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In an increasingly competitive world, where there are individual demands to meet, where every consumer has got into his mind that he will be treated with respect, and his demand honored, fast food franchisees are rustling up increasingly stranger and weirder menus to satisfy the taste buds of consumers.

It is an age, where in spite of globalization, there is always a huge cloud of localization looming at the backdrop. It is for this precise reason that the fast food franchisee, McDonalds, has introduced different types of menus in different parts of the world in order to satisfy the altogether diverse demand patterns of different countries. This has inevitably led to the innovation and creation of more and more odd, if not grotesque food items.

One of the first and foremost that comes to our mind is something that is found in McDonalds Australia. In places virtually all over the world, people like to spread a something, a topping over their toast. Some like jelly, some jam, some peanut butter, others just plain and simple butter. However, Australians have got a little weird secret up their sleeves, something that makes their tongues waggle so much, it is featured on McDonalds’ menu. Introducing the Vegemite, a piece of toast spread over with the leftover yeast after the manufacture of beer. It’s recycling all the way, and with a price tag stamped on it.

Go to Japan, and you get to sink your teeth into an even stranger dish. We have all heard of cheese burger, chicken burger, even veg burger, but, wait for it, Shrimp Burger?? Whoever hears it goes like, “What the??” Nobody knows why even McDonalds got the idea in the first place to combine the diverse dualities of shrimp and burger in a singularity. However, it is done and is named EBI Filet-O in Japan. It is of course a way to bring the tastes of the Occident and the Orient together, but nevertheless, does sound odd.

However, the oddest of the odds is still to go. Take the next flight to Kuala Lumpur, go to a McDonalds there, and you can get to offer a something called, Chicken Singa Porridge. In what may be one of the weirdest combinations anywhere in the world, this is a bowl of porridge with bits of chicken, ginger, carrots and other veggies added to it.

McDonalds is doing a great job of satisfying the hungry bellies everywhere, at the same time redefining the limitations of cooking, but nevertheless, restraint, anyone??

Starbucks Corporation based in Seattle, Washington was founded in 1971. It is an Italian-style international coffee house chain.

Starbucks is famous for the surprises it brings every year during the fall and winter to delight its customers and celebrate the season. This Christmas also it has brought back a complete pack of holiday goodies which will surely be the centre of attraction among the different palates and which will be a complement to the customer’s favorite brew.

Special Holiday Attractions:

This holiday too Starbucks has come up with many new holiday goodies to their limited edition holiday line. Some of the special attractions to delight the customers are:

• Frosted Snowman Cookie: Cookie submerged in a pool of white chocolate and crowned with a milk chocolate top hat.

• Holiday Gingerbread: A ginger spice cake combined with spice, spiked with orange frosted with a cream cheese icing and sprinkled with candied orange peel.

• Grandma’s Turkey Sandwich: The Moist turkey breast layered with stuffing, sweet and tart cranberry-orange relish and lettuce in between slices of wholesome multigrain bread.

• Cranberry Bliss Bar: Blondie cake studded with dried cranberries and sweetly layered with a rich cream cheese icing – flecked with dried cranberry pieces atop and drizzled with a sublime orange sauce.

• Peppermint Brownie Cake Pop: Chocolate cake combined with butter cream and pieces of candy cane – dunked in creamy white chocolate and showered with a light dusting of crushed peppermint stick.

Some other special attractions are:

• Pumpkin Spice Latte
• Peppermint Mocha
• Peppermint Hot Chocolate beverages
• Pumpkin bread
• Pumpkin muffins
• Pumpkin scone
• Starbucks Christmas Blend
• Starbucks Christmas Blend Espresso Roast
• Starbucks Christmas Blend Blonde Roast
• Starbucks VIA Christmas Blend
• Starbucks VIA Peppermint Mocha
• Verismo Christmas Blend Brewed Coffee Pods
• Starbucks Holiday Coffee Sampler
• Starbucks VIA Tote
• Starbucks Holiday Blend
• Starbucks Decaf Christmas Blend

Special Holiday Offer:

Not only the special holiday goodies, Starbucks has also come up with special offers like “Buy One Get One” to bring a smile on its customers’ face.

So, what you are out doing this holiday – wasting your time just in shopping. Do not forget to visit your nearest local Starbucks and taste the seasonal offerings to keep your energy high this holiday and which will also for a few moments transport you to your winter wonderland far away from the crowded city life. And the Starbucks store’s warm décor and ambience will keep your conversation going-on for this holiday bonding.