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🗓️ 15 March 2024
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0:00.0 | In 2017, Alexandra Yinksd had a problem. |
0:05.0 | I needed to get to Reykjavik, and I was up here in the West Fjords. |
0:10.0 | Normally, the drive takes around six hours, but this particular day there was a massive snowstorm. |
0:17.0 | I didn't feel comfortable driving in the snow and so a friend drove me all the way down to Reykjavik and what normally takes six hours took many more because we got stuck on a mountain pass in the snow and had to wait for a plow to come dig us out. |
0:37.2 | After about 10 hours in the car, they finally made it and they checked into a hostile and exhausted she plopped herself down at the bar. |
0:46.9 | And there next to her on the bar was a cheeseburger and fries. But not a cheeseburger and fries. |
0:57.0 | But not a cheeseburger and fries that she could eat. This cheeseburger and fries, they were on display, |
1:01.0 | in a glass case, like a guest of honor. |
1:07.0 | With a little sign that said, |
1:09.0 | Hello, I have Mr. Berger. |
1:11.0 | And it had been such an awful day, and I just sat at the bar next to this |
1:15.4 | cheeseburger and it actually made me feel better. It was just such like a |
1:20.8 | a quirky thing. It's so Iceland. |
1:25.6 | This wasn't just any cheeseburger. |
1:27.8 | It was very specifically a McDonald's Big Mac. |
1:33.7 | And it wasn't just any Big Mac either. |
1:39.3 | I'm Delantheress and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, |
1:48.1 | and wondrous places. |
1:49.7 | Today a visit to the last Big Mac in Iceland and the story it tells about economics and national identity. |
1:59.0 | But that da da da da. That's after this. Alexander might be the perfect person to have ended up sitting next to the last Big Mac in Iceland. |
2:29.0 | She's from Pennsylvania but has lived in Iceland for years and is getting her PhD in |
2:33.9 | anthropology and she sees the Big Mac as a cultural artifact. I thought that it was a |
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