# Why is the cheese on the cool side in the McDLT **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155 "2012-04-18T14:26:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/1 "2012-04-18T14:26:28Z")
it should be on the hot side so it melts onto the burger non-melted american cheese isn’t good ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/2 "2012-04-18T14:31:05Z")
Where the hell are you getting McDLTs?? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/3 "2012-04-18T14:32:10Z")
21 year old American cheese isn’t good regardless of its location. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/4 "2012-04-18T14:41:05Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > 21 year old American cheese isn’t good regardless of its location. Have you read the ingredients list? it probably would still be good. I keep mine next to the Twinkies. **ETA:** > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Where the hell are you getting McDLTs?? I think this is a thread posted by a zombie (rather than a zombie thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/5 "2012-04-18T14:48:15Z")
PSXer lives in 1989. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/6 "2012-04-18T14:50:39Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > PSXer lives in 1989. It took three days on 1989 dial-up to post the OP but it was worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/7 "2012-04-18T14:50:54Z")
Screw the McDLT. I’ll take wilty, warm, greasy lettuce any day. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/8 "2012-04-18T16:41:02Z")
I’d say by this time the burger has cooled off pretty thoroughly, so what’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/9 "2012-04-18T16:48:08Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Screw the McDLT. I’ll take wilty, warm, greasy lettuce any day. Stop. You’re making me horny. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/10 "2012-04-18T16:54:09Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Screw the McDLT. I’ll take wilty, warm, greasy lettuce any day. I’d hit it! ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/11 "2012-04-18T17:10:48Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I’d hit it! Yeah? Well, uhh… [I am](http://www.michigandaily.com/content/i-am-asian-campaign-elicits-mixed-reviews) [Asian](http://www.myinspirasian.com/html/english/index.html#/?slide=0)…? They have the Big N’ Tasty now, but I’m not sure that it is separated like the McDLT. I guess that zombie burger would only be a little over a year old. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/12 "2012-04-18T17:41:35Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It took three days on 1989 dial-up to post the OP but it was worth it. I think he saw an ad for the McDLT on one of his laserdisks. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/13 "2012-04-18T17:44:34Z")
No word from **PSXer** since he posted this morning. If he ate that burger I’m afraid his cool side is \* permanently\* cool. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/14 "2012-04-18T18:41:52Z")
I actually liked it that way for a simple reason: “Cheese” does not belong on a burger. It’s absolutely awful. Back when I ate fast food, a McDLT was the only premium burger I could order a McD’s without a special order for no cheese. Just order the McDLT and throw the yellow goo away. Melted on, like a Big Mac, you couldn’t get all the gunk off. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/15 "2012-04-18T19:19:15Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I actually liked it that way for a simple reason: “Cheese” does not belong on a burger. It’s absolutely awful. Back when I ate fast food, a McDLT was the only premium burger I could order a McD’s without a special order for no cheese. Just order the McDLT and throw the yellow goo away. Melted on, like a Big Mac, you couldn’t get all the gunk off. _Adds another name to the List of People Whose Opinion About Anything Can Be Safely Ignored_ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/16 "2012-04-18T19:22:39Z")
Cheese has its place on burgers, but what McDonald’s sells is not cheese. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/17 "2012-04-18T21:04:19Z")
I was watching the commercial with Jason Alexander ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/18 "2012-04-18T21:18:44Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > I was watching the commercial with Jason Alexander The one from the 80’s? So I’m guessing you do not need answer fast? But I agree with you the cheese should be warm and melty. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/19 "2012-04-18T21:38:12Z")
I loved those things. The cheese was just fine. If it was on the hot side it would have melted all down the side instead of getting soft and warm when it’s all put together. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155/20 "2012-04-18T21:54:11Z")
OP is 100% correct. The cheese will be melted just right if it’s put on the hot side. When it’s put on the cold side, by the time the burger is put together the burger has cooled too much to properly melt the cheese. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-cheese-on-the-cool-side-in-the-mcdlt/619155.md?page=2)