McDonald’s general discussion

I don’t mind a McD. I never go inside or through the drive through but park up and order through the app.

Can’t say I’ve had a bad one for years. The local one is always reasonably quick, the food comes out hot and it’s McDonald’s, you know exactly what you’re going to get.

Chicken Selects are decent, I’m quite happy with a quarter pounder/cheese, customised to remove the pickle. I never bother with fries or a drink.

Breakfast is also OK. Double sausage and egg. But I was sad when they first scrapped the Big Breakfast and then the Breakfast Wrap.
 
Feek said:
I don’t mind a McD. I never go inside or through the drive through but park up and order through the app.

Can’t say I’ve had a bad one for years. The local one is always reasonably quick, the food comes out hot and it’s McDonald’s, you know exactly what you’re going to get.

Chicken Selects are decent, I’m quite happy with a quarter pounder/cheese, customised to remove the pickle. I never bother with fries or a drink.

Breakfast is also OK. Double sausage and egg. But I was sad when they first scrapped the Big Breakfast and then the Breakfast Wrap.
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The big breakfast was top drawer, absolutely gutted when they dropped that. I don’t know why they did.
 
The big problem with McDs - they opened a new 24x7 drive through one near one of the sites I work - and now late at night you get a load of bored, sometimes drunk, yobs gathered in the area causing a nuisance.
 
Feek said:
I don’t mind a McD. I never go inside or through the drive through but park up and order through the app.

Can’t say I’ve had a bad one for years. The local one is always reasonably quick, the food comes out hot and it’s McDonald’s, you know exactly what you’re going to get.

Chicken Selects are decent, I’m quite happy with a quarter pounder/cheese, customised to remove the pickle. I never bother with fries or a drink.

Breakfast is also OK. Double sausage and egg. But I was sad when they first scrapped the Big Breakfast and then the Breakfast Wrap.
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I'm not really fan either but I will admit that Chicken Selects are actually decent. If i go I never get a burger just the selects.
 
Brazo said:
There is nothing ‘fast’ about McDonald’s. It’s literally epitomising the slow food movement. I’ve grown old waiting for their food whilst parked up at the request of their drive through queue. Following an epic 45 min wait a few weeks back I actually refused to park up the other day and the very first thing they did was threaten to call the Police on me. I enquired if I’d broken any criminal laws whilst awaiting the food I’d paid for, which did shut them up to be fair… but it’s probably the last time I’ll visit that Maccies as it just takes too long to get fed.
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45 minutes? Honestly?

I cannot think of a time where I've had to wait more than a few minutes, certainly less than ten.
 
I've never waited more than 20 minutes at a McDonald's, and I've been to many all over the country. The 20 minute wait was in a drive-through with a decent queue that moved fairly slowly.

On average, I'd say it's about 5 minutes from ordering to getting your food.
 
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robfosters said:
Ok, if you’re on your own, you’re not buying a bbq, mince, buns, salad, cheese and sauce for 33% of the price of a Maccies burger.

secondly, McDonald’s is fast food. It’s what people want to eat at 10 o’clock at night. They don’t want to be making burgers and barbecuing in the dark while full of beer.

Nit everybody likes doing all that from scratch anyway.
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True words. We all love a proper homemade burger and they are better but sometimes you're tired or in a rush. How can anyone not see that. It is a lottery though with how hot the food is. Technically you can send it back but you don't want to be annoying to the staff.
 
keef247 said:
BK or GTFO
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I find that BK isn't as consistent as McDonald's. They recently opened a new one around here and the last burger I had from them was a sloppy mess that clearly hadn't been properly prepared or heated/cooked.

The best ones seem to be at the service stations. XL bacon double cheese from BK slaughters anything from McDonald's though when done right.
 
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keef247 said:
BK or GTFO
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I used to be on BKs nuts but when they changed their chips a few years back it killed them for me. They used to have the best burgers and best chips in the game. Now they have better burgers but awful chips plus a higher price. The XL Bacon double cheeseburger is legendary but I think McDonalds have shown that when they want to do a serious burger (bring back the signature bbq) they can hang with the best of them.

Plus they have the Apple Pie.
 
Ayahuasca said:
I find that BK isn't as consistent as McDonald's. They recently opened a new one around here and the last burger I had from them was a sloppy mess that clearly hadn't been properly prepared or heated/cooked.

