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McDonald's menu dropping a salad, chicken fingers
AP ^ | March 1, 2013 | CANDICE CHOI

Posted on 03/01/2013 4:45:52 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's is getting rid of its Chicken Selects and Fruit & Walnut Salad and considering cutting Angus burgers as it tries to freshen up its menu with more limited-time items.

The world's biggest hamburger chain recently introduced Fish McBites and is planning a new McWrap chicken sandwich that will be larger than its Snack Wraps.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: fastfood; food; mcdonalds
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1 posted on 03/01/2013 4:46:08 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

great. two of the few items I can order at McDs. Only a few things were good enough to resist the Quarter Pounder.


2 posted on 03/01/2013 4:51:26 PM PST by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Just stick to McBurgers and fries!

Who goes to McDodo for a Waldorf salad?


3 posted on 03/01/2013 4:52:30 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

“Who goes to McDodo for a Waldorf salad?”

People with vegetarians in the lunch party, that’s who.

Sometimes we carnivores have a real problem accommodating vegetarian friends during fast food restaurant selection without subjecting them to a potato-only choice.


4 posted on 03/01/2013 4:57:52 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The Angus burgers are the only things I eat at McD’s.


5 posted on 03/01/2013 4:59:55 PM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I know what would revitalize McDonald’s bottom line. Take the advice of competitors and learn from it.

“My opinion is that the media is the main
supporter of healthy eating. We’re certainly
not hearing it from our customers”
— Andrew Puzder, CEO of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.

When McDonald’s tried to make it menu healthier, to please some radicals who publicly derided and despised their food, they made a cardinal error: Do not try to please critics, if it displeases your customers. Critics probably don’t buy what you are selling anyway.

Whataburger is a favorite hamburger chain in the Southland, and they are very proud that their menu is almost just like it was in the 1950s, at least as far as its hamburgers go.

Their hamburger is about the width of a saucer and you have to use two hands to eat it unless you use a knife and fork. It is big and is wrapped in paper. A Whataburger will feed a hungry adult.

The zinger is that McDonalds Big Mac used to be the same size as a Whataburger. Today it is barely larger than a slider.

So hey, McDonald’s! Why not make a “retro” Big Mac like you used to? Sure it might cost twice as much, but it would be worth it.

Yeah, it would upset the calorie chart used by the snoots, but they already hate your food, so why do what they want?

Go back to selling food and making big money.


6 posted on 03/01/2013 5:04:34 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: ConservativeTeen

What part of the cow is the angus?


7 posted on 03/01/2013 5:05:03 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: BwanaNdege
Sometimes we carnivores have a real problem accommodating vegetarian friends during fast food restaurant selection without subjecting them to a potato-only choice.

Yes, the poor vegetarians and vegans who hold everyone else in the lunch party hostage to their demands. It kind of gets old after hearing them whine every day that the restaurant 99% of us want to go to doesn't have anything for them.

8 posted on 03/01/2013 5:06:00 PM PST by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Lx

Zero vegetarian/vegan friends. Never met one whose personality I could tolerate for long.


9 posted on 03/01/2013 5:09:39 PM PST by fattigermaster (Train for life in prison because they are stacking the bricks and setting the bars around you.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Too bad. I’m not a salad person, but that fruit and walnut salad was pretty good.


10 posted on 03/01/2013 5:11:48 PM PST by eastexsteve
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To: ConservativeStatement

Their prices have gone up too much.
$4 buck for a 1/4 pounder?
$2 just to add an egg to a sausage mcMuffin?


11 posted on 03/01/2013 5:12:17 PM PST by right way right (What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Exactly. The Gaeans and the health-food freaks won’t be seen dead at McDonalds in any case. So why cater to them?

I almost always have a takeout Big Mac Meal, with fries and a Pepsi. That’s OK, since I usually only go there a couple of times a year, while traveling. I was really PO’d the last couple of times, when I ordered my usual small order of fries, and found it only half the usual size, courtesy of Muchelle. So, now I have to order a medium Big Mac Meal.


12 posted on 03/01/2013 5:12:27 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Had a great BBQ burger this week at Carl’s. Lots of cheese, onion ring straws and other stuff. Really messy to eat but wonderful. Just may have to go back.


13 posted on 03/01/2013 5:15:45 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: BwanaNdege

Sometimes we carnivores have a real problem accommodating vegetarian friends..”

You need some new friends.


14 posted on 03/01/2013 5:17:04 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I prefer McDonalds to Hardee’s menu most of the time. After Hardees quit offering their Fried Chicken, I almost never go there anymore except for breakfast. I do like there little thick burger.

As for McDonalds, I like the Kids meal better with the apples. We just buy an extra bag of frys to share since the frys in the kids meall are too small.

I like to eat a burger and salad myself. Sometimes I just have frys and a salad. If I have a big Mac, I just cut it in half and share or else eat the rest later.

I also like the McDouble and the Fish sandwich.

I like Wendy’s menu the best, but we don’t have one here. Love their frosties.


15 posted on 03/01/2013 5:17:33 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Instead of altering the menu, McDonalds should take some customer service lessons from Chick fil A.
16 posted on 03/01/2013 5:17:59 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Go back to selling food and making big money.

What part of this chart is bothering you?


17 posted on 03/01/2013 5:18:34 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Moonman62

Once the skin is off they are all angus.


18 posted on 03/01/2013 5:20:52 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the POTEET THEATRE in OKC! See our murals before they are painted over!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
The zinger is that McDonalds Big Mac used to be the same size as a Whataburger. Today it is barely larger than a slider.

Could be that the hands you use to hold the Big Mac are a bit bigger than they were back in the day.

I'm not sticking up for McD's. My problem with them is that their hamburgers seem to not be made of meat.

According to my stomach, their sandwiches are made from fat that's been scientifically textured to look like food. Sort of like CGI you can chew on.

19 posted on 03/01/2013 5:23:57 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Cicero
There is only one place to get a “ Burger” or a “ Double” or if you like a “ Double Double” if you prefer, and want to cut out the bun, these restaurants will serve your burger in a large lettuce leaf.These guys only do burger, and they do it right. The menu is small, the drive in is fast, if you dine in, it is busy. Yeah lets hear it for “ IN and Out”
20 posted on 03/01/2013 5:24:13 PM PST by BooBoo1000 (Some times I wake up grumpy,,, other times I just let her sleep.)
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