I’m not sure about anyone else, but me personally when I used to use fancy ketchup, it would burn my tongue. NO OTHER ketchup does that. I never McDonald’s use fancy ketchup for that reason. But the ketchup in their burgers doesn’t burn my tongue which is strange
I haven't eaten at McDonalds since 6 October, 1982, when I had a "Big Mac Attack" that gave me digestive distress for months. As for ketchup, I took a blind taste test in a college course comparing Heinz with Hunts and Del Monte and a couple of other brands. For the first time I noticed a chemical taste with bitter aftertaste in the Heinz sample, the first time I had really paid attention to the taste of ketchup. At the end of the test, I had settled on Hunts as the best by a mile, Del Monte above the middle of the pack, and Heinz the absolute worst.
I worked at McDonalds in 1964 (in Northern VA, the first McDonalds in the Wash DC area). We cooked fries in Lard. I unloaded many a 25 pound box of Lard. Further, we used whole potatoes that were peeled inside a circular "sandpaper" drum connected to a hose. The burgers came from a local beef purveyor, Murray's Steaks. Of course that was almost 60 years ago. P.S. I was paid 90 cents per hour!
My Cub Scout troop took a field trip to a local McDonald’s about 1967. I distinctly remember big sacks of potatoes stored in the back, along with the rough drum you described that removed the peel.
The fries tasted much better back in those days... yeah... I can remember the fries costing a dime, burgers 30 cents and gas 35 cents a gallon 110 octane. Yup... those were the days... real cheeseburgers, fast cars and miniskirts...
Yeah, because it was a decent paying job until the late 70s. Now people desperate for work are taking jobs there being there years only making what other jobs offer at starting pay.
@@EricTechstuffs The Fries are not the same worldwide. In the UK they normally only have 3 ingredients. Potato, Vegetable oil and Salt. With dextrose at the start of potato season. They are approved by the vegetarian society as Vegan. The fries in the USA contain around 9 different ingredients. Including beef flavour. So are not suitable for vegetarians or vegans.
As time goes on people forget the original tastes as they slowly transition to the new flavours. But many of us are still around that remember original tastes from Big Macs to cherry pies and the French fries. The 70s and 80s are gone for me but I remember those times and tastes and yes those fries do taste different!!
They put beef flavouring on the fries to compensate for lack of tallow but to need to re cook the cold fries in a air frier at 40f for 5 minutes on top rack to get something close to the old flavour😏
I stillbremember the taste of the old McChickens before they disappeared, then came back only as the Spicy McChicken, and then finally returned as whatever-the-hell-they-pass-off now as a "McChicken"
From the time I can remember from 1960 all the way up to 1980 McDonald's had the best food. There was a recent survey done last year and this year McDonald's came at number 10 . On the survey. The number one fast food chain in the world was Chick-fil-A they came at number 1 two years in a row and people said because they served Heinz Ketchup and they have very good french fries.
Did you see the latest data dump? There was a marked increase in cardio vascular events with the introduction of 'seed oils' and shortening to the American diet? Ever wonder why the French eat a majority animal based diet and DO NOT have a high incidence of cardio vascular events? How 'bout Germany where pork consumption is off the chain?? Somebody has been LYING big time. . .could it be some huge food conglomerates? Who made mega bucks from CRISCO & Fleishman's?? McDonald fries now suck putty balls. . .What ever they're doing ain't workin. . .
For centuries, life expectancy increased. Thanks to our now "healthier" diets (low fat, low sugar, low salt, etc), that has reversed itself. Life expectancy is now decreasing (most noticeable among whites). One would think a change in life expectancy would be big news, but the media has hardly even mentioned it.
Their salads were good, and they had "newmans own" dressing and their grocery store variant does not taste the same. Noticed they were always cold from Mcdonalds.
The real reason McDonald's stopped buying Heinz ketchup packs is because some bean counter decided that substituting a flavorless red slop for an actual condiment could save more money than they would lose in sales. The once great fries now suck (canola is a terrible frying oil), the ketchup is disgusting and you can no longer get cherry pies (and for some reason, the apple pies have to be baked instead of fried). Is it any wonder why young people can't understand how going to McDonalds used to be a treat when flavor has been sacrificed on the alters of profits and political correctness?
Had not eaten at McDonald’s in over a year , I was driving past Hester and thought what the hell, going to give them a try! Big mistake, quarter pounder was flat, burnt and the fry’s were cold and soggy, my mistake , never McDonald’s again !
I recall when i was in high school there were protesters of frying the pies because it is unhealthy.... Thank God Jolibee has fried pies....and far better than anything McDonald's has ever offered!
I've always thought this new streamline version of McDonald's is going to bite them in the butt. A lot of the reason McDonald's is popular now is because people remember it from when they were kids. It's sort of nostalgic. They're taking all the fun out of it, and the kids aren't going to want to go anymore so it won't embed brand loyalty. I don't know it just seems counterintuitive to me.
It because they’ve became greedy. They wanted it to soar as high as they can get it and save as much as they can out of it. But the problem is it’s getting pricer than it should and not as great quality as before.
This isn't the first time they tried something like this. They tried going for a more "young adult" demographic in the late 1990s with an abomination called the "Arch Deluxe", which my contemporaries and I called the "Barf Deluxe" at the time. That flopped badly, McDonald's took the hint, and went back to doing things the right way: kid-centered with an emphasis on fun. I expect thigs will go similarly once a sharp drop in their bottom line reminds them of this lesson.
I've read recently that frying in lard isn't actually that unhealthy as they once thought it was. My mom went into great detail once with me, on how to butcher a hog (grandpa stabbed them to kill them and she said they would scream before they died), and she said they would boil down the hogs to render the lard and use that to cook with and make biscuits, pie crusts with. This was in the 1930's - 1940's.
There is the elusion that something made from vegetable has to be healthier but the reality is hydrogenated vegetable oil needs a lot of additives to withstand hours and hours of holding at a frying temperature of 350° between use.
Mc Donalds fries were never good, but since they dropped the tallow they have the same flavour as cardboard. Luckily, there are still some small independent places that use tallow (healthier than toxic vegetable oils any day).
@@harikrishna69 yes. beef tallow. check it out, usually there are some places around that still make real fries. nothing tastes as good as real belgian fries.
Their ENTIRE MENU is bland and tasteless! Up until very recently it was a children's theme restaurant. You want a good burger and fries, find a locally run burger joint 🍔
Depending upon how old you are the original fries were cut in store and fried in beef tallow. Vegans (5% of the population) ruined that part of it. As far as cutting in store, I think they got to the point they couldn't keep up!
@@fctuber I remember my grandmother taking me McDonald's that was 1969. They had the best hamburgers and french fries back then. Older we went McDonald's and they had the best steak sandwich which I Miss you steak sandwich you receive real silverware a fork and a real steak knife those were the days.
.....by "old Mac".....do you mean back when they were served with a cardboard ring around the sandwich ? ( that was even BEFORE the plastic clam shells )
i remember as a little kid going into McDonald's in the late 70s early 80s, and getting a happy meal, those fries and that burger tasted like heaven, now it just tastes like a bland cheap burger and fries, by the way the McDonald's my dad took us to is the one that used to be in San Ysidro, CA, its's not there anymore because of...….things.
My family and I used to go to McDonald's at least three times a week , then the pandemic started. Well, with all the confusion as to where you could eat or is ordering drive-thru food any safe, we just stopped going to them. Since that time coworkers and friends have told us how ridiculously expensive they have gotten. At this point we simply don't care about McDonald's. P.s. We also feel that McDonald's has made several poor business decisions concerning their menu over the last several years. They have eliminated a fair amount of popular menu items and as with their Ketchup and Fry changes I think alot of people are now just disappointed in McDonald's.
I think a lot of workers were home and said to themselves that they were not going back to that lousy low can't live on that salary job. So they demanded more money - thus the once affordable fast food hamburger is getting closer and closer to $10.00. For a few more dollars you can go to a much healthier and nice restaurant and sit down and enjoy a much better meal.
