Apparently McDonald's has a presence in Egypt that allows one phone number to serve as their 24 hour a day delivery service to anywhere in the country other than a few isolated oases. They have scooters, cars and even as in the above, their own little navy. Cool enough, but the food is not different enough from their standard chow to justify eating there more than once.
I have found conflicting information on whether Borios are just the Egyptian version of Oreos or a straight up knock off of same. I favor the former explanation as I have found an Egyptian article that describes Kraft buying the company that made Borios a few years back. Usually you do not reward transparent counterfeiters in this fashion so I imagine prior to that they were made under license. My fragmentary Arabic does not provide an answer, but I have a sneaking suspicion that Oreo might mean something unpalatable. Oh, they taste just like Oreos, and helped pass a long train ride.
Ah, Twinkies, the Ur-snack food. We were in Aswan and spotted a vendor carrying a tray of snacks back from a delivery to a local school yard. We followed him back to his home base, a little store front and scored us some. A little dry by US standards, but still possessed of the essential Twinkosity. Mmmmm.
This might be upside down. I am not sure. Nor was I at the time. |
We both started taking Cipro within 24 hours.
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