# Anybody try the new, fresh McDonald's Quarter pounder? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593 "2018-05-21T22:45:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/41 "2018-05-22T23:06:20Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I believe a standard QPw/C comes with just pickles, ketchup, and onions. I don’t think that’s right. Mustard should be on int. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/42 "2018-05-22T23:18:26Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I don’t think that’s right. Mustard should be on int. When I lived in Brooklyn (1990s) McDonald’s burgers there didn’t have mustard. That was the big culture shock for me moving to the big city. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/43 "2018-05-22T23:31:05Z")
Oh boy. McDonald’s veteran of the McDLT era checking in. _adjusts dentures_ In my day yer basic Quarter Pounder had mustard, ketchup, pickles and onions. Cheese if you ordered the cheese variety. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/44 "2018-05-22T23:38:24Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > But for me, ketchup, mustard, ketchup, onions are the base standard ingredients for a burger. Oops. That second “ketchup” should be “pickle.” I don’t like ketchup _that_ much. (In fact, a burger and fries is pretty much the only food I use ketchup on. I will use it as an ingredient for a barbecue sauce base, though, so we can also count it for that.) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/45 "2018-05-23T00:26:44Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Oh boy. McDonald’s veteran of the McDLT era checking in. . Yeah buddy! “Keeps the hot side hot and the cool side cool!”. Plus those things were a marvel of polystyrene construction. I really miss the containers, those McDLT double styrofoam ones really had good lift properties for throwing out a car window on the highway. I always tried to doink that stupid crying Indian on the side of the road in the forehead but my aim was never good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/46 "2018-05-23T00:31:48Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Do McDonalds restaurants in the U.S. not have various Angus burgers? Those have been pretty standard in Canada for a while now, in my experience. You are one letter off. The usual slang term for McDonald’s food in the USA is “anus burgers.” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/47 "2018-05-23T00:42:06Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > When I lived in Brooklyn (1990s) McDonald’s burgers there didn’t have mustard. That was the big culture shock for me moving to the big city. Yeah. New Yorkers are real dicks about our hamburgers. McDonald’s put mustard on the burgers in Cleveland, where I grew up, but ketchup only in NYC. Mayo on a hamburger would make most NYC people gag, who consider it a “California thing” (I personally NEED mayonnaise on a well-dressed burger, along with raw onion, pickle, and mustard). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/48 "2018-05-23T00:46:45Z")
_Mayo?_ It’s people like you what cause unrest. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/49 "2018-05-23T00:52:18Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _Mayo?_ > > It’s people like you what cause unrest. Dude, but you like burger sauce, don’t you? That’s just mayo, ketchup, mustard and usually relish mixed into one. There’s no real difference. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/50 "2018-05-23T01:03:48Z")
There is one place that mayo belongs: in jars, jars that are packed in crates, crates that don’t float and are liberated and set free in the middle of the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/51 "2018-05-23T01:09:29Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I don’t think that’s right. Mustard should be on int. Looking at McDonald’s website you are correct. I’ve never noticed the mustard, though, but perhaps my local McD’s just skimps on it. I do live in a heavily Latino area, maybe they’re just not that into mustard. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/52 "2018-05-23T01:20:00Z")
? Your McDonalds goes easy on the mustard, perhaps, because the Latinos don’t care for it? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/53 "2018-05-23T01:21:36Z")
Mustard is one of those things where you’ll either get a single dot of it, or they drench it with the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/54 "2018-05-23T01:23:44Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > ? > Your McDonalds goes easy on the mustard, perhaps, because the Latinos don’t care for it? > Huh? I don’t know, I’m just WAGing. All the McD’s around me definitely put a LOT more ketchup than mustard on the QPw/C’s, to the point I actually forgot it was a standard ingredient on one. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/55 "2018-05-23T01:27:11Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > … I do live in a heavily Latino area, maybe they’re just not that into mustard. Totally into ketchup, probably. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/56 "2018-05-23T01:30:46Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Mustard is one of those things where you’ll either get a single dot of it, or they drench it with the stuff. I’ve personally never noticed that. It’s usually something like, if I had to guess, 3 parts ketchup to 2 parts mustard. Ketchup is usually the main condiment, and mustard a supporting condiment. Like a big ring of ketchup on the bun, with a smaller ring of mustard within. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/57 "2018-05-23T01:54:00Z")
Don’t they have a machine that applies each condiment? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/58 "2018-05-23T02:13:32Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Don’t they have a machine that applies each condiment? They did when I worked there in the 80s. I remember their cardinal rule was consistency across ALL stores. The idea that some stores skip the mustard doesn’t ring true for me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/59 "2018-05-23T02:15:49Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Dude, but you like burger sauce, don’t you? That’s just mayo, ketchup, mustard and usually relish mixed into one. There’s no real difference. Sure there is. As a component of a sauce, mayo is subsumed into a better, larger whole. On its own, it has no place next to hot meat. **puzzlegal** - Yes, they do. But it is quite easy to fill one of the reservoirs with something else. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593/60 "2018-05-23T05:14:37Z")
Other than the Mac sauce, it’s never occurred to me to consider burgers based on what condiments they have on them. I never order a burger as it comes. And the reason to eat a McDonald’s burger is usually that your friends are going to McDonald’s. Though, in my case, it’s just that they actually salt their meat. For some reason, Burger King just has that grilled flavor, and Wendy’s does seemingly nothing. Hardee’s does a good job, but they are more expensive and peppery, and I may not want peppery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593.md?page=4)