{"id":480,"date":"2007-10-24T23:30:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T23:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T23:30:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T23:30:59","slug":"tarter-sauce-taste-adjustment-and-the-end-of-the-big-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/2007\/tarter-sauce-taste-adjustment-and-the-end-of-the-big-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tarter Sauce Taste Adjustment&#8221; and The End of the &#8220;Big M\u00e4c&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/800px-BigMacAustralia.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/800px-BigMacAustralia.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/weblog\/images\/800px-BigMacAustralia-thumb-200x150.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Big_Mac.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span>This is kind of old news, but nonetheless amusing:<\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s Germany decided that, after 36 years, Germans probably had figured out how to pronounce the chain&#8217;s signature sandwich, and that spelling it phonetically in German would no longer be necessary. OK, well, officially it has to with &#8220;global unified branding&#8221;&mdash;The &#8220;FishM&#228;c&#8221; has also become the globally-known Fillet-o-Fish.<\/p>\n<p>Granted the above is probably not worth more than a shug. We&#8217;re talking about Germany after all, the country that has invented more English words than hip hop.<\/p>\n<p>More amusing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welt.de\/wirtschaft\/article912840\/McDonalds_schafft_Big_Maec_und_Fishmaec_ab.html\">the <i>Welt<\/i> article<\/a> that brought this post all about is a paragraph about the contents of the Fillet-o-Fish in Germany. Here&#8217;s my translation, and trust me, it&#8217;s better than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babel_Fish_%28website%29\" title=\"Babel Fish (website)\">Babel Fish<\/a>&#8216;s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rumor, that the [Fillet-o-Fish] consists of everything but fish, won&#8217;t be laid to rest. In reality, three different kinds of fish are used in Germany: Atlantic cod, Alaskan sea salmon, Merlucciidae. The [choice of fish] is seasonally dependent. [PR Person Eva Maria Haas]: However, it is important for us that there is no noticeable taste difference.&#8221; <strong>The balancing of the taste is enabled through an extra &#8220;spritzer&#8221; of tarter sauce.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the Fillet-o-Fish&#8217;s taste is further balanced by the use of breading and a deep fryer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of old news, but nonetheless amusing: McDonald&#8217;s Germany decided that, after 36 years, Germans probably had figured out how to pronounce the chain&#8217;s signature sandwich, and that spelling it phonetically in German would no longer be necessary. OK, well, officially it has to with &#8220;global unified branding&#8221;&mdash;The &#8220;FishM&#228;c&#8221; has also become the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[310,342,341],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","tag-fast-food","tag-germany","tag-mcdonalds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}