🎵Ba da ba ba bah! It’s Brave New World.🎵
Oh, it’s been harbinged. We’re in it.
More like hambinger
The harburgler of doom. Robble robble!
Damn, I wish I’d thought of that.
We used to have the only McDonald’s (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.
They “modernised” it last year.
From beautiful 19th century architecture to boring modern office lounge. Not everything needs to be updated for current trends.
My college did this. It might have been due to bedbugs. They swapped the cozy built in furniture with this weird vinyl stuff. Bugs can’t get into the seams.
Wow, which piece of shit did they bribe for that? They completely destroyed the interior of the building. Isn’t there any heritage protection?
AFAIK it was part of a larger restoration of the whole building complex (this is the Budapest Nyugati railway station), and the global redesign of McDonalds. They justified it by saying that the architecture is closer to the original - the lower level only became part of it when they built the McDonalds in 1990, before that it was a separate diner for the poors in third class. The furniture is default McDonalds.
The overall restoration on the building at large is not bad per se, but they basically destroyed a symbol of the Hungarian 90s - 00s. This was the place where if you lived in Budapest and got wasted, you could get some nutrition in the city center, and it wasn’t full of tourists because they didn’t think that the railway station buffet was so good.
BTW the local franchisee is trying to cater more to a “fast casual” crowd rather than the bare minimum, so a McDonalds in Hungary has a menu three times as long as one in the Netherlands for example. All I’m saying is that it was a nice place considering. Sic transit gloria mundi I guess.
Thank you for the interesting context!
The place was a part of my early youth, I was sad to see it go.
Can I have my fries tho you were holding them those last three paragraphs no keep talking tho this is interesting
Some of that is from white balance making the top picture look warmer, but even accounting for that, it’s a tragedy.
Corpo interior designers should be hunted, and theblicenses should fund repairing damage they die.
$3.99 Big Mac combos 😭
Those were the days. Don’t look at how the size changed over time. It’ll make you too sad.
Instead of McCafe, it should be “McSoylent”.
Excellent suggestion. Here you go:
Would you like a 64 oz McEnergy with your McSoylent?
“I’ve exhausted my monthly ration allowance for McEnergy, so I’ll have to pass today.”
I’d like to change the order of the meme
Me, too, but I wasn’t about to chop the original meme and stitch it back together in a better order. If you do it for me, you can have all my imaginary internet points, though.
I mean, I wouldn’t say no to a brutalist McDonald’s.
I would, but I’m rejecting the mc d’s part not the brutalist part.
brutalist architecture is fucking cool.
That’s fair.
brutalist state-owned fast food joint, everything’s cheap but not that cheap and perfectly middling quality, and there’s 4 things on the menu
I’d at least try it
If you want fast food, just go to Panda Express or something. Way better than Mcdonald’s shit.
Or just a local Chinese Restaurant if you don’t need “fast” food. Actual real food btw
The food is also going to be shit like bugs or lab-made pink paste. Possibly made with bugs.
Soylent Green didn’t test well with consumers, so we fed it to bugs and made Soylent Pink.
I don’t know if that will be better or worse than what they currently serve up.
Welcome to McDonald’s, the All-American Restaurant, papers please
You laugh, but a cashless society means ID’ing oneself with every transaction.
A couple of minutes in Dystopika, annnnnd…
80s : Pizza hut
I miss it every day. That salad bar. The cups. The lamps. I wonder what things of today I’ll miss in 40 years.
Being alive. 😉
I will never recover from that. You have my begrudging admiration. If you need me, I’ll be in the burn ward.
That salad bar. The cups. The lamps.
My god, it even has a drinks fountain.
Inside the top one, you can hear screams regularly going like this:
No, please no, I don’t wanna fucking die! No! Please no, you fucking fucking bastards! AAAAAH, IT HURTS, IT FUCKING HURTS! AAAAAAAAAHHH, MY ARMS, MY FUCKING ARMS, YOU FUCKING BASTARDS!
The order needs to be reversed. People don’t really read from the bottom up.
You’re right. I just didn’t feel like chopping the original meme and stitching it back together. I just made my little addition to the top. I guess that did make the post a little…shitty.
Yeah, I can get not wanting to spend the time/effort. Though, there is a difference between a shit post and a shitpost. People always conflate the two.
The soon one makes sense 'cause of global warming. We don’t be able to do it like the good old times.
needs to change the sign and logo to be more brutalist as well
You’re entirely right, but you might be writing cheques my 5-year-old phone can’t cash.
