JCC McDonald's all-day breakfast... coming nationwide (U.S.) in October!

I've had this returning argument with my daughter (who's North-American I might add) for years: I've been trying to convince her McDonald's is not a restaurant.

The last round is for her: she looked up the meaning of the word "restaurant".
I am brooding on my next move.

 

So many haters here. Who stole the joy from your lives? More breakfast food in the world during non-traditional breakfast hours can only be a good thing, regardless of food quality.

 

I'd question whether anything as vertically integrated worldwide as McDonald's can really be called a "restaurant." Shoving Royals with Cheese down your gullet is such a small part of what they do. Some people think of them as essentially a toy marketer. They're like Conagra with a storefront. They're like Archers Daniels Midland but also peddling plastic trinkets.

 

****. I'm a total sucker for McDonald's breakfast foods. I foresee many needless McGriddles in my future.

 

I used to say "the fact that they call themselves a restaurant doesn't mean they're right in calling themselves a restaurant", but if the dictionary agrees... they serve food, and they have tables.

Oh well. I guess it's a good lesson even if it's wrong.

 

There needs to be a definition of restaurant that differentiates it from a high school cafeteria.

 

Indeed, McDonald's is the fulcrum upon which our lever shall lift the world. Except by "lift the world" I mean "get someone else to make me eggs at 7 PM."

 

Of course not. I said vain attempt. If I succeeded, I might stop buying crap!

Considering the things that are put into McDonald's "meat," I wonder what their "eggs" are like.

 

The mcnugget is basically a battered/fried frozen chicken hotdog shaped vaguely like a formless shape. But a McDonald's egg is just an egg. If you want to eat something at McDonald's and be relatively confident that it's food, then order an Egg McMuffin.

 

Not to sound like an episode of Portlandia here, but are they pasture-raised? Nope! These USDA Grade A eggs don't come from happy hens frolicking and pecking on pastures. They actually come from chickens who've been cooped up in dark factories where they don't even have room to spread their wings. They never see light, which means they're missing vitamin D, and their diet largely consists of only soy and corn. Free-range hens with healthy, natural diets, on the other hand, have seven times more beta carotene, three times more vitamin E, two times more omega-3's, and two-thirds more vitamin A.

Source, too funny: Livestrong

 

They're not made from powdered material hydrated with the tears of abused chickens and underpaid employees?

 

Does this mean the Mc1035 Burger will be an all-day thing now, too?

(basically, it's a secret McDonalds menu item you can ask for when the they're done serving breakfast. You put a Egg McMuffin and a Cheeseburger together into one.)

 

I can bump up my gain to 15%!

 

No it isn't; it's cashiers who recognize what you're talking about ringing you up for an Egg McMuffin and a cheeseburger and hating you for believing bull**** spewed onto the internet by the fast food equivalent of truthers as though it somehow makes you "clever" and not just someone who can't be arsed to admit you can't settle for one disgusting grease sandwich.

 

And that guy is our head admin?

Good times

 

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Of course McDonald's is a restaraunt .. a vastly different experience than a lot of places, obviously, but still a restaurant. It's akin to comparing Volcano to The Godfather Part II, for despite canyon-sized differences, they're still classified each as a movie.

 

Depends where you're from.
We call it a snackbar over here

 

You call movies snackbars? The Dutch are a fascinating people.

 

mcdonalds most definitely isn't a restaurant over here. more like.. well, it's almost it's own ****ty category.

 

Best ever, right?

 

i have not had a mcdonald's breakfast item since i was a kid.

 

Really? I'm in Santa Monica and for the same price I could get a real breakfast burrito or pancakes etc.