McDonald's - Buy One, Get One Free

StartingAgainKayla70

Had a mcdonalds, ok it wasnt on offer but it was


LOVELY mmmmmmmm

Roger_Rampant

BTW, while discussing vegetarianism, is oral okay as long as you don't swallow?

Haha didn't notice that had sneaked in there until I was just re-reading the thread. I see that nobody has yet answered the question..

I've never had a MacDonalds that tasted bad, the best thing about it is it's predictability. Although I prefer the taste of Burger King, MacDonalds offers better value for money IMO, especially for families

Have MacDonalds been done over the last few years, I remember various stories about KFC serving up fried mouse and a range of other unexpected delicacies, but I haven't heard anything similar about MacD?

Ety

I had a Kentucky Fried Claw once!!!!

Not very nice, they tried to buy me off with a free meal!!!!

Etyx

ben500

santana-mx3 wrote:

Last time I had the vouchers, I used a "free coffee" voucher. I think it was buy a breakfast and get a free coffee. Anyway, I ordered the breakfast and said I had a voucher for a free coffee which I presented and she checked it. She then asked me what drink I would like. Great, I thought. She's offering me a choice like they do with the meal deals. So I asked for hot chocolate (which is cheaper than coffee). "You can't have that" she said. "The coupon says coffee so that's all you can have". So why ask me then? What a waste of breath!. And she was the Manager. I had my coffee and it's fair enough, the coupon said coffee - I just don't see the point in them offering choices, just so that they can then say no!

You should have asked her to list the items on the 99p menu and each time she mentioned an item ask her how much it is.

sparkymarky

wallace wrote:

There is nothing wrong with McDonalds

Thanks Wallace, but there somethings that are wrong with McDonalds, I wouldn't say there is nothing wrong with McDonalds as it's a losing argument everytime.

Have a look at:
http://www.mcspotlight.org/

But hey, I don't have kids that McDonalds advertise to, to get them to pester their parents into taking them into to get the free junk that comes with their junk food.

Have you seen the advertising in there nowadays? It's just all aimed at kids or teenagers.

ozvaldinho

One good aspect of McDonalds is that they're opening more and more near busy motorways. On a long trip, especially if it's late, wet and miserable, you can stop, get a decent cup of coffee and relax. The coffee is good where they have the Black and White coffee machines that grind the beans and use fresh milk; at £1.09 it's as good as if not better than the £2.75 same thing at Welcome Break or MOTO rip off services.
The indoor play areas are great for little ones too; we like the one near the M11 at Harlow, but there's also one just off the M25 near St. Albans.
The food is nutritionally much better than the equivalent kids meals at Little Chef etc, we like the organic milk which tastes much better than normal tescos stuff. I keep my eye open for the voucher books the junk mail posters put through our door 2 or 3 times a year.
These 2 for 1 offers make their profit by encouraging people to buy a separate drink or fries to go with the freebie when a couple is eating. I have eaten both burgers myself on occasion but wished to hell I hadn't later.

Sybarite

Such a lot of opinions about junk food, all from a bogof offer.

Of course they're evil exploitative etc....and it's referred to as junk for a good reason.

I do have the occasion one though and always refer to it as a 'dirty burger' - which I have to admit adds to the guilty pleasure - I wouldn't exactly miss it if they went belly-up though. The larger one in my town has closed and we now have a Wagamama instead, so bingo.

I think the real kiss of death for MDs, if it ever comes, (despite the legitimate environmental, health and worker treatment concerns) is that even their target market, which rather cynically are those on low incomes and kids, started to regard them as really rather naff. They seem to have done their best to claw back some of their target trash and with the ads and the (tee hee) 'healthy' (the big kidders) options - you know the salads that look as though they're covered in bull's semen and that sort of thing.

The fast food companies appear to have a real sense of desperation in their ads though. The 'I'm chavin' it' ad made me want to find a MD's marketing exec and ram squashy burger after squashy burger into his worthless face whilst screaming 'are you still f**king lovin' it, you cynical media !!!!!'' until his souless eyes screamed , 'no more, I'm sorry, I won't do it again, pity me my life is empty'. but maybe that's just me.

Can someone also please explain the really, really dreary family in the current KFC ad - where everything is brown and 20yrs out of date? Apparently eating at KFC means that your life is so unfulfilled that the most you can look forward to is a lacklustre sexual encounter at the end of an evening whilst still tasting of grease and cheap ice-cream, having just eaten from a 'bucket'.
What are they attempting to tell us they think of their customers?
Presumably the children in the ad who are so horrified at their parent's unusual show of affection - engendered after forking out a tenner on some chicken offal for the evening meal - will be upstairs too, fingers in their ears as they try not to listen to the evidently infrequently practiced, inept marital congress of their parents and digesting undercooked fies and chicken skin. Is it just me or is this the kids' aversion therapy for never eating KFC again, and instead developing some deeply concerning psycho-sexual fast-food orientated abberations in later life?

Going even further off-topic (apologys) is it also my only little paranoia or are TV ads in general much louder than the programmes? I always seem to be reaching for the mute button these days and I'm sure I never used to.

I may enjoy a dirty burger on Friday, but I'll try to keep in mind that I'm probably paying more for the box than the food by-product inside.

tim_n

Roger_Rampant wrote:

Haha didn't notice that had sneaked in there until I was just re-reading the thread. I see that nobody has yet answered the question..

I've never had a MacDonalds that tasted bad, the best thing about it is it's predictability. Although I prefer the taste of Burger King, MacDonalds offers better value for money IMO, especially for families

Have MacDonalds been done over the last few years, I remember various stories about KFC serving up fried mouse and a range of other unexpected delicacies, but I haven't heard anything similar about MacD?

I've had the flip side with their sausage mcmuffins (SMM). When I popped into a McD @ Norwich, I was served up with a SMM where the egg - though hot through - still had a runny yolk! The sausage wasn't dried through and the bun actually warm.

On the other hand, the one in Southend gave me a SMM where the egg had been overcooked that it had started to go greeny, the sausage was like a biscuit and the 'muffin' was like rock.

StartingAgainKayla70

Sybarite wrote:

Going even further off-topic (apologys) is it also my only little paranoia or are TV ads in general much louder than the programmes? I always seem to be reaching for the mute button these days and I'm sure I never used to.

LOL Yes going slightly off the subject I thought it was my kids and I am always shouting at them turn it down and it is only when the ads come on.

mclaren_2

i do like the mchincken sandwich, 100% chicken, tho the batter etc... but over all once in a while it is nice. I dont like the juice tho, its usually flat