McDonald's: Is anyone addicted?
Christopher Lucas 
All I can think of sometimes is McChicken when I'm hungry. I'm addicted to it like some people are to cigarettes.
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 9, 2018 9:39 PM |
I confess i use to eat there a couple of times a week, but now I find their food disgusting. I haven't been there in over 2 years. Panera opened in my area, and that's my fix, at least it doesn't feel like fast food, and there are some healthy options. I like eating off of real plates and flatware, no mounds of paper and trash.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 27, 2015 3:40 AM |
I had my first McLobster today, it was ok for fast food. Usually I avoid the place though.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 27, 2015 3:46 AM |
[quote]I'm addicted to it like some people are to cigarettes.
No, you are not.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 27, 2015 3:51 AM |
Haven't stepped into the place in over twenty years.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 27, 2015 3:59 AM |
It doesn't even taste like food. Sure it's got plenty of grease and sugar, but ultimately all the flavor comes from chemicals poorly imitating real food.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 27, 2015 11:06 AM |
As a teenager yes, but now my stomach doesn't fill up in a good way with McD's junk.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 27, 2015 11:44 AM |
I was once addicted to cheap indian food in NYC but never McDonalds food. One time I was starving artist for a year and I would go to the 2 dollar movie above Times Square - what was that called - worldwide plaza I think. And I would have enough money in the summer to buy a McDonalds milkshake and appreciated it.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 27, 2015 11:54 AM |
It would be interesting to taste a meal as it was in the '70s. I'm sure it would taste much better than today's version of the same thing. The quality of all the ingredients has diminished. I'm sure even the ketchup tasted better back then.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 27, 2015 6:16 PM |
I started going there a couple months ago for their mocha frappés. Oy. I'm still going there now. I'll even get the fries and some of the chicken items. Oy.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 27, 2015 6:21 PM |
Haven't eaten there once since reading "Fast Food Nation" when it was first published, in 2001.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 27, 2015 6:24 PM |
I go twice a year for their original little burgers. I love them.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 27, 2015 7:01 PM |
I think there's something addictive in their nasty food. Over the last couple of years I have eaten there occasionally, because the 24 hour drive-thru is the only place open late in my town, and every time I eat there I think "That's nasty".
But when I'm done, I crave more, even though I didn't like it much when I ate it! And the craving will last, for days afterwards I find my mind returning to the thought of eating that greasy shit!
Avoid the place entirely, OP. Those cravings will ruin your health and your bod and get your picture on "People of Walmart".
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 27, 2015 7:21 PM |
Cigarettes would probably be healthier.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 27, 2015 7:23 PM |
I'm addicted to the Burger King "10 chicken nuggets for $1.49" deal.
They're not good enough to pay full price for, but when there only a buck and a half? I can't get enough!
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 27, 2015 7:26 PM |
This sounds like a "Fat Acceptance" thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 27, 2015 7:58 PM |
Once in a great while I like a Big Mac, but they make my stomach hurt whenever I eat them. I don't remember McDonald's food doing that when I was a kid. Either the ingredients were better then, or my youthful stomach could tolerate a lot more drek.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 27, 2015 9:38 PM |
I stopped eating there when I got too fat. The only thing I've had in the last 5 years is a sausage biscuit because they bought a bunch at work during an emergency and I was starving.
Truth is, I'm scared to eat there now because it would probably mess up my digestive system, to put it nicely.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 27, 2015 9:43 PM |
They have some tasty and reasonably not-too-unhealthy breakfast items--the Egg McMuffin features Canadian Bacon, which is high protein and low fat, and I do love their Sausage Breakfast Burritos, which are available all day now.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 27, 2015 9:53 PM |
I enjoy eating feces, blood, and pus.. So good, but I'm oh so confused to as why my stomach gurgles and I get the creamy shits afterwards.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 29, 2015 11:49 PM |
I like to shove the big macs up my ass and then shit them into my mom's mouth when she's sleeping.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 30, 2015 1:16 AM |
I work at a Mcdonalds located inside a military base and this guy ordered a mcchicken and i eeplaced the mayonnaise with my cum. Somewhere out there my babies are marinating inside the stomach of a hot 20 some black guy with a big dick and huge muscles. I wonder if he was a Marine or a Sailor the mcdonalds is located in San Diego on a naval base. Will i still be working there? Find out next time.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 30, 2015 1:31 AM |
So, the local McDonald's has a "Summer Meal Deal" with Filet O' Fish and small fries for $2.50 ... which is cheaper than the sandwich by itself.
