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[Beer Monkey]

If every starving kid in a third world nation could have a McDouble each day, their health would benefit immeasurably.

Of course, most fast food is likely eaten by fat westerners who need to lose weight, but it can be part of a balanced diet.

 

[How About No]

Vindication! My go-to when I'm desperate enough to go to McDs is two doubles and a McChicken. Which I slam down in ten minutes

Must be healthy cuz I'm not fat yet right

 

[Kaiterra]

Buy nothing but McDoubles for your meals and whatever you can't finish can be used as hockey pucks later.

 

[Purkake4]

I have one a day with a Salad at lunch before my workout.

I love it. I'm lovin' it.

Hope it's the Kale salad.

 

[Rootbeer]

I just had a mcdouble with a mcchicken last night thanks to McDonald's new 2 for $2 deal (well, technically it's 2 for $2.50 in my market, but some stores around here have it as 2 for $2)

that puts it right on the magical $1 number it used to be a couple years ago before they raised prices.

S'yeah. Glad McD's brought the price back down. It's a phenomenal value and tastes pretty good.

 

[Jinaar]

Hope it's the Kale salad.

Ok, you know what, this is what made me so mad.

I'm in Canada and when McD's redid their salads, they had 4 selections and they had that Kale one. And another one which was amazing.

Then in a month's time or so, discontinued it off the menu!!!! Now we just have Caesar and Greek to choose from. I'm still mad at this.

Bunch of maroons, I tell's ya. Who makes decisions around here? I want names.

 

[- J - D -]

Rice and any staple food beats it pretty handily. I guess if you're worried about taste, for its cost it is pretty good at breaking the tedium of eating a bunch of staples all the time.

The time it takes to prepare a meal should also be taken into account. Time is money, and for a low income family it's not an inconsiderable expense. As much as I am chagrin to defend the nutritional/financial value of a McDonald's item, it does make some sense.

 

[segasonic]

with the downward spiral mcdonalds been going through i feel like they got a McDonald stan to write this article just to get more people to buy the food but who am i kidding. i grew up eating McDonalds and i turned out terribly awesome.

Dat downward spiral

 

[frankie_baby]

No matter how cheap I could never imagine getting one over a double cheeseburger, 1 slice just ain't enough for 2 burgers, but thankfully I live in the UK and we only get the superior product with both slices

 

[LyleLanley]

That's probably far more expensive in cost of labor.

Probably depends on the person and the animal.

 

[Violet_0]

Probably depends on the person and the animal.

I had squirrel for lunch today. 100% biological

 

[WaterAstro]

It also has a daily does of chemicals and preservatives.

Fucking pass

 

[Izuna]

Maaan the nearest McDonald's is 40 minutes away. 24 hours though. Sometimes I like to take a walk. I wish there was a livestream that could read GAF's OT for me while I make the journey.

Not cheap, but I LOVE the Classic Menu stuff they have in the UK. So freaking good.

 

[Dude Abides]

I wouldn't trust any of the McDonald's around here to not have rat droppings in the food.

 

[painey]

in my senior year of college my roommates and I would trade solely in mcdoubles (back when they were $1). We would gamble on sports games, wager on drinking contents, and even pay each other in mcdoubles to do chores we didn't want to do. One day we walked into mcdonalds and ordered 20 of them between the 4 of us. The cashiers were not prepared for that order.

 

[3Sixty]

I remember when double cheeseburgers were £1.

Lived like a king come pocket money day.

 

[zer0das]

The time it takes to prepare a meal should also be taken into account. Time is money, and for a low income family it's not an inconsiderable expense. As much as I am chagrin to defend the nutritional/financial value of a McDonald's item, it does make some sense.

It takes longer to sit in a drive thru than it does to boil canned beans. And rice is a put it in and forget thing with a rice cooker.

 

[redmetal86]

It also has a daily does of chemicals and preservatives.

Fucking pass

MMMMMMM. Preserve my intestines, Ronald.

 

[nubbe]

Food based on insects would be cheaper and healthier
This is totally biased

 

[BobTheFork]

Is there any vitamin content? I feel this is like when KFC tried to play up fried chicken as healthy because 'so much protein!'

 

[Dennis]

“Facts are facts – where else but McDonald’s can poor people obtain so many calories per dollar?”

Judging from what I see a lot of poor people in rich countries need LESS calories.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

It also has a daily does of chemicals and preservatives.

Fucking pass

Omg teh chemkillz

 

[StalkerUKCG]

McDouble is great. Easily my favorite burger they do.

I really hate the McGangBang. It reeks of the whole "secret menu" and throw meat together just because thing that the internet seems to love. I've seen people order it in real life and it's just awkward and cringe inducing. Even the name is dumb

 

[ugaboga232]

McDouble's are not healthy at all even if the macro's are ok. Not all proteins, carbs, and fats are made equal.

 

[FStop7]

It also has a daily does of chemicals and preservatives.

Fucking pass

OMG NOT CHEMICALS

 

[ColdPizza]

McDouble is great. Easily my favorite burger they do.

I really hate the McGangBang. It reeks of the whole "secret menu" and throw meat together just because thing that the internet seems to love. I've seen people order it in real life and it's just awkward and cringe inducing. Even the name is dumb

Wait. People actually go up to a McDonald's worker and ask for that? I always assumed they bought all of the components separately and built it themselves.

