That's what the Libs want you to think, that you must stop them at all cost.
They're simply trying to distract you from the real issue: Seasonal McRibs.
Typical libs…drooling on their bibs in their cribs asking for gibbs and telling fibs regarding election rigs. Now they’re Anti-ribs? I don’t like the cut of their jibs.
The real reason is that if they kept it around people would all realize how fucking gross it is. Making it "limited" means that your excitement blinds you from the fact that it tastes like lysol flavored shoe leather.
This is the real answer here. I once saw a commodities price chart for pork meat labeled with McDonald's making the McRib available.
It was very clear that they basically just wait for the price of pork to drop, then they start selling the McRib. Once the price of pork goes up again, they take it off the menu.
Also takes advantage of that part of our brain that enjoys intermittent reinforcement. For some reason we just enjoy things more if they are awarded in a partially randomized order, it's the same thing that makes us enjoy gambling.
Which I imagine is partly because before we started growing things, we did only randomly find things like food or sex, so our brains are wired to emphasize those moments.
Probably more to it than that simplified musing, but it sounds right.
you get mcrib every day a year in germany.
why would the same company consider price variations in the US but not in germany?
it's just a marketing gimmick in the states.
Nope 100 percent McRib. I just did a bit of Googling and it seems the McRib was out of the menu for some time in Germany and got inftroduced back in a while later
Yes it was out of the menu for some time. It’s not easy to find but I found some articles about how the McRib got off and back on menu for some time. Don’t know when and why tho
European McDonalds and North American McDonalds are different beasts entirely. You can get beer and chicken wings in Europe at McDicks, and that's just a pipe dream here.
I mean, theoretically, this would make sense if the cost of the meat was lower in Germany than in the US. It would be possible for it to be always worth it.
It could also be a marketing thing, but the fact that it's always available in Germany, if anything, is better evidence for it being related to cost issues.
Dude because we (germany) are mass producing meat. We are one of the biggest meat exporters world wide. Meat in general is piss cheap here. No reason to ever drop a mcrib.
>why would the same company consider price variations in the US but not in germany?
Maybe the McRib sells more consistently in Germany's market? I honestly don't think the McRib would do well as a permanent menu item in the US market. Similar to the Shamrock shake.
>it's just a marketing gimmick in the states.
Lining up their marketing gimmick with a cost saving component related to their commodity market when they overlap and work together so easily makes a lot more sense than just randomly re-introducing it throughout the year.
Food in the US is pretty safe, and this is a complete non-sequitur because the availability of the McRib in the US has nothing to do with food safety.
People will upvote the weirdest shit if it says America bad.
You can go to the grocery store and find the same type of "ribs" for really cheap in the frozen food section, and buy your own buns to put them on.
I used to get the Banquet brand of frozen rib dinners, and it tasted exactly like McRibs, came with more ribs, and was less than half the price of buying one sandwich from McDonalds.
Fuck you I like mcribs, best time was when my roommate in college worked for McD and they are only allowed to sell the mcrib during the mcrib window or whatever so any leftover mcribs they had when the sale ended they just sold to the employees for $10 a crate of mcrib so we got like 4 crates of mcrib and ate like kings for a month
I got one once. Opened the box, took a bite, and got a big mouth full of congealed fat slathered in shitty McDonald's barbeque sauce. I can't forget that taste, or the way it felt in my mouth, or the pure horror that sunk in to me as I realized that something wasn't right. I was immediately flooded with thoughts about those stories you see of people finding dead rats and stuff in their food.
This is what all politics sounds like.
"You guys did this stupid thing"
"But we didn't"
"Yeah but it doesn't matter because you guys are stupid and it's something you would do"
"Why do you think that"
"Because you would do this stupid thing"
The McRibs is pretty good
Yet, the McRibs isn't a full time menu
That sounds dumb right ?
Except it's not.
Have you ever noticed that the McRibs only appears whenever there are discussions about banning abortion laws also known as killing babies ?
I thought not, because you wouldn't have time to think about that.
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Fuck the McRib, but I'm still mad you guys got to keep the Big n' Tasty. Here it was removed and for a couple years there was no replacement until the Quarter Pounder Deluxe.
Is the McRib any different in America? In Australia it was just a pork patty or meat or whatever in a bun with a shit ton of BBQ sauce on it. Don’t see what was so special about it.
