The last McDonalds hamburger in Iceland
bushostelreykjavik.com
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For that reason, a lot of restaurants with burgers on the menu served ground lamb instead of ground beef. Lambburgers are tasty!
At the time, I worked at a McDonald's back home. I had no intention of eating at one abroad, but I was curious to see what an Icelandic McDonald's would look like. I went to one somewhere in/near Keflavik shortly after we arrived, and while the menu looked more or less the same, a regular cheesburger was the equivalent of ~$10. (Not the meal, or a quarter pounder, just a cheesburger.) At the time, I was completely flabbergasted.
I'd wager a significant portion of the reason that all McDonald's closed in Iceland is simply cost. Beef is more-or-less entirely imported, and is therefore very expensive. Lamb is cheaper and tastier. McDonald's uses all beef (and bad beef, at that), and just can't compete with local short-order restaurants.
Keep in mind that this was in 2002-2003, well before the recent economic troubles in Iceland. It was also the first time I'd ever been outside the US. Everything seemed outrageously expensive to me, partly just because I was living in one of the cheapest cities in the US (my share of the rent was $80/month) and was getting by on ~$300/month.
Also, Iceland has _incredible_ hot dogs, weirdly enough... Natural casing, better meat (lamb, maybe?), and they're nicely seasoned. They're just plain good. We used to cook them in an aluminum foil packet with onions over the fire, and then sear them a touch over the flames after the onions were cooked. I'll never look at hot dogs the same way again!
I had a friend who went to Iceland regularly back in the early 2000's and he once paid 60 usd for a regular pizza.
I still have them, in a box, sealed in their original food stylist primped and prepped state. They are in containers with clear tops so I can look at them without poisoning the air. A few of them have decomposed completely into green dust. Others are completely pristine.
Maybe when Wendy's closes their last store in the USA I will donate them to a museum!
Basically the theory of spontaneous generation (of maggots) was falsified by this guy, who tried it with open and closed jars.
I think there is a famous fruitcake over a hundred years old.
For why?
Perverse pleasure aside, I really do not understand the criteria by which some apply their downvotes.
(Upvoted you in sympathy, don't believe in downvoting, etc.)
http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-r...
1) Why is this on HN?
2) How in the world did it make it the the #2 spot (at the moment)?
EDIT: Knew I would get downvoted. I now have as little respect for HN as I do for Reddit. You wouldn't believe how little respect I have for Reddit.
Upvote what you want to see more of, downvote what you want to see less of, flag spam and abuse, and if you still don't like what bubbles up on HN, post more of the kind of content you would rather see.
Many of icantthinkofone's comments are complaints about how Hacker News doesn't meet their standards, meanwhile they've made two submissions - very little positive effort to improve the community. If they were serious about leaving, they wouldn't stick around to gripe as much as they have.
I don't think flouncing deserves much civility, particularly as a response to a pronouncement that this place isn't worth someone's time.
You say the user is trolling. You then responded to that user. In troll terms you lose they win.
I like meatball wiki's way of talking about this stuff: http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/UsAndThem
Maybe have another look at the guidelines for submissions.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
This story is mildly interesting, especially if you look past the "McDonald's never rot" meme and at the "Here's how one hotel advertises itself".
Also remember that HN is much less busy on weekends and so different things bubble up.
But, if you still think it shouldn't be here it's probably best to just flag it.
Submit what you'd like to see more of, if it gains traction then maybe you won't see what you don't want to see in slot 2. As an aside, you can simply ignore slot #2 and click on 'more' at the bottom and look at the first link on the next page. It's a workaround, but a surprisingly effective one.
1) Because someone posted it.
2) Because enough people up voted it.(Generally, anything criticizing HN darlings, e.g., Uber, will get downvoted. The echo chamber is strong.)
I suspect you got downvoted because of a petulant realization of the inherent contradiction that many of us realize: This article really does not fit the HN guidelines at all yet we find it so intriguing.
I believe the reasons we find it so intriguing are pretty obvious: We all of us, we hackers, love the exceptional, the one-of-its-kind, the historically significant if sufficiently curious, etc. We hack because the status quo isn't good enough.
Getting that into a guideline is a bit tougher.
I suspect I'll get downvoted because I just labelled the echo chamber as petulant. But that's a comfortable shoe, so so be it.
See the guidelines. Basically, if many find it intriguing it probably is on-topic.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Do you have any examples of your posts that you think got downvoted because you criticised Uber?
I've made plenty of posts criticising Uber and got upvoes for most of those posts so I'm interested to see the difference.
It wasn't about Uber directly, to be fair.
And, of course, my comment parent to yours is being downvoted as well.
(Which leads roundly to the question of the purpose of the downvote: To flag? Perhaps. To disagree? Hmm, perhaps actually writing a contrary or critical comment is more constructive. Other? Not sure. As I've stated often enough herein, I never downvote, I don't believe in it, I believe it serves no useful purpose (flag abuse, end of story), and believe that upvoting the good is sufficient to bury the bad. But I digress.)
> (Which leads roundly to the question of the purpose of the downvote:
It's there for whatever purpose the downvoter wants. There are plenty of people who like you think downvoting is evil and must be avoided at all cost unless a post really deserves it. Those people will supply corrective upvotes if they see a post that has been unfairly downvoted. Don't forget that everyone has upvote privs and not everyone has downvote privs so if your post gets a downvote it hasn't just had a single person downvoting it, but the rest of the readership declining to upvote it.
First you got, For many that was symbolic for the way Icelanders shun the capitalistic powers in Iceland following the crisis.
That's red meat for the socialist, statist, anti-americans that infest HN now.
You're right. HN is more of a joke than Reddit is now. The hive mind is hysterical.