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MostlyHarmless
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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Everything looks better with pizza. Not necessarily pizza hut pizza though. However I have good hopes that the local pizza hut there will have some interesting items on menu.

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doctor_cos wants you to remain calm
November 29, 2009 8:37 AM
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Calling that \"pizza\" is more generous than I would be. Same for Papa John's, Dominos, most all of your chains.
I was especially offended by their ads where they 'fooled' people in a high-end restaurant with their entrees. Didn't Penn & Teller shoot that kind of thing down?
I go to a high-end Italian restaurant and they serve me Pizza Hut food, there's not going to be a lot of laughter, I guarantee you.

Oh, nice view though :)

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ElizabethD
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@MostlyHarmless:
Don't count on pepperoni or bacon if that's your topping of choice.

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Smashville
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@The Porkchop Express: Don't forget desert pizzas...er...dessert pizzas.

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MattSaintCool
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@MostlyHarmless: When I was in India and ate at a Dominoes, the selections were pretty tame - just a lot of chicken-based pies. I would think that the same would hold true here, but who knows. I'd eat a pizza with meat sculpted into little pyramids, I think.

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HogwartsAlum
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@MattSaintCool: Dude, WHY would you eat at Domino's in another country? Why not eat the local food? I'm not trying to snark; I genuinely don't get it.

I wouldn't travel halfway around the world to eat at McBarfBags. I'd probably view it as a welcome respite!

Although little pepperoni pyramids would be cool.

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dantsea
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@HogwartsAlum: As someone who has traveled extensively for business and leisure, I find it a real treat to be able to sample the local cuisine.

Unfortunately, tight schedules, bone-wearying jetlag and sometimes even the language barrier hinder this process. At the end of a day of traveling and bureaucracy and meetings and keeping one's guard up and being hyper-aware of local culture and business norms and making sure you don't step over them, one's mind isn't about finding that little gem of a place the guys on Chowhound were talking about.

Now, it's a bit different when you're on vacation, of course, but there are exceptions. After four weeks of traveling and hiking through remote parts of Asia and sampling some amazing culture and local food which will never be part of some American PF Theme restaurant, by the time we got back to civilization in Hong Kong, there was something about the golden arches of McDonald's that was very, very comforting.

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mattarse
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@MattSaintCool: You're right, i didn't eat at this one, but have at another in Cairo and there was nothing special on the menu.

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MostlyHarmless
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@MattSaintCool: The Dominoes in India sucks balls. I had it there once, and was very much disappointed. The Pizza Hut is much better, but my fave by far was Pizza Inn.

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MostlyHarmless
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@nbs2: I saw a Papa Johns in my hometown too when I went there, but I never quite got a chance to go there.

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Enduro
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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I've always heard how close developments are to the pyramids but I've never seen photo evidence of it. It's equal parts comical and sad, I think.

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YardanCabaret
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@Enduro: When I was a kid we went to Cairo. I vividly remember leaving a dusty alley and bam right in front of me was the Sphinx with the Pyramids right behind. It was a little surreal at the time and I'm sure the intervening years have only made it more so.

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mariospants
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@Enduro: They're just buildings, too, right? Plus they don't look anything like they did when they were brand new so I'm more worried about pollution wrecking the pyramids than pizza grease.

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mattarse
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@Enduro: On one side of the pyramids is desert....and on the other is the city. It's actually quite a strong image when you think how long people have been living near the pyramids. The city side falls in the fertile area along the nile, and it's like aknif cuts a line thru the grass where the desert starts.

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catastrophegirl chooses not to fly
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@mattarse: i think they kind of had to live there even when they were being built. if your transportation is feet, you aren't walking miles home at night after lugging stones all day.
work ends and you want to be as close as possible the next morning when you have to go right back

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hi
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@Enduro: I'm almost with you .. it was kinda funny to watch, but I'm more depressed now.

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Enduro
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@hi: I think it's just kind of a let down to see something so iconic and timeless next to something commercial.

I think what's most saddening is that one of the world's great wonders is located in what now looks like one of my failed SimCities.

