Your First McDonalds Experience

Hercule Poirot · 25-08-2012 04:08PM

I remember the little toys from the happy meals, just had to collect them all.... tis a pity they don't do them any more, wonder why that is?

ShadowHearth · 25-08-2012 04:16PM

juan.kerr wrote: »

i don't understand this attitude to McDonalds and why it's acceptable to look down on those who choose to eat there. It seems to be a badge of honour to not eat junk food as if it's something the 'lower classes' do, yet chances are the same person will go out and get drunk every other weekend or smoke etc.

Fair enough don't eat there, but the snobbery is a bit much.

I will raise that.

They will be a proud of not eating mcdonnalds and shout about like an iPhone owner to everyone.
Then they will go to nearest chipper and get curry chips with cheese and a few battered sausages.

pebbles21 · 25-08-2012 04:25PM

Remember Mc Donalds in O'Connell st,it was their First birthday being there,so they had a massive cake giving out free slices

kept going back for seconds of free cake till I burst or puked,cant remember which came first..

Ted_YNWA · 25-08-2012 04:30PM

Dont remember the first time.

Anyone I know complains of being hungry 30 mins after eating there

The Idyll Race · 25-08-2012 04:37PM

Grafton Street was definitely the first. Went there with my Canadian cousins when I was twelve in 1978 for the first time. Was really curious as to what Rootbeer was, one of the Canadians had one and didn't fancy it as it smelled remarkably similar to Germolene. At that point it was hamburgers, cheese burgers, quarter pounders, Big Mac and the filet-o-fish on the menu. No chicken and definitely no salad, all coming in polystyrene containers. Plenty of CFCs in those days!

EZ24GET · 25-08-2012 04:57PM

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

I remember the little toys from the happy meals, just had to collect them all.... tis a pity they don't do them any more, wonder why that is?

We still get happy meals with toys. Maybe your government has decreed that trying to induce children to eat junk food and outlawed them for your own protection?. I often get the dog a happy meal he loves the chicken nuggets and I take the toy

chughes · 25-08-2012 05:02PM

First time I had McDonalds was in Melbourne in 1974.

I was delighted when Ireland's first McDonalds opened in Grafton Street in 1976.

HavingCrack · 25-08-2012 05:05PM

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Dont remember the first time.

Anyone I know complains of being hungry 30 mins after eating there

The same thing happens to me but it doesn't make sense. I don't like judging food purely by calorie content but with the amount of calories your average Big Mac meal contains it should provide you with enough energy with at least half a day if not more as an average human.

Lapin · 25-08-2012 05:06PM

My first MacDollars experience was about 10 years after my first Supermac's experience !

A Primal Nut · 25-08-2012 05:10PM

floggg wrote: »

It could have as much to do with the fact it's pretty **** tasting junk food. If your gonna eat crap, there's much better crap to be had!

Food taste is about as subjective as it gets. Can't believe anyone would disagree with that.

Aidric · 25-08-2012 05:44PM

sea_monkey wrote: »

thats just the boards attitude, have to post about how youre better than everyone else in society!

I'm better than you. Just FYI.

Colmustard · 25-08-2012 06:00PM

I was a late comer to Macx I think I was in my teens, I don't knock the macx experience, it a decent snack and has enough salt to ease my drunken cravings.

But I made a profound life changing discovery today. I heard about this place from a friend months ago and today I just happen to be walking by at the Pavilion in Swords while starving.

