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.

(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.

https://www.today.com/food/restaurants/mcdonalds-mcrib-return-2023-rcna118129

it's that time of year

They should do a McRib promotion campaign with Kiss, given the number of comebacks both have had. Actually McDonalds is kind of the Kiss of fast food: you know what you're going to get, it's sort-of OK, but if you think about it too long you wonder why you're doing this to yourself.

This thread in the Australia subreddit the other day was interesting, from a confused american who ordered "a double quarter pounder with only ketchup, mayo, onion, and cheese" and was perplexed when they got precisely that (a bun, with only ketchup, mayo, onion, and cheese in it. No meat).

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/16v8h3l/am_i_ordering_maccas_wrong/

Apparetly the disconnect partly is, in the US when you say burger you mean the meat in it. When we do, we mean the whole shebang, which is why we will also say "chicken burger" and "fish burger" etc.

Here, all you'd say is "a double quarter pounder without pickles".

That’s idiotic, if the presence of the meat wasn’t implied why would anyone order a *double* quarter pounder? They want to eat twice the nothing?

Yeah thats what everyone said to this guy.

But also a lot of aussies agreed that "with only ketchup, mayo, onion, and cheese" means "and thats it, no meat". I mean you'd think someone'd pause at the "why double quarter pounder" but I dunno. They don't push 'em hard at MacUniversity.

Had a bacon egg & cheese biscuit and hashbrowns last week - not sure if they were worse than they used to be or if it was just the first time I had McDonald's breakfast not hungover.

Maybe the order-taker thought it was *double* ketchup, mayo, onion, and cheese.

why call it a double quarter pounder and not just a half pounder.

because then people might think twice about eating a half pound of poison?

but knowing people, probably not!

Yeah more poison please

Maybe they think ¼ + ¼ = ⅛

they had a triple cheeseburger with Disney's animated Hercules marketing

I always admired how arby's circumvented all fractions and simply called their half-pound sandwich the Big Montana.

Big Montana vs Big Buford