they even launched a recruiting campaign
Akteb 3erbiya ma fhemt walo
@@Bella-r3g يفتح اواخر اكتوبر دارو ركريتمون وكلش
@@Bella-r3gيحوسو على فرع كي أف سي
They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds.
You see, son, they are MAC-donalds. We are MC-dowells:)
Lol I think the same thing every time I hear about a fake McDonalds 😂
They got the golden arches, mine is the golden arcs
I was looking for this comment
give me a Allah burger with extra pork sause lol
McMerc sounds like a mercenary hangout where they eat McDonald's and discuss their next contract job.
The plot for the next Fallout game 😂
Exactly 😂
CEO=Yevgeny Prigozhin
@@Mutazili Hmm, kind of reminds me of Far Cry 2 personally, but yeah.
@@AirAssault7 Only played the 3rd one
what a beautiful country
💀
Lol
@@mattkk3726he have his opinion what's the funny thing here ?
LMAO beautiful ? Have you ever been ? It's terrible ! Most nice buildings are from French colonization. 70% of their infrastructure was built by the french and it shows.
@@salmanebennani9327how does that change the fact that it's beautiful? + The 70% infrastructure information is just bullshit bc all the french buildings are in the downtowns and all the places that are outside of the 20 km radius of downtown Algiers for example are made after the independence like the region showed in the video and other infrastructures like highways, the subway and train lines are made after the independence too, also the nature is so beautiful.
This was an awesome video!!
Knock-off McDonald's are a common trope/joke in Japanese fiction, with "WcDonald's" or "WacDonald's" appearing in a lot of anime. So I couldn't stop thinking throughout the video, there's some excellent inspirational material here for future animes!
The crunch of that dessert pizza was outrageous
Am algerian ,so this is not sweet pizza its crepe croustillant ,french desserr😅
@@maricruz5951it's dessert 🍰 pizza 🍕 I'm Algerian too
Oh that fruit cookie pizza thing looks amazing! I would love to have one of those! I'm diabetic and can't eat that stuff anymore, but I'll take the high blood sugar for the day lol
❤❤❤ I pray to God to heal you
If you're on insulin you'll be fine, i eat that stuff all the time 😆
A New Yorker trying algerian pizza, thats funny
I never knew pizza was popular in Algeria.
Algeria is close to Italy, and there is a great similarity between the two countries, especially in cooking, because the two countries are from the Mediterranean Sea..Unfortunately, America does not have a kitchen except for the pizza that the Italians transported
That pizza didn't look good at all.
@@Savedbyzero1Every restaurant has its own method of preparing pizza, so you may prepare a pizza that people may like or not
@@Savedbyzero1Algerian pizza is very diverse and the toppings that they have are of many varieties. As an Algerian living in the US and having lived in NYC, I can tell you that Algerian pizza is way better than most Italian pizzas from the US
this makes Algeria incredibly unique, because they have their own cultured food and each place seems to have their own unique food, that desert pizza looked amazing!
agreed! this is so much more unique than seeing the same fast food chains everywhere.
Yes. That’s why algeria is so much better than Morocco or Tunisia it’s not a trap tourist it’s unique and authentic
@@moroccansarenthumanbeings2640I advise you to look for your french father
Pretty much every country in the world have their own cultural food. Its just Algeria with no acces to fast food...
@@Mauri7782 I advise you to search for little Ryan
I was envious watching you eat that dessert at the end. That dessert is better than the squirt of cream and sugar we get.
Here in Algeria, everything should contain the Algerian touch, whether food or even shops, together preserving Algerian values, and also welcome to Algeria. I hope that Algeria really enjoys a lot of things 🌺🫰
As an Algerian I love your content on our country. I was both surprised and glad to see that there was more of it after your fruit series was over.
But there is a correction I want to make, as of now there's no McDonald's in Algeria (your initial assumption was correct). The "McDonald's Algeria" Instagram account you found is totally fake and lacks the verification symbol found in other official McDonald's country accounts. And the two "McDonald's" locations found in Google Maps are both fake and propped up by bot accounts, with one of them being located in a rural town in Kabylia, which makes no sense for that to be a priority location, there's also a bunch of reviews on both addresses saying that they're fake.
It seems like you too got fooled by Algerian McBootlegs.
Really?! Aw man, they got me!
@@WeirdExplorerbetter luck next time!
@@PT-vv3ep It's really not dangerous nowadays, the country is safe and stable, albeit still a bit closed off to tourism. I recommend you go for it if you want to visit.
