Posted on 11/21/2023 10:35:01 AM PST by DallasBiff
I’ve never understood why McRib is only around for a short period of time.
If mcrib is so popular why isn’t it available year-round?
Can you imagine if the Big Mac were only available at certain times?
Or is this all just part of marketing , and they can boost sales when they announce for a limited time only McRib is back?
McRib da best.
The McRib is good, reley good. Then it is an experience, a McRib experience. McRib is messy, messy, messy, and there in lies the charm. It is the messy sauce that spills out that makes it good. Napkins are needed .......yummm
Last year it was widely advertised as “the last year”. We complained and apparently prevailed.
Last year I was privileged to eat one on five occasions. On the last order I was told they had sold out....... sorry
Are you afraid if you go, someone from church might see you?
I only go to McDonald’s when I need diarrhea.
Looks healthy.
Live in the country.....don’t see many people. Cows, dogs and horses yeah...people not so much. Don’t like towns much either....
Because it isn’t actually that popular. Also it’s kind of a pain to have on the menu, gotta cook the ribs and put them in the steam trays that get used during breakfast, slathered in the sauce. And there’s this minimum time to have them in there for the sauce to “set”, but a max time before it all goes toxic. It just doesn’t have the audience for sustained production. But slap it out for a couple weeks a year and the cult runs to it, letting it popular enough for that run.
And honestly, slice some spam, put it and your favorite BBQ sauce in a crockpot for an hour. Boom. McRib.
A sandwich actually worse than Arby’s.
The reason they are only available on a limited basis is due the time it takes to amass a sufficient number of pig anuses to make a production run.
and snouts and ears
I travel days once a week and need to eat lunch out. I generally eat at MsDonalds or Arbies that are on my way.
Many years ago Car & Driver participated in a long distance race (not the Cannonball) with a team of 3 drivers, one of whom was a chef from NY. They were driving and eating Spaghetti-Os out of the can to avoid stopping for meals. The chef commented that as spaghetti it was lousy, but if you thought of it as tomato soup it was ok.
That’s pretty much my philosophy on fast food, including the McRib. If you compare the McRib to real BBQ, it’s mediocre. But the sauce is ok, and I think of it as just another drive through sandwich which actually tastes ok.
Its the BBQ sauce.
$5.99 at my local McD. Had one Sunday.
Lard covered lad sticks what could go wrong.
Look up Pork Chitterlings, pretty sure that’s what a mcrib sandwich is made of.
I don’t eat from any of the major so-called fast food joints.
I like Ma and Pa cafes and home cooking.
I don’t order chitterlings at any of them.
I get one every year for the nostalgia of the 80’s version McRib and then realize why I just get one. The local MickeyD’s has signs for them posted everywhere and my wife and I were running errands and decided to get a quick lunch. I ordered the McRib, except like their ice cream machine not available.
So we ordered a couple nice little burgers called the Daily Double. A double cheeseburger that comes with mayo, lettuce, onions and a tomato and split an order of fries.
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