McDonald's Corporation

McDonald's New "Premium" McWrap: Ambitiously Named, Website-ed

McDonald's convinced me to try their new, Premium McWraps with their weird, interactive website promotion. It seems like a lot of time and effort went into constructing this animated cityscape, where you can "explore the world of the new Premium McWrap," and also click on some balloons to see them f ... More >>

McDonald's Egg White Delight McMuffin Makes Healthy Taste Good

In an effort to lighten up its menu, McDonalds offers new breakfast sandwiches made with egg whites. With its new motto -- "Turning breakfast on its head" -- McDonalds has reduced the calories in various breakfast options by employing egg whites instead of eggs and white cheddar cheese instead of A ... More >>

McDonald's Fish McBites: Crispy, Tender Poppers

As a kid, I loved fish sticks and couldn't get enough of them. So, the Fish McBites caught my eye the first time I saw an advertisement for them. These crispy fried balls of fish seemed to be just like fish sticks, but in a bite-size tater tot form. I couldn't say no to them. I'm not a big fast foo ... More >>

Burger King's Twitter Account Hacked: The Best Responses Across Twitter

Starting around 11 a.m. yesterday morning, a merry prankster "hacked" Burger King's Twitter account and began posting status updates in a style which Gizmodo writer Sam Biddle described as "a combination of McDonald's and amphetamine addict." Read the first fake Tweet from the Burger King account: ... More >>

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How Does Your Garden Salad Grow? Ranking 7 Fast Food Salads from Best to Worst

Since I've made a New Year's resolution -- along with half of America, as with every year -- to eat healthier, I've been investigating fast food salads every now and then as a quick lunch option. I'm not one of those for whom eating salads is a penalty, however: I love a good salad, the crunch of go ... More >>

5 Fast Food "Secret Menu" Burgers You Probably Shouldn't Try

Remember the McGangbang? Yeah, sorry...We're sorry we brought it up again, too. But it got us thinking: Surely there have to be other "secret menu" items lurking out there, just waiting to be discovered. And because we live in a sick, sick world, there are. So we dug them up for you, because we'r ... More >>

5 Chain Food Trucks We Wish Existed

A few weeks ago, I was riding my bike past an otherwise quiet hotel parking lot on the edge of EaDo when I spotted it: a Taco Bell-branded food truck. The truck was dormant, its driver perhaps holed up in the cheap hotel, and I've yet to see the truck since. I wonder if it was just passing through H ... More >>

The 5 Fast Food Sides We Miss Most

It's once again time to look back on some of the discontinued food items that were sadistically ripped from our lives and our stomachs by the soulless monster that is corporate America. It's a cruel, cruel world out there... In case you missed our rants, we think a life without the freedom to purc ... More >>

Breakfast Double-Header at McDonald's: Sausage Burrito and Blueberry Banana Nut Oatmeal

I think I've mentioned before that I like to eat fast food for breakfast more than any other meal, mostly because it gives me at least an outside chance of burning off the damage at the gym. Breakfast is also my favorite meal -- yes, sometimes I eat two -- so I like to see what's going on with fast- ... More >>

Dear Star Pizza...Is Wax Paper Really Too Much to Ask?

Dear Star Pizza, I want you to know that I am a longtime fan and admirer of your work. Hell, before I was peer-pressured into trying your food I didn't even like pizza at all, an unheard-of thing in a man of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles generation. The fact that picking up a pizza made you invi ... More >>

Top 5 Foreign McDonald's Menu Items I Wish Were Available in the U.S.

One of the things I like best about traveling abroad is the opportunity to try new foods. McDonald's isn't the first restaurant I go to after clearing border patrol, but I confess I do always at least peek at (and sometimes sample) the weird, wonderful world of foreign fast food. Here are five McDo ... More >>

Fast Times: McDonald's Under 300 Menu

When I see a McDonald's commercial I don't exactly stop everything I'm doing and pay close attention, but I couldn't help but take notice of their recent attempt to brand "Egg McMuffin" as a descriptor for "the best" of something. The ad features various people describing things as "the Egg McMuffin ... More >>

When McDonald's Kept Us Thin

Photo by John Kiely​I recently found myself on the quiet side of the glass partition from the McDonald's Playland at the new Ella location, in what I like to call the Old-Timers section, the place in just about every small-town McDonald's where retirees congregate. Oak Forest is like a small ... More >>

Eight Businesses We Expect Will Be Getting Custom Texas License Plates Soon

​We recently wrote about a new crop of Texas license plates with a variety of themes, most of them sports related. One of the designs, however, was for the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain that isn't even based in the Lone Star State. We certainly understand the passion of a sports fan, but ... More >>

Beyonce's Mom Selling Her Kinkaid-Area Mansion

HAR​Got a spare $3.5 million lying around? You can buy the home of Beyoncé's mom, Tina Knowles, and still have a dollar left for a McDonald's breakfast! The 8,850-square-foot mansion is near the Kinkaid School by San Felipe and Voss. According to its official listing, it: unfolds on 2.6 acr ... More >>

Fast Times: McDonald's Mango Pineapple Real Fruit Shake

Me and my Real Fruit shake, waiting for the train.​For me, McDonald's falls squarely into one category: I Have the Worst Hangover Ever, And Just Enough Energy for The Drive-Thru. Seriously, even on road trips, McDonald's is a last-resort meal for me. (I am willing to admit that few things beat ... More >>

Fast Times: Saucy New Sauces at McDonald's

Only three of the four new sauces were available. They threw in two of the old sauces as a consolation prize, I guess.​Normally I wouldn't pay much attention to an ad touting new dipping sauces at McDonald's. On the rare occasion that I darken a Mickey D's doorstep--or drive-thru--I opt for a ... More >>

Jesse Brown, 20, Bayou Body Count No. 59: Wild Downtown Shoot-Out

Wild West in Midtown​A man who tried to smuggle guns on a Greyhound bus and then engaged in a wild downtown shootout with police apparently killed himself after being injured, Houston police say. The exchange of shots and SWAT team reaction to the man barricading himself in a parking garage l ... More >>

McDonald's Now Serving Oatmeal: Fast Food Is Dead, Long Live Fast Food!

