I just took a survey in a mall about McDonalds.
They might be trying some new stuff, like some kind of yogurt-fruit item for dessert, a shredded barbeque chicken sandwich. Yum!
Markxxx, I’m in the northwest 'burbs (think Arlington Heights area) and up until a few years ago, you could get biscuits and gravy up here. Never could get them down in Palos (southwest 'burbs) though…go figure. I’m gonna expect a clown to come up with “policy”? 
Anyway, the chez clown on Northwest Highway by Arlington Int’l used to have a Sunday buffet - all you could eat for like $3.99 or something - biscuits and gravy, eggs, bacon, sausage, pancackes, french toast type thingies, juice, coffee, you name it - all you could eat. MMMMMMMM - I miss those days…
Oh - we have brats at our McDonald’s now. It’s quite strange. Has anyone else seen this or is this a local aberration?
Ok, just looked at that (preview is my friend) - not brats as in whiny, annoying kids, but Brats - as in Bratwurst.
Here in the Baltimore Metropolitan area (including Columbia) the McD’s here have something called the Fruit N’ Yogurt Parfait. It consists of a layer of yogurt, a layer of strawberries and blueberries, another layer of yogurt topped off with granola.
Except for the fruit it’s actually quite tasty.
When I returned to my childhood home in Britian, I was horrified to find that not only had Micky D’s invaded the Tower of London, they were also serving something called the “Bacon Roll”. It was a sandwich with bacon that had been liberally doused in Worcestershire sauce. It was simply revolting.
I remember David Letterman once joking that “he had a nightmare last night- McCrabs!” It must have been a prophecy, because years later I saw the McCrab sandwich in Baltimore.
Does anyone else remember the fajitas?
Last January when I visited NYC I noticed that all of the McDonalds I saw had banners outside for the McVeggie Burger. Being a vegetarian I was intrigued. My fiancee however was not so I did not try it. I have it from a dependable McSource that the McVeggie burger is McCrap. Any McNewYorkers try it?
[Homer]mmmm…pink fry sauce…[/Homer}
absoul, here in Colorado I have only been able to find that sauce in Ft. Collins, where I went to college. I can’t find in ANYWHERE in Denver. The actual label on the little container says “Pink Fry Sauce”, and I’d have to agree that it is a ketchup/mayo mix. When I asked for it at a McD’s in Denver, they looked at me like I was crazy and said they never heard of it.
Maybe it’s time for a road trip…
We have the Johnsonville brats here in Illinois. Haven’t tried 'em yet. I think of brats as a summer food, anyway. (Besides, they’re too close to hotdogs. Therefore, McD’s is meddling in areas they do not understand). Here, we also have ketchup and BBQ sauce for the fries, and I remember years ago they tried melted cheese sauce for a month…mmmm, nummy! It was hugely popular, so of course they got rid of it.
They have the fruit and yogurt parfait here, and it is without a doubt the single best thing on the menu. Unfortunately, they make them first thing in the morning with fruit straight out of the freezer and let the fruit thaw in the cooler, so if you buy one for your breakfast you will have crunchy strawberries and blueberries!
I thought the Salad McShakers were weird when I first saw them (eating salad out of a cup?), but they’re really good.
I LOVE the McRib sandwiches - I could eat one every day. Pickles and barbecue sauce - mmmm. Better than hamburger any day. And I love those breakfast burritos and the steak, egg and cheese bagel is great - really filling and cheap. Really greasy, though.
Mississippi checking in here…
how about those bagel breakfast things? Got them.
Breakfast Fajita’s here.
McRib: Check, haven’t tried it.
the bagel’s aren’t worth it. Like I want slice of meat and cheese between two slabs of concrete.
OK. our local McD’s just started offering the Johnsonville Brats (I seem to remember Ray Kroc, in ‘Grinding it Out’, swear that McD’s would never sell hot dogs, as it is too hard to ensure quality controls). We’ve had the ‘bagels’ for about a year.
I, too, am a former McD’s employee, although I never got as high as ‘2nd assistant Crew Chief’. [I did get high WITH him, but that’s another story] I worked there when both the McRib AND the McNuggets were introduced. Talk about a hassle! Those damn ribs were a BITCH to prepare… over 5 minutes to cook, and then they were stored in a ‘bath’ of BBQ sauce. Plus you had to use a seperate grill, to boot!