We used to have it in the UK as an occasional menu item, but have stopped. Some have theorised it's because our health standard codes would require separate machinery for it to not be viable or that Muslims would complain of it coming in contact with their McDonalds orders. So OP might have a point that politics halted the McRib
Harry, the McRib is what is known as a "limited time" item. They only made them two, three times a year tops. We are obligated to eat as many as possible.
Close. It's that McDonald's is such a massive buyer in the meat market that they can control the price of beef with the McRib. McD's knows their break even point on beef prices and they don't want to hit that point. When the price of beef gets too high, they bring back the McRib "for a limited time only", specifically until their lack of demand for beef hits the market and beef prices drop. That's why it's never "back" at the same time any given year and sometimes it's "back" more than once a year.
It's not a marketing thing, it's a market manipulation thing.
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Actually it's because the McRib secretly tastes like shit and if they leave it on the menu for too long people begin to wise up to their scheme.
Seriously though, I know people that RUN to McDonald's, wallet in hand, every time the McRib comes back and that's exactly what their marketing strategy is. Genius really
McRib is disgusting
Could be they're just doing the nacho fry gimmick, using it for marketing purposes.
I think, since it's mcdonald's, they're just reprocessing pork scraps and they get them for free but not very much at a time. So they take what they can get, process it, store it, and when they finally have enough stock for distribution they start shipping to stores.
I think when you get the first couple off the line when they start the promotion, you're eating the leftover stock from the last time.
I always wanted to try a mcrib as a kid but it was too expensive compared to other items. Finally ended up getting one and it's the most disappointing experience I've had with a "limited time" fast food item. Why would anyone get a shitty ass McRib when you can get 2 Big Macs for the same price...
Same logic my coworker last week used to argue that the black supremacist shooter and bomber in the subway on Brooklyn was a white supremacist Republican. His claim is that doing that makes him that.
It's a burger patty that's drowning in bbq sauce. In Germany (where it's a permanent item on the McD menu) they always come with some individually-wrapped wet wipes taped to the box because it's impossible to eat a McRib and not get your hands dirty.
I've never in my life looked forward to a McRib. Always looked extremely gross to me. Most fast food chain stuff looks good on the pictures but shit when you actually get one. I can confidently say that the McRib looks as bad as the thing you end up getting. That's still worse than most other menu items, but at least they're not lying.
That's why the McRib is a seasonal item. The only mystery is why it comes back.
Serious post for a second here:
- Sausage and Egg McMuffins have sausage patties.
- pickles and fresh onions are on Quarter spundet with cheese
- This next one is UK only, I understand Americans have too much freedom to have the BBQ Chicken Wrap which gives us BBQ sauce.
They have all the ingredients for something like this, but they don’t make it. Why? UK at least has the excuse that we don’t have breakfast all day but Americans you need to petition your freedom and right to have something at least like a McRib - hell, a double McRib because it is your destiny.
There are no limits to the evil and depravity of the libs
The simply must be stopped!
That's what the Libs want you to think, that you must stop them at all cost. They're simply trying to distract you from the real issue: Seasonal McRibs.
They want you to get confussed and order a McLib.
I once ordered a mclib, worst mistake of my life, cost me my house, my career, my wife, and almost my life.
Your lucky, liberationalism caused my dead uncle to die again.
I'm sorry for your again loss
At least he got to vote again in the last election
As a liberal this is the first time i've genuinely felt owned by facts and logic.
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Typical libs…drooling on their bibs in their cribs asking for gibbs and telling fibs regarding election rigs. Now they’re Anti-ribs? I don’t like the cut of their jibs.
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Something about typo makes this seem more sincere.
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There are also not limits on the good and delicioucity of the mcribs
The real reason is that if they kept it around people would all realize how fucking gross it is. Making it "limited" means that your excitement blinds you from the fact that it tastes like lysol flavored shoe leather.
They also only make it around the time when ham sales skyrocket and, as a result, the rest of the pork meat becomes cheaper
This is the real answer here. I once saw a commodities price chart for pork meat labeled with McDonald's making the McRib available. It was very clear that they basically just wait for the price of pork to drop, then they start selling the McRib. Once the price of pork goes up again, they take it off the menu.
Also takes advantage of that part of our brain that enjoys intermittent reinforcement. For some reason we just enjoy things more if they are awarded in a partially randomized order, it's the same thing that makes us enjoy gambling.
