By my rough estimation, I’ve eaten at McDonald’s between 300 and 500 times in my 42 years of life. That seems like a lot, and yet if the McDonald’s corporation had to rely on people like me, they’d have gone under a long time ago.
So who here is keeping them afloat? And who, conversely, is their Enemy Number One, the person who has never eaten there? There must be at least one of you!
As far as I know, I’ve only had one McDonalds meal and I wasn’t real happy about that.
Don’t get me wrong… I love fast food, especially burgers. But for some reason McDonalds has always seemed way too plasticized to even contemplate.
Whose eaten there the most- this kid. 
I wouldn’t even know how to go about estimating something like that.
When I worked there, of course I ate it every day…are we only counting food we paid for?
Now I eat there once a week, because I go out with my daughter and let her choose the restaurant. But I usually bring a sandwich left over from my lunch and just order fries and a Coke.
Of course that should be who’s, not whose. :smack:
I used to eat at McD’s all the time as a teenager, but in the last, oh, five years? I’ve been gradually cutting back. I think I’m down to once a year and probably less. I used to give them a lot of business during the Monopoly game each year, but even that’s lost its fun.
Of course, I still go to the other burger joints something like twice a week. But McD’s is a heart failure waiting to happen in my book.
38 years-old.
Probably like the OP somewhere between 300-400 times.
Especially from ages 15-21 where it could be as often as once a week or more.
It trailed off quite a bit after that to only a few times a year.
Since I started keeping kosher in 1999, I have only been there for sundaes, and you could probably count the number of times I’ve done that since then on the fingers of one hand. The fries aren’t OK because of the beef extract, and what’s the point of fast food without fries?
As a kid, I ate there a few times per year. Now, I never go in unless there’s really nothing else and I have to eat. I’m hardly a food snob, but the thing is, there’s almost always something else that looks better. If I only have ten minutes… well, it doesn’t happen too often, and I’m usually prepared. I rarely have to resort to Harvey’s, McD’s or any other squat n’ gobble.
I went there once but they didn’t have any real Scottish food. They should change their name.
I’ve met the guy who’s eaten over 20,000 Big Macs.
McDonalds stopped putting actual beef extract in their FF some years ago:
French Fries:
Potatoes, vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor (wheat and milk derivatives)*, citric acid (preservative), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent)), salt. Prepared in vegetable oil ((may contain one of the following: Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated corn oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness), dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent). *CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK (Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients.)
This makes them (obviously) not gluten free - which isn’t good for people like me, but wheat in FFs isn’t uncommon (and I’m not strictly GF).
Now, I’m not sure I’d eat at McDonalds if I were staying kosher anyway, but the beef extract isn’t the reason to avoid the fries.
Over 100, but 0 in the last 5 years, I bet.
I don’t think I’ve EVER eaten at McDonalds. I don’t like fast food hamburgers anyway (I hate driving a long way with my dad, cuz he always wants to eat at Carls and just ICK) and the smell of french fries makes me ill. I know they have other stuff, but I’d rather go to Subway or Baja Fresh or even Taco Bell.
44 years old; I’d say about 2500 times, mostly for breakfast. I don’t like anything they have for lunch/dinner.
I’ve eaten there quite a bit, more so in high school and college. Now I make a conscious effort not to go more than once a month or so, but I do have a serious weakness for quarter pounders.
That doesn’t necessarily say there are no beef/meat products in it, just that it contains the potential allergens wheat and milk. The last sentence even says that the wheat and milk are “starting ingredients” and not the sole components.
If you look at food labels, only allergens tend to be picked out like that with the “CONTAINS:” warning at the end - unless you’re eating food made by a “vegetarian-friendly” company. You’ll see seafood/shellfish listed but that’s because of food allergies; meats like chicken or beef don’t get listed in that spot. As a vegetarian who got burned by the french fries thing, I wouldn’t trust them on this to be using a no-meat flavoring, especially when it’s called “natural beef flavoring”; I’d think it’d have to be “artificial beef flavoring” if it contained no actual beef.
Dunno how often I went as a kid, but I probably went once a month or so as an adult, and pretty much stopped going after a combination of the french fry problem, then crummy salad choices for vegetarians, and a serving of broccoli-cheese soup that turned out to be half clam chowder really killed any appeal that place ever held. It’s been at least a few years now.
Less than a hundred. I’ve been a vegetarian since I was eleven, and my parents frowned upon fast-food to begin with. I’ll stop in for fries if the mood strikes me, but for the most part my fast food of choice is Taco Bell or Wendy’s (mmm…baked potato with a side order of fries. All the starch you need!)
That’s the McDonalds ingrediant list - you can do your own googling to find the press release where they said they took meat products out of their FF so they are now vegetarian - maybe - it was years ago (my brief google didn’t find it). They replaced the beef extract with beef flavoring that made with wheat and milk (its basically vegetarian “beef bullion”) to address concerns of vegetarians who assumed french fries would be vegetarian.
(Me, I think the air at McDonald’s isn’t vegetarian - you don’t have to eat there to violate the not ingesting meat part, breathing is enough).