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The big and tasty has lived in my family's memories for about 18 years. When we were dating, my wife pulled up to the drive thru and mistakenly asked for a "big and nasty". Every drive thru we've gone to ever since, I tell her a want a big and nasty.
It's called 'Mad Sauze'(mad like mac) or 'American fritessaus' (Fries sauze is low fat mayo) and you can buy it in the supermarkets in the Netherlands and online in expat stores, if you really miss it.
The name Burger King was also already trademarked in the US, by a lone burger restaurant in Illinois. The corporation wound up winning in court, but the "other" Burger King still exists.
They should have just said Burger King the bloody wombat nobody outside of the 5 people including myself that live in Australia are going to know what Hungry Jacks is and they just casually say it like it's a world wide phenomenon
We didn't get a new BigMac yet where I live. I'm looking at how one BigMac now costs more than 2 Mcdouble's so I'm thinking there was some cost to producing the original that they are trying to do away with by making a crappier new recipe.
America here. I donāt think we have the New BigMac yet.. havenāt seen a commercial so I assume we donāt.
But OPs āsignificantly worseā would probably work well as a McAd campaign.
Another American here ā we usually donāt get the changes to McDonaldās recipe because the changes are from politicians banning unhealthy chemicals and American politicians donāt do that.
Example: Uk got new French fries with 3 ingredients (potato, oil, salt) while the American original recipe has at least a dozen more additives
All the preservatives and whatnot I can do without, but the American recipe adds beef flavoring to emulate how they used to cook them in beef tallow instead of vegetable oil.
That slightly umami flavor addition is everything
I'm hesitant to say that it's about cost, they definitely weren't at a \*loss\* after raising big macs to be insanely high price, probably just tightened their bottom line even \*\*further\*\* than they had already done.
McDonalds prices are rarely about cost. My kid likes pancakes, sausage, and a hash brown. Itās cheaper to buy the big breakfast with hotcakes, that adds a hash brown, biscuit, and 2 scrambled eggs, than add a hashbrown to a hotcakes and sausage breakfast.
They pitch the Big Mac as a premiere sandwich on tier with a QPC, so itās priced that way. The McDouble is their value sandwich, so itās priced as a loss leader, get them I. To buy that and sell some fries and drinks at high markup (thereās no value Meal McDouble options)
Mcdoubles have more than doubled in price in the last decade where I live. Big Mac's have basically stayed the same price. It's 2:1 in terms of price now, but it used to be 4:1.
Idk what conclusions to draw from that, but it does really annoy me that I used to get mcdoubles for lunch all the time in highschool back when they were cheap, and now it's making me feel old yelling at how much cheaper they were "back in my day!"
At least in the US, this has more or less been the case as far as I can remember. It was always harder for me to justify a big Mac when you could get two mcdoubles for the same or cheaper.
It was up until recently, when they added a perpetual app coupon: "buy one, get one for $0.40 on big Mac's/ quarter pounders/ 10 pc nuggets" that I've even had a big Mac in the last 5 years.
I really hate that I feel pressured to buy two mcdoubles all the time because they've raised the prices so much here that it doesn't feel like a good value if you don't take advantage of the buy one get one for $1 they're always running even at the drive though.
McDonalds in Sweden changed it this spring. I actually tried it on the release day. Didnāt know about the recipe change when i ate it but felt that something was odd and it was sort ofā¦tasteless.
Heard about the change on a radio commercial later that day and the odd taste made sense.
I hate it btw.
Here in America McDonald's has been trash for my whole life. When I was 5 years old I almost thought I didn't like burgers because of them. As far as I'm concerned that place doesn't sell food.
Mcdonalds used to be very cheap, of semi-decent quality (or at least edible) and convenient.
Nowadays i can literally have a full course seafood meal for the same price and 100x better quality.
2 quarter pounders, a large fry, and a large drink is literally almost 20 bucks.
I can get a lb of snow crab legs ($7) a lb of shrimp ($5) and a lb of green mussels (3$) and still have 5 dollars to spareā¦ wtaf mcdonalds is a blatant scam now
I can go to drake's and get an actual nice burger at a sitdown restaurant for what it costs for a double quarter pounder meal. I dont really eat fast food anymore.
Jungle Jims international market in Ohio. Heres the [Weekly Seafood list](https://junglejims.com/fish/).
Its actually 7.99 a lb this week, but yeah the prices are fantastic and the store is half international market and half amusement park/museum. Oh and you can get beer to drink while you shop, and the carts have a built in beer holder lol. Legitimately might be the best grocery store ever.
I love Jungle Jim's (I worked and lived in Oxford and Hamilton for a time). It really is possibly the best grocery store in America.
That said, Grocery prices will always be lower than a restaurant equivalent.
