Driving home from the airport last night and the only quick food option was McDonald’s. My son hates the place but I assured him you can get a decent sandwich is you choose well. He went with the basic cheeseburger, and agreed it was okay when you’re hungry.
I went with the buttermilk country fried chicken sandwich because I had one a few weeks ago and it was pretty decent. Nice piece of chicken fried well, and the bun was delicious, not the same as the hamburger buns.
I got home and bit into the chicken sandwich and could hardly bite through the “chicken.” It was tough, dry, and seemed like it had sat around for a long time before being put on my sandwich. I took the “chicken” out to study it and found that it was a thin piece of the breading with almost no meat at all inside, fried to a hard consistency. I broke the thing open in several place looking for anything resembling chicken meat and found only a few strands. My best guess was that there had been a very, very thin piece of chicken that virtually disappeared in the cooking process, leaving only this hard, inedible brown thing. The other ingredients were quite fresh and nice.
Originally it was mayonnaise,olive oil, lemon juice, orange juice, paprika, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, vinegar, cream, sweet relish, chili sauce, tomato purée,egg, ketchup.
There used to be tobasco sauce in it but has been omitted for quite some time.
Today it’s different. It’s: Soybean oil, pickle relish, vinegar, yolk, onion powder, salt, garlic, paprika, worcestershire sauce (latter 2 is part of their “Spices”) Tumeric, Corn syrup…a few other things to preserve flavor and to keep it thick
This is what happens when you eat too much BK. You start dissing your elders and betters. Well, betters at least. 
The people working at my nearest McDonalds are so bad that I won’t go there anymore, if I ever again feel the need for the Donalds, I’ll go to the one 10 mins away instead of 1 minute away (first world problems, some jackass is probably thinking…)
The last straw was when I ordered two cheeseburgers (not qp’s, just the regular tiny things) with catsup only. Got home, one had catsup only, ate it, no problem, opened up the 2nd one with a grill slip identical to what was on the first one, only to discover this one had no catsup, but was swimming in mustard.
And these boobs think they deserve $15 an hour? As if. 15 cents an hour maybe.
Went to McDonald’s for the first time in along time, partially because of this thread.
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Amazingly a person working there recognized me and commented I hadn’t been there in a long time. I thought that was amazing since I didn’t think they would notice any one customer.
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The chicken nuggets were yummy. McDonald’s invented them and still does them best.
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The Sweet and Sour sauce was even better, I wish they bottled it.
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Their Salads are underrated. The veggies are always fresh in my experience and the grilled chicken is tasty. Also they must have genetically engineered their cherry tomatoes to taste extra tomato-y.
A good friend of mine had his special order mangled at the nearby Macs so many times, and complained about it, and was advised by the register clerk to ask for a manager ahead of time.
So he says, “Hi, I’d like the number two combo, large sized, and a manager.” He tells the manager, “…and that’s no sauce, no lettuce.” The manager nods and sees it’s done right.
For them, it’s less of a burden than it is when they do it wrong and he has to bring it back to them to be done right. And for him, it’s less of a burden than having to send it back. Everybody (sort of) wins.
ETA:
Are there bottled versions of S&S sauce you like? There have got to be thousands of varieties around. Or, even more oddball idea, have you tried counterfeiting it? Make up a batch of sauce on your own, and fiddle the recipe until you like it? Seems either of these strategies should give satisfaction.