 I am a Kansas City Barbeque Society certified barbeque judge. Got an official pin and everything. Granted, anyone with a few bucks in their pocket and a free afternoon can qualify for this distinction, but I like to mention it as frequently as possible. I also like to pretend that this makes me particularly qualified to assess the merits of McDonald's mercurially available McRib sandwich, seeing as it has "rib" in its name and all. I was wrong. There is no expertise needed. There are, for that matter, no teeth required for the consumption of this sandwich, in semi-discordance with the sandwich's signature "CHOMP!" campaign of the late 1980s. "Restructured meat products are commonly manufactured by using lower-valued meat trimmings reduced in size by comminution (flaking, chunking, grinding, chopping or slicing). The comminuted meat mixture is mixed with salt and water to extract salt-soluble proteins. These extracted proteins are critical to produce a 'glue' which binds muscle pieces together. These muscle pieces may then be reformed to produce a 'meat log' of specific form or shape." Mandigo told the authors of a University of Nebraska report on restructured meat products. Moser goes on to tie the sandwich's visceral appeal to the roots of traditional South Carolina barbecue (making inexpensive cuts of meat more appealing with a cooking process and a slathering of sauce), and its sporadic appearance on market conditions, quoting Mandigo once again. "If you suddenly start to buy a large amount of that material," said Mandigo, "the price starts to rise." Then the cuts go back into their traditional service as ingredients in processed meats like Spam and Vienna sausages. "That material," as Mandigo calls it, is pork trimmings - but not from the rib. According to McDonald's Executive Chef Dan Coudreaut, it's primarily shoulder and loin meat, chopped and formed into a boneless patty in the shape of a four-ridged rib slab, and then quickly frozen until it meets it final fate on a restaurant grill. Then it's slathered in sauce, topped with pickles and raw onion and served in a long, soft white bun. That's in adherence to the original recipe formulated by McDonald's first Executive Chef Rene Arend - also credited with the invention of the Chicken McNugget. While Mandigo and Arend's contributions may have been key, their creation has hogged all the glory, inciting frenzy each time it's reintroduced for a limited engagement on the McDonald's menu. Not only does McD's build buzz with promotions like an online "Quest for the Golden McRib" game, a now-defunct site for the "Boneless Pig Farmers of America," Twitter promotions and seemingly endless "farewell tours," - they also rely on homegrown hype from Facebook fans and enthusiasts like Alan Klein, founder of the McRib Locator website. Klein developed the site (which now has a popular Facebook fan page) to assist other fanatics in pursuit of the elusive sandwich. But does it really stand up to all the ballyhoo? Heck - that's up to you. Taste is an incredibly subjective thing, and as we often say around Eatocracy HQ, if it tastes good, it is good. In the opinion of this certified judge, it tastes and feels not so much (or anything at all) like barbeque, but rather akin to a thin, wet hunk of mattress padding slathered in sharply tangy sauce and spiked with enough raw onions to make the Lincoln Memorial tear up. The pickles are good and the bun sufficiently pillowy, but it all comes back to that squishy, machine-formed slab that I described to a colleague in an IM as "creepy." It may not be my cup of barbeque, but that just means more for you. Chomp. |
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The McRib is a good sandwich, but in my area.....
The homeless population goes into a steep decline almost right before the McRib comes out. Infact some well known transents in our area just go completely missing....
this isn't a joke....
take a close look at your cities homeless.... why is there so few just before McDonalds releases the McRib?!
WHAT IS THE MCRIB?! WHAT DO THEY MAKE IT FROM?! WHY IS IT SO DELICIOUS?!
soylent green! SOYLENT GREEN!!!!!!!!!
If you want to eat an even grosser, more gelatinous version of Spam…. Some sort of polymer-based gelatinous goo, suffused with chemicals & crammed into a bun so soft and fiber-free, you can blow bubbles with it—then have fun being a fatty! ☠☢
If I saw a guy eating this type of fatty, disgusting, revolting, filthy, nauseating, sickening mystery garbage—honestly, why give him a chance. If he’ll treat his body that piss-poor, imagine how he’d treat you…? Think about it.
Only a lonely, obese loser {or on his way to being one} would eat such crap...bleck!
☠☢
Don't worry, I can speak vegan....
what Sam here said roughly translates to; "I dislike the McRib, I have not had one personally but I feel entitled to berate it because I am a vegan." I think I translated that right.... so many different diolects to vegans.
I would rather eat a McRib than nibble foliage and get high off the smell of my own farts in the recycled air of my electric car on my way to another gay drum circle meeting.
I remember attending the grand opening of Mcdonalds on Williston road in Vermont way back in the early 70's, or late 60's. Not sure when and it may have been the first Mcdonalds in Vermont. Ronald Mcdonald was there as well as the flying hamburg he used to fly around on. Of course he rode it that day. But there used to be a villian, large strongman type guy, bald and a handlebar moustache. What was the character's name? He was there that day also. Everyone thinks i'm crazy and searching the internet yeilds no results on this guy. Please help me out on this.
Frank, that guy was the "Hamburglar". And you are not crazy in remembering him. I don't remember when Mickey D's finally started removing him from commercials; I think sometime in the late '90s. Probably thought he was a bad influence on all the kids they were trying to lure into the restaurants.
I had some of this writer's BBQ and it tasted like a month old road killed opossum with Shur Fine ketchup splattered on. I think he was actually arrested later because it really WAS that.
The McRib is sublime, this person never actually tasted one and is trying to make his useless life seem relevant by acting like a food snob.
If you want to eat an even grosser, more gelatinous version of Spam…. Some sort of polymer-based gelatinous goo, suffused with chemicals & crammed into a bun so soft and fiber-free, you can blow bubbles with it—then have fun being a fatty! ☠☢
If I saw a guy eating this type of fatty, disgusting, revolting, filthy, nauseating, sickening mystery garbage—honestly, why give him a chance. If he’ll treat his body that piss-poor, imagine how he’d treat you…? Think about it.
Only a lonely, obese loser {or on his way to being one} would eat such crap...bleck!
☠☢
Psssst! You mean "HER" useless life. Not his.
Love,
The Writer
Comparing McDonalds to Food is like comparing urine to water. Yeah, there's some in there, but would you want to eat/drink it?
All the additives in their food is what is causing 75% of the heath problems in America. It's all sugar, carbs, and high fructose corn syrup. The reason they call it "rib" and don't refer to it as "Pork" is because based on the amount of pork IN the patty, it does not meet the requirements. Remember that next time you eat one. The FDA worries when elderly people eat cat or dog food, but not when the general public eats this swill.
