Only McDonalds....

... could take Angus beef and make it taste like crap.

I thought I'd give one a try tonight after a long and arduous evening of making my own food (after cooking all day, you don't want to cook for yourself) and the mushroom-swiss 1/3rd pound Angus burger sounded like it might be worth a try.

Now, I use Certified Angus Beef for my burgers at the restaurant. A simple 80/20 mixture rate (80% lean 20% fat) which is what most restaurants use. It gets a good sprinkling of kosher salt and black pepper and a slice of Dubliner Cheddar, lettuce and tomato, and that's that. Nothing fancy, just Angus beef which is generally pretty good tasting.

This abomination from McD's was nowhere near what we sell hundreds of a week at my restaurant. Somehow, the boys at the lab there at McD's headquarters figured out how to take good beef and make it taste like cardboard. Honestly, beef to beef comparison, the thin little slabs of unidentifiable meat that go into the dollar double cheese burger taste EXACTLY THE SAME as the big hunk of crap in between the buns of the Angus burger.

I wish 5 Guys stayed open later than 10 sometimes....

Edited by tallen702 - 05 September 2009 at 1:38am

Tasted like a Big and Tasty, which kinda sucked.

Ive heard nothing but bad things

5 guys is a quality fast food burger. I've only had it once and it was awesome.

agentwhale007 wrote: mbro wrote: 5 guys is a quality fast food burger. I've only had it once and it was awesome. So expensive though.

That's why I go for the "Little" burgers. Instead of a double, they give you a single with the same amount of toppings for half the price. It's the fries that rack up the bill if you ask me.

And whoever said that the McD's Angus is a "quality burger." You've obviously never had a quality burger in your life. Your local franchise can't "suck" at making them since McD's doesn't even cook burgers in house anymore. They're cooked at the central commissary and then shipped to the stores where they're warmed back up.

I tried their angus burger a week after it came out and it was truly disgusting. 

Love their single cheeseburgers though. Even the double cheeseburgers are the same price, I always get the singles. On a drunken rampage night, I could down 5 of them in minutes.

I'm a Wendy's fan for my burgers, we don't have a 5 Guys here.

In-N-Out>*

I think all fast food depends on which restaurant you get it from, some people are lazy and just slap it on like its trash and others actually put effort into making it look half-good.

Rofl_Mao wrote: some people are lazy and just slap it on like its trash and others actually put effort into making it look half-good.

Looking good is not the same as tasting good.


Wendy's for me. Hardee's, too, but the only one even close to me closed (isn't Hardee's the same as Carl Jr's?)

Edited by Destruction - 06 September 2009 at 2:24pm