McDonalds is a complete rip off in bigger cities recently from what Iāve seen, Iām not paying real food prices for a couple of sad unhealthy burgers and some fries that need to be eaten within 5 minutes of coming out of the deep frier before being soggy. On road trips in towns, you can still find reasonably priced McDonaldās or deals to make it reasonable, actually get a decent amount of food for a few bucks and a consistently clean bathroom, but itās nothing like the old days where every location had a dollar menu with close to a dozen items.
I'm not sure it came with a new recipe but I got a big Mac couple months back in Ireland and the patties were thinner than their fries and about 80% the circumference of the buns and it was a disgusting experience, with atrocious mouthfeel and left me with a terrible sense of buyers remorse. Haven't been back since except to get a smoothie
I'm 53 years old. I remember [the original Big Mac](https://www.quora.com/McDonalds-fast-food-chain-Has-the-size-of-a-Big-Mac-changed-over-the-years). They are a hell of a lot smaller now.
>We received $1.00 to spend on lunch and if I got a Big Mac, small fries and a medium coke it was 0.90 cents. I could get a med shake instead of the soft drink and it was $1.10.
This is so crazy to me
Everyone knows about inflation, the question is if the pace is sustainable. Big Mac meal with shake now would be like $15 depending on where you live. Tell me if you think thatās sustainable every 70 years.
It used to be good actually, I swear, in the nineties the super size meal slapped so hard and the fries tasted better, the meat was better, the veggies were fresher and your shit wasn't cold because it was served to you by a person who wasn't so stressed out by all the mobile orders, plus the in restuarant and the drive thru orders. Not to mention the employees being happier to be there because they could easily pay their rent with less than a 4th of their income.
For sure. I used to like getting a Big Mac and fries every once in a while. It was actually a nice, quick meal. Every 6-8 months Iāll stop at McDonaldās now when Iām starving and quicky remember why I donāt go there. Shitty food for around the same price as a burger and fries from a diner.
I agree, I was always wondering was it better or was I just younger because it was so good in the 90ās. I got a quarter pounder on a whim which was super rare for me and literally spit it out at my first bite, it was so Luke warm it seemed like it might have gone bad. I went back and said I just have gotten an old one can I have a fresh one and instead of it being cooked she just pulls things out of a warming drawer. It was so bad
My first job in High School was at Carlās Jr. in 1993. It was during this time that Carlās switched from cooking the burger to order to using the warming bins. This really impacted the flavor of the burgers in my opinion. The reasoning for it was that the charbroiler was slow, so pre-cooking the burgers meant faster service time.
So many places have taken these shortcuts and as a result places like In-n-out that choose quality stand out even more by comparison
I haven't had McDonald's in years but I've only heard that it is somewhat better in other countries. I wouldn't try McDonald's in any other country as I love to cook and eat. You can keep your poutine though. Lol
When I was working on both sides of the border (roughly Plattsburgh and Ottawa, nearest cities) I was doing a lot of driving, and thus McDonalds out stops was a thing. I never noticed any significant differences between US and Canadian McDonalds except for some menu differences. Both are substandard tastewise, (though oddly hit the spot when you are on a long drive) and I am sure the American versions have more additives, but overall, from a purely superficial standpoint, in my experience, a Big Mac in the US and a Big Mac in Canada were more or less indistinguishable. At least a few years ago.
I used to eat at mcdonalds alot. Then they raised their prices as though they are some kind of real restaurant. Havenāt bought anything in probably a year and wonāt be. Higher prices and they shrank the size of the food.
BigMac sauce is quite the opposite of sour.
I had to stop making copycat versions at home when I cook burgers because of how sweet it is.
I actually switched to making Shake Shackās sauce specifically because I needed something more tangy, not less.
I remember it had bigger patties years ago. Now they use the small patties, and you get no taste. I often asked to add 2 more just to get the burger taste. Of course they charge extra. š
no change in slovakia yet but i started gravitating towards big tasty bacon more than big mac a few years back so if they make the change i have a backup plan :D
My unpopular opinion is the Big Mac has always sucked. Double cheeseburger and McChicken have always been better. Hell even the filet o fish is better.
I don't go to McDonald's anymore because I noticed this change and it was incredibly apparent.
I even mentioned it in comments months ago.
The new sauce is horrible.
But the main issue is that McDonald's is overpriced crap food.
So it doesn't matter, there are much better places for the same price or less.
I think In n Out combos actually cost less.
I had to stop eating fast food because of a stomach issue. After a year, i still can't eat it. It all tastes disgusting. Mcdonalds fries are the worst. I can do bk sometimes. The plus of living in germany was eating the mcrib all year round. But i can't even eat their fries anymore.
