MaccyDs - 40 years in Ireland

sbsquarepants · 24-04-2017 4:54pm

I don't get the love for McDonalds - I wouldn't care if I never had one again. I often go years between eating it as it is, it's just tasteless shíte!

andekwarhola · 24-04-2017 4:54pm

About once or twice a year I get an impulse to eat something there if passing and always regret it.

Not through any snobbishness about fast food. It just makes me feel queasy after eating it.

Winterlong · 24-04-2017 4:55pm

topper75 wrote: »

Aye.

Plus €2, and you are eating a carvery roast with a knife and fork, at a table, civilized, like a Christian (as my gran would say).

Ya can't get a carvery at 2 in the morning with a belly full of beer on ya!

HigginsJ · 24-04-2017 4:55pm

Ate there with our small ones for the 1st time there last month, my son as not impressed with the "burger" he got. He likes his burger from CoqBull, was really disappointed. He is only 3 and we have ruined him!!

I didn't enjoy it, I had the chicken legend (1st time in over 2 years) and I have to say I don't know what I liked about it. The standard is not the best and the prices are creeping up alright.

diomed · 24-04-2017 4:56pm

I was in one once in the 1980s accompanying someone.
Every week I walk by the McDonalds in Stillorgan.
My fast food comes from the Chinese take-away across the road.
McDonalds advertising to young children is grooming.

Steve F · 24-04-2017 4:58pm

Anyone remember that story about someone buying a happy meal and leaving it in an office for months and months and it didn't rot?
Also,are their fries really potato or just flour?

Loveinapril · 24-04-2017 4:59pm

endacl wrote: »

Fun fact: George Hook was offered the first McDonalds franchise here, and turned it down because he thought Irish people wouldn't eat meals without plates and cutlery.

My ma won't eat there for this exact reason. Notions.

Omackeral · 24-04-2017 4:59pm

I like McJezzy's (that's what my 5 year old nephew calls it) but I hate the scrotes that leave their rubbish everywhere instead of disposing of it. Stop being a pig-dog your whole life and just throw into the bin. Great memories of sitting on the colourful train upstairs in the Phibsboro branch. It's gone now though, both the upstairs and the train actually

Omackeral · 24-04-2017 5:00pm

andekwarhola wrote: »

About once or twice a year I get an impulse to eat something there if passing and always regret it.

Not through any snobbishness about fast food. It just makes me feel queasy after eating it.

That, or else you belch and you're hungry again.

circadian · 24-04-2017 5:04pm

I didn't have my first McDonalds until I was well into my teens since there wasn't one nearby.

MehDonalds

TheFitz13 · 24-04-2017 5:06pm

You can't beat maccers chicken nuggets at 4 in the morning while your absolutely twisted accompanied by their amazing curry sauce and the last of a naggin of vodka.

foxatron · 24-04-2017 5:11pm

I used to go there as a kid. These days when im older and wiser i realise the food is pure ****e. But I still love it. I go every now and again. In fact i'd murder a big mac right now.

SEPT 23 1989 · 24-04-2017 5:13pm

Things were better when Ronald ran the show

Agent Coulson · 24-04-2017 5:17pm

I only eat there when they have the McRib so it's been a while.

Bring back the McRib.

Strong Life in Dublin · 24-04-2017 5:22pm

TheFitz13 wrote: »

You can't beat maccers chicken nuggets at 4 in the morning while your absolutely twisted accompanied by their amazing curry sauce and the last of a naggin of vodka.

maccers sell curry sauce?

Summer wind · 24-04-2017 5:23pm

I was in Rome and had the worst hangover ever in the history of the world. Never in my life was I so glad to see a McDonald's. Two large cartons of hot salty chips later and I felt almost human again.

SEPT 23 1989 · 24-04-2017 5:23pm

Strong Life in Dublin wrote: »

maccers sell curry sauce?

Sweet sweet curry sauce

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 24-04-2017 5:24pm

We were actually only talking about McDonald's earlier in my office, there's only 1 in Athlone but we used to have 2 - the one in the town centre is gone for one reason or another which I find surprising as it was across from a shopping centre and always seemed to be busy. It was a pure skanger magnet though.

