Mac Donald's... Your first how old were you... Do you remember it? Was it a right of passage?

.... I was around 24 years old when I had my first Mc Donald's... Our children mentioned their friends went... Thought we had better go so they weren't left out... Can't say I was too impressed at the time...

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

In my forties I think, so around thirty years ago.

I had a lengthy late-evening wait for a train and a MacDonalds was the only place open close to the station.

I had something described as a burger, and a cup of hot coffee-flavoured liquid...

On subsequent evenings (I was on an evening-class course in that town) I bought the coffee but certainly not the food. I have refused to use a McD. since.

I cannot imagine how anyone would consider a junk-food snack, a rite of passage!

GerOttman · 61-69, M

@ArishMell it was a different time and I suspect different food. Before the super size and extra large. There was a hamburger or cheeseburger is a paper wrapper catsup and yellow mustard, you had to pluck your own pickle! Paper bag with fresh fries and a coke! 6 years old didn't get any better. I'm pretty sure what they serve now is only distantly related.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@GerOttman Different country too! I'm in the UK and I don't know to what extent the menu and recipes here are dictated from Head Office.

The burger was likely the cheapest on the menu. All I recall is a thin burger with any flavour hidden by the pickle, and a small lettuce leaf, in a floury, flavourless bun. All in a fancy wrapping, and up in price, down in value.

After that first evening I bought the coffee, which was OK, but took some snack food with me from home. I needed something, for although sheltered a railway-station late at night in Winter is a very cheerless place to wait!

JollyRoger · 70-79, M

@ArishMell My 'first' was in Calgary, Canada (1969). I had the same experience as you - no flavour except the pickle! 😜
Since then my wife sort of likes it so we stop. Now that they have the Arabica coffee I go there for that.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@JollyRoger I avoid all these chains, not just MacDonalds! On long journeys I take food and a hot drink with me.