[From the French language press]:Aller manger chez Quick à Alger, c’est comme passer les frontières de l’Europe sans visa, alors il ne faut pas s’étonner si le premier vrai fast-food made in Belgique a été pris d’assaut aux premiers jours de son ouverture, à tel point qu’il s’est très vite transformé en slow-food.
Bakchich (satire) - Paris, France - mercredi 4 avril 2007 - par Malika Rededal
Go for lunch at Quick in Algiers, it is like passing the borders of Europe without a visa, so one should not be astonished if the first real fast-food made in Belgium was taken by storm at the first days of its opening, so much so that it was very quickly transformed into slow-food.
It seems it was necessary nearly a million euros [1,353,340 US Dollar], to replace the restaurant Novelty with Quick Novelty.
You cannot miss it, it is just opposite the statue of Emir Abdelkader, the founder of the Algerian State, the opposer to French colonization, the Sufi intoxicated with poetry and literature, the warrior who will end up surrendering to globalization and exile himself in Syria.
But I can reassure you: the Emir did not descend from his horse to join the queue. Nevertheless, I greatly fear that soon one will no more agree to meet “in front of the statue of the Emir” but “in front of Quick”.
[picture: a miniature of Emir Abdelkader by Mohammed Racim, National Museum, Algiers (from the Algerian Embassy website in Kuala Lumpur)]
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