Posted on 10/19/2024 11:12:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Attention McDonald's fans: Your tweets, prayers, and angry letters have been answered. The McRib is officially making a comeback. But, naturally, there is a major catch.
On Wednesday, The Independent reported that the McRib, which was first introduced in the early 1980s, is back on the menu in McDonald's locations across the United Kingdom after being pulled from permanent circulation nearly a decade ago.
“It is more than just a sandwich; it’s a phenomenon. We have heard our fans loud and clear — the fan petitions and pleas on social — and after almost a decade of anticipation, we are thrilled to bring back this iconic menu item," Thomas O’Neill, the head of menu at McDonald’s U.K., shared in a statement with The Independent. “Knowing how well-loved the McRib is, we had very little choice — we had to make it happen. It was time to step up and satisfy the cravings of McRib enthusiasts across the country.”
But, it will only be available for a limited time, so if you happen to find yourself across the pond, we suggest taking every opportunity to snag one (or three).
However, there may not be a need to whip your passport for long. While McDonald's wouldn't comment to Food & Wine on a return to the U.S., Joe Erlinger, the president of McDonald's U.S., shared with the Today Show this past June that the infamous sandwich will make a comeback stateside "later this year."
According to a recent report published in Missouri-based Springfield News-Leader, a McDonald's spokesperson told the outlet that the McRib will be returning to McDonald's locations in the "Greater Ozarks area" on Wednesday, November 27. McDonald's corporate, however, has declined to confirm the claim when reached by Food & Wine.
Beyond that, The Topeka Capital-Journal in Kansas — where the McRib was first released — wrote on October 16 that the "iconic menu item is expected to be in Topeka McDonald's restaurants and ready to sell the week of Monday, Nov. 25, The Capital-Journal was told Monday by Patrick Manning, marketing supervisor for Lawrence-based Dobski & Associates."
How to Make McDonald's Big Mac Sauce at Home, According to an Ex McDonald's Chef In case you are somehow very unaware of this food phenomenon, the McRib includes a boneless pork patty (that is still shaped to make it look like there are bones in it, but this way, it stays visually appealing and easy to eat), pickles, onions, and McRib Sauce sandwiched between a homestyle bun.
If you really want to track one down, you can always use the McRib Locator, which shows you every instance where the sandwich shows up on menus across the globe. According to its most recent update, you can find it in the U.K., Guatemala, and Canada. (And if you happen to see one, make sure to share the intel by reporting a McRib sighting to the website.)
And, as The Independent noted, you can always find it in German McDonald's restaurants, as the sandwich proved to simply be too popular to ever take off the menu.
Well, I still like McD’s burgers and fish sandwich a couple of times per year; but I still can’t wrap my appetite around the McRib thing.
Do you eat ground pork, sausage, hotdogs, or bologna? Not any worse... :)
Not trying to talk you into it. But you ever do you don’t have to go to McDonalds, they sell those same precooked BBQ pork patties in the frozen meat section of a lot of stores.
Good luck.
It’s just the idea, and I can’t help that.
Years ago, there was a story in the news that some Swedish meatballs sold in a famous conglomerate were found to include horse meat in Europe.
I had always liked those, and ate them every time I shopped there in the US - and the horse meat stuff happened in Europe, not in the US product.
But I still can’t eat them. It’s just how it is.
Mental impressions, thoughts suggested by stuff in the news, have a lot of power - (something politicians should think about, when they make offhand comments about peoples’ religious beliefs and other stuff - but I guess that’s another issue...)
That can’t be accurate, because tripe is stomach, and so is scalded stomach.
It sounds like that list was made up by fifth graders.
Source please?
Source please?
I hang out with the foodie snobs now and then. Few of them are ignorant bigots like you’re seeing in this thread.
The thing about the McRib is you can’t take it too seriously. A big part of its charm is that its impersonation of actual ribs is totally unconvincing. McRib knows it’s a cartoonish parody of the real thing, and we know it’s a cartoonish parody of the real thing, and McRib knows that we know it’s a cartoonish parody of the real thing. And that’s what’s fun about it. We’re all in on the joke as we munch down on it.
I completely understand... :)
Unless you live in the South.
Yeah, I thought about that, common there. We don’t have that common availability out in the southwest. We don’t have a lot of seafood available either... Let alone drive through for these.
I lived in the desert for 30 years and enjoyed the availability of good Mexican food and other ethnic foods.
Actually, we used to go to Red Lobster and Captain D’s for our seafood fix.
Not like that out here anymore... They all closed down. Seafood is far and few in between now.
Dimethylpolysiloxane is added as an anti-foaming agent. It is also 65% of what silly putty is.
I hope this helps. There is much info on the web about McNuggets.
Between Austin and Midland, there are exactly zero Fudds. There are plenty of McDonalds with drive throughs, and good coffee.
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