Prior to covid I'd stop by for breakfast at least once a week. Then they discontinued the fruit & yogurt parfait and breakfast burritos. They still don't have the parfait but they brought back the breakfast burritos.
I didn't go often, but I used to go to McDonald's. But around 2000 I went to a McDonald's at the airport and got horrendous food poisoning. I had to be hospitalized and that cost me $1500 even though I had good health insurance. The abdominal cramps were so painful it caused the nurse to go through the questionnaire to evaluate if you were going to commit suicide when they left the room. The only time I have been to a McDonald's since is we went to see the White House around 2009 and needed change for the parking meter. So I went into McDonald's and they told me I would have buy their food to get change and I said forget it. That was the last time I will ever go to a McDonald's.
If all people would have canceled their cell phones,, got a home landline with an Answering machine,, canceled their cable bill, cancel their internet,,l stop eating fast, cholesterol clogging artificial process food restaurants because those are the only companies that were allowed to be open and that was communism you would have found out that pandemic would have been over real fast, if people had all joined in unity, and done that,, no vaccination required,. Simply pay your not necessary and or luxury bills, and the reset button will be pressed.
Their fries used to be made from fresh potatoes , peeled, cut, and left in fry baskets under a warm air flow that changed some of the surface starch to sugar. Then into the beef tallow fry grease. This gave a very tasty, crisp, crunchy product that the current frozen fries don't come near!
When i worked at taco bell in the early 90s they also made most of their stuff fresh. We got in whole tomatoes we had to cut up, the cheese cane in big blocks we had to use wires to cut it up to fit in the shredder. The lettuce was whole heads. I cant recall the onions. But i think at that time they were pre cut in bags. They even had fresh cilantro and black olives.
I have to disagree when it comes to their burgers... Growing up McDonald's burgers were the absolute best! We loved to pop over and try to get a free burger by saying the "two all beef patty special sauce song" you get the gist... But their burger meat now is awful! I miss the good ol' burgers...
It seems that every company that perfects its concept, breaks its neck trying to destroy it. McDonalds used to be a treat that you could enjoy from time to time… it’s no longer a treat… more of a cheap fix when you’re in a bind.
@@tiffanyribbonsthat's exactly what I was thinking, "cheap"? I took my family of 6, and the bill was nearly 80 bucks. I was shocked, and the food wasn't pleasant. We don't eat fast food very often, but I can assure you we won't be dining under the golden arches anytime soon!
Just another way, for McDonald's to not pay another company to use their ketchup brand. I prefer the heinz brand better. That's why I tell McDonald's no ketchup with my fries, I have my own heinz brand at home.
It doesn't matter what ketchup they use, what the fries are cooked in, or they buried Ronald in the woods. It's all garbage that I wouldn't even call food
I stopped eating at Macdonald’s a few years ago. Simply unhealthy. The self ordering kiosks im 100% opposed to. Putting humans out of work is something I do not support. I don’t use ATMs either.
An old man once gave me this advice regarding physical labor: "Never take a job away from a mule." Updated for 2022, you might say "Never take a job away from a machine." When a machine can do a job faster, better, and cheaper than a machine, then it's a losing cause to try to prevent it. When a person can do a job better or faster or cheaper than an machine, then use the person. Otherwise, don't take a job away from a mule.
They missed a major reason. Heinz is owned by 3g capital. The same owners of RBI. RBI is the operators of burger king and Tim tortons, McDonalds biggest competition.
"Modernization" and "looking like a North Korean office suite" doesn't have to be the same thing. Whoever chose dark two tone grey for a classic American restaurant that used to be one of the most fun places to go needs to be publicly flogged.
I'm from Guam and every time I order fries from any McDonald's chain, they always intentionally forget to give my damn ketchup packets, so I give them a disappointing look on my face and ask for some damn ketchup. I guess gone are good old days where their slogan says, "We love to see you smile"
Here in the Philippines, they're happy to give you ketchup, but they very sneakily charge you for it. I never knew that until my wife told me, about a week ago.
@@kfl611, I sympathize, but on the other hand, I can see why they don't hand it out automatically. Ketchup an jelly aren't free, and I'd hate to think about how much ends up in the trash. "Jelly, please," isn't hard, and BTW, this is McDo's. Why not upgrade , to a place with all the jelly you want, and an actual Heinz ketchup bottle, on the table? But in dealing with McDo's, that's what you get for your money.
@@markcollins2666 True, but what happened to the 'customer is always right' and 'good customer relations'. And it isn't as if their food is that cheap any more. Although some things are more of a bargain than other items. In my town they are the only fast food restaurant in the area. So they get a lot of business. I guess it is no longer free unless you ask for it, just like gas station air is no longer free for your tires, and gas station attendants no longer check your tire pressure, oil, wash your windows and head lights like they used to back in the day.
I worked at "Mickey Dee's" for 3 years from 1965-68, during High School. We fried the julienned potatoes in 60% Lard and 40% Vegetable Oil. We made the fries by hand, a very laborious process. In 1967, we began using frozen, pre-blanched julienned potatoes from J.R. Simplot Co. in Idaho. The fries were no longer the same - but were still better than most of our competitors. I thought the Heinz pickle slices were the best - two on each burger. BTW.... in 1965, the hamburger cost $0.15 each, fries cost $0.15 per 2.75 oz. bag, Milk Shakes - $0.22 each, etc. Minimum wage in 1965 = $1.25; 1968 = $1.75.
If you liked the gas price at $1.71 you will surely like the black and white photo of the McDonald brothers, and in the background you will see a McDonalds sign for 15 cent burgers. Ah, those were the days. And I was fortunate to actually go to the very first McDonalds there in San Bernardino, California.
I don't eat McDonald's. So I didn't know that they weren't giving out ketchup. I haven't eaten their since I was a kid in the 80's. If I eat fast food its Wendy's!!! Lol!!!
McDonald’s food used to so much better back when I worked for them, in the early 90’s and especially when I was growing up in the 70’s 😎👍 today, the food’s just heated up and thrown together 😝 It’s a shame too, McDonald’s could be so much better !
idk, for some reason it was always labeled fancy ketchup for as much as i remember it, i know for the last decade its always tasted different than heinz that everybody in the restaurant industry uses.
It's always tasted different and you're right, it's always been labeled as it's own thing. It has never been Heinz. This video is completely false. I jumped on this when i was a kid in the 90's..immediately noticing the package and the taste. I made a big deal about it back then.
McDonald's has become the worst fast food place of all. Here, you can't get your order right, you wait an unusually long time for your order in a mostly empty restaurant while the workers are gathered in a group chatting away, etc. It's more about the money than it is about the customer anymore.
Mc Donalds actually owns Burger King these days so it might more be a situation of a competitor buyout or disassociation Even relatively recently when they bought the Coffee that would become "McCafe" Premium Roast from Smucker's who bought it from Sara Lee who sold it to Tim Horton's and as "Dewe Egbert's Filter Blend" to other restaurants , they cut off Tim Horton's who had to get a new supplier and you can only find Dewe Egbert's Aroma Rood now......neither taste like the original which is now "McCafe premium roast"
The McD's coffee is better than it used to be, but it still to me is lousy. Many years ago, in my opinion it used to be undrinkable, and I'm not a coffee snob.
Well, it's time now that they update that "Bah-da dah-dah dah, I'm lovin' it!" jingle, IMO! It grates on my ears to still be hearing it in commercials after so many years now!
I don't know what the new slogan would be though. Would need to convey the idea that they charge more for less quality if they want to establish credibility.
I want to make my own decisions about taste vs. health. French fries fried in beef tallow are vastly better tasting to me, and in the opinion of nutritionists, the tallow does not constitute a health risk unless you eat a lot of it all the time (which I do not). Companies like McDonald's etc. should offer fries cooked either way so each customer can make his own decision. The bland tasteless commercial fries are not worth their cost in terms of salt and carbs, so I make my own fries in beef tallow at home--I choose how much salt, and how much fries to eat to make the superior taste worth the carb cost.
