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Russia: McDonald's food has 'too many calories'
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Date: July 25, 2014 09:49PM
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Russia: McDonald's food has 'too many calories'
MOSCOW (AP) -- Nearly a quarter-century after McDonald's startled and delighted Soviets with their first taste of American fast-food culture, the company's now facing a suit that could ban it from selling some of its signature products.
The Russian consumer protection agency said Friday it is taking the company to court for selling foods that contain more fats and carbohydrates than are allowed by national regulations.
McDonald's did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The suit comes amid especially high tensions between Moscow and Washington over the Ukraine crisis; the United States has slapped an array of sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine for allegedly supporting separatist rebels who are fighting in eastern Ukraine.
There's no demonstrable connection between the McDonald's suit and the tensions, but the consumer protection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, has a history of actions that appear to dovetail Russia's political agenda. As tensions between Russia and Georgia escalated before their 2008 war, Russia banned the import of Georgian wine and mineral water -- two of its major export products -- for failing to meet sanitary norms. Last year, as tensions heated up over Ukraine's desire to sign a trade pact with the European Union, Russia banned imports of chocolates made by the company of Petro Poroshenko, a tycoon who supported the EU deal and is now Ukraine's president.
Rospotrebnadzor said on its website that it brought the case after inspections of two of the company's restaurants in Novgorod.
According to the statement, some food was found with microbial contamination and several items had caloric values two to three times higher than allowed by national regulations. Products that were mentioned for incorrect nutritional information were cheeseburgers, Royal Cheeseburgers -- the local equivalent of the Quarter Pounder -- fish sandwiches and several milkshake varieties.
The suits asks that sale of McDonald's products that do not meet the regulations be declared illegal, but it was not clear what penalty the company could face. The two restaurants in Novgorod were to be fined 70,000 rubles ($2,100).
McDonald's prompted the ire of Russian nationalists earlier this year after it closed its outlets in Crimea.
The animosity is a far cry from the fascination that Muscovites had for McDonald's when it opened its first outlet in the Soviet Union in 1990; customers waited in hours-long lines to experience the efficient service and reliable availability of items -- rare novelties in the Soviet era.
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, other American and European chains staked out their own territory. Russian malls now have food courts virtually identical to America's, except that Cinnabon, Sbarro and other familiar names are written in Cyrillic.
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Russia: McDonald's food has 'too many calories'
MOSCOW (AP) -- Nearly a quarter-century after McDonald's startled and delighted Soviets with their first taste of American fast-food culture, the company's now facing a suit that could ban it from selling some of its signature products.
The Russian consumer protection agency said Friday it is taking the company to court for selling foods that contain more fats and carbohydrates than are allowed by national regulations.
McDonald's did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The suit comes amid especially high tensions between Moscow and Washington over the Ukraine crisis; the United States has slapped an array of sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine for allegedly supporting separatist rebels who are fighting in eastern Ukraine.
There's no demonstrable connection between the McDonald's suit and the tensions, but the consumer protection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, has a history of actions that appear to dovetail Russia's political agenda. As tensions between Russia and Georgia escalated before their 2008 war, Russia banned the import of Georgian wine and mineral water -- two of its major export products -- for failing to meet sanitary norms. Last year, as tensions heated up over Ukraine's desire to sign a trade pact with the European Union, Russia banned imports of chocolates made by the company of Petro Poroshenko, a tycoon who supported the EU deal and is now Ukraine's president.
Rospotrebnadzor said on its website that it brought the case after inspections of two of the company's restaurants in Novgorod.
According to the statement, some food was found with microbial contamination and several items had caloric values two to three times higher than allowed by national regulations. Products that were mentioned for incorrect nutritional information were cheeseburgers, Royal Cheeseburgers -- the local equivalent of the Quarter Pounder -- fish sandwiches and several milkshake varieties.
The suits asks that sale of McDonald's products that do not meet the regulations be declared illegal, but it was not clear what penalty the company could face. The two restaurants in Novgorod were to be fined 70,000 rubles ($2,100).
McDonald's prompted the ire of Russian nationalists earlier this year after it closed its outlets in Crimea.
The animosity is a far cry from the fascination that Muscovites had for McDonald's when it opened its first outlet in the Soviet Union in 1990; customers waited in hours-long lines to experience the efficient service and reliable availability of items -- rare novelties in the Soviet era.
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, other American and European chains staked out their own territory. Russian malls now have food courts virtually identical to America's, except that Cinnabon, Sbarro and other familiar names are written in Cyrillic.
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Re: Russia: McDonald's food has 'too many calories'
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eesh
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Date: July 25, 2014 09:53PM
Overseas Mcdonalds are so much better than ours. Cleaner, nice crowds, friendly employees, food almost tastes gourmet to what is in domestic Mcdonalds.
Blessed are the murderous.
Blessed are the murderous.
Re: Russia: McDonald's food has 'too many calories'
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libs hate America.
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Date: July 25, 2014 09:56PM
Libs gotta love this!
Re: Russia: McDonald's food has 'too many calories'
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Stalin for time
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Date: July 25, 2014 10:46PM
And Russian caviar has more than a day's total sodium intake in one serving.
Ban caviar!
Vodka too, since it is killing our citizens as well.
Ban caviar!
Vodka too, since it is killing our citizens as well.
Re: Russia: McDonald's food has 'too many calories'
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No shit!
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Date: July 25, 2014 11:03PM
eesh Wrote:
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> Overseas Mcdonalds are so much better than ours.
> Cleaner, nice crowds, friendly employees, food
> almost tastes gourmet to what is in domestic
> Mcdonalds.
No shit. No niggers or spics in Moscow
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> Overseas Mcdonalds are so much better than ours.
> Cleaner, nice crowds, friendly employees, food
> almost tastes gourmet to what is in domestic
> Mcdonalds.
No shit. No niggers or spics in Moscow
Re: Russia: McDonald's food has 'too many calories'
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True The Vote !
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Date: July 25, 2014 11:50PM
I ate at almost every overseas McDonalds. None of them are like McDonalds here.
Re: Russia: McDonald's food has 'too many calories'
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back in the USSR
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Date: July 25, 2014 11:58PM
I would say lets ban some russian products but jack shit is exported out of that dump of a country besides gas and oil.
Mail order brides?
Shitty vodka?
Those fucking wooden dolls that fit inside of each other?
Alcoholism?
Prostitution?
I'm at a loss here. Oh well, a bunch of morons are going to loose their job that probably pays decent wages figuratively speaking.
Mail order brides?
Shitty vodka?
Those fucking wooden dolls that fit inside of each other?
Alcoholism?
Prostitution?
I'm at a loss here. Oh well, a bunch of morons are going to loose their job that probably pays decent wages figuratively speaking.
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