30 years ago the McRib was amazing. They used to take the pork patty and baste it in this stick sweet bbq glue sauce. When you ordered one, they’d fish one out of the basting dish with tongs and slap it into a dressed bun and serve it in a bag. You ate it in the bag because it was just so sloppy.
These days they just dress the thing like a burger - patty on, squirt of BBQ sauce on top of the patty. There is hardly any mess to it and it’s basically just a pork burger. The experience of eating it and the lack of sauce makes it feel so bland.
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what would you prefer?
McDonald’s is proof of the susceptibility of most people to propaganda. I don’t understand how anyone can still eat anything there. It’s not good, it’s overpriced, it makes you feel like shit, and you’re hungry again 2 hours later. The nostalgia factor is definitely real because once a year or so someone will suggest getting it and I’ll think, hey I used to like it, and then every single time it’s incredibly subpar food that usually isn’t even made well because the staff hates their life. Stop fucking buying McDonald’s, Jesus.
The nostalgia factor is definitely real
It’s not just nostalgia. Parents will take kids to McDonald’s as a reward and then they get a toy and it’s very quickly ingrained in them that “McDonald’s = fun”. Where I grew up we didn’t have it so for me it was always just another place with bad food but I remember once overhearing some kids on a bus talking excitedly about going McDonald’s and what they are going to order there. It was like a special occasion for them.
Idk, it’s better than Hesburger and those were the only real fast food options till KFC and Burger King came here around 5 years ago. Sometimes you just want something you can eat quickly in the comfort of your car and drive on.
The real crime is how expensive it is compared to 5 or 10 years ago. It’s no longer significantly cheaper than a meal at a sit down restaurant.
Pretty sure it’s mostly so 12 year old boys can go there together and eat slop that doesn’t taste of anything and feel like a grown up for an hour.
It used to actually be fast food that I can see the appeal of if you’re in a hurry, but now it’s just poor quality slow food.
I’ve only ever seen the McRib in shows like the Simpsons, i don’t think that was a thing over here back then. When i saw it on display i tried it, and it has to be one of the grossest things I’ve ever paid for. Like even for McDonald’s fastfood slop it was so rancid.
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(Imgur deleted a bunch of content for the crime of not having a paid subscription, and they geoblock my country because the data protection commission threatened them with a fine for selling children’s browsing history and they’d rather take it out on users than simply filter the accounts they auto-tagged as children out of the data they were selling. We left reddit for a reason. Imgur is no less moneygrabbing.)
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McShitheads donated a large amount of money to the morons in the white house, I haven’t been there all year. They can shove the Mcrib up their collective asses sideways.
That photo of RFK having to hold a Big Mac is still the funniest thing out of this government.
Where do you think they’re coming from in the first place?
I heard it’s not earlobes but actually foreskins.
The McRib is proof that enough barbecue sauce can make anything delicious. If you get a bite that isn’t swimming in sauce it’s much worse.
I actually like the school lunch/prison food version of the same thing. I’m not gonna pay like 7 dollars for it or whenever mc Donald’s is up to now but there is something about it’s unique horrible-ness that gets me.
Earlobe meat. Such a random description, but it makes complete sense.
It’s funny because earlobes are, like, all gristle.
never tried it. I’m more of a fish eyeball kinda guy.
I read a tweet once that said that Burger King’s chicken nuggets tasted like “deer ankles.”
Another apt comparison.I’m hoping it’s random, but this is Lemmy. Guy might really eat earlobe meat. Whole point here might be why buy a mcrib when you can grab an earlobe off a homeless drunk guy under a bridge?
That might actually be the appeal.
If i want McRib, i skip the middle man and just buy a bulk family-size tray/tub of frozen microwaveable riblets and go to fucking TOWN
The prevailing theory is that McDonald’s brings the McRib back whenever pork futures are down, because it maximizes profit. That is usually seasonal- in the early autumn, when grilling season is over.
And why Germany, which has low pork prices, has the McRib year round
In fact from what I’ve picked up over the years it’s kind of a meme in finance to declare “The price of X follows the return of the McRib!” when really both X and the McRib are just driven by the same larger economic factors and not by each other.
My friend showed up with a mcrib the other day saying it’s been forever and the advertising got him. Took a few bites then said basically this and asked if i wanted it. For free it wasn’t bad but yea agree
We used to get something like the McRib regularly in school as a kid.
When I had my first McRib is was so disappointed. Idk how people are into them
McRibs taste exactly like these to me. A reminder of growing up poor. I’d say I can still taste the potatoes but they were totally devoid of flavor.
