# You can "custom order" at McDonalds? You learn something new every day!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-custom-order-at-mcdonalds-you-learn-something-new-every-day/674405>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 21, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-custom-order-at-mcdonalds-you-learn-something-new-every-day/674405 "2013-11-21T03:30:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-custom-order-at-mcdonalds-you-learn-something-new-every-day/674405/121 "2013-12-03T17:33:49Z")

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> [@Spoons](#):
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> As their rebranded McCafes, they do, however, push lattes upon you. No, I want a Big Mac meal, with Coke to drink; with vinegar and salt for the fries.
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> I’d like McDonald’s to figure out who they are: a coffee joint or a fast-food joint.

They’re a fast-food joint that sells coffee, or anything else that they think is a hot seller (they also sell smoothies now, iirc). They’ve always tried to latch on to the latest hot trend, and often the detritous lingers on the menu after it passes - they didn’t always have all those chicken sandwiches, tenders, and nuggets, but KFC and Popeyes were hot for a minute and off they went. I also recall a brief flirtation with pizza and tacos/burritos.

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**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-custom-order-at-mcdonalds-you-learn-something-new-every-day/674405/122 "2013-12-03T17:53:39Z")

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A McPizza and a McTaco/McBurrito? Sounds intriguing to say the least.

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**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-custom-order-at-mcdonalds-you-learn-something-new-every-day/674405/123 "2013-12-03T18:42:02Z")

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> [@Kimballkid](#):
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> A McPizza and a McTaco/McBurrito? Sounds intriguing to say the least.

[Here’s a list](http://listverse.com/2009/05/30/top-10-failed-mcdonalds-products/)of failed attempts at menu expansion - pizza’s included. But Googling it, it looks like McDonalds briefly sold Taco Bell tacos/burritos in some areas, rather than had their own. Weird, but I never ordered one so I wouldn’t have noticed; I just recall seeing them on the menu.

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