Is McDonald’s considered Western food?

I can definitely tell you that McDonald’s is certainly considered Western food, and McDonald’s is a Western-style fast food.

Western food, as the name suggests, is the food of Western countries. Western countries generally refer to Europe and countries established by descendants of European immigrants. For example, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy are orthodox European countries, while the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia are countries established by descendants of European immigrants.

European countries are relatively small and geographically close to each other, so their diets are also intertwined, so the diets are relatively similar. They all eat with knives and forks, and their staple food is bread, fried steak, and French fries. But every country also has its own characteristics, just like every province in China has its own taste.

In the first impression of many people, Western food means eating salad, drinking red wine, eating steak, and pretending to eat elegantly with a knife and fork. In fact, this is a slow meal in Western food. It is usually a three-course meal, divided into appetizers, main courses, and desserts. It takes one or two hours to eat a meal. Who can have so much time to wait for a dish during normal work? Therefore, efficient fast food with bread, meat and vegetables as the main food, such as KFC, McDonald's, etc., emerged in the United States and was introduced to our country. At present, well-known Western fast food similar to McDonald's introduced into our country include KFC, Subway, and Burger King. Anyone who has participated in European and American tour groups knows that travel agencies usually write in the catering section: "Arrange Western fast food where there is no Chinese food". This Western fast food refers to this type of fast food.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when KFC and McDonald's were first introduced to our country, due to their relative scarcity and the generally low living standards in our country at that time, this type of foreign fast food was considered high-end dining. However, with the improvement of people's living standards in recent years, the status of this type of fast food has been greatly reduced. People have begun to pay attention to slow food in Western food, which is what we usually call Western food now.

In slow food, the most famous is French-style Western food. The most famous dishes include foie gras and snails. French food matching red wine is also a leader in the red wine world.

Among the Western foods divided by country, Italian, German, British, American, and Russian are more famous. These types of Western food have their own taste characteristics, so I won’t go into too much detail here.