You solved your own problem. If you want to make all the decisions and choices for yourself with no consideration for what anyone else wants, which is perfectly fine, just make it yourself...problem solved.
@@joelnielsen4836 Since when does McDonald's give us a choice as to what oil we want our fries fried in. The ONLY choice is take it or leave it, and that's NOT a choice, that's an ultimatum.
@@meauxjeaux431 Just like with the previous guy, if you want to choose the oil your fries are cooked in then cook them for yourself at home. To expect a fast food restaurant to offer a choice of frying oil is a little overboard, don't you think? I mean who does that?
there is only 1 McDonalds I like to eat at. most have the everyday normal feel, but 70 miles from me, in a college town, they built a classy 1, lounge chairs, sofas, gas logs in fireplace to lounge around, free wifi. to attract students, to hang around & eat there, and relax, well, they dont fuss if person just comes in to chill, and doesnt buy food, but atmosphere is great, people are encouraged to hang around, so anytime I am there, I eat there. p.s. there is 1 in sight of my job, ate there 3 times in last decade, just the rush rush, hurry up attitude, so no thanks. so locally I eat at other places that are more relaxed atmospheres.
Over the past year or so, every time I went to McDonalds -- which could only be accessed via the drive-through -- it was as if I got fries "that were swept up off of the floor and stuffed into one of their fry containers." Just the worst, awful crap I've ever been served in my entire life. I quickly got tired of giving them "good money" and getting "garbage that had been swept up off the floor," and I haven't been back, since. Thinking back to when they actually allowed customers in their dining rooms (I still haven't seen one that has opened them up), I can't say that I've ever seen anyone at a McDonald's toss "old fries" per any kind of "standard" that they obviously don't have. Just give the customers the worst crap they've got, and SCREW THEM. Never going back again.
I haven't been to McDonald's for years. If McDonald's quit using Heinz ketchup, I wonder how that affects Potato Face Kerry, I always figured he used French Fry oil to power his private jet while flying around saving our planet.
That's what I heard, but the real damage was to people who do not eat meat for religious reasons. Both groups justifiably felt betrayed by McD's not voluntarily making the detail of cooking in beef fat public.
My adult kids and grandkids just get in my fridge and get our Heinz catsup and then they are happy. They do not like McDonalds catsup. The food is not very good anymore. They got rid of all the Grilled Chicken items and salads and that’s why I personally do not eat McDonalds anymore. I only like their Mocha Frappe’s and that’s it.
Hey, Mashed: How about the more RECENT change in McDonald's ketchup packets? The back is totally white with no graphics or print. The front only has a single very tiny Arched M as branding. It is very plain. (McD straws are now solid white - no more Red and Yellow Stripes.) I get Supply Chain Issues, but seems extreme in the case of McD.
Here in Southern California the straws are still white with red and yellow stripes. Only fast food chain that went to paper straws in SoCal was Burger King. Btw Heinz ketchup sucks, specially after Kraft bought them out.
@@cdxser91 I still prefer Heinz over Hunt's - and any of the bulk unfamiliar brands that often taste watered down and weak. If we truly base our patronage based upon a moral view and we look long enough and hard enough and dig deep enough, we would likely have to boycott or stop patronizing ALL businesses... 🥴 I occasionally feel there is a need for me pull my business from a store or restaurant. 🧐😨😞😥😩😫😤😠
Interesting that restaurants that catered to families with children modernized to skip children activities. Children are now entertained by their phones instead.
I was wondering why they were dissing beef tallow and championing vegetable oil. As people who're on carnivore diets know, beef products are NOT automatically bad for you and can actually be very healthy.
@@fredleggett923 Decades ago the sugar industry convinced a lot of people that what was making everyone sick was fat (which was mostly animal derived back then), not sugar, so fat suddenly became demonized. Now, the vegetable oil industry has everyone convinced their fats are good for you, but other fats are not. The opposite is true. Vegetable oils (polyunsaturated fatty acids) are absolutely horrible for you, while animals fats (saturated fatty acids) are excellent for you. Mainstream nutrition advice is very harmful and should not be listened to.
The Mc Double is 1 serving Veggies, 2 servings bread, 3 servings meat and 3 servings fat and small fries is 1 bread and 2 fat on dieateic exchange for food pyramid Not best choices but still better the a pack of skittles,a coffee,and a cigarette
Never been to a McDonald's that charges for ketchup, but over the years I've been to McDonald's and seen signs saying that sauces are $0.35 each for extras, most of these in bad neighborhood locations.
@@cdxser91 Where are those ketchup packets located now? Not in the dining area like they used to be. Almost every other fast food place has condiments out for the guests to grab on their own. The reason McD's does this is to limit what guests can have. They charge for more than 2 small packets. And this is literally everwhere I've gone (I travel a lot across the country).
Back in the old days meat used to be quite expensive. Unlike today where acceptable meat is available for everyone, the common man had to eat poor quality meat. So companies like Heinz and McIlhenny arose to supply products like ketchup and Tabasco sauce to cover up the nastiness so the meat could be consumed. Admittedly, McDonald's fries taste pretty good until you douse them in ketchup. At that point you can't taste the fries and they are just a tool to move the ketchup to your mouth without getting it on your fingers.
There's better ketchup recipes than copying Heinz American recipe; Heinz has several recipes in circulation around the world. Why MacDonalds doesn't cook their fries in olive oil I can't figure. The caliber of MacDonalds fries is too small compared to Wendy's and Burger King. Those are shoestring fries and are the least expensive in stores.
I think all of these fast food places hurt themselves by trying to be healthy. When you go to a fast food place food ought to be prepared in the tastiest possible fashion without regard for health. The reason for that is real simple, none of us get out of here alive. If people want healthy, they ought to go to restaurants specializing in healthy. All manner of pastries and cookies can be made healthy but that needs different ingredients and preparation to do it.... The New Freedom Bakery in Philadelphia, PA is one example of what can be done in the healthy line when different ingredients and preparation get used.
As to the ending of Ronald McDonald and friends, there are a few reasons. One was pressure from parents and changes in buying habits for children, they didn't want the promotion of 'fast food' targeting their children. Children's programing has to drop most food, including fast food advertising/marketing to them. Some cities like San Francisco banned 'child meals' and marketing to children. The costs of the toys, choking hazard issue liability were also factors. Also like Taco Bell decided, children and 'child meals' were only a tiny part of their sales and better to aim to teens and young adults. As to the frying oil change as well as frying their fruit pies, that indeed was due to decades of pressure from medical, dietary and public health professionals, the need to have products that those that cannot eat meat or beef can consume (like those of the Hindu faith) and in some cities like NYC for public health banned the use of animal fats for frying foods.
ill double check, but in Thailand, at least Bangkok, I believe they still use Heinz ketchup here. For now, one fun fact, we have two choices of ketchup. "American flavour" and "Thai flavour".
Actually, the reason they stopped offering Heinz Ketchup was because McDonald's wanted Heinz to pay McDonald's for supplying the ketchup, considering it advertising. I'm not going to explain how I know this, but that is the actual reason.
Had a water well drilling business in Washington state and a customer we drilled for worked for McDonald’s his job was to fly around the country and find the perfect potatoes for their fries they would buy entire farms harvest and the potatoes had to be perfect size shape everything it was very strict. I was surprised. Got few bags of the fries though guy was very nice and you wouldn’t ever guessed he did that kind of job just seemed like another country guy in extremely rural Washington lol
Glad I live in Minnesota. The switch will be more apparent overseas than in the United States, since McDonald's only serves Heinz ketchup in two domestic markets - Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on Friday.Oct 25, 2013
Has anyone ever been served a burger that remotely looks like the one on the advertising blurb? (and that goes for any burger chain) No wonder Douglas had a meltdown in that film "Falling Down?).
Heinz is the best if you like bitter chemical aftertaste and tomatoes long past their 'best by' date. Otherwise, it is the worst. Pay attention the next time you eat it.