I'm doomed.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 2, 2015 2:18 AM |
The Summer Meal Deal is a good deal. I got a chicken wrap thing with fries the other day.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 2, 2015 4:46 AM |
I eat there at least a couple times a week. Love the Big Mac, Mcdouble and the Big Breakfast, yum!
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 2, 2015 5:27 AM |
Ever since trying Taco Bell's breakfast, I haven't been back to McDonald's. It's truly superior.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 2, 2015 9:06 AM |
I'm pretty sure their food has addictive qualities. The sodium content alone; yikes. I used to eat there frequently but don't any more. I went there a few weeks ago because I felt that urge. I regretted it an hour later. I felt fucking gross. The effect is what I call "the salties", when you've ingested so much fucking salt and sodium that it makes you feel weird.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 2, 2015 1:27 PM |
The put nicotine in their beef
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 2, 2015 1:37 PM |
I haven't had McDonalds since they discontinued the grilled chicken Caesar salad. I'd occasionally grab one when I'd been in the road longer than I thought I'd be and felt a bit peckish.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 2, 2015 2:07 PM |
Everything at fast food places is unhealthy. It sucks because sometimes you are on the road and hungry and need something decent to eat. But you can't get a salad that isn't loaded with sodium or oatmeal that isn't disgustingly sweet. Why do they refuse to make any healthy alternatives?
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 2, 2015 2:28 PM |
I couldn't eat it anymore in my late 20s. I literally would become violently sick from it. Never again.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 2, 2015 3:03 PM |
The only thing I enjoy there is their egg mcmuffin. Other than that I have no temptation to touch their food honestly, there are MUCH better places to get hamburger or chicken sandwhich. Don't understand the appeal.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 2, 2015 3:24 PM |
McDonald's is awful but I'll still indulge once in a while. Do they still have those chicken finger wraps? It was basically a giant chicken finger with lettuce, tomato and ranch dressing in a tortilla. Those were good and not too horribly awful for you. Still loaded with fat and sodium but portion wise it was reasonable.
I agree with R8 that the quality has declined considerably since its heyday in our youths. I can't pretend to be some snob turning his nose up, but I also can't imagine being "addicted" to this crap and craving it daily. You've mucked up your system pretty badly if your body has grown accustomed to processed, warming-drawer junk meat and deep-fried slime swimming in fat and sodium.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 2, 2015 3:35 PM |
I eat there once a week. I'm 59 so I've been eating McDs food for 50 years. I love their grilled chicken. I'm never sick. I'm a normal weight and blood work is fine. I come from a long line of strong bodies (i.e. no delicate flowers).
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 2, 2015 3:38 PM |
for all you fast food soda drinking fucked up FAT FUCKS!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 12, 2015 1:04 AM |
r8, the joke about the original, high-fat fries, is they were better than sex. You have to be pretty old now to remember them, but I do, and they were.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 12, 2015 1:18 AM |
Back in the 70s when I used to come to America from England we thought McD's etc were so exotic.
When my dad died recently we found an album full of photos of us at various fast food places.
Here's one of Burger King that I took.
Glamorous, non?...just to show friends and family when I got back home.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 12, 2015 1:24 AM |
most of the DL posters at home LOL
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 12, 2015 1:43 AM |
Like the poster upthread, after I watched the documentary Fast Food Nation, I was done with fast food.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 12, 2015 1:46 AM |
The only McDonald's I'm addicted to is their breakfast stuff.
Their lunch stuff does nothing for me.
Up until this week, I never had to worry because I was never up before breakfast hours were over. But now I'm totally screwed. I've eaten there three times since Tuesday.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 12, 2015 2:44 AM |
[quote]But now I'm totally screwed. I've eaten there three times since Tuesday.
This must be so awful for you.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 12, 2015 2:49 AM |
R41 the question is why? you don't have to eat there but you choose to eat that crap 3x so far this week........That's the problem!
