McPick 2 for $2.50 - Another McDonald's Trick to Rip You Off.

Well hello friends, thank you for stopping by and reading about the latest and greatest McDonald's trickery to beat you out of your pocket change. 

First of, here is the McDonald's McPick 2 for $2.50 menu that I have taken an actual picture of at the McDonald's location on Judge Ely Blvd in Abilene, TX:

The normal standard fare of slop. But stop, wait a minute. Wasn't the McDouble on the McPick 2 for $2 menu back in January of 2016? Now it is $1.39 ( a dubious 39% increase in eight months!) and even at 2 for $2.50 you are still doling out an extra 25% more (!) for the same wonderful piece of non-meat with a piece of non-cheese slammed in the middle all between your non-bread and doled with condiments that are the only flavor. Yum. 

But that isn't the worst part about this McPick 2 for $2.50 "deal." Look at the price of the McChicken on the base menu. It is $1.19. 

Here it is again, highlighted:

So if you buy 2 via this "deal" then you are actually paying more by 0.11 than by buying each one individually since doing it per the menu board only brings the total to $2.38. 

Only McDonald's comes up with schemes and tricks this flagrant, brass and stupid to fool people that still eat there for some ungodly reason into thinking they are getting a good deal when in reality, they are getting ripped off to no end.

You think eleven cents doesn't matter? Multiply that by millions of customers daily. Eleven cents matters in the world of volume my friends.

Thank you for reading and remember, stay vigilant, as these big box chains will stop at nothing to pad their bottom lines for the 1% that live off of stock profits in America. 

McDonald's has sunk so low that they have resorted to stealing your pocket change and making you believe you are getting a deal as shown here.

We shouldn't be surprised anymore, should we?

 

Burger King Breakfast is Failing - And Here Is Why.

Hello friends! It was been wayyyy too long since I last posted out here. My real life has been busy with working all of those extra side jobs and shifts to compensate for the loss of my eBay coupon sales thanks for the CIC, but that's for another post. Today's fun is a much more recent development - which is the near collapse of the Breakfast Menu at Burger King.

For years and years, Burger King has had a reasonably priced breakfast offering, offering pretty much the same consistent menu over the course of those years. Your standard Crossandwiches and French Toast Sticks, etc, have been a staple for more than a decade now (can you believe it's been that long?)

But over the past few years, they have begun to lose their breakfast customer base at an alarming rate. Most days, if you wish to take the chance on actually eating it, you can pull right up to the drive thru at breakfast time and well, have it your way with no wait. Now mind you, we are in a market that doesn't have a Panera or a Chiptole or anything that resembles a real donut shop or bagel place either. So you can throw those excuses you see plastered all over Forbes and every other parrot-financial-wizard-millennial website you find in your easy Google search right out the window. Nope, out here you basically have the Big Three when it comes to quick and easy breakfast - McDonald's, Taco Bell and Burger King.

This is not just another typical "fast food sucks" post. No, we take a little deeper look at why it seems Burger King simply can't give away their breakfast anymore. These are the basic two reasons why Burger King's breakfast simply sucks, no matter what the price:

1. The Egg.

This is the master culprit of the entire Burger King breakfast menu. Their Egg. It definitely has a unique flavor, that's for sure. But what's strange about the Burger King Egg is that it is the most consistently uniform creation of an egg I can honestly say I have ever seen. It is the same in Georgia as it is in Texas as it is in New York and New Jersey. It is the same in Las Vegas. As I am typing this I do realize the fact that I know this from first hand experience is a tad troubling, but it is what it is. No judgement here. It has the same form, the same flavor and well, the save level of grease in every location (look at the top and that sticking action!):

 

The tastes of most people have changed over the past 10-20 years dramatically. So fake food has gone the way of the every corner on the corner all you can eat Buffetts that were all the rage toward the end of the 1980's and 1990s'. And the worst part about the Burger King Egg is that it tastes fake !!

 Combined that god-awful taste with the fact that whoever is preparing these lovely creatures cannot seem to ever get it right, as it is usually greasy and burnt at the same time !!

Now that is some kind of special trickery in order to consistently pull that off across an entire world wide chain. Making the same quality of burnt, greasy fake eggs. Hat's off to you Creepy King.

The problem with the egg on the Crossanwiches (which are always advertised now as 2 for $4 at best and we have even gotten some locations pricing them 2 for $3 and even offering coupons for the low, low price of $1.49 each) is the the grease infests the actual bread. It saturates it. It makes it break apart. The egg is actually greasier than the sausage ffs!!

 

If you eat this more than 2 or 3 times, you eventually figure out that this is what is causing your stomach to hurt an hour later and mucking up your fingers. It's the egg grease seeping through the bread portion of your sandwich and making you feel like a disgusting pig.

