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McDonald's new BTS meal isn't available in Pakistan and fans are upset

McDonald's new BTS meal isn't available in Pakistan and fans are upset

The fast food chain's collaboration with the Kpop group is available in 50 countries.
20 Apr, 2021

McDonald’s Corp has tapped Korean pop sensation BTS to promote a new meal, in a move that the world’s largest fast-food chain hopes will expand the reach of its US-based celebrity promotional campaigns to a global scale.

The Grammy-nominated boy band’s meal will launch starting next month in nearly 50 countries, including South Korea, McDonald’s said in a statement on Monday, and will include chicken McNuggets, fries, and two dips.

The burger chain has seen its revenue outside the United States drop during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company is tapping on promotional campaigns through celebrity endorsements and limited-time menu items to get customers back into restaurants as economies reopen with the roll-out of vaccines.

The BTS meal follows similar US-only deals with singers J Balvin and Travis Scott, which McDonald’s says boosted sales in the later half of last year.

The spike in demand during the Travis Scott promotion caused the company to temporarily run short of ingredients to assemble its signature Quarter Pounder burgers at some restaurants.

Unfortunately for Pakistani members of the BTS ARMY, the meal is not available in the country.

Many fans took to Twitter Tuesday morning to ask McDonald's to send BTS meals to Pakistan too.

Many were plain upset at the news that they were being excluded.

They managed to get the hashtag, BringBTSMcDealInPakistan, trending on Pakistani Twitter on Tuesday morning but there was no update from McDonald's about bringing the meal option to the country.

Comments

Sid Apr 20, 2021 01:12pm
Twitter people sometimes act awkward like children. Is this a news and to react or trend? So much waste of time
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ThinkRational Apr 20, 2021 01:16pm
Where are the fans of BTS in Pakistan ?
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First Apr 20, 2021 01:19pm
Do we have money to buy McD food?
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Shaby Apr 20, 2021 01:31pm
Anday wala burger has more quantum than Mc Crispy now days. Whole burger can be eaten in two bites.
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F N Apr 20, 2021 02:31pm
How odd. McNugget with dips = BTS meal? Just because they said so?
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M. Saeed Apr 20, 2021 02:32pm
The literal meaning of BTS is Bang-tan Sonyeondan, which translates to ‘Bulletproof Boy Scouts’, a S. Korean pop-group collaborating with McDonald's with a south Korean sauce incoeporated in BTS--- Mc-Meal. Ingredients of that sauce might be the reason for it's exclusion from Pakistan outlets.
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D’Souza Apr 20, 2021 06:10pm
Maybe they didn’t make a halal version of that so Pakistan was left out.
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Soha Apr 22, 2021 08:11pm
Please we are so upset plz release bts meal in pakistan too plzzzzzzzz
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Soha Apr 22, 2021 08:12pm
Plz add the bts McDonald's too pakistan too I beg ,.
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