McDonalds: Edible or Not

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The last time I ate McD's, that wasn't ice cream, was back in 1996 when I ate a Vegetable Deluxe Meal. I had food poisoning for three days and my vomit was flourescent green, like a highlighter pen. I have never dared eat anything else there other than McFlurries and ice cream. I was SO sick.

― Paul Strange, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks, Dave.

― Bill, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really liked fries until I thought about what they tasted like. Nothing.

― Maria, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People often say that Burger King bears more resemblance to real meat and real home cooking than McDonald's stuff does, but as far as I can see this is only because Burger King meat features real gristle and is burnt round the edges. McD's meat has an artificial texture and doesn't taste of much, yeah, but at least it isn't actually unchewable and tasting of burntness. I think the BK advocates are only kidding themselves that it's better because it costs so much more. (FITE! FITE!!)

I mostly avoid McDonald's now (not that I avoid junk food, far from it, very far indeed, I just seem to go for non-chain varieties of greasy rubbish), but I went there far too much a couple of years ago, it was right near where I lived and I was lazy and I kept convincing myself that I wanted to get another Happy Meal toy, plus every time I tried to arrange with certain friends to meet anywhere and get food we ended up going to BK or McDonald's. Sigh. Eek. So now I have a load of mini beanie babies with McD logos on and I just think, "Why?" every time I see them.

There are still Wimpys over here? Where? All the Wimpys I knew (erm, both of them) became Burger Kings in the late 80s.

― Rebecca, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are a few Wimpy's scattered around London and Surrey.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aaaargh, where did that apostrophe come from?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a Wimpy in Henley-on-Thames, and 2 new (!) ones at the all- new, all-singing, all-dancing Winchester M3 services.

― Bill, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

7 Ron's in 2 hours !!!!!!!!!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

There's a certain special awful digestive feeling that I get, literally, only from a McDonald's hamburger, so I say not edible. Their new coffee is deece though, and if I'm stuck somewhere with no options, I much prefer it to Dunkin Donuts.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Not. And this isn't a snobbish thing, I like Burger King.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Is Wimpy still in Henley?

Anyway, the Latte coffee in McD's is alright.

xpost funnily enough.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I call it 'earthquake food' for its unfortunate digestive properties. They have scary mascots, too. I thought Grimace was supposed to be developmentally disabled growing up. I also thought he was supposed to be soe sort of human milkshake. What the hell is he?

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

don't make me post a picture of myself eating a mcdonalds!!!!!!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

if they served breakfast all day, they'd get more of my money. i have a big weakness for sausage egg and cheese mcmuffins and hash brown patties. writing that just now made me want a few, in fact. but breakfast hours are over. their loss. after 10 a.m., only the fries are worth shit. the rest is for desperate eating while broke while traveling.

and five-year xpost: what kind of vegetarian tests whether or not she can still enjoy meat by trying a mcdonalds cheeseburger? hardcore meat eaters wouldn't even consider it proper "meat." test your meat love/tolerance on a properly prepared filet next time, foolio.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

McDonald's uses worm-meat in their burgers to save on costs.

McDonald's also serves kangeroo meat in thier burgers to save on costs.

In the UK McDonald's donates a portion of their profits to the Irish terrorist group the IRA, so that their restaurants will not be used in bombing campaigns.

McDonald's uses minute traces of chemical substances in their food to make it addictive.

McDonalds milkshakes are made with lard.

McDonalds milkshakes are made with seaweed.

A child complained of being hurt while playing in the "ball pit" at a local McDonald's and pointed out a small red mark on his behind. His mother noticed something like a splinter just under the skin so made an appointment to have it looked at. Within a few hours the child went into a coma and died - the splinter had been the needle from a syringe full of heroin that had been discarded in the pit.

During the BSE scare McDonald's bought up cow carcasses that were "possibly infected" to use in their burgers.

― gear (gear), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

where are those "facts" from, gear?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

internet!

― gear (gear), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

The IRA and the heroin stories are the best.

― The Mercury Krueger (Ex Leon), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

The seaweed thing is no secret. It's a common additive to ice cream as well.

The rest seem dubious. I mean, what sort of dumb ass junkie prepares a needle full of smack then leaves it in a ball pit?

Not to defend the horriblness of MacDonalds and their bland, artificial muck. I
do occassionally succumb admittedly. There's a McDonalds right next to my work and if I'm on a late shift and haven't brought my own food and nowhere else is open what else can I do? It does leave a weird feeling though. Something about that processed plastic cheese that makes my head feel all plastic and shiny. Must be the MSG.

