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.

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.

It is a way of marketing. Simple.

Perhaps they should do a Man versus Food burger.

Maybe they should concentrate on making their burgers taste like meat.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/restauran....shtml?dnPos=0

This links to all of them.

Cheers you two.

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.

Usually a different type of bun and also rectangular, different salad and sauce.

I'd like to see the McYorkshire burger - basically a quarter pounder but using a yorkshire pudding rather than a bun.

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'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!

I always fall for the McDonald's promotional burger. They are invariably not much cop.

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.