It tends to be seen as a bit Live Laugh Love (Picture: Metro / Ross McCafferty)

In the latest Travel Hot Take , our Platform Editor Ross McCafferty takes aim at fast food snobbery.

‘Don’t ask me if we can go to McDonald’s .’

‘If you go to McDonald’s on holiday, are you even on holiday?’

‘Why would I eat McDonald’s on holiday when I could try the local food?’

Those are just three of hundreds of takes on social media about eating beneath the Golden Arches overseas . IRL, the subject leads to raised eyebrows at best; at worst, outright scorn.

It’s just seen as, well, a little low class, isn’t it?

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