I don’t believe it.
There is a huge difference.
These are the same “experts” who advise consumer packaged garbage companies on how to market their wares.
McDonald’s is nasty.
Epic proof that it’s mostly in your head, especially regarding food. Can’t wait to send this to my obsessive foody friends and read their meltdowns
“Penn & Teller’s B*ll Sh*t!” program did a similar thing on one of their programs, taking KFC chicken, burgers from Burger King, MacDonald’s, Jack in the Box, and other fast food restaurants, re-plating them and serving them as food from up-scale restaurants and getting ratings from people who would try the SAME food presented from the same source right next to it in taste tests. It was amazing the differences noted by the “experts” according to what they were told was the source and what they claimed about taste, food value, etc.
It was also amazing when the food value of salt, calories, etc., were tested by a laboratory reported on the nutritional values between the fast food and the upscale restaurant food. . . the Fast Food won every time.
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I’ve never understood the hostility to McDonalds - they serve pretty good food at a cheap price, how dastardly. It’s true that the quality of individual restaurants can vary - the one nearest my house obviously does not clean their grills and equipment very often and they can’t make an Egg McMuffin without getting the bun completely soggy with grease. But there are a couple of McDonalds on my commute to work which are perfectly decent - I pick up a Chicken McSandwich every now and then, tastes as good now as it did when I was a kid.
“This stuff tastes awful. I could make a fortune selling it in my health-food store!”
— Woody Allen as Miles Monroe, Sleeper (1973)
My fav episode of Northern Exposure is about food snobbery.
They could all take a burger making lession from Texas chain ‘Wharaburger’.
90% of a good food experience is presentation. Ingredients get it from good to great.
Most people simply hate McDonald’s due to presentation. If I made a McDonald’s style hamburger with choice beef and slopped all the toppings on a great many people would think it’s about the same as the McDonald’s burger.
Lot’s of folks will gladly pay more for what amounts to perception.
What definition of “foodies” are you working from?
Excuse me very much. McDonald’s food is krep.
Pretentious BS. I’ve thought this about so-called “foodies” for a long time now.
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Before there were “foodies” there were “audiophiles.”
Fast food is simply that - something to stave off hunger when you don’t have time to eat properly. Most fast food is OK, though the burgers have slipped in quality as the meat has gotten more expensive. McD, BK and Wendy’s couldn’t have stayed in business as long as they have if their food was as bad as some think.
I’ll concede that some people probably can tell the difference between regular food and food made from organic / grain fed / etc. ingredients, but I can’t - not going to pay more when it adds no value for me.
No thanks.
How does it taste. I’ve almost no idea. It causes an Instantsneous barfing attack.
I love it! (oops, is that their current slogan?)
This deserves to be sent on Facebook and go viral.
I raise a few of my own vegetables and buy good basic ingredients to cook everything from scratch now that I am retired. Only rarely do I find fast food or restaurant cuisine appetising. In fact, I dread eating out. And since I cook from scratch, I don’t buy much prepared food (frozen dinners or pastries) from the supermarket either.
Once I learned to cook Tex-Mex, Italian, Southern/Soul food, and other cuisines, my meals are much tastier and offer a better variety of meat (beef, chicken, pork, fish, etc.) and balance (two veggies, bread, dessert) along with an appropriate drink (water, milk, tea, coffee, beer, wine, etc). It don’t get no better. Our nation is truly blessed with an abundance and availability of good food.
I plan my menu around whatever is on sale this week at the supermarket. That may sound cheap to some, but it keeps the costs of cooking at home down. And home cooked meals are a better value than eating out if you have the time, which I know everyone doesn’t.