@@PT-vv3epNot dangerous but just a bit closed
@@PT-vv3ep stay where you at then mh bhoy
Really interesting to see how the Golden Arches are becoming the pictogramme for “fast food”, not only in Algeria but in many if not most developing countries.
Wow! This IS an extra special episode
The sound you made biting into that crepe was incredible. That is almost entirely unlike a thin pancake or any puff pastry. It was almost _crisp_
It is crispy it's so tasty
There is a mcdonalds that sells pizza, it's also the worlds largest mcdonalds and its in Orlando, Florida. The pizza is what you'd expect for mcdonalds as far as flavor.
I think some international McDonald's also might sell pizza but not sure which. I know Filipino one has McSpaghetti.
they sold pizza here in Canada in the early 90`s it was good. wish they would bring it back.
At least McDonalds in France was civilized enough to offer McBeer so that you can wash down the overpriced nonsense with. In recent times it is simply Kronenburg.
McDonald's in Jamaica used to sell a vegetarian chicken sandwich that was really good. Wish they sold those in the U.S.
@@MUtley-rf8vg Havent been back in decades, but Hawai’i had quite a few twists or altogether asian items. Also there was a Sarah Fields ice cream sandwich “Frostbites” that was Da’Bomb (but that may have been the Safeway?) that was only offered in the islands.
i don't know what's with the weirdo who was trying to "warn" you about not branching out, but i quite like these styles of videos. i've always wished to see more of the cultures you interact with on your hunt for fruits! don't think there's any harm at all in having fruit videos and travel vlogs, i think they are a good compliment and context to the fruit videos and you have a very enjoyable mild and open-minded manner about you. cheers!
Love this Weird Explorer vlog style videos
I'm 100% positive that the Algerian bootleg McDonald's is 100 times healthier and made with real and organic ingredients then the American one haha
donkey meat is not that healthy
it depends on where you go. Some of them can be sketchy!
Hahaha as an American I was betting that the bootleg ones were way better than the real ones.
@@samsaldate5828 the gov is actually doing a great job these last two years since covid to crack down on these places.
@@moioupas8459donkey meat would be extremely healthy lean meat,
Dear Algeria, you’re not missing anything unless you want cold fries, and a game of the ice cream machine is broke.
McDonald's restaurants are not necessary they are just nonsense
Don't forget the diarrhea.
We don’t have McDonald’s cause it finance Israel
totally wrong
Majbe in the 80's not now a days.
There's a lot of places that serve rare items that Mcdonalds once sold. Ex: Spaghetti, another would be pizza. Hawaii still sells the fried Apple Pies. Pretty much making it the only place to buy one.
I haven't thought about those apple pies in years and now I want one.. damn.
They still sell them in my country.
I've remembered now how I tried to make them my self after trying one, and they ended up 100-times better in all aspects from the first try. They really sell the shittiest food possible.
@@TropicalGardeningCyprus I mean its fast food you don't really expect it to be good restaurant quality. It's more of a enjoyable on the go when your simply really busy.
When did they stop selling the fried apple pies?
OFC Hawaii would pull that
McFoul was my favorite. I spotted it as you were driving by, but it it is both funny, unfortunate and one of the most accurate assessments of the US McDonalds. Maybe of McDonald’s in every country. Thanks for the lesson and review.
foul is kind of traditional food in Mediterranean area, so McFoul hits 🎯
Foul is delicious and easy to make!!! U should try itb
While I don't think it is the best food, you don't spread successfully to almost every country if your product is disgusting. The hate is unjustified
@@seaofgreensThe idea behind McDonald's might be better than the food.
This is hilarious 😂 had no idea this existed and I love it. It's small owned and they are all doing something together 🎉
I think for McDonald's they need to own the land in order for them to open in some country which is impossible thing to do here in Algeria since foreigners are not allowed to own a property, I think our authorities asked them to rent a place and they just refused
Something that lines up with that, I heard McDonald's is at core a property rental business, but, one that controls the brand and the supply etc of the machines, processes and ingredients, but, the franchisee delivers the burgers and takes the risks and, of course, pays the rent to McDonald's.
