# The Siren Call of McDonalds **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827 "2006-02-03T14:32:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827/41 "2006-02-11T16:56:06Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > Which is why I go to Popeye’s when I want fried chicken, and Frankly Yours when I want cheese fries. So 😛 yourself! 😃 Where do you go when you want both? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827/42 "2006-02-11T18:03:30Z")
The 2 for a Dollar, Hot Apple Turnover is a filthy habit. Please get this Monkey off my back! ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827/43 "2006-02-13T15:40:52Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Where do you go when you want both? 😉 Home. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827/44 "2006-02-13T15:48:41Z")
Well I think the Siren’s finally sunk one for me. I left early today with snow on the car expecting traffic problems only to find the roads pleasantly lessened and I was able to get to work faster than expected. Unfortunately to leave early I had skipped breakfast (aside from a cup of OJ I carried with me as I collected my day’s things.) So I pulled into McDonalds like a good slave, got the #6 with a large soda, paid my $4.55 and picked it up at the window and headed to work. 1 Bacon-Egg-Cheese bagel, 1 hashbrown and a large soda later I’ve got a rock in my stomach and I just feel blech. I think this is going to seal the deal and I’m free from them at long last. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827/45 "2006-02-13T16:30:16Z")
I am a McDonald’s addict, and I have breakfast there almost every day because they’re the only really cheap food around my part of downtown LA. Bastards. There used to be a really good cafe here that sold cheap, healthy sandwiches, but as fate would have it (or was it the Evil Empire?), they shut down. So I’m pretty well stuck with Mickey D’s unless I want to shell out $5-$7 in the morning. But to **Silenus** , **Ol’Gaffer** and **Faruiza** : McDonald’s on the way to Vegas? I mean, I understand the novelty once in a while of the Barstow location, but on the south side of town, you’ve got Tommy’s and In-N-Out and a host of other cheap and tastier restaurants to get you in a Vegas sort of mood. Why McDonald’s? I’ll be leaving at 4am this weekend to head up that way, and I’m fairly certain McDonald’s won’t even cross my mind. But then again, having it for breakfast everyday tends to make you look quickly for alternatives. I will definitely second (or third) the Mad Greek vote, though! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827/46 "2006-02-13T16:40:51Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > I am a McDonald’s addict, and I have breakfast there almost every day because they’re the only really cheap food around my part of downtown LA. This seems to be a large reason a lot of peopel eat fast food, but you do know it’s almost always cheaper to make it yourself, yes? I can get a dozen eggs for a buck, adn my bread is $2 a loaf (but I get the expensive kind, I can get the cheaper, BIGGER, loaf for $1.) So right there I can eat a dozen eggs and twenty or so slices of bread for less than your one meal. Add soem Cheeze (because that’s what McD’s uses) for about $2 for a pack of thirty slices, and you can make your own reasonable fascimile of a McD’s breakfast for a lot cheaper, and a LOT healthier. But, that being said, I am a giant hypocrit and east fast food about once a week, though usually Taco Bell. But damn if all this talk hasn’t made me crave a Big Mac for lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827/47 "2006-02-13T17:34:04Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > This seems to be a large reason a lot of peopel eat fast food, but you do know it’s almost always cheaper to make it yourself, yes? I completely understand that, and don’t think my wife hasn’t reminded me of that on numerous occasions. If making my own meal was as quick and simple as running through McDonald’s, I’m sure I’d do it every day. But the other advantage besides “cheap” is “convenient”…and that’s hard to beat. Of course, it’s at the cost of good health… ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827/48 "2006-02-13T19:14:34Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > You can do it, people! I’m here to testify. I haven’t eaten at a McDonald’s in, oh, at least five years. You know what gave me the strength? The ads. That’s what finally pushed me over the edge. It was the realization that a portion of every dollar I gave them went to pay for those gawdawful “We love to see you smile” ads. The current “I’m lovin’ it” campaign is even worse. So next time you feel the pull, please, remember the children!!! Same here. I stopped eating there immediately after I realized the “i’m lovin’ it” campaign was here to stay, so about 4 years. It’s not even the stupid phrase, it’s that the commercials are generally nonsensical. One of the worst is the one with some generic masked wrestler coming in to eat a burger that’s much larger in the commercial than it is in real life, and he takes his mask off much to everyone’s excitement. But then guess what OMFG HE TOTALLY HAS A FACE MASK ON AND ITS NOT HIS REAL FACE!!!11eleven To be fair, though, I prefer every other fast food burger joint to McD’s, so it’s not that difficult of a boycott. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827/49 "2006-02-14T03:19:38Z")
I don’t even remember the last time I ate McDonalds. If I want fast food breakfast, it’s all about Hardees or Sonic. Mmmm… And the only fast food burger I’ll eat is from Jack n the Box. And there isn’t one here. I miss those damned bacon cheddear potato wedges with sour cream. ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827/50 "2006-02-14T03:44:38Z")
They put something in it to keep you addicted, I’m sure of it. Just like the cigarettes. It’s a conspiracy. I don’t like McDs at all and the food makes me ill. However, once a month I get this hormonally induced “Two Cheeseburgers Meal” craving that I cannot make go away. I will lie awake at night obsessing about it until I give in. Then the little angel on my right shoulder reminds me that it will make me sick - then the little devil on my left slaps the little angel and says “Shut up. We’re eating it. Just deal”. ….The other 28 or so days a month I am quite sane. I swear… ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siren-call-of-mcdonalds/342827.md?page=2)