McChicken? McGarbage!

While I am not the biggest fan of chicken in the universe, I do occasionally eat some. Someone told me she'd tried the McChicken sandwich and found it seriously wanting.
 
Frankly despite my misgivings about chcken I found her complaints bordering on the excessive. Thus, a little while ago, while in the vicinity of a McDonald's (on the way back from buying and mailing anniversary cards to my grandson and his wife in Iraq -- their first) I swung into the place for a large coffee and one of those McChickens.
 
When I got home I took my first nibble and found the description I'd been given fairly accurate. It didn't taste very good. In fact, it didn't taste at all. So, on the off chance that I could make some improvements I got out some Durkee Famous Sauce, pepper and salt and proceeded to doctor my McChicken.
 
I have now met food that cannot be fixed. The McChicken is quite likely the very worst excuse for a sandwich it has ever been my displeasure to try to eat. I managed two small bites after my doctoring session, and then with apologies to my Disposal I did the deed and sent the remains on their way to the sewer.
 
I just hope the Ohio EPA isn't able to trace the pollution back to my house.

I put a McChicken inside a double cheese burger.  It is called the McGangbang

What do you want for a dollar?

felix4067


What do you want for a dollar?

Well, the McDouble is pretty good, and so is the sausage McMuffin.

It's just a cheap product, I find them fine if I'm hungry and don't wanna spend a fortune, wouldn't go out of my way for one though!

Anyway speaking of McDonalds...they are giving away free coffee each morning here for a week and you don't have to make a purchase...

Michael Hoffman

felix4067


What do you want for a dollar?

Well, the McDouble is pretty good, and so is the sausage McMuffin.

Fair enough...I just find chicken at burger places to be substandard at best when it's a price I'd expect to pay for it.  The dollar chicken just scares me.

I really wish they would give us the option of paying more, and getting the Mc chicken the OLD way!!  It wasn't great, but many times better than the $1 fiasco.   My 4 year old is gaga for the nugget happymeal, but I think part of that is the honey dippin' sauce......and the toy!!  

AHI MPLS


I really wish they would give us the option of paying more, and getting the Mc chicken the OLD way!!  It wasn't great, but many times better than the $1 fiasco.   My 4 year old is gaga for the nugget happymeal, but I think part of that is the honey dippin' sauce......and the toy!!  

Don't they still have that Southern Chicken Sandwich thing?

MiamiDon

Don't they still have that Southern Chicken Sandwich thing?

Yes.  It's still overpriced and terrible.

I've hated the McChicken since I was a teenager and haven't had one since.   I'll stick with the McDouble.  I think they still have the Southern Chicken sandwich, but I've not tried it.

Andrea

kirstinem1



Anyway speaking of McDonalds...they are giving away free coffee each morning here for a week and you don't have to make a purchase...

Here, the McDonald's near me has been giving away their cappuccinos and their iced cappuccino for about a week and a half. Me? I stick with the regular coffee, which is excellent. I usually get a large in the morning for $1.29. But a regular-size "seniors" coffee is just 46 cents -- up from 34 cents last year.

WarToad

MiamiDon

Don't they still have that Southern Chicken Sandwich thing?

Yes.  It's still overpriced and terrible.

I agree it's pricey but it is really good.  It's always fresh and hot.  It's a knock off of Chik-fil-A but it's almost as comparable.
 
The McChicken is terrible.

I tried the new "all white meat chicken Mcnuggets".Big mistake.Found out they are not breast meat, but dyed crap.The honey sauce was the only salvation...

Afraid I have to disagree with you, HotDogHead. I've had McDonald's so-called southern chicken sandwich, and I've also had Chik-Fil-A's standard chicken sandwich. IMO, they are definitely not comparable; McD's sandwich is just a mediocre imitation of Chik-Fil-A's product. Nope, not even close. 

"Here, the McDonald's near me has been giving away their cappuccinos and their iced cappuccino for about a week and a half. Me? I stick with the regular coffee, which is excellent. I usually get a large in the morning for $1.29. But a regular-size "seniors" coffee is just 46 cents -- up from 34 cents last year."

