The McDonald's Thread

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This is the thread where we all get to discuss that restaurant that most people seem to swarm to. What are you thoughts and opinions about McDonald's. What do you think of the food, the atmosphere or commercials?

These are my thoughts about McDonald's. My mum worked there for 25 years in order to support my sister and I. She kept working there after my sister moved out, and I love her for it. I wasn't able to work at the time that she kept working there, so I appreciate that.

The food in my opinion isn't so great. The burgers are cheap and the salads are expensive. I really think that it should be the other way around, because I like the salads a lot better than I like the burgers. Also, think about it. Beef, chicken and fish are more expensive than lettuce, onions, tomatoes and cucumbers, so shouldn't the salads be cheaper than the burgers?

About the commercials. I like the types of McDonald's commercials where people are eating or parents are with their families. I don't really care for the Ronald McDonald commercials. I also like the commercials that feature Olympic athletes.

You can say what you like about the quality of McDonalds food, but I can never resist a Big Mac or a Quarter Pounder with Cheese. The only thing I like more than those two things is the BK Whopper.

Click on the following link to see the Ronald McDonald video game on the Sega Game Gear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMTnpj38CP4

I like eating there but the one closet to me is horrible; stupid lazy ghetto types working there. Have to wait a very long time because they are not doing their jobs, floor is sometimes very slippery & it's not uncommon for em to screw-up the order. The other ones I go to occasionally are usually a lot better

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ljW5YEdao&feature=related[/youtube]

after I watched this video I have not touched mcDonalds foods...welllI had a milkshake.

"McDoonaalds, McDoonaalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut..."


I buy my lunch from there semi-regularly. I like the McChicken and the Double Cheeseburger.

I made a goal to never eat fast food again. I still will eat junk food once in a while (look at my user name), as long as it doesn't come from McDonalds, Burger King, or Wendy's. Sometimes I feel tempted to eat Wendy's because their food is so delicious, but I don't like the taste of McDonalds. I used to like it, but then I stopped liking it, and now I can't eat it because of my goal.

Actually, I sometimes feel tempted to get a McDonald's milkshake, just not their food.

I stopped eating that stuff a long time ago.

I thought I'd go in one day recently to see if it was still terrible, but there were crazy queues. Not very fast food. I walked out.

I have McDonalds maybe once a year. It's a nice treat - the big macs taste amazing.

one time, I was working a full day at my job because it snowed through the night and the morning. I ordered a Fillet o Fish and they put my bun in the toaster. You don't put a bun of a McDonald's sandwich in the toaster. You carmalize the bun.

Its okay sometimes if it's hot and made fresh. If it's not I go and tell them it sucks and ask for fresh stuff.

I'm a veggie so there isn't much there for me. I tend to go to subway if I'm out and want something quick.

It is disgusting.
Both the food and the whole creepy, corporate package.

mcdonald's seemed to taste so much better when i was a child. the balance of the taste and moistness and texture all combined to make me swallow my bite after only a few chews it was so delicious.
i preferred quarter pounders with cheese then.

over the years, various constraints have been imposed upon their products to make them more "healthy". many years ago, the fiber content in the buns was very low. fiber is indigestible, and therefore not desirable by the appetite. pure fiber is repulsive. it is like eating a shredded doormat.
so they grind the bran (the husks) into a "flour" and they add some of that to the white flour to increase the fiber levels due to tightening regulations. the result is a less palatable bun that does not melt in one's mouth.

i am aware that fiber is necessary to scour the intestines of a kind of "plaque", and in nature, animals get fiber naturally because they are not dexterous enough to separate indigestible material from what goes into their mouths. given a choice, all animals will eat the most purified form of nutrition they can.

there is no inbuilt appetite that craves for indigestible material in any animal. it is just ingested as a consequential by product of their inability to filter the nutritious bits from the non nutritious bits.

anyway, the buns are not as easy to incorporate into my system as they were. also the sugar content of the buns was reduced substantially many years ago, and that also contributes to the lack of simplicity in the carbohydrate chain, and renders it more difficult to chew, swallow and digest. i am still well able to eat mcdonalds, but it does not get sucked into my system as seamlessly as it did before the health regulations altered their composition.

they have also severely restricted the use of trans fats in the meat patties which has resulted in the meat patties being somewhat drier and due to the reduced volume, they taste too salty as well.


these days i still eat mcdonalds about once per fortnight. i must have all my food as fresh as it can be, so i always order my food with an exception that will ensure it must be cooked while i wait.

if i get a big mac, then i will order it with 1/2 the amount of sauce and no pickles.
if i get a quarter pounder with cheese, i will order it without pickles and with 1/2 the amount of onions.

when i get fries, i always order them to be unsalted, and after i am given them i ask for a sachet of salt. i always get pristinely fresh fries which i then salt myself.

sometimes my ordering experience comes to grief when someone forgets an element in my order. so if the big mac finally arrives, and there is no simultaneous arrival of the fries, then i become agitated and i wonder how the fries are going since my wonderfully fresh big mac is now aging. sometimes i want to walk behind the counter and into the kitchen to see how my fries are cooking up and hurry the process along, but i know that would be inappropriate.

i can not eat the big mac before the fries, so i must wait for the fries, and if they are ready late, then i do not enjoy them because i stuff them in my mouth hastily so i can get them eaten before my big mac is totally disgusting.

mcdonalds is ok once per fortnight for me.

I've also noticed that the food tastes a lot different now.

I applied for a job there last week. It was a last resort, but I hope I get the job because I need the money.