33 comments so far ↓

• 1 MissBella // Nov 6, 2009 at 9:27 am

  I’ve only been there like 3 times in my whole life, and only because I had no choice. My favorite thing to do is not go to McDonald’s

• 2 phil // Nov 6, 2009 at 9:27 am

  Two hamburgers with extra onions and pickles. A close runner up is the egg mcmuffin.

  In 1999 I ate everything on the menu (not on the same day) to write about it. I think Jake still has what I wrote, I’ll try to get it from him.

• 3 jon // Nov 6, 2009 at 9:39 am

  Big Mac’s are for real.

• 4 sarah // Nov 6, 2009 at 10:07 am

  #2: Quarter Pounder with cheese meal.

  Prior to 1997, it was a Happy Meal. Remember in the olden days when you had to pick “boy” or “girl” toy?

• 5 eddie k // Nov 6, 2009 at 10:22 am

  I never really had a favorite item but I remember really liking the Arch Deluxe.

• 6 jake // Nov 6, 2009 at 10:35 am

  The southwestern-style breakfast bagel sandwich, with a hash brown replacing the meat.

  Not that I will ever admit to or endorse eating at McDonald’s.

  @Phil: I might have a copy of that, or at least a hard copy.

• 7 Tiffany! // Nov 6, 2009 at 11:13 am

  Before college, I liked the McChickenDeluxe and this was the first thing I ate when I got out of my wisdom-teeth removal surgery, right before heading to a punk show. See how wise I was in my youth?
  In college, I deemed chicken both “expensive” and “kinda gross,” and thus became a piscivorous vegetarian. This was when they had 29cent hamburger and 39cent cheeseburger days. It was always shameful for my housemates to place a large order, requesting that 3 of the cheeseburgers come without the beef patty. Yeah, I really liked those mini onion bits that much!
  The sausage mcbiscuit was also awesome in my childhood remembrance.
  However, after a desperate move to eat at the only place open in a rural city in England, eating a filet of fish (pronounce fill-it- o- fesh), and getting the worst bout of food poisoning of my life, I have not been inside a mcdonalds since… That was April 2000.

• 8 Tiffany! // Nov 6, 2009 at 11:14 am

  @Phil. Shoot! I didn’t know you were a mcdonalds menunaire? Did you get a raise that year? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqvRTrznH_o

• 9 beth // Nov 6, 2009 at 11:21 am

  I was always a fan of the chicken mcnuggets with extra sweet & sour sauce as a kid…until I figured out just how bad they are.

• 10 ryanb // Nov 6, 2009 at 11:33 am

  Sausage McMuffin with cheese, and hash browns. I’ll hit up McD’s for breakfast if I’m up super early and driving somewhere a long distance away, it happens very rarely. I can’t remember the last time I got anything else but the above at McD’s.

• 11 jon // Nov 6, 2009 at 11:34 am

  The first time I ate a McDonald’s item (fillet-o-fish) after being a vegan for almost a decade was a surreal experience. It tasted strange and messed with my head for a several week to follow.

• 12 beth // Nov 6, 2009 at 11:40 am

  Can we talk about the McGriddle for a minute? Talk about messing with my head!

• 13 ching // Nov 6, 2009 at 11:43 am

  I love the McGriddle! In fact I had the sausage, egg and cheese McGriddle with the hash brown. The hash brown is damn good!

• 14 beth // Nov 6, 2009 at 11:50 am

  The McGriddle’s pancakey-bun upsets me

• 15 jon // Nov 6, 2009 at 11:54 am

  I had a McGriddle last week. It really solved the whole Pancake Sweet or Sausage Savory b-fast problem.

• 16 Tiffany! // Nov 6, 2009 at 12:02 pm

  @Beth> the pancakey bun is in no way as upsetting as the “rib-shaped meat” in the mcRib

• 17 ryanb // Nov 6, 2009 at 12:24 pm

  Sorry Ching, but the McGriddle is f’ing nasty.