I don’t know about all McDonald’s but my local McDonald’s charges a nickel for each napkin they hand out. So you don’t get a napkin unless you pay extra for it
I could care less, haven't been to McDonalds in years and have no plans going back. Friend was complaining how expensive they were getting and their food doesn't taste as good.
McDs came to NZ , last century in the late 1970s . They had problems from the start , underpaying crew , for one thing . Due to that , I refused to eat McDs , unless it would be offensive not to - a Godchids Birthday Party - was my first taste . Didn't like it but ate it , Next up were occasionally offered chips - not to foul , but not a preferred option . One evening out with a friend , we were hungry from walking around the city's Bush tracks , so on the way to the rail station , we got a cheese burger . My mates was gone in 3-4 mouthfulls , mine was made to last longer . He started bleating 10 miners later about being hungry , and we were half way to the rail station , my burger lasted a couple of blocks further , and like my friend , by the time we got to the rail station , hungry again . I haven't had McDs since , as they just aren't that nice , my local takeouts o better burgers than McDs and for the same cost , with home made patties = more filling , 🙂👍😊
So because you and your feral mate could only afford a stingy little cheese burger when you were roaming the streets decades ago, and got hungry, you decided never to eat there again. Yeah I had a sour orange as a kid and never ate one since. Gotta stick with life's first impressions ay.
02:42 "You may have noticed that the chain's favorite golden fries taste just a bit different these days." These days? They removed the tallow over 30 years ago. lol
I like to say that McDonalds by its sheer omnipresence sets the floor everyone else needs to be better than to be in food service. If you're eating a worse burger, you're probably in prison (or school, or a theme park or other tourist trap or anyplace else with a captive market).
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What are your thoughts on this change by McDonald's? Has it been noticeable for you?
I’m not sure about anyone else, but me personally when I used to use fancy ketchup, it would burn my tongue. NO OTHER ketchup does that. I never McDonald’s use fancy ketchup for that reason. But the ketchup in their burgers doesn’t burn my tongue which is strange
The fancy ketchup is disgusting and we all know it.
I haven't eaten at McDonalds since 6 October, 1982, when I had a "Big Mac Attack" that gave me digestive distress for months.
As for ketchup, I took a blind taste test in a college course comparing Heinz with Hunts and Del Monte and a couple of other brands. For the first time I noticed a chemical taste with bitter aftertaste in the Heinz sample, the first time I had really paid attention to the taste of ketchup. At the end of the test, I had settled on Hunts as the best by a mile, Del Monte above the middle of the pack, and Heinz the absolute worst.
Yes... the old fries were better... and their newer ketchup is several levels below heinz.
@@visteobman4085 How can anything be worse than Heinz ketchup?
It turns out the beef tallow is much healthier for you than the vegetable oils, especially the cheaper seed oils.
Also lard is better.
I worked at McDonalds in 1964 (in Northern VA, the first McDonalds in the Wash DC area). We cooked fries in Lard. I unloaded many a 25 pound box of Lard. Further, we used whole potatoes that were peeled inside a circular "sandpaper" drum connected to a hose. The burgers came from a local beef purveyor, Murray's Steaks. Of course that was almost 60 years ago. P.S. I was paid 90 cents per hour!
thank you for sharing your story
My Cub Scout troop took a field trip to a local McDonald’s about 1967. I distinctly remember big sacks of potatoes stored in the back, along with the rough drum you described that removed the peel.
I wonder what year they started using the so called beef now that doesn't rot?
The fries tasted much better back in those days... yeah... I can remember the fries costing a dime, burgers 30 cents and gas 35 cents a gallon 110 octane. Yup... those were the days... real cheeseburgers, fast cars and miniskirts...
McDonalds are actually population control bait stations disguised as restaurants.
Saw a perfect meme that McDonald’s went from a happy child to the sad adult with its “modern renovation” and it really was on point.
Yes, I like the happy child theme way more
They have definitely adopted more thug vibe
Yeah, because it was a decent paying job until the late 70s. Now people desperate for work are taking jobs there being there years only making what other jobs offer at starting pay.
@@Jopo1226 McDonald’s actually has great pay nowadays, starting 15$ an hour which is higher than most other jobs starting pay
I'm less concerned at why McDonald's stopped serving Heinz ketchup and more concerned as to why they stopped serving real french fries.
It came down to consistency . Worldwide, same fries.
the fries taste the same.
@@EricTechstuffs The Fries are not the same worldwide. In the UK they normally only have 3 ingredients. Potato, Vegetable oil and Salt. With dextrose at the start of potato season. They are approved by the vegetarian society as Vegan. The fries in the USA contain around 9 different ingredients. Including beef flavour. So are not suitable for vegetarians or vegans.
Well said
Why they stopped serving customers at all... "Use the kiosk and then GTFO!"
Yeah, someone oughta sue them over the fraudulent use of the brand
I quit eating there altogether! Sorry McDonalds! You messed everything up; and everyone I talk to agrees with me!
like they care
Me,too.
As time goes on people forget the original tastes as they slowly transition to the new flavours. But many of us are still around that remember original tastes from Big Macs to cherry pies and the French fries. The 70s and 80s are gone for me but I remember those times and tastes and yes those fries do taste different!!
They put beef flavouring on the fries to compensate for lack of tallow but to need to re cook the cold fries in a air frier at 40f for 5 minutes on top rack to get something close to the old flavour😏
400f
That would be the change it frying oil, and the way the potatoes are processed. Oh don't forget the 15 or so additives to try to make them taste good.
I stillbremember the taste of the old McChickens before they disappeared, then came back only as the Spicy McChicken, and then finally returned as whatever-the-hell-they-pass-off now as a "McChicken"
The beef keeps getting light in color too it's grey instead of brown
It seems as though McDonald's is only concerned with making itself suck.
Yes I agree
They sure busted my hopes when the did away with the egg white delite.
It proved it with refusing to bring back the Arch Deluxe.
From the time I can remember from 1960 all the way up to 1980 McDonald's had the best food. There was a recent survey done last year and this year McDonald's came at number 10 . On the survey. The number one fast food chain in the world was Chick-fil-A they came at number 1 two years in a row and people said because they served Heinz Ketchup and they have very good french fries.
I still like McDonald's I'm not picky
I wish they would go back to beef tallow. It's a natural, unprocessed oil.
Agreed. The fries were so good back when they used beef tallow.
They suck now, in fact I can't stand them!
So do I, but the food industry is hell bent on making people as sick as possible.
100% It tates MUCH better & it's much healthier.
@@yukonstriker1703 100% Fuk the current fries.
It made the French fries taste so good!!
There is considerable debate in the medical community about vegetable oils (particularly canola oil) being "healthier" than animal fats.
Did you see the latest data dump? There was a marked increase in cardio vascular events with the introduction of 'seed oils' and shortening to the American diet? Ever wonder why the French eat a majority animal based diet and DO NOT have a high incidence of cardio vascular events? How 'bout Germany where pork consumption is off the chain?? Somebody has been LYING big time. . .could it be some huge food conglomerates? Who made mega bucks from CRISCO & Fleishman's?? McDonald fries now suck putty balls. . .What ever they're doing ain't workin. . .
Y, Canola oil (or Canadian oil) is actually from Rape seed, not at all palatable to humans without heavy chemical work over.
Fat is moderation isn't bad for you at all but sugar is. Sugar is toxic.
For centuries, life expectancy increased. Thanks to our now "healthier" diets (low fat, low sugar, low salt, etc), that has reversed itself. Life expectancy is now decreasing (most noticeable among whites). One would think a change in life expectancy would be big news, but the media has hardly even mentioned it.
They started to go downhill when they got rid of their deep fried apple and cherry pies.
I forgot McDonald’s sold apple pies till just now 😂😂
I loved those apple pies!
I agree..the new apple pies are nasty..i dont know why they changed them.
We still have them fried apple pies in the Philippines
@@vwandtiny3769 im jealous!
If McDonald's was going for trendy, why did they remove all the salads from their menu?
