The transfer of fried chicken from Egypt to Gaza took three hours, not exactly fastfood, but good enough for a territory where there are no Western fast-food franchises, according to the Monitor report.
In the text book Emotional Geographies, geographer Joyce Davidson (Queen's University), sociologist Liz Bondi (Edinburgh University) and environmental ethicist Mick Smith (Queen's University) dedicate an entire chapter to this complicated mix of emotions that Western travellers experience when they encounter fastfood abroad.