This Is What McDonald's McRib Actually Looks Like

[n2doc]

The approaching winter can mean only one thing: the return of McRib season at McDonald's! And just in time for this most sacred of food observances, a redditor shared the above photo of a pre-cooked McRib...patty? Is it lunchtime yet?

The photo apparently shows "raw McRib meat" and, judging by the boxes in the back, it's safe to say we're looking at Le McRib Canadien. Wonder if they use the same ratio of "restructured meat product" to "scalded pig stomach" up north? Waste not want not!

Ultimately, this frozen pig sponge gets dressed up in barbecue sauce and sandwiched inside a cornmeal bun for 500 calories and 980 milligrams of sodium for your digestive pleasure. If you've still got the stomach for it—ho HO!—the McPopsicle should return to your local Mickey D's in the next few weeks.

http://gothamist.com/2013/11/12/this_is_what_a_mcrib_actually_looks.php

[onehandle]

1. Yummy!

I mean the cardboard, not that frozen 'meat.'

[Throd]

2. I'll take two with a side of large fries. I like the McRib.

[Logical]

15. Me too! Love fall!!! n-t

[mac56]

17. Me too. Extra pickles.

Lots of things we eat look kind of disgusting before preparation.

[GreenStormCloud]

3. So What?

If someone wants to buy it and eat it, that is their business. No one is making you eat one. Who appointed you to be everybody's nanny?

[Voice for Peace]

13. It's their business but they probably have no idea what they're eating, so it's information.

No judgement, just information.

[Th1onein]

23. I'm glad they posted it. I never knew that they looked like that.

Now that I DO know, I sure as hell won't ever eat one of them.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

35. On behalf of everyone, I apologize for accidentally letting you know the truth

You sound just like the baggers who hate Michelle Obama for advocating healthy food.

[ronnie624]

54. So what?

If people want to post things here, that's their business. No one is making you read it. Who appointed you the Arbiter of Information?

[Arugula Latte]

66. Giving out information is pushing a "nanny state" huh?

Where did the poster state s/he was being made to eat one?

Wow, when posts like this evoke the wrath even of DUers, it really shows how this country truly is hostile to simple knowledge and information. This book is more relevant than ever:

[GreenStormCloud]

68. The OP's tone is very nannyish. N/T

[99Forever]

76. "Nanny"?

Because someone shows the SHIT McDonalds passes off as food to people who might not know just how awful it REALLY is?

And here I thought that "nanny" meme was the stuff of freepers, assorted rightwingnuts, and trolls.

[Chan790]

4. My god, they're awful.

I've never understood the appeal...they taste like soggy styrofoam slathered in BBQ sauce. The problem is that all the flavor has been rendered out with all the processing.

[dionysus]

9. i eat morningstar farms veggie "riblets", and they have the same unnatural shape and

frankly, bland taste if not for the sauce.

[undeterred]

29. I like the chik patties.

[dionysus]

30. omg, love them.. but the Boca spicy ones. morningstar i hit up for burgers, nuggets, and corn dogs..

I also eat meat, but I love those veggie products, I like their taste. looking at the package, they don't seem that healthy, however

[PumpkinAle]

41. Yep taste good, but

not that healthy.

I can't believe all the sodium in everything.

Trying to eat well for high blood pressure and trying to find anything that is low fat, low cholesterol and low sodium ain't happening.

[undeterred]

92. Yeah. But thats true of all frozen food.

Thats why I only have them one meal a day. Everything else is fresh.

[Nedsdag]

47. Their breakfast "meats" are awesome.

The fauxage links are terrific.

I cook the fake bacon on the stove, not in the microwave.

[dionysus]

49. breakfast sausages great... the bacon.... goes from soggy to torched in a nanosecond

[undeterred]

81. The Bacon, Egg, and Cheese in a Biscuit is awesome

as is the Sausage Egg and Cheese in a Biscuit... Totally veggie of course. All the pleasure without the fat calories and the meat.