Yes, exactly. I miss the salads
No profit probably
Their salads were good, and they had "newmans own" dressing and their grocery store variant does not taste the same. Noticed they were always cold from Mcdonalds.
If it doesn't sell in sufficient numbers it's off the menu and salads are highly perishable creating more waste.
Because few go to a fast food joint for a "salad" so they were not profitable.
The real reason McDonald's stopped buying Heinz ketchup packs is because some bean counter decided that substituting a flavorless red slop for an actual condiment could save more money than they would lose in sales.
The once great fries now suck (canola is a terrible frying oil), the ketchup is disgusting and you can no longer get cherry pies (and for some reason, the apple pies have to be baked instead of fried). Is it any wonder why young people can't understand how going to McDonalds used to be a treat when flavor has been sacrificed on the alters of profits and political correctness?
Comfort and CLASS...
Had not eaten at McDonald’s in over a year , I was driving past Hester and thought what the hell, going to give them a try! Big mistake, quarter pounder was flat, burnt and the fry’s were cold and soggy, my mistake , never McDonald’s again !
I recall when i was in high school there were protesters of frying the pies because it is unhealthy.... Thank God Jolibee has fried pies....and far better than anything McDonald's has ever offered!
Its always about money.
Dont even need to watch this video to figure it out.
Follow the money.
@@bridgetdraper5146 haha. What a thing to protest. Out of all the horrors in the world. Not even bc profit greedy McDs, but deep fried pies. Lame.
I've always thought this new streamline version of McDonald's is going to bite them in the butt. A lot of the reason McDonald's is popular now is because people remember it from when they were kids. It's sort of nostalgic. They're taking all the fun out of it, and the kids aren't going to want to go anymore so it won't embed brand loyalty. I don't know it just seems counterintuitive to me.
It because they’ve became greedy. They wanted it to soar as high as they can get it and save as much as they can out of it. But the problem is it’s getting pricer than it should and not as great quality as before.
This isn't the first time they tried something like this. They tried going for a more "young adult" demographic in the late 1990s with an abomination called the "Arch Deluxe", which my contemporaries and I called the "Barf Deluxe" at the time. That flopped badly, McDonald's took the hint, and went back to doing things the right way: kid-centered with an emphasis on fun. I expect thigs will go similarly once a sharp drop in their bottom line reminds them of this lesson.
We can use kas to cover the bike seat to cover the crack samosa 😂
We both used to work there as kids 😂
It's highly questionable that switching to hydrogenated vegetable fat is healthier than beef fat.
I've read recently that frying in lard isn't actually that unhealthy as they once thought it was. My mom went into great detail once with me, on how to butcher a hog (grandpa stabbed them to kill them and she said they would scream before they died), and she said they would boil down the hogs to render the lard and use that to cook with and make biscuits, pie crusts with. This was in the 1930's - 1940's.
Can you say transfat !! 👀
They switched because a group protested the beef being present in the oil
There is the elusion that something made from vegetable has to be healthier but the reality is hydrogenated vegetable oil needs a lot of additives to withstand hours and hours of holding at a frying temperature of 350° between use.
@@jimbeck553 Hindus?
Mc Donalds fries were never good, but since they dropped the tallow they have the same flavour as cardboard. Luckily, there are still some small independent places that use tallow (healthier than toxic vegetable oils any day).
Tallow?
@@harikrishna69 yes. beef tallow. check it out, usually there are some places around that still make real fries. nothing tastes as good as real belgian fries.
@@couchsofa2977
Thanks for the education!
In Scotland we call this beef dripping.
Tallow was what candles were made from.
@@harikrishna69 chippys who use beef dripping are the best🤚👍
McDonald’s is the best example as to how a crappy food can continuously stay in business
The mcdonald's fries literally taste like tasteless sponges. When compared to fries served at other restaurants, these fries pale in comparison.
Their ENTIRE MENU is bland and tasteless! Up until very recently it was a children's theme restaurant. You want a good burger and fries, find a locally run burger joint 🍔
Have to agree with you about those fries
I miss the old Mack. The food isn't the same great mc Donalds I grew up on.
Nothing's as good as it used to be, but McDonald's is still the #1 fast food chain in the world statistically.
@@wturner777 McDonald's number two the number one is Subway.
Depending upon how old you are the original fries were cut in store and fried in beef tallow. Vegans (5% of the population) ruined that part of it. As far as cutting in store, I think they got to the point they couldn't keep up!
@@fctuber I remember my grandmother taking me McDonald's that was 1969. They had the best hamburgers and french fries back then. Older we went McDonald's and they had the best steak sandwich which I Miss you steak sandwich you receive real silverware a fork and a real steak knife those were the days.
.....by "old Mac".....do you mean back when they were served with a cardboard ring around the sandwich ? ( that was even BEFORE the plastic clam shells )
I miss the cookies based on characters like the HamBurglar!
I saw the gas at $1.71 and blacked out 😦
Right???? 🤣🤣🤣
Lol
Must have shot the clip when trump was still president
*3:24
You can still get gas today for $1.71. (Per quart.)
i remember as a little kid going into McDonald's in the late 70s early 80s, and getting a happy meal,
those fries and that burger tasted like heaven, now it just tastes like a bland cheap burger and fries,
by the way the McDonald's my dad took us to is the one that used to be in San Ysidro, CA,
its's not there anymore because of...….things.
......I wonder how many people remember the San Ysidro massacre ?? If you don't remember.....I'm sure there is info about it on Wikipedia......
Sad day for sure,. Remember the Olympics game in 76?
Bronze = fries
Silver = cheese burger
Gold = big Mac
My family and I used to go to McDonald's at least three times a week , then the pandemic started. Well, with all the confusion as to where you could eat or is ordering drive-thru food any safe, we just stopped going to them. Since that time coworkers and friends have told us how ridiculously expensive they have gotten. At this point we simply don't care about McDonald's.
P.s.
We also feel that McDonald's has made several poor business decisions concerning their menu over the last several years. They have eliminated a fair amount of popular menu items and as with their Ketchup and Fry changes I think alot of people are now just disappointed in McDonald's.
I think a lot of workers were home and said to themselves that they were not going back to that lousy low can't live on that salary job. So they demanded more money - thus the once affordable fast food hamburger is getting closer and closer to $10.00. For a few more dollars you can go to a much healthier and nice restaurant and sit down and enjoy a much better meal.
Probably shouldn't be eating out anyway if if you find McDonalds too expensive.
Prior to covid I'd stop by for breakfast at least once a week. Then they discontinued the fruit & yogurt parfait and breakfast burritos. They still don't have the parfait but they brought back the breakfast burritos.
I didn't go often, but I used to go to McDonald's. But around 2000 I went to a McDonald's at the airport and got horrendous food poisoning. I had to be hospitalized and that cost me $1500 even though I had good health insurance. The abdominal cramps were so painful it caused the nurse to go through the questionnaire to evaluate if you were going to commit suicide when they left the room. The only time I have been to a McDonald's since is we went to see the White House around 2009 and needed change for the parking meter. So I went into McDonald's and they told me I would have buy their food to get change and I said forget it. That was the last time I will ever go to a McDonald's.
If all people would have canceled their cell phones,, got a home landline with an Answering machine,, canceled their cable bill, cancel their internet,,l stop eating fast, cholesterol clogging artificial process food restaurants because those are the only companies that were allowed to be open and that was communism you would have found out that pandemic would have been over real fast, if people had all joined in unity, and done that,, no vaccination required,. Simply pay your not necessary and or luxury bills, and the reset button will be pressed.
Their fries used to be made from fresh potatoes , peeled, cut, and left in fry baskets under a warm air flow that changed some of the surface starch to sugar. Then into the beef tallow fry grease. This gave a very tasty, crisp, crunchy product that the current frozen fries don't come near!
When i worked at taco bell in the early 90s they also made most of their stuff fresh. We got in whole tomatoes we had to cut up, the cheese cane in big blocks we had to use wires to cut it up to fit in the shredder. The lettuce was whole heads. I cant recall the onions. But i think at that time they were pre cut in bags.
