Off topic, but I just had to mention it: the McDonald’s I worked at as a teenager, back in the 70s, went out of business last week.
I haven’t tried any of them yet, but my cousin tried the Junior, and he liked it because it was like a Big Mac without the middle bun. I’ve always been a quarter pounder with cheese guy myself when it comes to their regular line up (or the McDouble off what used to be the dollar menu) because that middle bun was superfluous to me. My love, though, is still the jalapeno McDouble, which, unfortunately, is a limited time item. They do have the jalapeno McChicken, though, which works for me, as well. I’m one of the weirdos who actually likes McDonald’s over Wendy’s and BK.
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Isn’t this one of the harbingers of the apocalypse?
Is the little one $1? If so, I am interested.
Long overdue, the Big Mac really needed more beef.
In-n-out is only in six states. I doubt they’re much of a threat.
But in consumer surveys, the competitors (In-N-Out, Habit Burger, Fatburger, Whataburger, etc) are higher rated. They are a bit more money but not that much and for an occasional indulgence, I’d prefer a better burger.
And my point remains; the McDonalds menu is too large and could do with more paring.
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Not true. I just had one for lunch and it’s the same style of bun but much larger. It’s also too much damn bun. All that bread was making me feel a bit barfy by the time I was done and I hadn’t even eaten breakfast so I was pretty well empty going in.
I tried the jr mac (should have called it a Little Mac and partnered up with Nintendo!) a week or two back, and it had a much better ratio of meat to bread than the Grand or even Big. I’d probably get that one next time I’m in the mood for a mac, assuming it’s even still on the menu by then (anyone else really sick of fast food menus that seem to change every week? It’s hell trying to figure out what to get at Taco Bell, that thing I got last time that was really good? Yeah, they don’t have that anymore…)
Consumer surveys don’t mean shit when 90% of people don’t live within hundreds of miles of any of those regional chains, but have 10 McD’s within 5 miles.
https://abasto.com/en/mcdonalds-introduces-jr-mac-grand-mac/
*The original Big Mac, created in 1967, is two all-beef patties, 1/10th of a pound each, with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, and onions and a sesame seed bun. It has 540 calories. But McDonald’s thinks it can go bigger, and smaller.
The Grand Big Mac is made with two 1/6th-pound patties and two slices of American cheese served on a larger sesame seed bun with lettuce, onions and pickles. The giant burger is a hefty 890 calories.
The Mac Jr. from McDonald’s is mad of the same delicious ingredients as the Big Mac and the Grand Mac , with the exception that it is only a single-layer Big Mac, totaling a lighter 480 calories.
The Mac Jr. priced is priced between $2.39 and $2.59. T*
There’s the calorie counts. Not* too* bad.
I do like the sauce, I will admit.
I’m a little surprised that they have a 1/6th lb patty. Back in the day you had the little 1/10 patties for the Big Mac, Cheeseburgers & Hamburgers and the 1/4 patties for the, well, Quarter Pounder variants. Guess they finally added a third size in there. Mind you, I haven’t worked at a McD’s since the mid 90s.
OK, I came upon this thread just before lunch. What the heck, I’ll try one.
The Grand Mac tasted pretty much like a Big Mac. But not quite. There was just something a little different about it. But ‘pretty much’ is close enough. The issue I had with the burger was its lack of structural integrity. What a mess to eat! I’m glad I didn’t attempt it while I was driving.
The Big Mac’s taste comes from the ratio of sauce to burger and cheese, I’ve always felt. Too much sauce, and you’re not tasting cheeseburger. Too little sauce, and you’re just eating a big cheeseburger with weird background flavor. If they upsize or downsize the burger part, then the sauce had better be upsized or downsized accordingly. But if I recall correctly, the sauce has long been applied by the equivalent of an old cookie-press, so they probably just use one squeeze for the Mac Jr. and two squeezes for the Grand Mac, which means that the ratios are off, and the tastes are different.
I’ve eaten Big Macs since their introduction (or at least shortly thereafter), and have always been skeptical of the Big Mac changes or riffs they’ve attempted over the years (remember the Mac Wrap?). I probably will stick to the Big Mac, though my appetite would be better suited to the Mac Jr. these days.
I actually prefer the 4:1 version of the Big Macs I made for myself as an employee to the one in the pictures. I don’t want bigger buns; just use the normal Big Mac bun and it would be perfect!
In high school I worked at a McDonald’s, and one time we ran out of quarter pound patties. The owner took a few boxes of the smaller patties and let them sit near the grills while they thawed a bit. He had us take 2-1/2 of them at a time and hand form them into a single patty so we could still sell quarter pounders. Don’t ask me about other stuff I saw, I’m not at liberty to disclose that. (I still eat there once in a while, mainly breakfast items.)
Le Bobarde, Le Monstre or Truc Ènorme. Depends on which region.
I was surprised to read that, too. And more so, because it doesn’t match what we actually received last night when we ordered one.
My wife, a former McDonalds’ employee, ordered a Jr. Mac and was adamant it was made with a quarter patty. This was confirmed by comparison to the composition my double quarter pounder. (Since she has a gastric bypass, she was hoping that the Jr. Mac would be appreciably smaller than a regular Big Mac, since she can’t eat a full one of those and hates waste.)
Maybe the local place made hers using the wrong patties. 
ETA: I’m also amazed the company would willingly complicate their logistics by adding a third standardized patty.
Yeah but It is a versatile line-up. Assuming you don’t mind the differences in Diameter, you can have
1/10 pounder
1/6 pounder
1/5 pounder
1/4 pounder
4/15 pounder
3/10 pounder
1/3 pounder
7/20 pounder
4/10 pounder
9/20 pounder
1/2 pounder
8/15 pounder
etc.
Heck, In N Out is at least the same price, if not cheaper. I think the McDonald’s flagship burgers are around $4 here (the Big Mac, QP with cheese), but In N Out’s double double was something around $3.50 when I had it last week while visiting the in-laws in Phoenix. My waistline is happy they are not here in Chicago.