Get your Big Macs while you can

[Rich Engelhardt]

They are gone as of the first part of next year!
Along with the apple pies!

Man what a blow! I don't eat the two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickle, onion all on a sesame seed bun often, but, when I do I relish every bite!
I'm going to have to make a point of having a Big Mac as often as I can in the next few weeks.

Sad

[Scott Shepherd]

Maybe they'll replace it with an actual hamburger made from beef

[Shawn Pachlhofer]

Big Macs and apple pies aren't going anywhere.

[Bert Kemp]

Seriously... people that eat Mac ducks burgers have never had a real beef burger. Go anywhere in cattle country and order a burger and you'll never eat at mac ducks again.

Maybe they'll replace it with an actual hamburger made from beef

[Jason Roehl]

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/bigmac.asp

[Rich Engelhardt]

Cool!
I should be red faced for getting snagged into this - but- I'm just so happy it's a farce, I don't care!
I had a bit of a scare for a second there.

[Lee Schierer]

The last time I had one I was surprised at how small the whole thing was. The bun seemed almost slider sized and the patties were less than 1/4" thick and weren't as large in diameter as the bun. I won't be buying one again any time soon.

[Larry Edgerton]

Years ago I was training my Malamute to stay in the back of the truck. He was good one day so I stopped at Micky D's and bought him a couple of Big Macs. I set them on the side of the bed and he smelled them and pushed them off on the ground. So I picked them up and took the bun off, and he pushed them off on to the ground again. This is the only thing I ever saw that this dog would not eat.

Makes ya think.....

[Curt Harms]

Years ago I was training my Malamute to stay in the back of the truck. He was good one day so I stopped at Micky D's and bought him a couple of Big Macs. I set them on the side of the bed and he smelled them and pushed them off on the ground. So I picked them up and took the bun off, and he pushed them off on to the ground again. This is the only thing I ever saw that this dog would not eat.

Makes ya think.....

Critters know. We have a spoiled-rotten Maine Coon mix cat. He loves 'real' food, knows all the signs of grilling. He'll have no part of most frozen dinner type meats. Arbys though - toss him a bit of roast beef sandwich meat and it may well not make it to the table or floor.

[Matt Day]

Just to be clear, as Jason pointed out, snopes debunked this rumor.

[Brian Tymchak]

The last time I had one I was surprised at how small the whole thing was. The bun seemed almost slider sized and the patties were less than 1/4" thick and weren't as large in diameter as the bun. I won't be buying one again any time soon.

My wife and I feel the same way about Wendy's. They have so dramatically downsized their burgers and raised their prices that we've stopped going there.

[Dennis Peacock]

Found this with a simple search:
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local...286717741.html

[Mike Cutler]

Rich

Don't be embarrassed about getting snagged into stuff like this, or for liking Big Mac's.
I can make a better burger than has ever come out of a Mickey D's. ( I should know because I worked in one during high school. ) Sometimes though I just want one of their Habanero Ranch sandwiches and fake fries. )
Sometimes people just want what they want.

PS
Don't like Big Mac's though, never did. I hated making them too, as a kid, and we actually cooked them on the spot back in the "old days".

[Jason Roehl]

Just to be fair, because I, too, made thousands of Big Macs back in the day: those burgers are 100% beef. That doesn't mean that it's good beef, nor that it's not over-ground. McD's has two main beef patties: 10:1 and 4:1. That's 1/10 of a pound per patty and 1/4 of a pound per patty, pre-cooked weight. The Big Mac gets 2 of the 10:1 patties, and due to several high-profile food poisoning incidents over the years, they get cooked beyond all recognition. When I started there, they used gas-fired clam-shell grills that cooked the 10:1 patties for 42 seconds at something like 375ºF, the 4:1 got (IIRC) 66 seconds. That left the patties still somewhat moist, but S.O.P. was then to put the patties in a steam cabinet for up to an hour to be used at any time within that hour. When a tray was pulled from the cabinet, any pooled grease/water (from the steam) was poured off before the sandwich was assembled. I'd say the burgers were borderline back then ('92-ish), but I know they have since increased the cooking times, and possibly temperatures, at least a couple times to get them to the flavorless leather they now are.

I'm just glad we have a local brewpub that serves burgers cooked to order. I usually order them cooked medium, just to be safe. Occasionally, I've gotten one that was medium rare, but I don't send those back--they're pretty good that way! If I got a rare one, I'd send that back.

And, as good as those burgers are, they don't hold a candle to the burgers I make at home--made from beef raised on my in-laws' farm--far more flavorful than any ground beef I've ever had from any store or restaurant.

[ray hampton]

And, as good as those burgers are, they don't hold a candle to the burgers I make at home--made from beef raised on my in-laws' farm--far more flavorful than any ground beef I've ever had from any store or restaurant.

stop bragging