McDonalds: Edible or Not

It really was. It was so satisfying popping that little styrofoam tab and lifting the lid to reveal your Big Mac!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac

I remember 15 years ago they did this 20 nuggets for $2 special, which back then was like "can't afford not to". I know people who would get 2 and wolf 'em all down like it was nothing. fwiw I still think the nuggets are good. if you get them from say BK or Wendy's they're always super dried out and extra salty but the McNuggets are different, possibly because they don't really taste too much like chicken to me. but they're good. in fact I think McD's does chicken pretty well. don't like their burgers at all though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfH3yf-vf3A

fess up, who else did the menu song contest where they gave you a floppy record and you played it to see if you won? basically menu song had to be sung right in its entirety and if they fucked up the song on the record, you lost

the issue with the nuggets is that if you're going to eat them it really has to be immediately, they're inedible within like 10 minutes

xpost (hands up) Yo. Pretty sure I still have that floppy stuck between a couple old LPs somewhere.

xp yeah, nuggets that have been sitting for any length of time are basically

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/B6wAAOSwQLVcNmDd/s-l400.jpg

I don't know whether McDonald's did the flexidisc thing in the UK but I'd heard of this thing from a podcast last year: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes/a-million-dollars-worth-of-plastic

McNugget Trivia Corner:

According to McDonald's, the nuggets come in four shapes: the bell, the bow-tie, the ball and the boot. The reason for the four different shapes is to ensure consistent cooking times for food safety.[7][8] Four shapes were chosen because McDonalds states "The 4 shapes we make Chicken McNuggets in was the perfect equilibrium of dipability and fun. 3 would’ve been too few. 5 would’ve been, like, wacky."[9]

― Typo Netagive (Old Lunch), Wednesday, December 4, 2019 2:38 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

And they have been polled!

Best McNugget Shape

Would that the system allow me to use that entire Wikipedia passage as my dn. Alas.

The Bell, The Bow-Tie, The Ball and The Candle

The Bell, The Bow-tie, and the Arm of the Lord

VP of McNugget Development: 'Okay, guys, let's get this sorted: how many different McNugget shapes are we going for here?'
Exec 1: 'Um...how about three?'
(general furor arises)
VP of McNugget Development: 'What the fuck...get out. You're fired, you piece of shit. That's far too few McNugget variations. You fuck. Anyone else?'
Exec 2: (sheepishly) 'Would...would five be sufficient?'
(sheer pandemonium rocks the boardroom)
VP of McNugget Development: 'ARE YOU HIGH? Who could even process that number of McNugget configurations?! Dear god!'
(exec 3's head literally explodes from attempting to process the number 5)
Exec 4: 'Sir, I know I'm taking a huge risk here, but...I'm going to have to say four.'
(order is restored)
VP of McNugget Development: (awed) 'Yes. Yes, of course. Four is...it's beautiful. Son, please come and take my seat, I'm retiring effective immediately.'

The Bell, The Bow-Tie, The Ball and The Candle
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:07 (five minutes ago) link

Coincidentally, the "The Tree And The Bird And The Fish And The Bell" Glasgow comp has songs "Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?" and "Regret".

having real trouble deciding which display name to go with from that nugget trivia corner

Big "fuck it, we're doing five blades" energy.

In regards to the snippet I've chosen for my dn, I have to say they hit the nail right on the head. Dipping a McNugget is simplicity itself, and as for fun, well, I can't say I've ever enjoyed myself quite as much as when I sink a piping-hot McNugget into that tublet of viscous Sweet n' Sour Sauce. I weep when the moment has passed.

without humblebragging, i'm trying to remember when i last ate at a mcdonalds. it would have to have been over 25 years at this point. is it better than it was in the 80's?

am i hallucinating or did mcnuggets switch to almost being completely white meat awhile back?

forks, I fell off the wagon a few years back (and even then mostly only when traversing great expanses of Midwestern interstate) after a decade+ of abstention and can report that it tastes almost precisely as I remembered.

The only actively bad thing I ever had was a McSalad but then what the fuck was I even thinking ordering something with fresh + real ingredients at a McDonalds.

i lived on taco bell, wendys and little caesars for years in college; moving to a major city sorta makes eating at a mcdonalds seem like a particularly bad idea when you can get anonymous chinese food or fried chicken for the same price and it might actually be good

It's a godsend when you've just spent the last hour driving past hundreds of windmills and little else that's suggestive of human habitation.

for sure, i get that it has a place and that place is providing value priced fat/salt/sugar under duress

without humblebragging, i'm trying to remember when i last ate at a mcdonalds. it would have to have been over 25 years at this point. is it better than it was in the 80's?

