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I fall for it every year. Every. Year.

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨shalafi@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    McShitheads donated a large amount of money to the morons in the white house, I haven’t been there all year. They can shove the Mcrib up their collective asses sideways.

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    • Hylactor@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Where do you think they’re coming from in the first place?

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      • frizzo@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I heard it’s not earlobes but actually foreskins.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That photo of RFK having to hold a Big Mac is still the funniest thing out of this government.

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  • emeralddawn45@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    McDonald’s is proof of the susceptibility of most people to propaganda. I don’t understand how anyone can still eat anything there. It’s not good, it’s overpriced, it makes you feel like shit, and you’re hungry again 2 hours later. The nostalgia factor is definitely real because once a year or so someone will suggest getting it and I’ll think, hey I used to like it, and then every single time it’s incredibly subpar food that usually isn’t even made well because the staff hates their life. Stop fucking buying McDonald’s, Jesus.

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The nostalgia factor is definitely real

      It’s not just nostalgia. Parents will take kids to McDonald’s as a reward and then they get a toy and it’s very quickly ingrained in them that “McDonald’s = fun”. Where I grew up we didn’t have it so for me it was always just another place with bad food but I remember once overhearing some kids on a bus talking excitedly about going McDonald’s and what they are going to order there. It was like a special occasion for them.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Idk, it’s better than Hesburger and those were the only real fast food options till KFC and Burger King came here around 5 years ago. Sometimes you just want something you can eat quickly in the comfort of your car and drive on.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty sure it’s mostly so 12 year old boys can go there together and eat slop that doesn’t taste of anything and feel like a grown up for an hour.

      It used to actually be fast food that I can see the appeal of if you’re in a hurry, but now it’s just poor quality slow food.

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Earlobe meat. Such a random description, but it makes complete sense.

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    • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I read a tweet once that said that Burger King’s chicken nuggets tasted like “deer ankles.”
      Another apt comparison.

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    • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s funny because earlobes are, like, all gristle.

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        never tried it. I’m more of a fish eyeball kinda guy.

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    • CoffeeSoldier@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m hoping it’s random, but this is Lemmy. Guy might really eat earlobe meat. Whole point here might be why buy a mcrib when you can grab an earlobe off a homeless drunk guy under a bridge?

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The McRib is proof that enough barbecue sauce can make anything delicious. If you get a bite that isn’t swimming in sauce it’s much worse.

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    • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I actually like the school lunch/prison food version of the same thing. I’m not gonna pay like 7 dollars for it or whenever mc Donald’s is up to now but there is something about it’s unique horrible-ness that gets me.

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  • Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If i want McRib, i skip the middle man and just buy q bulk family-size tray/tub of frozen microwaveable riblets and go to fucking TOWN

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  • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We used to get something like the McRib regularly in school as a kid.

    When I had my first McRib is was so disappointed. Idk how people are into them

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    • FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

      McRibs taste exactly like these to me. A reminder of growing up poor. I’d say I can still taste the potatoes but they were totally devoid of flavor.

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      • Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They are literally those.

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      • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you add salt, pepper and butter the potatoes are good. Because they taste like salt, pepper and butter

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      • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Mix the corn and potatoes for flavor

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      • gigachad@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        When I first looked at the image I couldn’t make out the potatoes? As an European I was really interested in the ingredients of this. I knew US food safety is debatable and the regulations are much weaker than in the EU, but what the fuck is this? This is the most insane ingredient list I saw in my whole life. How is it possible you do not glow green and shit silver colored liquids after digesting this? It makes me really sad that people really have to eat such garbage. The US is such a shithole for poor people. (Still loving you, at least the portion that stayed sane)

        BBQ Sauce
        - Water
        - Tomato Paste
        - Apple Cider Vinegar
        - Brown Sugar
        - Corn Syrup Solid
        - Molasses Powder
        - Molasses
        - Wheat Starch
        - Soy Flour
        - Soy Lecithin
        - Modified Corn Starch
        - Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor
        - Salt
        - Onion Powder
        - Ground Black Pepper
        - Caramel Color

        Mashed Potatoes
        - Rehydrated Potato Flakes And Granules
        - Water
        - Potatoes
        - Mono-And Diglycerides
        - Citric Acid
        - Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate
        - BHT
        - Sodium Bisulfite
        - Water
        - Cream
        - Margarine
        - Soybean Oil
        - Water
        - Salt
        - Hydrogenated Soybean Oil
        - Monoglycerides
        - Sodium Benzoate
        - Soy Lecithin
        - Medium Chain Triglycerides
        - Vitamin A Palmitate
        - Beta Carotene [Color]
        - Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol)
        - Natural Flavor
        - Soybean Oil
        - Sugar
        - Salt
        - Nonfat Dry Milk
        - Monosodium Glutamate
        - Xanthan Gum
        - Guar Gum
        - Flavoring

        Rib Shaped Patty:
        - Pork
        - Mechanically Separated Chicken
        - Water
        - Textured Vegetable Protein Product
        - Soy Protein Concentrate
        - Zinc Oxide
        - Niacinamide
        - Ferrous Sulfate
        - Copper Gluconate
        - Calcium Pantothenate
        - Thiamine Mononitrate
        - Vitamin A Palmitate
        - Pyridoxine Hydrochloride
        - Riboflavin
        - Cyanocobalamin
        - Soy Protein Concentrate
        - Brown Sugar

        Less Than 2% Of :
        - Dextrose
        - Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor
        - Salt
        - Paprika
        - Sodium Phosphate
        - Natural Flavors
        - Caramel Color
        - Citric Acid

        Corn:
        - Corn
        - Water
        - Sugar
        - Salt

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      • yopyop@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “Backyard bbq meal”

        Mmmm…press X for doubt

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      • pebbles@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hey salt is flavor enough

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    • the_tab_key@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same at my school. The first two bites in the thing tastes amazing. The rest would be the most revolting thing ever.