[Logical]

16. LOL, DU food snobs. Got to love it. n-t

[Chan790]

19. Snob?

I spent years in restaurants, coffeehouses and culinary education to be this snobby.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. If you have a negative judgment of somebody else's disgusting food, you're a snob

That's how it works here: egalitarianism apparently means that there is no difference of quality, ever. That this McRib is a disgusting unhealthy mess is obvious to anybody who isn't a total dupe for the fast food industry, but to say so makes the dupes super mad, so you're not allowed.

[Throd]

25. Nobody is saying it is culinary art. It is a guilty pleasure, like a candy bar.

Everyone knows they swept the slaughterhouse floor at the end of the shift and molded it into a patty slathered with a tangy sauce and some pickles to give it flavor. And yet, I enjoy them anyway.

[dionysus]

33. but can i go to Throddington Major, pretending to hate rare steak, and fool you into making me one?

I can fake being vegan, if you want...

[Throd]

37. My door is always open, and the beer is usually somewhat cold.

[dionysus]

39. for your 4000th post, i say thanks Sir.

as rare as can be sir, just scorch the outsides a bit. i'll pretend to hate it, and the beer

[ancianita]

50. omg...

[BuddhaGirl]

21. LOL

that's hardly real "food"...it's not snobby to want to eat something more healthy and not support corps who pay a non-living wage

[Orrex]

22. Who's your internet provider?

Do they pay their employees a livable wage?

Who built your computer?


It's easy to spot the McRib in your neighbor's eye while overlooking the entrenched corporate employment structure in your own.

[BuddhaGirl]

40. well sport, I'll find out

and let you know! Thanks for the concern, though...

[Orrex]

63. Good luck, pal.

Whenever I see someone posting about someone else's behavior that might lead to worker exploitation, I'm confident that the poster is absolutely scrupulous in her own consumer choices.

Certainly such a conscientious person wouldn't want to be guilty of hypocrisy, after all!

[LanternWaste]

72. Or irrelevant petulance.

"Certainly such a conscientious person wouldn't want to be guilty of hypocrisy..."

Or guilty of an irrelevant petulance...

[Deep13]

57. It's hardly snobbery to reject something that is unfit for human consumption. nt

[Capt. Obvious]

61. Tell me about it

[LanternWaste]

71. I'd characterize others that way too if I enjoyed eating crap people made fun of...

I suppose I'd characterize others that way too if I enjoyed eating crap people made fun of...




Self-validation at the expense of others. Got to love it.

[Logical]

83. LOL, ANY restaurant or food mentioned on this place is insulted. Someone said a few weeks ago....

that Olive Garden was low grade dog food.

If you don't think that is totally idiotic then maybe you need to examine yourself.

[JaneyVee]

5. Puke!

[dionysus]

6. unhealthy processed meat product, covered in frost from the freezer. the horror.

the horror

used to see that all the time with beef patties when I was a student cook in college. any moisture in the bag when its put back in the freezer makes it frost up like that.

the veggie "riblets" I like, are stamped into the same unnatural shape, and are also slather in sodium filled bbq sauce...

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Not true.

McRib season started in August and is almost over here in Houston.

[Lurker Deluxe]

90. Houston's seasons are different

Kinda like winter, which started yesterday and will be over by Saturday.

Until next winter, which will be in a week or so.

[spanone]

8. frozen pig sponge...ugh

what are meat by-products?....wait, nevermind.

[dionysus]

10. mcribs and anything in a sausage casing ;)

[HereSince1628]

14. Yes. Frozen pad of pork-oid

And scented and aromatized so that they actually have a hint of port bbq, that makes it impossible to tell tell pink slime from soylent green.

Well, really the process of making them is the same...pig or human there isn't much difference.

[scheming daemons]

11. i love mcribs... and will keep eating them.. tyvm

And the more you vegans scold over it, the more I will enjoy it.


You don't want to eat it... don't. MYOB.

[mac56]

18. ^ THIS ^

[LanternWaste]

73. I imagine many people predicate their enjoyment of a thing not in its own merits

I imagine many people predicate their enjoyment of a thing not in its own merits, but simply on the relative discomfort it causes other.

I used to call these people "grade school children", but I've now learned that demographic has indeed expanded.


(Insert distinction without a difference here...)

[arthritisR_US]

12. Haven't eaten at McCraps for over a decade,

now I remember why not!