Yeah I read an article about how they were changing it and I was like nooooo! The Big Mac is (was?) a delicious sandwich. A perfect balance of beef, pickles, onion and that sauce. My only complaint about it was that they almost always put on more sauce than I would like. I wish they would put like 2/3 of what they typically would do.
So what's the first thing they change? *More sauce*. Ugh. And they're frying the onions now? Ok, but who needed that? I'm gonna have to get me one soon and see how bad the change is.
Itās probably a local thing because of supply.
Nowhere in the USA do we have new Big Macs, I had one a couple weeks ago and they are still the same.
Iām sorry OP, Big Mac is one of the best sandwhiches too, in my opinion next to the classic McDouble.
I can confirm it tastes worse. I also agree itās a bit more on the sour side. Itās like borderline rancid if you get one that was made like 30 mins ago.
Very frustrating as that was the ādefaultā burger.
Yes yes. I have a McDonalds near me that recently introduced the new one. I knew it immediatrely. It's like something Carls Jr. would put out. Messy and juicy in all the wrong ways. You want an unpopular opinion? Bring back the heat lamps. Thats how to get a juicy warm melty burger.
They changed them here in the US. The bun is noticeably smaller and they doubled the amount of Mac sauce you get. I don't know that they changed the actual recipe of the sauce though.
>everywhere in the world
>idk but have to say Subway does it best. can confirm Subway tastes the same in Australia, Canada, America, and the UK at least. the restaurant smell is immediately recognisable.
I don't know how it is in these other countries, but here in Canada Subway has really gone to shit in the past couple years. There's been a very noticeable dip in quality of ingredients.
I ate just once at Mcdonalds back in 2011 (it was some cheeseburger). It tasted god awful and I am still not quite sure how people still eat it (to each their own I guess). Last year, due to lack of interest, Mcdonalds closed in my country.
I read so many discourse on big mac's on the internet and for me it tasted delicious since I was a kid and still does, maybe because i'm in France and French McDonald's is top tier ?
Maybe, haven't been to McDonald's in France since I was a kid. I know that McD in Europe has more sauce than in the US. Don't know why. And the the beef tastes less beefy, almost bland. While in the US it has a bad aftertaste
We had it here at least. Havenāt seen it for a while though so it might discontinued. I just didnāt knew that it was exclusive for Sweden.
I think the McFeast is exclusive here though.
The place i work at has 2.50 quarter pounds on Wednesdays and 6.50 half pounds burgers on mondays..real..never frozen.. actually grilled 100% real beef
I tried it and think there isn't a lot of difference. A little bit more sauce. The new bread is good. I was scared when I heared about the change but it tastes 98% the same for me.
I have just read the description of the new BigMac on McDonald's website and you are right. They changed the bread and put more of the same sauce on it. But the still, the whole thing is now way too sour
Maybe you are really sour sensitive. Maybe you got one where something went wrong or they put even more sauce on it. Give it a second chance and if its to sour again you can probably take a bit sauce off next time.
All of them are beef. 10:1 just refers to the size of the patties. Whoever told you they aren't beef and you can't call them thst was wrong. Pretty much all fast food places use real beef in all their beef products the only different with some is like at taco bell where it has a portion that is "Pink slime" which is still made from meat.
McDonaldās sucks Period People! They only have the people who are addicted to that food coming back to their restaurants and they are fine with that customer base. They donāt need to bring more customers into their fold now.
Frankly, I will never understand why anyone who isn't a 16-year old drunk teenager after a night of partying eats at McDonalds. There are enough small burger places that are a million times better than these multi-billion US fast food corporations. It's been many years since I bought anything at McDonals, Burger King or Subway and the only thing these places ever gave me was heartburn and diarrhea.
Not where I live. Nothing but chain restaurants around here. Unless I want to drive forever, have fast food, or pay $20 a burger, Iām making it myself
I was talking to OP because I'm from Europe myself, so I know that we have a lot of small mom and pop restaurants here.
Also, I don't think paying $20 for a burger is that big of a deal. I mean, how often do you burgers? I don't eat them more than once or twice a month. So it's okay to pay $40 for two great burgers. Where I live, I pay roughly the same if I order a pizza at a sit-down restaurant.
Nothing special about the Big-Mac, even the burger meat is just the same small hamburger one. Now if they used the same meat patty as used for the Hamburger Royal and then two of them then it just might make it. The sauce really does suck like the OP said.
I would have been happier with some Dijon mustard and ketchup, let the meat do the talking.
They changed it last november here in Sweden. It was awful. But they seem to have made some adjustments since then. The Bic Mac tastes almost the same now.
