It’s not that I’m averse to burgers being salted. It’s just that McDonald’s burgers seemed saltier than the other burger places (independent and chain) that I’ve gone to. For example, I thought the burgers I ordered at Burger King and Carl’s Jr. were a lot less salty than the McD’s double-cheese I had.
I think it’s really difficult to screw up cooking a hamburger. Basically, you either have to avoid undercooking or overcooking it. From my experience, McDonald’s doesn’t make a bad hamburger but it doesn’t make a really good one either. With the exception of their hash-brown cakes (which I avoid eating because they’re like crack to me), I’ve always been rather “meh” about McDonald’s food.
Funny man. 
I had to wait until dinner to satisfy my Fatburger craving, though. For the record, though, I have Fatburger, In-N-Out and Tommy’s within less than two miles from my house.
I’ve never liked McDonald’s, even as a kid. Their burger patties were always too small for the bun, and I HATE hamburger buns (unless it’s some pretentious gourmet ciabatta-whatever bun made by the best French baker in the world). Their fries (at least, the last time I was there) were utterly tasteless, and their chicken nuggets always tasted like I was going to find gristle in them. The only reason I went there as a kid was because of the teenie beanie babies. Even then, I went there once, got my beanie baby, ate the chicken nuggets, then remembered why we don’t typically go to McDonald’s. (The beanie baby was cute, though, so it was sort of worth it.)
Our fast food of choice was BK, where the burgers are the proper size, and the fries actually have flavor. I hate the hell out of ketchup, and if I have to use it to make my fries taste like anything, then they’ve failed as fries. I’ve never had to resort to using ketchup with BK fries. (And no, salting them doesn’t help. Salt doesn’t stick to already-cooked fries!)
FWIW, though, I might consider going back to McDonald’s for a McFlurry or those iced lemonades, because I’m curious.
Go back for their McCafe coffees, which are a shit-ton better than anything Starbucks makes.
Maybe not icky but definitely ichthy.
CMC fnord!
I dunno, I tried one of the vanilla latte things and it was pretty vile.
The regular McDonalds coffee actually is pretty descent. I don’t know anything about the flavored or espresso drinks or whatever the hell else they offer, but the standard coffee is more than reasonable. I’d actually say “good.” Is it better than Starbucks? I say no. I would have said yes until Starbucks changed to the Pike’s Place coffee a couple years ago. Pike’s is more in-line with “donut shop” tastes than their old roast, without it being as bland and watery as your typical donut coffee (which I do like, too). I have to admit, I’ve always found the pre-Pike’s Place coffees over-roasted for my tastes, too.
McDonalds isn’t, nor has it ever been, something associated with “fresh wholesome taste”. You want fresh wholesome taste, eat a hippie.
I thought they stopped that.
(researching)
Nope, guess not. It’s still not enough beef. Not like the good ol’ days when they were fried in suet.
See, this is disingenuous. McDonald’s food has always been about adult tastes…“common tastes”, from the get go. There is no magical flavor engineering for children in McDonald’s food… you want a Scapegoat for that… Look to Battlecreek. There might have been a marketing drive to attract parents and their children, but to blame that on their culinary innovations simply illustrates a lack of knowledge about the gustatory. First they were heavily influenced by the prevailing White Castle legacy of some 50 years previous and multitudinous other Drive-in joints, they were just the most successful and catered to their customers through the Henry Ford drive for perfection and innovation. That they used marketing to capitalize on that is seperate from prejudicing their food.
Blame their taste style and tradition on the Archetypical and classic American Burger Diner, White Castle… if your tastebuds must betray you.
I mean what could be more child like than a single white Castle in a toddlers hand. Seems like they were the innovator in child burger portions… 4 nuggets or two white castles, apples and oranges drank.
I mean from Mrs. Obama, to Jamie, To my exes, to the people on this board, to my doctors (I also had the privelege of being an early guinea pig to a “quack diet doctor” -Dr. Mclean- to those Toledo nutritionists who want to stay in the know), to my neighbor, etc. they have all been my John Harvey Kelloggs. Truly fanatical and woo woo nutritionists, the mentally ill, crispy hippies, and dieters with no results, backbone, or legitimacy in real science. Or worst of all… the schizo, “medical media”, columnists. All broken worshippers at thepublic health teat of the Motherland.
or in the case of Jamie Olliver the well meaning, Bono, of the culinary inquisition. What a cunt wanker… trying to impose his “rights” to our “wrongs”.
Spurlock has made himself the John Harvey Kellogg of the new marketing millenium and built a less legitimate empire than his hero and study, Michael Moore.
Moore was legitimate about his passion for the people of Flint… he didn’t stoop to manufacturing an entire documentary… it was really happening. What could he edit?
When I was younger, I worked in a variety of restaurants, from the very posh, all the way down to McDonalds. By quite a long way, McDonalds has the highest standard of hygiene of any kitchen I ever worked in. You had to wash your hands more often than an OCD sufferer. The floors are mopped on a pretty much continuous basis . (I could tell you some hygiene based horror stories about the expensive restaurants).
Also, all of the food in McDonalds is time controlled, so make sure it is always at its best. e.g. when you start cooking a basket of fries, you start a timer which tells you when they are done. Then, a few minutes later, another timer goes off automatically, telling you to throw away any that haven’t been sold yet, as they are deemed past their best. It leads to a fair amount of waste, but you never get food that’s anything other than fresh.
I wouldn’t say I enjoyed working there, and I rarely eat their food these days, but they do have the food production line idea pretty much perfected.
Are you replying to someone? Cause some of this stuff seems like I’m only hearing one half of a conversation.
On the topic of Moore, he is well-known for editing his films to show things out of sequence, giving the impression that one event lead to another, or happened at the same time as another, when they often took place nowhere near each other in place or time.
Now, unless Moore had something to say about McDonalds, I’m sure we can drop that line of discussion here. :rolleyes:
I will second your opinion. I’m sure there are a few others who really like the taste of MCD’s. Otherwise how are they selling billions of the damn things?
I always get a good chuckle out of the fact that any time McD’s is mentioned, everyone swears they never, ever eat there because it’s just so terrible and gross and so much worse than every other place.
And yet McD’s somehow manages to sell billions of burgers around the globe every year.
Big mistake realized several hours later: “Three jalapeno cheeseburgers with extra onions, please.”