I’ve never heard of anyone having problems at McD’s with a custom order, but perhaps that depends on your location. But, yeah, I’m definitely of the mustard & pickle contingent. It’s the Eastern European in me – we like to cut fatty foods with pickled veggies of all sorts, from cucumbers to peppers to sauerkraut. I like mayo, but not on a burger. Same with the lettuce. And a hamburger is one of the very few foods I’ll let ketchup near.
I love malt vinegar on fries. Beats ketchup any day of the week. However, I’m not saying seasonings are not allowable on fries at all. I’m just saying that one should judge a good fry as one that does not require seasoning of any sort but salt. But season away if you like to. Fries dipped in barbecue sauce are one of life’s little pleasures.
BK. At least you can get lettuce (not the shredded kind either a whole leaf) and tomatoes and real onions on their whopper Jrs. McDs only has the reconstituted onions, wilted shredded lettuce and no tomatoes (at least not on their little burgers).
I like Big Macs, but usually I’ll get two hamburgers or cheeseburgers – yum! I don’t care what kind of meat it is or where it came from or how it’s made. It tastes good to me, and I guess the McDonald’s around here are busy enough because I don’t remember the last time I had a burger that had obviously been sitting under heat lamps for a while. Seems like every time I order – at the drive-through, no less! – I get fresh burgers. I like their fries, too, but will admit to preferring the fries at Wendy’s.
I also love the burgers (and Frostys) at Wendy’s, but I don’t think of one place as being better than the other: sometimes I’m more in the mood for Wendy’s, other times McDonald’s. It also comes down to convenience sometimes, too: McDonald’s is closer.
Burger King is closest of all, but I’ve never cared for their burgers. I’m not a fan of the “flame broiled” thing. I do like their chicken sandwiches, though, and I love their onion rings – even the crappy minced ones!
I’ve found that the Chicken Select strips are not greasy or offensive at McD’s. Otherwise, the “food” is nothihg more than medicine to be applied when one has a case of constipation.
So that’s it. The damn things end up tasting like they’ve been soaking in oil for hours. Nasty, nasty stuff.
Maybe it’s different in Europe, but I’ve never seen any McDonald’s in the U.S. do that, and we didn’t make them that way when I worked there as a teenager.
As to the OP, I have to give the nod to McDonald’s. For the dinner menu, both places have their plusses and minuses, but McD’s wins in every category for breakfast. BK’s breakfast sandwiches just taste incredibly bland for some reason, and eating a Croissandwich is like trying to tear apart a truck tire with my teeth.
Yeah, I don’t think they do that here, but that’s the traditional Belgian double-frying technique, and what I allude to in my initial post. You generally fry in two different temperatures of oil. The first fry is at about 325F, to cook the inside of the fries, and the second fry (after resting them for a few minutes) is at 375F to crisp the skin.
Let’s put it this way: after MickeyD’s announced to the world that they’d finally caught up with BK and Wendy’s in this regard, I took them up on it a couple of times. Both times, I had to wait around an awfully long time for my order to be filled, as in, “why don’t I just go home and make myself a PB&J” long.
Eventually you will get your custom order filled. But you don’t go to a fast food restaurant to get your food eventually. If I want a custom order, I’m going to BK or Wendy’s, where it’s second nature, and not “oh yeah, HQ said we have to do this now.”
Mc ds does not want you to mess with the system. Burger King is designed to get you the Burger you want quickly. If you want one tanning in the hot lamps go to mcds.
McDonald’s has not used what they call “the bin,” a metal chute with premade burgers, for the past several years. It had always been in full view of the customers, so I’m surprised that so many people have failed to notice its absence.
The link was to a post in a thread that got closed. In it, the moderator suggested debating something, like McDonalds v. Burger King, or some such thing. Not sure why the linky stopped working, other than the possibility that the thread vanished.
I regularly special order at McD’s. It works just fine, since they went to just-in-time cooking.
Burger King has better burgers, a better fish sandwhich, and a marginally better chicken sandwhich. Their enormous omelet is also pretty good, as are their pies. However, McD’s has better cookies and those new cinnamon melts (yum!), as well as those seasonal holiday pies (custard, pumpkin). McD’s also has better shakes. McD’s fries and sweets are the only things that are really any good. How depressing.
Saudi Arabia is the place to do fast food. Your staff are mostly Filipinos, with some Nepalis thrown into the mix. They take pride in doing things right. No problem at all getting a special order done correctly here.
Every once in a while, I must have a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese if I am to survive. Sometimes I go to McDonalds and try to order something else…but no. The call of the Quarter Pounder will not be denied.
I have never had a fry at Burger King that didn’t taste like styrofoam.
Burger King has better burgers. Really, Burger King should be compared to Carl’s Jr. (Hardee’s) and McDonalds should be compared to Jack In The Box IMO. At least if we’re talking burgers.
I prefer the fish sandwich at McDonalds. No, really. I like them.
I like the chicken sandwich at Burger King. Mmmm… Processed chicken patty!
Fast food joint i eat at if given a choice; Wendys, the burgers are better, as are the fries, the Freschatta sandwiches are also reasonably decent
following the guidelines of the OP, i find Mc’D’s and BK equally mediocre, so it really depends on whim, if i want something quick-n’-cheap, i swing into the Mc’D drivethru and order a McChicken of the .99¢ menu
if i want an actual burger, i go to BK, either a Whopper Jr or regular Whopper, and i almost never order BK fries, rather i get the processed onion-flavoured ringlike thingies, it can’t compare to nice beer-battered onion rings fresh out of the fryolator (there’s a contradiction in terms if i ever heard one, “fresh out of the fryolator”), but at least they have something of an “onion-ringy” flavour to them…
