Mideast tour: large corporations have made Kuwait look much like everywhere else

The theme for me so far in Kuwait is how much megacorporations have homogenized the entire world.

There was, of course, a McDonald's at the airport. And a Starbucks, and even a Claire's (see previous post on this little-girl jewelry store).

There was a Nathan's! Just like Coney Island. Although it is kind of funny to get a "kosher beef" frank in Kuwait.

Here's a KFC.

Next to the "nonalcoholic malt beverage" from the minibar are two sodas that, despite their Arabic lettering, are effortlessly recognizable by any Westerner.
New Yorkers like to make fun of tourists who come all the way to the city just to eat at the Times Square Red Lobster (where no New Yorker would ever set foot). Apparently it is possible to do this throughout the rest of the world.

I'm headed onto the base today to do my first show in Kuwait. Pictures tonight, my loves! (Here's an Arabic Circuit City, and here's an Arabic Gap, and here's an Arabic Hardee's...)