McDonalds: Edible or Not

sausage-egg-cheese mcmuffin

These must be different in the US because the ones I've had in England are awful. Meat that is simultanously burnt and underdone. Egg that is rubber. Melted plastic for cheese. Drywall for a muffin.

Funnily enough, that is middle America's stereotype of English cuisine in general.

I can eat McDonald's food, but not in a McDonald's.

The change they made in their frying oil - 10 or 15 or 20 years ago? I don't fuckin know - irrevocably changed the smell of the restaurant and I can't abide being in there for more than a few minutes.

They can still serve an edible sandwich, tho

one thing about McDonalds is it's one of the only places around with an indoor playground which is important given how cold it is here most of the year. so if you have kids it's kind of a godsend, as guilty as I feel about taking them there.

i am in a McDonald's right now, you are all to blame (no Howard Jones)

i respect only the quarter pounder with cheese and the crispy chicken sandwich (now called the 'McCrispy' apparently)

the fries were terrible today , like they came out of someone's ass

We will not speak of the McRib.

I ordered one once purely due to the hype and could not believe how disgusting it was, I tapped out after two small bites

You guys are brave.

McRibs are terrible. I can't even eat the tv dinner version of a mcrib. it's like eating out a cow

It's bizarre. A piece of compressed meat that actually has the shape of rib bones in it. There are no bones.

Also, a truly remarkable bit of condescending 80s advertisement aimed at African Americans.

I loved the mcrib last time I ate it, more than 30 years ago. I've eaten actual ribs since then so probably not going back, if they start selling it in the UK.

the wrap of the day is £2 which makes it the best value food in London, unless you eat cold sandwiches from tesco, and I don't count those as food.

calling them sandwiches eesh idk

yeah tbh they should be called "meatglobs"

something, anything

I've never eaten a McRib but as a kid I used to really like these Dalepak brand Ribsteaks, which are neither rib nor steak but seem to match the general description of the meat in a McRib. But, you know, I was ten.

I still have to appreciate that decades later, despite other fast food chains having nuggets that actual resemble chicken nuggets and have some semblance of texture, McDonald's still serves their waxy-looking hard-shelled monstrosity.

and that I'm sometimes even in the mood for them.

Teenage Andy worked at McDonald's during the McDLT era - the 'hot side hot, cool side cool' burger which employed an enormous styrofoam box in order to achieve this separation

I'm convinced the Great Pacific garbage patch is mostly 35 year old McDLT boxes, with a few Big Breakfast platters in there as well

i remember the first time i bought some mcnuggets and wrecklessly ate one without dipping it into a sauce (i'm a bbq person) and it tasted like...nothing. absolutely nothing. i couldn't believe it. it only exists to be put in sauce. its a scientific marvel.

I do wonder why more fast food places haven't done the plant-based meat substitutes like the Impossible Whopper yet. I don't know if that stuff will ever be able to replicate a good steak or homemade burger but the shit you get at places like McDonalds you absolutely could mock up. I mean it's barely recognizeable as meat in the first place.

I tried a mcplant and it was awful mush, like a 1990s beanburger or something

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball) at 7:19 18 Sept 23

I've never eaten a McRib but as a kid I used to really like these Dalepak brand Ribsteaks, which are neither rib nor steak but seem to match the general description of the meat in a McRib. But, you know, I was ten

Impossible Whopper actually not bad

yeah I really don't think I could point it out in a taste test, McDonalds just did it wrong

I have had the impossible whopper. It was absurdly filling, while also somehow being surprisingly unsatisfactory as a comestible.

It does a good job of approximating meat texture, but failed to impart much flavor- while, as I said, making me feel way too full way too fast.

Personally we use the Morningstar crumblies for tacos and stir-fries and chili all the time, with no ill effect. But the Impossible stuff has not yet sparked joy for us.

