to not understand why people consider McDonalds to be a "treat"

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if I want a family "treat" meal I go somewhere with fresh, favoursome food made especially for us.

Why do people take their kids somewhere that sells the lowest common denominator of food and call it a "treat" ?

YoureAShoe There's a nickname for that cheesechickenburger concoction, what is it again? It'll bug me...

This is why we are all different we al like different things, we al consider different things to be a treat, it goes without saying.

However to have a view and make a judgement on what another finds to be a treat is snobby.

ahem< it's a gangbang burger I believe

AgaPanthers I don't like the eggs in the McMuffins, but what I do like is a big breakfast with BBQ sauce - I put the sausage, hash brown and some of the egg in the muffin to make a muffin sandwich and then eat the rest of the egg with BBQ sauce separate.

I think when people say McDs as a treat, it is either in the context of the happy meal for a small child, or it is the occasional dirty burger.

I think McDs is fine every once in a while (eg. once or twice a month) as part of an otherwise healthy diet with plenty of fruit, veg and fibre. If you don't like McDs, have something else as your 'treat'.

The real problem is when people see McDs as 'everyday food' ie something they have several times a week. That is what should be unreasonable, for people to see McDs as 'normal food'

Scotch eggs!

Eggs coated in Satan's toenail scrapings. I'll stick to my big mac and apple pie hotter than the sun thanks.

youreashoe
the food combination sounds like one of my BBQ splurges
but I'd rather make it at home with food I trust and lower salt and fat
since losing weight I genuinely cannot face those sorts of high fat meals

in fact it is so much of a treat for my kids that I buy it for them on the way home from work on a Friday and I have to have the windows open to clear the smell of the nuggets or I will vom all over the car. I am that much of a martyr!

I agree that treat is the wrong word to use when associated with such food.
However, its a word I use as my DD love it and we let her have one, once a year if that.

Also - whilst Macdonalds is known for serving junk, lots of other food is junk too. A salad sarnie laden with Mayo can be just as bad and so on.

YoureAShoe ahh yes, that's the one! I'll have to try out a gangbang one day...

I refuse to believe there is a burger called Gangbang!

I wonder what they'd say if I went and ordered a gangbang. The idea of getting my hands all messy with the mayo is a bit off putting. I'd rather it came wrapped.

We all know that McDonalds isn't great and shouldn't be eaten every day but I don't get the snobbery surrounding it. Ds has lots of friends who have never eaten a McDonalds because it's unhealthy but they are allowed to eat the plastic sandwiches in Costa. Has anyone ever looked at the list of ingredients on those vile sandwiches? It's e number after E number...

Gangbang Burger

I'm getting heartburn just reading this thread.

gordyslovesheep, McDonalds changed after that. They no longer use 'pink slime'.

That's the thing, if you eat in Ikea, or your local takeaway, they will use the cheapest shittiest meat, possibly unfit for human consumption. Chicken arses imported from Thailand. Steaks in Harvester are from some kind of mutant Brazilian buffalo as I understand it.

But nobody makes a fuss.

McDonalds meat is better quality than pretty much any local restaurant. Ok, not as good as £300/head Fat Duck, but most caterers use very poor-quality meat that you don't find in Tesco or Asda.

aga I know that KFC well but I will only ever have original recipe KFC none of this new fangled crispy coated shite. I like mucky D's breakfast wraps as a treat (tee hee) if I am in Town early enough but get them without the hideous orange "cheese".

The spicy beanburger is quite nice although the BK equivalent is nicer. We dont have a BK apart from the one on the nearest Mway service station that costs a fortune and always has a queue.

WorraLiberty Thu 13-Mar-14 16:54:16
That's really interesting, thanks Red

I wonder if the BBC would pay me to travel around the world, sampling the different McDonalds?

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Worra. I think I would have to be your researcher having put in lengthy research already having sampled the humble Quarter Pounder Meal in more places than I care to mention (usually, when abroad and either needing a McShit or when I've got to the point when I can't face another 'guess what it is' meal. You can always just go to McDonalds and point at No1 or No2). Of course I would need to do more research and get paid for the privilege.

I believe that in some places McDonalds is almost completely vegetarian and in others they have none beef burgers to reflect the local culture.

Someone has probably done it already and written a book mind. The BBC may not be keen on the idea due to its non commercial nature. C4 would be a better choice.

Wimpy used to have a hot dog called a Bender.

In Germany we could get BEER with our burgers

....and not like a plastic cup a real glass of beer....

I went to McDonalds in India.

It was disgusting.

I think we had a McAloo Tikki and a McSpicy Paneer.

My kids looked on it as a "treat" like a kind of guilty pleasure as they knew they weren't allowed that kind of food on a regular basis.

You realise you will have inadvertently caused a spike in md sales across the country tonight.

Because there was no McDonalds in my region (NI) when I was a child, I never got a taste for it and find it kind of disgusting.

I don't understand why people like it, and I think that may be in part because the marketing never got me when I was a kid; no-one ever told me that McDonalds was a 'treat'; I don't associate it with having a treat.

I'm not explaining myself well, but I think one reason why people think going to McDonalds is a treat is because they are taken to McDonalds for a treat - it is circular and self-perpetuating.

And the food is rank.

And OP, I don't think you are being unreasonable.