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McDonald’s Admits: No One’s Really Buying Our Salads
Consumerist ^ | June 3, 2013

Posted on 06/03/2013 1:18:40 PM PDT by SMGFan

When people accuse McDonald’s of serving food that isn’t nutritionally ideal, they can always point to their salad offerings. See, salads are healthy, and McDonald’s serves salads: therefore, you can eat healthy at McDonald’s, but if consumers choose to eat something else, that’s cool, too. Only the company admitted to investors this weekend that they don’t actually sell a lot of those salads: vegetable-based offerings account for maybe 2-3% of McDonald’s sales in the United States.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mcdonalds; mcdonaldsalads
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To: svcw

McD puts sugar solution on their salads.


21 posted on 06/03/2013 1:26:43 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: SMGFan

Perhaps if they didn’t charge extra for a second packet of dressing.


22 posted on 06/03/2013 1:27:08 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The only place i eat a salad is home since you can get some nasty sickness from unwashed or left over salad.


23 posted on 06/03/2013 1:27:19 PM PDT by Baseballguy (If we knew what we know now in Oct would we do anything different?)
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To: Popman

I like salad during the summer. Nice and light when its too hot for much else.

I have a crapload of spinach growing for salads this summer.


24 posted on 06/03/2013 1:27:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: JLLH

Thought so and I agree with the rest of your post.


25 posted on 06/03/2013 1:28:10 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: SMGFan

Their steak, egg, and cheese bagel is the BOMB!

Grease runnin’ down your chin. Mmmmmm good!

That plus a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit makes my day.


26 posted on 06/03/2013 1:28:11 PM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: discostu

Just noticed your Sigline. Babylon 5 accusation from Londo when Vir woke him early, right?


27 posted on 06/03/2013 1:28:14 PM PDT by AzSteven ("War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." Jean Dutourd)
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To: longtermmemmory

I have an old recipe that has sugar in it. Awesome. I think it’s called buggy dressing.


28 posted on 06/03/2013 1:28:30 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Jim Robinson
You go to a hamburger joint for a hamburger.

True. IIRC, sometime in the 1990's they offered pizza which flopped. A lot of time when you go out of your niche, you don't succeed. McDonald's to me means hamburgers and variations thereof although there are a few sides like the Filet-O Fish and Chicken McNuggets.
29 posted on 06/03/2013 1:28:36 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (I miss you Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012). Take care, pretty girl!)
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To: SMGFan

The dumb butts discontinued the Asian salad, the best of the bunch.


30 posted on 06/03/2013 1:29:16 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SMGFan

Ahhh . . . but when McDonalds started with the salads they gave a different rationale.

They offer salads so as to not be disqualified when a group of people go to eat together. It might be worth taking the hit on the salad if they sell a Big Mac, chicken select, a Quarter Pounder with cheese, and fries and drinks all around.

Similar rationale for restaurants that are open on Monday and Tuesday, even when they lose money. They have to be there on Monday or Tuesday or the customers who were disappointed won’t come back the rest of the week.


31 posted on 06/03/2013 1:29:24 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: txnativegop
I wouldn’t buy anything from McDonald’s even if there was nothing else to choose from.

The McWraps are very good. Give one a try.

32 posted on 06/03/2013 1:29:37 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: SMGFan

You can easily sell burgers that have been reheated but salads can’t be revitalized so trash can city.


33 posted on 06/03/2013 1:29:49 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: AzSteven

Yup, slightly modified for additional humor.


34 posted on 06/03/2013 1:30:18 PM PDT by discostu (Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
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To: F15Eagle
For me, it’s the price

Me too. We go to Wendy's and buy the dollar burgers and a small chili and put some of the chili on the burgers (or on the salad or the baked potato) and it's yummy stuff at a nice low price.

35 posted on 06/03/2013 1:30:30 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: SMGFan

Hard to scarf down a salad while driving down the road. Maybe they could blend it and put it in a cup.

“McLiquaSalad with Thousand Island, please... “


36 posted on 06/03/2013 1:30:58 PM PDT by moovova
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To: txnativegop

Why not?


37 posted on 06/03/2013 1:31:57 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: SMGFan

When you think of eating at McDonalds, salad doesn’t pop into your head.


38 posted on 06/03/2013 1:33:55 PM PDT by Bullish (Psalm 46)
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To: Gen.Blather

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the quality of McD salads.

That being said, when you go to the Golden Arches, it’s for French fries.


39 posted on 06/03/2013 1:35:25 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TexasCajun
They dropped my Angus Mushroom & Swiss in my area & I'm not a happy camper!

Same here in SoCal. It was a pretty decent burger.

40 posted on 06/03/2013 1:35:43 PM PDT by Bullish (Psalm 46)
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