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Your First McDonalds Experience

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  • #62
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,607 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Mandy's - now there was a place!


  • #63
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    ShadowHearth wrote: »

    They will be a proud of not eating mcdonnalds and shout about like an iPhone owner to everyone.

    Brilliant. :D

    And like all brilliant statements - so true !


  • #64
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    I remember it was in nutgrove, and there was a really cool seating area for kids down the back. Now its all fancy and no fun.


  • #65
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    kincsem wrote: »
    Never been inside one.

    The question wasn't "were you ever inside a mcdonalds"
    Presumably your mate bought you this one:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62456831&postcount=119


  • #66
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    I remember going to the opening of a McDonalds in the town I grew up in in England, 1987 I think it was. I remember people were queueing for about 20-30 metres down the road, and that Ronald McDonald gave me a balloon, and a voucher for a free drink:p

    When me and my brothers were young, if my Mam said we were allowed to go to McDonalds, we would be jumping up and down with excitement... It was always a special treat and we only went maybe 3 or 4 times a year!

    Is it just me, or was McDonalds very expensive back then, compared to normal cafe (like a place you'd get pie + chips/shepherds pie/lasagne etc.) Now, it's just about the cheapest place to get takeaway food ...


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  • #67
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    First time I ate in McDonalds was Grafton St 1981.

    Good quiz question - what was the first fast food chain to come to Ireland?

    Answer - Kentucky Fried Chicken, Phibsborough Shopping Centre, 1971.


  • #68
    The Idyll Race
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭The Idyll Race


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    First time I ate in McDonalds was Grafton St 1981.

    Good quiz question - what was the first fast food chain to come to Ireland?

    Answer - Kentucky Fried Chicken, Phibsborough Shopping Centre, 1971.

    Which, before the end of the 1970's mutated into the appaling "Pat Grace's Famous Fried Chicken", and no, they didn't have the potato. Or the gravy.


  • #69
    FueledByAisling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭FueledByAisling


    I remember going to the one in Stillorgan after school on the odd Friday when my mom managed to get a half day when I was little. We used to go there with birthday parties too and had a massive ship upstairs which they only took away in recent years, I can't believe they did it because it was so cool back then!

    I wouldn't eat the food there now however I have to say they do do the best coffee around Dublin.


  • #70
    The Idyll Race
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭The Idyll Race


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    First time I ate in McDonalds was Grafton St 1981.

    Good quiz question - what was the first fast food chain to come to Ireland?

    Answer - Kentucky Fried Chicken, Phibsborough Shopping Centre, 1971.

    Wimpy's certainly existed in Ireland at the end of the 1960s but like Pat Grace's Place, mutated into poor imitations without the branding before the end of the 70s.


  • #71
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    mauzo wrote: »
    I remember it was in nutgrove, and there was a really cool seating area for kids down the back. Now its all fancy and no fun.

    its still there. a load of brats woke my son last week when they were partying there


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  • #72
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    your not an 80's child if you dont remember king burger

    Stoopp! He's already dead :(


  • #73
    markc1184
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭markc1184


    I remember when McDonalds first opened in Drogheda, my mother brought me and my mate to get some food. A group of scumbags started a food fight. I ended up with a chocolate sundae in the ear.


  • #74
    Whatsernamex33
    Closed Accounts Posts: 843 ✭✭✭Whatsernamex33


    Can't remember the very first, only 19 so it's been there pretty much since I was small. :rolleyes: but it was the one in Santry we went to some occasions, nothing special... xD

    I remember having my birthday party in the play area in the Artane Castle McDonalds, that was some fun. :O


  • #75
    Esoteric_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


    People in this thread make me feel very young. :pac: First time I went to McDonald's was somewhere around 2005. Not a fan. That said, when I'm drunk, I think twisty fries are the best food in the world. I also think ugly men are attractive at that point though. :pac:


    Also, I loved King Burger. Used to go with the mother and sisters as a treat when I was a wee one, and myself and the big sister would have a contest to see how many chips we could stuff into our burger bun without any spilling out, then we'd take a big bite, a big gulp of whatever fizzy drink we were having, swirl everything around in our mouths, and chew.

    Good times.

    Now, having worked in Supermac's for 2 years, I wouldn't touch fast food unless I was drunk. Nothing against it, but working in a kitchen, the smell of the grease makes you turn off that stuff forever.


  • #76
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I've never had a McDonalds.


