Has McDonald's always sucked & I just didn't know better as a kid or was it once good & then it sucked?

Answer 1

it always sucked
I loved it when I was a kid too
now I wouldn't touch that stuff
I remember when I was a kid, people called it 'Rotten Ronnies' just like they do now.

Answer 2

no.
McDonald's has not always been this bad. Back in the day they actually had a chart that told the fry guy to change the frying oil every 10 batches of Fry's. now they leave the oil in for over 2 hours or so. then, when they do get around to changing the oil, they send it through a filter to try and save some of the oil. they then use it again with a mix of new oil. kind of a 60/40 or 80/20 split. now not all McDonald's are like this but you can taste it right away when they do.
Also, they now add MSG to the food. this makes you grave the food. There used to be a healthy watch type website that could tell you more and MS-NBC did a report on it a while ago.
I wish they would go back to the original way they used to make the Big Mac and bring back the Halibut patty in the fish sandwich:)

Answer 3

Greetings! It depends on what you order. Their hamburgers are pretty consistently poor, but the chicken McNuggets are good. Breakfast meals are better and the coffee served at McDonald's is AWESOME!!!

As far as those who complain about the clogged arteries and the heavy cholesterol and saturated fats.....
Most of us know what we are getting into. If we were truly concerned about that, we would eat at home. No restaurant has truly complete "Healthy choices", unless you go to a place that specializes in "Healthy choices". Then it's your wallet that takes a beating.

One last point - The best hamburger I have ever had came from a downtown casino in Reno. The place was the greasiest spoon anyone has EVER set foot in (you can feel the cholesterol enter through your pores when you walk into the place). But like I said, they served the best hamburger (called the Awful-Awful burger) I have ever sunk my teeth into.

In that greasy spoon was a huge banner that read "NINE OUT OF TEN VEGETARIANS DON'T EAT HERE!"

Couldn't have been better said. Take care.

Answer 4

You are a consumer. Like many consumers, you are excited about an establishment at its opening and you enjoy the 'hoopla' that they bring. After a time, you discover that there seems to be something lacking. The ambience is not the same, the people are not as friendly to see your face, the registers are closed early, nobody counts your money and places it in your hand. Most of the people who wait on you are younger and younger with few manners and chewing gum. McDonalds, along with other once-fabulous restaurants have changed as the world has changed.

When you were little, Ronald McDonald was a giant - full of wonder and surprise, offering you the best cheeseburger your wide-open eyes have ever seen. Today, Ronald is a tired old clown in a worn and wrinkled clown suit with a raggedy, decrepit wig and too-squeezed nose. His burgers are dry, precooked and warmed over hot lights. His fries don't bathe in the oil that made them once famous, their toys break before you get out of their store and you have never heard of any big winner in their Monopoly games. It's all hype. It's not real.

Answer 5

well when i was a kid i thought it was good not because i was little and didn't know any better but it really was. my favorite thing was the chicken nuggets and french fries with the honey and the apple pie was sooooo good. now i agree it does suck. i went to puerto rico a couple of years ago and the apple pies at Mac Donald's over there taste like they used to here. i think the reason why the food taste different is because of all the preservatives and additives they put in the food these days

Answer 6

I think it has always sucked, but it is waaaaay worse now than before. For example:

- The chicken nuggets (my fav when I was a kid) used to taste more like chicken and resembled fried chicken. One day they changed and became some weird flavorless spongy stuff with a strange dry coating.

- The french fries used to be good too, but now they have a dry Styrofoam texture and don't taste like potato.

Answer 7

There is actually scientific evidence to show that when you are young, things taste stronger to you. Makes sense...you are young, your taste buds are brand new! This is often why kids don't like strong tasting foods. Then when you get older, you try some of those same foods and find out they weren't as bad as you thought - or that you might even like them now!

So when people say things like "They changed the recipe, it's not like it was when I was young", it may be that the recipe is exactly the same - but that their taste buds have aged. They are right - it'll never taste like it did when they were 5 years old again.

Answer 8

Parents tend to connect McDonalds with kids. We learn to like it from childhood. As I got older, I found my tastes didn't care for Mickey D's. It has alot of bread to it. Plus I no longer needed a toy from the happy meal.....it's just a big kid catcher!

Answer 9

your just too young to remember when Mc Donald's was good thieve gone down hill recently. the milk shakes used to be made from real ice cream and fresh milk in a mixer now they come in a plastic bag and are extruded from a freezing machine. the burgers used to be cooked on a real grill by a real grill man now there cooked on double sided grill that dries the out.

Answer 10

When I was little I used to always hate there food. It would disgust me and make me nautilus. Now I still can't stand McDonald's. you'd see why if you knew all the fat and sugar in all their food. So yeah the've always sucked.

Answer 11

i think its something we just are so drawn to as kids and we dont see it for what it really is until we are older. what kid doesnt want chicken nuggets, fries and a toy. i think a big difference today is that so many kids are being brought up on fast food. when i was a kid it was a "treat" when we got to go.