Someone should have told me I could do this before now

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I recently visited McDonald's with my clearly more knowledgeable kids and watched them order burgers stripped down of everything bar the burger, bun and ketchup. But then I noticed there was a plus sign to add on as well as a minus to remove.

This was even where there were already onions and pickles on the burger so it means you can have EXTRA onions and pickles to the ones already included.

Why did I not know this? My mate who was with us did not know either which makes me feel a bit better but how long have I been missing this trick???

Am I being unreasonable to think my kids should really know they need to tell me these things

I used to work in Maccers mid to late 90's and we did this. You just had to ask at the till, so I guess I always knew. Thinking even further back my friends used to get no onions or pickle in their burgers in the 80's.

Just here from Thailand to confirm they still do those 😁

They do some great stuff. At the moment they have a "cheesy" burger which is like a cross between a big mac and a cheeseburger with a really yummy sauce.

Oh and don't get me started on the banoffee pies. Basically the apple pie, but banoffee flavour 🤤

I think it used to be the case when they had a load of stuff prepared that sat on a warming plate. Nowadays every order is “freshly” made. They take the pre-cooked burgers, load them up and heat them through.

I always get a little tub of extra gherkins if I ask

Bc it’s all made fresh

Tut tut

you forgot the 🎖️

If you ask for extra, or without, anything you tend to get a freshly made burger. So I always ask for bacon and cheese with my Whopper at Burger King for instance.

Wait. What?? How did not know this.

Are you a bot?

Why does anyone think this is worth posting every time McD is mentioned?

An extra slice of cheese, ketchup, mustard and onions on a triple cheeseburger. Yum!!

Filling like a Big Mac but under £3.50

The customise feature is great, I remove the ice from my Diet Coke as they always put too much in.

One of my DC prefers a plain cheeseburger too.

The best McDonalds trick is to order a vanilla milkshake and an espresso, mix together = coffee milkshake

We used to be told to make them from scratch, due to allergies, in the 90's. So yes it would have been fresher at our store but I can't say across the board. I find it is a lot slower these days as you have about 1/3 of the staff, and they all look half dead, so the old "3min turnaround from order to customer" we all had to adhere to is well and truly dead now.

Fucking love their pickles.

They do this to me with my iPhone! They know all these cool tricks that are so useful but I obviously don’t know about! Like, why aren’t you showing me all this!!??!!

I went to grab a cheeseburger last week, overheard a staff member saying a woman had asked for no sauce, onion or pickles on her cheeseburger, but was coming back in 5 minutes to collect it. Not long after, my cheeseburger arrived, as I went to eat it, discovered no sauce, onion or pickles, the best bits! I took it back explaining they must have given me the wrong one, they gave me another.

All good, except, they then rewrapped the burger I had manhandled and popped it in a bag ready to hand over to the correct woman 🍔😶

I’ve always customized my burgers because I know it’s at least a bit. Not in the UK. The McDonalds in the UK is bad really bad!

I love the customisation because I remove the pickle, onions and mustard, although the last couple of times I have been in, there has been onions :(

The funniest thing was when I had a free double cheeseburger with points, so I claimed that and removed 1 patty. Somebody came to my table and asked me if I wanted no patties. I said no, it comes with 2 and I removed 1 so it should have 1. it turned up and had 0 patties in it.

The next time I had the same offer, I removed 1 patty and again they gave me just a bun with ketchup and cheese in it.

Mcds I know for sure is always made fresh. The brand is battling the idea that it isn’t as a lot of ppl customise to get a fresh one but there’s no need.

I doubled the McP last week. Check again, it might be available again in your store.

I only know from ordering on the touch screen. They changed the recipe about 10 years ago and found they are a trigger for ds cluster seizures. So it’s usually nugget or a wrap.

But I do remember ex’s daughter asking for a plain cheeseburger. So I’ve always known you could ask for it without. But didn’t know you could add anything else extra other than cheese.

Certainly since at least bk did "you got it your way" you've been able to take stuff out of burgers for years at bk and maccas.

Adding stuff only happened relatively recently

You haven't mentioned the best bit which is that if you order extra pickles and onion it is FREEEEEEEEEE

Extra ketchup on the burger is also free, whilst ordering it seperately can be 10 p

Another "add on" I like is adding another sausage patty to the "single mcmuffin and drink" deal which is normally £2.79 (London.) This turns it into a double mcmuffin but you get to keep the deal for only a little extra (I think it is £3.49 total)

🤣

Yes UK! I will try this.