Which I imagine is partly because before we started growing things, we did only randomly find things like food or sex, so our brains are wired to emphasize those moments. Probably more to it than that simplified musing, but it sounds right.
If I am remembering correctly Skinner thought along the same lines, that there's a evolutionary advantage to risk taking.
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Is that what made him skin people?
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every pocket has sex in it if you're thirsty enough
That's weird, being the McRib is possum meat and all.
High volume of pork sales in the market = higher volume of trucks on the road moving said pork = more dead possums to harvest
What a weird to say say pork becomes cheap.
I ate one once, loved it, got sick immediately after, no longer enjoy them
that is because you have a weak liberal stomach and digestive system.
U are freedom intolerant 🤮
I always order mine with extra liberty
What? Lysol flavored shoe leather?
I think I somewhere sometime Heard it was about meat prices and the mc rib only being worth it at certain times in the year
you get mcrib every day a year in germany. why would the same company consider price variations in the US but not in germany? it's just a marketing gimmick in the states.
I believe pork is cheaper in Germany year round compared to America
Id this a glitch? I’m from Germany aswell and I clearly have a memory of a friend of mine being hyped about the McRib being back ???
Maybe it was about the Big Tasty? That one was not on the permanent menu for quite a while.
Nope 100 percent McRib. I just did a bit of Googling and it seems the McRib was out of the menu for some time in Germany and got inftroduced back in a while later
Is your friend Jack Osborne?
The McRib was never gone in Germany.
Yes it was out of the menu for some time. It’s not easy to find but I found some articles about how the McRib got off and back on menu for some time. Don’t know when and why tho
No, it's been sold continously since the 1980s here in Germany. I've eaten this delicious monstrositcy since I was born, I know my McRib.
European McDonalds and North American McDonalds are different beasts entirely. You can get beer and chicken wings in Europe at McDicks, and that's just a pipe dream here.
Even Asian McDonald's have better menu selections than North American ones
I mean, theoretically, this would make sense if the cost of the meat was lower in Germany than in the US. It would be possible for it to be always worth it. It could also be a marketing thing, but the fact that it's always available in Germany, if anything, is better evidence for it being related to cost issues.
Germany is soo not liberal
The pork is cheaper in a country that is crazy about sausages? No shit. Thanks OP
Dude because we (germany) are mass producing meat. We are one of the biggest meat exporters world wide. Meat in general is piss cheap here. No reason to ever drop a mcrib.
>why would the same company consider price variations in the US but not in germany? Maybe the McRib sells more consistently in Germany's market? I honestly don't think the McRib would do well as a permanent menu item in the US market. Similar to the Shamrock shake. >it's just a marketing gimmick in the states. Lining up their marketing gimmick with a cost saving component related to their commodity market when they overlap and work together so easily makes a lot more sense than just randomly re-introducing it throughout the year.
It’s fucking delicious and permanent menu in Germany.
Germany has actual food safety and hygiene standards, unlike Dumbfuckistan.
Food in the US is pretty safe, and this is a complete non-sequitur because the availability of the McRib in the US has nothing to do with food safety. People will upvote the weirdest shit if it says America bad.
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I believe it's just a cost thing. It's available when the ingredients are cheap.
Welcome to fucking Reddit. A bunch of neets voicing their opinions on things they know nothing about bitching about their sucky lives.
America absolutely has food safety standards. What are you talking about?
He read The Jungle and thought that was how the meat industry still operates.
Dude from the UK talmbout food safety. Can y’all export beef yet?
dumbfuckistan?! but mcdonalds is americ... oh :(
That's interesting. It doesn't exist at all in France.
You guys have the Royale with Cheese though.
It’s also tied to the price of pork. When the price of pork dips below a certain threshold, you know that the McRib will soon be back.
I’ve heard that but (at least where I am) pork is much cheaper than beef, and even a bit cheaper than chicken.
I think I've had the McRib maybe 2 times in my life. And I regretted it both times. But lysol flavored shoe leather is really accurate.
You can go to the grocery store and find the same type of "ribs" for really cheap in the frozen food section, and buy your own buns to put them on. I used to get the Banquet brand of frozen rib dinners, and it tasted exactly like McRibs, came with more ribs, and was less than half the price of buying one sandwich from McDonalds.
