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Old 13-05-2011, 15:24
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I remember buying a couple of theor special edition burgers a few years back and they weren't anything special. As the OP says, just a cheeseburger with crappy lettuce and a vaguely different sauce.
Don't bother with them anymore.
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Old 13-05-2011, 18:30
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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.
...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.
OMG, chill out. What do you expect from a fast food chain and mass marketing? It's not meant to be fine dining, deep nor meaningful.

I'll probably pop in tomorrow for one of these - it's the only time I bother going to McD.
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Old 13-05-2011, 18:53
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It is a way of marketing. Simple.
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Old 13-05-2011, 18:55
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Perhaps they should do a Man versus Food burger.
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Old 13-05-2011, 18:58
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Maybe they should concentrate on making their burgers taste like meat.
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Old 13-05-2011, 19:02
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Maybe the OP needs to manange their expectations before ordering tasteless swill. Or eat elsewhere.
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Old 14-05-2011, 04:22
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Maybe the OP needs to manange their expectations before ordering tasteless swill. Or eat elsewhere.
I haven't eaten one and rarely use McDonalds. I'm simply commenting on the basis of the endless adverts on TV for it.
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Old 14-05-2011, 10:41
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What would you all do for the regional burgers? For texmex I'd go for a chilli beef burger, with pepper cheese, jalapenos, letteuce and a sour cream type sauce.
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Old 14-05-2011, 10:54
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I haven't eaten one and rarely use McDonalds. I'm simply commenting on the basis of the endless adverts on TV for it.
So you dont even eat them any way? So whats all the whinge about then? I dont watch any adverts any more any way, always "blip" past them.

Its called marketing. Do you actually believe everything in an advert?
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Old 14-05-2011, 12:08
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So you dont even eat them any way? So whats all the whinge about then? I dont watch any adverts any more any way, always "blip" past them.

Its called marketing. Do you actually believe everything in an advert?
It's a food section of a forum, I just thought it was interesting, that's all.

I'm fully aware it's marketing. I'm also aware that many customers will eat the burgers no matter what simply based on the ingredients.

I just think though, if they are going to go to the trouble of creating burgers pertaining to a region, they could make a little more effort.

As someone says above, if they are going down the TexMex route then Chilli, Jalapenos, Sour Cream would be the way forward rather than Pepperoni which is more associated with Italian/Pizza.
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Old 18-05-2011, 12:27
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The "each one only available for a week" thing makes some people that would otherwise think "I'll go to KFC" decide to go to McDonalds as they "must try it while they still can" (even though it'll be rubbish as described in this thread).
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Old 18-05-2011, 13:33
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Partially due to the attention I have given to this topic, I decided to try the Chicago Supreme burger.

It was acceptable, although as predicted no more unique than any generic burger with cheese and bacon. As I keep saying, nothing about it screamed 'Chicago', but I guess as long as they sell and appear to look decent, nobody cares about the name.
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Old 18-05-2011, 14:29
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So what are the actual details of each one then? What makes them different?
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Old 18-05-2011, 15:20
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So what are the actual details of each one then? What makes them different?
I guess they will put each one up on the website week by week

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/food/beef...o-supreme.mcdj

As others have said the key differences for this one seem to be the inclusion of salsa and a cheese-topped bun.
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Old 18-05-2011, 15:43
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http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/restauran....shtml?dnPos=0

This links to all of them.
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Old 18-05-2011, 19:31
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Cheers you two.
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Old 19-05-2011, 18:31
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I haven't eaten one and rarely use McDonalds. I'm simply commenting on the basis of the endless adverts on TV for it.
Hardly 'endless' is it? It's a limited offer - one week for each - so the advertising is as you'd expect.

And as you're not keen on McDonalds anyway, why bitch at all?
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Old 19-05-2011, 19:38
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Hardly 'endless' is it? It's a limited offer - one week for each - so the advertising is as you'd expect.

And as you're not keen on McDonalds anyway, why bitch at all?
As I said, it's simply a discussion point (in my opinion) which I'm making in a dedicated Food forum on a Food related topic.

What's the issue? If it doesn't interest you, why comment at all? Otherwise, why not try making a relevant counter argument rather than just questioning my motives for posting it.

If we took that approach to every topic, there would hardly be any threads. I see far less relevant topics discussed that get pages of debate.
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Old 20-05-2011, 13:06
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So what are the actual details of each one then? What makes them different?
Usually a different type of bun and also rectangular, different salad and sauce.
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Old 20-05-2011, 15:24
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I'd like to see the McYorkshire burger - basically a quarter pounder but using a yorkshire pudding rather than a bun.
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Old 20-05-2011, 16:48
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As I said, it's simply a discussion point (in my opinion) which I'm making in a dedicated Food forum on a Food related topic.

What's the issue? If it doesn't interest you, why comment at all? Otherwise, why not try making a relevant counter argument rather than just questioning my motives for posting it...
If you took the time to read your own thread, you'd see I already commented on the topic in hand. Each to his/her own, but if you enjoy wasting energy bitching about things which don't even interest you, good luck.:yawn:
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Old 20-05-2011, 22:08
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I'm a keen cook (not a chef ) and have eaten and cooked all sorts of lovely food from around the globe. However, I did some homemade McDonalds burgers the other day which were SUBLIME! Nothing like comfort food.
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Old 20-05-2011, 22:13
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I'm a keen cook (not a chef ) and have eaten and cooked all sorts of lovely food from around the globe. However, I did some homemade McDonalds burgers the other day which were SUBLIME! Nothing like comfort food.
Cool. I made Big Macs the other week with the double bun and the secret sauce (mayo, thousand island dressing, sugar, finely diced onion and pickle). They were great!
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Old 20-05-2011, 22:16
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I always fall for the McDonald's promotional burger. They are invariably not much cop.
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Old 21-05-2011, 03:01
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If you took the time to read your own thread, you'd see I already commented on the topic in hand. Each to his/her own, but if you enjoy wasting energy bitching about things which don't even interest you, good luck.:yawn:
I never said it didn't interest me, I simply stated that I don't eat McD's all that often, although I did later mention that partially off the back of this entire discussion, I did out of curiosity call in to try the Chicago burger this week. As I say, it's hardly wasting energy - it's minutes of idle time to post on a forum for crying out loud. You are acting as if I'm putting my whole life on hold just to discuss this.
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