McDonalds - WHAT DO YOU THINK? (1 Viewer)

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I'd genuinely rather have a McDonalds and save several quid, even if I know the burger isn't as good.

I struggle to see a burger as 'eating out' food, unless I was going to a local indie who I would want to support, and then it wouldn't be my first choice.

I also know that I can fairly easily rustle up a better burger at home than I'd get at Five Guys for considerably less.
 
their burgers are fantastic! and the fries are next level!
This may be true, but the restaurant is so clinical and SO OVERPRICED.

As I said above, if you're paying that much GO INDEPENDENT.
 
I love Five Guys, specially for their fries 😍
But I only ever go there when I’m travelling for work and it’s work that’s paying. FUCK paying that much for fast food :D
 
Five Guys is fine but I've always resented paying essentially restaurant prices for something that's only a slight upgrade on the likes of McDonald's or Burger King.
 
Five Guys is reprehensibly expensive for what it is. They trade very much on hype.

I appreciate they have a better and freer choice of toppings than most. But I'm not really a fan of the nasty aftertaste of the peanut oil they use for their fries. And the restaurants themselves feel very COLD.
 
If I’m in the city, I’ll go to a local independent burger place. If I’m in the Trafford Centre (and, yes, I am already questioning the life choices that have brought me to that point) I’ll have a Five Guys. It’s nicer enough than McDonalds or Burger King that I can ignore the silly price.
 
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nobody said it was dear! I don't mind the vibe in the ones I've been to though. the one on the top floor at Milano Centrale is actually quite nice :D
 
I am a bit of a SNOB when it comes to most of these fast food places. Yes, it is disappointing but the hygiene is also GHASTLY in the vast majority I have been to.
 
Essentially McDonalds is the burger world's version of Poundland (terrible but you know what you're paying for), Burger King is Woolworths (DEAD just nobody has actually told Burger King yet), and Five Guys is WHSmith (existence and pricing both entirely inexplicable)
 
Didn't like the McRib when I tried it recently either. I could swear it was WAY better when I last remembered them (a while ago, must be decades though?) but this seemed like the worst kind of "90% water mystery meat"

Quite liked the BBQ Ranch burger they're doing at the moment.

Now I need to put my GUILTY PLEASURE aside and shake off some of these excess pounds but I feel like January is the most cursed time to commit to anything.


As for Five Guys I actually tried it for the first time a few weeks ago when my better half came over. Both of the opinion that it's WAYYYY overpriced for what you get and I feel that the "ooh peanut oil" thing they hype up isn't the magic touch that a mutual friend was raving about either.

However their milkshakes are amazing and although also overpriced, I'd happily go back to one just for that and pass on the burger and fries.
 
I love a McDonalds but Five Guys can honestly go and fuck itself. Messy burgers that look like they've come from a kiosk next to the waltzers, DISGUSTING chips, propaganda about how great your shitty meal is all over the bastard walls... yours for just the GDP of a moderately-sized principality.
 
McDonald's prices breathtakingly reasonable though. The grilled wrap of the day is increasingly something of a high street hack - £2 for a healthy lunch!
 
Oh yeah, and this from the UK.


This doesn't surprise me. I have a family member with first-hand experience of this a few years back. "Corporate" went through the most feeble of motions that amounted to someone vaguely being asked nicely if they could consider not doing it again, and then attempted to raise accusations (soon proven false) of stock theft against those who had raised complaints. Good to know little has changed!

I should revise my previous comment. They are not Poundland. They are Poundland ran by Andrew Tate.
 
Oh probably very true, but we've never had it over here. There's FAR better burger places generally...
Actually this isn't strictly true. I remember eating at the Shaftesbury Avenue branch in the 90s. I'm sure it was there for at least two decades before it was replaced with a McDonalds.
 
Always preferred Burger King. Neither are healthy but Burger Kings Salad & burger taste less mechanical.
 
Actually this isn't strictly true. I remember eating at the Shaftesbury Avenue branch in the 90s. I'm sure it was there for at least two decades before it was replaced with a McDonalds.

Yeah I do remember that too, but I meant as a chain provincially. It seems to have only expanded that way in the last year or so…
 
Maccas is fab as a drunken or hungover mop-up (especially that shitty breakfast :disco:) and obviously a local, homemade burger is nice for a casual meal out. But I do think Five Guys has its place. Yeah it’s stupidly priced, and the fact that it is fast food but done at independent prices is rubbish, but sometimes you just want something thatIs clearly better quality than normal, but not quite a local type affair.

The burgers taste great to me and those Cajun fries are delightful :disco:
 
The fries are grim but the burgers are good if you just need something delicious quick. It’s on a par with a pub burger, which whilst may offer a better atmosphere are more hit and miss.
 
Maccas is fab as a drunken or hungover mop-up (especially that shitty breakfast :disco:)
Mr Sheena has a weird McDonalds hangover breakfast delivery fetish and it's fucking HIDEOUS. The breakfasts are literally the worst things in the world ever. UTTERLY inedible. That ROTTEN plastic egg, the muffins, the ENTIRELY TASTELESS hash browns. FOUL. And then the cunt decides to get one off Deliveroo and sit there MUNCHING ON IT in the MARITAL BED whilst I'm still chewing my face off from the night before.

NOT ON.
 
And conversely, I quite like a Subway breakfast sub, despite actually generally hating Subway, cause it smells of sick.
 
I'm a longterm McDonalds fan, but their venues have become noticeably repellent in the past 5 years or so - in London, at least. I rarely go to one now as a result.

The upstairs is so often 'closed for cleaning' even when the downstairs is fucking rammed and there are no tables.

The fact you have to order from a screen that other people have touched with their pooey fingers I can take or leave, but the wait time now always seem excessive for foods they really should have available already - obvs this is inflated by the deliveroo/uber eats orders.

It was never exactly a FINE DINING EXPERIENCE, but it always used to be somewhere pleasant and quick to eat alone or with a friend if you only had 15 mins or so. More often than not now I'll give it the swerve, as it's become needlessly stressful and unwelcoming.

AND BRING BACK PLASTIC STRAWS AND SALT SACHETS THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO ASK FOR

P.S. The Sausage and Egg McMuffin and McDonald's hash brown will always be magnificent to me.
 
None of the McDonalds burgers compare to a Burger King whopper for me, and Burger King’s fries are far superior. I haven’t had one in months and this chat has made me crave one.
 
There are times when only a sausage and egg McMuffin can scratch an itch.
 
I had my first McDonalds in about six months on New Year's Eve. I generally only eat them when I'm abroad now. The one in Luxembourg city centre was WELL POSH.
 
I had my first McDonalds in about six months on New Year's Eve. I generally only eat them when I'm abroad now. The one in Luxembourg city centre was WELL POSH.
Do they just make more effort in Europe? Well, in some places at least. I remember the one near the Spanish Steps in Rome was beautiful. And the one in the square in front of the Pantheon is always my TOP TIP to anyone going there to get a tourist view without eye watering prices.

Whereas all the ones I've seen in London have been the same old shit they are everywhere, if not worse.
 

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