• 18 phil // Nov 6, 2009 at 12:35 pm

  http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/07/the_neuroscience_of_mcgriddles.php

  The Mcgriddle is really impressive as a feat of engineering. Making a good artificial maple syrup that can actually be infused into a solid bun so you can enjoy maple syrup while driving with no fear of mess. They say that 1/5 of all meals in America are eaten in cars now, so that’s why the newer fast food items can all be eaten with one hand

• 19 beth // Nov 6, 2009 at 12:46 pm

  @phil That was a pretty cool post, although I don’t agree with the author’s claim that the McGriddle is good.

  Doesn’t the McG have “blueberries” in the pancakey-thing? I’m pretty sure the one I ate (back in Sacramento in 2004 or 2005) did and that is what really turned me off of it.

• 20 jon // Nov 6, 2009 at 12:55 pm

  No blueberries in the one I had.

• 21 beth // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:06 pm

  @jon after some research, I see that there aren’t blueberries in the pancake-bread, there are, however, little spots…which I prob thought were berries. Or maybe they were trying different things out back when they first released the McGriddle? The world may never know.

• 22 Tiffany! // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:16 pm

  Hello?! Meat SHAPED to look like meat. Is no one else bothered by this?

• 23 jon // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:23 pm

  @Tiffany I think meat shaped like meat is more honest than meat shaped like fruit or veggies. Can I interest you in an apple steak?

• 24 ching // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:27 pm

  @ Tiffany I don’t think meat shaped to look like meat is worse than veggie meat shaped to look like meat.

• 25 ching // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:27 pm

  wow i didn’t think the mcdonald’s post would be so popular!

• 26 Stace // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:42 pm

  I worked at one that Jake should visit on his next pass through Rock Springs. I worked there for something like almost 2 years.

  Anyway, I ate there a lot but tried to balance what I was eating. Usually the crispy or grilled chicken sandwich with extra tomato. Or McShaker salad (I loved those, I’d make them special for me), fries and a Fruit & Yogurt and sundae. Now, I usually get two cheeseburgers with extra catsup (#2 meal) and if really hungry add a McChicken.

  For breakfast, hash browns and english muffins or a bagel when they were doing that. The liquid eggs gave me a rash so I never dared eat them.

  I have learned that you can fry cheese and if you put a tortilla for the breakfast burritos through the bun toaster it will end in FIRE.

  Oh yeah, and if you’re one of those who don’t eat anything but fish on Fridays during that one time of the year, probably don’t want to eat the fish filet. It’s fried in the same fryer as the chicken products. And their fry oil contains beef flavoring, so ha! I told that to someone who did that and they freaked but maybe they’re just weird.

• 27 beth // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:53 pm

  @Stace I wouldn’t be surprised if the air they pumped through the HVAC vents contained added beef flavoring.

• 28 phil // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:54 pm

  It’s funny nobody answered “the Mcdonaldland cookies”

• 29 Stace // Nov 6, 2009 at 3:25 pm

  @Beth This is also true at least McD’s does NOT smell like a White Castle.

  Ooooh, we use to have these Custard pies at holiday time. We ‘ruined’ so many of them so we could eat them that we all got in trouble. Didn’t really stop us though. They were amazing.

• 30 tarbot // Nov 6, 2009 at 3:31 pm

  fried apple pie. duh

  the McDonald cookies are pretty good too. and soft serve ice cream

  double mcfish sandwich if i have to eat a meal there. the double mcfish wrap is nasty

• 31 MilleTent // Nov 8, 2009 at 10:58 am

  I am all over the french fries. Every now and then I will get an order of the chicken mcnuggets. Something about mechanically formed nuggets excites me. My favorite piece the one shaped like Italy. It nevers fails I always get Italy when I order nuggets.

• 32 phil // Nov 16, 2009 at 3:34 pm

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEKZ84N_eDY

• 33 jason // Nov 16, 2009 at 11:19 pm

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqnQYq3BQ0k

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