They even had fresh cilantro and black olives.
@@blue03r6 Those were better days... ❤ Amen.
I have to disagree when it comes to their burgers... Growing up McDonald's burgers were the absolute best! We loved to pop over and try to get a free burger by saying the "two all beef patty special sauce song" you get the gist... But their burger meat now is awful! I miss the good ol' burgers...
Lol I always thought the burger was better than the fries it’s so tasty
I dont remember it tasting any different but I was just a kid back in the 80s
It is said that their meat has human DNA in it, perhaps that is the bad taste.
@@SC68170 ......so you weren't even a gleam in your daddy's eyes in the 60's when McDonalds was at the top of their game !
Its funny how when you were young a big mac was amazing and huge. now its small and doesn't taste nearly the same.
It seems that every company that perfects its concept, breaks its neck trying to destroy it. McDonalds used to be a treat that you could enjoy from time to time… it’s no longer a treat… more of a cheap fix when you’re in a bind.
Not even CHEAP anymore!!!
Yeah they’ve got cheaper items but
That don’t mean their price range is good….8-13 dollars for a meal…
@@tiffanyribbonsthat's exactly what I was thinking, "cheap"? I took my family of 6, and the bill was nearly 80 bucks. I was shocked, and the food wasn't pleasant. We don't eat fast food very often, but I can assure you we won't be dining under the golden arches anytime soon!
Beef tallow fries are far superior. Vegetable oil is inferior to tallow for fries. The veg oil showed no improvement in health outcomes.
Just another way, for McDonald's to not pay another company to use their ketchup brand. I prefer the heinz brand better. That's why I tell McDonald's no ketchup with my fries, I have my own heinz brand at home.
Just another reason the taste of McD's Burgers has gone so far down on the scale.
The only burger I order is the quarter pounder with cheese.
It doesn't matter what ketchup they use, what the fries are cooked in, or they buried Ronald in the woods. It's all garbage that I wouldn't even call food
Last time I went was years ago. the "food" was barely warm. The "fries" soggy and limp. I felt cheated, even my dog wouldn't eat it.
I stopped eating at Macdonald’s a few years ago. Simply unhealthy. The self ordering kiosks im 100% opposed to. Putting humans out of work is something I do not support. I don’t use ATMs either.
i agree.they wont take my order but they will take my cash.all i want is 2 order from a real person not a stupid kiosk.
An old man once gave me this advice regarding physical labor: "Never take a job away from a mule."
Updated for 2022, you might say "Never take a job away from a machine." When a machine can do a job faster, better, and cheaper than a machine, then it's a losing cause to try to prevent it. When a person can do a job better or faster or cheaper than an machine, then use the person. Otherwise, don't take a job away from a mule.
@@ROGER2095 So then you don't drive a car, right? You ride a horse everywhere.
@@CoyoteSeven So you are saying a horse is " faster, better, and cheaper" than a car??
Yes I hate them. Like Walmart making me check myself out. I hate that. Over charge me for my produce then make me scan my items and check myself out.
They missed a major reason. Heinz is owned by 3g capital. The same owners of RBI. RBI is the operators of burger king and Tim tortons, McDonalds biggest competition.
Can we all appreciate that she uploads consistently? 💕
She’s probably just the voice actress. It’s a whole team I’m sure
@@mathewk6026 Her voice is annoying AF!
@@yukonstriker1703 ah that fake tv announcer voice. Besides that, Mashed is another cog in the fake news machine. Who owns and runs Mashed again?
Yes 👍🏾
McDonald's coffee is criminally underrated
Prefer McDonald's coffee to Dunkin. It is tasty and economical!
Not when you know how unsanitary the machines are 🤢
@@somedudeontheweb1468 if you’re afraid of germs maybe being a human is not for you
@@Dontatmebr0 hahahaha pmfs brilliant
@@angelagonsowski8080 And over heated.
"Modernization" and "looking like a North Korean office suite" doesn't have to be the same thing. Whoever chose dark two tone grey for a classic American restaurant that used to be one of the most fun places to go needs to be publicly flogged.
I totally agree... that grey looks sooooo.... institutional... so does their food.
I'm from Guam and every time I order fries from any McDonald's chain, they always intentionally forget to give my damn ketchup packets, so I give them a disappointing look on my face and ask for some damn ketchup. I guess gone are good old days where their slogan says, "We love to see you smile"
Here in the Philippines, they're happy to give you ketchup, but they very sneakily charge you for it. I never knew that until my wife told me, about a week ago.
Easy tiger!
And every time I order the big breakfast with hotcakes, I have to ask for Jelly. Every stinking time.
@@kfl611, I sympathize, but on the other hand, I can see why they don't hand it out automatically. Ketchup an jelly aren't free, and I'd hate to think about how much ends up in the trash. "Jelly, please," isn't hard, and BTW, this is McDo's. Why not upgrade , to a place with all the jelly you want, and an actual Heinz ketchup bottle, on the table? But in dealing with McDo's, that's what you get for your money.
@@markcollins2666 True, but what happened to the 'customer is always right' and 'good customer relations'. And it isn't as if their food is that cheap any more. Although some things are more of a bargain than other items. In my town they are the only fast food restaurant in the area. So they get a lot of business. I guess it is no longer free unless you ask for it, just like gas station air is no longer free for your tires, and gas station attendants no longer check your tire pressure, oil, wash your windows and head lights like they used to back in the day.
I worked at "Mickey Dee's" for 3 years from 1965-68, during High School. We fried the julienned potatoes in 60% Lard and 40% Vegetable Oil. We made the fries by hand, a very laborious process. In 1967, we began using frozen, pre-blanched julienned potatoes from J.R. Simplot Co. in Idaho. The fries were no longer the same - but were still better than most of our competitors. I thought the Heinz pickle slices were the best - two on each burger. BTW.... in 1965, the hamburger cost $0.15 each, fries cost $0.15 per 2.75 oz. bag, Milk Shakes - $0.22 each, etc. Minimum wage in 1965 = $1.25; 1968 = $1.75.
So you essentially was getting paid $11.41 in today’s money?
@@exrli5464 - Yes.... something like that. I'm all in favor of boosting the minimum wage to at least $15.00/hour
Two burgers, fries and a shake, and change back from a dollar bill. Good times.
The only thing I like at McDonald’s is their coffee. They ruined everything else for me.
I went 99% Keurig. Local McDonald's coffee good. But when the people traffic slows down, the bottom of the pot 'is not to my liking' )taste like SH1T)
Coffee? I thought that was burnt water.
@@jasons8479 ha funny. I don’t get their coffee in store I buy the mcdoodles k cups online.
Another Reason to Avoid McDonald's Downhill Drop
If you liked the gas price at $1.71 you will surely like the black and white photo of the McDonald brothers, and in the background you will see a McDonalds sign for 15 cent burgers. Ah, those were the days. And I was fortunate to actually go to the very first McDonalds there in San Bernardino, California.
I don't eat McDonald's. So I didn't know that they weren't giving out ketchup. I haven't eaten their since I was a kid in the 80's. If I eat fast food its Wendy's!!! Lol!!!
Burger King
Well, you STILL don't know they aren't giving out ketchup
💯💯 Me too!
None of the big fast food chains are healthy ...
McDonald’s food used to so much better back when I worked for them, in the early 90’s and especially when I was growing up in the 70’s 😎👍 today, the food’s just heated up and thrown together 😝 It’s a shame too, McDonald’s could be so much better !
idk, for some reason it was always labeled fancy ketchup for as much as i remember it, i know for the last decade its always tasted different than heinz that everybody in the restaurant industry uses.
It's always tasted different and you're right, it's always been labeled as it's own thing. It has never been Heinz. This video is completely false. I jumped on this when i was a kid in the 90's..immediately noticing the package and the taste. I made a big deal about it back then.
