Would you queue for McDonalds?

[CanucksTraveller]

No I wouldn't.

Same as I wont drive to the coast on a bank holiday...why would anyone want to deliberately choose to sit in a 4 hr traffic jam..

Oh completely. My next door neighbour is in his 70s. His Mother just passed away in her mid 90s but up until she shuffled off she would insist he drove her to the coast every single bank holiday "for a nice ride out".
I pointed out to him that they were both long since retired, and could choose literally any nice day of the week and enjoy less traffic than the hell that is bank holidays. I asked him if his Mum ever noted the hellish traffic jams and said anything akin to "oh, hang on, this traffic is awful isn't i, it's no longer a nice ride out like it was in 1949".

"Yes she says exactly that" he said, "but she insists on the bank holiday because that's just what she's always done. It's a tradition".

Utterly f*cking crackers, some people.

 

[JPBoothy]

It is.

It grows on you (like fungus) if you have it often enough. Pret a Manger does a decent filter coffee to takeaway for 99p though. I just can't bring myself to pay over 3 quid for a Starbucks/Costa drink that tastes more like a dessert. I know I know, I'm a cheap skate, my wife tells me all the time

 

[fossyant]

It grows on you (like fungus) if you have it often enough. Pret a Manger does a decent filter coffee to takeaway for 99p though. I just can't bring myself to pay over 3 quid for a Starbucks/Costa drink that tastes more like a dessert. I know I know, I'm a cheap skate, my wife tells me all the time

You'll be getting Gregg's coffee next - it's OK when it comes with a breakfast roll for next to nothing.

 

[johnnyb47]

I wouldn't queue for one either. In fact i would go for something more up market such as a Rustlers Burger. 🍔💯

 

[BrumJim]

Oh completely. My next door neighbour is in his 70s. His Mother just passed away in her mid 90s but up until she shuffled off she would insist he drove her to the coast every single bank holiday "for a nice ride out".
I pointed out to him that they were both long since retired, and could choose literally any nice day of the week and enjoy less traffic than the hell that is bank holidays. I asked him if his Mum ever noted the hellish traffic jams and said anything akin to "oh, hang on, this traffic is awful isn't i, it's no longer a nice ride out like it was in 1949".

"Yes she says exactly that" he said, "but she insists on the bank holiday because that's just what she's always done. It's a tradition".

Utterly f*cking crackers, some people.

Indeed. I get wound up by the old folks at the supermarket on Saturday clogging up the aisles. Please leave them to those that can't shop any other day of the week!
(obviously a pre-COVID19 moan)

 

[BrumJim]

Worse yet there are people who will eat an elephant leg aka doner kebab that’s been festering for hours if not days
Sometimes even when they’re sober

I did that once. Still can't work out why a doner tastes so good when drunk, and so hideous when sober.

 

[Brandane]

His Mother just passed away in her mid 90s but up until she shuffled off she would insist he drove her to the coast every single bank holiday "for a nice ride out".

I am fortunate (?) enough to live in one of these coastal towns. Great place at any time of the year EXCEPT bank holidays (oh, and winter storms) . I spent a couple of years driving taxis here, and a sunny bank holiday was our worst nightmare. Gridlock everywhere in the town; you literally couldn't move in a car. Queues into town on the 3 main routes available were tailed back for miles, and not a parking space to be had once they actually managed to get here. All for a walk along the prom, buy an overpriced ice cream, and have it snatched from you by a vicious seagull. Why; just.... WHY??

 

[jayonabike]

No I wouldn’t queue but that’s me, I don’t like queuing for anything. I quite like quarter pounder from maccyd’s now and then. I do like to make my own

 

[Ian H]

That's put me off my lunch.

 

[steverob]

It is quite sad really. The whole point of drive through is that it's quick and convenient. Queuing up defeats the object.

It's like when Amazon did that pop-up store where they boasted that you didn't need to queue to pay - you just walked out with the goods and it would work out from RFID tags what you'd picked up from the shelves and bill your Amazon account for it.

On opening day there was an hour long queue to get in the store. FFS. Wouldn't it have been easier for those people to just, you know, go to a regular store that didn't have a queue a mile long outside it?

 

[steverob]

Unlike most of the moaners on here, I actually quite like an occasional McDonalds. Yes, I can make a much better burger myself, and can probably do it cheaper as well, but sometimes the convenience and that specific taste combination of fat, sugar and salt (and there's probably some other stuff in there as well) means I will visit those golden arches at least once a month.

But would I queue for hours? HELL NO. Heck, I've turned around before (pre-Covid) when I saw a queue more than about 3 people deep and decided to get my lunch elsewhere. At the end of the day, food is food and while I might have a preference for one thing on a particular day, I'm not about to make it the focus of my entire day by waiting multiple hours for it, no matter how long it's been since I last had it (that doesn't just go for McD's, but for any specific food BTW).

 

[wafter]

I wouldn't eat that filth if you paid me; let alone queue for the priviledge.

Purveyors of nasty diabetes / obesity-fuel who seek to profit from the lazyness and short-term-gratification-seeking behaviour of brainwashed sugar-addicted muppets; off the back of factory farming, wage slaves and general corporate scumbaggery...

 

[JPBoothy]

I wouldn't eat that filth if you paid me; let alone queue for the priviledge.

Purveyors of nasty diabetes / obesity-fuel who seek to profit from the lazyness and short-term-gratification-seeking behaviour of brainwashed sugar-addicted muppets; off the back of factory farming, wage slaves and general corporate scumbaggery...

Definitely not a fan then eh?

Everything has an appeal to a specific audience at a specific time. In my younger days after a night out that left me nursing a hangover then the appeal of fatty crap was much stronger than the appeal of a nice crisp salad

 

[wafter]

Definitely not a fan then eh?

Everything has an appeal to a specific audience at a specific time. In my younger days after a night out that left me nursing a hangover then the appeal of fatty crap was much stronger than the appeal of a nice crisp salad

Can you tell?

I appreciate where you're coming from and have had many similar experiences (although I always went for the independent filth of a kebab-van burger rather than the corporate option). I think the problem is that because people are poorly-educated or lack self-control then tend to eat far too much of this stuff (apparently the concentration of such outlets is apparently typically higher in low-income areas too); a situation furthered by the stranglehold such large corporations have on the market through their advertising..

That's just looking at the impact on the individual before the wider effects of their associated health conditions are considered relative to the health service and wider society, or the ethical issues associated with the supply chain or employment model.

Purely from the perspective of instant gratification I could probably happily smash all of McD's products; however absolutely everything else about them I find repugnant tbh.

 

[Randomnerd]

What a miserable bunch of snobs. if a fast food outing is what people like, doesnt it say what normal is for them? This place is so out of touch with reality.