# McDummy Rant **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 29, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469 "2005-10-29T16:14:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/21 "2005-10-31T02:14:04Z")
You people do realize that the pan is an endangered species, don’t you? This unholy glee being displayed at the devastation and decimation of the Great Pan Plains merely so you can make cakes out of the poor creature is disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/22 "2005-10-31T02:42:01Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Waitaminut…the pancakes are pre-made? When I was at McD’s, we made them on the grill. I personally know someone who works for McD’s. The pancakes are delivered frozen. They are thawed in the refrigerator, and then microwaved to order. It wouldn’t be possible to grill pancakes at this McD. They have 2 grills. At breakfast, one is dedicated for eggs only, and the other is used for the sausage, bacon and steak. Just too busy at breakfast to gill pancakes. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/23 "2005-10-31T03:58:16Z")
Well, they used to! :::pouts::: ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/24 "2005-10-31T03:59:32Z")
:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/25 "2005-10-31T04:28:10Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Waitaminut…the pancakes are pre-made? When I was at McD’s, we made them on the grill. I’m with you, nothing pre-made when I worked there! (short six years ago) Don’t ask how the eggs are made now. Yep, liquid egg from a carton! That said, the menu variety now is indeed a lot more diverse than when I was there. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/26 "2005-10-31T13:25:32Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I loved these, but it just so happened that I had one on the morning I had my gall bladder attack and wound up being ambulanced to the emergency room. **I’m sure it was just a coincidence** , but I can’t bring myself to even consider eating one - and it’s been 6 years!! (_bolding mine_) Actually, I’m willing to bet it wasn’t a coincidence. High-fat foods are a terrible trigger for gall bladder attacks (and those bagels are super delicious, but they’re also really greasy–dammit, now I want one!). One of the worst attacks I ever had, I got after eating Dairy Queen chicken strips (I ended up vomiting from that attack). And like you, I’ve not been able to eat those things since that horrible day. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/27 "2005-10-31T19:27:41Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I loved these, but it just so happened that I had one on the morning I had my gall bladder attack and wound up being ambulanced to the emergency room. I’m sure it was just a coincidence, but I can’t bring myself to even consider eating one - and it’s been 6 years!! > > Actually, I can’t remember the last time I entered a McD’s - eons ago. I am sure it was NOT a coincidence. Most of McDonald’s non-salad menu is a gallbladder attack on a bun. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/28 "2005-10-31T19:30:41Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Steak Egg and Cheese Bagels leave everything else in the dust. Word. ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/29 "2005-10-31T20:44:20Z")
> [@buttonjockey308](#): > > Agreed. That, and the breakfast burrito are the only things i get there for breakfast. i do loves the “burrito” buttonjockey… I have bad news regarding the breakfast burrito…it is NOT standardized across McDonald-dom. Once while I was driving across Iowa, I stopped for a burrito, and it was a foul experience indeed. It was loosely-rolled, had hash browns _inside_ the burrito, and wasn’t even tucked at the end. A bad experience. I had a nearly identical experience in Ohio. I am the world’s #2 burrito fan. I could go for one now. Also (off-topic), I love the pumpkin pies they have this time of year. -Cem ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/30 "2005-10-31T21:20:07Z")
The lady at the dry cleaners did something similar to me. I went in there with a skirt that needed to be taken up a couple inches (I’m short, so I do this pretty often). I said, “I need this taken up two inches” and she said, “No you don’t.” “Yes I do” “No you don’t” and so on…she thought since the style of the day was longer skirts I was making a huge fashion mistake. I now go to the other dry cleaners. They don’t argue with me. ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/31 "2005-10-31T21:48:29Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Steak Egg and Cheese Bagels leave everything else in the dust. Bleh…I’m on a campaign against the steak there. IMHO its the worst breakfast sandwich on the list and yet it occupies the prized #1 slot on the combo menu instead of the sausage, egg, and cheese bagel which rightfully deserves the spot. Its anarchy! ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/32 "2005-10-31T22:38:26Z")
> [@rfgdxm](#): > > Just too busy at breakfast to gill pancakes. Pancakes have gills? ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/33 "2005-10-31T23:08:50Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Pancakes have gills? Only the ones that aren’t well-done. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/34 "2005-10-31T23:24:01Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > Most of McDonald’s non-salad menu is a gallbladder attack on a bun. That’s McGall McBladder, missy. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469/35 "2005-10-31T23:29:27Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > OK, Daffy Line Jumper finally got the attention of one of the order takers. At which point she went into a long thing about how she wanted her pancakes _well done_. The rather patient order taker tried to explain, several times, in words of one syllable, that the pancakes were _pre-made_, already cooked, and she’d be happy to warm them up to roughly the temperature of plasma but they wouldn’t get any more “done”. They were already “done”. Daffy Line Jumper couldn’t quite wrap her mind around the concept. :dubious: I did not know that. It explains the eerie sameness of every McD’s hotcake, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdummy-rant/328469.md?page=1)