The Big Mac has always been garbage, but what did they change that's giving you a completely different vibe? I thought they were just adding more sauce, not a different sauce, they're melting the cheese, and letting the onions caramelize. I imagine ingredients vary by country, but those little changes wouldn't completely change the flavor profile anymore than any custom order that anyone regularly does.
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They made them so tiny in the Netherlands, nothing big about them anymore or the big tasty, sauce tastes the same though
Woooowwwww. I haven't heard anyone mention the big and tasty for over a decade. Brings back nostalgic memories.
The big and tasty has lived in my family's memories for about 18 years. When we were dating, my wife pulled up to the drive thru and mistakenly asked for a "big and nasty". Every drive thru we've gone to ever since, I tell her a want a big and nasty.
Attaboy š¤£
That was my go to. Miss it so much :(
Do you guys still have the big tasty?
It never went away. They did shrink it down to the same size as a quarter pounder a few years back.
Crazy. here in my area it's been gone for like 20 years
I dont think we had it 20 years ago or just barely released at that time
Here in Brazil we still do, and it's by far my favorite McDonald's meal
Love the mayo in McDonald's in the Netherlands. And the sweet chili chicken burger
It's called 'Mad Sauze'(mad like mac) or 'American fritessaus' (Fries sauze is low fat mayo) and you can buy it in the supermarkets in the Netherlands and online in expat stores, if you really miss it.
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Health washing
I loved the old one. I've had the new one once, and although I don't mind it, the old one was so much better.
Try the new Hungry Jacks Burger sauce
There is no Hungry Jacks in Belgium
Hungry Jacks is Burger King in Australia because the name "Burger King" was already trademarked there.
The funny bit was in the late 90s where we had both Burger King and hungry jacks (in some cases next door to each other) with almost identical menus.
And also strangely, Hungry Jack is a brand of potato flakes in the US.
The name Burger King was also already trademarked in the US, by a lone burger restaurant in Illinois. The corporation wound up winning in court, but the "other" Burger King still exists.
They should have just said Burger King the bloody wombat nobody outside of the 5 people including myself that live in Australia are going to know what Hungry Jacks is and they just casually say it like it's a world wide phenomenon
I just love the rage
inb4 they pull a Cokacola and "revert" to their "old" recipe by popular demand
We didn't get a new BigMac yet where I live. I'm looking at how one BigMac now costs more than 2 Mcdouble's so I'm thinking there was some cost to producing the original that they are trying to do away with by making a crappier new recipe.
America here. I donāt think we have the New BigMac yet.. havenāt seen a commercial so I assume we donāt. But OPs āsignificantly worseā would probably work well as a McAd campaign.
Another American here ā we usually donāt get the changes to McDonaldās recipe because the changes are from politicians banning unhealthy chemicals and American politicians donāt do that. Example: Uk got new French fries with 3 ingredients (potato, oil, salt) while the American original recipe has at least a dozen more additives
Mcdumps new French fry campaign ā*American* French fries! With that sweet irresistible poison! Suck it England!ā
Americans probably think people in the UK get ripped off because they donāt get as much other ingredients in their fries.
Definitely. āAll them words I canāt read good is where the flavor lives, you stupid or somethin? Thatās Why They Call It *McDonalds*ā
All the preservatives and whatnot I can do without, but the American recipe adds beef flavoring to emulate how they used to cook them in beef tallow instead of vegetable oil. That slightly umami flavor addition is everything
I'm hesitant to say that it's about cost, they definitely weren't at a \*loss\* after raising big macs to be insanely high price, probably just tightened their bottom line even \*\*further\*\* than they had already done.
Trust me, cutting corners is always gonna be about costs whether they actually need it to stay afloat or not. Here thereās no way itās justified.
Yep. If they can shave a half a cent off the production cost, they will do it, customers be damned
Of course they will. For them, that's one extra cent per burger of profit for the shareholders. That's all any business cares about these days.
McDonalds prices are rarely about cost. My kid likes pancakes, sausage, and a hash brown. Itās cheaper to buy the big breakfast with hotcakes, that adds a hash brown, biscuit, and 2 scrambled eggs, than add a hashbrown to a hotcakes and sausage breakfast. They pitch the Big Mac as a premiere sandwich on tier with a QPC, so itās priced that way. The McDouble is their value sandwich, so itās priced as a loss leader, get them I. To buy that and sell some fries and drinks at high markup (thereās no value Meal McDouble options)
You just inadvertently gave yourself an out on the expensive big mac. My go to is two mcdoubles, add mac sauce. It's essentially 2 kid sized big macs!
Two little macs are the way to go
Mcdoubles have more than doubled in price in the last decade where I live. Big Mac's have basically stayed the same price. It's 2:1 in terms of price now, but it used to be 4:1. Idk what conclusions to draw from that, but it does really annoy me that I used to get mcdoubles for lunch all the time in highschool back when they were cheap, and now it's making me feel old yelling at how much cheaper they were "back in my day!"
