Other countries often have much stronger regulations about what is considered to be "food". For example, McDonalds often has to use actual beef in their overse

Other countries often have much stronger regulations about what is considered to be "food". For example, McDonalds often has to use actual beef in their overseas hamburgers as opposed to the "beef sludge" that they use in the ones in the US. McDonalds in Italy served a hamburger like I remember from back when I was a child. This is not universal, however. Hamburgers in the UK seem to be uniquely terrible, for example.