McDonald's has become the worst fast food place of all. Here, you can't get your order right, you wait an unusually long time for your order in a mostly empty restaurant while the workers are gathered in a group chatting away, etc. It's more about the money than it is about the customer anymore.
Mc Donalds actually owns Burger King these days so it might more be a situation of a competitor buyout or disassociation
Even relatively recently when they bought the Coffee that would become "McCafe" Premium Roast from Smucker's who bought it from Sara Lee who sold it to Tim Horton's and as "Dewe Egbert's Filter Blend" to other restaurants , they cut off Tim Horton's who had to get a new supplier and you can only find Dewe Egbert's Aroma Rood now......neither taste like the original which is now "McCafe premium roast"
Oh, you can get the same coffee at Burger King as Mc Donalds,though
The McD's coffee is better than it used to be, but it still to me is lousy. Many years ago, in my opinion it used to be undrinkable, and I'm not a coffee snob.
Burger King and McDonald's are separate companies although they do share some suppliers like the company that make the beef patties.
McDonalds does not own Burger King. BK is owned by some Private Equity conglomerate
Young folks have no idea how good the early quarter pounders were. That fat in the meat made them taste GREAT!
In the 70s, the food was real. They took a dump on quality...
didnt develey always made these? btw you can buy all mc donnals souces at the store atleast here in germany
My memory must be failing I always remember McD having fancy ketchup packets. The one thing that changed and is epic fail are the new apple pies.
Yes the new apple pies are horrible
Yeah, I remember hating the fancy ketchup as a kid, like 20 years ago.
In fact, I've NEVER seen the Heinz logo on their ketchup. But I don't use ketchup anyway.
I never remember them having Heinz ketchup at all but Burger King always did.
@@MsTwiththeTea1980 ......the fried pies with cinnamon sugar are still available at Popeyes - I always get two of them !
Well, it's time now that they update that "Bah-da dah-dah dah, I'm lovin' it!" jingle, IMO! It grates on my ears to still be hearing it in commercials after so many years now!
I don't know what the new slogan would be though.
Would need to convey the idea that they charge more for less quality if they want to establish credibility.
I want to make my own decisions about taste vs. health. French fries fried in beef tallow are vastly better tasting to me, and in the opinion of nutritionists, the tallow does not constitute a health risk unless you eat a lot of it all the time (which I do not). Companies like McDonald's etc. should offer fries cooked either way so each customer can make his own decision. The bland tasteless commercial fries are not worth their cost in terms of salt and carbs, so I make my own fries in beef tallow at home--I choose how much salt, and how much fries to eat to make the superior taste worth the carb cost.
You solved your own problem. If you want to make all the decisions and choices for yourself with no consideration for what anyone else wants, which is perfectly fine, just make it yourself...problem solved.
@@joelnielsen4836 Since when does McDonald's give us a choice as to what oil we want our fries fried in. The ONLY choice is take it or leave it, and that's NOT a choice, that's an ultimatum.
@@meauxjeaux431 Just like with the previous guy, if you want to choose the oil your fries are cooked in then cook them for yourself at home. To expect a fast food restaurant to offer a choice of frying oil is a little overboard, don't you think? I mean who does that?
Having McDonald’s was like getting a big gulp or slurpie when I was a kid; it was earned and a luxury by working for it or saving your money
I will get my food thru the drive thru so I can use the Heinz ketchup that I have at home.
Great idea 👍🏾
Guess that makes a lot of sense. Business is business and always got to watch your back and competitors. Was fun to watch. Great video
there is only 1 McDonalds I like to eat at. most have the everyday normal feel, but 70 miles from me, in a college town, they built a classy 1, lounge chairs, sofas, gas logs in fireplace to lounge around, free wifi. to attract students, to hang around & eat there, and relax, well, they dont fuss if person just comes in to chill, and doesnt buy food, but atmosphere is great, people are encouraged to hang around, so anytime I am there, I eat there. p.s. there is 1 in sight of my job, ate there 3 times in last decade, just the rush rush, hurry up attitude, so no thanks. so locally I eat at other places that are more relaxed atmospheres.
Over the past year or so, every time I went to McDonalds -- which could only be accessed via the drive-through -- it was as if I got fries "that were swept up off of the floor and stuffed into one of their fry containers." Just the worst, awful crap I've ever been served in my entire life. I quickly got tired of giving them "good money" and getting "garbage that had been swept up off the floor," and I haven't been back, since. Thinking back to when they actually allowed customers in their dining rooms (I still haven't seen one that has opened them up), I can't say that I've ever seen anyone at a McDonald's toss "old fries" per any kind of "standard" that they obviously don't have. Just give the customers the worst crap they've got, and SCREW THEM. Never going back again.
I quit going years ago. Last time I went, I felt cheated. I'm with you bruh...
Who are these people who go to McD's looking for healthful foods?
Good question 🤔 not me give me fat juicy burger anytime Instead of flat tasteless overcooked shoe leather
I have added bison mean burger to my home menu. Better meat, better burger. Doesn't leave me with that feeling of having fat in my mouth.
@@bondgabebond4907 been a long time since I had bison meat over 10yrs not too many places sell bison burgers
@@debraseiber8820 The commissary at my local Air Force Reserve Base sells it. Yummy.
Imagine thinking mcdonalds would give you comfort and class.
The chief ingredient in yummy food is love.😋
I haven't been to McDonald's for years. If McDonald's quit using Heinz ketchup, I wonder how that affects Potato Face Kerry, I always figured he used French Fry oil to power his private jet while flying around saving our planet.
the REAL reason they switched from beef tallow to veg oil was to pacify vegetarians who flipped out when the found out about the frying oil used...
That's what I heard, but the real damage was to people who do not eat meat for religious reasons. Both groups justifiably felt betrayed by McD's not voluntarily making the detail of cooking in beef fat public.
What the hell is a vegetarian doing eating at McDonald's
My adult kids and grandkids just get in my fridge and get our Heinz catsup and then they are happy. They do not like McDonalds catsup. The food is not very good anymore. They got rid of all the Grilled Chicken items and salads and that’s why I personally do not eat McDonalds anymore. I only like their Mocha Frappe’s and that’s it.
If the clown makes a change you can be guaranteed it's not to improve quality or a benefit to the customer. It's strictly profit driven.
I wish they’d bring back hot mustard sauce for their McNuggets
Hey, Mashed: How about the more RECENT change in McDonald's ketchup packets?
The back is totally white with no graphics or print.
The front only has a single very tiny Arched M as branding. It is very plain.
(McD straws are now solid white - no more Red and Yellow Stripes.)
I get Supply Chain Issues, but seems extreme in the case of McD.
Actually the straws are paper
@@babyshaya Depends on location. Our Florida locations still use plastic straws.
Here in Southern California the straws are still white with red and yellow stripes. Only fast food chain that went to paper straws in SoCal was Burger King. Btw Heinz ketchup sucks, specially after Kraft bought them out.
@@babyshaya
No paper straws here.
@@cdxser91
I still prefer Heinz over Hunt's - and any of the bulk unfamiliar brands that often taste watered down and weak.
If we truly base our patronage based upon a moral view and we look long enough and hard enough and dig deep enough, we would likely have to boycott or stop patronizing ALL businesses... 🥴
I occasionally feel there is a need for me pull my business from a store or restaurant. 🧐😨😞😥😩😫😤😠
I wish they brought back the Big & Tasty burger. I was in high school when they came out and they were only a buck or two.
Change is inevitable even if it's not what we want or told the reasons why, a lot changes without us even knowing.
We dont protest because of change. We protest because its change for the worse.
But thats all going to change. Welcome to 2022.
@@mstrikesback168 Nobody said anything about protesting anything.
Interesting that restaurants that catered to families with children modernized to skip children activities. Children are now entertained by their phones instead.
Vegetable oil is so much worse for you than beef tallow. Mashed doesn't know WTF they're talking about.
I was wondering why they were dissing beef tallow and championing vegetable oil. As people who're on carnivore diets know, beef products are NOT automatically bad for you and can actually be very healthy.
