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- From: kvigil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kevin Vigil)
- Subject: Re: McD's
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <1993Jan25.064518.13788@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <C1FApw.155@mach1.wlu.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:35:46 GMT
- Lines: 83
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- brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca (breadner ken u) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan25.064518.13788@ultb.isc.rit.edu> csc2212@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- >>
- >>Wait a sec....
- >>Isn't Burger King the real culprit. They are the ones that Constantly use
- >>microwaves on a day to day basis. McD's only uses them to warm up my
- >>blueberry muffin. Burger King takes a patty outta that grease pit and puts
- >>it on a bun and then nukes it. Right? (or wrong????)
- >>
-
- >Wrong.
- >Well, BK does use nukers and has for years, but it's getting hard to find
- >a McD's in this area which doesn't use them just as much.
-
- >McDonald's has invented a euphemistic language to cover up the fact that
- >these are actually high-powered microwaves. They call them Q-ing ovens.
- >The Q, of course, stands for Quality, the Quality McDonald's no longer
- >cares about.
- >More damning, nothing has been made public in Canada concerning these
- >microwaves, which are supposed to be a step forward. That's why I am on a
- >crusade to inform everyone what McDonald's has become.
-
- >In my experience, the Q-ing ovens are slower, require more labour, and
- >produce inferior product. The burgers that come out of a Q-ing oven are
- >dry. Bone dry. They are hotter, but who cares about heat when your bun
- >could be up to two hours old and your meat could be up to twenty-five
- >minutes old? Even ordering a grill will not give you the fresh food
- >McDonald's used to pride itself on serving.
- >Even the cinnamon rolls, which used to be cooked in the Pizza ovens, are
- >now irradiated in the Q-ing oven.
-
- >I have no idea why McDonald's has done this. None whatsoever. They used to
- >sell themselves on fresh food. Now they have emulated Burger King. Up here
- >in Canada, nobody goes to Burger King because everyone knows what
- >microwaves do to their food. So I figure if enough people find out about
- >the "Q-ing ovens", they will start to avoid McDonald's as well. As far as
- >I know, that leaves three choices in Canada: Wendy's, which guarantees
- >your food in thirty seconds (their food is made fresh, too, one order at a
- >time); Harvey's, which does quite well for itself because of its
- >continuing mandate to serve fresh food, and A&W, which is rather hard to
- >find outside shopping malls.
-
- >Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. And in the name of progress, to
- >boot.
-
- >So you know:
-
- >Things which are not warmed in a Q-ing oven:
-
- >All breakfast product. However, this is deceptive. Breakfast product is
- >made from twenty to sixty minutes in advance, depending on the item, and
- >kept in a warming cabinet. However, it is not dried in a microwave.
- >Hotcakes are the only breakfast product guaranteed to be fresh (They're
- >still made on a grill, wonder of wonders).
-
- WRONG!!
-
- Hotcakes can now be made up in advance and kept in the cooler
- until ordered. Then they are tossed into the Q-er
-
- >Pizza. Of course, this is only in Canada and certain markets in the United
- >States, as far as I know. And it isn't to everyone's taste.
-
- >Salads. Obviously.
-
- >Fries. The day they start warming fries is the day I quit and expose it in
- >every major newspaper worldwide.
-
- >McNuggets. But these are also kept in a warming cabinet for twenty minutes.
-
-
-
- >All times are accurate unless you happen to eat at a store where the
- >managers don't care about how long the food sits. Which is most of them,
- >in my experience.
-
-
-
- >--
- >Ken Breadner (brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca) Wilfrid Laurier University
- >lunatic (the BREADbox...) Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- >Disclaimer: my opinions are warped. Nobody shares them.
-