I'm at 21 years this month: decided to deliberately go a year without entering one, and at the end of the year thought "well, maybe I'll go another, let's see." (I did eat a few fries from someone else's, and the pickle slices from a kid's cheeseburger, on two occasions in the early 2000s.)

Seattle institution Dick's* make burgers and fries that do taste like your memory of what McDonalds was like in the '80s, except actually good (and still at 1980s prices)

* their official slogan is not "Eat A Bag Of Dicks," but this doesn't stop people urging it on visitors

that menu song record promotion is really clever

I remember once taking a walk by the lighthouse as a kid and discovering a discarded Ronald McDonald and Pals tape which I took home and played. it was distorted and weird but kinda fascinating

anyone ever see those "Mac Tonight" commercials? before my time but they're pretty bizarre

Yes and "f u" for the "before my time" comment ;)

I haven't eaten at a mcdonalds prolly in 25 years either. The only people who would go to there during lunch in nyc usually lived in NJ or were fresh out of college. Fast food burgers and kidneys are the only foods that give me heartburn.

i had (and played and lost!) the mcdonald flexidisc and this guy is on my desk right now

http://i.imgur.com/ANouhVK.jpg

Xxpost I actually didn't realize it was a parody of Mac the Knife, so one day my dad played the Darin version and I said OMG MCDONALD'S

this gets progressively stranger, if you can imagine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrIg18Uby4E

Mac Tonight was appropriated by the alt-right a few years back. Not sure if that still applies.

Goddammit

ADL:

In the 2000s, internet users began to create GIFs and videos of Mac Tonight, which they called “Moon Man,” typically coupled with violent or racist rap songs using computer-generated voices. By 2015, the Moon Man meme spread to other forums such as 4chan and 8chan, where it became associated with alt right language and imagery, including explicit white supremacist imagery. For a time, hundreds of offensive “Moon Man” songs existed online. Since then it has joined Pepe the Frog and assorted other images in the pantheon of favored alt right graphics.

However, because of the Moon Man’s mundane and non-racist origins, as well as the fact that Mac Tonight imagery is still also used by people who are not white supremacists, care must be taken to judge a Moon Man image only in context before determining its association with white supremacy. A version of the meme that contains no racist or white supremacist elements should not be automatically construed to have such a meaning.

Speaking of appropriation (thanks again, alt right, for ruining everything): I'm willing to bet that there are at least a few itt who aren't aware that the popular McDonaldland characters began their existence as insanely blatant rip-offs of various Sid & Marty Krofft characters and were, after the Kroffts sued, substantially altered from their original forms.

the alt-right appropriation does sound vaguely familiar now that I think about it. I just associate Moonman with Saint Pepsi

lol, i had no idea about maga tonight, what a world what a world
i guess i gotta take that thing off my desk now

don't give them the satisfaction. I doubt it's still a meme.

Couldn't the Nazis have adopted Hamburglar instead?

He's white, hides his face with a mask, wears a fedora, and commits petty crimes but avoids jail due to his powerful connections.

https://miro.medium.com/max/1046/1*Acj2nvt3pD3rFdLjBGoyKw.png

Grimace! How could you?

Weirdest Mac Tonight trivia? All these characters played by the same guy:

https://i.imgur.com/5rXknDW.png

lol that mac tonight's performance helped win a best picture oscar; didn't know!

age has not been kind to him

Lungeria

Got handed this gigantic McDonald’s cone and as I walked away I heard the guy’s manager go up to him and be like “that cone was too big” pic.twitter.com/pYKAFU467H

— s (@emptynsters) September 15, 2023

"All that sugar and fat can't be good for someone. Oh wait I work in McDonald's and don't care."

To answer the question in the OP:

• fries - engineered to perfection
• apple pie - good but over-rated
• McNuggets - great until Jamie Oliver caused McDonald's to start making them with only white meat. Now they taste like cotton wool. At least in the UK they're now sold with TWO sauces for a nine piece box, primarily I think to make up for the nugget's lack of flavour.

I've never eaten a Big Mac.