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Micey Dee's

by playwrite27 @ 06/07/2008 – 11:08:28

I was reading one of my friend's blogs about McDonalds. I hate to admit this in public, but I grew up eating McDonalds, from about the age of 9 (1969-70) was when my village had it's first Mickey Dee's) on.

Before that, there was a local chain of hamburg resturants called "White Tower," (not to be confused with "White Castle")...and their hamburgers were gorgeous! They really were. They were cooked fresh on the grill while you waited, and grilled with freshly chopped onions, with the buns toasted on the grill as well...oh, they were nice and juicy and...just lovely.

Then, McDonald's came, and you didn't have to wait for your burger, and they had Big Macs, and were cheaper...soon all the other snack bars shut...Carrol's, White Tower and this little snack bar near the Borden's milk plant...all gone within a few short years. McDonalds may be popular, but their burgers will never match those made-to-order burgers from the old-time snack bars.

Carrols--who now runs some Burger King franchises-- tried to stave off McDonalds, by introducting their own version of a Big Mac:
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- The_Walrus
- http://www.doctor-dark.co.uk
- 06/07/2008 @ 11:20:24
Cheaper is not better. Having some wrapped up soggy thing sitting waiting in case somebody comes in and buys it is not how to sell good food. The guys who did it properly have gone broke, and perhaps their like will not be seen again.

Burger King is bad enough, but Macdonalds? No thanks.
- - playwrite27
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  - 06/07/2008 @ 11:28:27
  Burger King isn't as bad as McDonalds, but like a lot of the older chain restaurants, they've pandered to the health police and profits and the food just isn't the same anymore.
  
  To get a real old-time burger, you pretty much have to make it yourself, these days.
  - - The_Walrus
    - http://www.doctor-dark.co.uk
    - 06/07/2008 @ 13:15:54
    We do make our own. We also like the way good Greek restaurants make a burger on demand and charcoal grill it...
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- jackfrost ^Pro
- 06/07/2008 @ 11:31:23
The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by siblings Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California. Their introduction of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948 established the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant. The present corporation dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois on April 15, 1955, the ninth McDonald's restaurant overall. Kroc later purchased the McDonald brothers' equity in the company and led its worldwide expansion and the company became listed on the public stock markets in 1965.

In 1974, McDonald's opened its first restaurant in in Woolwich,UK in 1974.
(source wikipedia)
- - playwrite27
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  - 06/07/2008 @ 11:47:22
  My mum worked for McDonald's for two years, working the till, before she became a librarian.
  - - jackfrost ^Pro
    - 06/07/2008 @ 11:49:40
    if only she had taken shares back then ..or stayed on with the company..who knows eh!!
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- zepplin
- 06/07/2008 @ 11:54:37
It's a compulsive disorder thing: perfectly symetrical buns, burgers, bacon, eggs and cheese.
Get yer own lean mincemeat, chop half an onion up fine, add a pinch of salt, some pepper, some chillie powder, pinch of garlic powder then wang it in a George Foreman doodah or a sandwich maker. Far better and far cheaper than McDonalds crap, plus you can make each burger taste different. Add curry powder or italian herbs or Indonesian ketjap manis or if you are desperate, tomato sauce or even mayo. You can even add an egg or shredded potato, the world is your lobster...oh, add lobster. Mix pork and beef, or a bit of lamb, even chicken.
It takes 10 minutes, less than the drive to McDonalds and back.
- - playwrite27
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  - 06/07/2008 @ 11:58:48
  Thanks...bit too gourmet for me. I'm just a plain old-fashioned Yankee, born and bred. With me, it's a quarter pound of fatty ground beef, mixed with a tiny bit of ice water and black pepper, gently formed into a pattie, and grilled in butter with chopped onions, and the bun toasted on the grill, then topped with the onions and some catsup...easy -peasy.
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- Jessanator
- 06/07/2008 @ 12:35:38
what's the difference between ketchup and catsup?
- - playwrite27
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  - 06/07/2008 @ 15:51:41
  Same thing, different spelling...we use both, here in the good ol' US of A.
  
  I also like it on: french fries, scrambled eggs and fried potatoes.
  - - Jessanator
    - 06/07/2008 @ 16:16:16
    Mm, scrambled eggs with ketchup...
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- Jessanator
- 06/07/2008 @ 12:36:33
what's the difference between ketchup and catsup?
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- sweetladyjane ^Pro
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- 06/07/2008 @ 13:01:33
I remember when we were little kids we would go to this hamburger drive in. It was by the airport which at the time was small. The burgers were named for airplanes and they were really really good. Thanks for a memory.
- - playwrite27
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  - 06/07/2008 @ 15:53:28
  We still have some "car hop" places around here...but some of the best burgers I've had, have been at country auction barn snack bars...those farmers sure can cook a hamburger, ummm!
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