Burger King used to be regarded as the Pepsi to McDonald’s Coke, however, in recent years sales at the burger chain have slumped drastically. It’s forced the company to undergo an overhaul of its menu, which features healthier menu items. The AP looks at the pains Burger King has gone through to stay competitive in [...]
Dear Dunkin Donuts: I’m no longer going to be a paying customer of yours until you export these pork donuts from China to Dunkies here in Boston. I hope you understand. Anyway, what’s even harder to believe is that there are some 5,400 Dunkin Donuts stores across the the Asia-Pacific region, but you can barely find [...]
McDonald’s McRib sandwich doesn’t really do anything for me, but I would consider travelling to Austria to try their version that is deep-fried and served with bacon and cheese. Actually, I wouldn’t travel specifically for the sandwich, but if I were in Austria and if I happened to find myself slumming it at a McDonald’s, and if it [...]
Boston-area burger and ice cream shop Friendly’s has filed for bankruptcy. The writing has been on the wall for years now as the quality and customers have declined over the last decade. Still, the news makes me a bit sad. Anyone who grew up in Boston probably has some fond memories of Friendly’s.
Aside from advocating for the constant smoking of marijuana, country crooner Willie Nelson also gives one fuck about sustainable family-owned farming — hence his participation in FarmAid. It’s a worthy cause, and an important one really when you think about how the corporate-farmed food you buy from a supermarket isn’t really food at all but [...]
Mark Bittman on McDonald’s latest “healthy” option — oatmeal: The oatmeal and McDonald’s story broke late last year, when Mickey D’s, in its ongoing effort to tell us that it’s offering “a selection of balanced choices” (and to keep in step with arch-rival Starbucks) began to sell the cereal. Yet in typical McDonald’s fashion, the [...]
Serious Eats’s Kenji Lopez-Alt investigates exactly why those McDonald’s hamburgers didn’t decay over 137 days. The assumption, of course, is that McDonald’s pumps their food with so much chemicals/preservatives that they couldn’t possibly rot. Lopez-Alt conducted a little experiment using an unwrapped McDonald’s burger and made his own burger out of ground chuck, salted it liberally, [...]
No amount of lipstick smearing on the pig that is McDonald’s will be able to hide the atrocious nature of their food. Instead of spending $2.4billion on making their franchises more visually appealing (which they should do because their design aesthetic is also tragic), the company should be spending that much to bring freshly cooked [...]
Just think of this the next time you decide it would make sense to eat at McDonald’s: “Things that are made from organic material age and decay, especially when they stop being alive. A piece of home-baked bread, say, left on your kitchen counter, will get moldy relatively fast. Lord knows what some ground beef [...]
