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I had my McRib cherry popped yesterday.

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Perknose said:
Spurred by the fanboy reaction here, I tried one recently. Sweet Jesus, it sucked. It was $1.99. Two McDoubles for the same price would have been much, much, much better.

The "meat" is bogus and tasteless, and the sauce is your typical corn-syrup based chemical conglomeration of fail. You fanboys probably rave about log cabin "syrup" on your sawdust pancake-shaped breakfast food modules, too.
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This, this, a million times this. I had one a week or two ago, the first one I'd had in 20+ years and it was absolutely revolting. The onion sucked, the pickles sucked, the meat sucked, the "sauce" sucked. The bun was the standard McDonald's sponge bread so i was expecting that to suck.
 
Perknose said:
The "meat" is bogus and tasteless, and the sauce is your typical corn-syrup based chemical conglomeration of fail.
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yea yea yea..
we know.
you prefer to slaughter your own pig.. and slow roast it for 3 days while making your own bbq sauce using ingredients you grow in your own backyard.

some of us just can't do that.
 
I tried one for the first time yesterday too. Try as I might, I could not detect any flavor of the "meat" in the sandwich.

I can now check that experience off and never revisit it.
 
Dirigible said:
I tried one for the first time yesterday too. Try as I might, I could not detect any flavor of the "meat" in the sandwich.
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as i have said before in other threads... the flavor of the meat is NOT what makes a mcrib experience.

it is the liquid crack they infuse into the bbq sauce.
 
guyver01 said:
yea yea yea..
we know.
you prefer to slaughter your own pig.. and slow roast it for 3 days while making your own bbq sauce using ingredients you grow in your own backyard.

some of us just can't do that.
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Do0d, there are a wide range of alternatives between those two extremes.

It doesn't happen often, but the next time I'm in "that" mood or circumstance, I'll order and reasonably enjoy a McDouble off of the dollar menu, for the value and convenience. I will never order a McRib ever again. It was a bad joke, and a nasty one.
 
911paramedic said:
It was back in the mid '80's and I don't care where they got it from. It was the perfect food in the middle of Great Mistakes Naval Training Center during winter.
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was it roast beef? I ask, because the Arby's Cheddar Melt is Roast Beef sandwich + melted cheddar on a toasted onion bun.

Hell, Hardee's did roast beef sandwiches long before McDonald's.

it's odd, that if it is the same sandwich, they'd just call it the McCheddar Melt. haha.

....you know, is it possible that the only original FF product that McDonald's has produced is the McRib? :hmm:
 
It doesn't taste the same anymore. I think they used to be more expensive and better quality. I ordered a cheeseburger along with my MehcRib last night without knowing it was 59c cheeseburger sunday and it was TERRIBAD. It seemed like they used even cheaper ingredients than the regular 99c one, it tasted horrible.
 
Perknose said:
I'll order and reasonably enjoy a McDouble off of the dollar menu, for the value and convenience.
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Convenience is the main reason many people like the mcrib too.

if i wanted a bbq sandwich.. i could go to Famous Daves and get a Texas Manhandler..
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real Texas beef brisket and zesty hot link sausage, sliced thin, piled high, and crowned with Hell-Fire Pickles.

but the closest one is an hour drive.. and sometimes i dont want to pay $10 for a sandwich.
 
guyver01 said:
as i have said before in other threads... the flavor of the meat is NOT what makes a mcrib experience.

it is the liquid crack they infuse into the bbq sauce.
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I've had a McRib a few times now. Still gonna go ahead and say that the sauce is crap.

However, if you put good BBQ sauce on it (i did this last time) it actually made it quite good! :thumbsup:
 
Wordplay said:
As someone else said in another thread it taste like the salisbury steaks they use to serve for lunch at school. Nothing impressive about them.
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And with gravy those steaks are good, I still eat Salisbury Steaks from time to time. Might not be impressive but they're tasty smothered in gravy.
 
911paramedic said:
Amateur hour is over, bring back the McCheddar Melt.
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Nah. You needz tha McDLT Bay-beeeee!!!

mcdlt1.jpg


Seriously though, the Rib was bleh. Not great, but better than a lot of the other stuff at the time (Fillet 'o "fish"). The sauce and toughened spam stuff it is made from only tastes good to those raised by a family of Doritoes.

I loved it when I was 12, but even remembering the taste, and realizing that what I loved was something different with cheap BBQ sauce, I know I will not be crazy about it now....

I had the real stuff and this just ain't it.

Problem is, a place like McD's is never going to really give us all what we want because they cater to the many.

So we got sweet (literally) crunchy french fries, fatty burger paste and chemical pickles you could use to replace your Lye supply at home if you dried them out. You end up with shakes that are 50% animal fat and "salads" that can last a week on the countertop unrefrigerated.

So long as you have your 3 basic consumer food groups: Salt, Sugar and Fat, you are the Golden in the Arches.
 
coxmaster said:
Still gonna go ahead and say that the sauce is crap.
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This is the thing. Not only is the industrially formed meat-slurry thingy peculiar, nasty and weird, but the sauce some of you are raving about is bozo, bargain-basement bad.
 
Ninjahedge said:
Nah. You needz tha McDLT Bay-beeeee!!!

mcdlt1.jpg


Seriously though, the Rib was bleh. Not great, but better than a lot of the other stuff at the time (Fillet 'o "fish"). The sauce and toughened spam stuff it is made from only tastes good to those raised by a family of Doritoes.

I loved it when I was 12, but even remembering the taste, and realizing that what I loved was something different with cheap BBQ sauce, I know I will not be crazy about it now....

I had the real stuff and this just ain't it.

Problem is, a place like McD's is never going to really give us all what we want because they cater to the many.

So we got sweet (literally) crunchy french fries, fatty burger paste and chemical pickles you could use to replace your Lye supply at home if you dried them out. You end up with shakes that are 50% animal fat and "salads" that can last a week on the countertop unrefrigerated.

So long as you have your 3 basic consumer food groups: Salt, Sugar and Fat, you are the Golden in the Arches.
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Oh man, those things were awesome! I remember the 'catchphrase' or whatever for it was something like 'the hot stays hot, and the cool stays cool', referring to the 2 individual sections of the container.

Unfortunately, after they were made, the whole magilla was put in the 'warming bin'........... does not compute.

Meh, still awesome tho IMO

Havent had the McRib for a couple years now. I wouldn't go out of my way to get one, but if I was in the neighborhood I'd pick one up if I felt so inclined to do so.
 
Lol @ people that eat at McD's! I wouldn't call anything on the menu there food. More like processed garbage. Same reason I don't eat bologna. Not interested in ground up leftovers of animals being pressed into meat shapes.
 
zinfamous said:
was it roast beef? I ask, because the Arby's Cheddar Melt is Roast Beef sandwich + melted cheddar on a toasted onion bun.

Hell, Hardee's did roast beef sandwiches long before McDonald's.

it's odd, that if it is the same sandwich, they'd just call it the McCheddar Melt. haha.

....you know, is it possible that the only original FF product that McDonald's has produced is the McRib? :hmm:
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It was a quarter pounder (I think) with caramelized onions and goopy processed cheddar. It was so bad it was good.
 
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