The McDLT was the closest thing McDonald's ever had to an actual restaurant-style hamburger.

i tried an impossible whopper this summer. it was really greasy and the grossest thing i ate all year. If it wasn't so dang expensive i would have tossed it in the trash.

i also grilled my own impossible burger at my brother's house this summer and it was very nice. In fact i wolfed it down and made a second one straight away.

i also ordered a whopper without the burger (and probably without the mayo) 4 or 5 years ago and remember it being enjoyable.

Not sure where the problem is. Cooking the impossible burger on a charcoal grill probably helps a great deal.

Big Mac
McDLT
A quarter pounder
With some cheese

Filet of 'fish

uhh

I forget the rest of the words to the McDonald's Menu song

when I used to work at BK our "veggie Whopper" was literally just a Whopper without the meat. it was actually not bad!

Yeah, IME veggie whopper >>>> impossible whopper but i don't completely trust my own judgement because of the 4 year gap

Want to add that I had a big fountain Coca Cola with ice at the movies in January, first time i've had one in years. And it was the best thing i've ever tasted in my life.

Two all beef patties
Special sauce . . .

its all a moot point to me because we have a bunch of Culvers here and honestly why would you ever go anywhere else. funny thing is the one by my house is right across the street from a Hardees which no one ever goes to, while Culvers has a line nearly spilling into the street sometimes. its a real Krusty Krab/Chum Bucket situation

we have Culvers in FL too and I always wonder if our curds are compromised here

my new thing is mcdonalds pov. this one channel where (a guy who owns a mcdonalds franchise, i think?) shows us how the sausage is literally made. fascinating stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKWLu6UHryQ

the mcrib one is good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eQOHUuukrs

My mom will occasionally buy my nieces a Starbucks treat after school, but they've never stepped foot in a McDonald's or BK or indeed any classic fast food joint we grew up with. My godson the same. Their friends the same. Most don't even drink soda at parties. I wonder if a generation raised by bougie white or white-adjacent (aka Hispanic) will have grown up without these toxins.

xp You have to admire his craft.

oh geez those videos, if I’m in a McDonald’s I try hard to avert my eyes from the kitchen area, sort of like holding one’s breath while going through a tunnel. Scott Seward otm re oncology waiting room vibes

McRib has a sentimental spot in my heart because my wife and I went there for a quick lunch one day where she told me she was pregnant, and that's what I had (fall '87, 1st McRib rollout iirc). I always smile when it's reintroduced for a while, but not enough to have another one.

This ventures into "i don't even own a TV" territory, but the only thing I've ever eaten at a McDonalds was the fries and the last time I even set foot in a McDonalds was 1988.

the filet o fish is good. It isn't meat goo like their nuggets and mcrib.

McGoo

'twas my first job, and by far the worst in every way

I don't know how it is now, but McD's back then was "We Do it Our Way".... i.e. if you ask to 'hold the pickles' or 'no onions', you'll be punished with a wait
Better just to remove the pickles yourself

My last McD visit was in Barcelona a few years back - my GF needed to use the bathroom, so I ordered a draft beer which seemed very novel

never eat this shit

xxp Mine was Burger King. It was awful. The worst was having to set up the broiler in the morning. We soaked it in a lye tank overnight to get the grease off. What a filthy, dangerous job.

The upside of doing the morning shift was getting off at 2:00 pm.

Yeah, I did breakfast shift a lot, mostly in the drive-thru... I got horrible acne from frying those little hashbrowns, I can't stand the smell of a McD anymore

McDonald's in the Philippines fucking rules btw.

I didn't even have a burger there once. They have fucking fried chicken, with a special gravy that you could dispense at the condiment station.

And white rice as a side

mine was BK too. luckily I have "people skills" so I got to do register and drive thru a lot. making the food wasn't too bad either. kinda fun sometimes in fact. on the other hand all the maintenance jobs fucking sucked. and yes there is a very specific smell to it, I feel it whenever I go into one or encounter a teenager who works at a fast food place and hasn't changed shirts yet. which is funny because when I was working there I couldn't really detect it after a month. my Mom definitely could though she complained about it constantly