They are so wrong and yet so delicious. If I am getting a meal at Jack in the Box, I always include 2 tacos. So delicious and pretty cheap.
McDonald’s exists in Israel. Most of the branches are not kosher, and serve cheeseburgers. To help consumers know the difference, the branches which are kosher display their name on a sign with a different color pattern—using blue instead of the standard red background.
Nice! Thank you for the information.
Yeah, I had a boyfriend who swore by Jack in the Box tacos for his munchies fix.
Wait, so in other cities you do get mustard on a McDonald’s burger!? That’s so weird. Mustard on burgers. I thought I’d only seen that in England.
Yeah, normal ingredients on the basic McDonalds cheeseburger is ketchup, mustard, pickle, and onion.
Mustard and ketchup is standard for US McDonalds regular hamburgers. That’s where the colors for their signage and branding originated.
The yellow/red makes sense but I never thought about that. Wow I had no idea. I’ve lived my whole life in the NY area and that sounds so strange.
Yeah, this is the first I’ve heard that NY McD’s hamburgers don’t come with mustard.
Same here. I learned something today!
For real? I thought it was because they were easiest to see in the dark/in the rain/from a distance.
Ditto.
So, maybe if I’d grown up in NY, i wouldn’t have refused to eat McDonald’s as a kid. I’m pretty sure the major issue was the mustard.
For the record, at least as of 10ish years ago (last time I ate at a McD I think), all the Albuquerque and Las Cruces (NM) McDonald’s offered green chile for cheeseburgers. Probably because they’d loose a few too many customers without. So I can confirm that as a regional variation. 
I don’t know exactly how those colors were chosen, however the consensus of the internet doesn’t agree with you. So this is why the McDonald’s sign is red and yellow
McDonald’s colors have always been red and yellow. Did they know about the psychological effects of those colors back then? Or did it just look striking?
Clearly, red/yellow/orange have become the go to burder joint colors though:
MCDONALDS: Red and yellow
BURGER KING: Red and orange-yellow
WENDY’S: Red
IN 'N OUT: Red and yellow
WHITE CASTLE: Yellow and blue
JACK IN THE BOX: Red
HARVEY’S: Orange and blue
FIVE GUYS: Red
SONIC: Red and baby blue
HARDEE’S: Yellow and red
A&W: Orange and brown
WHATABURGER: Orange
CARL’S JR: Orange and red
I’m sure I’m forgetting some but it’s like everyone copied McDonald’s to some extent, except White Castle, who are older.
Wendy’s usually offers a pretzel bun. I just checked Door dash and my local Wendys offers a cheeseburger and a chicken sandwich on a pretzel bun.
I tried one a few years ago. It was good.
I normally go to Rallys for burgers. I like the seasoning.
You forgot the grand-daddy of colorful restaurants, the late lamented Howard Johnson’s with their iconic orange roof. I’m sure by the 50s they were aware of the associations of colors with human feelings, maybe so even back in1925 when HoJos started.
I haven’t noticed any difference in the taste or quality of McDonald’s over the last, say, 30 years. Like others have noted, I think quality is ‘different’ (usually better in my experience) in other countries. I legitimately enjoyed a McDonald’s meal when we were in Singapore…
Other fast food joints have become much worse over time IMO (think Taco Bell)
I first had a McDonald’s hamburger the winter of 1960–61, IIRC. That’s when they opened in Minneapolis, and it was a big deal. So far as I can tell, the burgers taste the same now as they did then.
I was a graduate student in Moscow when they opened there in January 1990. Everything was basically the same. To ensure quality, McDonald’s Canada opened their own farming operations in the area. The only thing that was noticeably different was the cheese, which had to be imported from Germany. It tasted like the “Government Cheese” made available in the US back in the '80s.
Most notably, coffee was not on the menu. It wouldn’t be until they opened their second restaurant on the Arbat in February 1994, and I believe it came from Jacobs in Austria.
I last ate at a Moscow McDonald’s about 18 months ago, and it was fine. The operation they have now is called “Tasty, period!” and it’s crap, from what I’ve heard.
I too miss the beef tallow French fries. It used to be you could tell a sack of McDonald’s food immediately by the way the grease smelled.
I got mustard once in a McDonald’s in Queens - they changed back to no mustard pretty quickly.