@@fredleggett923
Decades ago the sugar industry convinced a lot of people that what was making everyone sick was fat (which was mostly animal derived back then), not sugar, so fat suddenly became demonized. Now, the vegetable oil industry has everyone convinced their fats are good for you, but other fats are not. The opposite is true. Vegetable oils (polyunsaturated fatty acids) are absolutely horrible for you, while animals fats (saturated fatty acids) are excellent for you. Mainstream nutrition advice is very harmful and should not be listened to.
@@sayckeone Sounds like Mashed has been captured by the megacorps. Really sad.
I just wish McDonalds in the US would up their game to match the quality and variety of their overseas stores.
The Mc Double is 1 serving Veggies, 2 servings bread, 3 servings meat and 3 servings fat and small fries is 1 bread and 2 fat on dieateic exchange for food pyramid
Not best choices but still better the a pack of skittles,a coffee,and a cigarette
They stopped offering Heinz then started charging customers for ketchup. Genius! 😆
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Never been to a McDonald's that charges for ketchup, but over the years I've been to McDonald's and seen signs saying that sauces are $0.35 each for extras, most of these in bad neighborhood locations.
@@cdxser91 Where are those ketchup packets located now? Not in the dining area like they used to be. Almost every other fast food place has condiments out for the guests to grab on their own. The reason McD's does this is to limit what guests can have. They charge for more than 2 small packets. And this is literally everwhere I've gone (I travel a lot across the country).
Aka greed.
Back in the old days meat used to be quite expensive. Unlike today where acceptable meat is available for everyone, the common man had to eat poor quality meat. So companies like Heinz and McIlhenny arose to supply products like ketchup and Tabasco sauce to cover up the nastiness so the meat could be consumed. Admittedly, McDonald's fries taste pretty good until you douse them in ketchup. At that point you can't taste the fries and they are just a tool to move the ketchup to your mouth without getting it on your fingers.
There's better ketchup recipes than copying Heinz American recipe; Heinz has several recipes in circulation around the world. Why MacDonalds doesn't cook their fries in olive oil I can't figure. The caliber of MacDonalds fries is too small compared to Wendy's and Burger King. Those are shoestring fries and are the least expensive in stores.
Olive oil's burn point is to low to deep fry fries.
They were best years ago when they were fried in beef tallow, not the crap they use now.
I think all of these fast food places hurt themselves by trying to be healthy. When you go to a fast food place food ought to be prepared in the tastiest possible fashion without regard for health. The reason for that is real simple, none of us get out of here alive. If people want healthy, they ought to go to restaurants specializing in healthy. All manner of pastries and cookies can be made healthy but that needs different ingredients and preparation to do it.... The New Freedom Bakery in Philadelphia, PA is one example of what can be done in the healthy line when different ingredients and preparation get used.
As to the ending of Ronald McDonald and friends, there are a few reasons. One was pressure from parents and changes in buying habits for children, they didn't want the promotion of 'fast food' targeting their children. Children's programing has to drop most food, including fast food advertising/marketing to them. Some cities like San Francisco banned 'child meals' and marketing to children. The costs of the toys, choking hazard issue liability were also factors. Also like Taco Bell decided, children and 'child meals' were only a tiny part of their sales and better to aim to teens and young adults.
As to the frying oil change as well as frying their fruit pies, that indeed was due to decades of pressure from medical, dietary and public health professionals, the need to have products that those that cannot eat meat or beef can consume (like those of the Hindu faith) and in some cities like NYC for public health banned the use of animal fats for frying foods.
Well if all that's true I guess there goes KFC
In this video I heard references to ‘discerning palette’, ‘class’, and ‘comfort’. At McDonald’s??? Seriously? In what parallel universe?
I never fan of ketchup , but I always love watching videos of changes to stuff and places.
In Australia, the Quarter pounder is smaller than before, the buns are smaller and the patty seems smaller and has an odd taste
Trading tallow for vegetable was a bad move. Eating French fries is even a worse move.
Amazing casting for The Founder.
ill double check, but in Thailand, at least Bangkok, I believe they still use Heinz ketchup here. For now, one fun fact, we have two choices of ketchup. "American flavour" and "Thai flavour".
00:12 "You order a Big Mac" - shows picture of cheeseburger. lol
Actually, the reason they stopped offering Heinz Ketchup was because McDonald's wanted Heinz to pay McDonald's for supplying the ketchup, considering it advertising.
I'm not going to explain how I know this, but that is the actual reason.
Had a water well drilling business in Washington state and a customer we drilled for worked for McDonald’s his job was to fly around the country and find the perfect potatoes for their fries they would buy entire farms harvest and the potatoes had to be perfect size shape everything it was very strict. I was surprised. Got few bags of the fries though guy was very nice and you wouldn’t ever guessed he did that kind of job just seemed like another country guy in extremely rural Washington lol
The last sentence made me cry.
I want to join hands with Ronald once again! 🥺😢🤧😩
Glad I live in Minnesota. The switch will be more apparent overseas than in the United States, since McDonald's only serves Heinz ketchup in two domestic markets - Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on Friday.Oct 25, 2013
Has anyone ever been served a burger that remotely looks like the one on the advertising blurb? (and that goes for any burger chain) No wonder Douglas had a meltdown in that film "Falling Down?).
My son's first job was at McDonald's. One day while joking around with him I asked if he's met Ronald yet. His reply was "who?"
Heinz is simply the best tasting ketchup, and this video is 4 minutes too long.
Heinz is the best if you like bitter chemical aftertaste and tomatoes long past their 'best by' date. Otherwise, it is the worst.
Pay attention the next time you eat it.
@@5610winston I guess chemicals and expired tomatoes is my ideal flavor profile 😄
@@AmazingChinaToday I can't argue with that. If that's what you like, right on!
I don’t know about all McDonald’s but my local McDonald’s charges a nickel for each napkin they hand out. So you don’t get a napkin unless you pay extra for it
I could care less, haven't been to McDonalds in years and have no plans going back. Friend was complaining how expensive they were getting and their food doesn't taste as good.
McDs came to NZ , last century in the late 1970s . They had problems from the start , underpaying crew , for one thing .
Due to that , I refused to eat McDs , unless it would be offensive not to - a Godchids Birthday Party - was my first taste . Didn't like it but ate it ,
Next up were occasionally offered chips - not to foul , but not a preferred option .
One evening out with a friend , we were hungry from walking around the city's Bush tracks , so on the way to the rail station , we got a cheese burger . My mates was gone in 3-4 mouthfulls , mine was made to last longer . He started bleating 10 miners later about being hungry , and we were half way to the rail station , my burger lasted a couple of blocks further , and like my friend , by the time we got to the rail station , hungry again .
I haven't had McDs since , as they just aren't that nice , my local takeouts o better burgers than McDs and for the same cost , with home made patties = more filling , 🙂👍😊
So because you and your feral mate could only afford a stingy little cheese burger when you were roaming the streets decades ago, and got hungry, you decided never to eat there again. Yeah I had a sour orange as a kid and never ate one since. Gotta stick with life's first impressions ay.
After their fries taste different I never go back to McD!
I get nostalgic seeing those low gas prices.
Tasty ... food, McDonald's ?
I'm not sure all this words belong together in the same sentence at the same time.
02:42 "You may have noticed that the chain's favorite golden fries taste just a bit different these days." These days? They removed the tallow over 30 years ago. lol
When they stopped serving heinz...in Pittsburgh, we moved to bk who advertised that they still used heinz.
I like to say that McDonalds by its sheer omnipresence sets the floor everyone else needs to be better than to be in food service. If you're eating a worse burger, you're probably in prison (or school, or a theme park or other tourist trap or anyplace else with a captive market).
The only good thing at McDonalds is their coffee. Hope they don’t screw that up too!
Modern McDonalds feel cold, sad, and depressing. Seems like they are catering to robots now days.
Doesn’t affect me; NOT a McDonald’s fan. I got too many dry items there. NO MORE!