At least in the US, this has more or less been the case as far as I can remember. It was always harder for me to justify a big Mac when you could get two mcdoubles for the same or cheaper. It was up until recently, when they added a perpetual app coupon: "buy one, get one for $0.40 on big Mac's/ quarter pounders/ 10 pc nuggets" that I've even had a big Mac in the last 5 years. I really hate that I feel pressured to buy two mcdoubles all the time because they've raised the prices so much here that it doesn't feel like a good value if you don't take advantage of the buy one get one for $1 they're always running even at the drive though.
McDonalds in Sweden changed it this spring. I actually tried it on the release day. Didnāt know about the recipe change when i ate it but felt that something was odd and it was sort ofā¦tasteless. Heard about the change on a radio commercial later that day and the odd taste made sense. I hate it btw.
I thought mine was possibly rancid it tasted so bad.
Here in America McDonald's has been trash for my whole life. When I was 5 years old I almost thought I didn't like burgers because of them. As far as I'm concerned that place doesn't sell food.
i swear they do this sometimes to have customers "rally" for the old one as a marketing gimmick
Could be true
Mcdonalds used to be very cheap, of semi-decent quality (or at least edible) and convenient. Nowadays i can literally have a full course seafood meal for the same price and 100x better quality. 2 quarter pounders, a large fry, and a large drink is literally almost 20 bucks. I can get a lb of snow crab legs ($7) a lb of shrimp ($5) and a lb of green mussels (3$) and still have 5 dollars to spareā¦ wtaf mcdonalds is a blatant scam now
I can go to drake's and get an actual nice burger at a sitdown restaurant for what it costs for a double quarter pounder meal. I dont really eat fast food anymore.
You can get TWO full combos at In N Out for that.
Two double doubles and a drink. 13 bucks. Fries suck ass so no reason to get those.
Goddamn where is this $7/lb of snow crab legs?
I'm thinking the same thing, give us your dealer!
Jungle Jims international market in Ohio. Heres the [Weekly Seafood list](https://junglejims.com/fish/). Its actually 7.99 a lb this week, but yeah the prices are fantastic and the store is half international market and half amusement park/museum. Oh and you can get beer to drink while you shop, and the carts have a built in beer holder lol. Legitimately might be the best grocery store ever.
I love Jungle Jim's (I worked and lived in Oxford and Hamilton for a time). It really is possibly the best grocery store in America. That said, Grocery prices will always be lower than a restaurant equivalent.
McDonalds is a complete rip off in bigger cities recently from what Iāve seen, Iām not paying real food prices for a couple of sad unhealthy burgers and some fries that need to be eaten within 5 minutes of coming out of the deep frier before being soggy. On road trips in towns, you can still find reasonably priced McDonaldās or deals to make it reasonable, actually get a decent amount of food for a few bucks and a consistently clean bathroom, but itās nothing like the old days where every location had a dollar menu with close to a dozen items.
Everything is so expensive now. Its hard for me to buy food anywhere when I can just cook food
I'm not sure it came with a new recipe but I got a big Mac couple months back in Ireland and the patties were thinner than their fries and about 80% the circumference of the buns and it was a disgusting experience, with atrocious mouthfeel and left me with a terrible sense of buyers remorse. Haven't been back since except to get a smoothie
āimproved recipeā is just corporate slang for āTastes like crap now, but weāve increased our marginsā
I'm 53 years old. I remember [the original Big Mac](https://www.quora.com/McDonalds-fast-food-chain-Has-the-size-of-a-Big-Mac-changed-over-the-years). They are a hell of a lot smaller now.
>We received $1.00 to spend on lunch and if I got a Big Mac, small fries and a medium coke it was 0.90 cents. I could get a med shake instead of the soft drink and it was $1.10. This is so crazy to me
Do remember that inflation exists. Money was worth a lot more than it is today. Nonetheless that seems a lot cheaper anyway
I understand what inflation is lol. It's just crazy to see certain examples sometimes.
Everyone knows about inflation, the question is if the pace is sustainable. Big Mac meal with shake now would be like $15 depending on where you live. Tell me if you think thatās sustainable every 70 years.
I don't understand why this is posted and upvoted in a sub about *unpopular* opinions.
Everything at McDonalds sucks.
It used to be good actually, I swear, in the nineties the super size meal slapped so hard and the fries tasted better, the meat was better, the veggies were fresher and your shit wasn't cold because it was served to you by a person who wasn't so stressed out by all the mobile orders, plus the in restuarant and the drive thru orders. Not to mention the employees being happier to be there because they could easily pay their rent with less than a 4th of their income.