I am living in Germany and the McRib is always on the menu. So once this reintroduction ends, just keep a note in the back of your heads to find the McDonalds the next time you fly through Frankfurt.
And for all the haters, just order something else because there are a lot of people that really like them. Go get your Whole Foods wrap and leave everyone else alone!
McRib has no bone. Where is Mc Donalds getting these ribless pigs?
What about the children? We in the South must educate them as to what a real Rib Sandwich is.
They call it a "McRib", but thereare no ribs.... I suppose it's more appetizing than calling it "McExoskeleton", which would be more accurate...
I want a mcrib sandwhich machine in my house! Mmmmmmmmmm.......wettttt matressssssss...........
Laughing out loud at 7 in the morning is a great way to wake up. Thank you.
Youre welcome ;)
I had one in college in '81, right after they were introduced. It was delicious, but gave me my first-ever case of heartburn. I've steered clear of them ever since (and pretty much steer clear of all fast food now that I'm an old fart).
If I am going to eat something that is going to make me sick, I'd rather go to White Castle!
dat big D can sell my mcnatz wid da saucy
I can get the same meat patty at Aldi's 6 for $2 and they're pretty darned close. Why pay that much just for one sandwich? It's ok, but totally bad for you.
Just looking at the picture is enough to make me think twice about every trying this puppy.
You eats puppies?!
Lol^^^^^ leave him alone....hes probably ASIAN. J.k :)
McDonald's does not serve food. I can't quite put my finger on it but there is a weird vibe I get from McDonald's products. I don't feel that McDonald's products have a soul.
McRib= McNasty! I tried one last year...barf! Also, each McRib is 500 calories! I have seen so many people purchase two McRibs, large fries and a large coke. If you finish all of that you have now eaten 1810 calories! That is awful.
Get it right
Its a DIET coke without ice(Ice has calories?)
I have never gotten over the smell of the sauce boiling away all shift from when I worked at McD's in the late 80's. And I still bear the scars on my forearms from the explosion of grease hitting the grill when you seared those lovely gray patties. I may have tried one once, but it's those two experiences that make me gag a little every time McZombie rises from the dead yet again.
Not a fan of McDonald's anyway, but after reading this I'm even more disgusted. Rather than fries, they should be serving their sandwiches up with a side of Immodium A-D and a cup full of Pepto. YUCK!
along with big Mac and all that, it is just another way to get people fat. don't we have more than enough fat and overweight people in US already?
Its like the street walker of fast food sandwiches. You know it 's a gamble but sometimes you just gotta roll the dice. There is be plenty of time for guilt later
When I was in the Army, we used to call it "mystery meat". It was fed to trainees during boot camp. We knew it was meat but we were unsure what animal was sacrificed to make it. After leaving boot camp and able to find other food, we avoided it. Now it is marketed and hyped by news organization around the world. It will disappear soon and become a legend in our time, only to return again when everyone has forgotten what it really taste like. A truly great triumph of marketing over taste. No wonder America is the greatest country in the world.
@charls-I was in the AF. I had the displeasure of getting a tuna noodle cassarole MRE once. I'd take the McRib over that any day of the week.
Haha...right on with that. The Chicken-al-a-King MRE that looked and smelled like vomit was a winner as well. Would have LOVED a McRib while out on FTX but otherwise...no.
Mmm, McGristle.
First things first: I'm from Memphis, one of the BBQ capitals of the world (yes, KC, TX and the Carolinas are good too - I have no problem admitting that.)
But even though I'm surrounded by world-class 'cue, that damn McRib has something alluring about it that I just can't put my finger on. Every time McDonald's offers them, I'll have one - just one - and I'll love it. Then I won't think about it about again until it comes around again a few years later.
Every time this sandwich is re-introduced, I convince myself that I like it or at least that it can't be as bad as I remember. Then I go out and grab one. Then I take a bite. I am anything but a picky eater... I will try nearly anything and dislike nearly nothing. The McRib is truly awful tasting. If they made it even slightly less offensive, it could be stomached with the soft roll, pickles and onions. But the foulness of the flavor is unapologetic and bold. It hits me hard and stays with me. It's so bad that I have to take a second bite... maybe I just got a bad section. Then, BOOM, wow... it honestly is that terrible. The unpleasant taste on my tongue becomes overshadowed by a sense of wonder. How can they sell enough of these for it ever to be on the menu? How was it invented and originally introduced? Did they test a sample market? Who gave it the final green-light? Maybe it was a typo in the final report or a miscommunication with the tasters. At this point, I'm not even mad I bought it... I'm impressed. To sell food this objectively bad is like charging someone $3 to have you kick them in the nuts. I admire that it some strange way. I'm going to stop by the drive-through and happily pass $3 into the window this evening. As the sandwich is handed to me, I'll know that I am part of the problem. I'm the reason this sandwich won't go away. I'll go home, take two bites, toss it in the garbage and and swear the McRib off forever. Just as the sinewy, form-pressed meat product's impression has left my taste buds and the heartburn-inducing sauce is explosively expelled itself from my memory, I'll renege on my promise and get back in line for another roundhouse to the jewels. With fries.
Sounds like someone is in denial for their love for the McRib.......
Awesome sh!t...how about a Taco Smell review?
Don't you mean Toxic H*ll??? lol ;-)
I just spent half an hour looking for something to stuff in my anus to stop the McDiahrrea. Fortunately a wine cork did the job!
This is one of the funniest pieces I have read in a long time. You have got talent.
Thank goodness I'm not the only one that thinks the McRib is different than the ones from the old days. I thought it was another sign of old age, not able to taste the McRib like they use to taste. Why did they change it, why?
They didn't change the McRib, the problem is that the subjective quality of US pork in general has been declining. Much like other US animal products the breeds of pigs, cows and the like keep changing to get higher and higher "production", however the flavor continues to decline. This is why US butter and sour cream no longer taste like butter and sour cream, both have become quite flavorless. Try buying some imported and US products and compare them to see the difference.
Last time I had one of these was back in the '80s. It was bad then and it's going to be bad now. My stomach could take it back then, I think I'd be heavin' if I had one now.
They are 100% deliciousness. Trust!! Have your Maalox chew tabs available for afterward though.
You- the author-
should have your Kansas City Barbeque Society certified barbeque judge ripped off your miserable chest. How dare you to start to put this abomination in the same class as BBQ? How much were you paid for this infomercial blog? Regardless after this article, you and your opinions, aren't worth the burned BBQ on a grill. Get out of here before You get hit over the head with a BBQ mop!
I meant burned BBQ sauce on a grill.