The best ones seem to be at the service stations. XL bacon double cheese from BK slaughters anything from McDonald's though when done right.
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Yeah I don't really do fast food so it's maybe once or twice a year on a road trip with a mate, so always a service station session. Triple whopper with bacon and cheese xl meal added and all teh onion rings!
The only issue I've had is when I ask for no salad and they leave it in there, which is fine as I eat half of it and then take it back and kick off and say I'll put it in the bin, eat the rest of it then warm up the replacement for dinner like a scumbag ;):D

TBH though like @BUDFORCE I prefer to make my own for the same or less price than a maccers.

BK isn't 'that' much more than a maccers and you actually get a decent size portion and not a load of rubber and bad guts half hour later...
 
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I am partial to a McD's occasionaly, but I almost bought some on the app the other day to pick up at drive-thru...
Is it me or has it gotten really expensive for what you get? My local chippy and pizza/kebab place is far better value.

Best part of 7 quid for a single quarterpounder with cheese regular meal, reg fries and reg drink..

£4.49 for 6 chicken nuggets on thier own? I can buy 50 frozen nuggets from Morrisons for £4.45....

My local takeaway which is pretty decent only charge £5.30 for ten nuggets and chips.... and it's litteraly a 30 second wallk from my house.

Think I'm pretty much done With McD's now... and BK, although BK burgers are better teh rest of the menu is crud.

The idea of it is nice but it's expensive, and it's somehow never a very satisfying feed.

I do like a KFC zinger tower box meal though, very nice, but also, pretty pricey for what you get.
 
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Can't see their Xmas advert where the parents walk out of their childrens school xmas music event to get at McDonalds -
but was the best advert I've seen, everything else has been unmemorable
 
mattyfez said:
I am partial to a McD's occasionaly, but I almost bought some on the app the other day to pick up at drive-thru...
Is it me or has it gotten really expensive for what you get? My local chippy and pizza/kebab place is far better value.

Best part of 7 quid for a single quarterpounder with cheese regular meal, reg fries and reg drink..

£4.49 for 6 chicken nuggets on thier own? I can buy 50 frozen nuggets from Morrisons for £4.45....

My local takeaway which is pretty decent only charge £5.30 for ten nuggets and chips.... and it's litteraly a 30 second wallk from my house.

Think I'm pretty much done With McD's now... and BK, although BK burgers are better teh rest of the menu is crud.

The idea of it is nice but it's expensive, and it's somehow never a very satisfying feed.

I do like a KFC zinger tower box meal though, very nice, but also, pretty pricey for what you get.
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A large fries at Five Guys is £6.15!!! I know it's not a cheap place to begin with but come on! That's robbery.
 
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Lopéz said:
I think, certainly as far as burgers and fries goes, everything at McDonald's is prepared fresh.

They haven't had the "grab one off the rack" setup for years, at least not in the UK.
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You'll be lucky if anything other than the bun is cooked fresh when you order. They have gone from cooking 9 cheeseburgers and then wrapping and keeping them in the front bins to be quickly taken for 10 mins, to cooking and holding that burger patty in a warming drawer for upto 20 minutes before it is then used to make your burger when you order it.

The reason it is slow is they now make one order at a time rather than actually batch making end products.
 
Lopéz said:
I think, certainly as far as burgers and fries goes, everything at McDonald's is prepared fresh.

They haven't had the "grab one off the rack" setup for years, at least not in the UK.
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If that was the case my guts wouldn't hurt half hour-hour after eating any form of Maccers, which I do not get from any other fast food, so there's no way it's 'real food' or fresh. THE only time I can get it fresh/burning me is if I ask for stuff without the salad and they seem to make it fresh then, but it still makes my stomach misbehave half hour-hour later everytime without fail...
 
keef247 said:
If that was the case my guts wouldn't hurt half hour-hour after eating any form of Maccers, which I do not get from any other fast food, so there's no way it's 'real food' or fresh. THE only time I can get it fresh/burning me is if I ask for stuff without the salad and they seem to make it fresh then, but it still makes my stomach misbehave half hour-hour later everytime without fail...
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I must admit, as much as I like it, it does quite often give me the two bob bits
 
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