McDonald’s has never been my first choice for fast food. Nor is it my 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th choice. It is not because I don’t enjoy an occasional burger, fries, and a soft drink. I do. It isn’t because I cannot find a McDonald’s location. They are all over the globe. It isn’t because the food varies from location to location. While there are some food items that vary internationally, the food served at McDonald’s is the same across the United States and Canada.
I don’t like the food at McDonald’s that much. I will eat it in a pinch. I won’t tell stories that they serve up fried rat, because that would be untrue and unfair.
The food at McDonald’s tastes bland, boring, and flavorless. It is fattening and tastes like it has been prepackaged.
During the mid 1970’s a long playing television advertisement listed the ingredients of the Big Mac sandwich as follows: Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun. The beef patties are wafer thin, the special sauce is similar to Thousand Island dressing, and the remaining ingredients are finely chopped, refined, and prepackaged before they are ever put on a Big Mac.
A Big Mac doesn’t even come close to tasting fresh. Ditto for just about everything else on the McDonald’s menu. Competitors like Burger King, Carl’s Jr., Wendy’s, and Jack in the Box produce burgers that taste like burgers. All of them have bigger patties, fresher condiments, and none of them drown their burgers in special sauce that covers up the taste of everything else.
At McDonald’s the fries are greasy and bend easily. They are salted too heavily. Better fries can be found at Burger King or Jack in the Box.
What McDonald’s does well is to market their product to children. What child wouldn’t like a clown with red hair and a white and yellow stripe shirt? All of the other characters that appear with Ronald McDonald in the television commercials are much cuter than any of the Muppets that are seen in Sesame Street.
Of course a child’s taste in food cannot be compared to an adult’s pallet. Don’t even try to explain to a child anything about the value of good nutrition, it cannot be found at McDonald’s anyway. Most likely if McDonald’s stopped advertising to children, they would go out of business. It is because of children that most locations of McDonald’s have play areas. As long as the children keep coming back to McDonald’s to play, it is likely that they will eat there too.
On the positive side, McDonald’s usually keeps a clean shop.
Quality control is important to them, so it is likely that a clean restroom can be found for the convenience of the customer when nature calls.
ATMs are now found at most McDonald’s locations, although they all charge a user fee.
Along with the boring and tasteless food, a good (but not great) cup of coffee can be purchased at McDonald’s along with Coca-Cola products. Don’t ask for a Pepsi, you won’t get one.
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Sing along to the tune of ’’Lady Madonna’’ by The Beatles.
Ronald Mc Donald
Children at your feet
Wonder what you manage to pass for meat?
Who finds it funny
That your fries are bent?
Did you think that your fries should have that scent?
Friday night arrives a beef patty case
Sunday morning it sits in the sun.
Monday’s child eats it despite it’s odd taste
Gives him the runs!
Ronald McDonald
Serves up chicken breasts
What’s he do with the pieces that are left?
Cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck...
What’s in that bun?
Ronald McDonald
Frying chicken heads
Listen to the health department check for dead.
Tuesday afternoon’s old grease is blending
Wednesday morning’s new grease didn’t come
Thursday night’s deep fryer still needs tending
It’s filled with scum!
Ronald McDonald
Children at your feet
If Wendy’s had a clown they’d have you beat!