Posted on 06/20/2015 1:43:20 PM PDT by RightGeek
In January, McDonald’s, leaning against the winds of fashion, said kale would never replace lettuce on its burgers. In May, however, it said it will test kale in a breakfast meal (breakfast is about 25 percent of McDonald’s sales). Kale might or might not cause construction workers to turn at 6 a.m. into McDonald’s drive-through lines, where approximately two-thirds of McDonald’s customers place their orders.
McDonald’s also says its milk will soon be without artificial growth hormones, and chicken (McDonald’s sells more of it than of beef) will be free of human antibiotics. All these might be good business decisions and as socially responsible as can be. They certainly pertain to McDonald’s new mantra about being a “modern, progressive burger company,” whatever that means.
The meaning will perhaps be explained by the progressive burger company’s new spokesman, Robert Gibbs, formerly Barack Obama’s spokesman and MSNBC contributor. McDonald’s British-born CEO Steve Easterbrook clarifies things, sort of, while speaking a strange business dialect: McDonald’s will be “more progressive around our social purpose in order to deepen our relationships with communities on the issues that matter to them.”
Suppose, however, you just want a burger and fries, not social purposes and relationships? You might prefer Five Guys or Shake Shack, where the burgers taste fine even without the condiment of community uplift.
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McDonald’s, deep in an identity crisis, is awakening tardily to Ira Gershwin’s truth: The Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble, they’re only made of clay. Everything is perishable, and history is a story of vanished supremacies. Easterbrook, channeling his inner Hillary Clinton, vows to “reset” McDonald’s. Perhaps his reset will go better than hers did with Vladimir Putin.
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They still serve the original ones in Tampa.
Haven’t eaten fast food in I don’t know when. Not gonna start now. It’s all crap. I don’t care what they do.
No, I haven’t and I probably should. Perhaps there’s a reason that fall is actually the most busy pie-making season.
I do throw together blueberry pies in season but I’m now into canning so maybe I can make pies all year long. I love canning although the paint on my ceiling does not...
Ha! Ray was brilliant. His predecessors...not too much.
Do they? Oh my.. they were yummy. The new “baked” mushy ones are horrible. Thanks... if I ever get down that way, I will treat myself.
Good luck with that kind of a new liberal menu...the mental battle of all the McD’s commercials during NBA games vs Moochelle’s menus should be fun to watch...yeah, put Moochelle in charge of McD’s menus.
Hey, you are right. It is Walmart.
I guess they have also gone to the crazy side!
Hooray! Agreed!
I agree.
When it comes to food, no matter if I’m eating in the most expensive restaurant in LA ... or a chain. DOES THE FOOD TASTE GOOD!
This is payoff/payback to keep moochelle off their backs....
The Obama commissars smell blood and it is either conform to their will or die as a company...
“What will sell more items will be bringing back the beef tallow that the potatoes were fried in.”
Amen! McD’s used to have the best fries around, then they started listening to the food police. how clueless can they be when they think adding kale to their menu is going to bring hordes of hungry patrons to their doors?
“...but I’d pick McDonald’s over Five Guys. Five Guys is the worst burgers and their fries are terrible.”
not in my neck of the woods. 5 Guys burgers and fries are the BEST! McD’s pale in comparison.
British born CEO.
I think I see their problem.
I won’t eat at McDs again since during the push for $15 was in full swing I heard the black guy get up and say he spits in white folks food.
Ever try butter flavor Crisco? My mother swore by lard for the best pie crust.
McDonalds had the STUPIDITY of hiring that LIAR Obama spokeliar as their Communications Director....which means CHIEF LIAR!!
Grease HEAVEN according to my husband!! He gets then every time we go back to Ohio! it’s WHY HE DOESN;T MIND DRIVING 1000 MILES!!!! That and SKYLINE CHILE!
“Kale might or might not cause construction workers to turn at 6 a.m. into McDonald’s drive-through lines”
Construction guy in wife-beater T-shirt in very large pickup pulling up into McDonald’s drive-through at 6:00am Monday morning: I’ll have three venti kale cappuccinos with room for organic soymilk and cinnamon, a couple of those gluten-free scones, one croissant with a I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® pat, a slice of spinach quiche, and an organic arugula salad with raspberry-peach vinaigrette dressing.
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