Loki
March 29th, 2004, 11:41 AM
McDonalds Uk have offered a veggie burger since 1994. And it hasn't been all that bad. I'm not a regular customer at McDonalds. i pretty much go whenever other people go, and that's about it. However, this veggie burger is pretty much the best they could do with it: No nonsense: just throw a few veggies into a patty, and it has a mildly spicy taste, and hold the mayo, and it's pretty much vegan. Not that bad at all. It had twice the fat of a regular hamburger as well, so they'd obviously had taste as their main priority.
However, as of lately, Mcdonalds has had a global problem to contest with: No f**ker in their right mind wants to eat there any more. There is much competition: KFC offers bigass buckets of chicken, pizza hut offers better food, and the food at mcd's is overpriced, considering what it is. The solution it seems, has been to offer new foods, which are healthier, or at least sound healthier. So they introduced the mcsalads!!! You can gte a salad with mor efat in it than a hamburger. Sounds healthy if you don't know about the fat.
Anyway, mcdonalds has decide to phase out the old veggie burger, and in its stead, they now offer a quorn thingy. A visit into Blackpool with my mother earlier today, and my mum's desire to eat at mcd's meant that I'd be giving one of these a go. The following is a product review:
The new quorn thing "tastes like ass" Having never had any non-heterosexual adventures into strange orifices, one might say that I'm probably not qualified to make that comparison, but i do know now, that if I were to ever sample as, then I could possibly expect it to taste like the new quorn premiere available at Uk mcdonalds. (I'm not sure if they're just doing regional testing of the product, or whether it's been introduced country-wide.) Now, having dealt with quorn for 7 years of my life, i know that it can be put to good use. Decent applications involve heavy spicing and a lot of fat. Crap applications include throwing it in some yuppie foccacia bread with some salsa, lettuce and mayo. Oh, and the old veggie burger has been discontinued. Which is a shame, as it was an example of how to do things right: With twice the fat, and not being pretentious, but just offering a veggie burger.
I personally consider this product to be a f**k up. I think it's been on the market or less than 24 hours, (It said that it was available from 29th march in the store.) and it's already been slammed by everyone's favourite norse-deity impersonating british guy. My visits to mcdonalds are few and far between. i don't go there: i just end up there when i'm with friends, but it looks like I won't be going there again, since the food now genuinely is sh*t. The food used to be Ok, but now it has descended into the depths of Eternal rubbishness. this is the kind of culinary execrise where you don't have to be Anthony Worrall Thompson to be able to call it crap. The though that has gone into creating this product is minimal, and obviously, mcdonalds have neglected to perform taste tests. Either that, or they performed the taste tests in blackpool, selecting from a drugged up population which is native to blackpool, and just fed them the product, and they responded by stating that it filled their desire for food which had been created by intense dope smoking and a lack of money to spend on food due to drug use.
McDonalds have been attempting to relaunch their brands, but is it really working? Is making their food sh*tter going to attract more customers? Perhaps mcdonalds need to think about the taste of their products, such as launching a McVindaloo. The problem is that mcdonalds quest to appease the health nuts is what is driving it down the sink. Helathy food is generally crap food. When you see a sign which says "90% fat free", one can easily make the assumption that it is also going to be 90% taste free. Fat is good. It adds flavour. It makes food worth eating. It give food texture.
Here's my final score for the new Mcdonalds quorn premiere:
Taste: 2/10
price: 1/10
texture: 2/10
overall: 2/10
It is awful. Products like this should not be regarded as fit for human consumption. they should be fed only to smack addicts and horses. the executives sat in offices in central london who approved this silly idea, are arses. They deserve to be slapped on the face repeatedly with a wet kipper. I may be a veggie, but I'd personally buy and use a kipper for such a purpose, as i feel that doing so would be a great opportunity.
Oh, and if mcdonalds wants my custom, it needs to do three things:
1.) Start selling beer
2.) Start selling curry
3.) bring back the old veggie burger.
However, as of lately, Mcdonalds has had a global problem to contest with: No f**ker in their right mind wants to eat there any more. There is much competition: KFC offers bigass buckets of chicken, pizza hut offers better food, and the food at mcd's is overpriced, considering what it is. The solution it seems, has been to offer new foods, which are healthier, or at least sound healthier. So they introduced the mcsalads!!! You can gte a salad with mor efat in it than a hamburger. Sounds healthy if you don't know about the fat.
Anyway, mcdonalds has decide to phase out the old veggie burger, and in its stead, they now offer a quorn thingy. A visit into Blackpool with my mother earlier today, and my mum's desire to eat at mcd's meant that I'd be giving one of these a go. The following is a product review:
The new quorn thing "tastes like ass" Having never had any non-heterosexual adventures into strange orifices, one might say that I'm probably not qualified to make that comparison, but i do know now, that if I were to ever sample as, then I could possibly expect it to taste like the new quorn premiere available at Uk mcdonalds. (I'm not sure if they're just doing regional testing of the product, or whether it's been introduced country-wide.) Now, having dealt with quorn for 7 years of my life, i know that it can be put to good use. Decent applications involve heavy spicing and a lot of fat. Crap applications include throwing it in some yuppie foccacia bread with some salsa, lettuce and mayo. Oh, and the old veggie burger has been discontinued. Which is a shame, as it was an example of how to do things right: With twice the fat, and not being pretentious, but just offering a veggie burger.
I personally consider this product to be a f**k up. I think it's been on the market or less than 24 hours, (It said that it was available from 29th march in the store.) and it's already been slammed by everyone's favourite norse-deity impersonating british guy. My visits to mcdonalds are few and far between. i don't go there: i just end up there when i'm with friends, but it looks like I won't be going there again, since the food now genuinely is sh*t. The food used to be Ok, but now it has descended into the depths of Eternal rubbishness. this is the kind of culinary execrise where you don't have to be Anthony Worrall Thompson to be able to call it crap. The though that has gone into creating this product is minimal, and obviously, mcdonalds have neglected to perform taste tests. Either that, or they performed the taste tests in blackpool, selecting from a drugged up population which is native to blackpool, and just fed them the product, and they responded by stating that it filled their desire for food which had been created by intense dope smoking and a lack of money to spend on food due to drug use.
McDonalds have been attempting to relaunch their brands, but is it really working? Is making their food sh*tter going to attract more customers? Perhaps mcdonalds need to think about the taste of their products, such as launching a McVindaloo. The problem is that mcdonalds quest to appease the health nuts is what is driving it down the sink. Helathy food is generally crap food. When you see a sign which says "90% fat free", one can easily make the assumption that it is also going to be 90% taste free. Fat is good. It adds flavour. It makes food worth eating. It give food texture.
Here's my final score for the new Mcdonalds quorn premiere:
Taste: 2/10
price: 1/10
texture: 2/10
overall: 2/10
It is awful. Products like this should not be regarded as fit for human consumption. they should be fed only to smack addicts and horses. the executives sat in offices in central london who approved this silly idea, are arses. They deserve to be slapped on the face repeatedly with a wet kipper. I may be a veggie, but I'd personally buy and use a kipper for such a purpose, as i feel that doing so would be a great opportunity.
Oh, and if mcdonalds wants my custom, it needs to do three things:
1.) Start selling beer
2.) Start selling curry
3.) bring back the old veggie burger.