Contestant #3 wrote:
All rightie:
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“So, C#3, why didn’t your list of favorite things about McDonalds include the McUFO Happy Meal?”
(Heh. I can be meeeeeean sometimes.)
And what’s with that Ronald guy? Doesn’t he have any friends his own age? He seems to be spending way too much time with the kiddies.
“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” - Humphrey Bogart
Yeah, and what’s with Mayor McCheese and his anti-crime platform? The Hamburgler is STILL running around. I say they shoulda voted him out LONG ago…
I love McD’s- I go there every coupla weeks and fill my purse with their great wide straws. Hey, they can afford it!
I applied for a job at the McD’s in Winnemucca, NV. Never heard from them.
“On the edge of sleep, I awoke to a sun so bright…”
The food at Micky Dee’s does not interest me for the reasons Ukulele Ike mentioned, but let’s be fair to the folks in Oak Brook. Of the 24,800 restaurants (!) McDonald’s had in its system at the end of 1998, fully 15,281 were owned by franchisees. Some franchisees own more than one restaurant, so I don’t know how many independent business people that represents. But McDonald’s does not make franchises available to financial buyers or passive investors. To own a McD’s, you’ve got to be an owner-operator. Often, the buyer of a franchise has already owned a diner or whatever, and bought in to take advantage of the purchasing power, marketing muscle and quality control of a behemoth.
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When I was fourteen I worked at Texas’ Biggest McDonalds (on Post Oak, here in Houston.) It was great. For that first summer, I wasn’t technically working for them, I was just helping out my neighbor (the PR rep there) by dressing as the Hamburgler and visiting kids in YMCAs and other day-cares. We passed out stickers, and Jessica would always bring the counselors something to eat. I was payed in hamburgers, and I loved it. After that I hosted the kiddie parties every weekend. This time they actually paid me money, but I still got all the free food I could eat.
Personally, I am addicted to McD’s barbeque sauce. I dip my nuggets, fries, burgers (my faves are those little Happy Meal burgers!), anything I can get.
SHSU does not have a McDonalds on campus. We have a Burger King. It sucks. The only thing I like at Burger King is the fish-sandwiches and the onion rings. Everything else (especially the barbeque sauce) is the most disgusting food I have ever tried to choke down.
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The kids love it. We were celebrating three “As” tonight – one algebra test (9th grader), one English test (sixth grader) and one math test (4th grader), and they thought it was the biggest treat in the world to go to Mickey Dee’s. The one in town has a nice big play place – Eldest Son is somewhat sad that he has finally outgrown them – and while the two little ones played E.S. and I had a great chat. Hey, three “As” and I got out for under twenty bucks! 
-Melin
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Oh, and Brithael sucks.
Now we know what’s wrong with C#3: he has Mad Cow Disease from eating the grease-soaked styrofoam they call ‘hamburgers’ at McVomit’s.
The only thing that is halfway edible there is the pancake breakfast; to be fair, that’s not half bad.
We have met the enemy, and He is Us.–Walt Kelly
I hate the fact that there are mcD’s every 10 blocks, usually replacing some small business that gets priced out by a landlord looking for the big McBucks. Nearby we have McD’s every 1/2 mile, with more going up every day. Are there ANY posters here that can’t find one within a 1/2 hour’s drive?
This crappy high-fat, high-salt food is what is killing this country, and the fact that they advertise so much to the children, which just screws the parents over when it comes time to go out for dinner makes it even worst!
I wish they would open a McCartneys with vegetarian food! 
They’re that far apart!
Down in Springfield [VA] they just opened a new McDonald’s ONE BLOCK away from the old one.
NO! They didn’t close the other one.
In fact, it’s possible to see them both within one line of sight.
Rincewind nailed it: when you’re on a marathon cross-county drive, you can always depend on McD for clean bathrooms and a quick Coke to fuel the caffeine need.
I guess I don’t fault McD’s for blah food because that’s exactly the niche they’re aiming for. The food is filler if you need a quick food-stoke. But I never crave it.
With due respect to Cessandra, Burger King and Wendy’s are the two chains that, IMO, do pretty good burgers. (Even then I’ll go for the Greek pita at Wendy’s; great nosh!)
Damning with faint praise,
Veb
Two all beef paddies, pickles, onions, lettuce, and special sauce on a sesame seed bun!
What can I say I used to live of of Mickeydees, I love the fries, the quarter pounder and the chicken Mcnuggets.
The bacon and egger breakfastand their milkshakes.
Right now i prefer Burger kind (like the meat better) but when it comes to prices, Mcdonald’s takes the cake!
Yeah, my favorite fast food burgers are Burger King, but since the one on campus closed, I haven’t been able to get a good fix for a while. They also have awesome breakfasts, especially their biscuit sandwiches and those little Cini-minis. Not to mention the best chicken nuggets (with honey, they kick some serious ass). But I get Mickey-D’s every now and then. When I’m in a hurry, it’s nice to get a decent-sized meal for cheap, especially since I hardly have the time anymore to eat more than one or two meals a day.
Apparently, littlejohn, though you may have lived “off” of MickeyDee’s, you paid little attention to their commercials. The jingle goes:
“Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun!”
Go to the back of the class, and give me all your french fries.
Hey Cess!
You worked at “my” McDonalds. No, I don’t own it; I office in the building directly across the street. If I’m workinng through lunch (one of the many fringe bennies of self-employment) I can be back in the office w/a hot quarter pounder in, literally, 3 minutes (if you can’t savor a quarter pounder, you have no soul).
The drive thru is even quicker in the morning. It adds about 2 minutes to the trip to make a quick circle and grab my daily breakfast burrito before I park the car.
The mom and pop joints? Most of them really aren’t that great. If they’ve got a competitive product (which consists of food plus service) they can survive.
I’m gonna have to get breakfast at McDonalds before work starting tomorrow.Theres nothing else around! What should I get? I read the mcmuffin is good if you put jelly on it! How about a nice cup of water? 
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BURP! “excuse me.”;D
I generally stopped eating fastfood years ago, not because of any militant hipper-than thou rant, but just educating myself out of it. The last time I ate at McD’s, it gave me the McShits… intestines speak louder than words… But, in travelling in Europe, I did feel it my inalienable right as an American to use their ambassadorial toilet facilities. And still use the same on emergency interstate necessity…Occasionally, I’ll buy a drink to contribute to the upkeep of such facilities. So I guess their sterile standardized reason deter has got it’s upside.