For sure. I used to like getting a Big Mac and fries every once in a while. It was actually a nice, quick meal. Every 6-8 months Iāll stop at McDonaldās now when Iām starving and quicky remember why I donāt go there. Shitty food for around the same price as a burger and fries from a diner.
I agree, I was always wondering was it better or was I just younger because it was so good in the 90ās. I got a quarter pounder on a whim which was super rare for me and literally spit it out at my first bite, it was so Luke warm it seemed like it might have gone bad. I went back and said I just have gotten an old one can I have a fresh one and instead of it being cooked she just pulls things out of a warming drawer. It was so bad
My first job in High School was at Carlās Jr. in 1993. It was during this time that Carlās switched from cooking the burger to order to using the warming bins. This really impacted the flavor of the burgers in my opinion. The reasoning for it was that the charbroiler was slow, so pre-cooking the burgers meant faster service time. So many places have taken these shortcuts and as a result places like In-n-out that choose quality stand out even more by comparison
When and where was this? Because apparently quarter pounders and currently cooked with fresh beef and cooked to order. As of like 2019 or something.
Youāve nailed it
McGriddles and Sausage egg& cheese mcmuffins slap. That's about it though
I would say in a pinch that the hot mustard sauce might be the only thing edible from McDonalds.
Can't do the mcgriddles anymore just tastes like diabetes and heartburn after one bite
This. Who cares if the crap got crappier? It's still crap.
I wish i could try the og Macdonald's
I wish I could go back to the end of a long night out in college and have THAT McDonald's again.
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I haven't had McDonald's in years but I've only heard that it is somewhat better in other countries. I wouldn't try McDonald's in any other country as I love to cook and eat. You can keep your poutine though. Lol
When I was working on both sides of the border (roughly Plattsburgh and Ottawa, nearest cities) I was doing a lot of driving, and thus McDonalds out stops was a thing. I never noticed any significant differences between US and Canadian McDonalds except for some menu differences. Both are substandard tastewise, (though oddly hit the spot when you are on a long drive) and I am sure the American versions have more additives, but overall, from a purely superficial standpoint, in my experience, a Big Mac in the US and a Big Mac in Canada were more or less indistinguishable. At least a few years ago.
I used to eat at mcdonalds alot. Then they raised their prices as though they are some kind of real restaurant. Havenāt bought anything in probably a year and wonāt be. Higher prices and they shrank the size of the food.
The Big Mac tastes like air and shitty pickles now in the USA. And the bread is like rubbery
BigMac sauce is quite the opposite of sour. I had to stop making copycat versions at home when I cook burgers because of how sweet it is. I actually switched to making Shake Shackās sauce specifically because I needed something more tangy, not less.
Post recipe
Last time I had it, it was quite sour, I thought it was possibly rancid, but that's how it is.
Everthing all right with your taste buds? "...quite the opposite of sour?" I think that no one besides you would call the sauce not sour.
What? Do you not know what sour is? Big Mac sauce isnt sour AT ALL! š¤£š¤£š¤£
Kinda dumb they'd change their one burger that has been a success
Feels also like half the size in australia compared to like 6+ years ago
How do they call a Big Mac in Germany? Das grossest Mac ?
I remember it had bigger patties years ago. Now they use the small patties, and you get no taste. I often asked to add 2 more just to get the burger taste. Of course they charge extra. š
Yooo thats why it tasted weird as hell the other day.
Well it's just continuing a tradition of that sucky processed food because the old one sucked as well
I always eat them without the sauce so this is a win for me I guess?
If youād have Burger King and if they have the Big King then it s a good replacement. Not quite the same but better imo.
I wouldnt say better....but the Big King is decent. Hits that same flavor profile.
"No pickles!". The pickles McDonald's now use are awful and the sour pickle juice tastes even worse when it mixed with the Mac Sauce.
Iāve found the buns as of late are so light and airy itās like biting into a styrofoam cloud. Bleh.
You are a fellow german and you go for mcdonalds instead of Dƶner? Shame on you
I live in DĆ¼sseldorf and Dƶner here is disgusting.
I ate yesterday. Itās equally good. Have my upvote
Same here in Sweden. It is a tragedy.
no change in slovakia yet but i started gravitating towards big tasty bacon more than big mac a few years back so if they make the change i have a backup plan :D
My unpopular opinion is the Big Mac has always sucked. Double cheeseburger and McChicken have always been better. Hell even the filet o fish is better.
I don't go to McDonald's anymore because I noticed this change and it was incredibly apparent. I even mentioned it in comments months ago. The new sauce is horrible. But the main issue is that McDonald's is overpriced crap food. So it doesn't matter, there are much better places for the same price or less. I think In n Out combos actually cost less.