 
Your not the first person to say that their coffee is great! It's a shame I don't like coffee or else I'd go down and get myself a cup as I'm not one to turn down freebies! lol 
 
When I was living in NI I worked for a mystery shopping company and they kept sending me to evaluate the McDonalds restaurants as for some reason I was their best at those assignments.  The last two times I went the fries were soggy and slightly chewy, like they had been sitting around and re-cooked, I had the nuggets and they were too salty, my partner had a Big Mac and he claimed it was slimy, it's not like the food was ridiculously cheap either as I could have went to the local fish & chip shop and got a far tastier meal for less, good thing I wasn't paying for it!  Don't get me wrong though as I sometimes do still stop in for a milkshake to go or if I'm desperately hungry and can't find anywhere else.

Anyone try the new Double Chicken sandwich (also with double cheese and veggies) @ Church's yet?  They cook it to order; so expect to wait...  Have not tried it yet but one of my employees did.  It looked pretty good.

McDonalds could come out with a MCShoe and people would eat them.

I didn't know a McChicken even existed!

sgtboots


I didn't know a McChicken even existed!

Only for the last 20 years or so.  Don't feel left out.

mcchickens a great deal for a buck.
2 of those & a dollar fry, ok lunch for $3

They're a pretty good deal for a dollar purely for the fact that it's a whole sandwich. But they're awful for you, and they're a poor substitute for a real chicken sandwich. They're like the infamous Filet-o-Fish, except with chicken instead of fish. Still a tasteless light-meat patty with a little sauce and a regular McDonalds bun. While technically food, they're just not the same as actual, fully edible food.

If you compare the portion size and fat content, IMO, McD's grilled chicken is actually a much better buy than than the McChicken which is essentially a heavily breaded, ground chicken product made from scrapes.

mjambro


If you compare the portion size and fat content, IMO, McD's grilled chicken is actually a much better buy than than the McChicken which is essentially a heavily breaded, ground chicken product made from scrapes.

Except that the McD's grilled chicken is three times the price of the McChicken.  I don't think people buy the McChicken because they expect it to be high quality.  They buy it because it's a dollar.

The McChicken is a 5 oz sandwich where the patty has 160 cal (80% from fat - 9 fat grams and 9 grams of protein).  The grilled chicken is an 8 oz  sandwich where the chicken portion is 120 cal (20% from fat - 2 fat grams and 24 grams of protein).  The grilled chicken may be 3x the price, but it has about 2.6x the protein with a fraction of the fat.  If calories or fat / dollar is your preference, go for the McChicken.  If protein with significantly reduced fat is your preference, the grilled chicken isn't really that much more than the McChicken.

mjambro


The McChicken is a 5 oz sandwich where the patty has 160 cal (80% from fat - 9 fat grams and 9 grams of protein).  The grilled chicken is an 8 oz  sandwich where the chicken portion is 120 cal (20% from fat - 2 fat grams and 24 grams of protein).  The grilled chicken may be 3x the price, but it has about 2.6x the protein with a fraction of the fat.  If calories or fat / dollar is your preference, go for the McChicken.  If protein with significantly reduced fat is your preference, the grilled chicken isn't really that much more than the McChicken.

I don't think anyone buys the McChicken because they think it's healthy.  They buy it because it's $1.00.  There's not one out of a thousand McD's patrons who would measure fat/dollar.

But the thread is McChicken / McGarbage, where I admitedly read / reported the McDonald site incorectly.  The calories for a McChicken patty is actually 50% fat (80 of the 160 calories) vs. 16% for the grilled chicken (20 out of 120).  I still say having 50% fat is McGarbage and hardly worth its dollar.

mjambro


But the thread is McChicken / McGarbage, where I admitedly read / reported the McDonald site incorectly.  The calories for a McChicken patty is actually 50% fat (80 of the 160 calories) vs. 16% for the grilled chicken (20 out of 120).  I still say having 50% fat is McGarbage and hardly worth its dollar.

You really don't understand the price point concept, do you.  The cheaper items on ff menus are developed using a price point. Quality or health have nothing to do with it.

Why are you surprised about the quality of this crap?  Tons of sodium for flavor,  eecccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhh!  Ever look at the burgers?  Nothing I have ever seen in the real world.

All of this griping and yet them Philisines and all the others are still in business, AND thriving!!! Blame the economy blame this lame that...Americans are lazy and a good way to shut up the rugrats is stuff a McAnything in their faces. What a country.