A constant queue of cars at MacDonalds - Am I missing out on something?

[manchester blue]

I'm always amazed to see girls from the flats across a busy dual carriageway come into our local Asda to use the MacDonalds. They're usually in onesies and slippers as well, so too lazy to even get dressed. The world is fucked.

I'll rise you seeing two lazy cunts getting a McDonalds delivery at 2Pm still in pyjamas and they live less than half a mile from the place!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Don’t mind a McDonald’s every now and then. Ten times a year for food would be my guess, half of which are breakfast visits for a sausage and egg McMuffin and hash brown. Don’t deploy a napkin other than for its intended use.

Also frequently use them as a venue for last minute reading when I’m (or rather was) in certain towns that don’t have a Costa or a Spoons that’s open at 06:30/07:00 - depending on how much reading I’ve got to do. Hanley and Middlesbrough spring to mind. In fact in Hanley one morning, I started off in McDonald’s (06:00) moved to the Caffè Nero (07:00) and then went to the Spoons, The Reginald Mitchell (08:00) (a Spoons in Hanley at 8am does not attract the highest class of clientele btw!) - I had a lot of reading to do that morning! A McDonald’s was always harder to work in, because of how brightly lit and busy they were, but they were pretty much always spotlessly clean.

 

[FCBarca]

No, you're not missing anything

Surprisingly, it is a common sight now here in Switzerland as well but I believe this is more due to the circumstances of confinement and the ease by which to get food

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I go in McBumholes as rarely as I can but I freely admit that If I do eat there it's usually in a morning for a double sausage and egg McMuffin with hash brown and cup of tea.

I get a stack of napkins and place one on the tray. I then take a pork burger out of the bun and lay it on the napkin. Then I place another on top so both sides are covered. I then press the palm of my hand down onto the burger and the napkins soon become saturated with greasy fat! I repeat with the other burger and then the hash brown. By the time I have finished there are 5-6 fat stained napkins plus my hand needs a wipe with a clean napkin so that's at least 6 in total!

I've had people ask why do I do it. I think the answer is pretty obvious without explanation but I get a few "it's a part of the flavour" remarks. Really? : / Well I get by fine without that extra fat flavour, thanks ...I usually ask them no cheese slice on ordering as I think my fishing waders melted and dyed yellow and salted would probably be as convincing a slice of cheese as that vile sticky fake cheese stuff.

Fast food joints, particularly McGreasehole strategically place their outlets carefully in places like motorway service stations or an A road in the middle of nowhere. Food malls and on high sreets. Clever marketing/advertising and cheap gimmicky toys for the youngsters with the crappy meal and a 'healthy' bag of carrot sticks and sliced apple to appease their parents. Lol. The fuckin' carrot sticks and sliced apple are coated with MSG preservatives salt and sugar and citric acid to stop apples turning brown!

I try and go as seldom as possible an I probably go half a dozen times a year and 3-4 of those times is for hunger and convenience of location when there's fuck all else options available. The other two because I fancy going, usually in a morning to soak up a bit of ale, and if I'm hungry I'll have a porridge pot as well.

Try squeezing the fatty shit out of the burgers and you'll be amazed how much oozes out. It's fast, ahem, FAT FOOD for a reason!

I agree on squeezing the fat, I used to do it with the hash brown especially.

 

[urban genie]

I don't go out of my way to eat them but in normal times when I am working in town till 4 and get a text off a mate saying fancy a pint in the monkey at 4:15, a double cheeseburger and small fries suitable lines the stomach quicky.
Only other time I use them is getting off a night bus at 2am and starving or at an airport.

I did a stint as a night manager in one for 2 months when I was 22 and tbf it was an experience I apreciate as it taugh me some better customer skills (I mainly had drunks and annoying teenagers as customers) and speed on tills, though cleaning the shake and ice cream machine was a pain in the arse.

 

[the plasterer]

Some of the young lads who work for me will eat this crap all day long, honestly, you should see what they scoff for their dinner, they will demolish a burger, fries, chicken nuggets and a milk shake no problem, all skinny fuckers too

 

[City Hobgoblin]

same as that shit coffee from costa, im sure they drug it so people go back

Whoever makes Pringles definitely put something in those

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Going for a McShit
When you go into McDonalds for the sole purpose of using the bathroom.

Please note: If challenged by the spotty staff member, then your declaration that you will buy food afterwards is a McShit with Lies
I'm going for a McShit

 

[hilts]

Me and a friend went to the one today in hazel grove for a warm drink. Rammed

The hazel grove one is utterly ridiculous with queues, cars dumped everywhere must be an hour wait to get served. I’m not a food snob but any sane person would just drive on. Every now and then they serve a useful purpose ie cheap meal at the services or a quick breakfast stop on the go.

Those berating them for not being food or highly addictive are some what of the drama queen variety.

Oh no I had a Big Mac in 1997 and was snorting a bag of Tate and Lyle every day until I went into lentil rehab.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

We (me and Mrs) love a macdonalds before we do some decorating or DIY work. It's a treat and gives us so much energy..

The queues though... Wtf it's not even fast food, I don't understand waiting for that long.

I think it's like the toilet rolls thing, people see other people in massive queues and think they're missing out on something.