Wow. Up the dosage and take it with some of Jylaen's rum.
The writer said the McRib was akin to a wet hunk of mattress.
How dare you besmirch Our Fearless Leader. You will now be fed Stubb's BBQ, The Wurst BBQ in America and then thrown into a Porta Potty with the door chained shut !!
okay I totally hosed my cursory scan. I saw what you all said and read the article without skimming. Doh! Yes I concur with the author, she can keep her BBQ judges badge. And it's not meds. but maybe the rum – it's great at fighting off the flu. I'll just go back under my bridge now. Sorry.
Ok, now that is just plain hateful.
Exsqueeze me, but doesn't anyone here realize we are talking about Mickey D's? The Rainbow Lounge? The bottom of gutter food? McDonalds isn't about food, its about food additives – legal addition additives that one will only associate with McDonalds. Case and point – why would anyone crave a McD's when better options are available? If Burger King is Crack, McDonald's is crystal meth.
Shut up and go get a big Mac. You know you want to.
I quit Mc'Ds fries years ago and I still crave them, more than anything else I've had an addiction to. What's up w/ that? One day at a time...
was up wid dat cuz my big D natz is da saucy
Trust me. I hate McDonald's but when you are in the middle of nowhere USA, you'll be eating there.
Have you ever had a White Castle? Now that's addictive stuff!!
Mmmmmmmm. whities One Bites. Nothing better at 2:00 AM.
Excellent article, has anybody wondered why the lines at McD's have been sooo long in the morning lately? Their Monopoly Game tokens are only good for free breakfast sandwiches!
"Restructured meat products are commonly manufactured by using lower-valued meat trimmings reduced in size by comminution (flaking, chunking, grinding, chopping or slicing"
Oh stop, I am drowning in drool at the mere thought of "comminuted" meat products on a bun!
Oh wait, no, I am not drooling, not even slightly. I'd buy one if it hits the 99 cent "value" meal thing but no way in **** is this thing a "rib" nor would I call it barbecue. It's second-rate spam dipped in sugar syrup passing itself off as barbecue.
Yuch.
A cousin to spam....that says it all.
Don't be hatin on Spam.
Ahhh, but there's so much there to hate.
What's wrong with meat that does not require refrigeration and has an expiration date a decade from purchase? Why the hate? What a sad, sad, world we live in.
I like them; they are tasty. Four McRib sandwiches and a pint of Jim Beam makes for one fine meal while watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 reruns.
David, sounds like you're a bachelor
Jim Beam? There's cheaper bourbon than that.
Wow what a great idea! Tho I'd prefer rum, everthing's better with rum. And then some Dr Who.
Will you marry me?
You say that like it is a bad thing?
How is it that your post got accepted, and some of mine are still "awaiting moderation"? LOL
I used to love this sandwich until last year when it came back around on the menu and I tried it. It tasted AWFUL, and the texture of the "pork" was gross. i don't believe it's the same sandwich they originally marketed. The latest is a cheap rip-off of what used to be a yummy guilty pleasure.
Same here. Liked them years ago. Had one this time out – wondered why I liked them.
I guess it's like New Coke – change the whole thing and hope no one really remembers it.
It's not from a cow or a pig...think smaller, more legs.
Spiders?
Centeipedes?
Squid?
Where's the bone? Call it what it is– a pork burger.
Bones take up mystery meat space.
Yum...
They are OK, But not really worth the fanfare. I think it may be due to the fact when I was growing up my schools Hot Lunches used the same "Rib" Meat for their own version which was about the same (No Onions though). But I am also close by to two very good bar-b-q places. That gives good BBQ at a good price. After eating real BBQ. The McRib just doesn't stand up.
I ate my first McRib back in '81. One bite into it, I dribbled BBQ sauce on to my white shirt. Sigh.
I heard that the sauce tastes like toothpaste with a hint of BBQ lol
Probably haven't eaten one in 15 years, but I remember them being tasty. I've become conditioned to avoid McDonald's based on their generally lackluster menu (even for fast food) though.
I have not had one since 1991. The year the Training Center at Great Lakes got food poisoning. Me included after eating a McRib.
@geist–Get back on the horse. Don't be such a pu$$y.
The best sandwich they ever had was back in the mid-60's when they tested a roast beef sandwich to compete with Arby's. It was sooooo good (and better than Arby's) but back then they (and Arby's) used good roast beef in their sandwiches (not that nasty pressed stuff Arby's has used for the last several decades). The same sandwich today would probably cost at least $6 so I guess they'd have to open a more upscale McDonalds if they were going to sell it now.
The McRib is to a BBQ pork sandwich as a MoDonald's hamburger is to a hamburger.
Huh?
True... and yet "Billions and Billions served"
That's all the 99% can afford.
I've never had one, and while I've got a slight curiosity about what it might taste like, I don't think it's strong enough to overcome my aversion to paying for something that seems to get more and more bad ratings about being mushy and tasteless. Besides, even the McRib fans that I know admit that though while eating it they're in a little bit of heaven, they will regret it lated because of the intestinal havoc it will wreak.
Try the advice I gave EG below. If you're really worried, make it 6 portions & 6 friends.
I don't know six people I dislike enough to do that to tham.
I tried one ONCE... no need to try it again.
No substance, seemed mushy.
This isn't food. It's made from things you likely wouldn't feed your dog, not to mention doused in chemicals. It' s loaded with fat, sugar and salt. And it's purposely designed to be essentially chew-less, so that there is no labor involved to ingest it.
The high fructose corn syrup laden sauce and pillowy white bun are nothing but refined sugars and carbohydrate– might as well eat the box for all the nutritional value.
All in all this is a disgusting faux food which ought to be shunned, not celebrated.
Do you also feel that everything eaten in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner is free of chemicals, fat, sugar & salt? Can I have the address of that fantasy-land in your head?
I can bet you that the turkey or ham I will have on Thanksgiving will not be all the left over bits and pieces that are left over as in what is in the McRib. I think that is the point he was trying to make...
Beth, sounds to me like you never eat any fast food. You probably dont even go out to eat at all. you probably eat lettuce and tofu. I'm not sure the McRib is any worse than what you could possibly be eating at your house.
Order it without the pickles, plus cheese, and maybe extra onions too. Yummy. If McD's happens to have a sandwich with cheddar cheese on it, ask for the added cheese to be cheddar instead of American, even better. Get at least two, they aren't as filling as they look.
