On Friday, May 14, 2021 at 8:38:39 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Friday, May 14, 2021 at 2:15:26 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2021-05-14 4:37 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 5:11:54 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > >> On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 8:28:53 AM UTC-10, bruce bowser
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> I've starting chowing down on their burgers plain. No cheese. No
> > >>> fixin's. I no longer get the Burger King whopper with the full
> > >>> works, I cut out the onion and pickle. I sure wish Burger King
> > >>> would mince their onions like What A Burger and their pickles
> > >>> like Kip's Big Boy did.
> > >> I've been cooking/steaming really thin burgers on a bed of
> > >> re-hydrated onions - like White Castle does. Boy it's really tasty.
> > >> Someone mentioned that McDonald's burgers had a unique burger taste
> > >> so I went looking for it the last time I ate there. I couldn't find
> > >> it. In fact, those burgers seem to have had all the flavor sucked
> > >> out of them. That's so strange. You guys can't taste umami and I
> > >> can't taste McDonald's special burger flavor.
> > >
> > > It's ok, man. I can't taste McDonald's special burger flavor,
> > > either. They've always tasted bland and steamed. The toppings have
> > > more flavor than the burger.
> > >
> > >
> > I am not about to run out and get one to just to be able to comment on
> > the taste. The last time I had a McD's burger was probably over 30 years
> > ago. It would have been longer than that but I went for lunch with
> > co-workers and was out-voted. They were just as bad as the ones I had
> > had years before that.
> Once a decade or so, I get in some sort of jam where I missed lunch
> and my blood sugar is in the cellar. I'm usually driving somewhere,
> so McDonald's is the obvious choice for their ubiquity and simplicity
> of ordering. Practically every drive-through drone can understand
> me saying "Big Mac and small fries".
>
> ISTR the last such incident was about five years ago, so I've got a
> while before the next assault on my sensibilities.
>
> My husband favors Wendy's, where we usually ended up lunching while
> driving down to visit my in-laws. Their burgers are much improved by the
> addition of the "hot" sauce that IIRC is intended to go in their chili.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I love that stuff although I've never poured it over a burger. The big news in Kailua is that a Wendy's is opening there. Praise the Lord - truly, this is paradise!

https://www.facebook.com/wendyshotsauce/