I BEG TO DIFFER! (McDonald's)

Member Name: moonbailey

Product:	McDonald's
Date:	26/10/01 (159 review reads)
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Advantages: fun for kids occassionally

Disadvantages: the food and the ambience

Having just read an opinion that praises McDonalds to the hilt, I just had to write to the contrary!

The attraction for kids to eat in a big yellow and red playroom I can understand but actually commending the food? - that's got to be a joke, surely?

For three pounds, you can probably get a burger, chips and a drink - right? I have to check with you because, as you can probably guess, it's not a regular haunt of mine!

And what do you get?

A greasy burger that has been loitering in a freezer for up to a year. A hint of a salad or gerkin, and the biggest cheap bun you can get. The bun I would imagine costs 2p to produce, as it's mostly air and preservatives.

The 'fries' are alien to me. I cannot think of a time when I've tasted worse chips. So thin that there's no potato left in them and they are only held together by chip fat and salt. You need every sachet in the house to make them taste of anything - and since they are often served cold, they could easily pass for cardboard.

And a paper cup full of own brand supersaver coke, worth about a quid of your total bill.

A bargain? No, I think not.

Any time I have had to have a meal at a Mc Donalds (through lack of choice and overwhelming hunger), I have left, still hungry and feeling a bit greasy round the chops (blurrgh).

Take your three pounds somewhere else and get a half decent meal!

Most people imagine that places like Pret a Mange are really pricey, but you can get a drink and a crayfish and rocket sandwich - crammed with flavour, sauce and tasty chunks of gourmet fish - for the same price. Bet you didn't think you'd ever have that as a snack!

And the atmosphere is much better.

The music in Mc Donalds is designed to make you hurry up and leave - no really - they've actually looked into it. If you feel uncomfortable listening to the tinny sound system - you're more li
kely to free up a table and make room for more fools.

There are also rumours that additives in the food have addictive and hunger-inducing qualities, making you order more and come back again!

As you can see - I can't think of a good thing to say about this grotesque chain that seems to be taking over the world!

No, I don't want a Big Mac when I've just got off the plane in some far away paradise island. It appauls me to see the Ronald MacDonald sign in a place of beauty and great history.

In fact it makes me nearly as sick as the food.

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