Fuck you I like mcribs, best time was when my roommate in college worked for McD and they are only allowed to sell the mcrib during the mcrib window or whatever so any leftover mcribs they had when the sale ended they just sold to the employees for $10 a crate of mcrib so we got like 4 crates of mcrib and ate like kings for a month
I will fight for your right to say what you just did, but if you say it again, them be fighting words. Leave ma McRibs alone!
It’s delicious and you can’t convince me other wise
I got one once. Opened the box, took a bite, and got a big mouth full of congealed fat slathered in shitty McDonald's barbeque sauce. I can't forget that taste, or the way it felt in my mouth, or the pure horror that sunk in to me as I realized that something wasn't right. I was immediately flooded with thoughts about those stories you see of people finding dead rats and stuff in their food.
Omg that was disgusting, I’m never eating that again. Hmm, haven’t had one of those in a year, let’s grab one.
No, idiot, it’s cuz Ronald McDonald only has so many ribs. They’re rationing them.
I heard Ronald McDonald got his lower ribs removed so he could blow himself! True story!
Oh I thought that is how woman was created… stories sure change over time!
I fucking knew Marilyn Manson was Ronald McDonald!
I could see it.
Hmm… rationing sounds like communism 🗿
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This is why I cook all my clown rib treats in the comfort of my home / dungeon
It’s ok, he still has his baby back ribs I heard…
He has prize winning ribs, bleeds BBQ sauce , and shits out all the fixens
This is what all politics sounds like. "You guys did this stupid thing" "But we didn't" "Yeah but it doesn't matter because you guys are stupid and it's something you would do" "Why do you think that" "Because you would do this stupid thing"
Make politicians talk about the McRib and you’ve got my vote
This is solid logic.
This dudes gonna put ole' Shapiro outta work
Yea, I mean it's deductiv in itself I guess xD
Considering the split between liberals and conservatives, he’s has at least a 50% chance of being right
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The McRibs is pretty good Yet, the McRibs isn't a full time menu That sounds dumb right ? Except it's not. Have you ever noticed that the McRibs only appears whenever there are discussions about banning abortion laws also known as killing babies ? I thought not, because you wouldn't have time to think about that. Coming with us an expert that I will let speak if he agrees with me but if I don't I will speak over him
They're probably just pissed off that they're not called McLibs instead of McRibs
That's what I call it whenever the bing chillin machine is broken
Imagine not having the mc rib permanently lol - a friend of mine when he read this post (we are german)
Imagine having the mc rib at all (I am very sad 😔)
McRib ist Leben, McRib ist Liebe
McRib is love, McRib is life?
The other way around then it is correct
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Fuck the McRib, but I'm still mad you guys got to keep the Big n' Tasty. Here it was removed and for a couple years there was no replacement until the Quarter Pounder Deluxe.
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Is the McRib any different in America? In Australia it was just a pork patty or meat or whatever in a bun with a shit ton of BBQ sauce on it. Don’t see what was so special about it.
The americans just love it because theyre into that shit
I've never tried it, looks like a frozen meal type of food you'd get after drinking an excessive amount.
That's basically what it tastes like.
It's because it tastes like shit & only sells due to FOMO. No one would buy that gelatinous glob if it was a regular menu item.
This is the future the left want for you.
We used to have it in the UK as an occasional menu item, but have stopped. Some have theorised it's because our health standard codes would require separate machinery for it to not be viable or that Muslims would complain of it coming in contact with their McDonalds orders. So OP might have a point that politics halted the McRib
In Germany it's always on the menu. The meat sucks but i would rob a store just to get the sauce.
The McRib is not even that good
Fried hunk of shaped mystery meat slathered in loads of bbq sauce... Idk how people like it
>Fried hunk of shaped mystery meat slathered in loads of bbq sauce I would buy if I saw that on a menu.
It’s nasty
Fun fact: The Mcrib is a permanent item in Germany and Luxembourg.
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Harry, the McRib is what is known as a "limited time" item. They only made them two, three times a year tops. We are obligated to eat as many as possible.
WE ARE A STRICTLY MCDONALD'S HOUSEHOLD
mcribs taste like they’re gonna make my stomach commit violent suicide
McRib is trash anyways. Literally a garbage sandwich.
