McDonalds

What you guys think about McDonalds?

I never eat there.

It taste as shit hehe, and well

Anyone saw supersize me.

I believe mcdonalds would pretty much not care for their cistomers health if not sued :meh:

Thats a big enough reason to not eat there alone imo, + it taste bad+ the athmosphere there is so sucky, at least the one we have here in fredrikstad

McDonalds sucks, I went in there for a vegetarian quorn burger once, but they didn’t have ANY vegetarian stuff at all (milkshakes probably have blood of pigs in or something disgusting like that) and they offered me… a BURGER BUN with some CRAPPY PROCESSED ‘CHEESE’ SLICES. What the ****?! I could make a better cheese sandwich at home, thanks. They just suck, they… yeah they just suck. Anyone seen the episode of My Name Is Earl where Earl has to work at a fast food, erm, (for restaurant is too fancy a word for such places), shop? That is good.

Plus, the whole happy meal thing sucks, the toys are a load of crap! You could have more fun with an empty CD case.

I’m vegan, so no crappy food like that for me :smile: .

I haven’t eaten at McDonalds for years now. I don’t mind eating burgers and other fast food stuff every once in a while, but I don’t eat it at McDonalds, I rather just make some burgers and chips at home.

I do like their crispy chicken sandwhiches with a large fries. :smile:
Love the fries.

Didn’t the guy in Supersize me
EAT THERE EVERY DAY No matter what restaurant (good or otherwise) you will get fat if you eat there every day. 3 times a day. (Unless you eat Jarod proportions)

I go to fast food about 1 every 2 weeks.

I don’t like McDonalds anymore. Besides I’m trying to be more healthy, instead I go to SUBWAY!! YAY!! MMMMM I love subs :smile:

Mc Donalds… Snackbar… all the same. You have to descide for yourself what you want to eat. I go to the mac sometimes but I like an ordinary Snackbar better. But I don’'t blame Mc Donalds for anything… I think that’s stupid you can start blame all bad food producers then.

Haven’t eaten there since I was 5 and it was only to get the toy in the Happy Meal: Children’s menu.

The point is that lots of people get so addicted to McDonalds that they do EAT THERE EVERY DAY!!!

Well.

It’s not that dangerous if you don’t eat there every day, true.

Just a little “snack” for the vegans out there :

I kind of hate mcdonalds.

  • It’s standarized. Everywhere the same. If I wanna go to Italia, theres a Mcdonalds there. And so on. And so on. I’d rather see smalled restaurants, even local fast food shops. Therefore, why use it here?

  • It’s among the number 1. out of all those “big money” businesses around. They wanna make a profit. Period. Dirty tricks, whatever. That’s one thing I really dislike, even in smaller scale.

  • They try to pay their employees as little as possible. Therefore they employ youths, handicapped people, people that generally of some reason can do with lower wages, etc.

Allright, it’s allright for people to eat there, some people don’t gain weight no matter what, but know this;

It fills your blood veins with ■■■■, with fats and especially the transfat they said they removed, but didn’t.

You burn a lot of energy atm. Most young people do, actually, or people that trains. Training > eating habits. But,., when you lose that “ability”,…,

And guys, if treated moderately, all food is allright. If i had willpower I could eat chocolate only in modest amounts and loose weight. The trouble is: It doesnt fill the stommick as much/Kj as other stuff ,…,.,.,.,.,

Mcdonald’s suck, they way they need to put some sort of animal fat or animal whatever in EVERYTHING they make. They just suck.

Yeah, I agree–McDonald’s is pretty bad. Adding to the things you guys mentioned:

  • Their menu is mediocre at best–there’s really nothing new, no real variety. Plus, their food seems unceremoniously thrown together–nothing like what they advertise :yuck:
  • Customer service sucks–they’ll hire anybody to work there. And most of the time they end up getting your order wrong, then act like a**holes when you tell 'em :roll:
  • They’re on every, freakin’ corner! It’s almost like that Flinstones cartoon, where they use the same three houses in the background for every scene–all I see is Wal-Mart, K-Mart, McDonald’s…Wal-Mart, K-Mart, McDonald’s. And you know, in those Wal-Marts and K-Marts…yep, there’s a McDonald’s. There’s three of 'em here where I live in Shinkuju, all clumped together :nuu:

Personally, I’d rather just cook my own food (tastes better and I at least know what the hell is in it). If I ever do go out, it’s to a small restaurant (and they really have the best food). If I do get fast food, though, I’ll bypass Mickey D’s for something like Carl’s Jr. or Jack-In-The-Box (though, I’d much rather prefer a Papa John’s or Pizza Hut) :grin:

and just to add some more…

1- I know 3 people who have worked for some time at McDonald’s here in Italy : no matter what they would NEVER eat there… One of them once told me a story about his first day of that job and I never ate there any more too… if I saw that with my own eyes i would have thought of a dreamsign

2- Those places smell like fat, but not like the right kind of fat stuff… It’s more like medicines and fries boiled in motor oil

I HATE the cheeseburgers, but i gotta hand it to em. they make damn goof fries

I hate eating there, makes me feel unhealthy.