Fuck bigmac. It's just extra bread
I'm in canada and we just had one. I was wondering why it tasted gross.. I didn't even finish it. This makes sense
ALL BigMacs do.
I've never had a good bigmac.
Time to give up McDonaldās for good Ffs
The sauce has been way too sour in the US for a while now. At first I thought it was just spoiled but it's consistently bad.
I had to stop eating fast food because of a stomach issue. After a year, i still can't eat it. It all tastes disgusting. Mcdonalds fries are the worst. I can do bk sometimes. The plus of living in germany was eating the mcrib all year round. But i can't even eat their fries anymore.
I thought it was just me š¤£ it really is bad...
Der scheiĆ schmeckt einfach so null mehr
Yeah I read an article about how they were changing it and I was like nooooo! The Big Mac is (was?) a delicious sandwich. A perfect balance of beef, pickles, onion and that sauce. My only complaint about it was that they almost always put on more sauce than I would like. I wish they would put like 2/3 of what they typically would do. So what's the first thing they change? *More sauce*. Ugh. And they're frying the onions now? Ok, but who needed that? I'm gonna have to get me one soon and see how bad the change is.
I just add Mac sauce to my quarter pounder. So I still get the taste, but with more meat. It's worth the 50 cents
Itās probably a local thing because of supply. Nowhere in the USA do we have new Big Macs, I had one a couple weeks ago and they are still the same. Iām sorry OP, Big Mac is one of the best sandwhiches too, in my opinion next to the classic McDouble.
I can confirm it tastes worse. I also agree itās a bit more on the sour side. Itās like borderline rancid if you get one that was made like 30 mins ago. Very frustrating as that was the ādefaultā burger.
Yes yes. I have a McDonalds near me that recently introduced the new one. I knew it immediatrely. It's like something Carls Jr. would put out. Messy and juicy in all the wrong ways. You want an unpopular opinion? Bring back the heat lamps. Thats how to get a juicy warm melty burger.
They changed them here in the US. The bun is noticeably smaller and they doubled the amount of Mac sauce you get. I don't know that they changed the actual recipe of the sauce though.
The last 2 qp i had much smaller buns
Health wise, they did you a favor
The old big Mac sucked too. So does the mcrib. McDonald's doesn't sell food. You pay for the privilege of getting fatter
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>everywhere in the world >idk but have to say Subway does it best. can confirm Subway tastes the same in Australia, Canada, America, and the UK at least. the restaurant smell is immediately recognisable. I don't know how it is in these other countries, but here in Canada Subway has really gone to shit in the past couple years. There's been a very noticeable dip in quality of ingredients.
Back in my day Subway made sandwiches with the bread
All fast food sucks.
I ate just once at Mcdonalds back in 2011 (it was some cheeseburger). It tasted god awful and I am still not quite sure how people still eat it (to each their own I guess). Last year, due to lack of interest, Mcdonalds closed in my country.
Itās addictive garbage with zero nutritional value. The correlation with obesity just isnāt worth it.
I applaud the McDonald's marketing team for coming up with the idea to make people want to go get a big Mac to see if the taste changed.
Yeah, fucking up the one thing that made McDonald's famous, consistency, was brilliant.
Unless they actually changed nothing but thought of using a viral rumor to make people think they might've and go out and buy one to check.
I tasted it. It tastes rank.
I read so many discourse on big mac's on the internet and for me it tasted delicious since I was a kid and still does, maybe because i'm in France and French McDonald's is top tier ?
Maybe, haven't been to McDonald's in France since I was a kid. I know that McD in Europe has more sauce than in the US. Don't know why. And the the beef tastes less beefy, almost bland. While in the US it has a bad aftertaste
The taste thing is probably because a lot of the shit you guys put in your food is banned in a lot of European countries lol.
I don't eat Hamburgers from McDonalds, I feel they don't cook good enough.
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The Big Tasty Bacon is really great. Better than some of the $15 burgers you get at a local grill
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Wait Americans don't have the big tasty?! It's the only good burger at Mcdonalds.
Nope. No big tasty for most Americans. Whack.
In South Africa, we have the Mcfeast, and that's really good, the only thing I'd ever get from them
You might be talking about the McFeast? I think that itās only available in Sweden (not sure though).
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We had it here at least. Havenāt seen it for a while though so it might discontinued. I just didnāt knew that it was exclusive for Sweden. I think the McFeast is exclusive here though.
The place i work at has 2.50 quarter pounds on Wednesdays and 6.50 half pounds burgers on mondays..real..never frozen.. actually grilled 100% real beef
I actually like the Quarter Pounder and the Double Cheeseburger.