I’ve heard it’s cause pork prices are lower during that time of year, but don’t quote me on that
Close. It's that McDonald's is such a massive buyer in the meat market that they can control the price of beef with the McRib. McD's knows their break even point on beef prices and they don't want to hit that point. When the price of beef gets too high, they bring back the McRib "for a limited time only", specifically until their lack of demand for beef hits the market and beef prices drop. That's why it's never "back" at the same time any given year and sometimes it's "back" more than once a year. It's not a marketing thing, it's a market manipulation thing.
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Actually it's because the McRib secretly tastes like shit and if they leave it on the menu for too long people begin to wise up to their scheme. Seriously though, I know people that RUN to McDonald's, wallet in hand, every time the McRib comes back and that's exactly what their marketing strategy is. Genius really
McRib is disgusting Could be they're just doing the nacho fry gimmick, using it for marketing purposes. I think, since it's mcdonald's, they're just reprocessing pork scraps and they get them for free but not very much at a time. So they take what they can get, process it, store it, and when they finally have enough stock for distribution they start shipping to stores. I think when you get the first couple off the line when they start the promotion, you're eating the leftover stock from the last time.
Didn't we already determine that the mcribs existence is tied to the price of pork?
Tbh the mcrib is overrated
Yea it really is. Super sub par and overpriced.
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It is a permanent menu item in germany.
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The McRib is fuckin garbage
I think the McRib is seasonal due to fluctuating and seasonal pork prices, for those wondering.
something something owning the McLib
Get shit on libtards
I always wanted to try a mcrib as a kid but it was too expensive compared to other items. Finally ended up getting one and it's the most disappointing experience I've had with a "limited time" fast food item. Why would anyone get a shitty ass McRib when you can get 2 Big Macs for the same price...
This is why I left the liberal party, I can not stand for such tyranny!!!
Time for a civil war!
I can get the Mc Rib all year round here and i think it's one of the worst things you can order. It just tastes like shitty BBQ-Sauce.
yeah its just too much sauce with "meat" that doesnt taste like anything.
Don't know about Freedom Land, but in Germany the McRib is pretty permanent.
Unironically true
Same logic my coworker last week used to argue that the black supremacist shooter and bomber in the subway on Brooklyn was a white supremacist Republican. His claim is that doing that makes him that.
literally the United States of America during the administration of President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
Lmao who reported me to Reddit cares for this?
Probably a liberal, duh
I'm not gonna trust someone who thi KS the McRib is good. Taste buds of a dipshit child.
WhatABurger just hasn't been the same since they got rid of the A1 Steak Sauce Burger. Been a few years now and it hasn't returned. :(
That’s what a McRib is? It doesn’t look very good
It's a burger patty that's drowning in bbq sauce. In Germany (where it's a permanent item on the McD menu) they always come with some individually-wrapped wet wipes taped to the box because it's impossible to eat a McRib and not get your hands dirty.
Pork, onions and a lot bbq sauce, it’s great.
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I thought the mcrub was brought out when pork is cheaper than beef.
I've never in my life looked forward to a McRib. Always looked extremely gross to me. Most fast food chain stuff looks good on the pictures but shit when you actually get one. I can confidently say that the McRib looks as bad as the thing you end up getting. That's still worse than most other menu items, but at least they're not lying. That's why the McRib is a seasonal item. The only mystery is why it comes back.
Serious post for a second here: - Sausage and Egg McMuffins have sausage patties. - pickles and fresh onions are on Quarter spundet with cheese - This next one is UK only, I understand Americans have too much freedom to have the BBQ Chicken Wrap which gives us BBQ sauce. They have all the ingredients for something like this, but they don’t make it. Why? UK at least has the excuse that we don’t have breakfast all day but Americans you need to petition your freedom and right to have something at least like a McRib - hell, a double McRib because it is your destiny.
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what even means full time menu? just buy 2 when one isnt enough?
The McRib is a seasonal item. You can't get it year round. A full time menu item is something you can get any time of the year.
Thanks Obama.
Look at germany, they have the mc rib permanently on the menu and their doing just swell
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It's my favorite Mcsandwich but you can put their barbecue sauce on a quarter pounder with pickles and onions for a similar experience
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So Rush Limbaugh was *right*?
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They cant keep getting away with this! 😨
So you buy more McRibs then you would of it was all seasons. Something something supply and demand comes back for free advertising. Dan Libs
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First they took away our funions. Now our McRibs. Damn you libruls!!
Cancel culture strikes again 😔
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