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  • Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Lol, Burger King DID cut off their franchises in Russia… but of course, all the Russian franchise owners just keep operating them. What is BK corporate gonna do, send the SEALS in to blow up their stores? Kind of a good lesson in the difference between financialized funny money, and the actual operation on the ground that produces all the value.

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      1 year ago

      I can’t read kyrillic, but i wouldn’t be surprised, they’re also just called cheeseburgers in German, without translating it to Käseburger.

      Edit: This goes for all cheeseburgers in German restaurants, not just BK. You see the same at McDonald’s or at non-franchise burger places.

    • Duży Szef [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      I mean, in polish we don’t transliterate buuuuut we do just say “Burger” or “Hamburger” and sometimes someone will say a very polish sounding “Czizburger”.

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    Barely on topic but I noticed burger kings meals are like 15 dollars now but they also, at the same time, for either 15 or 20 dollars depending on the location will sell you six sandwiches, half whopper half smaller normal cheeseburger, and 3 fries. That’s like 2-3 dollars for a burger essentially. Literally if you are buying 2 whopper meals you can go oh whoops, hold up, please pay me 10 dollars and give me 3 cheese burgers, a whopper and fries. Inflation is fake as fuck