Fast food restaurants in India are always
adjusting their menus to cater to Indian
tastes, but McDonald’s may be trying a
little too hard. The restaurant chain recently
launched a new breakfast menu that
includes masala dosa burgers with
molaga podi sauce. They joined such
favorites as the paneer wrap and the
McAloo Tikki.
Twitter users were quick to deride
the masala dosa burger. Quipped Nitin
Srivatsa (@Nitin_Srivatsa): “People who
use misleading vehicle indicators on main roads should
be forcibly fed the new McDonald’s Masala Dosa Burger.”
Writing a review on Quartz India, Supriya
Nair pointed out that the so-called masala
dosa burger was in fact a “dosa masala brioche—a shellacked sandwich stuffed with
the potato filling of a masala dosa.”
Nair wasn’t impressed, describing
it as “dull, flat, and stale” and asserting
that “this sandwich, while not outright
horrifying, is definitely among the
worse breakfasts you’ll eat not simply
around the city, but inside McDonald’s
itself.”
McDonald’s may need to go back to the drawing
board. Idli Chutney Burger anyone?