McDs reopened and massive queues

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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.

People do realise that McDs sell other things than just a burger. I regularly go to the one 25miles from my home, because it's on my way home from work, and I rarely face a burger. The Sweet Chilli Chicken Wraps are great.

I regularly have McDs receipts for 20-30 miles away in my home bin. I work in community healthcare and that's my work-patch, and I spend bloody hours in the car - McDs is a fairly easily accessible reliable place I can run through and get a decently tolerable coffee, or pop in and have a wee and buy a coffee... and I spend time in their carparks as somewhere to park up and type up notes quickly between visits. I'm not usually the only person parked up doing similar either.

It’s cheap, reliable, comforting, consistent, familiar, easy to access etc. Not my cup of tea but I understand why for some people it’s a satisfying choice.

I mean, I think you're a pathetic saddo for having your jimmies this rustled by what other people eat.

Fancy being snobby and judgemental enough to bother reading someone else's discarded receipt and then thinking they're the pathetic saddo, not you and your loser womble mate for sneering at their receipt which you took the time to pick up off the ground and read.

Live and let live, you'll die young if you keep letting other people's mundane habits stress you out so much.

They do.

I haven't worked for them in a few years but we did regularly "love where you live" events where we litter picked different areas, including a beach which was ten miles from the restaurant. The car park was checked and litter picked every two hours.

Maybe the lazy scrotes buying the food could be less frigging lazy and put it in a bin.

’loser womble mate’ made me laugh 😁

Love this 😂🖤
It's just so funny seeing snobs protest about popular things in this country.

My friend's son used to go to a specialist school next to a McDonald's. The gate to the school was regularly blocked by the drive through queue or Just Eat drivers waiting for orders. I rarely think bad things about people who are doing ordinary things but in this case I did.

I guess in defence of those ordering, they didn’t know there would be lots of others ordering at the same time and that it would cause a queue/blocking of the gates of the special school?. Unless you mean that that Just Eat drivers should have waited elsewhere?

They could easily wait elsewhere and it's really obvious it's a school gate. Double yellows, hatched etc.

Oh yes I definitely agree they could wait elsewhere. I thought you were blaming the people ordering the food for the gates being blocked but they’d have no idea that it was causing the Just Eat drivers to block the gates.

Probably there’s an ingredient in McDs and Red Bull which makes people toss their rubbish everywhere. We can’t do a litter pick without picking these!

When I was growing up we had next to no money. A trip to McD's was a rare treat as we really couldn't afford to eat out. Sorry if that offends you, OP.

What I did learn growing up was not to be a bit of a judgemental twat about other people, though.

Currently entertaining myself by imagining the rant OP would have had at the queues when Krispy Kreme opened at Hermiston Gait in Edinburgh. It brought almost the entire city to a halt.

Sometimes people like to eat comforting familiar food, and can even get excited about it (I speak as someone with no interest in burgers or doughnuts), especially if it's new, or there's been a refurb. Having different tastes does not make you more virtuous.

Why was my post deleted? It’s ok for the OP to call people “pathetic saddos” but not ok for me to call her rude and judgemental?

I think your post was deleted as you were being nasty towards litter wombles. I do occasionally participate in group picks - when I have a rare Sunday off like this Sunday coming up - then off to the Cotswolds for a few days.

The group I am a member of has picked up 175k bags in 5 years plus roughly the same amount in stuff too big or heavy for bags such as tyres, traffic cones, children’s bikes, car bumpers, the awful Nitrous Oxide canisters (big ones) etc.

We did one in March and there were 18 fridge freezers dumped in a lay-by

I wouldn't take it personally. I've had comments making incredibly important points deleted before, but I just take it as somebody else not liking the truth and being too delicate to face it.

Ponty Carlo?

I wasn’t being nasty towards litter wombles, I was pointing out that by calling herself a litter womble and making sure to mention that she participated in litter picks she clearly feels she’s much more morally superior than anyone who would dare to eat at McDonald’s.

Are you implying those 18 fridge freezers were dumped by McDonald’s eaters?

Anyway, I’m a vegetarian and actually never eat McDonald’s, it’s not that I’m sticking up for McDonald’s in particular, I just dislike seeing people presenting themselves as perfect wholesome litter-picking non-McDonald’s eaters with faux misunderstanding about why anyone could possibly eat there, when they are in fact being rather rude and judgmental.

Live and let live.

ThisOldThang · Today 06:36

I think that might just be a reflection of how clean McDonald's food is compared to the local kebab shop.

Or the fact that they use great quantities of artificial preservatives and conditioners in the, erm, food which they sell.

Some years ago, I went out one evening and there was a Mc Flurry on the wall at the end of our drive. It was a hot July day and it still had a perfect form. I was going to bin it, but when I came back from the pub, it still had a perfect shape.

I ended up leaving it for a week and it never melted, lost its shape and nor did the hundreds and thousands bleed colour into the "ice cream." I opened it and had a sniff, no hint of rancidity at all.

If you think that they use lovely clean, fresh ingredients....

Not disputing your overall point here but I’ve never seen a McFlurry with hundreds and thousands.

That's a bare faced lie.
It's just ice cream, and the ones I've had melt as normal, even without hot weather.

Actually I am disputing your point, because I remember my DC having a McFlurry that turned to liquid because she was too slow eating it.

That's a bare faced lie.

No, it's not.