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Food Review! Well, that's an airplane going by.
Maybe maybe I'm just upping the sound effects, but I'm pretty sure that's just an airplane
Well anyway.
We have a we have one for the legends that comein coming your way this time around - the McRib
from McDonald's. Now the McRib has been around for
so long a time. I remember the first time I actually tried the McRib. It was back in, I believe the
think it was October of
1968 when I was working nights at the movie theater, and I'd always go to McDonald's and get just a quarter pounder with cheese.
I remember they had the McRib, and I'll never forget that night. It was just incredible.
Actually,
I've never had a McRib before. I was
just messing around. The McRib though, what is it? You know everyone talks about it. It's ever so elusive.
Believe it or not,
It was actually very difficult for me to try to find a
McRib to ever review because people have been talking about it for years and years and years and it's so hyped up and
then I always try and go out and find it and no o one ever has it.
None of the McDonald's in New York, New Jersey ever had it.
None of the McDonald's in Virginia and North Carolina ever had it but finally here in Florida
we found one that did - The McRib. What precisely is it? And why is it so hyped up?
Well, the McRib is a it's not even a seasonal release
It just kind of comes out whenever they feel like releasing it and that it has the following
ingredients
So it is composed of a ribesque. You know, it's boneless. So it's like you're gonna bite into it
you're gonna have these bones and it's gonna shatter all your teeth and now you're gonna require thousands of dental work that you can't afford.
You know, none of that. It's it's boneless.
So don't worry about that, but it's gonna have a pork patty. That kind of looks like a rib though.
it's going to have
tangy barbecue sauce and it's kind of,
you know, slathered in, onions and tart pickles all kind of tied together on a hoagie style bun.
So it's like a pork sandwich with some barbecue sauce and
maybe that a little bit of a tang with the the pickles and onions and just all tied together - really a fan favorite
so to speak. The price for this was three dollars. And...
Hey, we'll just have to see how good this is. So here's...
The McRib bag
with the
McRib
excrement on the bag.
Though people say that that's a good luck sign. So we're not going to bash that or anything, you know.
Maybe that's good luck. Maybe that means good luck.
I'm pretty sure this has gotta be it. Let's see.
For those of you who are like care way too much about this,
You might complain a little let me just auto focus. There we go. For those of you that care way too much about a
McDonald's item some people might complain they might say, "But Reviewbrah
it's in the McNuggets box and not the McRib package." Well,
How is that gonna change anything? But anyway... let's do the unboxing.
So that's the hoagie style McRib bun
and
We'll see maybe I'll get rid of the autofocus for now just that we can get it better look at it.
There you go in the afternoon Sunlight - there's that hoagie style bun. And let's just go ahead and take it out.
We'll do a full examination.
But there it is. There's the McRib Patty and yeah you get a full view of it, you know?
You can see the pork patty, you can see the bun, you can see the onions and
those tangy pickles and all the sauce there as well
and for good measure. Let's
debun it.
I took the top bun looks like - not a ton of action going on there.
Bottom bun?
This is where it's at!
Let's see, if it does there we go good focus of it.
You can see it's got all those onions and pickles and the sauce. I mean, it looks like a pretty complete sandwich.
It's not necessarily as big
as they would say.
But it looks like on a website but that's kind of everything.
You know where it's like a little more smushed perhaps but as they say you can't judge a book by it's cover.
I've never had the McRib before so we'll see how it is. Some people, you know, they love it -
They say it tastes great. Some people are disgusted by it.
I'm gonna go in optimistically I say, you know, maybe this will just be a good pork snack as some people say and
maybe it won't. I don't know. I'm gonna try it out for you now the McRib from McDonald's. First time ever trying it. Going in!
I'm gonna take one more bite. Good amount of sauce in that one too. Sauce action.
Well, what are my thoughts on it?
You know it's fascinating.
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You know what I don't understand when it comes down to the McRib is how much
divisiveness there is between the people that... like they say it's the best thing that they've ever had and then you have people that say, "Oh...",
they say, "Have you ever read the book the Jungle by Upton Sinclair from, you know, 1904?" And....
Then they just say, you know, it's repulsive and disgusting and so on and so forth.
My view of it kind of falls in the middle I suppose.
I'll be quite honest
It's not the best thing that I've ever had in the world, but it is far from the worst. You know, McDonald's didn't really
center their chain or their items or anything around pork. So I can't necessarily consider it a specialty of theirs.
For instance whenever I'm going for a
pork based item. I always go to a chain
that's popular here in Florida called Sonny's barbecue. If you're in the area, you know, you know, they do it good.
But it's two different levels of things. When you're getting something from McDonald's you have to just anticipate
McDonald's quality. Not
any sort of professional smokehouse
steakhouse-esque item. So for what it's worth. They hit the nail on the head when it comes down to
describing what it tastes like.
It does have that tanginess to it. It's more tangy than it is sweet. I'll tell you that.
I know you bite in the - pork is really tender. I gotta give him credit for that.
The pork is really tender, could be a little more flavorful though.
That's why there's so much emphasis on the sauce and the toppings, but the pork is really tender, you know, it tastes pretty good.
It is covered in the sauce. It could be a little messy to eat.
But that sauce just has that just as I said that tangy barbecue just as they described it.
The onions and the pickles have contributed to that tanginess.
So as a result, it's not like it really has a smokiness to it or sweetness rather it has
just this tenderness and
tainginess to it as well. And
sometimes I think as I was eating this maybe there's just a little bit too much of that Tang.
Maybe tone it down a tiny bit, if it were up to me.
But overall I think that it's a pretty good sandwich for the most part. Again
you just have to remember it's fast food quality. You're gonna have people out there that love it.
You're gonna have people out there that hate it. And...
Then I guess I guess my stance on it is I'm kind of in the middle. Would I get it again?
Well, maybe if I'm really feeling it then I might. But it's not like I'm gonna say, "Alright
McRib: breakfast, lunch, dinner."
I'm gonna stop drinking water. I'm gonna go out and I'm just gonna squeeze any excess
tangy barbecue sauce and just guzzle that down to get the necessary nutrients in place of water...you know.
I'm not that crazy about it. But in the end,
when it comes down to it out of 10, price for this was three dollars,
I think it is what they described it to be.
I would just kind of tone down the Tanginess slightly, but I think it's perfectly acceptable for what it is.
So therefore out of 10 I'm gonna be giving it a 7.92
out of 10 - a 7.92 out of 10 is my rating. Again, I think it is perfectly acceptable
Might not be the best thing I've ever eaten, but it's far from the worst. And would I get it again?
If I'm feeling it, I would. So that's my review. That's all that I have for you.
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