Me and fried chicken livers. Crave them, love the first couple, okay for one or two more, then absolutely and utterly done for the next few years. They turn from the best thing ever to absolutely revolting. I never have figured it out.
I liked the first McRib I ate. But then again I was probably twelve. Every subsequent interaction became less and less satisfactory, which I put down to my own “ensnobification” . I finally learned my lesson for good about 20 years ago.
But I will still eat a filet o’ fish a couple times a year. Some crap nostalgia never entirely fades.
Really one of the worst fast food sandwiches. It is a crime against sea food that this exists. Checkers(Rallys) has a better cheapo fish sandwich. It’s not great, but way better than McDonald’s cheap option.
The frozen Banquet ‘Backyard Barbecue meal’. The mystery meat is made from pork, ‘mechanically separated chicken’ and some soy product. Comes with a dab of mashed potatoes and corn and costs about $3.
I haven’t had KFC in 30+ years and I keep wanting to try it. The big bucket of chicken was my favorite food at the church potlucks, and my extremely poor family would splurge on it occasionally along with the potatoes and other stuff. Maybe it best I keep this good memory in my mind.
I concur with the consensus here. I had a McRib 5-6 years ago, I’d guess. While I find some McDonalds food to be merely boring (e.g. their fries, 95% of the time*), the McRib was just plain bad.
Maybe, but the store locator says there’s no Checkers within 50 miles of my house, but there’s a MickeyDs just 5 minutes away. Not that I have any problem with their fish sandwich.
*Every once in a long while, I’ll eat some MickeyD’s fries that live up to the raves that everyone else seems to have about them. (I often find myself picking up fast food for my wife and son when I’m out running errands.) If they were always that good, I’d be a big fan of their fries. But the rest of the time, they go back to being boring.
I would never argue against this. But the human brain is an utterly irrational little beast at the best of times. The filet o’ fish is indelibly linked to me going fishing with my dad on Sundays in 3rd and 4th grade after my parents separated and somehow the memory makes them taste good. Well, okay. -ish.
Ask me why I dislike béchamel and I really couldn’t tell you. I should like it. I like most adjacent sort of sauces. But hand me a lasagna with it instead of ricotta or a ricotta-blend and my lip curls in disdain.
Me too, and I really don’t understand why. It is shamefully small for the price, but sometimes I just get a craving. One of the few things I eat at McDonald’s and usually only when they are on sale.
The McRib is fine. I wouldn’t go out of my way to get one, but it has a flavor and texture different than the typical burger. It’s good for that variety.
I do eat at McDonald’s several times a month. I’m not sure how helpful the opinion of people who don’t eat there anyway is.
I was like that, too. I’d fall for all the McRib hoopla, go out and get one, and think “Meh. This isn’t all that great.” Then a few years later I’d forget my previous experience, and get one again, and repeat the previous reaction. I think I’ve finally learned my lesson, and won’t get one this year.
I had one years ago. I think if you were to shape some ground pork into ‘rib shape’, cook it, and then put on BBQ sauce and eat it on a bun with pickles and onions, it would probably taste the same. And you could have it any time you wanted. But a pig patty burger doesn’t appeal to me as much as deadcow.
I just had a my first McRib recently. It was edible, which from me is a compliment, because I have a very low tolerance for mystery meat. I probably won’t ever get another one, because it was mediocre meat with mediocre barbecue sauce, and I’d rather have a burger. I prefer food that tastes good.
It’s ribs the way a Cadbury egg is an egg, i.e., it’s pressed into that shape. In any case, you couldn’t eat a sandwich with actual rib bones in it, right?
That is a very good point. Some people eat fast food, some don’t…or rarely. Probably good to ask these types of questions of people that frequent these joints.
I used to eat at McDonald’s regularly, but I learned two things about eating a McRib when they’re available:
Don’t fall into the trap of buying the two-for-one special, since it’s hard enough to eat just one.
Order it with light sauce (it’s an option) unless you like drinking BBQ sauce, and take off the onions if you don’t like them. Otherwise it all becomes a bit much.
I don’t really like them, and I need to remember not to buy one next year (make that three things)
Heheh, ok. I’m a unrepentant FF-eater. Though, I do have standards (ok, maybe just preferences), even though I’ll eat a McRib. If Burger King is the only thing available, I’d rather go hungry. Curly fries? No goddamn way.
. I finally learned my lesson for good about 20 years ago.