[laundry_queen]

24. No worse than the pressed slop that subtitutes for 'chicken' at subway.

Pretty much every processed meat product looks gross before cooking. Except when it's covered up with breading, like every single chicken nugget/fingers/whatever at the grocery store. The McRib picture doesn't actually gross me out that much - it's just ground meat that was shaped in a press. Probably tastes better than Subway chicken (I don't eat McRibs...not my thing, I prefer cheeseburgers)

I'll repeat this story that I tell every time I see a McDonald's post. I had a friend who worked for quite a few years in a beef rendering plant that made McDonald's beef mix (this is here in Canada) among other mixes for other restaurants. He said they are a million times better than any other fast food and it's the only fast food place he feels comfortable eating a burger. He said they are absolutely fanatical about cleanliness, meat quality and so on. This guy is no dummy either - he went back to school (too bored I guess at the plant) and got 2 degrees in 5 years (already had another degree before). At least one degree was in science. He gets the concern but says most sit down restaurant chains are as bad or worse than most fast food places (due to public pressure).

Olive Garden anyone?

[LuvNewcastle]

86. I don't eat much fast food anymore, but I don't completely shun it.

If I'm going to eat a burger at a chain restaurant, I go to Whataburger. Their burgers have good flavor and have some substance to them. I would eat at McD's sometimes if I liked the food, but I just think everything they have is flavorless. They must have engineered their burgers too much because they don't even seem to decay if you leave them sitting out. Mold and bugs don't even like them. If their products aren't slathered in some sort of sauce, such as 1000 Island dressing, McNugget sauce, or some condiment, it's like eating styrofoam. The only thing I'll eat there is a steak, egg, and cheese bagel. I do manage do get some enjoyment from eating those.

[backscatter712]

26. Made from pork-based pink slime.

Oh, and there's a reason why the McRib keeps going away and Coming Back! Even though it's popular.

They bring the McRib out when pork prices are cheap. When pork prices go up, they ditch the McRib, but they make plans to bring it out when pork futures crash.

Now you know.

[DefenseLawyer]

27. The McRib is delicious

I don't want to know what it's made of. I don't want to eat more than one a year, but what ever it's made of it tastes really good.

[rrneck]

28. Mmmmmm

[pintobean]

31. Parts is parts

Fused

[napi21]

32. I like the McRib too! Showing it to me while frozen doesn't make me change.

I think it'sa the best thing MickyD has.

Like another poster said, "If you don't like it, don't eat it!"

[840high]

38. Their fish sandwich is

pretty good.

[RiffRandell]

34. It looks more appetizing frozen then "cooked".

Actually, both are nasty looking and I've never eaten one and doubt I ever will.

[Liberal_in_LA]

36. ewwww

[hobbit709]

42. McRibs are McFibs.

If I want ribs I'll get the real thing.

[zappaman]

75. +100! n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

43. MMMMMM....Ribwich

http://vimeo.com/60317818

[cherokeeprogressive]

44. I don't watch TV, HATE sports, and wouldn't be caught DEAD in a Mickey D's parking lot.

Okay, the first two are lies... and when McRib sammiches are in town, I ask my Wife to pick one up for me now and then. Fuckin' love 'em.

Two outta three ain't bad and food snobs can take a flyin' leap at a rolling donut.

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/mcdonalds-mcrib-sandwich-recipe.html

[TeamPooka]

45. Ive never eaten one.

[nomorenomore08]

46. Whatever else anybody says, that sure doesn't look like "food."

And I do eat McD's on occasion - somewhat to my embarrassment - but I can't say I've ever had the McRib. I guess now I know why.

[Starry Messenger]

48. I ate one once.

I thought it felt and tasted like particle board that had been left outside in the rain for a week.

[defacto7]

51. Damn, you think that's bad

You should YouTube the rest of their products.. McNuggets, burgers, they're even more disgusting.

[MADem]

52. I lived for many years in the Middle East.

I have eaten all sorts of stuff that, by western standards, might be considered either sketchy or unsavory.

I've gotten ill a time or two, too, when I ate something that was "not quite right."

That said, I have never, ever felt the "tore up/take me now Jesus" feeling that I got from eating one of those things.

