Yep, that is what I fell for.
Hard to eat as in “Too much food.”? Or hard to eat as in “Too disgusting to choke down, even when $1.50 is on the line.”?
So it’s from Banquet’s gourmet line.
If you no longer eat there, how do you know you still love those? I used to love lots of McD’s, but I’ve been mostly 100% disappointed when eating lunch (breakfast to a lesser extent) there on road trips the last several years. As I said, the McRib was OK and if I were still eating there regularly, I’d probably get one for variety. But…nothing seems that good anymore. I avoid it all unless there aren’t options.
Because I do.
Go try them. If you haven’t eaten there in a bit, you might be disappointed. Keep those sentimental feelings going though, like I have for the food from KFC. I will never try it out and kill my childhood memories
The McRib, or any main entree at McD’s really, is just a thing you purchase to go with the fries.
Not me. My theory is that when burger patties become too rancid to sell as Big Macs or Quarter Pounders, they’re smothered in barbecue sauce and sold as McRibs. And when they’re too rancid even for that, they’re deep-fried and sold as Filet o’ Fish.* OK, maybe not literally, but I am not a fan of McDonald’s.
* I stole that last one from Dave Barry.
Which are no big deal. I don’t understand the folks who rave about them. They’re exactly like McCain 5-minute fries out of the air fryer, and nothing even remotely like homemade fries in the air fryer. McDonald’s deep-fries them in oil which is the proper and traditional way to make great fries, and you really have to go out of your way with the crappiest ingredients to produce mediocre fries that way, but McDonald’s somehow manages it.
I think it’s hilarious that people believe it’s pork shoulder.
Seriously? How can you imagine it is anything other than marginally edible scraps from the slaughterhouse floor?
Actual pork shoulder? You wish! If it was, they’d be bragging on that widely. There’s a good reason they have never declared what ‘cut’ of pork they use.
You know McD’s business model a long time, and still really think it’s pork shoulder?
actually i ate a version of the mc rib sandwich in school every day in jr high …only difference was the schools’ version was gristly sometimes …
The McRib was brought back to the UK I think about a month ago, which was a big deal as the last time was something like 20 years ago.
I’ll be honest that I was pretty excited, as I really liked them as a kid.
However, this incarnation was nothing like the McRibs of old. A tiny amount of sauce and onions covering maybe a quarter of the patty. (I don’t know why they are so stingy with these now; I understand capitalism, but surely you don’t scrimp so much on the cheap stuff that people don’t want to buy another one.)
The patty itself was the worst thing of course; completely bland and powdery; it broke up into pieces in a way the old burgers never used to.
I had a second one just to confirm I wasn’t just unlucky, and it was exactly the same.
So, I don’t know how this reflects on McRibs in the US, but it’s a night and day change in the UK.
I tried the McRib a month or so back, for the first time in my life - there was some significant marketing fanfare about the return of the McRib here in the UK, and I fell for the marketing.
It was OK - a fairly tender slab of processed meat in a bun with some sweet BBQ sauce on it. Better than a lot of their burgers where the patty can sometimes be a bit dry and mealy, not as good as the sausage mcMuffin.
I think that hits the nail on the head right there – in my memory of the mcRib, the meat had a similar consistency to the patty in a sausage mcMuffin. Not this weird, pre-chewed thing that is the 2024 version.
Have you tried a sausage McMuffin lately? I have not, but it might well be that it’s patty consistency now resembles the current McRib.
Eh, the filet-o-fish has an actual slice of whole (not compressed scraps) of fish in it. When I’m stuck at an airport i sometimes get one or two (light sauce) and call it dinner. That’s actually the only dinner sandwich of theirs that I’ll buy. The egg McMuffin is okay, too, although there’s almost always a better breakfast option somewhere else.
I’ve never had the mcrib. Y’all aren’t talking me into trying it.
I only tried for the experience. I don’t think I realized it was just trending due to its rarity, not because it is good. It’s basically a little stamped piece of meat with disappointing BBQ sauce on it. Even Arby’s, which I don’t like, has a better basic BBQ sauce to put on their stuff.
I’m probably the biggest (only?) unabashed McDonalds fan here. I have made over 200 visits this year, most of them just a coffee or coffee + hash brown (for the pup). My dog gets more excited to hear “McDonald’s” than “beach”! My daughter on the other hand
I tried the current version of the McRib and probably have tried all the previous versions at least once over the past 35 years or so.
The current one is disappointing, but so were all the others before. My impression is that this one has a smaller patty and less sauce. The previous versions had so much sauce they made a sticky mess. Also the sauce is sweeter, not as tangy.
All this is subject to my recollection of the 2014 version being accurate.
I found the McRib disgusting, and I’m one who will gleefully eat Arby’s and Jack in the Box. The McRib was too reminiscent of the gristly/fatty bits of grandma’s pot roast that you left on your plate, condensed into a loaf.
FOMO is about the only semi-legitimate reason in my book. And for that, once is sufficient.
I’ll occasionally have a sandwich at McDonald’s for whatever reason (usually travel or quick/known option if time is pressing) but never a McRib ever again.
I don’t understand any real hate for the place. It’s relatively cheap, fast, and consistent. Far from healthy or particularly good, but those are hard to do cheap, fast, and consistent. Criticisms of business practices and so on are fair, of course, but they’re hardly unique there, either.
Not recently, but much more recent than the old-style Mcrib, which, as I say, was some 20 years ago in the UK. And yeah, the sausage in the mcmuffin had some degree of chewiness, which the new Mcrib lacked.
I don’t understand what went wrong. AIUI, the mcrib’s recipe was never very complicated.