hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of the running on empty food review series
i'm your host the report of the week i adjusted the focus but we are now good everything is all
good now you wouldn't believe what i'm trying out today as you know this year so far the quality of
fast food is just through the roof we're getting some of the best stuff ever some of the top tier
quality and ideas and this is uh i mean this blows everything else out of the water especially when
it comes down to mcdonald's all those celebrity meals that they had forget them you know that they
they are absolutely nothing compared to this every other item that you have ever heard of
from mcdonald's every special release or new item forget it it's it's it's inconsequential to this
this is the zenith of fast food this is the pinnacle it doesn't get any better than this so
right now as you are about to hear this monumental idea you got to strap in right now take a sip of
water take a sip of something and just hold on and hold on tight because it's going to be a wild ride
you won't believe this so get ready are you ready if you're not too bad because we're just going for
it now mcdonald's starting today has released the new menu hack menu here's how it works
maybe you heard a few years ago we might even be talking decades at this point uh there is
the concept of various menu hacks on mcdonald's so it'd be like you know if you get a you know
you buy separately a double cheeseburger and a mcchicken and then you put the two things together
and you make some sort of special sandwich that isn't on the menu and stuff like that
well mcdonald's is finally addressing these sorts of hacks as they say and for a limited time they
will now have the menu hack item sorry the the menu hack menu there you go here's how it works
first you need to download the mcdonald's app why i have no idea because all these things are
already on the menu quite frankly it's just so they could send promotions your way and
and all of that but forget that let's just say that you need to download their app
then they are going to allow you to choose from four menu hacks you buy the items separately
and at least from my experience you pay full price
and they will give you the items separately and you're going to have to assemble it yourself
i know this is groundbreaking stuff right if only they'd fire all the cooks and you'd make you go
into the kitchen and you'd have to pay to cook it yourself right that was sarcasm by the way but uh
yeah this is um people aren't too happy or thrilled with this one admittedly and i kind
of think the concept is a little silly too not the hacks themselves the menu hacks are kind of
cool but um yeah so the way that it works you've got to download the mcdonald's app
then you have to buy the items individually pay for them individually and then they'll give you
the individual items and on your own you're going to have to assemble them into the desired hack so
it just is what it is a lot of people are kind of scratching their heads and they're saying
what's the point of this um it just is what it is what can i tell you but of the four potential
hacks here's how it is you can get the hash brown mcmuffin so you would buy a hash brown
and a sausage mcmuffin with egg and you would combine the two and put them together
you can get the crunchy double which comes with a six piece chicken mcnugget you've got to get
tangy barbecue sauce and a double cheeseburger and you drizzle the sauce on the nuggets and
then you put the nuggets on the cheeseburger you can get the surf and turf which is a
filet-o-fish and a double cheeseburger so you'd put the the vallejo fish onto the cheeseburger
or you can get the land air and sea which is a mcchicken sandwich a phileo fish sandwich
a big mac and then you would combine all three now i decided to go with the land air and sea
um item so i ordered that i paid eight bucks for it so i paid for a
mcchicken a big mac and a filet-o-fish so as you will see here's the mcdonald's bag
we have
phileo fish
a big mac
and a mcchicken
so this is how it's going to be for you they're going to give you the separate components and
you're going to have to assemble it yourself and like i said it's it has a lot of people
wondering what the point of all of this is but who knows so that's what we're gonna do
now in order to assemble i think i said the price right it's it's eight bucks for this
so we've got the mcchicken the big mac and so let's let's get the big mac out first
so we've got the big mac here
let's get the filleto fish
got that here
we gotta get ourselves this mcchicken
which is here
and i also got a coke and i like that they're actually going with the um the taco bell approach
they're kinda you could see it it's nice it's a nice touch i always advocate for that
all right all right so we got our three sandwiches right here as you can see and
now we have to assemble with the land air and sea so what order does this come with
all right so i've got the big mac bun right here let's try not to make this overly complicated
sometimes i have a tendency of doing that we got the big mac bun all right then i put the mcchicken
so i take this i put that on top right there so then the big mac bun goes on top of that
then i get where the middle bun is okay and then i put the filleto fish patty
right down here and then i
put it like that so that's what you have to do so this is how you do it look at this pile of food
you know here's one thing that i kind of
just a peeve of mine and i'm not trying to bash mcdonald's on this but you know i feel bad for
the poor buns now it's kind of incentivizing just kind of food waste at this point that all this
bread you know you buy it and you don't need it now so right into the trash bin it goes but uh now
honestly i'm just gonna throw that out for some raccoons probably there's also a cat that comes by
so him or her i'm not really sure we'll have a nice little feast on uh
some bread but that's how it's going to be you're just going to be left with the spare buns um but
now there you have it the land air and sea you might say why are you wasting your time with all
