Maybe I am just a food snob, but I was moving from one job site to another and I thought I would just get something quick.
I got a Big Mac meal with fries and a soft drink.
The burger had almost no flavor at all. It was incredibly bland. The two limp pickle slices were about all that I could taste. The rest was just texture.
When did this happen? They have never been top of the list, but the food was at least edible.
You can never go home again:
If McDonald’s used to be acceptable (or even tasty) to you, and then over time your palate became more refined. If you try to go back to McDonald’s after a long stretch, the experience is not going to be as pleasant as the last time you were there.
For example, I used to love me some Apple Jacks when I was a kid. One day, I was feeling nostalgic and bought myself a box as an adult… Bleh!! Shit was nasty! Same with a LOT of food items I’ve tried that with over the years.
I find it as good as always. Had McD’s for breakfast today.
Also, the Big Mac has probably the highest ratio of “bun to meat” of any of their products. It is mostly bland white bread and chopped iceberg lettuce. On those occasions I stop at McDonald’s, I have written the Big Mac off my list of options.
Next time, if there is a next time, try the Deluxe Quarter Pounder. It’s like a Whopper without the awful chemically “charbroiled” flavor additive.
I’m told the Bacon Clubhouse Burger is actually quite good. (As McDonald’s products go). I haven’t tried it yet, though, 'cuz it’s rather expensive.
I gave up McDonalds after a friend cooked me a burger using decent meat. It was gorgeous.
The Bacon Clubhouse Burger is a pretty good option, though not as good as what you can get at a real burger place (Two Guys, Red Robin, etc.).
Gorgeous? Did you eat it? Or just look at it? 
This is really the only reason to go to McD now. Luckily they serve breakfast all day.
You don’t get a Big Mac when you want a burger. You only get a Big Mac when you specifically want a Big Mac.
Was that really the first home cooed burger you have had?
I get really good burger meat and grill them every week or so, but I’ll still eat a Big Mac in a pinch with no complaints.
McDonald’s burger-food, and McDonald’s breakfast-food are different things. That Mc sausage patty is fast food wonderfulness. It’s good in and of itself, it’s good on an english muffin, it’s good on a buttermilk biscuit, it’s good on a styrofoam plate with some flapjacks, it’s good on a styrofoam plate with scrambled eggs and fast food potatoes.
Wow what a weird coincidence - not even two hours I ago I had some McDonalds for the first time in at least a year - and then I get home and see this thread. (Too many coincidences lately:dubious: - don’t know why I find that unsettling.)
And it’ll be at least another year before I go back there again - that McChicken just didn’t quite have the same appeal (if you can call it that) that it used to. The poor clerk had maybe the worst skin condition I’ve seen in a long, long time, which wasn’t exactly conducive to generating something called an appetite.
On the opposite end, I had it yesterday for the first time in years. I don’t know if it was because they were very fresh but the chicken nuggets were delicious. They had a chicken flavor and texture instead of the old pre-chewed processed mostly coating flavor they had years ago.
Alright mister, what did you do to the other three guys?
Also, Red Robin is horribad. I’d rather eat a Royale with Cheese than sit through another meal at Red Robin.
No you’re not a food snob , McDonald’s food has always been crap ! I only ate there once and that was one time too many !
So are they toasting buns or not toasting buns these days? They seem to flip-flop. Untoasted buns made pretty much everything taste like crap, but toasted buns added a nice texture and flavor, you know, relatively speaking.
I don’t think McD’s ever went with out toasting their buns. They have changed the amount of time they toasted their buns though.
I meant this, of course. 