@@pressbwoah. I never thought of it like that. Do you possibly have a link to an article about it? Or advise what to search to learn more? 🥲🙏
@@pressbIt is originally a real estate company and not a food company, because the big profit is all from the property
Well I agree with Algeria 🌹once you let these Corporations move in..they take over and Ruin your Culture🌹...keep ' em out...no loss..🪴.I like Real Food
.💃💃🌹🪴🪴
I really enjoy videos like this, doesn't have to be weird fruit, weird franchises are cool too. The channel is called "Weird Explorer" anyway.
thanks! Yeah I always intended to have more on the channel than just fruit reviews, so its great to see a lot of people are enjoying it
I agree, fascinating. Always enjoy your off-the-beaten-path vids.
Glad you like them
as a matter of fact, the old Algerian investment code required foreign investors to find a local partner who should own 51% of the business, this code has been reversed last year for all sectors except energy, mining and pharma. Foreign investors got some incentives too, as in 3 to 10 years of tax excemption.KFC took advantage of the new investment code and they are now present in Algeria.
Interesting! Thanks for the update!
@@WeirdExplorer You're welcome. Love your Algeria content!
I wish you had tried our traditional food, but we are glad you visited Algeria and we hope you will come back
I did! Algerian food is wonderful
I always enjoy your regular content but this was quite fun too!
This is just fantastic. I'd absolutely love to see more should you decide to partake in "knockoff" American fast food joints in other places. Even if it's just a salad you're getting, I'm absolutely interested!! Thanks for sharing this with us, Jared. I hope everyone is doing well and having a great day!
الطعام المحلي افضل شيء تجربة جديدة ويتقنون اكلاتهم الرسمية تجربة فريدة التنوع جيد رؤيته وتذوقه قد يصبك الملل من نفس الاشياء
that desert looked so good & so did the fries at the end! I wanted to watch you finish eating / reviewing it too lol. loved the cat
Definitely. *I* would have watched that 10-minute long video of Jared mukbanging that dessert pizza. Maybe some good B-channel content?
I just noticed your subscriber number and it has grown so much!!! You were at 12k when I subscribed, I’m so happy for you!🎉
Years ago a friend pointed me at the McDonald’s India website. Apparently, at least then, each restaurant had a vegetarian and a meat kitchen, kept separate and supposedly very clean. Few menu items looked familiar.
Still true when I went 5 years ago. They had several meat free burgers.. I think the one I had was a paneer cutlet. also on the meat menu they used lamb instead of beef.
We haven't any true McDonald's in Algeria
There is a completely vegetarian McDonalds restaurant in Amritsar, India. I ate there when I was in Amritsar ten years ago, but I've forgotten what the food was like 🤔
❤ your choice of music for this video. Nice work. I learned a lot!
thats actually genious marketing,
people will notice and think "somethings not right"
This is SO AWESOME! I LOVE that they stick apostrophes in random places, its hysterical! So cool that they just serve what they want, that dessert pizza looks delicious.
When you're back in the states, id LOVE to see you try and rank all the apples you can get in a (well stocked) grocery store... I recently tried an apple called Sugarbee and i literally cant stomach any other apple anymore. My supermarket only has it once a month if im lucky...
@Bloodred Morgue: Have you tried Pacific Rose or Green Dragon (aka Green Emerald)? Those two are my favorite apple varieties.
I love seeing these shops in other countries! cool video
Hey there Jared,
I really enjoyed this episode the most....you have given us a clear eyed tour of this city in it's non Anerican culture.....its been fascinating and refreshing....thank you ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love these types of videos, thanks for sharing your adventures :)
Glad you like them!
Random fact: The beverage Orangina is from Algeria ✨
such a wonderful world you connect us to, thank you!
I loved this video so much. Amazing and fascinating!!
Always a pleasure to watch you enjoy foreign junk food in addition to all the foreign fruit. That’s really interesting about the fake McDonald’s everywhere.
3:56 i love the surprise and instantly going back in, gave me a good chuckle.
Bootleg McDonald's sounds like a great name for a Garage Punk band.
Their first album could be named _Over Four Billion Puzzled: Who the Hell Are Bootleg McDonald's?!_
This was an awesome video. really enjoyed it. very Mcinteresting
I now desperately need that dessert "pizza" and a bottle of Selecto!
Selecto is great, it has an apple flavour to it, not cola at all...
@@Rueyful do you know what the dessert pizza is called?
@@Rueyful Thank you!
@@chloe-ny2fowe just call it crêpe
@@chloe-ny2fowe call it crêpe or crispy crêpes
My favorite kind of fruit
I like this new theme of travelling around the world exploring different cultures an you showing us these wired things
I’m dying at “fast food mc bell” 😂😂😂😂😂
I haven't been in Algeria for more than 5 years, this brings so many memories :'-)
Are you enriching a nice Western country?
