/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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You should only eat fast food if there is literally no other place open and you are juat visiting the city. People who eat fast food for any other reason are losers. McDonalds is some of the worst food on the planet.

For that price you can go to the super market, buy fresh bread, cheese and ham and have more food that is both healthier and tastier. There is no reason to ever eat fast food if a super mariet is open.

What are your favourite alternatives to fast food?

>>20369742
i don't think they do the grand mac in burgerland

For me, it's the McBeefwellington

>>20369771
They have a drive thru, so you don't have to stop your trip. It's in the name. Fast food. It's the fastest way to get food, unless you need gas. Then it's faster to get food at the gas station when you fill your tank.

>>20369742
Just ask for a fucking cheeseburger with lettuce and mac sauce to satisfy your craving. Only upcharge would be like 30 cents for the sauce.

>>20369742
mate no one cares about australia

>>20369771
>There is no reason to ever eat fast food if a super mariet is open.

I drive daily for a living and sometimes there's good deals on the app depending on your region. I've seen $1 egg mcmuffins, $1 large fries, two double cheeseburgers for $2.50. You can't eat fast food without using apps. The price does beat the supermarket at times, and like I said it's worth it if you drive daily.

Double Big Mac

>>20369771
>For that price you can go to the super market, buy fresh bread, cheese and ham and have more food that is both healthier and tastier. There is no reason to ever eat fast food if a super mariet is open.
The amount of time and personal effort that it takes for me to make a meal has the effect of disincentivizing having a meal at all. Those ingredients will sit until I run out of processed food to eat - I will go through all my cereal before cooking a single item outside of the microwave, for instance.

Call me a loser, I can't care until you show me how a loser such as myself can actually APPRECIATE all this added effort and time for a product that doesn't give me much more happiness or healthiness just because the meal is notably tastier and more satisfying.

>What are your favourite alternatives to fast food?
Unironically fasting

>>20369742
big and the grand look exactly the same? whats the difference?
The double bigmac or large one they did here in the UK was not great. Was way too dry.

>>20369775
There are a lot of butchers, bakers and super markets where you can get ready made food as fast if not faster than at a fast food place. All it takes is getting out of the car and going into the store. Takes like 5m tops and you have your meal.

>>20369793
True, fast food offers some convenience when traveling. But still, you could simply buy some food that you can take with you when you do your weekly grocery shopping. If you compare store brought food with special offers you should take special offers in the super markets into account too.

>>20369803
If you are too lazy to spend 3 minutes on making a couple sandwiches you aren't hungry. That's a good way to control how much you eat.
Making your own food is no effort at all. You can easily do it in the time it takes you to get in your car, drive to the fast food place, order and get back home. Even if you get your fast food on your daily commute you could simply spend that time on preparing food when you are home. If you cook enough food at once to last you two or three days you come out ahead in time and most definitely in money saved.

>>20369742
FUCK big macs. for me, it's the mcdouble

>>20369830
Triple cheeseburges and the quarterpounder

>>20369826
>If you are too lazy to spend 3 minutes on making a couple sandwiches you aren't hungry.
Burgers usually take me at least 5 minutes to cook two at a time, and that's assuming I have my kitchen clean enough to start (usually but less on two workshift days) and I have the ingredients ready. I actually usually don't even have meat in the house unless its frozen, and obviously thawing burger patties is more than a few minutes.

Anyway, I can actually say that I need to have not eaten for over... 12-18 hours to really have the drive to get sandwhich bread out, get out the different meat and cheese packets (if I have them), assemble a sandwhich, and put it all back, and not be mad at myself for the mess I've made in the process.

Hell, I find driving to be so mentally taxing that I minimize it, so I rarely have the opportunity to get drive-thru food.
I eat a lot of nuts, breads, dried fruits, dried and cured meats, along with more processed food.

>>20369840
>thawing burger patties is more than a few minutes.
But the actual work is done in less than 10s. Literally just move the meat from the freezer to the fridge. Put it in a bowl if you want to be fancy.

>cook burgers
Make something else then. There is lots of stuff you can make in batches.

>mess of making sandwiches
One dirty knife and one dirty plate? I'm having a hard time understanding what even your problem is. Besides being obese in spirit.