I don’t like the message in general

But i can’t give up taco bell.

Amen to that JR :ok:

The chalupas are to die for (literally when you think about it in the long-run :wink:)

McDonald’s seems to be, as I see it, a weird crazy bad–taste joke. (No pun intended. :tongue:) I mean, you have get in a waiting line in order to waste more than you should need to at some completely standardized, odd–tasting meal. Then you sit at an uncomfortable chair, listening to unsettlingly fast–paced music that gets you anxious as you eat your questionable looking food as fast as you possibly can. And when you’re finished, instead of being able to just leave the tray in the table and getting out, you have to clean it and dump cardbox paper and plastic sachets which could have been recycled instead; and if you don’t, people will stare at you and you’ll feel guilty for not leaving the seat clean for the next customer.

In other words, it’s expensive, it tastes ridiculous and it sucks.

But wait, there’s more! :cool_laugh: Lets look closer into McDonald’s now, shall we?

What about it’s jobs. They don’t offer people any perspective, do they? It’s not like you start working there expecting to build a beautiful career out of it. In fact, if you ever work at McDonald’s, it’s because you desperately need some bucks. That drives people of generally lower classes to those jobs, which creates a whole stigma around it. Moreover, it seems that McDonald’s, knowing their jobs suck and are one of those “the last resource” things, exploit the poor people. What I’m trying to get through here is that they brainwash their workers and, think about it, their customers too.

Everything around McDonald’s seems to be one big ritual. There are plethora of sociology books about it (a very good one, in Portuguese, is O Nome da Marca, an in–depth sociological study on branding which uses McDonald’s as a study case). You get in, you join the line, you wait. You say a couple of numbers. The person in the other side of the bar, with some tokens stickers in their worker card, will make you the very same questions they will ever make. You reply automatically. You move one step to the left, hand them the money, get the change, wait. You get your tray, walk, sit, eat as fast as a hungry salvage pig, you dump your trash and leave. And you, for some reason, should feel happy about it: the lack of variety in situations, in food, in ambient. Everything’s the same, everything’s monotone and looks too artificial to be really happy, it looks like plastic happiness, like a big lie you for no reason whatsoever decide to join.

One of the funniest things one can do at McDonald’s is try to break that ritual. It’s not really that hard. Try to say the magic words “coke, no ice” and see what face your interlocutor will make. “Can I have my sandwish open?” They don’t even know what that means. What about “hmm, I don’t know, what’s your favourite one?” Watch close as their lips run out of words, it’s hilarious.

The whole thing reminds me of what a Nike CEO said, a while ago: “we’re not a shoe company, we’re a marketing company.” Indeed, Nike’s production is administered by a separate company, all they do is branding. And you buy it. Why?

I wonder how come we became a society of image. Everything’s so artificial. Some communist friends of mine always argue that it’s all a lie we have been told since our earliest childhood—that propaganda engraves in your mind that “McDonald’s = happiness” before you can dispute that, kind of like Kipling’s Law of the Jungle in the Book of the Jungle.

I don’t think so. Or rather, I agree, it is a big fat lie (again, no pun intended) that McDonald’s equals anything near “happiness.” But I don’t think we’ve been brainwashed by the bourgeois media. No, no… I don’t think any single soul on Earth actually believes McDonald’s to equal happiness. I think people have it pretty clear that it’s a big lie—they just pretend they don’t know that. So the question takes one step further: what leads people to join something they know to be a lie?

What’s the image that turns a bureaucratic fast–food store into an island of happiness? What’s so happy about McDonald’s?

I don’t usually go there. To me it’s a waste of money on unbalanced nutrition and stress. It can be funny (like I said, it’s funny to break the ritual with the attendants, and it’s also awesome to watch how people behave as predicted inside a McDonald’s, and how you can draw everyone’s attention by doing anything slightly different from the protocol).

But the damn thing is one great subject for questionings and research. Why do people buy it, really? There are so many better things out there…

I actually enjoy McD’s once in a while. (in moderation… their food is like a drug)

Their burgers are quite tasty, in my opinion. The only problem is how horrifically bad for you they are…I can hear my aorta screaming in pain with every bite.

But as bad as McD’s is for you, Burger King is 100x worse. I worked there for awhile, and in 3 days I started breaking out from all the grease I was handling. Even when I was nowhere near the fry cooker, and was just making rounds from the freezer to the burger conveyor, I felt like I needed 8 showers a day to get all that grease off of me.

Burger King is an extension of McDonald’s :razz: They’re all just as bad! :wink:

Do you really find those things tasty? :eh:

Yep, two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce and tomatoes on a sesame seed bun! :happy:

I hate me. :razz:

Exactly the same come from this corner :eh:

And trust me, Burger King, Taco Bell, whatever Isn’t any better :tongue:

(I read somewhere that every meal in tabo bell comes dried and only needs adding water)

Eyyyy, I love Taco Bell’s Gorditas :razz: