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I do that all the time in my garden, it is a lot faster then "fast food" (not counting the work I do before getting to eat it)

Around the world? No idea.

In the New York suburbs... about 50 years ago.

Of course White Castles were popular even before that! 'Like 80+ years ago for WCs. Yum!

I know there was a McDonald's in Tienanmen Square I think around 25 years ago; and many when I was there in the early 90's. I remember one just off the square in Paris when we went to see the palace at Versailles around 22 years ago. There were also four in Vilnius, Lithuania when I lived there in 1996. As soon as they booted the Communists out western enterprise rushed in and McDonald's was one of the first. A pizza shop was the first (run by an American). I remember in London around 1989, there were hamburger places with names similar to McDonald's, like in that Eddie Murphy movie, Coming to America. Now they would be sued. When I was in Poland last year, there were several McDonald's in Krakow but I'm sure there weren't many once outside of the city because the roads were so horrible they couldn't get supplies. I didn't see any along the few highways. I went there all the time so I could feel at home for a while. I always ordered a cheeseburger and/or ice cream because they knew what a cheeseburger was in English. there was a small Pizza Hut. but, McDonald's is ubiquitous basically. One interesting thing is that eating at McDonalds is cool in some places; not just plain old fast food like it is here.

Around the dawn of time, I think.