AIBU- 8 year old has never been to McDonald's?

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This is not a stealth boast. She has been to plenty of other places like Byron, GBK, pizza express, Nando's, Wagamama etc and I'm under no illusion that they're any better and actually some are probably worse for her. She's happened never to go to a party where the food bit has been at McDonald's. DH likes it and if he's grabbing food after work he might get a burger on the way home. I'm not fussed on it. DD (and DS but he's only 4) have never really been bothered about it, like if we stop at services they've never asked and like going into M&S instead and picking up picnic type stuff on car journeys. So the 'need' to take her has never arisen. But a few of my friends are a bit that she's never gone. AIBU to think it's not a huge deal?!

Both of the McDonald's we have been going to over summer break (we are in Scotland so the schools have been off for a month), are REALLY clean, clean toilets, nice "dinner "'style decor with good lighting etc. Possibly they have had very recent make-overs.

Yes, they will have. All stores are being switched over to the new system.

They have added to the obesity problem

No, they haven't. If people can't control themselves, that is their own fault; not McDonalds'.

Pigeon your poor DS. No child should be made to feel like that. 😢

I eat McDonalds and I'm not overweight. My biggest problem for putting on weight is wine, which they don't serve. If I stop drinking for a while, I lose weight just like clicking your fingers.

WhatToDo There are three McDonald's near me - two in the mainline station and one about three minutes away in the high street. That one has arty photos on the walls and single gerberas in glass flutes on the bank of bars facing the floor-to-ceiling windows.

It's nice but I prefer the ordinary-looking one upstairs in the station's food court because you can get a seat. The gerbera one is usually rammed on the ground floor because it looks so smart and the basement is clean but has no natural light.

I had to unexpectedly work a double shift until 11pm last week. There was no point cooking and my husband had already eaten. I stopped for a quarter pounder with cheese and large fries and a filet and large fries as a treat for him at the ground floor takeaway in the station. It was bedlam at that counter - I admire the servers' restraint. I ran and made it home in five minutes and it was still hot. It was bloody lovely He's not fat either despite eating two dinners that night

I am under 8 stone and I eat millions of Mcdonalds. You won't get fat of just Mcdonalds, I don't believe it as why don't I ever get any bigger?

'Eldest DS is nearly 9 and ended up at McDonalds after a Cubs trip last week. Poor boy felt really conflicted as he told the leaders he wasn't allowed but they said to have it anyway.'

Poor little guy. And it makes no sense, as you say yourself your DH has no problem with him eating burger and chips in other establishments. That would drive me barmy, that my DH's aversion to McDonalds was so strong that it would stress my son out when he was away on a Cubs trip.

That one has arty photos on the walls and single gerberas in glass flutes on the bank of bars facing the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Sounds eccentric

It was bedlam at that counter - I admire the servers' restraint.

Oh yes, it's a very high pressure high stress job, but I run off the adrenaline so I love it when it's busy (which is most of the time now it's the summer holidays!).

You have to do a thousand things at once; take orders, get drinks, get ice creams (which are time consuming), get the food all while making sure fries are being put down and you don't run out (counter staff do fries) and you're keeping an eye on grill (custom) orders and making sure they're being made. Making sure also, that while customers are waiting for their food, the hot drinks and ice creams you made first (always do drinks/desserts first) aren't going cold/melting.

Doing all that while having six orders on your till and dealing with them all, as well as making sure everything is stocked up (cups, lids, flurry spoons, sauces, sugar, salt etc.), behind counter is clean and tidy and so on... yep, very high pressure! It's a job a lot of people can't actually do.

I am under 8 stone and I eat millions of Mcdonalds. You won't get fat of just Mcdonalds, I don't believe it as why don't I ever get any bigger?

Exactly. We get free meals on our breaks and most of the time I eat there; I have actually lost weight since starting there (I ate McDonalds loads before I started too, and I was only 7 Stone then!). So much so that my trousers are almost falling down! I'm having to pull them up several times a shift.

When I met my husband in 1989 we used to regularly eat in Le Caprice in Piccadilly as guests of his boss. He was newly-divorced, rich, generous and lonely. He used to use the restaurant as the staff canteen - it was round the corner - and as a place to impress dates or take us when he was facing another night in front of the telly.

His girth grew and grew but ours never did even though he wouldn't have been seen dead in McDonalds and we were there once or twice a month.

I'm late 30's and never been to KFC!

I don't understand the point of the post? macdonalds is crappy junk food, everyone knows that. So if your kids haven't been then how can that be unreasonable? My kids don't go there, I think it's a hideous place sorry!

I do admire the staff. Generally polite and hard working.
I said thank you to one of the cleaners, she looked at me as if i were mad!
Manners cost nothing!

