McDonalds: Edible or Not

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Wh00ps! Sorry about that...

Kodanshi, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A new one in for nutritition: BENJYS are now selling 95p TRIPLE PACKS of....

STRAWBERRY JAM SANDWICHES ON WHITE BREAD!

Sarah, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I haven't eaten anything in McD's for about 9 years, although I do have the occasional hankering for a BK veggie whopper and large choccy shake (and maybe a few onion rings).

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

cabbage, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I used to love McDonald's fries when I was younger, but I've tried eating them a couple of times in the past few years they've made me ill.

Nastier than Dom Deluise wearing a thong.

Nicole, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Is that a guess, Nicole, or did you encounter the latter somewhere?

mark s, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dom is a part of my life that's too painful to discuss, mark.

Nicole, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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-two years ago) link

Thanks, Dave.

Bill, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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

Maria, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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-two years ago) link

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

Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Aaaargh, where did that apostrophe come from?

Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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-two years ago) link

four years pass...
7 Ron's in 2 hours !!!!!!!!!

dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

ken c (ken c), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

where are those "facts" from, gear?

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

internet!

gear (gear), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

The IRA and the heroin stories are the best.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

you dont know how right you are.

AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

very very edible!

this is "good" news

geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the breakfast sausage!!!!!

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

I only eat breakfast food there anymore.

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm a breakfast burrito man myself

geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

not quite a billion

geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

he's trying to buy us off now.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 1 October 2023 23:32 (six months ago) link

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.

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 2 October 2023 00:04 (six months ago) link

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

nickn, Monday, 2 October 2023 04:47 (six months ago) link

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

pplains, Monday, 2 October 2023 14:56 (six months ago) link

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

scott seward, Monday, 2 October 2023 15:12 (six months ago) link

but knowing people, probably not!

scott seward, Monday, 2 October 2023 15:12 (six months ago) link

Yeah more poison please

The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 2 October 2023 15:44 (six months ago) link

Maybe they think ¼ + ¼ = ⅛

pplains, Monday, 2 October 2023 15:54 (six months ago) link

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

Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 2 October 2023 16:12 (six months ago) link

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

Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 2 October 2023 16:21 (six months ago) link

Big Montana vs Big Buford

I love you, dad (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 October 2023 17:23 (six months ago) link


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