Every day is a stinkin’ day now. Let’s pick a date at random: May 12. According to NationalToday.com, May 12 is National Limerick Day and World Migratory Bird Day. How about August 4? National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, National Mustard Day, and U.S. Coast Guard Birthday. Today is International Day For Tolerance,…

Back in February, McDonald’s announced that by 2020, at least half of its Happy Meals offered around the world would come in under 600 calories, with only 10 percent of those calories coming from fat. (That’s already true of all U.S. Happy Meals.) The move led the chain to nix cheeseburgers from its Happy Meals,…

So, get a load of this jerk.

Two Florida residents recently sued McDonald’s over the chain’s Quarter Pounder With Cheese, stating they were charged full-price for the sandwich even when they requested it without cheese. They argued that because the McDonald’s app shows that some locations charge 30 cents less for a Quarter Pounder sans cheese, a…

Welp, nobody can say that this particular alleged criminal didn’t take advantage of an opportunity. KSAT in Texas reports on the story of a 19-year-old who showed up late for his first day of work at a McDonald’s, and was subequently sent home. While he was waiting for his ride, says KSAT, he asked a lot of questions…

At this point, even Kanye West’s most benign sentiments can apparently inspire online controversy. After visiting the White House last month, West then claimed that he had been “used to spread messages I don’t believe in” for political purposes and pledged to stay out of politics (also on Twitter: “I am distancing…

Does “fresh-not-frozen” meat actually make a fast-food sandwich taste better, or is this all marketing hype? Our reassessment of McDonald’s Quarter Pounder With Cheese indicates that yes, yes it does: “The fresh beef patty seemed to retain more moisture, with a creamier texture than the meat strands-like interior of…

The McRib is a shadow: It’s there or it’s not there, depending on the position of the sun. It always follows you. For now—until it’s not—the McRib is back at most (but not all) McDonald’s, the chain announced. And just as quickly it will disappear... until it reappears.

Do you need a ton of protein in the morning? Are your arteries in excellent shape? Do you have an office cot available for a mid-morning nap? If so, then McDonald’s latest breakfast offering may be for you.

Perhaps you parents out there noticed your regular McDonald’s order suddenly cost a couple extra bucks. QSR Magazine reports the fast-food chain quietly removed Happy Meals from its $1, $2, $3 value menu, making a $3 Happy Meal a thing of the past. A Happy Meal now costs, on average, about 25 percent more.

Drive-thru is big business for fast-food restaurants, full stop. This year’s Drive-Thru Study from QSR Magazine finds that drive-thru sales make up about 70 percent of the average fast-food chain’s business, so it’s incredibly important that these chains keep you happy from the moment you shout into the ordering mic…

In the second story about a deputy tasting bleach in his fast food this week, KOAM in Kansas reports that a 22-year-old (now former) McDonald’s worker has been charged with putting a peroxide-based cleaner in the drink of an Allen County deputy that came through the drive-thru. According to KOAM, “Officials say a…

It is one of life’s greatest joys to be useful. To perform a service. To fulfill one’s duty. To know the moment in which you, exactly you, must march into the world to accomplish one thing for the betterment of all. Reader, I was permitted to experience that exact joy today. I have walked to a McDonald’s near my home,…

In a move the company is billing as important as serving breakfast all day or switching from frozen beef to fresh, McDonald’s announced today that its classic beef burgers will no longer use artificial preservatives, artificial flavors, and without “added colors from artificial sources.”

Ah, affogato. So simple, so delicious: Ice cream, usually vanilla, with a shot of espresso poured over the top. From there, you can add toppings if you really want. Chocolate-covered coffee beans. Shaved chocolate. Whipped cream. Biscotti. Berries. Caramel. Hazelnuts. It’s a hell of a canvas, but damn, it’s good all…

The Australian produce crisis, which began with some sick bastard (or bastards) hiding needles in strawberries, continues. Since we first reported on this story on September 17, needles have been found in mangoes, bananas, and apples. Produce has been disposed of by the ton. At least one person has eaten a…

Sometimes, pranks pay off. A few months back, Jevh Maravilla and Christian Toledo noticed that the photos of fun-loving people displayed at their local McDonald’s didn’t include any Asians (the friends are Filipino-American). So they took a picture of themselves using a tripod, found some McDonald’s uniforms at a…

Many of us have had McDonald’s Apple Pie at one point or another. They were a popular item in my family on road trips. I would never have gotten them on a typical Quarter Pounder run, but when we were driving across country, somehow the warm, handheld pie was the perfect snack to make us kids shut up in the back seat…

If you’re jonesing for a Quarter Pounder next Tuesday, you may want to hold off on your craving until the next day, lest you cross a picket line. The Associated Press reports that some McDonald’s workers have voted to stage a one-day strike kicking off at noon on September 18, “in hopes of pressuring management to…

Crapping on McDonald’s is a communal sport. The laws of popularity state anything with mainstream appeal must trigger a backlash, especially for people seeking cachet and credibility. For them, the list of reasons to crap on McDonald’s runs long: That it has become synonymous with paint-by-numbers food assemblage,…