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23yo from Melbourne taste test Macca's around the world
A 23-year-old nutritionist from Melbourne is debunking the idea that you can't enjoy food on holiday by taste-testing Macca's in different countries in Europe.
Sasha Tyres, recently visited England, France, Italy, Austria and Germany on her first trip to Europe.
During the three-week trip it was Ms Tyre's mission to try different snacks — and McDonald's menu items you can't get in Australia — while she was abroad.
She documented her journey, filming videos as she tried cheese and bacon loaded fries and Royale Deluxe burger in France, sour cream sauce and a white chocolate and raspberry pie in Germany, berries and cream dip and a sweet curry beef burger in Austria and Baci McFlurry and provolone McChicken in Italy.
'I'm excited to try this,' she said before sinking her teeth into the burger.
'It's like a parma at the pub, but in a burger. It's so good. It's unlike anything I've ever tried at Macca's before.'
Ms Tyres said one of the things she was excited to try was cheese fries in France, saying she loved them so much. But, it was Austrian McDonald's that really won her over.
'They had a sweet curry burger, and it was insane. It was so good,' she said.
'They also had a wasabi range, which I didn't get to film. It was incredible. We need that in Australia ASAP.'
Ms Tyres also enjoyed the fact that there was a lot of vegetarian and vegan options, such as plant based nuggets, as it allowed people to still enjoy their old favourites but in a new way.
One of the more odd things she discovered was just a block of parmesan sold at Macca's in Italy.
A lot of Europeans gave Ms Tyres positive feedback, helping educate her if she had a detail wrong, such as when she said Kinder was from Germany.
People were kind and quick when correcting her.
She also added it was so important to do your research when talking about a country's food or snack culture, revealing she had a misstep while in London.
'I made a video and got some snacks, and all the comments were people from London being like 'we don't eat this',' she said.
'So I decided to do my research for all the other countries because I didn't want to offend anyone. I went on all the forums, and read Reddit posts. I think I nailed it for the rest.'
Ms Tyres revealed why she kicked off the content series.
'I started creating food content when I was studying my Bachelor of Nutrition Science,' Ms Tyres told
'I realised a huge correlation between nutritionists on TikTok and the warped perception that you have to eat healthy wholefoods 100 per cent of the time.'
She said she was consistently seeing 'What I Eat In A Day' videos where young women were 'severely underrating' or only showing meals that they thought would make them seem healthy.
'I wanted to approach my content in a different way. Although having a balanced diet is so important, I think, for young women in particular it's so important to know you can eat traditionally 'unhealthy' foods and still be considered healthy without that internal feeling of guilt,' she said.
'So since I got qualified at the start of this year, I've been really focusing on a balance of content from my own original recipes to trying different fast food brands.
'I never want food to control me or change my lifestyle.'
She said she's always loved trying new foods, and considered it an essential part of travelling. She added that cooking was something she grew up doing, and always going to different restaurants and cafes.
Ms Tyres wanted other young women to watch her videos and let go of the voice in their head that tells them what they should and shouldn't eat. As a result, she's had a lot of young women thank her for helping heal their relationship with food.