>>20369849
Severely limited attention span is probably the biggest single thing, which I've decided to try and treat unmedicated for some time (meds are effective but addictive).

Like when I list out those steps in making a sandwich, it isn't uncommon for me for to go do something else and get back to the sandwich some minutes later. Repeatedly.
I mentioned cereal because it's immediate accessibility from the bag is SO satisfying that it kills my desire to make oatmeal or any more involved breakfast.

And yeah one dirty knife and plate is a problem when I tend to forget about the plate and kitchen once the sandwhich is consumed. Have to make sure it goes in the dishwasher or else I could misplace it nearly any other room.

>>20369742
>Grand Big Mac
>For Big Mac® lovers who want even more beef - featuring bigger patties and bigger buns.

That actually pisses me the fuck off as an Aussie. That's the best Australian Maccas marketing can come up with?

What pisses me off is that I used to like Big Macs made in Australia until about 2020 when they changed the oil or something and put more sugar in the buns. Now the have some fuck awful greasy aftertaste.

>>20369864
Oh and writing this up reminded me to put in my smoke alarms after a month.
So yeah a bit scatterbrained.

Mac Tonight Moonman is the only Mac for me.

>>20369742
Why didn't they call it the Mac Daddy

Two whoppers with cheese, no ketchup, large fry.

>>20370157
>Why didn't they call it the Mac Daddy

I'm surprised they never capitalized off the gang bang (chicken and beef/cheese), and call it an alternative quirky name like you said.

Grand Mac is a big wet and sloppy burger, impossible to eat without getting your hands full of sauce.

Double Big Mac is where it's at.

>>20369826
I would have agreed with you 5 years ago but everything is so expensive now even making a sandwich is more expensive than an app deal at McDonald's. Im just waiting for the nukes to drop at this point.

i just get a classic cheeseburger

the loose change mac

>>20369826
No, they don't have a drive thru you moron.

>>20369775
Portly
>>20369793
Rotund

>>20369771
you've never made anything that tasted as good as a big mac

>>20370979
>they don't have a drive thru
And that's why I don't eat there. Who has the time to WALK into a restaurant to get food? I commute 1 hour plus to my job in human resources, and most days I don't even leave work until almost 5:30! If the traffic is bad, like it usually is, I am forced to get drive thru and eat on the way home. I get home about 6:30, which gives me only 30 minutes to clear my subs moderation queue, update twitter and linkedin, and feed the furbabies before the clan raid at 7pm EST, which takes up to two hours, leaving me only an hour of personal time to catch some netflix before sleep. I will probably sleep in tomorrow AGAIN which means a mad rush to work, with a mcgriddle breakfast on the way. And then (ugh) tomorrows endocrinologist appointment at 12pm, which means I have no time for lunch, I will have to grab something fast on the way back to work.
There just isn't enough time in the day to cook and eat healthy foods! I am TOO BUSY.

>>20371027
>buy big mac clone sauce
>put in on your homemade hamburger
>????

>>20369773
They used to in 2016

>>20371033
Hello hungry, I'm Dad.
Anyway, we have McDonald's at home. Even better than McDonald's. I'll make you a burger that's 100 times better than McClowntrash.
Stop crying.

>>20369775
>t's the fastest way to get food
kek maybe true a decade ago. now you have to pull in to the drive-thru, be told to hang on for 5 minutes before you can order, then sit at the window with your engine off for 15 minutes while they remember how to cook your food. then there's the inevitable 15 minute argument and subsequent manager-involved fiasco afterwards about how "nothing" is not a suitable replacement for the large fry you ordered and you want what you ordered
all that for the affordable price of: the same you'd pay if you ordered carry-out at a local burger place, except you'd probably have gotten out of the local burger place and into your car again faster

MagDongalds contains heavy plastic elements. If you ingest it, NATO will conscript you into military service.

>>20370979
Whether you walk into the store and out or go through drive through takes the same amount of time. There's maybe a minute difference, which can go either way depending on how long the line is. Not counting the hour it takes you to escape your gunts gravity well, of course.

>>20371165
Your estimations are way below reality, but the gravity well leads to another valid point. The fast food places are right on the highway, so they have a drive thru as well as not requiring you leave your route.