Seriously!? Taste testing it? It's been around longer than most Americans have been alive, and, love it or hate it, there are very few people that haven't eaten one. What is the point of "taste testing" one and writing an article about it? It isn't as if they are new and unheard of. Either you like it or you don't, you aren't going to change anyone's opinion or get any of the remaining five people that haven't tried one to do so. This article might have been relevant for the previous generation...
Calm down Jason. Just because it's been around since the 80's and YOU'VE eaten what you need, doesn't mean everybody has. Look outside the box before leaping. You just may land in something you'll regret.
Look outside the box, that is exactly what I do when I see one of those things.
If we all saw what actually went into the meat patty...I'm sure we'd back away quickly. Disgusting. McDonalds is poison for the body (except for their caramel sundae's) ;)
Yes, a Caramel Sundae, that's healthy. Sugar, milk, artificial flavoring, coloring and other assorted chemicals. Much better for you than pork that has been ground and reshaped, onions, pickles and a wheat flour bun.
azz clown, did you flush your sense of humor?
Jason, that was a JOKE! Calm down.
It's nothing more than a rib shaped sausage patty smothered in BBQ sauce! When it's discontinued (again), those who crave them can satisfy their "jones" by forming an oval shaped patty, browning it over a grill and drowning it in the sauce of their choice! Voila!
Morningstar Farms actually has a veggie version that is healthier and taste way better.
http://www.morningstarfarms.com/morningstar-farms-hickory-bbq-riblets.html
Actual ribs, smothered in homemade BBQ sauce, and grilled to perfection, taste better than the McRib too, and probably better than some vegan re-creation of a riblet that probably costs 10X what a McRib does and is probably mostly soy/tofu. I love vegetables as well as meat, but I want my meat to taste like meat, and my vegetables to taste like vegetables. Why would a vegan/vegetarian want some vegetable muck that is processed, shaped, colored and flavored in an attempt to look/taste like a boneless rib patty? Vegans/vegetarians must come from another planet. Have you ever heard of a normal omnivorous human trying to grind and restructure animal products to look and taste like a carrot or a tomato, and then trying to force vegans/vegetarians to "try one"?
The veggie version is suprisingly good.
@ Jason L.
What I don't understand is the apparent frustration vegan/vegetarian products cause you. Get over it dude.
Actually, you can buy frozen riblet patties, buns, onions, pickles, and BBQ sauce at any grocery store, and virtually recreated the McRib, without all the hassle of forming the patty yourself out of sausage, and it will taste more authentic. There are also some riblet sandwich "TV" dinners that are close, and some "TV" dinners that have the riblets in sauce, sans bun that are similar as well. The McRib (which I do like, but don't fawn over like some dweeb at comic con might over a limited edition action figure) might be slightly better than the store bought ones. Like anything else in fast food, it is about convenience, and consistency.
Every McRib is the same, at every McDonalds in the country or world, and has been for 30+ years. They are affordable, and convenient, no preparation required. Just as the Big Mac and quarter pounder haven't changed in decades and are equally convenient. Anyone can make a better burger themselves than any signature burger of any fast food restaurant, but usually purchasing all the ingredients and fixings will set you back much more and take you much longer. Anyone can also make a better BBQ sandwich. Alternatively, anyone can get home cooked quality at a NON-fast food restaurant, if they want to pay 3X as much and wait an extra 20-30 minutes.
Jason, you really need to do a better job of staying on your meds. I've noticed all your posts on this one topic alone and all i can say...please find a support group. What a troll.
Want to know the secret ingredients in the Mc Rib? (It's rat pen1s!)
Sure, go ahead. I'll eat 'em anyway.
Ah! a conasewer I see.
I'll stick to Jameson's and cigs. Much healthier.
Barf-O-Rama
I just came back from Mickey D's...set a goal to eat 10 McRibs...finished 6 and a half and barfed!
McDonald's is not food so your survey makes no sense
u da smart 1 right?
Never had one. I feel like I should try one eventually just to see what the hype is, but I'm not sure I want to waste my money.
Go to McD's with 3 friends. Order 1 McRib, cut it into 4 equal portions and each of you bon appet!t. Anything more than that and you won't have room for the delicious 1/4 w/cheese you'll more likely enjoy.
Good plan. I shall take the minions. If I do not like it, they will eat my portion.
Also a good way to get rid of "friends".
That, my friend, is why you take minions. They have no choice in the matter.
"...Alan Klein, founder of the McRib Locator website..." is in DESPERATE of a life.
...DESPERATE need of a life.
Sorry McDonald's but it's the most disgusting thing on your menu! I never have and never will understand what all the "hoot" is about.
The "hoot" comes after you eat the McRib.
Next on the list – soylent green.
Regulating Soylent Green would be like telling me that I can't have a gun: ridiculous.
Haven't you noticed fewer homeless in front of the McDonalds lately.
As Homer Simpson would say, "Mmmmmm . . . restructured meat products commonly manufactured using low value meat trimmings reduced in size by comminution,flaking, chunking, grinding, chopping or slicing." (gurgle, slobber, drool)
Not until after he washes it down with a partially gelatinated non-dairy gum-based beverage!
You forgot frozen slurry
I feel like if you rinse off the sauce, it will just be a clear rib-shaped pile of gelatin.
I love being a heifer. That's Why I eat at McDonalds and wear a buttplug.
Do you listen to Limp Bisket?
bet she can hammer da whole can a da doughboy.
Dude, ya spelled Limp Bizkit wrong, but I can let that slide.
Are you going to McRib her about her chocolate starf!sh?
Gawd daayum that is fuking hilarious!
It's what I get paid the microscopic bucks for.
Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week!
I swear I'm still lauging. My boss is gonna kill me!
Mmmmmmm.....chocolate starfish
That's disgusting! Who would eat a starfish dipped in chocolate?
Richard Ssssimmonssss would.
nope, Mc Hammer
Yeah, I feel like if you rinsed off the barbeque sauce it would just be a clear rib shaped pile of gelatinous goo.
http://www.triond.com/jables19
pork fat rules!
I avoid Mcdonalds like the plague but I will go to the drivethough to get a McRib when they reappear every decade. It a guilty pleasure....
it be da bom bom bam! my piehole luvs da rib!
As with most of the Mcfoods, enjoy biting into your salt tablet...............
Take a salt tablet and just walk it off.
Yummy yummy yummy. I have cooked for Memphis in May BBQ teams in both shoulder and ribs categories, so I know it's not real BBQ in any sense of the word, but it is a tasty indulgence. No other fast food chain has a "gotcha" food like this. Kudos to McD!
We must be seriously bored to be reading an article about a McRib.
"We must be seriously bored to be reading an article about a McRib."