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 12, 2015 3:08 AM |
[italic]From one of the half dozen other McDonald's threads... [/italic]
Great quote from former NY Times restaurant critic Mimi Sheraton:
McDonald's food is "irremediably horrible, with no saving graces whatever. [The hamburger] is ground, kneaded and extruded by heavy machinery that compacts it so that the texture is somewhat like that of baloney sausage, and it becomes rubbery when cooked. Once cooked, the burger is insulated in a soggy bun, topped with pickle slices that seem recycled, or dehydrated onion flakes, or shredded lettuce that is more like wet confetti, and one or another of the disgusting sauces. The potatoes may be crisp but they have no taste. The shakes are like aerated Kaopectate".
And that's not a typo, she said irremediably, not irredeemably.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 12, 2015 3:30 AM |
That's a BIT over the top...
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 12, 2015 3:37 AM |
Shit food for shitty people.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 12, 2015 3:47 AM |
I probably eat at McDonalds 3 times a year. I love their fries and of course the Big Mac but it's just not good for you. In my 30s I prefer almost anything else. In college I used to inhale the stuff.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 12, 2015 3:52 AM |
R48 well said and true so many other options out there better!!!!!!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 12, 2015 7:14 PM |
I love their hash browns!
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 12, 2015 10:55 PM |
"Unfortunately, we serve no vegetarian items at this time."
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | October 12, 2015 11:46 PM |
I get a craving for it a couple of times a year. No big thing.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 13, 2015 12:05 AM |
Gotta have that Big Mac, Fries, and a Coke, as needed.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | October 13, 2015 12:09 AM |
Shamrock Shakes, and Eggnog Shakes whenever available.They need a Pumpkin Pie Shake!
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | October 13, 2015 12:12 AM |
They never do Eggnog shakes anymore, goddammit.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | October 13, 2015 12:27 AM |
Funny story...
In a NYC McDonald's, the a man orders a bacon cheese burger, and then tells the order-taker "Make sure there's no pork on that."
The order taker says "But you ordered a bacon cheese burger."
Man: "I know that! Don't put no pork on it."
McD's: "Do you want bacon on your bacon cheeseburger, or do you just want a regular cheeseburger?"
Man: "I want my bacon cheeseburger! Just don't put no pork on it!"
McD's "But bacon IS pork."
Man: "What?! What?!! Bacon is pork?! Why don't nobody say that?! You're supposed to say that!"
McD's: "We supposed to tell you that your bacon cheeseburger, that has bacon on it, is pork?"
Man, very upset and yelling: "Yes! People need to know what they're eating! If bacon is pork, you should tell people!! I don't eat no pork! I don't eat no pork! You're giving people pork! You need to tell them! I don't eat no pork, and you're giving me pork!"
It was hilarious being present as this non-pork eating man first discovers that he's been eating pork every time he has a bacon cheeseburger.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | October 13, 2015 12:54 AM |
R57, you're seriously destroying any and all faith I have in humanity.
How the fuck are so many people so fucking stupid?
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 13, 2015 1:23 AM |
Don't work any more; also, closest McD's 30 miles away (and I don't have a car) so I get to go MAYBE once a year. But when I worked, I once in a while - NOT often, maybe 3-4 times a year - would end up eating there for bkfast, lunch, and dinner (long work hours, but that's no excuse.) Liked either the "big breakfast" or a McMuffin with hash browns. LOVE those hash browns. Lunch: quarter pounder with cheese; dinner - the excellent (still around? this was in SF) Oriental chicken salad (NON-PC name, eh?) - really loved the chicken, edamame, mandarine oranges - yumm.
If I were anywhere near a McD's these days, I would totally be having the all-day breakfast.
Yes, I type fat.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | October 13, 2015 1:50 AM |
That Asian Chicken Salad is long gone, unfortunately. I actually liked that one.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | October 13, 2015 4:53 AM |
Oriental chicken salad (NON-PC name, eh?)
Not at all. Oriental simply means eastern, just as occidental means western. Oriental was commonly used to refer to Far East Asians. It fell out of favor to refer to people but could still used for objects.
In any case, there's nothing inherently racist about the word; it's just antiquated like "Negro," though with far fewer negative connotations.
