McDonalds: Edible or Not

Sarahs breakfast = mars bar Sarahs lunch = Chicken nuggets fries and HUGE DIET COKE Sarahs tea = whatever they give heart attack victims down the local hospital. Sigh.

Was it here that I read about a McDonald's DINER, where patrons sit @ the table and order their food via drive-thru-like contraptions? Or am I just feeling the effects of Quarter Pounder Withdrawal?

PS - Stay AWAY from the Big Mac. The McDLT caused my mom to rowlf once upon a time. The fries are brilliant.

Whatever one thinks of McDonalds, some of the European McDonalds knock-offs I'd eaten at were absolutely disgusting. Like this one chain in Italy called Burgy -- absolute utter shit. And do they still have Wimpy's in the UK? (errrrkg!)

last time i went to mcd's was after my first six months of vegetarianism. i wanted to see if i was missing meat. so i bought a cheeseburger, took one bite out of it and gagged. needless to say, i never went back to meat or mcd's.

I *wuv* Burger King fries. You'll be disappointed to learn that I didn't have Burger King food last night, after finding I only have £20 left in the bank. I ate wholemeal pasta instead.

EVER FEEL LIKE YOU'VE BEEN CHEATED?

(i am sorry lady di but "Am I missing meat? Let me scoff a Big Mac and see" = totally the thinking of a mentalist)
Vegetarians who go into mcd's but only eat the fries do not garner my sympathy either.

Key Simpsons fast-food-related quote (actually i have dropped this before but obsessive repetition = helpless hilarity) : "Awww. Without the grease all you can taste is the hog anus!"

(sorry, haven't read ILE since yesterday)

Ackshirely, McDs fries in the UK aren't fried in beef tallow, it was a US practise as far as I know.

-- Sarah (), September 20, 2001

STRAWBERRY JAM SANDWICHES ON WHITE BREAD!

Mind you when I was young and foolish I did eat a big mac in two bites!

Nastier than Dom Deluise wearing a thong.

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.

'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

should also mention I worked harder at that job than any other job I ever had. for $5.25 an hour lmao

I had a coworker who crammed his uniform shirt into a mayonnaise jar after work, to make sure it was extra wrinkled and gross when he clocked in the next day

Mostly never eat McDs but the one thing I will stan for are their breakfast burritos when on long trips. Just something about hot salty egg and sausage wraps with crappy hot sauce when heading out on a long drive or waiting to catch a plane. They even have a semblance of vegetables in them! I recall someone saying breakfast was the only thing worth eating at McDs because your body has all day to burn off all the calories.

My fast food experience was Taco Bell which strangely was looked at as favorable experience when I applied to the very whiteppl "Mexican" restaurant in town after a summer working at the border (NB in rural upper Michigan.)

Mostly never eat McDs but the one thing I will stan for are their breakfast burritos when on long trips. Just something about hot salty egg and sausage wraps with crappy hot sauce when heading out on a long drive or waiting to catch a plane.

I'll remember this.

when I worked at McD, a buddy worked across the strip mall at Taco Bell, and we used to exchange our lunch break meals since we were so sick of the respective swill

Yeah we used to do food trades all the time at BK. Was fun to get Papa Johns and throw the banana pepper in the deep fryer because it would explode

As I recall, McDonalds food is on the low end of edible, but most of it qualified as something to eat. otoh, I do whatever is necessary to eat higher up the edibility scale and have succeeded in not eating at a McDonalds for decades, so my information may be outdated.

I also worked the closing shift at BK. There would usually be a ton of food left over. I'd have a second dinner of, like three Whopper Juniors and a couple large fries. Ah, youth.

I worked at an Arby's and have no idea how I didn't gain 70 pounds. it was a terrible location - you could only get to it easily from one side of the road, and if you were going the other way, it required a U-Turn at a really frustrating intersection, and there were much better options on either side.

so full staff was supposed to be 6, but we did such shit business, we ran it with 3. but we were told we needed to drop 2 chicken patties down every hour, and when that hour passed, it had to get tossed. it was stupid and wasteful - we had many hours where we didn't sell any.

so I'd go to the back and eat them rather than toss them...sometimes multiple times in a shift.

same here, I probably put down 15-20 chicken nuggets every shift, plus I'd always grab a Hershey pie on the way out. even the managers were like "who cares we get paid like shit". thank god for having a teeanged metabolism. well that and being on your feet for 8+ hours a shift.

lol this McDonald's just ran out of straws. people are revolting.

(yes I'm eating here again. sadly, it's the closest restaurant to dad's nursing home, so I come here twice as much as usual)

DQ had a policy of throwing away mistake orders, and it was followed under the threat of firing. However, they saved a mistake strawberry milkshake for me on my birthday.

maaaaan fuck that. 'let's waste food rather than putting it to good use'.