Sir, your comment reached out and struck akin to a high-velocity projectile designed to penetrate several inches of class A armor of the type used to clad the turrets of Iowa class battleships.
However, considering the flood of articles, so-called news stories, etc. dedicated to the meaningless froth and idiocy being spewed by those lap-dog lackeys of the upper-crust ruling class, corporate USA, wealthy/powerful special-interest groups, etc. who are seeking the candidacy for high-level political offices where they will be mere figureheads of their aforementioned masters and ultimately receive their assured financial rewards if they play their lackey roll properly, all legal with no promises required; those in-the-know are aware of how the "game" is played.
To think, the masses of the human herd, the well-indoctrinated/brainwashed citizen-sheep, believe that voting, especially at the federal level, actually makes a difference!!!!!
Moving along, an article about that quasi-food McRib is, to a certain extent, a welcome relief from the bombardment of the repetitive meaningless emotion-laden aimed-at-the-masses-of-uneducated citizen-sheep buffoons tripe and the news stories perpetuating the elite-class-owned mass media that assists the wanna-be politician lackeys and the various embedded systems that delude the idiotic citizen sheep.
You're enrolled in a creative writing class, right? You need a bit of work, but keep trying. By the end of the semester you should get rid of all the flowery verbiage.
you lost me at "
In spite of your efforts in trying to look intelligent, you come off as being a moron with a thesaurus.
A thesaurus is a dinosaur, right?
No honey, the disosaurs never existed.
Sniff. Sob.
I write in the manner my thought processes function.
No wonder I can't get any of the local lasses to swoon at my presence or long to become my bride.
Sniff.
Nearing ever-closer to a decade past the half-century age mark I dread facing extinction without ever ascending the alter leading to marital Nirvana.
Sob.
Well, I suppose it is hard to soar with raptors when immersed within a society chock-full of turkeys and mere commoners.
Mandigo says "Restructured meat products are commonly manufactured by using lower-valued meat trimmings reduced in size by comminution (flaking, chunking, grinding, chopping or slicing). The comminuted meat mixture is mixed with salt and water to extract salt-soluble proteins. These extracted proteins are critical to produce a 'glue' which binds muscle pieces together. These muscle pieces may then be reformed to produce a 'meat log' of specific form or shape."
Sounds delish.
"... reformed to produce a 'meat log' ...'
That's what happens in your body after you eat a McRib. HA!
Commonly known as a "hot dog". Ohhhhh Take me out to the baaaalll game...
McDonald's gives me the McSh|ts.
What is a Muslim supposed to eat? Not this non-Halal garbage! This is blasphemy!
They need to invent a McGoat!
You should know blapsphemy. Your "guide" to living is full of it.
Shame on you. Don't you know that God created Eve from a McRib?
I grew up in Southeastern North Carolina where "Real Ribs" are grilled and after tasting one of those McRib sandwhiches, I knew Mickey D's was ripping people off. It didn't last long in Southeastern North Carolina.
Wow man, you figured out that it was not real ribs bones and all. Southern people are so stupid.
Southern people are stupid but you live in the ghetto. Jealousy does not become you.
Had one, never again.
I'm vegan...lol. :)
yup me too.
Add another Vegan to the list .. don't eat meat, fish or dairy products and very happy about it and feel much better off that kind of food, my tummy feels good less heart burn, more energy, and sleep better too :)
Do you gulp down McSea Kittens?
Homo Sapiens are omnivores, not herbivores.
Unless they are PETArds.
How did you have enough energy to type your comment?
Just kidding, I like vegetables too. This morning, for breakfast, I had some zucchini, of course it was a side to my steak (rare) and eggs (over easy), all three fried in last night's bacon grease. The bacon grease was leftover from my wife's corn chowder. What good is corn chowder without a couple of pounds of bacon in it?
I liked them as a kid and then longed for their return. Each time, I like them less and less. I live in Chicagoland so they seemingly appear more often in stores here. It is funny that they are back now because just last week I made my own with a left over teriaki marinated porkchop, pickle stackers, white onion, and a good sweet tangy BBQ. I used Sweet Baby Rays but this is not a commercial for them as any BBQ sauce would do great. I only had white bread but a bun or roll would have been better. It was awesome. McDonalds got the recipe dead on target but they just use cheaper ingredients. Make your own, you wont regret it.
"I only had white bread"
My political correct indoctrination requires and compels me to knee-jerkedly bellow the "racist" term and make references to "bigot", "hater", "xenophobe", "hater of brown people" and various other emotion-laden words and terms even if the topic is far-removed frm anything actually related to a "race" issue.
I feel so pure now!!!!!!!!!!!
Darren you remind me of every single allrecipes poster/reviewer I've ever seen. And not in a good way.
A couple McRibs during a lifetime. Nothing wrong with that. No one is saying to eat only McRibs for the rest of your life. Take a chill pill people.
yummy goodness but in moderation.
"yummy goodness but in moderation."
Even better when scavenged for free but still fresh from and eaten while within the dumpster behind McD
The "new reality" within the "New USA" of immense wealth disparity and an ever-growing underclass of working- and unemployed poor people.
The HUGE horde of working-poor and below who ponder why politician vermin and political candidates always mention an ill-defined middle class but nary a mention of We, the People, those at the bottom of the socio-economic pile....the IMMENSE number of USA citizens.
Those dumpsters are too-often life-sustaining vittle providers and, if lucky, abject homelessness is evaded by owning a car or truck to live in; providing shelter from wind and rain and some safety from attack when asleep.
Get a job buddy, or go hang out with your other useless friends at occupy.
I've gone mostly meatless. The absolute garbage they (big corporate farms) feed the animals is disgusting. Cows eating genetically modified corn and then we slop it down by the metric ton. Pigs are eating meat and other pigs. Not to mention the hormones and preservatives. All of this is anything but natural. Can you imagine what kind of waste is in the Mc Gristle? This is also why this crap on a bun costs $1.50; because it actually costs about 2 cents to make. All of the floor smeg is collected for this debacle on bleached white bread-like material. Then these stupid people go crazy when it makes an appearance every year or so. UGH, it must smell like three day old a$s in the facility where it's ground up, cooked, liquified, squeezed out and pressed into a revolting rib-shaped atrocity. This is also not news. It's more like a scumbag McDonald's special CNN commercial. Just plain friggin gross.
HA! My Comment is 'awaiting moderation'. I suppose if CNN doesn't like my Mickey D's bashing they won't publish it. Let's see.
Costs $1.50 you say? Are you 90 years old or just stupid?
Hmmm, about "other pigs", I'm pretty sure I read it is highly illegal to recycle deceased livestock into the feed mix but who knows.
