# Explain to me: McRib popularity?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-mcrib-popularity/963412 "2022-04-25T14:44:59Z")\
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Every time McRib comes around again, there’s a thread on it.

Prior art:

> [@McRib back at all locations thru Nov 14](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcrib-back-at-all-locations-thru-nov-14/600629):
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> smiley smiley smileysmileysmiley I’m salivating already. It’s been a year since my last McRib. stuck_out_tongue I’ll be eating at McDonalds a couple times a week through Nov 14. McRibs are a slice of heaven. [http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/\_news/2011/10/24/8464427-no-bones-about-it-the-mcrib-is-back](http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/24/8464427-no-bones-about-it-the-mcrib-is-back)

> [@The McRib is back!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mcrib-is-back/927708):
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> Finally a sign that this awful year is coming to an end! They skipped over my part of NJ the last time, so this was probably the longest period of my adult life without eating one…Just ate 2 of them for dinner. Will likely eat 6-8 more over the next couple of weeks, and then I’ll be over it for a while.

My own experience and opinion: I tried McRib exactly once, a few years ago. I thought it was substantially flavorless, and the meat was substantially the same ground cardboard as their other delicacies.

KFC has BBQ chicken every now and then, which is vastly better. It’s chicken thoroughly saturated and dripping with thick BBQ sauce, that actually tastes like BBQ sauce. You’ll need a hundred napkins. They should give the chicken away free and sell the napkins. Profit!

In my town, however, there’s a two-off BBQ chicken place that has that all the time.

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