Big Macs, Filet-O-Fish and golden fries are available from Paris to Peoria. But the fast-food giant McDonald's occasionally bows to local tastes -- replacing beef with mutton in Hindu-majority India, serving Samurai Pork Burgers to Thais and garnishing burgers with fried eggs in Japan.
Now it's Egypt's turn -- with the McFalafel, said The Associated Press in a report posted on CNN.online.
Falafel, a universal food in most of the Middle East, was reincarnated last monthas McFalafel at Cairo branches of McDonald's.
The US fast food chain will serve falafel, a fried dish of chickpeas, in McDonald's hamburger buns and sell each sandwich for about 40 cents.
Falafel, known in Egypt as ta’meyya, is traditionally made with seasoning including fennel, parsley, oil, coriander and sesame.
The dish is considered a cheap diet that the poor in Egypt can afford, along with fuul (seasoned boiled beans).
A one- Egyptian pound sandwich is expensive to many. The AP said it is more than three times what a falafel sandwich costs at thousands of shops around the country.
McDonald’s started operating in 1994 in Egypt, when it opened two restaurants in the capital city of Cairo – Albawaba.com
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