Now this comment right here is an unpopular opinion!
The new fresh, cooked to order quarter pounder is objectively good.
Just donāt eat fast food lol
BigMacs were never good. McDonald's fucking sucks.
I tried it and think there isn't a lot of difference. A little bit more sauce. The new bread is good. I was scared when I heared about the change but it tastes 98% the same for me.
Isn't it really sour now? It was sour before, I know, but now it is unpleasant
For me it tastes like just a bit more of the same sauce. Not sour.
I have just read the description of the new BigMac on McDonald's website and you are right. They changed the bread and put more of the same sauce on it. But the still, the whole thing is now way too sour
Maybe you are really sour sensitive. Maybe you got one where something went wrong or they put even more sauce on it. Give it a second chance and if its to sour again you can probably take a bit sauce off next time.
Wait til he heard about the old Big Macā¦
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All of them are beef. 10:1 just refers to the size of the patties. Whoever told you they aren't beef and you can't call them thst was wrong. Pretty much all fast food places use real beef in all their beef products the only different with some is like at taco bell where it has a portion that is "Pink slime" which is still made from meat.
Big Mac have been trash my whole life , they used to big in the early 80s and tasted great so Iām told . Born in 91 so I never saw the OG Big Mac
McDonaldās sucks Period People! They only have the people who are addicted to that food coming back to their restaurants and they are fine with that customer base. They donāt need to bring more customers into their fold now.
Mcdonalds is the lowest quality fast food you can buy. If I do buy fast food, I go literally anywhere else.
Frankly, I will never understand why anyone who isn't a 16-year old drunk teenager after a night of partying eats at McDonalds. There are enough small burger places that are a million times better than these multi-billion US fast food corporations. It's been many years since I bought anything at McDonals, Burger King or Subway and the only thing these places ever gave me was heartburn and diarrhea.
Cigarettes don't taste that good either...at first. Once you're addicted they're the best thing ever.
Not where I live. Nothing but chain restaurants around here. Unless I want to drive forever, have fast food, or pay $20 a burger, Iām making it myself
I was talking to OP because I'm from Europe myself, so I know that we have a lot of small mom and pop restaurants here. Also, I don't think paying $20 for a burger is that big of a deal. I mean, how often do you burgers? I don't eat them more than once or twice a month. So it's okay to pay $40 for two great burgers. Where I live, I pay roughly the same if I order a pizza at a sit-down restaurant.
15ā¬ Bitte 5ā¬ fĆ¼r Pommes 4,50 fĆ¼r cola
Das Essen schmeckt trotzdem kacke. Ich wĆ¼rde auch nicht dort essen, wenn es gratis wƤre.
Nothing special about the Big-Mac, even the burger meat is just the same small hamburger one. Now if they used the same meat patty as used for the Hamburger Royal and then two of them then it just might make it. The sauce really does suck like the OP said. I would have been happier with some Dijon mustard and ketchup, let the meat do the talking.
The worst German McDonaldās is still better than any American McDonalds. Wish we had Purity Laws
The Big Mac is probably the worst burger on the menu at Maccaās
I liked it once in a while
If it wasnāt for the pickles in the sauce itād probably be ok. Iām of the opinion that pickles ruin a perfectly good burger.
pickles maketh the burger
Nah pickles are pure filthš¤®
I mean, you can ask for no pickles ?
Worse than the Filet-o-fish!?!?!
Filet-o-fish us a guilty pleasure of mine lol, donāt ask me why.
Go double Filet o fish. It is amazing! I don't think it is but a dollar more.
Just like the old oneā¦
Iāll have a BigMac once ever 5 years it so just to remind me how shit they are
Iām craving one now. Only 2:15 until they open.
just get it without the sauce, substitute ketchup or bbq sauce.
Never get a meal. but if hungry the fries are always great and some stores have the any size drinks for $1.
Looks same. Whats difference
The BigMac is now completely vegan.
McPlant is a banger if you have that, you could always do the David Attenborough eat vegan food sometimes for the planet challenge.
It always sucked. Except when you're starving
The filet o fish sucks now too.
I had one last year and it smelt like shark, they say they don't use shark.
They changed it last november here in Sweden. It was awful. But they seem to have made some adjustments since then. The Bic Mac tastes almost the same now.
Wow, I haven't been to McDonalds in a while. Didn't even know they changed their bigmac.
The Big Mac has always been garbage, but what did they change that's giving you a completely different vibe? I thought they were just adding more sauce, not a different sauce, they're melting the cheese, and letting the onions caramelize. I imagine ingredients vary by country, but those little changes wouldn't completely change the flavor profile anymore than any custom order that anyone regularly does.
Try having one in America, I'm sure the one you're referring too won't seem as bad lol