McDonalds: Edible or Not

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