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

[chesterbells]

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.

Interesting one that. I have this thought in my head, which is most likely a myth, that I read MacDonalds spent a huge sum of money to get their customer seating designed to ergonomic perfection so that customers find the seating comfortable, but not too comfortable. After 11 minutes they start to become uncomfortable. Presumably to encourage the punters to move on, and not use the place as a library. ;-)

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Then there is all that faecal material left on the touch screens

 

[Maly]

Maybe it’s the fastness of fast food which is the problem?
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Or lack of mastication?

 

[hilts]

I’ve just made scrambled eggs with smoked salmon on buttered french toast in under five minutes, seems quick enough to me.

Fuck off it took you 15 minutes to put on your smoking jacket and cravat:-)

 

[Ste1969]

Fuck off it took you 15 minutes to put on your smoking jacket and cravat:-)

He probably had prem and chips;)

 

[oldius]

They did ask if you wanted to make it large.

 

[hilts]

He probably had prem and chips;)

With lard

 

[Mike Cledford]

Sorry mate but I didn't pick up on a sneering attitude from what I saw. He just called people who don't like mcdonalds weird. To be fair he tipped his hats to all groups of people and all diets but his main argument was everything is good in moderation and calorie deficit is the way weight loss works. As a former world class athlete in one of the toughest sports there is, I'm thinking he knows how to keep fit and stay healthy . He would have been advised by the best and you don't get to the top in rugby if the player doesn't put z full shift in Football it is not

He said something like 'there's something wrong with people who don't like McDonald's- so that's a significant part of City fans on here. Too cocky about his views although l do agree with what he said about balance.
He needs to see about his tourettes - l am sure he didnt swear as often with the posh Rugby Union types.

 

[andyhinch]

He probably had prem and chips;)

 

[JASR]

The only McDonald's product I will eat is their Sausage & Egg thing. I have eaten them occasionally for over thirty years. Each time I order one, I ask for no butter and no cheese. If I ask for a coffee, I always ask for black.

These choices are, in my opinion, slightly healthier but cost exactly the same as the regular product. I have saved that bastard company hundreds of pounds by paying for things that I don't get. I should ask for a mountain of butter, acres of plastic 'cheese-food' and a lake of milk just to spite them.

I should just boycott them but as the only food outlet open at 05:00 in London Victoria station, just as I start work, they are slightly too convenient.

Nothing wrong with butter.
(Unless they’ve put sugar in that as well!)
Far better than margarine