Have you ever tried one?
So it would seem that McDonalds has bought some advertisement time on CNN now wouldn't it? CNN you are no biased or fair and you have been bought for a price. Shame on you.
Clearly, you didn't fully read the article, as the article makes the McRib read in a disgustingly processed way. I was wanting a McRib before this article, I am unsure now after reading it.
Why is there always some moron like you making unsubstantiated claims (that don't even make sense)? Who forced you to click on the article?
Because phrases like "restructured meat products" and " thin, wet hunk of mattress padding" makes it sound so tantalizing? Even the photo they used just looks like dog food on a bun. No McRib for me, thanks. I choose life.
Are you serious? That photo makes me want one even more. I have to get at least one before they are gone.
I'm getting chest pains just reading about it. :)
Keep up the good work. We'll be waiting on pins and needles.
All fast food chain restaurants should be banned, they are sickening America. McDonald's is full of lard.
lard.....mmmmmmmmm
What!? Hell no, if my McSkillet Burrito were to disappear, I would choke multiple people
Don't like it? Don't eat it. Everything should be taken in moderation, emphasis on everything.
I can think of a million things in traditional sit-down restaurants that are worse for you in calories, cholesterol and sodium than this sandwich is. Most of the stuff in the aforementioned restaurants is just as bad – if not worse for you – than a fast food's menu choices are.
I agree with umad- hell, next month most of us will be eating one of the most calorie laden, fattening, high sodium, high carb and overly sugared meals of them all and it keeps us coming back for seconds and leftovers....... Thanksgiving dinner. It actually makes the McRib seem healthy by comparison.
No!! Lard in moderation is awesome!! It's not McDonald's fault people don't have self control.
I recall back in the early 1980's Mickey Ds was my first job as a teenager. I never forgot how someone dropped a MCrib on the floor, then picked the thing up, hairs and dirt and served it to a customer, through drive thru as I recall. Rush hour was craaazy!. I never said anything BC I never thought to being 15. They should call it Frankenstein c rap! They take the cheapest leftover pieces of pork and grind them up to create a horrible mess. Not for me.
not a fan of barbecue sauce to begin with, so why on earth would i possibly want fake barbecue ribs on a freakin' sandwich from a fast food joint......is mcdonald's out of pulsating cobra hearts??????
Mmmmmm . .Cobra Hearts . .
You'd probably be ecstatic if they came out with a McTofu burger. Now THAT would be disgusting.
Hold the pickle!
That's Burger King, Jeff. You don't get out much, do you?
I liked the McDLT as a sandwich– closest thing McDonald's ever made to the superior BK Whopper. But making the dumb things was a logistical nightmare for the grill cooks and production caller. Those clamshell holders were a pain to arrange on the grill platform, then we had to add about a million ingredients, including gobs of lettuce that went everywhere and a caulking gun filled with mayonnaise. We didn't have an actual slot in the service bin for those styrofoam monstrosities, so half of them either fell apart or melted under the heat lamps. There were days when I was calling the bin myself and I'd turn around to see a mountain of McDLTs stacking up on top of the griill stations. What a mess. The McRibs weren't actually that popular after the "new" wore off.
Mc DLT was great...they should rework the concept. Nice crisp lettuce and tomato..the Mc Rib should be banned.
McRib = McMystery
Yer right– McDLTs were the bomb. Wish they would bring that back.
The McRib is gross. The thing is made with leftover, bottom of the barrel pig$ hit. The sandwich is so sick! Please don't support this kind of garbage. Don't buy it.
Dude, most food we eat in fast food restaurants is low cost pig$hit. For everyday use, plant a garden and buy organic fruits at the market–tasty.
Not worth the calories. Do yourself and your community a favor. Drive right past McDonalds and find a local restaurant, diner, food truck, hot dog stand – anything – with food grown locally that is cooked and served by real people with pride instead of corporate monoliths like McDonalds or Yum! Brands.
Right on. Local sown, local grown. It works well for me at the local farmer's market.
The only item on McDonald's menu I would even consider is the McMuffin, Hash Browns or french fries. The balance of the menu I would not feed to an animal. I love the free advertising you are giving to McDonalds it helps there bottom line but doesn't do anything for the quality of their food.
I love McRib when it's done right. I live in an area where there are four McDonalds close by. Two of these are owned by the same person and they dilute the sauce down and it doesn't even taste the same. However the other two, the sauce is thick and plentiful and love to dip my fries in it. I don't like a lot at McD's but love fries and good McRibs
Hit it now.............You got your McRib on High and your McRib on Low. Eat it up now....don't ya know!
A pickle here and pickle there.................Eat it up now..... and watch'em stair......
You find the onion half on the bun............Eat it up now..... Yum Yum Yum......
That tangy sauce to hide the meat.............Eat it up now...... your no creep......
Gota laugh, at all the comments here..............Eat it up now.......... if you dare!
An original from MC RIB...
Gotta Love MC Dee's
GROSS. Mc Gristle.
dat saucy is da sh it
LOVED the McRib during my adolescent and omnivorous years. Since going vegetarian a dozen years back, however, I've found a respectable substitute at SUBWAY. Just order their veggie patty on white bread, add plenty of onions and pickles, and smother in BBQ sauce. Voila! Vegetarian, cruelty-free McRib. (Hey, don't knock it until you've tried it!) Curiously, Subway tends to bring their BBQ sauce in and out of rotation, so crafting the animal substitute McRib can be just as erratic as the real thing. (When that happens, just take it home and add your own sauce...Subway BBQ sauce is pretty lame anyway...)
How vegetarian are you? I'm stuck on chicken and fish and can't get passed it. About subway, Jon Stewart put it like I never could: "When you walk in there it smells like a loaf of bread took a sh**".
I worked at Micky D's for years as a teenager and have always been critical of their food and their service. I have enjoyed the taste of the McRib for years but for some reason last year my wife and I agreed that the taste and McRib experience had changed. I can't put a finger on it exactly but that it was not good anymore. I know it's not healthy, like pretty much all fast food, but something appeared to be different and less tasty about the McRib this last year. I tried three from three different McDonalds locations in Iowa, during lunch rush hour. All were the same, subjectively poor. I know my sample set is small, but they just did not seem to taste the same or as good as in prior years.
I used to work there a long time ago too. I think it's just like anything in life, crap just tasted better in the past. Some stuff I used to eat or drink in the past are nauseating to me now. That's my guess.
The McRib didn't change....your taste buds did. In other words, you grew up!