We tried to take The Egg off of one once and did you know the grease still penetrated through the bread and left a weird aftertaste on the sausage?!!? That's really hard to do. We ordered one another time with no egg and funny. The Crossain-part of the sandwich was dry, flaky and normal. It almost tasted like a breakfast sandwich and not a grease rocket.

The solution to this is simple, Burger King - please start using real eggs or at least change the egg itself you are using. I bet there are thousands of ex-breakfast customers like myself who would welcome something like that and actually try it. Until that day comes, count me out, I don't care how mucho-enormous your fake egg grease bomb is or if it is $1. I still wouldn't eat it.  And I am cheaper than cheap. I get Burger King coupons in my box monthly and I have been throwing them in the trash. Why? Because your breakfast is simply inedible as long as your worldwide consistent prefab egg is lurking near it.

2. Trying to make The Egg into something else and failing miserably.

Let's chop up The Egg (or not) slap it in a tortilla shell , cut a piece of sausage in half (?), dump a piece of cheese on it and call it a Burrito!!

No sir. No effing sir.

This is one of the worst abominations of a burrito I have ever seen in my lifetime. I am not exactly a world renowned chef but even I can make a breakfast burrito with more creativity than this:

It's literally a cut up (or not depending on how lazy the staff is in your location) fake greasy egg bomb with a piece of breakfast sausage cut in half with some cheese that is semi melted all wrapped up nice and cozy in a lukewarm tortilla. All for $1 or more !!!

I tried this two times. Both times I was amazed at just how fast The Egg grease (again!) was running down my arm as I tried to consume this. The second time I didn't even eat the whole thing - I gave it to a stray dog who probably needed it more than I did. That was the end of my breakfast time at Burger King and I haven't eaten there since.

Their breakfast does have a few things going for it. Their breakfast hashbrown-tot things are better than any other fast food place. And their muffins (if you still can find a location that actually carries muffins, mine stopped a year ago) aren't half bad. The ham, bacon and sausage itself is on par with everything else. I haven't eaten their pancakes but they look just as microwaved as McDonald's are now (so sad) so that's probably similar.Overprice Cinnabon is what you would expect it to be, but even those by the time you get them can be mysteriously mushy.

So if you are wondering why your Burger King location no longer serves breakfast to 11:00AM, never seems to have a line in the drive through before 10:30AM, has discontinued many breakfast items on their menu, now serves Whoppers for breakfast, or why you get so many coupons, signs and commercials basically begging you to eat The Egg - the reasons above are probably why.

That and the fact The Egg at Burger King infests every aspect of their breakfast menu - and they are just not smart enough to bring their breakfast out of the frozen prefab Chinese imported grease pit and into the 21st Century.

Taco Bell Breakfast Review - Waffle Taco and the $1 A.M Morning Taco

So the long-awaited Taco Bell breakfast has been released. I finally decided to take the plunge and get some in my morning travels. And well, to be honest, I was pleasantly surprised.

The famous "Waffle Taco" priced at $1.99 is pretty much what you see above in the box. Egg, sausage (bacon or steak) eggs , cheese and this waffle concoction.  It's pretty big for the price point it is at. I put some syrup on it and after the first bite it sort of reminded me of a Sausage McGriddle flavor wise. Despite what some jaded posters are saying about it online, it is not "greasy." The texture of the waffle itself is well, sort of also like a Sausage McGriddle with the same kind of flavor.

Massive difference? Well, the Waffle Taco is about 33% bigger than a Sausage McGriddle and well, costs about 30% less. The price point of the Waffle Taco is $1.99. The McGriddle from McDonald's AVERAGES about $2.79 depending on your market. So value for the dollar, this one goes hands down to Taco Bell.

Then I tried also this "A.M. Grilled Breakfast Taco" with sausage. And for $1, I wasn't really expecting too much. But it was pleasantly surprising. Add some strawberry jelly to it and if you are comparing real $1 menu items compared to say, the Sausage McMuffin, with this you are actually getting an egg, a meat and some cheese, where with the $1 Sausage McMuffin you get some slimy sausage patty and a "who knows what temperature it will be today" muffin.

So if you are going for value for the buck - this one also goes hands down to Taco Bell.

If you haven't tried their breakfast yet, I strongly advise you to do so. Funny, barely a week into this new menu offering I actually had to wait in line for a little bit in the Taco Bell line. But the more telling picture was the McDonald's breakfast line was about 1/2 of what it normally is in this busy intersection.

This is a trend that we can hope will continue until McDonald's realizes that their name cannot save them alone any longer. They have to appreciate their customers, offer specials and be competitive with their sandwiches and offerings. I saw a report where they want to become more "Centered around Coffee." Well, the only reason anyone would go there is if they are giving it away for free and even then , the line was half of what it normally is pre-Taco Bell breakfast launch.

Maybe one day they will get it. Probably not. But at least for now, I have a new place to dine for my fast-food breakfast cravings and it sure isn't McDonalds.