TommyyommyT:

I once ordered a 1/4-pounder with cheese one stoned night and requested their hot fudge be included, as I imagined it would be quite tasty at the time. Needless to say, they gave me one of the sundae lids full of hot fudge on the side instead, but I opened the burger there on the counter and let 'er pour. Long story short - they shook their heads and I thoroughly enjoyed every last bite of that thing.

There ought to be some kind of double or triple deep fried product.

You take something (doesn't matter what really), dip it in breading, then deep fry it. After that, you dip it in more breading and deep fry it some more. Keep doing that until it's big enough. Mmmmmm....

The hamburger buns have so much sugar in them that they don't toast, they carmelize. I think some executive said "McMuffins need more sugar" and this was the response. One of these things, without hashbrowns, is twice an Adkins dailey allotment of carbs.

I hadn't heard of them before today. Guy at the office lunchtable said something about 'mc riddle' and I burst out laughing while everyone stared at me. Thought he was making some kind of mystery food reference.

I shamefully admit that I like the quarter pounder with cheese, and an occasional bacon egg and cheese biscuit, as I believe that's just about the only 2 normal food items on the menu not including salads or anything.

phriedom, you read my mind, man... although after eating one, I have to admit that they're oddly tempting, even AFTER reading that article. I'm a sad, sick woman.

OIC

2003-07-03 07:27:57 PM Alamar
If you think McGriddles are bad, you might want to get the rest of the story...
http://www.fsbassociates.com/hmco/fastfoodnation.htm
It's currently the #2 New York Times bestselling paperback non-fiction.

I read fastfood nation a while back and thought it was total crap. He biatches about the fastfood industry for hundreds of pages and how it's making everyone unhealthy but I couldn't help thinking through the wholet thing, "These people are not forced to buy this junk."

Sorry bout that ^

Anyways, McGriddles will probably bomb because Americans won't know what the hell "Bizarre" means.

Anyways, McGriddles will probably bomb because Americans won't know what the hell "Bizarre" means.

Well, I for one, know what bizarre means. I can't, however, for the life of me, figure out what the hell you're talking about.

Don't bother me, I'm eating.

Meh.

I prefer to spread around my daily recommended allowence of salt and fat to more than just one little sandwich: Three full meals is nice (six little meals is better).

i like them

I have eaten some really bad things for breakfast before.

Eight Krispy Kremes? No problem.

Half a large 2-day old pizza, straight out of the refrigerator, cold. Hell yeah!

I even like McDonalds "steak" egg and cheese bagel. Sure it's only a half-step above hamburger meat, and the fried onions they put on it appear to have been cooked in Valvoline 10W-30. Gimme 2 of them, a couple of Ass Ammo Packs (breakfast burritos) and a half-dozen hash browns.

But the McGriddle? Not again, thanks... I opted for the sausage, egg and cheese McGriddle. I guess I could best describe it as this: eating it is much like eating a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit with one difference. Every time you take a bite of the biscuit sandwich, chew it a little then suck about an ounce out of a bottle of Log Cabin syrup. Repeat until finished. The McGriddle eliminates the need to suck the bottle of syrup...

They wouldnt be all that bad if it wasnt for the 'maple' in the pancakes. It gives it a fake disgusting maple flavor.

Should of called it the McCardiacSurprise

It sounded reallllly tasty to me, so I finally got one a few weeks ago.

One bite.

Here, hon, you want this?

ugh, I couldn't handle mixture.

I used to live in Evansville, Indiana, which for some reason is McDonald's biggest test market. I remember the McPizza, Bratwurst, Chicken Wraps, Buffalo Chicken Strips, and many other failed attempts to attract customers. The one thing they did right which didn't roll out on a national level was the experiment that let you choose your own sides for the value meals. Now all the McDonald's there are the "diner" concept with table service. Talk about grasping at straws.

just eat it you nerds. it aint as bad for you as going hungry! :-D

I had one a couple of weeks ago. Wretched...just another way to get people to eat more corn syrup (that sure ain't maple).

This is right at the bottom of the fast food pantheon...and yet another reminder that

LIFE'S TOO SHORT TO EAT AT MCDONALD'S!!!

...and why did I forget that a couple of Saturdays ago?

Openfire just kill yourself you dolt
it aint as bad as being murdered! :-P

rp1973 - Hey, a fellow former Evansvillean. The main thing I miss about that town was the Sir Beef on Green River Road - the best damn roast beef sandwich on the planet.

Okay, probably a stupid question, but how do you eat that McRib thing without cracking a tooth on the bones? Some sort of processed meat that has the illusion of a rack of short ribs?

These things need to be covered in powdered sugar so they can be called "New Orleans-style McBeignets"

~ Pinky ~

Why did you have to bring up Sir Beef? Now I'm trying to figure out a way to get my paws on one of those baked potatoes the size of a small boulder smothered in cheese and topped with tender morsels of steamed roast beef. The only drawback about Sir Beef is that it looks like everyone that works there is on loan from the carnival.

The "3" stands for the number of bypass operations you'll need after a steady diet of these.