Hi cleptus, i see you left your banjo for an appearance , thats nice and all ...but stay away from your sisters underwear will ya
@@jamesjameson4566
Toooooozzzzee
@@jeremyduchemin1556 is toooze good?
@jamesjameson4566 it's used to tease people out not good and not bad
My man got himself a Selecto, he knows what's up !
Glad I got to try it. Hamoud is my number one Algerian soda though haha
Great new content, loved it! That dessert pizza looked awesome! Micky D's was put to shame in Algeria, irony at it's finest.
Algeria has the number one food in the Arab world
@@brahmaistrash.indiaisatoil5292cmon we're far from the best no need to exaggerate
That was pretty cool and functional .
The whole video was interpreting a new kind of gastronomic views .
I would like to see more similar videos like this especially in Algeria .
Your analysis points where extremely important this may develop the people benefits .
And I think you can make some videos with the same idea but by defining another domain.
Your delivery of McDonald’ss and I’m lovin eat had me crying laughing
I really want to try Selecto. That stuff sounds awesome.
@@julinaonYT High five! 🙏
You can buy it in Quebec province as there are many Algerian stores
@@Rueyful Alas, I'm in Oklahoma. But thank you! I'll look for some if I'm able to visit Quebec!
It is available in America, you can search for it and buy it
And these Algerian MCs are serving healthy natural food with no msg, high sodium preservatives,GMO stuff ...better than the real McDonald's.
Oui oui, berdi ala rassek mdr
wow that wonder-pizza looks so good. I want to try the La Cherri one
My favourite series from you the Algeria series
I was in Algeria back in 1980. They didn't know much about hamburgers then. I ordered a hamburger in a restaurant in Oran, and they brought me a cooked beef patty with an egg on top, sunny side up.
If you ordered grilled kefta you would have had something much more tastier than Burger :)
@@ALGERIEECONOMIE As a matter of fact, the best chocolate eclair I ever had was my first chocolate eclair, ordered at this stand in Oran at a resort where you could rent sailboats. 😊 My dad was part of the group of companies sent to build an long plant outside of Bethioua in the late seventies, and we had a few neighborhoods set up for us to live in. We'd frolic at the beaches shop at the marchés, etc.
Hahaha that's way back in the days.. I'm wondering whether you had any pictures taken for your trip to Algeria and whether you uploaded them on some platform?
I'd love to see the experience thru the pictures
Fun fact: there is no obesity in Algeria. Western (burgers) and Midle Eastern (shawarma) fast food are relatively new in Algeria, we cook our own food with fresh ingredients. Frozen and processed food doesn't exist in Algeria. It would be nice to try some actual Algerian fast food that you can't find anywhere else: algerian pizza (pizza carré, pizza couverte), coca, mhadjebs, Algerian grill, soufflés, Algerian sandwiches, garantita, Algerian ice cream (créponé) etc.
There’s obesity in Algeria. Maybe under the global average tho
Give it time and will be like Kuwait in term of obesity
@@faresfares-ultranah
Ma na3rafch win taskoun mais kayan bezef le surpoids ou l'obésité f alger
Fun fact: this is a lie
What beautiful backgrounds when you’re outside!
In Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 I encountered several knock-off McD’s restaurants such as McDoner’s, McMagic’s, McBurger, RaMburger, and KazBurger. There is even a burger place simply called DONALD’S in Almaty. LOL. I also saw K’FC (Kazakh Fried Chicken).
The unemployed friend at 1pm
I can relate
Now it's 1 am
-Who the heck that is unemployed wakes up at 1pm!?
-So 5am bedtime? Yup, sounds very familiar.
@@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming And who eats fruits too, instead of fast foods?
@@raccongamefit8831 a fruititarian in fruition.
Good for them! I dig the creativity
Oh, and the cats. Always the cats.
Thank you for visiting ore country it's a pleasure ❤
Actually the laws changed, the 51% thing is no longer the case .... actually it is not 51% tax but it was 51% partenership so companies used to find an Algerian partener and Mcdonalds owns the land and it is impossible in Algeria.
Ah, yeah it's like Hoover or Velcro. Both are specific brand names, not a type of product, but people commonly use those words to describe any similar product.
I guess in Algeria they use McDonald's for "take out", "takeaway", and "fast food".
