It's not always the taste. With three kids, McDonalds PlayPlaces are awesome, especially in those cold months...

But the Big Mac tastes so good!

You got that right! I knows In & Out burgers are much better rather than McDonalds. That's why we always went to eat lunch at In & Out Burgers near our house. It was not too much further away from Cactus Rd & Tatum Blvd.

Frankly I eat McDonalds more often when I am in HK than I do when I am in Canada or New Zealand. :p

One extra slice of cheese killed the McDonalds Double Cheeseburger
 

They keep running ads for the McDouble and I'm like hey, it's missing a slice of cheese, thinking it was a Double Cheeseburger replacement. So I go to the website to see

Rest assured, the Dollar Menu is still at McDonald’s® and your favorite Double Cheeseburger is here to stay! The Double Cheeseburger is now on our regular menu at a slightly higher price than a dollar, but still at a good value. But don’t worry, we have a $1 burger alternative for you!

Next time you visit, look for our latest addition to the Dollar Menu – the new McDouble® Burger. It’s pretty much the same as the Double Cheeseburger, just with one less slice of cheese.

It's fairly amazing they will offer it in two styles, wondering how much they charge for that slice of cheese.

Near me (STL city) the McDouble is $1. The double cheeseburger is $1.29. That doesn't make any sense, but whatever. By comparison, a cheeseburger is $.99

As a personal preference, I prefer a hamburger. When I have a cheeseburger, I feel more than one slice of cheese is overkill, because I can't taste the meat and other ingredients.

To each his/her own.

I think the Double Cheeseburger killed the North American. :eek:

IIRC, when McDonalds first opened in my hometown, a hamburger was $.15 and a cheesburger was $0.19, so a slice of cheese was $0.04. That was a 34% addition. Now on a sandwich with an additional patty, it's a 29% addition. Might be fair, but I think Mickey D's makes a disproportionate amount of its profits on cheese.

That's always what Mr. Kipper says... I have this issue where I won't eat a hamburger--any sort of burger must have cheese for me. He always complains whenever I insist on paying extra for cheese. :)

So in doing the math.

The difference between a McDouble and a double cheeseburger is a slice of cheese, for which they charge you twenty nine cents.

The difference between a cheeseburger and a McDouble is a hamburger patty, for which they charge a penny.

And the difference between a cheeseburger and a double cheeseburger, one patty and one slice of cheese, is thirty cents.

It makes perfect sense.

Patty - 0.01
Slice Cheese - 0.29

Both together - 0.30

It works.

Read an article where McD was pondering on what to do with the Double Cheeseburger price as the profit margin on the burger was diminishing and yet it was a very popular item on their value menu. They went through different options one of which was to remove it from the value menu but they were in agreement that a similar item at that price was needed to bring in the store traffic. Thus the McDouble was born. Of course it doesn't help that some people only order the McDouble and nothing else, e.g. high margin sodas, like yours truly ;).

For me, that's the point of the cheese. :eek:

When did McDonald's start using meat:confused:

I'm with you on this. I never ever order a cheeseburger ANYWHERE that uses American cheese. I order Big Macs w/o cheese. On very rare occasions I will have Swiss or blue cheese if offered. It's not that I particularly dislike American cheese, just that it totally ruins a hamburger.