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Donathius
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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Dang, that is pretty nice. I'm a big fan of the world's most scenic Taco Bell in Pacfica, CA.

[www.waymarking.com]

I've eaten there, it's pretty nice. Well-maintained and it's right on the ocean. You actually walk through the sand to get inside.

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HogwartsAlum
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@Donathius: Man, I love Cali. I miss it so much I could die. I'd eat there even if my doctor told me not to and it gave me the runs for a week.

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mariospants
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@Donathius: You beat me to it, I was going to nominate this one, too.

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Smashville
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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More like Pizza Tut!


C'mon! Who's with me?

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texbob
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@Smashville_Flippin the Bird Before Bud Adams:


Classic.. that's the best laugh I've had today. Yep, I like cheesy humor. Ha...\"cheesy\"...pizza...


I had to click instantrimshot.com after reading it.

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ElizabethD
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@Smashville_Flippin the Bird Before Bud Adams:

Needz moar Steve Martin to write the jingle...

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phixional-ninja
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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Oh man...I've definitely been there. Didn't go inside, eating Pizza Hut in Egypt just seemed like the most touristy thing possible. I have a picture of it from the outside somewhere or other... They did a really cool job with the Arabic logo next to the English one.

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catastrophegirl chooses not to fly
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@phixional-ninja: depends on if you met the guy my sister ran into on a trip to greece:
tourist: \"if this place didn't have a KFC i'd have starved. they only have foreign food here!\"
yes, she really had to listen to someone say that.

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aguacarbonica
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@phixional-ninja:


Wouldn't the most touristy thing ever be eating at every little sketchy hole in the wall so you could have the \"full experience.\" I'm sure that many Egyptians in that area eat at the hut...well maybe not because ew. But my point stands.

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Alys Brangwin
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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A blight on a jewel of human history!

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smrtypants44
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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\"piramids\"?

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Bigfoot-Angus
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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Sort of reminds me of all the wonderful views you have of Gettysburg's Battlefields from McDonalds, Burger King, 7-11, Walmart, etc......

VERY SAD

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shepd
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@Bigfoot-Angus:

Yay! We should just ban all development near anything historic. That way nobody ever visits anything historic and learns about it because it's too far away and not very fun.

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pecan 3.14159265
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@shepd: That's the thing, though. Notre Dame in Paris is historic, but I didn't notice any audacious and glaringly ridiculous fast food places nearby. A few cafes, perhaps, but definitely not anything that can be so garish as a Pizza Hut in the dessert.

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catastrophegirl chooses not to fly
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@pecan 3.14159265: the bourse, the brussels stock exchange, built in 1868, [en.wikipedia.org] faces a mcdonald's, pizza hut and a chi-chi's mexican.

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shepd
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@pecan 3.14159265:

Huh. And I always thought Pizza Hut looked nice and those horrible 5-star restaurants with their ridiculously dressed customers lining up outside for reserved tables and the horridly over-the-top decor were garish.

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nbs2
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@pecan 3.14159265: Is it Pizza the Hut that is garish or is it the building/display that is garish? If X company caters to the tastes of those who visit a given location, and they don't detract from the aura of the location, is it a bad thing it they happen to be part of a big chain? For a local example, come up to Gaithersburg and check out the Kentlands area. Every building in the neighborhood has to fit in with the community development requirements.


Sure, a WM 100 yards from Gettysburg is going to be a problem, there's no disguising it. But, smaller services are essential to sustaining and/or managing tourism in these places and keeping them affordable. Not everybody can afford the overpriced on-site concessions. Are we going to be upset because their is a Starbucks next to whatever-they-are-calling-the-WTC-site?

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webster44
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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IV'E BEEN THERE!!!!!

At night there is a light show that splashes on the pyramids. It costs money to attend. But, is visible from the roof of the pizza hut.
So thats where we saw the light show. The only downside is that the light show people have giant spotlights facing the roof(presumably to entice us to go pay money and watch from the official area)

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rpm773
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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How does Egyptian Pizza Hut pizza compare to its American counterpart?

