Earlier this week, I posted my review of McDonald’s “Big Arch.”
My conclusion: Pretty good, if a bit pricey and fattening.
Reader views, both here and at InstaPundit, were mixed. Some liked it. Others said that you could make a better burger at home, or get a better burger at a pub or restaurant.
Those statements are clearly true. McDonald’s is fast food. It doesn’t purport to be haute cuisine, or even “good eats” pub grub. It’s something you can get in a hurry, at a drive-thru window, that probably won’t give you food poisoning.
(As an aside, that was a huge contribution. We idealize the mom-and-pop diners of yesteryear, but while some of them had good food, many of them were ptomaine traps. I can remember being on drives as a kid and looking for places to eat, often identifying places that wouldn’t poison us by the presence of numerous trucks — truckers knew the route and knew where it was safe to eat. McDonald’s and other fast food places brought much safer food (“untouched by human hands,” translated, really meant “untouched by hands that were probably scratching someone’s ass a few minutes before”) to America’s travelers. Restaurants, even most of the lower tier ones, are much safer than they were in my childhood, but fast food, headed by Mickey D’s, really led that trend.)
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