Would you queue for McDonalds?

[Fab Foodie]

For really dire food anyone else remember 'Wimpy' burgers, I think they came in a tin*.

* not when you're served one, I mean they arrived at the shop in tins and were then 'heated'

Wimpy Big 7 burgers were definitely frozen (as I suspect were all the others), there was a factory in NE London from memory....

 

[annedonnelly]

You can still get burgers in tins. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/268221800
Probably the same aisle as the Fray Bentos pies

 

[mudsticks]

Wimpy Big 7 burgers were definitely frozen (as I suspect were all the others), there was a factory in NE London from memory....

I remember going into the Wimpy bar in the centre of Bristol as a kid - and expecting to be wowed by all this amazing 'whopper' burger stuff - or whatever it was marketed as ..

And being thoroughly underwhelmed.

My only previous experience of eating out at a 'burger joint' had been at a genuinely brilliant home-made American burger place in the 'burbs' of same city, which was truly awesome / yummy / enormous / home cooked with all the great sides - and family run too.

But still even today - when we're supposedly far more 'sophisticated' consumers it would seem that marketing wins out, over substance again , and again and again..

 

[johnblack]

Our local McD's opened this morning just as I went to Starbucks which is nearby, no queues at either. Time to get the economy moving.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Our local McD's opened this morning just as I went to Starbucks which is nearby, no queues at either. Time to get the economy moving.

[Jumping on bandwaggon for comic effect alert] Well a Maccy D's certainly won't get your system moving [Jumping off bandwaggon]

 

[Drago]

When my eldest daughter was at Uni she worked at Mickey D's. She tells me they used to take their meal allowance across the road to Domino's Pizza and swap it for some tasty food instead.

 

[johnblack]

[Jumping on bandwaggon for comic effect alert] Well a Maccy D's certainly won't get your system moving [Jumping off bandwaggon]

Now if it was KFC I'm not sure I'd make the journey home, that stuff is pure industrial ex-lax.

 

[mudsticks]

At least we can go in for a 'Maccy wee' now though

 

[neil_merseyside]

At least we can go in for a 'Maccy wee' now though

Nope, only drive through open so far.

 

[carlosfandangus]

Our McDonalds opened as a drive through only at 11 today, the queue started at 07:30

 

[mudsticks]

Nope, only drive through open so far.

Dargnabit..

I hope all those ppl queueing in their cars have got pee bottles then..

Could get very stressful otherwise

 

[carlosfandangus]

Just been past, they have used the cycle lane as a queue, no right turn into the site, cones everywhere and McDonalds staff walking the queue wearing masks and hi viz, £25 spend limit, I wonder how long it will take to run out of supplies?

 

[mudsticks]

Just been past, they have used the cycle lane as a queue, no right turn into the site, cones everywhere and McDonalds staff walking the queue wearing masks and hi viz, £25 spend limit, I wonder how long it will take to run out of supplies?

There must be the human equivalent of catnip in their food.

A 'Happy Meal' does actually contain MDMA then??

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Nope, only drive through open so far.

Now there's an innovation I can get behind. Drive through lavs. Make it so!

 

[mudsticks]

Now there's an innovation I can get behind. Drive through lavs. Make it so!

Would that involve actually getting out of the car ??

Or is there some sort of waste collection suction system??