So in I went sat down and ordered a burger and fries. I got an all homemade treat which was absolutely gorgeous. 11 euro was a bit pricey but well worth it for the odd treat. I shall return to Gourmet Burger.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 25-08-2012 06:05PM

I first ate in the one in O'Connell street some time back in the early 90's when there wouldn't have been many McDonald's outside of Dublin. Even at the age of 8 I knew their chips were rubbish.

patwicklow · 25-08-2012 06:09PM

If i wanted cardboard id go to the recycle center because that's what the muck
is! brain washing cardboard.. And don't tell me any different!

aujopimur · 25-08-2012 06:17PM

I worked on the setting up on the first one on Winthrop St in Cork.
I got invites for the shakedown one Sunday, I brought my own kids and a load of nephews and nieces, I've never seen kids get through some much food as on that day.

long range shooter · 25-08-2012 06:19PM

Wont go near any macdonalds or burger king and the ****e food they are selling

Archeron · 25-08-2012 06:28PM

I remember as a kid in the one in bluebell, I slipped on some spilled milkshake and landed with an unholy thump on my arsebone. Started crying and went back to sit beside mum. A concerned girl that worked there came over to see if I was okay and if I would like a coke. She came back a few minutes later with the coke and asked for the money for it.
That always sticks in my memory.

Washington Irving · 25-08-2012 06:31PM

Can't remember, hardly a particularly memorable experience anyway

Colmustard · 25-08-2012 06:35PM

patwicklow wrote: »

If i wanted cardboard id go to the recycle center because that's what the muck
is! brain washing cardboard.. And don't tell me any different!

The recycling centres burgers uses cheap ketchup.

Wompa1 · 25-08-2012 06:45PM

I think the double quarter pounder with cheese is pretty good in McDonalds.

My first experience was the day the first McDonalds in Galway opened. I was born in America. My mother is American, my dad is Irish. We moved to Westport, Co. Mayo when I was a baby. My mother had some culture shock moving from New York City to Mayo in the 80's.

Anyways the McDonalds opened at 9am it's first day, she had us stood outside the door at 7am waiting for it to open.

I'm working in America at the moment. McDonalds use to taste the same all over the world but now it tastes awful here. They had to change the oil they use for cooking the food in and it's not the same anymore. I think in Ireland, McDonalds has actually improved on how it use to be. The quality of beef in the quarter pounders is much better

gara · 25-08-2012 06:48PM

patwicklow wrote: »

If i wanted cardboard id go to the recycle center because that's what the muck is! brain washing cardboard.. And don't tell me any different!

Ah Pat, that's not very nice

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 25-08-2012 06:52PM

I remember burgerland on Baggot Street when I was abotu 8 or 9. Saturdy morning treat on the way to Gran's. Lovely.

admiralofthefleet · 25-08-2012 07:06PM

anyone remember the notorious metro burger on hawkins street in south dublin city centre?
god that place was bad
the sign is still there

25-08-2012 07:08PM

I remember going to the one on Grafton st, not sure when maybe 1977 was take by a neighbor would not be the sort of place my mother would have taken to us. I think McD is grand and the McD cafés are very good.

Lisha · 25-08-2012 07:12PM

All the cool kids in school used to go to MacDs.
My Dad used to insists on taking us to Mandy's in Cork,,,,,,,,,,,,,the shame can still hear the slagging 20yrs or so later:o:o

le la rat · 25-08-2012 07:22PM

I remember thinking to myself Ya dirty ol gurkin

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 25-08-2012 07:32PM

patwicklow wrote: »

If i wanted cardboard id go to the recycle center because that's what the muck
is! brain washing cardboard.. And don't tell me any different!

You must have been the first name on the brithday party invite lists when you were a kid!

ScumLord · 25-08-2012 07:38PM

McDonalds are only blow ins around here, now if you'd asked me about the first time I was in Supermacs I couldn't tell you, I don't remember.

marcsignal · 25-08-2012 08:06PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I remember sitting in the kings chair at the birthday table in the one in blanchardstown :cool:

I remember sitting on the 'Throne' for several hours after my last Mc Donalds experience.....

shrewdness · 25-08-2012 08:17PM

I don't know what age I was, but I was very young, and we were abroad on holiday. I remember going into the McDonalds and wanting a Happy Meal for the toy. But before I had a chance to ask for it, my Da came down with Big Mac meals for the whole family, I was in tears.

I've hated Big Macs ever since.

Your First McDonalds Experience

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