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

key to mcd/BK/wendys is, at least for me, dont load up on it. the whopper jr and jr CB deluxe are great great snacks. you satisfy that foul craving for shit burgers while not feeling sick afterwards. also, eatin anything more than a "small" order of fries at these places is literally nauseating. i'm convinced that it was mostly the fries (and super humungous cokes) that caused that guy's problems in "supersize me".

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/images/usa/new-jersey.jpg

― Where Flavor Comes From (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Everyone should sell breakfast all day long. That's a sign of a quality eatery.

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

you dont know how right you are.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I like a full fry-up for my evening meal. You're right, why should it be confined to morning?

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

I don't consider it food. There are other fast food options that are edible and satisfying without making one feel ill, so I'll go for those in a pinch. Sonic has killer drinks. Arby's is using all natural chicken.

― patita (patita), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

McDonald's Considering Selling Breakfast All Day Long

IT TOOK THEM FIFTY YEARS TO FIGURE THAT ONE OUT?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i've eaten my share of "five minutes too late double cheeseburgers" no more forever

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

XPOST: If they do that I'll never buy a burger again.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've had Mickey D's in at least 10 years. nastiest shit ever. the only fast-food franchise I'm even mildly enthusiastic about eating at is In-n-Out, and that's not even national.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

very very edible!

this is "good" news

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I love the breakfast sausage!!!!!

― rock u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I only eat breakfast food there anymore.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

hmm i said that badly. uh, i only eat breakfast food when i happen to be eating there.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a breakfast burrito man myself

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

altho the McD's menu in India was a thing of wonder to behold.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

nastiest shit ever.

this has probably been said a billion times before, but Shakey OTM Collier

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

not quite a billion

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

he's trying to buy us off now.

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

hmm usually people call me either a "fucking dumbshit" or (my personal favorite so far) "a 12-year-old girl"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I only eat there once or twice a year, but that breakfast shit is like penicillin for hangovers.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I hit McD's about once a month now, down from once a week.

Shakey, what was on the menu in India?

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Paneer Salsa wrap, McAloo Tiki, etc.

http://www.mcdonaldsindia.com/ourfood/veg/index.html

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't mean it along the lines of 'OMG Shakey MC is praised so much because he is always so right' *cocksuck* but more along the lines of 'that's an amusing way of putting Shakey Mo Collier OTM, but I bet I'm not the first to do it like that' *exaggerate*.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Goddammit Louis, couldn't you just lurk for six months or so to see how grownups interact?

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

McAloo Tiki and Pizza McPuff sound like cartoon character names.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Disappointingly, McDonald's India looks perhaps even worse than the American version. The dry pea patty. That horrible pizza hot pocket thing....

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

one assumes that the only thing it shares in common with other McDonalds' of the world is the mysterious Ingredient X. In all other respects, the menu bears little to no resemblance to actual food either Indian or American.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

when i worked in London they were testing out Indian Pakistani? Bangladeshi? things on the UK menu.

Chicken McTikka Naan = super classic
Mint Lamb Korma = yuck dud

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've just been comparing the ingredient lists between US and AU Maccas. Its horrifying. You poor bastards have all these weird chemicals and high fructose corn syrup and nasty hydrogenated oils in your gear. I mean our McDs is shit too, but blimey.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

that was an html attempt at striking through "Indian"

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

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she owns and is head chef at a wonderful restaurant here in town.

https://www.hopeandolive.com/

― scott seward, Monday, 6 January 2025 21:49 (one year ago)

It’s not a perfect analogy (for a bunch of reasons) but food app = streaming in a sense, be it music or film or TV

The common denominator is that it’s very low effort to do these things, so tons of people do it, so people who want to buy fast food the old fashioned way or grip a new album in the store wind up hosed

(I don’t like either state of affairs, but having watched them both blossom over the last however many years, I don’t think they’re gonna get any better than they are)

― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 January 2025 21:55 (one year ago)

Maybe replace “blossom” with “curdle”

― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 January 2025 21:56 (one year ago)

that's actually a pretty good analogy

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 6 January 2025 21:57 (one year ago)

it's disabling the barriers to immediate satisfaction, while also narrowing the selection to whatever's on your app/streaming service etc. ("Andy, we know you liked this nordic cop show, but wait: this new one's in the Faroe Islands...)

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 6 January 2025 21:59 (one year ago)

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