I have to admit, I do enjoy the odd sneaky drive-thru on a long journey, but, like any good culchie, I prefer Supermacs.

TerrorFirmer · 24-04-2017 5:28pm

I think McDonalds is OK, don't eat there often but don't get why so many people go out of their way to stress just how much they apparently loathe it. Would never be my first choice but it's grand for what it is and some of the burgers are tasty in that sort of crappy indulgent way.

Nothing to rival Supermac's Chicken Breast Sandwich though!

Help!!!! · 24-04-2017 5:28pm

Having eaten MaccyD's in London I can tell you they are so much better in Ireland. Burgers freshly cooked rather than ones left in the heating tray for god knows how long. Nice clean restaurants here as well. Swore years ago while living in London that I'd never eat in there again, since being back I make regular monthly journeys

Zebra3 · 24-04-2017 5:56pm

I wonder how much tax they pay on their profits in Ireland.

And by how much, I mean how little.

PARlance · 24-04-2017 6:01pm

Pat McDonagh, owner of Supermacs, was on the radio recently complaining that McDonalds have hundreds of trademark licences taken that they never use. Some as weird as "McWash, McPhone" and the likes, he wasn't too concerned about those but he was taking a case to have "Snack Box" taken back off them. Think they went and TM'd it in the UK. Cheeky pups in fairness.

The_Valeyard · 24-04-2017 6:05pm

It's great hangover food.

dublinman1990 · 24-04-2017 7:24pm

As a kid; I used to eat happy meals at McDonalds in Blackrock for a treat with my mam mainly eating their chicken nuggets or fish fingers with the french fries after school. But I have not eaten McDonalds food for years because I have stuck to eating healthier foods for the majority of the time now compared to years ago.

40 years is a quite a long time in Ireland. As long as you eat a healthy balanced diet; having a McDonalds the odd time in your life is ok. Otherwise; your health will turn to shít if you go on it regularly something like the guy in Supersize Me from years ago.

24-04-2017 7:50pm

Please people, stop saying "MaccyDs".

It's not coola boola anymore...

Mint Sauce · 24-04-2017 7:59pm

Have not eaten in a Irish McDonald's since Dec 2000, bar a few chips on a late night out in Galway about 5 years ago. Just have no desire to ever go in one, unless say am on holidays and there is no where else. Their food only ever seemed to satisfy me for about half a hour before I felt hungry again.

For Forks Sake · 24-04-2017 8:11pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Please people, stop saying "MaccyDs".

It's not coola boola anymore...

Totes.

0ph0rce0 · 24-04-2017 8:25pm

dublinman1990 wrote: »

As a kid; I used to eat happy meals at McDonalds in Blackrock for a treat with my mam mainly eating their chicken nuggets or fish fingers with the french fries after school. But I have not eaten McDonalds food for years because I have stuck to eating healthier foods for the majority of the time now compared to years ago.

40 years is a quite a long time in Ireland. As long as you eat a healthy balanced diet; having a McDonalds the odd time in your life is ok. Otherwise; your health will turn to shít if you go on it regularly something like the guy in Supersize Me from years ago.

Your man ate the stuff for breakfast , lunch and dinner for 30 days or something.

I really don't think once a week would do any harm.

I see all the fools in work eating salads and tuna and a chicken and dry rice, mouldy avacado and the look on their faces, They hate it. Why bother.

Healthy Food Me Hole

MilesMorales1 · 24-04-2017 8:58pm

Why are they not in Leitrim and Roscommon?

Anyway, they have the best fries, ****ing great chicken nuggets, great chicken burgers, cheap not horrible burgers, nice ice cream and apple pies, can't argue with it.

RayM · 24-04-2017 9:01pm

First time I was ever brought to McDonalds, I cried because they didn't serve fish fingers or beans, and my parents had to bring me home.

I was 28 years old.

MaccyDs - 40 years in Ireland

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