The McRib is Back
Oct 22, 2011 | 8:48 pm
#121
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 1999
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Titanium, IHG Diamond, United Silver
Posts: 16,869
Oct 22, 2011 | 10:00 pm
#122
Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 4,044
If getting punched in the stomach was available for a promotional rate, would you do it? Similarly, finding McRib sandwiches on a promotion makes them no more attractive to me than if they cost $50 each. I had one McRib in my life. That was more than sufficient.
Oct 22, 2011 | 10:04 pm
#123
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: PIT
Posts: 14,512
Agree. Had one on a business trip a long time ago. Nasty.
Oct 22, 2011 | 10:17 pm
#125
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 1999
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Titanium, IHG Diamond, United Silver
Posts: 16,869
What made me laugh was that the employees were not allowed to call it a microwave -- it was known as a "Q-ing" oven. Good times (actually, they were in a lot of ways -- too bad I really couldn't make a real well-paying career out of it).
After McRib season, I'd always end up with a gallon or two of the barbecue sauce.
Oct 22, 2011 | 10:18 pm
#126
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 1999
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Titanium, IHG Diamond, United Silver
Posts: 16,869
They only sell them during the promotion. And to each their own.
Oct 22, 2011 | 10:22 pm
#127
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: n.y.c.
Posts: 14,059
Oct 23, 2011 | 10:19 am
#132
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 1999
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Titanium, IHG Diamond, United Silver
Posts: 16,869
Right.
I remember when I was a kid and we had to drive 25 miles to get a McDonald's Happy Meal. Now there's 4-5 McDonald's between my childhood home and that McDonald's we went to (which I ended up managing 15 years later). Out of all the McDonald's out there, that one was one of the first 1000 in the world.
Today I'm about 3 minutes from my local one -- we're in a town of about 5000 people and we have a McDonald's, Burger King, Culvers, Jimmy John's, Subway, and Arby's all within a minute or two of the others.
I remember when I was a kid and we had to drive 25 miles to get a McDonald's Happy Meal. Now there's 4-5 McDonald's between my childhood home and that McDonald's we went to (which I ended up managing 15 years later). Out of all the McDonald's out there, that one was one of the first 1000 in the world.
Today I'm about 3 minutes from my local one -- we're in a town of about 5000 people and we have a McDonald's, Burger King, Culvers, Jimmy John's, Subway, and Arby's all within a minute or two of the others.
Oct 23, 2011 | 2:34 pm
#133
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Liberty International...
Programs: OMNI Platinum
Posts: 9,721
Went in and got the MCRib.. It was loaded with onions and tasted different than the last time.. I think it was lacking the sauce... Will have to get it again, maybe at a different McDonalds.
Last edited by ewrfox; Oct 23, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Oct 23, 2011 | 3:31 pm
#135
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Toronto, NYC, somewhere on planet Earth
Programs: UA 1K, AA ExPlat, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat, Marriott Gold
Posts: 8,291
Much less sauce and lot more onions! When McRibs first came out in the 80s it was loaded with bbq sauce -- I remember seeing them take it out of the pan dripping in bbq sauce -- these days, its prob just a smattering on the rib. If you ask me, I would pay $1 more for double the rib (which is getting softer/less meat tasting every time they bring it out)!