For those bitching that the Sziget Festival is increasingly corporate and no longer what it was all once about, we bring you this special news bulletin that McDonald’s will be selling their products at this year’s festival. Index.hu surveyed festivalgoers to gauge opinions with responses evenly divided between “cool” and “what the fuck?”
One person said the sale of cheeseburgers would make the Guinness Book of World Records, no doubt yet another dumb world record we like to set in this little country of ours, while someone else predicted that success would hinge on ice cream sales.
McDonald’s would not say what they expected from the festival and whether they planned anything special, but revealed prices would be the same as at their regular restaurants. Food quality will be too, we assume. [index.hu]
i’m Lovin’ it
“Me Gusta!”- I’m liking it too! They can open up anywhere in Hungary and sell the usual, but I would like to see offerings affected by the local culinary culture as well. I have always felt that Hungarian cuisine can be modified and sold worldwide. Sad to say, it’s probably going to be a foreign owned chain that will likely realize and profit from this, rather than a magyar one.
@Farkas László: This reminds me of a story from a couple of years ago: my husband (a diehard Sziget participant) met some French guys on the Sziget, who were happily and blissfully eating some undescribable sh*t sold to them as “Hungarian Gulyás”. Luckily, the grass they were smoking helped their elation with the food. My husband said he did not have the heart to shatter their dream and tell them the stuff they were eating was a far cry from the real Gulyás.Probably to this day those guys keep singing the praise of the great gulyás they ate in Hungary, at the Sziget…
Monsieur Farkas László.
If youre in the Motherland, please take a look around you when on
the streets. What you’ll see is a nation of malnutrition, grossly
overweight people über alles, partly caused by the glory of your so-
called Hungarian Cuisine. Since when has it been good to fry food
in oil – which I believe is the foundation of many Magyar dishes,
huh?
I sincerly wish that this “cuisine” will stay put – at least for a couple
of generation, until new generations will have been brought/taught
up knowing (cooking) better.