of this preparation because i want to show you what you're going to be doing as well and here
is the final product right there the land air and sea again it's a combination of all three
let me
make it a little prettier like so
and i'll get a thumbnail shot like this
something like that yeah so that's how it goes that's the uh land air and sea um
you want me to cut it in half or you want me to try to eat it like this
maybe i could try to cut it in half you know what i'm going to do i'm going to try to just take a
bite as normal and then i'll cut it in half so again mcchicken big mac and filleto fish you
know there's no way i'm going to be able to bite into this thing my jaw only opens so much and
there's not a chance but for europe for the end sake of entertainment have fun
watching me try to eat this um the land air and sea from mcdonald's attempting
hey i did graze a tiny bit of hp is isn't that something that that has exceeded my expectations
yeah i'm just going to cut the thing in half i
think you just wanted to try to see me eat the whole thing
in one sitting
okay
there's the cross section of it for you
now i'm just going to try to squeeze it together just so i could try to eat this
i'm just not a fan just not a fan of it admittedly
to to be up front i don't like how the um vallejo fish sandwich
it clashes with everything else in my opinion
i think the mig the mcchicken and the big mac are okay i think they work together all right
but the filleto fish sandwich just doesn't really
you know it just tastes off um that fishy taste it just doesn't really
it just doesn't work it clashes with the um with the big mac sauce it just clashes with
the beef and the chicken and it just doesn't it doesn't work together i'm not a big fan of it
it's a hassle to eat i think it's a bit too i i just think it's a bit too big and um
it's just a little problematic in terms of eating it's very very messy and like i said it just
doesn't really work the different sauces all kind of clash with one another like i said uh the fishy
patty just doesn't really work with the mcchicken and the um and the beef and quite frankly it just
doesn't taste that good the onions just don't work with the fish it's just i'm not a fan of it
um that's all that i could really tell you it just does not work the mcdonald's i mean it is what it
is personally um i wouldn't bother with this that's just me that's me saying that i really
wouldn't bother with this i would just go and uh i probably just got a big mac and a mcchicken and
forget about assembling the silly thing i would just because what's the point you're not even
getting a discount you're just paying for all this stuff at least that's what they charged me
individually so what's the point i'll just buy myself if i really want it i make chicken and a
big mac uh eat the two things separately i mean what if i really want the flavors i could take
a bite of the big mac and then chase it down with a bite of the mcchicken but i don't know i don't
really understand the point of this i guess for some maybe it's a novelty and maybe some people
i guess you know if you want to do like the food challenge stuff and you want to
put it together and you know get a picture or something for social media i guess you could
do that if that's what you want but otherwise i don't really get it it just doesn't really
make much sense it doesn't really seem practical it seems like you're just wasting time putting
this thing together it doesn't even taste good um there's no discount they want you to download
their app just so they can bombard you with uh offers and and whatnot and just you know spam
and what have you just to get you to keep coming back i i just don't understand it you could go
and do this any day anyway and the the promotion doesn't really seem like it's all that much and
doesn't even it doesn't even taste that good so i don't know i'm sure that there's
some mcdonald's fans who maybe disagree with my assessment that's fine you know it's it's your
uh your view i get it it's all good but uh as for me this just isn't for me it's a promotion that
i don't know i'm kind of struggling to understand the point of this all uh it would be one thing of
course if they could just assemble it and then you were getting this as like a special sandwich
but uh it just seems very low effort if you ask me i don't like how you have to get the food anyway
and then you wind up throwing all this bread out i mean i know most people probably won't care but
it just bothers me a little bit so i don't like that and it's just very messy and yeah i don't
know it just it kind of this is one of those promotions that just goes over my head a bit
maybe i'm just an outlier i'm willing to admit that maybe everyone loves this thing but as for me
i think it's silly i don't think it tastes good and uh i am struggling to see the point of this
i think maybe the idea the idea is there i understand the menu hacks but it'll be one
thing if again you were able to just order this sandwich as is but uh i don't know i think the
execution of it as it is presently is uh horrible in my opinion and that's just my two cents
uh with fast food as you know the world of fast food you win some you lose some
and uh like i said i think the execution of this idea was just off and that's my opinion so
therefore out of 10 i think the idea is silly i think it's silly um that you're just buying
everything individually i think it's silly that you're putting it together it doesn't taste good
therefore out of 10 i'm giving this um item as well as the concept in general a 3 out of 10.
i'm just not a fan but you know mcdonald's look i don't hate them and whatever they release next
we'll give it a shot these reviews they're all independent of one another and like i
said with fast food you win some and you lose some but this not a fan of but it's a novelty
if you want to get it yourself just put the thing together get that social media picture
of it um by all means give it a shot but this is just the experience and i don't really see anyone
on their lunch break just going through all of this you know i just don't see that happening
that's all that i have for you until next time i'm your host the report of the week