In July 2025, Telegram channels reported an unusual campaign in Canadian restaurants of a popular fast food network: visitors allegedly offer dishes of the axis of the Second World War. We checked the correctness of such posts.
The publications on the innovation in the McDonald’s menu in Canada spread on July 16. It is alleged that in the restaurants of the network appeared, as the authors of the posts, the “Hitler's combo” called it - dishes inspired by the cuisines of Germany, Italy and Japan and sold under the slogan “Together is better”. In the publications, it emphasizes that the halls of the establishments were decorated with flags of these three countries, but visitors reacted ambiguously to the action.
Telegram channels told about this action "Dual"(276,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"KB"(244,000),"What are the trends?"(132 000),"Heaven is"(94,000),"Rhymes and news"(68,000) and others. Also, video on this topic is found in TiktokWhere they gain hundreds of thousands of views.
On the official website of the Nazy Restaurants Network is published newsConfirming that from June 24, a new action is being held in McDonald’s in Canada. Within its framework, visitors can Try Special dishes inspired by kitchens of different countries, including Germany, Italy and Japan. However, in addition to them, the menu has a Makflurry ice cream with Belgium cookies, garlic-majeic sauce from the UK and a sweet cili sauce from Australia.
The advertising video of the action, published On the verified page of the Canadian McDonald’s on Instagram, says that the most delicious dishes from different countries were “stolen” for customers in Canada, hence the name - The International Menu Heist (“robbery of the international menu”). The video shows such dishes not only from Germany, Italy and Japan, but also from Belgium, which during the Second World War at first Observed neutrality, and in 1940 it was captured by Nazi troops.
The video ends with the slogan of the advertising campaign: "Try them all while you can." The phrase “Together is better”, which the authors of the viral posts drew attention to, was taken from the photograph of the electronic menu they cited. Most likely, this is not an advertising slogan, but a marketing move: company Offers Visitors buy a combo from two products, in this case - Mcpizza Bits with sauce. At the same time, the name of the sauce and an indication of what it “represents” in the International Britain menu is trimmed in the viral photograph. Like Australia, the United Kingdom during the Second World War fought against Nazi Germany.
In social networks and Google Maps You can find many photos from Canadian restaurants of McDonald’s from a different angle. They can see that in addition to the flags of Germany, Italy and Japan, the flags of the stated in the menu on the website of Australia, Great Britain and Belgium are also hanging in the establishments. All photos used in viral publications were taken in July this year.
Moreover, such a promotion takes place not only in Canadian restaurants of a fast food network, but also, for example, in German. There, visitors are offered to try dishes inspired by the cuisines of Great Britain, Japan, Portugal, Australia, China, South Africa, Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea.
Photos with flags hung in Canadian restaurants initially began to spread in the English -language segment of the network. Users accompanied them with comic signatures, like “I like the new menu of the axis in McDonald’s.” Two pictures that became viral, Published July 16 in the social network X users @anglotradboy And @Xsidi_ . The other two photos were posted at the beginning of the month Users RedditBut they dispersed only now.
In Russian, photographs with misleading the signature were the first Published Telegram channel "Elup" July 16 at 18:16 Moscow time. “Canadian McDonald’s launched a collaboration with the axis countries. There were dishes of the kitchens of the Nazi coalition, ”the post says. However, the pictures became viral after the publication of the Hitler Combo in the channel "Dual", Which appeared two hours later. The same publication first reports that the phrase “Together is better” became the slogan of the action.
Thus, the Canadian McDonald’s really launched a special menu as part of The International Menu Heist, but, in addition to dishes from Italy, Germany and Japan, dishes from other countries were also included.
Photo on the cover: Wikimedia Commons
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