I love your channel and I'm so grateful you came to my country 🇩🇿 We also love the USA
Loved this episode, it reminds me of how all the fried chicken stalls here always kind of copy the style of the most successful ones. And how some big brands have come and go from here, Domino's pizza, as huge as it is, went out of CR, and now it came back. Wendy's and Popeyes also came and went away.
Those fries at 11:53 look insanely good, so many of them too for what I assume is an amazing price.
Food here, especially for foreigners is very cheap, you could go to a high end restaurant and eat for way less than 50 dollars.
That whole table is like 10 bucks
i've been to bootleg McDonalds in Ecuador! There is even a couple of photo blogs detailing them. ...I got sick.
They really nailed the mcdonalds vibes by making you sick.
@@brandon9172 they did! I was not lovin' it.
welcome to algeria ❤🇩🇿 I'm glad you came ❤
cool video, I agree with your reasoning/explanations for the bootlegs
If a New Yorker admits pizza from anywhere else is even edible I'm willing to bet that's a good pizza
Lest we laugh at countries like Algeria for doing this kind of thing, America did it too in the early days of burgers. New Jersey is still dotted with places called White [Something] that make onion-steamed sliders, riding on the coattails of White Castle. And every big city is going to have bootleg versions of any restaurant that has gained any kind of trendiness or popularity. Like, after the Seinfeld soup nazi episode, there were soup shops popping up all over New York with names like Soup Nutsy.
The truth is, most human beings are not particularly original or creative, or are otherwise boxed in by social expectations even if they do have their own ideas. People just want to have what their friends and neighbors have, and can't imagine anything better or different, and there will be merchants who step in to fill that demand, merchants who themselves are risk-averse and unoriginal. It's how traditional crafts happened even before the rise of civilization, and it's how styles and fashions continue even to this day. Human nature.
Top tier episode
this vid rocked
I am just pissed off that there are no bootleg mascots.
They missed a golden opportunity to introduce Algiers' own Reynolds McMerc, Gram Ace, The Hambezzler, and Bird's-eye the Punctual Parrot.
That amount of PR investment would only make sense for a big chain. Also some Muslims believe mascots are not permissible, though I don't really know about the school of Islam in Algeria.
@commenter4898 Don't underestimate the potential of McMerc.
Someday, it will even surpass McDonald's.
@@commenter4898 Who said Mascots are not permitted? Mascots didn't exist in the time of the prophet. If you gonna pull fatwas out of your ass like that, go to KSA where you might at least get money for it.
@@Mutazili Statues and pictures of living things are haram. Some schools of Islam interpret that to mean that mascots of any living animal would also be prohibited.
@@commenter4898 It's not in the Quran and non of the weird Hadiths can actually be proven to be from the prophet, so I'd rather use my brain.
I think I'd find a "mock" McDonald's more interesting to eat at than a real McDonald's in a country. Just to see what they do food wise.
That's a very good point that the golden arches have become a worldwide symbol for fast food in general.
That dessert pizza... I want to try it!
There are no McDonalds in Algeria. That was fake. You can see it from the middle Eastern looking clothes on that guy in the picture. That picture is probably from Dubai.
i laughed my ass off, do more here please yoooo
Nice content 🔥🔥
Thanks!
I wish I was brave like you and traveled all over the world.
Make a " baby " step and you will be already brave ! 😇
@@barbadaalpha Thank you. That is very kind of you to say. I will try 😊
@@jamesc8259 You're very welcome. I've also been there myself. 😊
At least you don't have to worry about broken ice cream machines.😂
I love your videos ❤
I need to have that wonder food's dessert pizza 🤤 The *cronch* is intriguing
Welcome to Algeria, i felt ur pain eating that pizza, I know I know 😅
Really interesting video, very different to see how other countries do it. Probably healthier food too.
Oh that dessert from Wonder Foods! Fantastic, how do you stay slim?
They are protected from American junk food! Good for them 👍
The dont have much money:
we have @@The_steak
Great to see Mc”donald” is actually serving real food
donald SS xd
this is great content
Actually 200 DA is less than 1 dollar in the black market, because almost everyone exchange his money in the black market in Algeria. So a slice of pizza with a bottle of soda are less than 1 dollar.
I say we petition for more cats in McDonalds as well
more. cats. everywhere.
@@WeirdExplorer Ever thought of moving to Istanbul?
Is this Bebouzzar? God I miss my country