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I hated McD when I was a kid (I'm 37 years old now).

For some reason I cannot stand onions. McD always put oninons on their burgers. Even when I asked for a burger without onions, all the cooks did was scrape them off (often bits of onion were always left on the bun mixed with the condiments; even if all the onions were scraped off, the taste was still there). Yuk!

McD came up with a brilliant idea when I was in college ('84 through '89)... the McDLT. This hamburger ROCKED. The packaging kept the cold side cold and the hot side hot. The condiments were never gooped on in buckets like they are now.

Where did the McDLT go?

And another thing... the ice tea that comes from the fountain dispenser is pre-mixed. It doesn't taste like real ice tea. What garbage barrel is this swill made in?

Currently, I go to a couple of good burger joints here in N. Texas... Country Burger and the Feed Bag (both in Plano, TX). These establishments produce excellent food; I'll drive out of my way, past many McDs, to dine at either.

McD is very broken. If I'm out of town and need a burger fix, I go to Whataburger or Wendy's.

R.I.P. McD until you get your act together.

Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88

Oh yeah, forgot about that. The McDLT was my favourite back when they made it. Hot meat, cold lettuce and tomato, wow! I think it went away to make room the McLean Deluxe, that horrible low-fat burger with seaweed in it that they tried to pawn off on people for a while.

And messy burger prep bugs me, too. They're supposed to ahve a little ketchup and mustard on them, it's not supposed to come squirting out one side when you bite into it.

Anyway, rather than addressing any of the many valid criticism made in the above posts, I predict they will try to solve their problems with more gimmicks, stupid new food items that don't fit with their menu, and stupid promotions. All people really want is good, hot food, fast.

When I attended Texas A&M ('84 - '89) we were allowed to park next to our dorms on the weekends. Sunday night we had to move our cars to the Fish (freshman) lot. Basically BFE.

En route to the lot, my buddies and I would divert to Archy Burger and pick up some $0.39 hamburgers. These things rocked. Bun, burger, a couple pickles, and some mustard and catchup. One could trick these burgers up and add cheese for $0.10 more.

I miss Archy Burger. McD's Golden arches SUCK!

Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88

For some reason I cannot stand onions. McD always put oninons on their burgers. Even when I asked for a burger without onions, all the cooks did was scrape them off (often bits of onion were always left on the bun mixed with the condiments; even if all the onions were scraped off, the taste was still there). Yuk!

Oh that's right! That's the reason I never got their burgers and always went for the fish. At least I could somewhat tolerate the scraped off tartar sauce.

Even when I asked for a burger without onions, all the cooks did was scrape them off

It get's worse. When I worked at McDs (early 70's)when we got a no onion order, we'd blow them off the meat. These were called "blow burgers."