>>20371027
What's a trough feeder like you doing on /ck/?

>>20369742
I am a manager at McDonalds and in my opinion the Mac Jr was the perfect ratio of ingredients. The original and Grand Mac have their places but just my opinion.

>>20371182
Where I am from I can pull in to the parking lot of a bakery, go in and walk out with a bag full of sandwiches in around 3 minutes. Shops like that are on the main road here. Even dipping into Aldi for something to eat barely takes longer. If the line isn't long. Drive through takes longer.

>grand mac is just a big mac rotated 15 degrees
Well worth the extra 15 dollars I'm sure it costs

>>20369742
Is Grand Mac a Big Mac but with the 1/4pounderr patties?

>>20371033
>????
throw it in the garbage and go get a real big mac from mcdonalds

I force the employees to make me a 5 pattied Big Mac, two up top and three bottom. Same ingredients but in more copious amount. Force the employees to charge me for a Big Mac and three cheeseburgers.
The place close to me actually does this for me and it cost $11.89. and yes I can taste the spit and I think it adds to it.

>>20369771
Holy smokes you sounds miserable.

ill take the big mac :)

>>20369742
Double Grand Mac

>>20370229
If making a sandwich costs more for you than ordering one from McDonalds, you have a few problems:

1) You're probably stupid - Many community colleges offer remedial classes for a reduced cost, or even for free. Once your math skills are up to the challenge of basic addition and subtraction, you should check to see if a sandwich is still more expensive.

2) There are probably a lot of brown people near you - You should move out of LA.

>>20369751
fippity bippity

>>20369815
>big and the grand look exactly the same? whats the difference?
the grand is a larger diameter version of the big mac

>>20369742
Big Boy, the original

>>20369815

>>20369742
>they didn't call it the Bigger Mac

>>20372383
shut the fuck up bigger

>>20369742
McD's is overpriced for the quality of food they serve.
I can go to a steakhouse and get a burger and fries there for less than McD's.

double hamburger as it comes plus bacon, tomatoes, extra pickles, mayo, shredded lettuce
side of bbq for dipping
big mac sucks

>>20369771
Cooking isn't something everyone is good at or enjoys doing. Cook something for your comrades any opportunity you get. You will give them the convenience they crave with food infinitely better than what the slop shacks can muster. Good food is a quick way to their heart, making them fond of you and your cause if you're lucky.

>>20369742
20/40 nuggets + big mac sauce

>>20371120
literally none of that has ever happened to me. and im a fast food connoisseur

>>20373181
>fast food connoisseur
lmao
>mmm yes, this bun is simply divine. the way it's only a little soggy instead of full-on moist is just, *chef's kiss*, mm yes. and the presentation in-box, with the ingredients splayed out randomly in order and position is ~exquisite~.
>this would pair nicely with a 48oz diet coke from a malfunctioning soda dispenser configured to half-syrup mode by a fat penny-pinching 60-year-old store manager that keeps trying to fuck his teenage cashiers which are all conveniently 17-year-old blonde girls.

>>20369742
denali mac
i'm a hungry guy

>>20373083
You don't even need to be good at cooking to avoid fast food. Just plan ahead and/or use other options. Fast food is the lowest tier. It is depressing that Americans talk about fast food like Innuit about snow.

>>20369771
I agree. Grease eaters need to be shot in the heart, stupid fucking losers. Here I'm holding on for dear life after living a healthy lifestyle for years, and then these fat pigs are drowning in Pepsi and oil, disgracing the beauty of life.

Mac Jr. It hits the spot when I'm home alone and dont want too cook. I usually get 2.

>>20369751
Thanks for the free bump, numbnuts. You vill buy ze boigers and like it.

>>20369771
So many newfags holy shit. Nobody recognized this refrigerated pasta.

>>20369742
I prefer pic related

>>20374781
All those typos are from phoneposting.

>>20369742
So basically Grand Mac is Big Mac 20 years ago.

McSloppers cant stop posting , and they do it for free.

>>20369742
jr mac im on a diet

>>20369742
None of them, they're all overpriced and shitty.

real niggas get the original Big Boy Burger from Frisch's that McDonald's copied.
With a side of Grippos BBQ chips.

>>20370177
"chick beesechussy"