​That's right: McDonald's, long the bastion of unhealthy yet filling breakfasts, is now serving oatmeal. Seemingly in response to Starbucks' decision back in 2008 to start offering oatmeal in addition to fatty pastries at breakfast, the fast food giant has rolled out a $1.99 cup of oats that ... More >>

Top 10 Fallen Fast Food Items

Much has been made in the past few weeks about the McRib, McDonald's exalted ground pork and barbecue sauce wonder. You may remember it first hitting America's mouths in the early '80s, not selling extremely well, and only coming back every now and then. It returned briefly in 1994 as the "Brontos ... More >>

Refreshments

"McDonald's Fat Menu Will Kill You" Ads May Be Coming To Houston

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, who presumably spent years trying to come up with the most boring "eat your spinach" name ever, may be targeting Houston with its latest attack ad.That ad, which has run in Washington, DC, features a fat guy on a gurney in the morgue with a death gr ... More >>

What's Your Burger Bag?

Photo by Adam KubanOne-third of a pound of Angus: disgusting or delicious?​When I was in middle school, my mother put me on a bus to the East Coast. (This is a long story.) The bus stopped in Kentucky at one point, and we all got off to eat lunch. We'd stopped in a McDonald's parking lot, and ... More >>

International Food Diplomacy: How Not to Get Into a Fight at an Austrian McDonald's

​I received a lovely email this morning from an intern at My Table Magazine, requesting my "favorite food memory while traveling" for an upcoming issue. Because I realize that My Table is soliciting these food memories from numerous people and probably doesn't need my rambling recollection, an ... More >>

McDonald's New Fruit Smoothies Surprisingly Good

Stock photo courtesy of McDonald's because - unlike other menu items - the smoothies really do look just like this.​At a chili cookoff a few months ago, I struck up a conversation with one of Houston's many McDonald's franchise owners. The gentleman had owned and operated the McDonald's near t ... More >>

Coldstone Creamery's Sinless Shakes

​It's getting to be that time of the year in Houston when all I care to consume is chilled liquids. This craving, combined with my general predilection for sweets, makes milkshakes enormously appealing. Thus far I have told myself that full-fat milkshakes are an essential part of a weekly diet ... More >>

Food Fight: Battle Iced Coffee

This is still my all-time favorite, when I can find it.​It's only the very beginning of May, yet it's already becoming oppressively hot by 10 a.m. each day. And although no good morning can start without a cup of coffee, the hot black stuff just doesn't appeal on days when my legs are sticking ... More >>

Y'all Musta Forgot: Odd Squad's Fadanuff Fa Erybody

Houston's history is dotted with albums that, fairly or un, have been swept aside. We'll examine them here. Have an album that you think nobody knows about but should? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com. Odd Squad, Fadanuff Fa Erybody (1994, Rap-A-Lot/Priority) ​The Odd Squad is what The Coughee Bros., n ... More >>

Top 5 Holiday Hangover Cures

The holidays are great -- parties, presents, and vacation. Well, that is until you wake up Saturday morning with a vicious headache. Maybe vampires have the right idea by only coming out at night. But, for now, we still have to get up in the morning and join the living. Here are our top five cures f ... More >>

Healthy Big Macs, Only In Houston

Photo by Chris MacGregor Why the hell is your Big Mac so small? Because you live in Houston. Houston is apparently the only US test market for McDonald's new "Snack Wrap Mac," which looks to be a  smaller Big Mac in a tortilla. We're sure grosser things have been contemplated before, but ... More >>

Area Man Asks: What's It Gonna Take For McDonald's To Fix All Those Ike-Damaged Signs

Photo by Chris MacGregorChris MacGregor has a bone to pick with McDonald's and the Facebook group to prove it. "Six months ago Houston was hit hard by Hurricane Ike," he writes on the page he calls McDonald's Broken Arches Are a Blight on Houston.    "Six months later you can drive through ... More >>

Through Being Cool

I Have Seen the Devil, and His Name Is Big Mac Snack Wrap

You know, F. Scott Fitzgerald was right about American lives having no second acts. I found that to be sadly true yesterday as I sat down at the McDonald's near the bus station off Main and jumped teeth first into an American tragedy. Somewhere in a cold and sterile boardroom at McDonald's headqu ... More >>

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Big Mac Boogie

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Wabs and Gabachos on Leprecanos

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McRibbing

A man eats fast food for a month -- guess what happens

Chingo Bling

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Goat Doughnuts Go Global

The Hot Breads franchise serves unique pastries to a worldwide audience

Globalization's McBacklash

Guatemala’s Pollo Campero has American fast-food franchises running scared

Mac Attack

A cancer patient sues McDonald's, contending a peppered burrito caused his nosebleed

Pig in the City

A foodie saint is tainted by fast food's evil empire

Dominic Quijano

Owner/operator of McDonald's, 6815 Harrisburg Boulevard, 713-928-5335

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