I said thank you to one of the cleaners

We don't have cleaners; we have customer care staff. They deal with lobby and that is so much more than just cleaning. To say they are cleaners rather diminishes everything they do do.

Though she will have appreciated your thanks

I asked for a custom order for the first time WhatToDo . I usually pick the pickles out but I asked for it without because someone said it was fresher. But the turnaround was that fast I doubt if it made any difference. My husband got any old Filet that was hanging around .

I hate the snobbishness around McDonalds, and it was brought home to me by my mum. We always used to eat there but over the years my lifestyle changed. I couldn't eat a burger and chips at lunchtime and then have dinner in the evening with my husband. So we/I dropped the habit.

And then one day she said to me, 'You and Mr Limited are probably too posh for McDonalds.' She wasn't accusing me of anything; she was proud of me but was just sad that part of our life had gone. So I told Mr Limited that sometimes I'd have to go without a fancy dinner because I'd eaten a quarter pounder with cheese and large fries in about 10 minutes and spent a long time watching my my mum carefully stuffing her small portion of fries into her hamburger - no onions or dressings - and eating it with both paws like a hamster, while setting it down, sipping her tea - two milks - and telling me the wisest things.

I miss her and I hate threads stealth-boasting about how wonderful you are for spawning children who don't eat there. I think that's what this thread is.

Sorry, she was nice though.

macdonalds is crappy junk food, everyone knows that. So if your kids haven't been then how can that be unreasonable? My kids don't go there, I think it's a hideous place sorry!

This is a case in point. What a bunch of arse

I'd never eaten KFC until I was about 20 and the manager in the bar I was working in ordered a few bargain buckets. It was great, but the pallid chips were shit and the coleslaw looked like vomit.

I asked for a custom order for the first time WhatToDo . I usually pick the pickles out but I asked for it without because someone said it was fresher. But the turnaround was that fast I doubt if it made any difference. My husband got any old Filet that was hanging around

Grill orders (custom orders) are always made fresh; they have to be, because we cant hold them. What probably happened is they were in the middle of making a run when you ordered yours and just didn't add pickle to one, hence the quick turn around.

Also (in my store at least) we don't hold filets, fish fingers or veggie burgers because they very rarely get ordered, so it would be a waste. So anyone ordering a filet would have to wait time on it.

It's not a huge deal, but possibly a bit unusual (in general population not MN). But some people's lifestyle just doesn't take them near a McDonald's.

We go to McDonald's a lot these days. Often on long journeys at odd times of day it's the only place open. We've been moving house/area and had to get quite a few meals/snacks on the go when visiting the place we don't yet have a home. And frankly the DC like the bland, predictable food. I'm filling up my coffee loyalty cards really quickly!

Also, McDonald's drive through is the only place open at 11pm between the hospital and our village, very handy when you've been sat in A&E for 7 hours!!

Their coffee is pretty good...

We recently went on holiday for a week and visited many cafes, The best cup of coffee I had all week was from McDonalds.

I bloody love a macdonalds.

Their food is not 'processed crap', their burgers are 100% beef, nuggets 100% chicken breast. The salt on fries is measured and they are extremely ethical towards the treatment of animals that are used.

It's just plain snobbery. Lots of pp's on here wouldn't think twice about a posh burger and fries in a more upmarket restaurant and their chicken mayo sandwich from Pret is far more unhealthy. Read the labels, you will be surprised.

Meltor we also have a drive through, also very handy when you've been to the only firework display in London without food vans, get back at 11 pm, and you, DD and baby DS2 (who I bfed in there) are all starving! DD fell asleep on the table while I was ordering! 😂 That only happened once 5 years ago though.

One of my DC has major food anxiety and hardly eats any meat. (This is a 10yo with SN). Recently he made a huge step to "I think I'll try a hamburger", this is the first red meat he's eaten in years. We can order it with no onions or pickles. For this I love Macdonalds!

I live on a tiny island in the Caribbean and we don't have a McD's here, only BK and KFC.

We're heading up to Tampa for a break in a couple of weeks and DS1 has been talking about visiting "the golden mmmm's" for a week, which we're going to stop into on the drive up from Miami.

I miss McDs so much, I had a Big Mac meal + chocolate milkshake at Fleet Services on the M3 when I was back in the UK for a wedding in early July and it was the best hangover food ever.

McDs is absolutely fine, I have no issues feeding it to my kids, same as BK. If there was one close by, I've no doubt I'd be in there regularly...

But if kids don't know what it is, they're never going to ask for it. My kids never asked for it before they had it for the first time last year.

Threads started by McDonald's snobs and contributed to them by their fellow snobs are a bit sad.