It was many years ago, and a family member brought a bag of those monstrosities home, thinking it was a nice thing to do. I ate one of 'em, and to me, it was like eating a transfat sandwich. I could feel my arteries closing, very quickly my stomach began demanding "WTF is THIS shit?" and I was in some serious agony that was only resolved by my taking a determined seat on the porcelain throne, girding my loins with determination to expel the abomination, and well, hunkering down with a few magazines until the mission was accomplished.

Those things are in NEVER AGAIN territory. Awful, awful, AWFUL things! Ghastly! I shudder at the memory.

They put me off the McDonald's franchise pretty much for good. I will get a coffee from them on the odd occasion, but I am not impressed at all with their food--and especially that "thing."

[Deep13]

56. Happy to say I never set foot in a McD's when I was in the Middle East....

I was a bit annoyed to see that places like that were making in-roads in Jordan, Beirut, and Cairo.

[ZombieHorde]

53. I was really disapointed with the McRib.

I heard so many people say that they're yummy that I thought I would love it, but I didn't. I do love Egg McMuffins.

[Deep13]

55. I have three words for McD's: Old Caroline Barbecue.

http://oldcarolina.com/

[Duckhunter935]

62. you are going straight to hell

you can not eat meat, that is not healthy. Listen to me I tell you what you can eat. I know better than you do.

[Deep13]

69. Yeah, about that.

[cliffordu]

78. NO sex threads!!!

hubba hubba, I loves that sammich

[Douglas Carpenter]

58. well the name attracted me - so I did try them once - but they just don't taste very good

I guess I imagined a kind of small submarine sandwich filled with baby back ribs or something similar - they are just yucky processed meat

[Duckhunter935]

59. I am getting one

of those today, I am not being shamed by you. Eat what you want and let me eat what I want. I know what they look like.

[B Calm]

60. Looks like tractor tire marks in mud. Seriously people. you eat

this shit?

[HappyMe]

64. I've tried them.

I didn't like it that much. I like Egg McMuffins and the quarter pounder. The fish sandwich is pretty good too.

[CFLDem]

65. Just had one.

Delicious!

If I wanted inedible food, I would've gotten Applebee's. Not even my pet rats would eat that crap.

[Arugula Latte]

67. Back in the day, fast food places sold real ribs. Evidence:

[arely staircase]

70. what I have always marveled at about the McRib

is how they pressed it into the shape of pork ribs which includes the bones and then put it on a bun as if one would or could eat real ribs that way.

[zappaman]

74. To this day....

the single worse thing I have ever put in my mouth.

[Niceguy1]

77. so?

It is just a frozen peice of meat.

You would be amazed at the % of your food that arrives deep frozen..way below zero. Once I worked in this hospital that had a tortilla soup in the caferteria that people lined up for on the day it was served...it arrived frozen in a box. But omg, it was soooo good. Tasted like home made. The caferteria was packed with staff and workers from nearby every day.

[hockeynut57]

79. amorphous blobs?

I want to know what the chickens supplying the bonelesss wings look like.

[eppur_se_muova]

80. I just feel sorry for the ones that have to spend the rest of their lives without their nuggets.

[MineralMan]

82. And here is a Tofurkey

[flvegan]

84. LOL! I see what you did there.

Well played.

[MineralMan]

88. I knew you'd see it.

I love cooking vegan meals, but that stuff is just another factory food. Uff da! I'd rather start from scratch, for sure.

[hugo_from_TN]

85. Love Tofurky, but planning on making my own SeitanWurst for Thanksgiving

Yum. I do grab some McD fries every now and then...

[MineralMan]

89. Seitan is a reasonably good meat substitute,

but when I was cooking for my vegan and Buddhist friends, many of them also claimed to be gluten intolerant. I never attempted to mimic meat, though, and just used seitan for textural reasons, usually. I did use some canned "Mock Duck," made of fried wheat gluten embossed to look like it had duck skin on it in a couple of stir fry dishes. Served to a mixed group, it was surprising how many people thought there was real duck in that dish.

[jsr]

87. Pigs are rectangular

[tavernier]

91. I love Dairy Queen chicken

and they have gravy on the side. I think DQ uses real meat.