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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NO DUH REALLY...of course no one buys salads at McDonalds..you go to McDonalds for HAMBURGERS and chicken McNuggets NOT salads..poor Michelle Obama, she loses..again..she is in mourning while eating a big slice of chocolate cake while telling everyone else how fatty foods is bad bad bad
Ray Kroc had it right. Lynsi Torres is following the lead. It works. Who knew?
The NappyOne
The truth, you speak it.
Why?
If I were an alien just arrived on the planet, and had to try to figure out what my local McDonalds was just from the décor, I’d be forced to conclude that it was some sort of a Farmers Market that sold upscale gourmet coffee.
-——It is hard to eat salad if you are driving, ——
I eat and drive a lot. The Big Mac has enough shredded lettuce to qualify as a salad, even has thousand island dressing. When driving though, some lettuce falls out and makes a mess.
But once in a while, I go ahead and think this time I won’t spill so much lettuce
Salads that you eat in any restaurant are rarely low-cal or all that healthy. You have to ask them to leave off all the good stuff to make it what is classified as "healthy".
Same here. That was my favorite.
I have never bought a salad from there and only know one person who ever has.
I'm surprised it is that high.
Seeing as others have turned this into a disgust of McDee’s fest I’ll add to it.
Haven’t been to a McDee’s for anything whatsoever since 1970 ‘four, or wuzzit ‘five. Can’t remember which, but I decided waaaaaaaay back then that I’d had enough of their crud, and that was that.
That is just silly. The dressing maybe, that wold be it.
I totally get it, “this time will be different”, try eating a taco while driving. ;-)
I don’t know what changed. I only eat burgers out, about every 6 months. I gave up on McDonalds in Los Angeles, because I could never get a decent burger here at Micky Ds.. going back to Detroit, and upper Michigan, I can still get a good Big Mac. Don’t know if they are using the same beef or not, but they don’t taste good here in Los Angeles.
Normally I get my burgers at BJs... decent brewskie as well.
What stuff on a salad would not be considered “not healthy”?
Dressing is the killer, and restaurants always use to much.
I always get dressing on the side, I swear the little cups they bring have a 1/2 cup of dressing, really all you might need is a tablespoon, or just vinegar.
Your original point I agree with.
The best salad I’ve ever had from a restaurant that’s not all gunked up with “stuff” is Olive Garden’s. I don’t get cheese grated on it, they toss it with just enough dressing so that it’s not swimming in it, I don’t eat the croutons and I get extra peppers and olives on the side. I’ve never had one that didn’t seem perfectly fresh and crispy, no brown edges on the lettuce, no soggy tomatoes.
Also, Outback’s chopped salad with blue cheese.
Both of these use simple iceberg lettuce and just a few other ingredients. With salad, it really is the quality of the ingredients, not the quantity or fanciness. Better some good fresh iceberg than fancy aragula that’s not perfectly fresh and loaded up with gunk.
I buy their salads and I like them. One thing I found out is McDonalds washes their salad twice before selling them.
Olive Garden’s is the only one I like tossed with the dressing before serving. The rest, I like the dressing on the side. I dip my fork in the dressing, then get a bite of salad on the fork.
Also, Olive Garden shreds their lettuce up into bite-size pieces. I hate trying to get a bite of salad and having to wrestle with it as if it’s cheese on a pizza.
Put a gun to a person's head and they'll eat what they're told. Problem solved.
McD does spray their fries with a sugar solution, which helps them to be crisper and caramelized, most restaurants do.
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