Whenever I see American fast food places in foreign lands, I've thought the local interpretation of American fast food would be far more foul and less satisfying than the local cuisine, and therefore I'd have no interest in dining at them.

Alas, my global travels have only taken me as far afield as Montreal and Vancouver, so I've never had the chance to put the above into practice.

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HogwartsAlum
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@rpm773: I ate at one in London years ago (I had a sandwich) and the sandwich was very good, but the service was terrible.

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HogwartsAlum
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@HogwartsAlum: Before anyone dogpiles me a la my earlier comment, they were the only place I could find that was open at the time.

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HogwartsAlum
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@HogwartsAlum: And I probably just answered my own question about why he ate at Domino's.

GOD I hate being sick. :P It makes me stupid!

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Lin-Z [linguist on duty]
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@rpm773: Pizza hut in egypt is a sit-down restaurant and it is relatively fancy. Also, McDonalds in Egypt has delivery.

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catastrophegirl chooses not to fly
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@rpm773: i've read that some of the mcdonald's in israel are kosher. but i'm not sure if that improves or just alters the food

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stormbird
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@rpm773: Last week there was an article (might have been here) about the McDonald's in Iceland closing because everything is shipped there. A Big Mac costs $6.50 there.

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Elginista
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@rpm773: I lived in Budapest, Hungary for a year, and for the most part, the American chains were pretty similar to what you get in the US. The Pizza Hut menu had more chicken toppings and lots of Hungarian paprikas (spicy peppers, kinda between a bell pepper and a jalapeno - not the ground spice as we know it). Plus, pizza was served with a bottle of ketchup, which locals poured over the top of their pizza before eating.

McDonald's, Burger King and even the lone Wendy's could have been picked up from Chicago and dropped in Budapest with only a change in prices (much cheaper, at least in 1995) and menu language.

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CubeRat
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@rpm773:


I had Burger King in Jamaica once and it was the best burger King burger I have ever had. The sandwich also very closely resembled the ones in the ads.

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your new nemesis
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@rpm773: Restaraunts in foreign countries are usually pretty similar, and in some cases even better. (I would rather eat German Mcdonalds than American, however Korean was pretty bland). The main difference between pizza restaraunts in Germany and the US is that they use salami instead of pepperoni, but it's pretty similar aside from that.


@lannister80: I stopped at a Mcdonalds on the way to Paris from Normandy and they had Royale with cheese. They were out, so I had to get a royale with bacon, but it was a menu item.

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aguacarbonica
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@skizsrodt:


I ate the staple burger at a Moroccan McDonald's and it was awesome. The fries were great too. McDonald's ships their key ingredients to a lot of these places, if not all of them. Continuity of service is what McDonald's is all about.

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Paladin_11
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@aguacarbonica: Indeed. Look at the recent article about McDonald's closing up shop in Iceland because the cost of importing the food was too great. But I'm pretty sure that only happens in certain countries. In places where the quality standards can be met they use local suppliers. I've personally sampled them in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Gotta love the KiwiBurger with the fried egg on top.

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MightyDwarf56
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@rpm773: McDonalds in Canada was pretty tasty.

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DangerMouth
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@rpm773: I ate at a pizza hut in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It was just as inedible as it's US counterpart.

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lannister80
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@rpm773: I've eaten at a McDonalds in Paris, and there was no Royale with Cheese.

Color me disappointed.

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nbs2
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@lannister80: Really? I had one right on the Mall. I even noticed a sandwich that was bigger than the DQPC (the Le 280=280g=.617#).

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WatchOutNow
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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Alrighty THen! Smoking Fags & listening to techNO music, while dining on a personal pan Hawaiian . I'LL BE THERE!

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November 28, 2009 11:20 AM
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chal chal chal chal chalat chal jab thaath dikhaaye aur baat dikhaaye oye bunty
pal pal pal pal palat palat jab kamar ghumaaye aur hosh uraaye oye bubbly

Oh c'mon, I wasn't the only one who thought this was the song playing in the background, was I?