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The prevailing theory is that McDonald’s brings the McRib back whenever pork futures are down, because it maximizes profit. That is usually seasonal- in the early autumn, when grilling season is over.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And why Germany, which has low pork prices, has the McRib year round

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    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In fact from what I’ve picked up over the years it’s kind of a meme in finance ie, “The price of X follows the return of the McRib!” when really both X and the McRib are just driven by the same larger economic factors and not by each other.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Content not viewable in your region.

    Could you provide an alternate link? Or maybe use the image button to upload it to your instance so it’s out of the control of some corporation?

    (Imgur deleted a bunch of content for the crime of not having a paid subscription, and they geoblock my country because the data protection commission threatened them with a fine for selling children’s browsing history and they’d rather take it out on users than simply filter the accounts they auto-tagged as children out of the data they were selling. We left reddit for a reason. Imgur is no less moneygrabbing.)

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    • DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      files.catbox.moe/8zx3n7.jpg

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  • SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    McRibs are the shit.

    I eat fifteen a day when it’s McRib season and it’s literally all I would eat if they served it year round.

    I want a McRib McGriddle or a McRib McMuffin just to complete the day because I can’t eat them from two am to eleven am as it stands.

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    • X@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a hell of a bit to commit to, but commit you did.

      That’s about it.

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    • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Try the BBQ banquet tv dinner… Then you can have whenever you want.

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    • cowfodder@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Speedway BBQ rib hoagie is identical and they have them pretty much all the time.

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  • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I tried exactly one and it wasn’t even bad, but there was literally nothing interesting about it.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Man, I went to a mac Donald’s today since maybe years. Everything’s smaller and pricier! Why’d anyone eat there instead of a regular restaurant

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  • arc99@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    30 years ago the McRib was amazing. They used to take the pork patty and baste it in this stick sweet bbq glue sauce. When you ordered one, they’d fish one out of the basting dish with tongs and slap it into a dressed bun and serve it in a bag. You ate it in the bag because it was just so sloppy.

    These days they just dress the thing like a burger - patty on, squirt of BBQ sauce on top of the patty. There is hardly any mess to it and it’s basically just a pork burger. The experience of eating it and the lack of sauce makes it feel so bland.

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    • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Back then (I worked there briefly back then) you still understood that if you dwelt on the texture or taste too long, it’d start to ruin the whole thing, so you mentally checked out while you ate it. The pickles helped, they would load it with dill pickles. Last time I had one it was so plain, the yoga mat/foam extruded texture was on full display, I threw it away after a few bites.

      Finally I stopped eating McD’s entirely, I’m not going to pay through the nose for food that’s killing me anyway. Once a month the fry craving hits and I just ride it out, it passes fast. I’m not kidding. I’m in recovery from meth and alcohol, and these hyper-processed food cravings hit the same way drug cravings do.

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  • Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Instant downvote for imgur links

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  • rosco385@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In Germany you can get them year-round but I’ve never seen anyone actually eat one.

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    • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I liked them but that was quite a while ago. I believe they’re not even on the menu anymore?

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      • chris@l.roofo.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They are. They are okay. But very messy to eat.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve only ever seen the McRib in shows like the Simpsons, i don’t think that was a thing over here back then. When i saw it on display i tried it, and it has to be one of the grossest things I’ve ever paid for. Like even for McDonald’s fastfood slop it was so rancid.

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    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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    • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Ribwich

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Obligatory:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ftPzreVJOM

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    • ratel@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you for this.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would 100% try earlobe meat.

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    • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not bad.

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      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Crunchy!

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Coincidentally, I have two earlobes that I’m not using for anything - how much are you offering?

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        that depends.

        How much you charging for a nibble? Also, do you have McRib sauce?

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My friend showed up with a mcrib the other day saying it’s been forever and the advertising got him. Took a few bites then said basically this and asked if i wanted it. For free ur wasn’t bad but yea agree

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I actually love the mcrib. You can buy them from the store. This year imma try to make them in the air fryer and use some high quality sauce and see if I can make a better version.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These are places that distribute food as nutrition … they dispense edible product that momentarily provide a flavour sensation to your mouth and tongue.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That might actually be the appeal.

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  • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The pickles onion and barbeque sauce are nicely balanced and crunchy though

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    • kelpie_returns@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I liked them with lettuce and tomato way back when. Haven’t eaten at mcds since the whole thing with potus tho and dont plan on changing that for the rest of forever

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  • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I actually quite like it.

    This might sound bad to some people, but it reminds me of an old vegetarian meat alternative I used to quite like in texture.

    Im constantly baffled by how gotten by propogandists people must be to feel everything has to taste exactly like some known quantity meat they’re already used to.

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How does he know what earlobe meat tastes like?

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    • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have a McRib. I thought that was obvious.

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