We used to eat at Bob's Big Boy a lot when I was a kid. I can remember they would pass out those big glossy menu's and the burger plate presentation photo on the menu looked perfect. It looked like the type of burger God would eat. Flawless. Then the waitress would deliver the food and your burger always looked like a sloppy lopsided mess that gave birth to a ten pound baby.
The simplest and cheapest way to make McDonald's fries at home is to do the following: Go to the store and buy a bag of supermarket brand frozen french fries. Before throwing them in your Fry-Daddy or frying them on the stove, roll them in sugar. (Of course, this wrecks the oil in your mini-deep fryer, so you might wish to consider just doing them on the stove.) It's that easy, and the fries will taste identical to McDonald's.Originally Posted by Nitro Express
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if you go to the maccas web but stick the .au on the end, you'll see that in oz, they almost sell health food!!!
but my $4.25 small cheeseburger meal (with real coke syrup made from local sugarcane sugar)
after a hard morning's golf always hits the spot. until 3 hours later.
I looked through the Australian McDonald's site, and your menu is basically the same as ours save for a few subtle differences here and there, and a unique menu item or two.
One question, though:
I noticed that the Quarter Pounder w/Cheese is called the same in Australia. If you guys are on the metric system, why is it called a Quarter Pounder and not a Royale w/Cheese?
Hah it's the same in the UK.
We kind of run a dual system, sort of and I'm guessing Australia is the same.
The move to metric is a very long term project. The weirdest thing we do here is Farenheight for warm weather and Celsius for cold...
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Also I have to stick up for McD's a bit.
They have tried a bit since Supersize Me and are better at publicising exactly what is in their stuff than most places. As someone else mentioned the killer shit in a McD is the fries, the milk shakes and the big drinks. Every so often I'll take the kids there and order them a Happy meal where they get a fruit bag rather than fries and a low sugar fruit drink and it's not bad for them. Doesn't do them any good but no harm done either.
Admittedly I don't think many people do what we do as the staff always seem a little confused by the order...
haha! and we have 'non-dairy gelatinous gum based beverage' instead of a 'thick shake'I looked through the Australian McDonald's site, and your menu is basically the same as ours save for a few subtle differences here and there, and a unique menu item or two.
One question, though:
I noticed that the Quarter Pounder w/Cheese is called the same in Australia. If you guys are on the metric system, why is it called a Quarter Pounder and not a Royale w/Cheese?
but seriously, a once a month trip to maccas won't hurt. but the amount of obese people
walking out with enough kilojoules to last me a week is a worry....
their choice though, ay?
when i worked at the chicken joint, this nutty old broad was the marketing person. she'd bring in pics for the menu boards and displays. we'd ask about the photo shoots and she admitted that a lot of the food in the pics wasn't edible. the "sauce" on the wings was mostly paint, and the gravy and butter in the pics weren't the real thing either. biscuits would be airbrushed for the pics...just crazy shit, whatever looked good on film. of course now they probably Photoshop that grease glimmer on everything.
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can't delete our own dupes?
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I was staying at the Royal Hawaiian and they had a Japanese resturaunt that had perfect plastic displays of all the dishes the resturaunt served. They looked totally real.
I chose a plastic croissant once at a self service restaurant and took it to the check out.
Pretty embarrassing...
At least you didn't take a bite out of it. Years ago, IHOP restaurants used to have a display of a giant ice cream sundae sitting on the low wall between the dining room and the kitchen. I always wondered why the ice cream never melted, so one day I tasted it. To my instant distaste, I discovered that the "ice cream" was in fact Crisco shortening.I chose a plastic croissant once at a self service restaurant and took it to the check out.
Pretty embarrassing...
was it food? no, it was an exact replica of a food. not your fault.I chose a plastic croissant once at a self service restaurant and took it to the check out.
Pretty embarrassing...
at least you didn't take a bite out of it.
I guess but having a waitress looking at you like you are completely insane when you have a stinking hangover is not a great feeling.
Did I mention this was at the canteen at work and there was a big queue behind me...?
But even Crisco would melt under the hot lights used on a set eventually. I read somewhere once that Baskin Robbins actually used colored mashed potatoes as a stand in for ice cream in their ads. So at least if someone had to take a bite on camera, it would still be edible.At least you didn't take a bite out of it. Years ago, IHOP restaurants used to have a display of a giant ice cream sundae sitting on the low wall between the dining room and the kitchen. I always wondered why the ice cream never melted, so one day I tasted it. To my instant distaste, I discovered that the "ice cream" was in fact Crisco shortening.
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But even Crisco would melt under the hot lights used on a set eventually. I read somewhere once that Baskin Robbins actually used colored mashed potatoes as a stand in for ice cream in their ads. So at least if someone had to take a bite on camera, it would still be edible.At least you didn't take a bite out of it. Years ago, IHOP restaurants used to have a display of a giant ice cream sundae sitting on the low wall between the dining room and the kitchen. I always wondered why the ice cream never melted, so one day I tasted it. To my instant distaste, I discovered that the "ice cream" was in fact Crisco shortening.
We aren't talking of a tv ad here, I'm referring to the actual building. The way the kitchens were set up, there was a huge aluminum "hood" over the stoves, mounted into the ceiling with some ductwork that pulled most of the heat away in the first place. In addition, the building's a/c was designed to work alongside this feature, to allow customers to see the cooks but not have the heat flowing into the dining area. So the counter was essentially in a cool area, and had a curtain of cool a/c being blown down over it.
Last edited by chefcraig; 10-21-2010 at 12:49 PM.
I have a black powder cannon and us Crisco as the bore lube on it. It works wonderful! The shit will clog your arteries if you eat it but allows you to ram a cannon ball down the the bore.
Must refrain........too many jokes there
E- Jesus . Playing both sides because he didnt understand the argument in the first place
How Rude.
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HEY I get that comment in public without a hangover!
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