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diasdiem
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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As a Terry Pratchett fan, I'd say that's probably the closest you'd come to getting the real-world equivalent of a Klatchian hots.

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TCinIowa
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@diasdiem:


Pizza Hut is definitely the equivalent of Al-Jibblah's sausage-inna-bun.

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SatisfriedCrustomer
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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\"After all, there was probably always a food stall of some sort nearby over the years.\"


-- and maybe deep within the pyramid's chambers we'll discover a sarcastic hieroglyph describing how they are offering one schwarma for 2 silver coins but 2 schwarmas for 5 silver coins.

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ElizabethD
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@SatisfriedCrustomer:

Ding ding ding ding!!!! This comment wins. LOL for realz.

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DangerMouth
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@a href=\"#c16884359\">SatisfriedCrustomer: Second time you've made me laugh today, so, you get a heart.

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twophrasebark
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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Well, at least it's not in one of the pyrmaids.

I score this as a win.

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panzerschreck1
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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wait, is that man SMOKING IN A RESTAURANT!!?/!?!?!

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lpranal
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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globalization fail :(

(I realize it's really more of a win for globalization, but it's too depressing for me to call it that)

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cmdrsass
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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This is the curse the mummy warned us about.

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333 (only half evil)
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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McDonald's in Stockholm advertised their Chicken sandwich as a Birdie Nam-Nam. I didn't eat there but passed by the sign every day for a week. Burger King in London put catsup on their breakfast sandwiches automatically. Couldn't eat it. Wendy's in Yokohama, Japan was pretty much like ones here. Rome has a pretty swanky McDonald's.

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sgtcody
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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I too sat in that very spot. I remember watching the kids knock chunks of the Sphynx and the pyramids off and attempt to sell them to tourists.

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Project_J187
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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At first I was like \"thats pretty neat. Scenery can make a meal better. I'll have to remember that if I ever go.\" Then I saw the dude smoking a cigarette inside and thought \"holy S**T, you can still smoke in there (checks for next flight to Egypt).\"

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nstonep
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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@Project_J187: That's because they hate our freedom?!?

Coffee and cigarettes (or a nice CUBAN cigar) will never be the same in the U.S. \"What about the children!?!?!?\" Smokes em if you gots em.

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nstonep
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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I'm sorry...but that's just like painting a target on your back...unless terrorists enjoy the taste of beef pepperoni pizza. Muslims don't eat pork right?

If they deliver I've got one hell of a prank up my sleeve. \"No sir we don't deliver to Giza!\"

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abjaxx
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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A bit depressing, but people need to eat, wherever they happen to be.

I ate at the classiest Pizza Hut I've ever seen in Malmo. We thought it was a nice little Swedish cafe until we looked a bit closer and spotted the logo; it was perfectly adapted to that Scandinavian cafe culture.

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Japheaux
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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That's hilarious! But many moons ago when Bedouin Bhob had his schwarma tent in that location, he was cursing that some morons were building some sort of geometric tomb in his camel-parking-lot.

Can I get some ham on that pie?

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rb1971 - E39M5'er
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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I've been to that PIzza Hut! Just to get some waters for those of us that were burning up tho, so can't speak to the pizza quality.

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FaustianSlip
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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If you think this is depressing, you haven't seen the section of the Great Wall at Badaling. They've got Starbucks and a KFC. There may be a McDonalds too, by now.

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MedicallyNeedy
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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Country Code + 19000. Delivery to the Eiffel Tower please!

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almightytora
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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I remember a special about Giza's Pyramids (I believe it was an ABC special) and how the Sphinx is facing directly at the Pizza Hut on the second floor. Epic.

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TechnoDestructo
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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Try the McDonald's in Sitka, Alaska. Right by the shore, and for a couple months out of the year you get to watch bald eagles lord over the local ravens and seagulls and the occasional brave, stupid pigeon.

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bwcbwc
November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
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You sure that isn't just the Luxor in Las Vegas? :)

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pharmacyfires
November 25, 2009 1:37 AM
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I dunno, the Pizza Hut near my house overlooks the Fabric World. Which do you think is more scenic?

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