So true! I used to rave about 5 Guys burgers but the last few times I have been not so good. I can only attribute it to cooking way more at home and controlling my portions and ingredients.,
I used to always go crazy for McRib when it was around. The "meat" is nothing special, but it tastes good enough especially when smothered in all that sauce and onions. Then I discovered that you can actually buy these patties at local supermarkets, and buying it on very rare occasions (maybe once a year) cures my cravings. But despite that, my mouth is watering just thinking of a McRib.
It's parts. It scares me. I am tempted to try it just to see what it is like, but I will save that for the next Fear Factor episode I happen to be in. Lips, ears and noses...They need to do something with that junk. Just creep,y scary, fake Soilent Green....
Reason #73,490,291 (why people are so fat!).
Really... come on people... Eat real food, go find some place that sells actual Ribs (or chicken, or pork, or beef, or hell veggies) and eat that. Gawd dam that is some really REALLY nasty stuff.
Funny thing is you could just braise some pork and make a pulled pork sandwich that is 1000x better and actual time spent cooking it is less that a trip somewhere to get a thing like this. Hell in a slow cooker you could just cook it all day while you're at work.
5 dollars of country ribs and you could make like 12 of these things.
I own a commercial quality smoker and make BBQ regularly. However when the weather is too bad (i.e. snowing) I have thrown a bone in pork roast in the crock pot with some BBQ sauce and seasoning... Shredded Pork in BBQ Sauce sandwiches for dinner!!!
Good food is easy to make, and if you don't go to most chain restaurants it's even easy to find. Eating all this highly processed garbage food is what is killing us! And it doesn't taste as good as quality food either!
I was eating a lot of pork, the stuff is dirt cheap if you know how to cook the rougher cuts, and you can do a lot with it.
We stopped eating most livestock animals, only chicken and fish mostly, but every once in a while I crack for some pork.
I'm glad McRib is not around all the time, but I do enjoy eating at least one when it is. I don't eat McDonald's very often, mainly because there are other tastier fast-food options available. But I'm a big McRib fan who lives in North Carolina – a state where we fight over which side of the state produces the best barbecue. It really is a good sandwich. Now if they'd only bring back the McDLT for a limited run, I'd really be happy!
I am happy to eat them.. even happier when you buy the combo and get the 2nd McRib for $1.00.....
I admit that the other day, I fell victim to not just the McRib, but the $1 extra for a 2d one heart-attack-in-a-bag deal. That said, it was the 1st time i'd been to a McD's since Super Bowl Sunday ($5 for a 20pc McNugget?!?!). Unless you're vegetarian (or Muslim or Jewish for that matter) I don't understand the haters of fast food-and this sandwich in particular. Of COURSE it's "parts"..all meat is parts...if they can make a$$lips taste that good with some sauce and onion, more power to em I say..waste not want not.
My father was a butcher by trade. So I learned a LOT about what goes onto making many different things. If I cringed at all the different stuff that wasn't made the way you thought, I'd probably have ended up a vegan or something. And if it comes down to choosing between a lo-carb imitation tofu patty and a McRib, I'll go for the McRib every time! Welcome Back McRib!
Like what, grinding meat and fat for sausage fillings? There is nothing a real butcher does that is anyway as horrific as this processed food.
I don't believe this is the original recipe. I remember the McRib being on crusty french bread-type rolls and having green peppers on it, not pickles and onions.
When I worked at a McDonald's in NE Ohio during the early 80s, the dressing for the McRibs we made were two pickles, a sprinkling of raw onions and BBQ sauce. I don't remember having green peppers in the store, and the way McDonald's did things, we would have had huge bags of prepped vegetables on hand for all menu items. The only topping I ever prepped from scratch were the fresh tomatoes for the McDLTs. The current bun looks similar to what we used back in the day, too. Corn-dusted and toasted. I will say that the modern patty does not taste the same as the original. I think we spent a little more time getting a crunchy sear on the originals.
You aren't remembering it right. It was pickles, no peppers. Maybe you weren't a fan of pickles back then and didn't know the difference.
I also worked at McD's on the grill, when the McRib was first introduced. Patty on the same grill as the 1/4 pounders, leave the press on it, flip it at some point. With tongs, dip it into the vat of maroon, way-too-sweet sauce, dress it with onions & dill pickles. The original bun was a crustier type than McD's usually used and it was toasted.
I ate several, 'til I took a minute one day to read the 4 ingredients, count 'em, 4 ingredients. Two were chemicals; 1 was salt; the last item on the list was pork.
If you haven't tried it don't knock it. I like them, a lot. In fact it is one of the few sandwiches which I look forward to at Micky Ds. I quit eating fries all together, as they have little to no redeeming value. But I will eat McRibs. :-) Fortunately they do not always sell them.
Gross.
Waiting for the marketing campaign featuring Charlton Heston screaming "McRib is made from PEOPLE"
L M A O!
yeah, good luck with that ... he's DEAD!!! lol
If the articles' description of how the patty is formed does not turn you off from this McAbortion then you truly have no soul.
Haha, I know, I remember eating a couple of those abominations as a teenager, I'd have to be really hungry and in some dire straights to eat one now. Then again I don't eat any processed food anymore.
>>I don't eat any processed foods anymore...
Yeah, right. You have no clue.
Actually, yes I do, I cook all my food from scratch from whole foods. I make it my business to "have a clue".
Then you really don't want to know how most of the other food you eat is made, processed or grown.. Stick to carrots, but you know those are grown in dirt.. right? You know, the stuff that worms crawl through?
And? So real food is grown in dirt, so that's bad? Someone is ignorant, and it's not me.
I agree Ryan...I don't think Dandy understands what processed food is or why someone would want to avoid it
I worked at McDonald's as a grill cook when the McRib first came out in the early 80s. I remember our restaurant had to figure out how to set up a new prep station for the rib patties, since the grill set at the proper quarter pounder was already pretty busy. The new clamshell grills made it easier to cook those McRib patties in a hurry, and I think they gave them a better sear anyway. We also had to install a new bun toaster and a new stack of buns, just for what we all thought would be a novelty sandwich item with a limited appeal. I liked the McRib itself alright, but I was actually ready for it to go away after the first run. It was a pain to make, almost as bad as the McDLT (don't get me started).
Oh, do tell!
If McDonald's brought back McDLT, I'd be a happy man...Loved that sandwich...
I want them to come out with a McSquid. Mmmmm....McSquid....
McCarp ??
You got two of those letters mixed up.
that's on their menu in Japan – serious
Roger Mandingo? Inventor of the McRib? For real? Wassup?
Roger Mandigo. Like most CNN commenters, you obviously read what you wanted to read, and showed what your true intentions are.