  • #77
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,684 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    A burger in the McDonalds across from the Omniplex cinema in Galway.

    It had gherkins it it. :mad:


  • #78
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    I think I was about 7/8 when they 1st opened in Waterford so about then.
    Marketing had me convinced that I wanted a Big Mac. All I wanted was a Big Mac.
    I hated pretty much everything on the big mac so I was very disappointed :(


  • #79
    johnmcdnl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,740 ✭✭✭johnmcdnl


    I was but a young lad with whatever little bit of pocket money I used to get as a kid - was away at something with the primary school so everyone was let go to McDonalds on the way home and this being my first time in McDonalds didn't want to get something that I wouldn't like so just asked for a plain hamburger with nothing at all on it. (I will point out that I grew up eating home made burgers so was expecting this hamburger to trump my mothers efforts as literally everyone in my school seemed to have had McDonalds on regular occasions before I ever set foot in one and they all said McDonalds food was brilliant and really nice)

    The bastards gave me gherkins despite me asking for plain - even today I struggle to eat them never mind me as a young lad, physically couldn't eat it - even after taking the gherkins out it was still rotten to eat. That dry cardboardy taste mingled with the taste of gherkins because even after taking them out you still get the taste of them. Just terrible so it was. I dont' think I was even able to finish it off. What a waste of a week's pocket money that was.

    Still hate McDonalds food today - never grew on me at any stage of my life and the only time I'll go to one today is if my mates want to go and even then I'll generally just end up getting a McFlurry. I will give that McFlurrys are nice but in fairness it'd be hard for even McDonalds to make a balls of ice cream.

    Home made burgers FTW!! and the best thing about them - when you eat one your actually full and feel full for ages rather than the McDonalds style of having you bloody starving half an hour later


  • #80
    lynp27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭lynp27


    [QUOTE=johnmcdnl;

    Home made burgers FTW!! and the best thing about them - when you eat one your actually full and feel full for ages rather than the McDonalds style of having you bloody starving half an hour later[/QUOTE]
    took the daughter to the cinema and promised i'd take her to mcdonalds after. so off we wnt and got the food( she barely will ever eat a whole burger and chips). she was still hungry after the second burger and chips so were we so we left and went to a proper chipper.


  • #81
    le la rat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭le la rat


    food snobs itt


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  • #82
    Moonbeam
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,029 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    I thought Phibsboro was the 1st one here?
    I remember going there on the way back from school tours in primary school and some of the rich kids having birthday parties there:)


  • #83
    SimonLynch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭SimonLynch


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    I've never had a McDonalds.

    I've never bought a banana


  • #84
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 43,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    The earliest I remember is going to the one in Dublin. Someone came in dressed as Ronald, jumping round, getting in kids faces, laughing madly. Freaked out so much that I developed a massive fear of clowns for years. I still get the creeps around them :(


  • #85
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    its still there. a load of brats woke my son last week when they were partying there

    Oh really?? I havent been there in years, but just after it was done up I dont remember it. Went all fancy and lost the coolness


  • #86
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    I said I was hungry do they gave me a mc dick :(
    http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Mc+Dick.+not+mine+havent+seen+it+here.+Tags+are_bdb74d_3706592.jpg


  • #87
    EZ24GET
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭EZ24GET


    ...two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onion on a sesame seed bun... Think the commercials are even lacking these days.:D


  • #88
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    You must have been the first name on the brithday party invite lists when you were a kid!

    The other kids must have loved the vegan sh*** his mother prepared.


  • #89
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Cienciano wrote: »
    The question wasn't "were you ever inside a mcdonalds"
    Presumably your mate bought you this one:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62456831&postcount=119

    :D Caught red handed. Why would someone lie about something so inconsequential I wonder.


  • #90
    Penny Dreadful
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Penny Dreadful


    On my first visit there as a kid with my two older sisters our mother mortified us by asking for plates of chips and enquired as to where the knives and forks were kept :eek:


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  • #91
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    When I was a nipper, I loved it. Thought it was great, although I was always hungry about 30 minutes after. My mother hated it, she said it was for people who could not cook lol.

    When I got a bit of my own money I had it a few times, but the taste eventually backfired on me, I find it absolutely disgusting now. Also the price is a rip off, for the price of 2 big mac meals, I can pool in with my brother and get a brilliant Chinese from nearby, and have enough left to feed another person.


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