 

[injurai]

It really is amazing how cheap they are on a calorie/dollar basis. People be like "it's cheaper to eat healthy food from a grocery store than to eat out!" but it's really not clear that that's true. 2 McDoubles for $2 is a huge number of calories for the price. Only someone who is an incredibly frugal grocery shopper and mostly eats rice and beans is gonna compete with that.

If you know how to shop meat you can do pretty good there too.

 

[ReAxion]

Food based on insects would be cheaper and healthier
This is totally biased

Well, go ahead and build the world's largest burger chain using insects and they'll say it about your product, if true.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Wait. People actually go up to a McDonald's worker and ask for that? I always assumed they bought all of the components separately and built it themselves.

Social fucknuts who visit websites like http://hackthemenu.com/mcdonalds/secret-menu/mcgangbang/ or once seen an image on 4chan detailing "teh realz secret menu" do. It's embarrassing for everyone involved. Even the onlooker

 

[SeanR1221]

Wait. People actually go up to a McDonald's worker and ask for that? I always assumed they bought all of the components separately and built it themselves.

I tried ordering multiple times but I always ended up having a 3 way in the end :/

So now I just make it myself.

 

[Ty4on]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/upshot/dash-of-salt-does-no-harm-extremes-are-the-enemy.html

Extremes are bad. Know your risk levels.

Thanks for the link. Facinating graph.

If you know any cooking you'll know that salt is really important for the taste. Even stuff you don't think about like chocolate with some salt is much more interesting and I was able to cut the sugar in my oatmeal by adding more salt.

 

[CornBurrito]

Because the American poor are so thin... lol

But I guess eating total garbage is alright as long as you say you are bulking.

 

[ColdPizza]

I tried ordering multiple times but I always ended up having a 3 way in the end :/

So now I just make it myself.

I want to invent the McGangBang Bukakke.

It's the McGangBang with Mac Sauce drizzled all over it.

 

[meltingparappa]

Because the American poor are so thin... lol

But I guess eating total garbage is alright as long as you say you are bulking.

No one has claimed any of that.

 

[CornBurrito]

No one has claimed any of that.

The OP did say "Mcdoubles for all!"

As if getting the most calories possible for their dollar is really a problem the American people face. Or most of the developed world at this point.

 

[SmackDaddy]

They do taste like total garbage though. That shit is just disgusting.

That's okay you think so, but their foods are based on years of research into flavor and texture preferences from a wide range of backgrounds. So I think you mean: "Boy, i really dont enjoy mcdonald's products! Golly!"

 

[-Horizon-]

I want to invent the McGangBang Bukakke.

It's the McGangBang with Mac Sauce drizzled all over it.

lol

 

[andythinkpad]

Cheaper than boxed Ramen noodles? I want to see the receipt.gif

 

[Mechanized]

I love food.

 

[Kenstar]

Cool kids know that you can order 2 for 2 mcdoulbes with extra cheese for 1.30 each rather than 2 mcdoubles for 1.59 each

I will never eat a non double cheeseburger again like the dirty poors do, I slept on the double cheese for mcdoubles for too many years of my life before I saw the light

 

[BigBeauford]

Every time I fill up at McDonalds, I get insanely hungry about 1 hour later. Something about that food just isn't right.

 

[Slayer-33]

Every time I fill up at McDonalds, I get insanely hungry about 1 hour later. Something about that food just isn't right.

McActivation

 

[hodayathink]

It takes longer to sit in a drive thru than it does to boil canned beans. And rice is a put it in and forget thing with a rice cooker.

Most of the low-income people we're talking about here have a microwave and a stove and MAYBE a crock pot. Rice cookers aren't that big of a thing.

 

[Ponn]

Most of the low-income people we're talking about here have a microwave and a stove and MAYBE a crock pot. Rice cookers aren't that big of a thing.

Those are some of the leftie-foodie code words the article was talking about. It's the assumption of "better off" liberals who beat the farmers market and eat better drums who can't comprehend why poor people don't have rice cookers.

Like why don't the poor just go to food markets and by gigantic bags of rice and crates of eggplants, they can live of that for months?!

 

[CountAntonius]

It's damn tasty too.

 

[TAJ]

Until this year the McDouble hadn't been a great deal for years, but the 2-for-$2.50 thing salvaged it.
It's still not as good as the pre-McDouble value menu. The Double Cheeseburger was $1.10 adjusted for inflation, even in this expensive (for the US) region.

 

[Kenstar]

Until this year the McDouble hadn't been a great deal for years, but the 2-for-$2.50 thing salvaged it.
It's still not as good as the pre-McDouble value menu. The Double Cheeseburger was $1.10 adjusted for inflation, even in this expensive (for the US) region.

You poor soul, it's 2 for 2 where I live

 

[G-Bus]

Been my go to for a year or two now if I'm super hungry on the way home from work. 2 mcdoubles and a junior chicken. 3 sandwiches and comes in under $6.

 

[TAJ]

You poor soul, it's 2 for 2 where I live

What's the temperature there today?

 

[Kaiterra]

No matter how cheap I could never imagine getting one over a double cheeseburger, 1 slice just ain't enough for 2 burgers, but thankfully I live in the UK and we only get the superior product with both slices

When BK was running their counter offer at first with regular double cheeseburgers? That was the shit. I mean except for how it was driving franchisees broke apparently heh >_>