Haha, is that supposed to make him feel bad?!
Occupy McDonalds for pulling the wool over the consumer's eyes, thinking they are eating food.. It is not food, only fuel.
McRib is a food-like substance, it is NOT real food.
I first tasted a McRib when it was being test marketed in Arkansas. During the testing, the McRib was cooked then placed in a container of heated bbq sauce. When you ordered one, they fished around the bottom to find one that had been in the longest. They were good. Now it's fry, dip and slap on a bun and it's rather vile.
It doesn't taste that good....i wouldn't recommend it. Only thing that is good at Mcdz are 1. Fries 2. Chicken nuggets 3. Double cheese burger.
Agree, but would add those $1 yogurt and fruit parfait things w/the granola! They are REALLY good..it's fresh fruit, and the yogurt tastes almost like fresh whipped cream. I ate 2 of em at my McRib rendezvous the other nite. I read the nutrition stuff on the trayliner and they're only 160 cals apiece with the granola incl. I'd sign a petition to bring the McDLT back for a limited time.
Hmmm...thought I was the only one who actually liked the McDLT.
Yeah, me too. They were a heck of a lot better than the Big Barf Mac.
Hey look. No one ever died from eating at McDonalds------???????
Orly?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre
Absolutely False Statement... You may have an IQ that renders you to the status of dumb... Pretty common though, don't feel bad... Maybe just try an be somewhat educated before you post something.
Almost all fast food looks disgusting. The McRib tastes decent with a lot of sauce for a fast food BBQ-like product. Would I eat one if I had the choice of eating ACTUAL BBQ? No, I wouldn't. But I've tasted worse fast food sandwiches.
A friend once described the taste as "brown." That pretty much sums it up, but I love your image of "a thin, wet hunk of mattress padding slathered in sharply tangy sauce and spiked with enough raw onions to make the Lincoln Memorial tear up." Yeah, that works too.
People please show some respect on these postings. For it was from a McRib that God created woman.
WIN!
Don't you mean McWoman?
Why do people continue to eat this garbage? Does anyone know how to eat fresh vegatables anymore? And no...french fries and ketchup are NOT vegetables. Does anyone know how to cook anymore for that matter?
Calm down. No one is holding a gun to your head to go. Eat what you want, just like everyone else.
Hey ... stick a carrot in it.. :-)
i disagree bbq sauce is red
http://www.jakeandamir.com/tagged/best+of/page/4
"ketchup are NOT vegetables"
Look at history.
The USA federal government proclaimed a few years back that in regards to federal funding to feed impoverished hungry school kids and to allow the rich folks of the USA to pay fewer taxes that ketchup was, indeed, a vegetable.
That ruling allowed the already-extremely wealthy class to pay a couple pennies less yearly in tax.
Gotta' keep the USA's priorities straight, yah know.
in the last year i have developed an addiction to ribs. after all the hype and craze i really felt that i HAD to try the mcrib. I knew that it almost came covered in onions. Im not the worlds biggest onion fan so ordered with out. little did i know that there would be would be my mouths worst enemy hiding inside. PICKLES!!! that was an awful shock. After picking the pickles off i jumped back in. On the commercial the meet looks a little more soled than what i experienced. mine was a weird colored gross chunky patty. At first taste i was like "what the"? It was so salty! luckily it got a little better though still not good. The McRib is so overrated!! I will only ever try it again if it is free.
OK, I admit it, I like this when it is around! We have made our children believe that McD's is evil and has bad food. We travel to New Orleans as a family and eat very well. My wife, myself and my 11 year old twins all qualify as foodies. But there is something kinda good in a kinda bad way about this sandwich. Is it garbage? Most certainly. Is it drippy sloppy goodness? Yes as well. The beauty is this thing comes around every so often and I indulge. We have great real BBQ near us and we love that. This is the one time I hit the drive through, go the distance with fries and a syrupy coke and forget about what monsters McD's are. These guys are killing americans but every so often when the McRib comes out they get a pass.
Taste? Nauseating is being charitable. One small bite and I had to hit the can to barf. McDumbald's should be ashamed to call this garbage food.
Disgusting.
McRib for president! It tastes great and has more brains that all potential candidates combined.
So, without imagining where the McRib came from, I'LL tell you where it actually comes from. It starts at an enormous factory farm. There's a giant shed with a floor covered in feces, where tens of thousands of pigs will be born without ever having enough space to turn around and most will never see the light of day.
That sounds delicious.
Sounds like my office....
Sounds like my enormous factory farm . . .
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/how-the-mcrib-is-made-makes-us-question-its-popularity-2408280
Living in the South, we have about a zillion other tremendous BBQ restaurants that destroy anything remotely BBQ that McDonalds tries to produce. There is no reason in the world to purchase this insult to BBQ.
Should be interesting to see how it sells in true and traditional BBQ markets.
There's always Soylent Green. :)
Soylent Green is people!
dog meat..........ack!
Nope.. no dog in it!
It looks gross...even for McDonald's "standards." I can't imagine nor would I want to imagine, the taste. I'll pass, thank you.
Sweet!
Today is Two-for-Tuesday!
BD
I don't understand why this is a story every 2 years. They take it away. They bring it back. They take it away. They bring it back. Who really cares? Aren't people dying in Syria?
Yeah they are dying but not from eating this thing.
I just tried it today for the first time...it will be my last time having it. It was nothing special at all...in fact, I didnt even like it at all.
It's yummy and I like it when they have it. It's pretty much junk food but 90% of over the counter food is and even what one buys in the major supermarkets. Loaded with additives, especially high fructose corn syrup. Look at the ingredients of things you buy off the shelf, HFCS rules.
I have not eaten at McDonalds in over 8 years because I do not consider what they serve to be food.
How can anyone like that sandwich? It tastes disgusting... and I love meat usually
How could you say something like that?? The McRib brings me so much happiness and joy its not even funny! I love the McRib and it loves me too! You don't like it bob because you smell like complete and utter butthole!! MCD's RULES!!!!
Hahahaha! Wonderful response
Nice One.
ZIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG !!!!!
I am refusing to eat even one bite of it. Yuck, Puke!
Have you ever tried one? .
How about you, Jason L.? Have YOU ever tried one? I doubt it.
At BenjyEdwards: I think I ate my first one 22 years ago, at the age of 13. I've probably eaten 40-50 of them in my lifetime, including some I ate while working there, sans pickles, extra onions and added cheddar cheese (when cheddar cheese happened to be available at McDs). I haven't had one for about 2 years now, and I may or may not get one before the promotion ends this year. Any other questions?