Mind boggling experience at McD'sFollow

Mr. Pikko just sent me a vid of the McDonald's strip case from two years ago, which I hadn't heard about before because I guess I live in a bubble and all, so I thought this thread was about that. Apparently today the girl won $6.1M from McDonalds.

Must be a weird regional thing then. A whopper costs less then a big mac around where I live (and is a lot bigger). A quarter pounder is about twice as much as a whopper. The McD's quarter pounder is much much smaller then the whopper as well, most notably because it has practically nothing inside it. It's a smushed flat bun, with a scraping of stuff and a shriveled patty. The whopper ends up being about twice the size (and fills me up much better). And the whopper tastes a heck of a lot better...

Er? The Whopper is 290g, the Quarter Pounder is 171g. That's weight Joph. The Whopper has much more "stuff" on it beyond just the meat. That's why it's a bigger (and better) burger. Yet oddly, the Quarter Pounder is priced noticeably higher.

What's really funny is that you insist that we don't compare the Big Mac, yet the Big Mac weighs in at 214g. It's *bigger* then the Quarter Pounder Joph.

The Quarter Pounder is pretty much the worst buy in terms of cost for food IMO. It's a disgusting thing that's just bun, meat, cheese, and a thinly spread bit of ketchup inside there somewhere. Put it side by side with a whopper sometime and you'll see what I'm talking about.

I'm going to have to agree with gbaji on this, there is no way that the whopper and the QP are the same size burger. The whopper patty has a much larger circumfrence and is actually thicker than the QP. At least, it is here in Winnipeg. Tastes much better as well imo.

This has degenerated into perhaps my favorite Joph and gabji back-and-forth ever.

I say fUck em both. The burgers, that is. There was a Primetime or a Dateline or some other news magazine show a few years ago that tallied the health code violations for the top ten major fast food chains, and Burger King destroyed the competition, in a bad way. They were far ahead of the other chains in both the number and severity of violations.

I haven't eaten there since, and I used to fUcking love getting stoned and heading to Whopper Wednesdays. I loved it.

Of course, it's been even longer since I ate at Mickey-D's, because their food has been sh*t ever since I stopped wanting the toys out of Happy Meals. At least they're clean, though.

Subway was number three on the list of worst offenders, by the way, largely due to the fact that the ingredients sit out too long and become little bacteria traps. Nummers! I haven't eaten there in a few years, ever since there was one across the parking lot from my agency, and every time I did I got the worst sh*ts.

The cleanest of the ten largest restaurants? Taco Bell. That's right, Taco-MotherfUcking-Bell. I don't even know what's in a Crunchwrap Supreme, it could be people, for all I care, but it beats the hell out of the Whopper, a Big Mac, a Quarter Pounder, with or without cheese and that ****** Jared.

Edited, Oct 6th 2007 12:40am by Barkingturtle

Around here, Burger King isn't that bad. Something like $5-6 for a Double Whopper combo. And their fries make it all worthwhile.

Whataburger around here is horrible though. $6.50+ for a single burger with cheese combo. Less than $5 without the cheese. Add bacon and you may have to mortgage your house. I've had a single value meal cost me $12.

Edited, Oct 6th 2007 4:37am by Poldaran

What a pansy stomach you have. Quit blaming the restaurants, and work on your stomach skillz. Fuckin' first-worlders.

I work at Taco Bell (yes, we have very strict food cleanliness rules), and I'm printing out the OP for my coworkers to read. It should get a few laughs and "OMG"s.

I can tell you, if that McDonald's manager had been a manager at our Taco Bell, she would be out on her *** and Elderon would be enjoying some free tacos and burritos right now.

Feh, if you weren't such a pasny it would have had the fingers, too!

I hated french fries at that age to be honest. And knowing my mother, she'ld just serve me those carrots again the next day if I hadn't eaten them the first time round, no sugar added whatsoever.

Luckily, she was a bit more merciful with those fries, cold fries aren't really appetising.

I'ld try it out but unfortunately after messing up my order for about the third time this year, I'm not going back there myself. (ironically, they forgot to add the fries, again, as it's drive-thru and about 10 minutes later, I just couldn't be bothered to head back, again)

I'll just have to take your word for it

I printed the OP and gave it to the GM at my Taco Bell. She and the others who read it were speechless. She asked me if she could keep the printout so she could make copies to hand out at the Taco Bell office.

What did you really expect from someone being paid $7 an hour to work one of the crummiest jobs known to man?