/mmm...bypass

LineNoise: I have to say, I have a soft spot (soon to be clogged) spot in my heart for these things.

LOL!

"Ahhh, now I'm missing the old McRib "sammich" that they tested here in New Jersey back in the late 80s/early 90s."

I've seen the McRib available off and on in New Mexico, Utah, and California since the early '90s. I haven't seen one lately, though.

"Okay, probably a stupid question, but how do you eat that McRib thing without cracking a tooth on the bones? Some sort of processed meat that has the illusion of a rack of short ribs?"


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Whoa! This thing from the UK makes the McGriddle look like something from the lo-cal menu.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ourfood/asp/FF_breakfastbun.asp

I worked at Hardee's for a couple months a while back, and I gotta say that the bacon there was a bit of a strange issue. It was some sort of precooked stuff and we put it in the warmer for an hour or so until it was ready or we microwaved it if there wasn't time. Of course it wasn't fresh, it still tasted sorta ok, but nothing like fresh bacon. I always insisted that it be done because of how much I HATE leathery undercooked bacon. Some of the people working there would throw about anything on a sandwich. Or then it'd sit in the warmer for hours and get dried out so when you put it on a sandwich it would just break into little bits, and of course then it was dry it didn't have any flavor to speak of anymore. That's part of the problem with fast food though, half the people making it don't care if it tastes good and you can't have someone watching them just to make sure it's made right. So you end up with wide ranging quality from restaurant to restaurant. With some of them the managers make a real effort to make sure the food is good and others don't give a rat's rear end.
Maybe that's why I haven't eaten fast food in almost two months - and it saves money and your health at the same time.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ourfood/asp/FF_breakfastbun.asp


good god WHAT THE fark IS THE BROWN SAUCE?!?

M.E.B.

I dunno if i'm the first to point this out, but the "f-" word is in the article..mods or whoever the hell does that stuff, you might wanna add a (NSFW) tag next to the headline. Just a suggestion..

the McGriddle is simply amazing - they test marketed it in Houston and it was the only reason I've been in a Mickey D's after a 8 year hiatus. They are unfreaking believably good and when I need a heart attack fix in the morning they are right up there with the ranchero from Kolache factory..


mmmmmm breakfast..

Abdul: Either he fixed it recently, or you're just incapable of reading, because it now says "1270 MG," which is quite reasonable. However, the thought of 1270 G of sodium in anything but a bucket is pretty amusing.

Nice to see that my mocking him lead to a rectification of the situation.

Fnord: Ahh, I've corrected the mistake...

FAT: 33 oz.
SATURATED FAT: 11 oz.
SODIUM: 1290 oz.
CHOLESTEROL: 260 oz.
CARBOHYDRATES: 43 oz.

Seems OK to me... on a side note, how much, in grams, is an ounce? Is there a difference between American ounces and English ones?

/curious

The pick your own sides value meals arent nationwide? They do that here in Austin and have for some time. The McRib was here a few months ago too. Might still be...havent been by mcD's in awhile.

Numchuckbiatch

I dunno if i'm the first to point this out, but the "f-" word is in the article..mods or whoever the hell does that stuff, you might wanna add a (NSFW) tag next to the headline. Just a suggestion..

You have gotta be shiatting me ?!? please tell us you are fvcking kidding !

I worked in a McD's back in '88 when the McRib first came out. They were pretty good sized, and the pickes and onions were pretty big too. The last time I had one they were about 1/2 the size of the original.. I felt pretty gyped. Now I just use my Forman grill to roll my own.

aquigley
Is that pic of a tranny? She sure does look like a guy to me... *yikes*

Proud to say that it's been about 2 years since I've pumped my money into any fast food. Sad to say that all that money I've saved has gone straight to the booze industry. :(

They're pretty good.

All I can say is that McDonald's has advanced my 'fast-food' cooking skills so much that my wife is delighted.

See, we don't like to spend much money on 'fast food' breakfasts, and my wife doesn't like to awaken early to cook for her loving, supporting, working-at-a-job-that-is-mind-numbing husband...

So, in self-defense, I've taken to copying McDonald's breakfast sandwiches. I've mastered the 'Bacon/Egg/Cheese McMuffin or Biscuit. But the McGriddle...?

Mixing maple syrup into the batter means it burns easily. I suspect that McDonald's is using some sort of artificial maple syrup in the McGriddle. I'm still working on a home version. I like the McGriddle, just don't like to pay for something I can probably cook at home. (and do a better job.)

I'm boycotting Mickey until he brings back the deep fried cherry pie with the 900 degree lava center. I like my fast food eminently injurious as well as fattening. The psychic tension hightens the delight of self abuse.

"I'm practically a girl"

LOL!

I'm practically confused!
These McGriddles are preactically edible!

McRib, I'm sure that somewhere onnthe interstate there is a freezertruck driving around with theses (since the 70's). They've been introduced and reintroduced every couple of years.

jjorsett, considering I go to bed when they start serving breakfast... I can't have one even if I wanted one. O-o

Besides, breakfast food is evil.

"And this other time, I made breakfast out of cold pizza and half-and-half..."