When I first looked at the image I couldn’t make out the potatoes? As an European I was really interested in the ingredients of this. I knew US food safety is debatable and the regulations are much weaker than in the EU, but what the fuck is this? This is the most insane ingredient list I saw in my whole life. How is it possible you do not glow green and shit silver colored liquids after digesting this? It makes me really sad that people really have to eat such garbage. The US is such a shithole for poor people. (Still loving you, at least the portion that stayed sane)
BBQ Sauce
- Water
- Tomato Paste
- Apple Cider Vinegar
- Brown Sugar
- Corn Syrup Solid
- Molasses Powder
- Molasses
- Wheat Starch
- Soy Flour
- Soy Lecithin
- Modified Corn Starch
- Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor
- Salt
- Onion Powder
- Ground Black Pepper
- Caramel Color
Mashed Potatoes
- Rehydrated Potato Flakes And Granules
- Water
- Potatoes
- Mono-And Diglycerides
- Citric Acid
- Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate
- BHT
- Sodium Bisulfite
- Water
- Cream
- Margarine
- Soybean Oil
- Water
- Salt
- Hydrogenated Soybean Oil
- Monoglycerides
- Sodium Benzoate
- Soy Lecithin
- Medium Chain Triglycerides
- Vitamin A Palmitate
- Beta Carotene [Color]
- Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol)
- Natural Flavor
- Soybean Oil
- Sugar
- Salt
- Nonfat Dry Milk
- Monosodium Glutamate
- Xanthan Gum
- Guar Gum
- Flavoring
Rib Shaped Patty:
- Pork
- Mechanically Separated Chicken
- Water
- Textured Vegetable Protein Product
- Soy Protein Concentrate
- Zinc Oxide
- Niacinamide
- Ferrous Sulfate
- Copper Gluconate
- Calcium Pantothenate
- Thiamine Mononitrate
- Vitamin A Palmitate
- Pyridoxine Hydrochloride
- Riboflavin
- Cyanocobalamin
- Soy Protein Concentrate
- Brown Sugar
Less Than 2% Of :
- Dextrose
- Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor
- Salt
- Paprika
- Sodium Phosphate
- Natural Flavors
- Caramel Color
- Citric Acid
Corn:
- Corn
- Water
- Sugar
- Salt
How is it possible you do not glow green and shit silver colored liquids after digesting this?
Food labeling in the US uses industrial or chemical names because… actually I’m not sure why we do that. I’m guessing it was some well-meaning but misguided regulatory idea. Anyways it makes our food labels sound absurd when they’re, as with this example, pretty straightforwardly just food.
The two big questionable things are the margarine and the TVP - both (imho) pretty gross for textural reasons, but both also staples of vegan diets and have been around for 50+ years. I’m gonna gloss over those because there’s tons of documentation on what goes into them online, it would take ages to break everything down (and I’m lazy), and honestly they’re just pretty inoffensive. Beyond that:
- Modified Corn Starch: This is a fancy name for anything from malted or low-boiled (boiled in a mild acid) starch. Humans have been doing this for millennia (it took me forever to spell that), there are a million variations based on the malting process or type of acid or etc.
- Corn Syrup Solid: dehydrated glucose (ground sugar, but derived from corn starch (which is itself just complex sugar) instead of things like sugar cane/beets)
- Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor: Also called “liquid smoke”, it’s shockingly close to literally being smoke in liquid form. It’s the condensed vapors you get from heating wood
- Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate - A truly ridiculous name for baking powder
- Mono-And Diglycerides: Naturally occurring, found in food oils
- BHT: this one is really contentious. It’s a naturally occurring antioxident found in a ton of fruits and nuts in low concentrations, but it’s been recently (2022) banned in the EU, though it’s still present in plenty of EU foods in small amounts. There’s been pressure to get it banned in the US too, so hopefully that happens soon
- Sodium Bisulfite: salt
- Monosodium Glutamate: MSG, the flavor enhancer
- Xanthan gum: a complex extra-sticky sugar
- Guar gum: Guar-bean juice. As with Xanthan gum it’s just a complex extra sticky sugar, but this one has been used for centuries to thicken foods
- Soy Protein Concentrate: Cooked, mashed soybeans
- Dextrose: sugar (chemically identical to glucose, again not sure why we feel the need to obfuscate this one)
- Sodium Phosphate: salt
- Mechanically Separated Chicken: Ground chicken
I’ll freely admit it’s not good food (I mean who adds sugar to corn) but it’s all food. Just food with dumb names.
They are literally those.
“Backyard bbq meal”
Mmmm…press X for doubt
If you add salt, pepper and butter the potatoes are good. Because they taste like salt, pepper and butter
Mix the corn and potatoes for flavor
Hey salt is flavor enough
Same at my school. The first two bites in the thing tastes amazing. The rest would be the most revolting thing ever.
Man, I went to a mac Donald’s today since maybe years. Everything’s smaller and pricier! Why’d anyone eat there instead of a regular restaurant
