The Non-Jazz NBA Thread in the Jazz Section

[gandalfe]

My beef with McDonald’s is always when they’re trying to be something they’re not or try to capture a market that won’t consume their food, only to alienate their base. It’s not healthy food, stop trying. If I wanted something healthy, I ain’t going to McDonald’s no matter how hard they try. Also don’t try to be fancy. Again, if I want fancy, it’s not McDonald’s. What they need to do is just make sure that what they do is actually done. That’s it. i.e. don’t screw up the order, work on freshness, timeliness, actually filling the fry box, and not trying to sell me on healthy and fancy.

It seems to me that that's mostly what they've tried to do since the pandemic. Yeah, they still have some "fancy" items (I tried a latte from McD's once. UGH.) but it's mostly just "Pick your burger, what size fries? OK, GTFO."

 

[kabenac]

I've always been a fan of De'Aaron Fox and it's wild to see him go from being a good player to a great one. Dude is shooting 49% from the field and 30+ PPG all while having a nice assist to turnover ratio.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

A McDonalds "Value Meal" is like 14 dollars. Know your place in the fast food order of things. If McDonalds isn't the cheap option, what is the point? I don't want your five dollar shake in a plastic Starbucks cup. I want the old cheap shake made from something probably non-dairy in the paper cup. Literally every thing you are supposed to be good at I can get from In N, Out and it is 5 times better at 60% of their price point.

If you find yourself at Burger King, the only move is the onion rings with the "angry sauce" and the classic Chicken sandwich ( the oblong one that they cut in half.)

Thus endeth my TED talk. . .

Sodas and fries at McDonald’s are the best in the world. Their breakfast is awesome. If you want cheap and fast burger it’s fine. In n out is awesome but sometimes the lines are too long and their fries are trash.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

My beef with McDonald’s is always when they’re trying to be something they’re not or try to capture a market that won’t consume their food, only to alienate their base. It’s not healthy food, stop trying. If I wanted something healthy, I ain’t going to McDonald’s no matter how hard they try. Also don’t try to be fancy. Again, if I want fancy, it’s not McDonald’s. What they need to do is just make sure that what they do is actually done. That’s it. i.e. don’t screw up the order, work on freshness, timeliness, actually filling the fry box, and not trying to sell me on healthy and fancy.

They have a new spinoff coming that will be similar to Dutch Bros. I think it might actually work well. I think this is generally correct though. The only thing McDonald’s sucks at is making sure the ice cream machine works.

 

[Fosto]

Sodas and fries at McDonald’s are the best in the world. Their breakfast is awesome. If you want cheap and fast burger it’s fine. In n out is awesome but sometimes the lines are too long and their fries are trash.

I didn't even know there was a soda machine ranking.

 

[infection]

I didn't even know there was a soda machine ranking.

There’s actually a certain way that the Coke products are mixed at McDonald’s (forget what, I’m sure you could find it on a google search) that they had an exclusive agreement with Coke that no other restaurants could mix them that way. It is true that their sodas are better, but while that was a staple of my McDonald’s consumption in the past, I haven’t been drinking sodas for about 20 years, so I no longer have a dog in the fight.

 

[Fosto]

There’s actually a certain way that the Coke products are mixed at McDonald’s (forget what, I’m sure you could find it on a google search) that they had an exclusive agreement with Coke that no other restaurants could mix them that way. It is true that their sodas are better, but while that was a staple of my McDonald’s consumption in the past, I haven’t been drinking sodas for about 20 years, so I no longer have a dog in the fight.

I see. That's interesting. But I'm like you, having stopped drinking soda a couple of decades ago.

 

[str8line]

I love the Whopper. Sue me.

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[infection]

I love the Whopper. Sue me.

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There’s something in the mayonnaise that gets me. It’s great. I load that thing up with lots of ketchup.

Also, it’s interesting how there are some things that I have a preference for how they are. It was really like 1996 when BK bought all the old Hardee’s (before they were a Carl’s Jr.) in Utah that I’d eat their 2 Whoppers for $2. That’s when I really started eating burgers and I didn’t start with cheese burgers, so my experience with the Whopper has always been without cheese. Right now cheese is my default, but for things like the Whopper or the Famous Star, I don’t like the taste of them with cheese, only because the conceptualization I have of those sandwiches started without cheese. I’ve tried to figure it out but I can’t.

 

[infection]

They have a new spinoff coming that will be similar to Dutch Bros. I think it might actually work well. I think this is generally correct though. The only thing McDonald’s sucks at is making sure the ice cream machine works.

Yeah, I saw that they’re about to open the first one in Illinois. Hopefully they can take all their dumb adult/healthy ideas and ruin that restaurant instead of the main one.

 

[framer]

There’s actually a certain way that the Coke products are mixed at McDonald’s (forget what, I’m sure you could find it on a google search) that they had an exclusive agreement with Coke that no other restaurants could mix them that way. It is true that their sodas are better, but while that was a staple of my McDonald’s consumption in the past, I haven’t been drinking sodas for about 20 years, so I no longer have a dog in the fight.

It's because they refrigerate their syrup so the whole drink is colder and more refreshing. Seriously though they need to bring back that orange drink they had back in the day. Also when I go in, I don't want the high counter no one cleans. I want the saddle chairs and the metal cheeseburger guy slide that fries my *** as I go down it in the summer.

 

[HermanG]

McDonald’s gets too much crap because there’s a societal expectation to treat it as such. I’d be curious if you could truly unbiased people, like if you had a parallel world that doesn’t have McDonald’s and you introduce it, what people actually say. I also think it’s funny when people try to compare it to other burger places or say they aren’t burgers, to me it’s like people saying Taco Bell isn’t Mexican. I never eat at Taco Bell when I’m craving Mexican, and I don’t eat at McDonald’s when I’m craving a genuine burger. I eat there when I’m craving McDonald’s.

This is actually the opposite of why we love it and why its sometimes such a conrtoversial topic to debate what is the best fast food restaurant.

I love McDonalds and get the craving for Big Mac specifically every once in a while and dont really enjoy eating at other fast food chains. But I'm also perfectly aware that it likely has more to do with my (late) childhood experiences, teenage/early adulthood tendencies and standards I have set long ago than some massive difference in the quality of food. This is also why some people are exactly the opposite, and love BK or some other fast food place and dont like McD.

So in general terms, I'm biased towards McDonalds, and I'm loving it.