Nice thing about working there: making ‘custom’ burgers. About the only time that it was better than Burger King.
lawoot, you reminded me of the horrible vats of McRib sitting unsold…I would order 10 or so at the dinner rush, and they would soak away in what we called the “agent orange” sauce. Very often had most of them left at closing!
This wasn’t a problem, though, as the maintainence men (a true breed apart) would wolf them down eagerly, along with anything else that wasn’t actually in the garbage. We managers used to bet that one individual (known as “animal,”) couldn’t eat 10 at a sitting. We were wrong.
I do recall that we couldn’t leave the wooden-handled rubber spatulas in the vat of agent orange, or the wooden handle would be eaten through in a couple of days.
The land downunder saying ello…
Just recently in Aus we had a limited offer at mcdonalds wherer they sold deep fried battered prawns, with prawn crackers…no one could believe it was on the menu, but they were pretty tasty.
Have also had the Teriyaki thing, the Mc rib, the McOz, all those double/triple bacons, and dunno if it is a regular item, but therer was a miniMac, which was just alike a big Mac, cept it was mini.
: Here in Korea McD’s sells “Bulggogi-burgers”… I haven’t
: tried one, because they look and sound disgusting! Co
: incidentally, Pizza Hut here also has “Bulggogi Pizzas”
: which I also haven’t tried.
Please don’t tell me that it also goes by “McLabrador Retriever.” 
I vaugely recall McDonalds in Las Cruces, New Mexico having breakfast burritos.
Locally (Colorado) they have an item that’s just weird (I don’t think it’s national: The McRib sandwich. It’s pieces of pork squooshed into a 2 inch long by 1/2 inch wide strip. Three or four of those strips are then squooshed into a flat slab (meant to mimic boneless ribs). The whole slab is then coated with a nauseatingly sweet bbq sauce, put on a bun, covered with a couple of >gag< pickles and served luke-warm.
Must the pork be actual rib meat? Is it legal to advertize the sandwich as being ‘rib’ if it is not made of real rib-area meat? They sell a similar thing at Subway here in Ontario, and I had a discussion with my friends whether it was real ribs or not. The inside is more like sausages than ribs–it seems to be made of ground pork. Kind of a poor mimic. And ‘ribs’-- not very specific and somewhat scary. People have ribs!
The McRib is currently also in Atlantic Canada. I don’t live there, I just have satellite tv. I don’t recall it ever being in Ontario.
The only McDonald’s that I know has delivery is in Brandon, Manitoba (Canada.) I think Cochrane, Alberta might have it too, but I can’t be sure.
I don’t think they have to: they’re promising you a “McRib” sandwich, not a “pressed pork-rib meat sandwich”. They can define a “McRib” as a sandwich comprised of pressed pig-snout and monkey brains if they want. Cecil did a column on grape-nuts (they’re not grapes and they’re not nuts) about this sort of thing (here
Hell, they’re not even promising you that they’ll be serving meat. (And judging from the taste/texture, they may not be…)
Fenris
it has been, a few times.
i’ve mentioned it before, but in hong kong they had curry potato pies… similar to the apple and berry pies in north america, but strange.
I’ve heard that the McDonaldses in France serve wine. This is probably just a rumor, though.
What I wanna know is, when are they gonna make the “Shamrock Shake” available all year round?
Here in Louisiana, we have the Cajun McChicken sandwich, a permanent menu item. It doesn’t exactly contain the best chicken meat (not even close), but it’s only 99 cents. It’s pretty much a regular McChicken, but a little spicy.
When I worked at McD’s in '94-'95, I had an assistant manager who ate a sandwich with grill cleaner on it. You former employees probably know what I’m talking about. It’s a yellow liquid in small, plastic packets. I accidently got a drop on my tongue once and almost threw up. To this day, I wonder how my manager did it.
Oh, and McRibs Rule!!
How much grill cleaner was on it? Isn’t that stuff toxic? That is disgusting! That stuff is so nasty!
I still have scars on my hands from that shit dripping off the top of the grill on to my hands–rather painful. Although, I must admit to having a strange fascination with cleaning it off the grill just to see the shiny, clean metal underneath!
German McDonald’s serve beer.