What was the mistake?

lol that was BK's policy too and only one person there gave a shit. it was really hard to get fired there unless you just never showed up. though I almost did for saying "welcome to McDonalds how bout a Big Mac?" as my intro line in the drive thru for an entire night

only thing I can think of is being afraid people will make mistakes on purpose, but even that is negligible. I do remember one night working at a mexican restaurant where one of the senior servers put in the order wrong three times for the same table, resulting in three sets of 'mistake' meals, and managers looked pretty pissed when they saw 8 servers pigging out mid-shift on three mistake meals lol

I know it used to be a thing for employees to call in fake pizza orders

I support all methods of stealing food

What was the mistake?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, September 19, 2023 12:01 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wrong size or flavor. You could also get in trouble for overserving. The owner's son would weigh your cones and throw them away if he felt you were being generous.

I'd routinely give people extra chicken nuggets. my 8-pieces were usually more like 10-12.

The owner's son would weigh your cones and throw them away if he felt you were being generous.

That guy can go to hell.

i'd steal his car keys and take owner's kid's car for a joyride and offer to bring it back 'if I'm feeling generous'

The owner's son would weigh your cones and throw them away if he felt you were being generous.

"Siri, what is a 'failson'?"

I had a Filet O' Fish meal today. I can report that McDonald's is, indeed, still edible.

What was the mistake?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, September 19, 2023 12:01 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wrong size or flavor. You could also get in trouble for overserving. The owner's son would weigh your cones and throw them away if he felt you were being generous.

― The Xenaverse Connection (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, September 19, 2023 3:39 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

How ironic for them to prevent the practice of hurting margins with product "waste" by... literally wasting the product. Unless the employee is totally humiliated and never does it again, all you're doing is making them and the customer shrug for a moment, and in the end the business only receives the money for a single order vs. the double+ order's worth of product expended.

I keep reading this thread title as McDonalds now offering edibles.

McTHC

Lol.

Filet o' Fatty

Hash browns

Kind McNuggets

pretty sure I've bought a cart called "Grimace's Birthday Shake" before

Totally Fried Apple Pie

I'd read an article about McDonald's attempts to detoxify their brand. I don't know how much of this is specific to Europe, but along with changing colours from the garish iconic red-and-yellow to the more "organic" messaging green and brown you'd see branches redecorated to have like giant pictures of carrots on the walls. Carrots as an option in the happy meal too. Speaking of which, is it a legal thing that they can't advertise the toys in those anymore? They're still there if you check - along with the "educational" option of getting a crappy McDonald's book instead. It all feels very shame-ridden, like obviously absolutely no one is going to go to McDonald's for a healthy meal but they have to pretend a little now instead of the ostentatious hedonism of yore.

Specific to the UK, McDonald's ads try hard for the relatable: hey grampa living in a council flat, you may not share a lot in common with the young black kids who are your neighbours but you both love our fries! Hey mate, want a coffee without getting talked down to by the late sipping, croissant munching urban elites? We have you covered. A cozy part of the British landscape, not at all a foreign invader as it used to proudly announce itself as, no longer the avatar of glorious American capitalism that will bring joy to us all. In Portugal they try to incorporate local dishes into the menu and again, absolutely NO ONE is going to go there for the caldo verde soup, but it's a way of telegraphing that same sense of "belonging" there.

What's amusing about this to me is I haven't seen the other US chains adopt similar tactics - Burger King and KFC basically still are the same things they were when they first came to Europe. I wonder if McDonald's had to move in these directions because it's more iconic, a bigger symbol of American food imperialism.

the "toys" in happy meals now are shitty cardboard things which the kids do not care about, at all. except last time we went it was a pack of pokemon cards, that was better.

I can remember the Girls Aloud mini speaker from 15 years ago, that was fab!

Yesterday, when eating a quarter pounder, I noticed something. At McDonald’s, or at least, THIS particular McDonald’s, they put the mayo on one bun and the ketchup/mustard on the other, to maintain condiment separation (and distribution). Small thing but very noticeable and I intend to put it into practice in other contexts

fgTMI

I remember one fried cheese place in Prague where they would put ketchup on one side and mayonnaise on the other, absolutely unbeatable

it all just goes into the mixer imo - although I do very neat and orderly stripes of ketchup and mustard/mayo down one side. I don't just slosh it on.

i'm listening to the album and i forgot about this gem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofz5mCubeJ4

RONALD MCDONALD

Happy Meal toys are the worst. 97% of them are in the trash a day later. Sometimes the same day.

So much waste. I can't decide whether elementary school valentines or Happy Meals are more pointless and sad.