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McDonalds - Great Tastes of America
This winds me up each year. They promote 5 new burgers in 5 weeks, yet from what I can see, 4 of the 5 are just cheese and bacon burgers with the only slight differences being the bun and the sauces and maybe a slightly different cheese.
I'd kind of hope for a bit more variety myself. |
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This winds me up each year. They promote 5 new burgers in 5 weeks, yet from what I can see, 4 of the 5 are just cheese and bacon burgers with the only slight differences being the bun and the sauces and maybe a slightly different cheese.
I'd kind of hope for a bit more variety myself. |
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This winds me up each year. They promote 5 new burgers in 5 weeks, yet from what I can see, 4 of the 5 are just cheese and bacon burgers with the only slight differences being the bun and the sauces and maybe a slightly different cheese.
I'd kind of hope for a bit more variety myself. |
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Well I suppose you are right to an extent, but I still find this promo baffling. I just don't see any association between the burgers and the cities they claim to represent. For example, as I said above 4 of the 5 burgers have cheese and bacon. which is commonplace and don't really relate to any region in particular. The first week is the Miami Melt, which has a chilli and chive bun. How does that relate to Miami specifically - it doesn't in my opinion. The one burger that doesn't have bacon is the Texas Grande - here is the description. Quote:
For a real TexMex treat we've partnered our 100% beef patty with pepperoni, Mexican salsa, smooth cheese sauce, cheese made with peppers and lettuce - all rounded up in a cheese-topped bun.
How is Pepperoni Tex Mex? To me pepperoni is usually associated with Pizza - Texas is usually associated with Tex Mex, BBQ or Steak where if anything Chicago is known for Deep Dish Pizza and New York is also known for it's thin crust Pizzas.Yet the Chicago burger is again the generic Cheese and Bacon with a cheese topped bun and salsa - what does that have to do with Chicago? I can just about buy the New Orleans as it has a Cajun sauce, but the others don't seem to have anything specific to the region. |
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Well I suppose you are right to an extent, but I still find this promo baffling. I just don't see any association between the burgers and the cities they claim to represent.
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-Yet the Chicago burger is again the generic Cheese and Bacon with a cheese topped bun and salsa - what does that have to do with Chicago?
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I also think MacD's are not expecting their core customer base to think too carefully about this.
![]() "Is there meat, cheese and a sauce in there?" "Yes" "I'll have it!". |
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I also think MacD's are not expecting their core customer base to think too carefully about this.
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How is Pepperoni Tex Mex? To me pepperoni is usually associated with Pizza - Texas is usually associated with Tex Mex, BBQ or Steak where if anything Chicago is known for Deep Dish Pizza and New York is also known for it's thin crust Pizzas.
They certainly did when I spent time working there. In fact, they ate an awful lot of food! |
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Well I suppose you are right to an extent, but I still find this promo baffling. I just don't see any association between the burgers and the cities they claim to represent.
For example, as I said above 4 of the 5 burgers have cheese and bacon. which is commonplace and don't really relate to any region in particular. The first week is the Miami Melt, which has a chilli and chive bun. How does that relate to Miami specifically - it doesn't in my opinion. The one burger that doesn't have bacon is the Texas Grande - here is the description. How is Pepperoni Tex Mex? To me pepperoni is usually associated with Pizza - Texas is usually associated with Tex Mex, BBQ or Steak where if anything Chicago is known for Deep Dish Pizza and New York is also known for it's thin crust Pizzas. Yet the Chicago burger is again the generic Cheese and Bacon with a cheese topped bun and salsa - what does that have to do with Chicago? I can just about buy the New Orleans as it has a Cajun sauce, but the others don't seem to have anything specific to the region. |
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Yep.
"Is there meat, cheese and a sauce in there?" "Yes" "I'll have it!". Like I say, if you do spend the time analysing the burgers -and I appreciate the point that most people won't waste their time doing so - there is very little correlation between the cities and the items that are supposed to make them unique to that region. |
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Texans eat pepperoni pizza too.
They certainly did when I spent time working there. In fact, they ate an awful lot of food! |
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Texans eat pepperoni pizza too.
They certainly did when I spent time working there. In fact, they ate an awful lot of food! Obviously most foods are found and eaten in a variety of regions but the main association with Pepperoni is with Pizza and of the regions covered in this promo, Chicago and New York would be far closer linked with Pizza/Italian than Texas which as I say is usually linked with BBQ, Steaks and TexMex. |
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I'm sorry... really?
Since when has anybody expected McDonalds to be a reflection of any cuisine?! ![]() It is what it is, cheap fast burgers. Obviously they have to mix it up every so often... ... but for goodness sake ![]() Thanks for starting this thread OP. It's my laugh for the day.
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I'm sorry... really?
Since when has anybody expected McDonalds to be a reflection of any cuisine?! ![]() It is what it is, cheap fast burgers. Obviously they have to mix it up every so often... ... but for goodness sake ![]() Thanks for starting this thread OP. It's my laugh for the day. ![]() But equally, why go to the trouble of regionalising the burgers and then having no obvious association. Like I say, why not just choose one of them, called it something more generic to the USA and just run that for 5 weeks, instead of running 5 different (yet not different enough) burgers for a week each? |
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I'm sorry... really?
Since when has anybody expected McDonalds to be a reflection of any cuisine?! ![]() It is what it is, cheap fast burgers. Obviously they have to mix it up every so often... ... but for goodness sake ![]() Thanks for starting this thread OP. It's my laugh for the day. ![]() |
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I appreciate I have gone a bit further than I intended and I do take on board it's just Mcdonalds, so why care.
But equally, why go to the trouble of regionalising the burgers and then having no obvious association. Like I say, why not just choose one of them, called it something more generic to the USA and just run that for 5 weeks, instead of running 5 different (yet not different enough) burgers for a week each? |
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No-one is saying they should be a reflection of cuisine, just questioning their advertising and use of ingredients. You must be fairly easily amused.
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It's called marketing. And marketing has one objective. Get you into the source to buy the product or service. Sadly, it isn't often related to truth.
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Questioning McDonald's use of ingredients?
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Yeah but British people eat Pepperoni Pizza but you wouldn't bring out a British Burger and put pepperoni on it would you?
What do you think should be in a Welsh burger? It's not lamb, but I'd have chicken curry, rice and chips in it. |
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It's a valid question, they are advertising a Tex Mex burger that has Italian ingredients.
I had a fabulous steak dish in my local Italian. It was beat out, filled with cheese, herbs and garlic, then rolled up. Lovely. |
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Why not, it sounds good to me.
What do you think should be in a Welsh burger? It's not lamb, but I'd have chicken curry, rice and chips in it. |
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Yet those who are trivialising my (over) analysis are suggesting that the average McD's customer is too dense to care, as long as it has meat, cheese and a sauce.
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I totally get what you are saying. It just seems bizarre to make a specific point of choosing 5 regions and then not really going that one step further to make it, even to a small extent, relevant. As I've said a couple of times already, they may as well just have one new burger for a 5 week promo since all are much of a muchness and the names don't really mean anything.
It wouldn't take much imagination surely. Even though I get the point you make (that most will just see it for what it is and eat one and forget about it) surely they could do better than this. |
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