If I crave the burgers, I go to In N' Out, but getting a cherry-limeade or the chedder cheese tater tots will just have to wait until the next time I visit Disneyland - if I remember! :(

I gotta agree with Vanilla Gorilla in that it's probably a regional thing. In Canada we had the McPizza for a few years (loved it - it was a small personal pizza) and on the east coast of Canada they used to do a McLobster (a sort of lobster salad on a bun). And I think McRibs were a summer-only thing, not a permanent menu item like I have heard they were in the southern US.

Extra or added, the end effect is the same. He wanted them to add a slice of tomato.

It might be that they decided to teach him a lesson and made a creative interpretation of the rules. I for one fully support such an action, I'm tired of him annoying every fast food place with wierd special orders (typical order: Pizza X with extra cheese, fresh tomatoes, shrimp instead of muchrooms and whole pineapple rings instead of small pieces). I always suspect I get a sneeze pizza just for knowing him...

We have brats in most of our MacDonald's too. Except they don't come with sauerkraut and a bun, they come with their parents. :D

:D

Actually while in Germany we stopped at a McD's while driving between towns and my dad ordered a beer just to tell people that he bought a beer at McD's. :)

Why were the pies banned?
We still have them here and beer too. And McRoyals. One has cheese and the other tomato, i think, it's been a while since i looked.

I think the pies were banned after a couple of high profile cases where people burned their mouths on the filling - not realising that the "hot apple pie" might actually be "hot."

They were never banned. They were replaced in most restraunts circa 1992. I do not doubt the hot filling might have had something to do with this.

For anyone that is interested this site tracks the places you can still buy the fried pie or something similar.

Sorry I meant withdrawn rather than banned.

I see. Thank you.

IME the baked apple pies last longer in the "holding oven" than the fried ones did. I think this is probably the biggest reason for the change. IIRC the fried pies expired in 30 mins where the baked ones expire in 2 hours.

When did BK switch to "fake" onion rings? I haven't had them for years, but I worked there in college, and they were definitely real back then. I distinctly remember biting into them, pulling out the onion with my teeth, eating it, then eating the breading (sometimes dipped in BBQ sauce).

This was circa 1991 though...

-Tim

The Pie
 

See we always pressumed it was some sort of health thing. Deep Fried pies seem so much worse for you than Baked Pies. Though I had often heard there was actually more fat in the baked pies than the deep fried pies, it was the image people had.

Either way, I recently found out Crown Fried Chicken in Newark carries deep fried apple pies. Popeyes chicken does too. Taco bell has something similar (an apple empenada) but they put cinnimon sugar on them and I feel that violates the spirit of the pie.

Glad to know they still have the deep fired pies in Germany, I'll be back there next summer.

You can still get sharmrock shakes here (at least I could in IL, CA, WA, and MN) near St. Patrick's Day - I think that's the only time they have them. That's the ONLY reason I got to McD's :D

You can get them here as well.

Ho, ho! You think you're being funny.

Years and years ago, when I was in college, I worked at a pizza restaurant. They owner had purchased a cooler from a 7-11 that was going out of business. He installed it in the kitchen. Picture it: eight glass doors that opened onto wire shelves. At the end, there was a standard cooler door that allowed you to go inside behind the shelves where the beer kegs were. On the shelves, we had the bottled beer, the wine bottles, the prepped salads, the salad dressings, various grated cheeses, a couple of five gallon buckets of iced tea, and the prepped pizza toppings: sliced pepperoni, chopped green bell peppers, sliced olives (green & black), diced onions, cooked ground beef, Italian sausage, chopped tomatoes, buckets and buckets of sauce.

One rule: NEVER EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES PUT THE FULL 50LB BAG OF ONIONS ON THE SHELF POLE AT THE END OF THE ROW.

You know why? Because it throws off the balance and the shelves start rocking.

I was out front taking an order when I heard a crash of glass that seemed to go on for hours, like out of a cartoon. One explosion after another. I said "I think I'd better go take a look." (I was the poor HMFIC) On the floor were broken glass doors and piles of lettuce, beans, cheese, pizza toppings, broken beer and wine bottles, lettuce, and salad dressing-- which, if you've never tried to mop up is just a smaller version of the Exxon Valdez. Literally, the mess on the floor made a pile nearly a foot high.

That was almost as much fun to explain to the owner as the time I had to call the fire department and evacuate the restaurant.

cheese curds and Gravy on french fries? Yuck.

I just have to pipe in to plug the greatest fast food onion rings in the world: Mac's Steak In The Rough onion rings. Mac's Steak in the Rough is only in New Mexico, and their food in general is a heart attack waiting to happen, though delicious. The onion rings are no exception, but they're real, their breading is perfect, and they're just a joy to consume. I have them only twice a year when I visit my family in Albuquerque. In fact, I have an order of onion rings along with a regular Rough and a Taquita Tusum, which together constitute about 3,000 calories and zillions of grams of fat.

But oh, it's so good.

C'mon, Albuquerqueans, back me up here.

p.s. I got mayonnaise for free in Amsterdam, but I had to pay for ketchup.

I never remember BK having 'real' onion rings. I don't eat at BK much but when I do I always get their onion rings. Wether it is now,the 90's or the 80's I always recall the onion rings being the same.

Just to chime in, we still have deep fried apple pies in Australia, also our "regional" burger is the McOz which I hate and wish would go away because it replaced the McFeast which I loved so very very much.