McDs reopened and massive queues

[longlocks]

Between my parents and my homes there is a McDs which reopened the other day after 7 weeks of being refurbished. I normally take the shortest route - a mile and a quarter. Due to the massive queues to the drive thru, I have to take the longer route which is double.

Have no idea why people are going to this McDs when they could have gone to the other 5 McDs within 5 miles in all directions in the meantime - it’s the same bloody food!

When McDs started to reopen their drive thrus in sections in early summer 2020, the nearest one in the first phase was 52 miles away. I do litter wombling (litter picking) and a fellow womble found a receipt from this McDs on the first day of reopening. So this pathetic saddo drove 104 mile round trip to get a burger from the very limited menu.

What’s this bloody fascination with McDs? It’s mediocre food. I only visited McDs when I go with my fussy eater friends. Another time my flight home was delayed by 3 hours and then took 2 hours waiting to get luggage. It was about 2am and bloody starving and that time of day the only thing open is McDs.

Why assume the receipt you found means the person drove the round trip to the mc d far away? Why didn't you assume they were passing on their way back from somewhere ,or they bought it and were driving on somewhere and the receipt ended up there? It's not my favourite place to go but it's hardly a new phenonenom. Glad to see if you have time to study each receipt there isn't too much rubbish for you to litter pick.

The lack of drive thrus in London and occasionally we have been to that one on way back from school @Bumblebun but there's never been a queue that I've ever seen!
OP when they reopened our old one (well outside London) there were massive queues on the main road into town which was frustrating. But it was the only drive thru for miles.

You drive through a McDonalds Drive-Thru 😂

I agree. I like a Maccy Ds, but don't get the fascination. If it's busy, queing for ages then either sitting in the car, or at a filthy table, isn't my idea of a treat.

Or sit around screaming kids.

To be fair you don't know that a "saddo" did a 100
Mile round trip for a burger. They could have been up that way for any reason and just bought a burger

I love these threads. I love seeing the pretend confusion of snobby people wondering why something like this is popular. The answer is because most of the country isn't like you.. the popularity doesn't lie. Sorry to burst your middle class bubble 😂

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McDonalds are most definitely the best hangover cure food!

My local McDonalds Drive Thru had already been open for ages but when another set of restrictions lifted one day, I had to make a 4 mile detour to get home, while desperate for the loo, because McD was off a roundabout 500 metres away and all the surrounding roads were backed up because of the queue. Madness. I'm not sure why, maybe they had opened for people to sit inside or something so the first thing everyone in the area wanted to do was go and sit in a McDonalds.

I very occasionally buy a burger there on my way home, maybe twice a year. Generally it's pointless because they are so slow and it's not a very good branch, by the time I've waited in the drive thru queue to collect a lukewarm burger and cold fries I could have driven home and made something a lot nicer

Ha, my autistic, likely-ARFID, son will order a plain burger and fries, ditch the burger and have fries in the burger bun! Also one of the few things he'll reliably eat.

I always get burgers during long journeys - it's one of my guilty treats

So I would never assume that a receipt from 52 miles away meant a round journey to go to a different branch; simply that someone from near where the receipt was found had been on a longer journey.

But I go plogging (litter picking and jogging) and have never once felt the urge to stare ay the small print on a receipt. So to me that's the sort of action that's as strange and incomprehensible as OP finds a liking for McDs

When I was pregnant with my first, there were a few weeks when McD was the only food I could eat without throwing up. I was there every day before work. Nowadays, I still like the burgers, but the chips are tasteless and it can hardly be described as fast food anymore, so I rarely bother going in.

Having said that, if it's the McD I think it is, then the traffic around that area needs improving as it's almost impossible to get past at certain times of the day and there are few alternative routes, so I do get the rant.

theres something in McDs that gives me stomach ache, no idea what, it means the smell of it turns my stomach though. And the smell always reminds of Birmingham New Street Station.

My PIL were obsessed with the place though and it was another reason. I was a terrible person as I didn’t want to go there to eat. I don’t know why 4 adults would want to go somewhere with noisy kids and sticky tables by choice thought. To me it’s service station food - for when you’re travelling or hungover.

I never grew up with it, being vegetarian. I remember going once on a school trip, and being starving because no one thought to give me anything at all while everyone else had a burger. I really like a McDonald's now, and buy it maybe once every two months. I don't see how it would be a class thing

Have I missed the part where you’ve explained that someone has forced you to eat there, OP?

When McDs started to reopen their drive thrus in sections in early summer 2020, the nearest one in the first phase was 52 miles away. I do litter wombling (litter picking) and a fellow womble found a receipt from this McDs on the first day of reopening. So this pathetic saddo drove 104 mile round trip to get a burger from the very limited menu

You don't know that was the reason, they drove there, what a weird assumption.

longlocks · Today 06:49
GiantHornets · Today 00:38
Why are you driving a mile and a quarter to your parents house? It’s a 20 min walk which would not be affected by a McDonald’s drive through

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Sometimes I have something heavy to give/collect from or visiting them on the way to/from somewhere

Sometimes for myriad reasons all sorts of people need something quick, hot and reasonably priced for lunch on their way to/from somewhere. There’s more salt in most pre-made sandwiches and a packet of crisps, the usual supermarket “meal” deal than there is in a cheeseburger or chicken selects and a (very nice) coffee. .

this

I hate McDonalds burgers and chips with a passion, although I love an occasional Burger King or Wimpy burger. But there aren't many more delicious things than sausage and egg McMuffins.

Haven't RTFT but it will be a reopening incentive offer. I guarantee they'll be giving something away free or there'll be a competition for the first X number of customers

@Twistybranch Yes my autistic DD also has ARFID and I love how you've worded that, yes McDonald's is very important to her. She loves their fries and nuggets but only drinks water so at least I'm not having to hand her a sugary drink every week (have managed to drop her down to once a week but it's taken years to get her down from twice a week).

I know some uneducated people think ARFID is an excuse for lazy parenting - so did my elderly DM (I mention her being elderly to highlight the generational difference).
She used to pontificate about how "It's a lack of any kind of effort" when it came to encouraging them to try foods.
Then my older nephew came along with it and she said the same nonsense until her & my DF looked after him for a week............!

Now she's fully understanding of it. Especially after watching me whizzing up veg, cooking meals from scratch, trying to get her to eat multiple times per day and seeing DD fully prepared to go hungry rather than try a bite of normal food, Also going countless Dietician appointments with me.

Rustlers isn't McDonald's 🙄🙄🙄

That's a bit of a daft assumption that someone drove 104 just for a burger
We recently went on holiday to Norfolk ,we live in Bolton ,we had a Greggs,breakfast on the way home , had i accidentally dropped the receipt wheni got home would you assume we had driven six hours just for a,Greggs?