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.

Just had a quick Google and the only place there has been a McFlurry with hundreds and thousands is Australia. Are you in Australia @SinnerBoy ? Maybe the McFlurry ingredients are different there if so, because the ones in the U.K. are just made of standard melting ice cream.

Of course it is. A McFlurry is just normal soft-scoop ice cream, the same stuff you get from an ice cream van.

Never melted in the hot sun my arse.

There's a Mcdonalds's near me, where the drive in queue blocks the entrance to Majestic Wine - it matters, trust me!

Rubbish. If anything they melt too quickly. Worked for McDonald's for ten years and made probably thousands. Never heard of a flurry in the UK having hundreds and thousands either.

Ice Cream
Ingredients: EITHER: Allergen Ingredient:Skimmed MILK, Sugar, Cream (Allergen Ingredient:MILK), Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient:MILK), Glucose Syrup, Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carrageenan), Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Flavouring.
OR: Allergen Ingredient:Reconstituted Skimmed MILK, Cream (Allergen Ingredient:MILK), Sugar, Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Glucose Syrup, Allergen Ingredient:Skimmed MILK Powder, Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carrageenan), Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Flavouring.

Why lie to make a point about how much you look down on McDonald's 😆

Ah stop I'm laughing again at womble 🤣

Post of the day 😬

Also… ‘opened it’? McFlurrys have nothing to open. They’re ice cream in an open topped tub.
Genuinely, what did you think you’d achieve by completely making something up to try and prove a point?

This is certainly the case whenever I've been to a McDs in the last few years.

The difference is enormous.
The kitchen and staff are trying to keep up with orders whilst the queue of cars gets longer. If they want to be sending food out they need to have separate (or additional) kitchens and staff to meet that demand.

McDs used to be reliably quick, but you can wait an age now.

I’m a lifelong vegetarian who supports McDonalds. An incredible number of marginalised people go there. It’s always open, it’s relatively cheap, they don’t hassle you for buying the cheapest thing on the menu and nursing it for hours, it’s ok to be/look a little bit odd.

The stupid snobbishness about this ‘erm food’ (it’s demonstrably food you absolute wally) really speaks to me of how privileged some people are and how disconnected from reality for many they have become.

I agree with you. Lots of mean spirited snobby comments on here.

I was in McDonalds today. It was busy. But the chips were cold. I just don’t understand… It was a Happy Meal for DS.

Had a Latte. Wouldn’t eat there. I did used to, it was better.

The “it doesn’t go mouldy” thing is just to do with lack of moisture, nothing to do with the quality of the food itself.

Food Science Babe has done some great videos about McDonald’s. Eg. https://www.tiktok.com/@foodsciencebabe/video/7247664239320714542

UnicornSpace · Yesterday 18:06

I worked there for years. Crew making McFlurries before the rest of the order was ready was a PITA because they often melted before the customer even got their food.

I saw what I saw, in the very hot summer of 2003.

Not been my experience, particularly with young children they always melt and make a huge mess.

It's more the traffic side and littering than hating on the food surely?
It's cheap crap that fills a hole. I actually quite like it occasionally. A hot calorific meal that's fairly affordable, the same everywhere you go and their hygiene is usually pretty good.
And of course we all need their toilet sometimes!
I don't hate it. I see why it's fairly popular, but I wouldn't want to eat from there several times a week. It's not worse than a Tesco meal deal health wise though in many cases.

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.

That is incredibly judgemental OP I worked as a supply teacher so some days I would be working miles from home and I may well have got a Maccys on the way there or back.

The furthest I worked was 90+ miles away so I had a hotel Mon - Thursday and on the Friday I worked the day, did any marking / admin and then drove home.

I agree with the McDs poor structure @itsgettingweird. A better idea is for the deliveries to be done in a dark kitchen. If you have never heard of the term, it’s a kitchen dedicated for deliveries. So the restaurant is dedicated for those who want go to a McDs on spec or pick up an order done on the app.

Some of the McDs around me are on the edge of industrial estates. Make the dark kitchens no more than half a mile from the restaurant. So staff take turns working in both places.

You didn’t, though. I think as it was in some kind of container that needed to be opened and it had hundreds and thousands on, the likelihood is that you mistook a product from another retailer as being a McFlurry. Don't worry, we all make mistakes.

You're more diplomatic than I am .

This. It's a cheap treat, out of the house. There is a bit of snobbery around McDonalds. Quite a few posters on here don't seem to realise a lot of people are struggling financially and a McDonalds might be a treat they can afford. We'd all make healthier choices if we could afford to, but a lot of people just can't.

I’m incandescent with rage that I now have the annoying phrase ‘litter wombling’ in my head now, and the thought of a judgy middle class group of people referring to each other as fellow wombles, litter picking in their casual cut off jeans, beige zip up fleeces and fuzzy layered wavy haircuts, judging these poor saps who dare to eat at McDonalds. You’ve simultaneously ruined the wombles of Wimbledon for me, litter picking, which is important and driven me to make sure I eat as much McDonalds as possible!

Haha love this. Yeah all OPs whining and snobbiness has made me crave a Maccys every time I see this thread in my list.

Yes!