A casual thread on the Nandemo Jikkyo (NanG) board that started out swapping store-name abbreviations like “Famima” (FamilyMart), “Misudo” (Mister Donut), and “Donki” (Don Quijote) somehow snowballed into a full-blown Kanto-vs-Kansai showdown over “Mac” vs. “Makudo” — the two rival ways of shortening McDonald’s.
What began as a logical back-and-forth over whether “Mac” refers to the product or the store name soon heated up, spiraling into regional trash-talk with jabs like “Tokyo doesn’t even have a culture of its own.”
Me: "Famima…"
Kanto guy: "Guh?!"
Me: "Final technique… Misudo (Mister Donut)…!"
Kanto guy: "Guh?!"
Me: "Final technique… Misudo (Mister Donut)…!"
Misudo → 'Missu'
Kanto people are straight-up unhinged (shortening Mister Donut even further)
Kanto people are straight-up unhinged (shortening Mister Donut even further)
>>2 Thanks, Missu
Even the official ads used to say stuff like "If you've got 100 yen, let's go to Mac."
Wait, in Kansai do they officially write "Big Mac" as "Big Makudo"?
>>12
That's the product name, per the usual reminder
That's the product name, per the usual reminder
So Kansai people say "Big Makudo"? lol
>>15
That's the product name, though? Nobody's saying "Makku Donaldo"
That's the product name, though? Nobody's saying "Makku Donaldo"
Actually, according to a recent survey even Kansai teens and twenty-somethings are switching over to just saying "Mac" now.
It's only the old geezers and grannies still going "Makudo, Makudo."
It's only the old geezers and grannies still going "Makudo, Makudo."
>>25
Honestly Kansai's gotten really obvious about this lately
The young kids genuinely sound like they're speaking half-Tokyo dialect
It's the middle-aged folks who still use real Kansai dialect
Honestly Kansai's gotten really obvious about this lately
The young kids genuinely sound like they're speaking half-Tokyo dialect
It's the middle-aged folks who still use real Kansai dialect
By that logic shouldn't it be "Donkiho"?
>>27
It's Don Quijote, though?
It's Don Quijote, though?
Famima, Mac, Misudo, and Donki are all abbreviations the companies themselves use officially, right?
Does McDonald's official branding ever actually use the word "Makudo"?
Does McDonald's official branding ever actually use the word "Makudo"?
(the obligatory image drop)
"Prefectures with the worst personalities" — I wonder which one's #1
https://nova.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/livegalileo/1787403634/
https://nova.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/livegalileo/1787403634/
>>122
Tokyoites really do love their rankings, huh
They're the only ones in Japan who seem into rankings like this
People from every other prefecture don't seem nearly as interested
Tokyoites really do love their rankings, huh
They're the only ones in Japan who seem into rankings like this
People from every other prefecture don't seem nearly as interested
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (NanG) thread “Kanto guy: “Makudo, lol, it’s Mac lol” / Me: mutters “Donki” / Kanto guy: “Wh—?!?!”“.
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