I’m salivating already. It’s been a year since my last McRib. 
I’ll be eating at McDonalds a couple times a week through Nov 14. McRibs are a slice of heaven.
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/24/8464427-no-bones-about-it-the-mcrib-is-back
Thanks for the info! At least once a McRib cycle, I have 2 for lunch and 2 for dinner, comprising my entire diet for the day. Sometimes, it’s more often.
Glad to see it confirmed here, although I was able to get one over the weekend. Many times in the past I’d hear that they were back in certain areas, but it didn’t seem to be a nationwide revival - so I was skeptical when I heard first that they might be back again.
This is my favorite entree that is not on the permanent McDonalds menu. The Shamrock Shake would be my favorite seasonal item.
It used to be that every time the McRib would come out, I would have to make my way to McDonalds. And every single time, I’d be disappointed. These days, I just skip the first step. 
I have to hand it to McDonalds for falling for their demand-through-scarcity (or whatever you’d call it) model with the McRib. Now, if only they’d bring back that damned Cheddar Melt sandwich they had in the early 90s.
Wait, I don’t get it. Why do you keep going back to be “disappointed.” If you don’t like the McRib, then skip “both steps.”
As for me, I’m psyched. Planning a McRib outing as I type this.
What I mean is for a number of years, I got psyched about the McRib, only to get to McDonalds and remember that I didn’t really like the McRib. But, somehow, because of the passage of time, I’d forget that fact. And then I’d go again to McDonalds, only to realize that no, I really don’t like it. Repeat several times over. I really do think their approach to selling the McRib is clever. If it was on the menu always, I would never order it, but having it “limited time,” for whatever reason, causes me to think that either I like it, or that I need to give it another chance.
If you want the disappointment without going to McD’s, check the grocery store for frozen BBQ rib patties. The ones in my area are made by OnCor, and they’re pretty McD-like. Get some dinner rolls, some chopped onions if you really want, and they’re pretty darn good for what they are and not artificially scarce like McRibs.
Course, that all said, I kinda want a McRib…
I think that that’s the definition of insanity! 
I’ll eat McDonald’s. I won’t eat the McRib, though. Bring back Chicken McBites!
I wish they didn’t have to package the slippery little bastard in a box. That’s the main problem with the BigMac, too, imho.
Better you than me. Next to KFC Bowls, they’re the second most disgusting major fast food option out there.
Pickles?
PICKLES?
Bletch.
Fling them at a cow-orker. That’s what I did with the three that came on this McRib. mmmm, pork.
Surely, wherever you are, there must be local mom-and-pop type eateries with some kind of great BBQ ribs (either beef or pork). Just google for BBQ ribs <your city> Myself, I was researching this just yesterday! Funny you should ask.
No, see, it’s not about BBQ ribs. It’s about boneless shaped rib patties.
It’s also about paying $3 instead of $12.
Hear him! Hear him!
Er, I mean, “Word.”
The processed pork of McRibs is made from stuff at the butcher’s that falls on the floor.
I’ve never had one, but they were in a funny line from the pilot episode (first season) of the American sitcom Raising Hope.
Our hero is going to prison to visit his ex-girlfriend who is on death row. The prison guard who is taking him to her cell tells him:
“Your girlfriend’s pretty clever. For her last meal she asked for a McRib and a Shamrock Shake. That should buy her a few months. Those two are almost never available at the same limited time.”
I hope the brains in those two corps don’t suddenly remember those old Reeses Peanut Butter Cup commercials :eek:
I used to love the McRib when I ate meat. Thankfully Morningstar Farms makes a vegetarian riblet thing that is close enough that I don’t really miss the real thing. Bonus: the veggie kind is available all year!
http://www.adventuresinfakemeat.com/2010/01/morningstar-hickory-bbq-riblets.html
ARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Oh. Close to a McRib.
Never mind.