I momentarily interrupt this perfectly happy blog site with an announcement of why I detest fast food joints.
Every now and then, I get a craving for something beside leftovers for lunch. I’m not knocking leftovers. They’re usually pretty tasty. But after the third day of the same chili I made this past weekend, I was itching for something different. So I went to McDonalds. I have to go once or twice a year to remind myself WHY I don’t eat fast food more often.
This is a real conversation I had just today at the McDonald’s drive-thru.
Speaker - “Hi. May I take your order?”
Me - “Yes. I’d like a fish sandwich meal with a large diet Coke.”
Speaker - “That’s a four piece chicken nugget. Would you like a drink with that?”
Me - “No. A FISH SANDWICH meal with a large diet Coke.”
Speaker - “Oh. A double cheeseburger meal. Do you want that large?”
Me - “NO! A FISH SANDWICH MEAL! Number 11. Large Diet Coke!”
Speaker - “Okay. A fish sandwich? Do you want the combo?”
Me - (oh my God) “YES! With a large DIET COKE!”
Speaker - “So, I’ve got a fish sandwich meal with a large diet Coke and a four piece chicken nuggets.”
Me - “Close enough.”
Speaker - “Drive around for your total.”
I wait in the line. I pay. I get my drink. I taste my drink before I drive away because these places notoriously try to give me regular Coke. And they HAD. I handed it back to them and told them that they’d given me real coke instead of diet. The girl said with a real smart ass attitude, “That IS diet Coke. The little button is mashed.”
Me - “I don’t care if the ‘button’ is mashed. THAT’S real Coke. Could I have a diet please?”
SmartAss - “That IS diet. Do you want diet Dr. Pepper?”
Me - “NO. I want diet COKE.”
SmartAss - “Well that’s all we got.”
Me - “Please just pour another cup using the diet Coke dispenser. Diet Coke will come out.”
SmartAss - “Pull forward. I’ll bring it out to you.”
So I pulled forward and waited again. They brought me what was probably the same exact cup because it still tasted like syrup. I gave up, came back to the office and poured it out. Water would have to work.
All of that to get limp fries and a fish sandwich with a quarter size dollop of tartar sauce. I choked down a couple of bites of each and decided that my leftover chili sounded pretty good. I guess I’ll have to go back in another 8 - 9 months for another jolt of reality.
But the one thing my little experience did do was reconfirm how much I really like my own home-cooking.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThe answer to your question, my lovely, attractive, witty, talented and sweet (in spite of the chiding you gave yourself in comarison to your sister) friend, is NOTHING. I put NOTHING on my sandwiches. Imagine how fun it is for me at a fast food restaurant to get my order taken properly. Hamburger=Burger+Bun.
Hot Dog= Dog+bun
Ham sandwich= Ham+bread
Peanut Butter Sandwich= Peanut Butter+Bread (no jam or jelly for me, thank you)
And if you squirt ketchup on my fries you better be prepared to eat them, cause I ain’t even playin.
Pickles? PLEASE. I’ll vomit
Tomato? Cooked in chili, sauce (Spagetti) and in some soups (rotel as an INGREDIENT).
As to how I don’t blow away . . . it’d take a tornado (like the one in TWISTER where the cows were flying) to shift me. I do, afterall, love Fries, chips, chocolate, ice cream, lima beans, blackeyes, butter beans, field peas, butter garder peas, green beans, sweet peas, carrots and potatoes (especially those two together and roasted with meat), beef, pork, chicken, turkey (THANKSGIVING IS MY FAVORITE MEAL), cookies, cake, pudding, and the list could get longer if I had the time and didn’t have to pee. So don’t you worry your sweet self about me blowing away from starvation down here. I’m rather sturdy (and roundish) and at 5′4″ I have a low center of gravity. Love you!!!!!!!
SO true I think this has happened to all of us one time or another.. They blame it on the speakers being out or something but really it is very incompetent kids who just don’t care one bit about customer service anymore. :S
ew eeeeeeeeew eeeeeeeeeew!! I hate mac donalds, in fact im one of those people who when driving past that place looks down at the people in the drive thru… I know, its terrible of me, very snobbish, but its such crap, it tastes terrible, there is no nutrition and people are too lazy to even get out of their cars to get their food - its promoting the end of effort, or something like that. Either way - its just plain terrible!! I mean… it takes all of 10 min - If that, to make a sandwich and take that for lunch with an apple or whichever fruit you like. ugh - people - I just don’t get them!!
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