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 13, 2015 5:31 AM |
Calling PEOPLE "Oriental" is considered at best impolite, and at worst a bit racist.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 13, 2015 2:00 PM |
I can tell you that in the 1990s, an order of "hotcakes" came with two, and now they come with three!
Goodbye portion control!
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | May 9, 2018 4:43 AM |
I used to kind of like their Filet O' Fish. The tartar sauce was tangy, and the bun very fresh.
But the last time I had one which was a few years ago, I realized that the bun was all air. And the fish tasted like rancid oil. And I was still hungry after I ate it!
I had notice before that with a little fast food, you are still hungry. With a lot, you feel sick to your stomach. There is never a point of satiation.
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | May 9, 2018 4:45 AM |
When this thread started three years ago I guess nobody's first thought after "McDonald's: Is anyone addicted?" would be "Trump."
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | May 9, 2018 4:50 AM |
This thread is totally about Trump.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | May 9, 2018 4:58 AM |
They have those McChicken and cheeseburgers and a large soda for a $1 each. It's not bad.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | May 9, 2018 5:02 AM |
I'd never admit this to anyone, but since this is anonymous, I must confess that I love their fries. O don't like anything else on their menu, but damn, their fries are good.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | May 9, 2018 5:03 AM |
I only do it once or twice a year, but I'm not for half-measures: the Chicken Po-Boy (spicy) at Popeye's, with a biscuit and red beans and rice. Heaven. Yes, the biscuit alone is 1100 calories and all of your saturated fats for a year. That doesn't matter anymore. We're all going to Hell.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | May 9, 2018 5:06 AM |
r68 Don't be ashamed, i'd say even the biggest Mcdonald hater has to admit their fries are the best.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | May 9, 2018 5:07 AM |
Are you a great big fat person OP?
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 9, 2018 5:08 AM |
r71 You can't ask that kind of question around here for a thread from 2015. These eldergays fall dead daily especially if they're Mcdonald's fans.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | May 9, 2018 5:10 AM |
A bunch of folks have commented that the food probably tasted better back in the 1970s when it was, at least, slightly fresher and made with fewer chemicals.
I would like to add that the franchise did not hand out those awesome toys with their Happy Meals back in the day. Think about how sad that is. All these dumb kids begging their parents to eat at McD's for the toys.
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | May 9, 2018 9:02 AM |
I worked in a McDonalds in the 1970s when the menu selections were far more limited.
Guess what the most popular shake flavor was? Vanilla!
The most popular sundae topping? Strawberry.
| by Anonymous | reply 75 | May 9, 2018 9:05 AM |
"Still have no idea what was in the Shamrock Shake"
Pretty sure they were just ground up mint antacids with artificial coffee creamer.
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | May 9, 2018 9:32 AM |
Enough with the pearl-clutching and virtue-signaling! There’s nothing wrong with McDonald’s food. It’s inexpensive and delicious.
Unfortunately the beautiful people decided it was not polically correct and the lemmings complied - although, I suspect, some sneak a small fries from time to time without telling anyone.
The only thing that’s “bad” for you is the soda.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 9, 2018 10:39 AM |
R77, not sure it's delicious.
I think Burger King's stuff is tastier. But McDonald's reigns supreme as the best marketer.
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 9, 2018 11:06 AM |
R76, lol.
I was never sure if the flavor was supposed to be mint, pistachio, lime, or what have you.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 9, 2018 11:12 AM |
R77, indeed the soda is bad for you.
I read that McDonald's makes the largest profit on its beverages. Kind of crazy.
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | May 9, 2018 6:17 PM |
That's true of just about all restaurants, R80, fast food and premium. A soda is just a little syrup and water, costing them pennies.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | May 9, 2018 6:55 PM |
You have to try the new quarter pounder, the beef patty actually tastes like real beef.
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 9, 2018 6:59 PM |
I can't remember the last time I ate at McDonald's.
If you have to eat there they do serve salads. If you go with grilled chicken and have them hold the bacon the sodium content is within acceptable levels. the problem is you won't be getting enough calories. It might hold you over until you get someplace with a healthier menu.
What exactly do you all think you are addicted to in a McDonald's meal?
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 9, 2018 9:39 PM |
