The prize for championing farming goes to..........MacDonalds !

kiwi pom · Jan 18, 2020

McDonalds always seem a very well run company, despite the fact that they are always the first fast food brand to get hammered and blamed for just about everything.
A lot of the spuds round here go for Mac Fries (not just for NZ use) They are fairly strict, with quite a few hoops to jump through for the processor and they are very keen on trace back audits etc.
There's very fierce competition for any new franchises that come up.
Nothing wrong with the food either, its just the amount some eat that's the problem.
We don't have the paper straws down here. Yet!

Bob lincs · Jan 18, 2020

neilo said:
Of course it is but, much like a Doner Kebab, it’s tasty
Done kebab gives me a hangover

FonterraFarmer · Jan 18, 2020

kiwi pom said:
McDonalds always seem a very well run company, despite the fact that they are always the first fast food brand to get hammered and blamed for just about everything.
A lot of the spuds round here go for Mac Fries (not just for NZ use) They are fairly strict, with quite a few hoops to jump through for the processor and they are very keen on trace back audits etc.
There's very fierce competition for any new franchises that come up.
Nothing wrong with the food either, its just the amount some eat that's the problem.
We don't have the paper straws down here. Yet!

The problem with McDonald's burgers is once you have been to the likes of Kelly O'Bryan's is the sheer disappointment when you go back to McDonalds, just knowing how good a burger can be rather than a mere mediocre average.
Staff are better at Kelly O'Bryan's too.

TheTallGuy · Jan 18, 2020

Spencer said:
Let’s face it, you don’t go to McDonalds for a chicken nugget..

Maybe not, but a chicken legend with cool mayo is another matter.

Bury the Trash · Jan 18, 2020

TheTallGuy said:
Maybe not, but a chicken legend with cool mayo is another matter.

I beg to differ,

...i always have .. hot and spicy

Kiwi Pete · Jan 18, 2020

neilo said:
Of course it is but, much like a Doner Kebab, it’s tasty crap......

The kebab vendor has "tasty crap" retailing firmly centre in its sights, the real irony is that the other big 3 only have "tasty crap" as a sideline to procuring the world's most valuable real-estate -
it's very similar to the 'highest welfare commodities in the WORLD being produced from the most expensive farmland in the world' mantra of UK Ag.

Captial gains on your average global McD/BK/Starbucks/tuckyduck franchise is quite staggering TBH, and the rest is volume-based and very small margins.
We actually looked at running a McDonald's franchise for a while, but I don't have the temperament TBH, it is more sustainable for me to have a few sheep to yell at

Raider112 · Jan 19, 2020

neilo said:
I’m pretty sure KFC’s are all franchises, so cleanliness, staffing levels, etc is down to whoever is running it. McD’s have far more control from head office, employing managers themselves and all running on the same strict, corporate regimes. Just a shame their burgers have the texture of chopped rubber.?

The KFC in Carlisle town centre had a bad reputation for cleanliness and it has closed now, others roundabout don't have such a bad name.

Forever Fendt · Jan 19, 2020

TheTallGuy said:
dried out cardboard for burgers.

That would pass for the vegan option

ollie989898 · Jan 19, 2020

Northeastfarmer said:
You never see kfc promoting British agriculture like McDonald’s does...all they are promoting is their vegan crap...I won’t set foot in kfc

KFC's chicken is from Brazil. I dare say their chips etc are from abroad as well.

ollie989898 · Jan 19, 2020

neilo said:
Can’t beat ‘em sometimes, drizzled in mint sauce and covered liberally with onions.?

Just try not to remember the ropey old ewe you were glad made it as far as the market the previous week....

As for KFC, who knows or cares what’s in it, it’s only a carrier for the ‘secret recipe’ that the Colonel developed to hide all sorts of cr*p.

Nothing wrong with a decent kebab, particularly the chicken ones etc though I am partial to the doner. Simple bread pitta tonnes of salad- has to be considerably healthier than a lot of other fast foods.

Northeastfarmer · Jan 19, 2020

ollie989898 said:
KFC's chicken is from Brazil. I dare say their chips etc are from abroad as well.

@neilo get yourself into McDonald’s

thorpe · Jan 19, 2020

kill said:
Our local KFC has to be without doubt the dirtiest place I've ever had the displeasure of eating at, as tables that sticky and gluppy that hands that contact them or clothes will almost need the fire service to cut you from there holds and bins are never emptied and toilet floors as sticky as the table tops and staff that don't speak English that couldn't give s flying feck.
I have never seen a McDonald's any where comparable and they even serve organic milk with my cup of tea?? bleady proper?.

The local radio is driving me around the bend currently with either Costa Coffee advertising it's none dairy vegan milks or Fecking Aldi offering their range of Vegan alternative's including Vegan ice cream ????? ( some things are just so wrong). And they food miles on some of this crap just beggers believe ?

Atleast "Funky Farmer" on YouTube is showing his bit for UK agricultural by how vile this crap is and his poor little boys have suffered as well and the biggest laugh is how many times labels have stated that these products may contain DAIRY ??????.

funky farmer great ambassidor for uk ag

Hilly · Jan 19, 2020

neilo said:
I’ll agree with the ‘consistent quality’ bit, but that’s about all. If I am after food quickly, McD would be a last resort, and a long way behind KFC & Burger King. I know they use UK beef, but the6 have a canny ability to turn into homogenised mush imo. A long way behind the BK Angus burgers for me.

That said, I’d sooner have a proper eat every time.

I wouldn’t feed my dogs in kfc or Burger King , McDonald’s are ten times nicer imo .

DRC · Jan 19, 2020

yellow belly said:
the chicken they sell is produced in Thailand so do not eat the chicken mc nuggets thinking they are British

their beef is British or Irish and milk is British ( one of their suppliers farms not far from here )

My neighbour supplies organic milk to them

neilo · Jan 19, 2020

Northeastfarmer said:
@neilo get yourself into McDonald’s

I’d rather rip my arm off and chew on that.

Bury the Trash · Jan 19, 2020

neilo said:
I’d rather rip my arm off and chew on that.

Their cappuccino is ok

Northeastfarmer · Jan 19, 2020

neilo said:
I’d rather rip my arm off and chew on that.

I’d rather eat my own cock than a kfc

neilo · Jan 19, 2020

ollie989898 said:
KFC's chicken is from Brazil. I dare say their chips etc are from abroad as well.

From the KFC website:
HOW MUCH OF YOUR CHICKEN IS BRITISH?

All of our Original Recipe chicken on the bone is from farms in the UK and Ireland.

Because demand often outstrips British poultry supply, other menu items may include chicken from trusted and established overseas suppliers.

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So, the usual get out, as the likes of Morrison’s use when they say they ‘only’ sell British meat.

I only ever have chicken on the bone there, if only so I know it’s actually chicken meat, not feathers, bones, etc put in a mincer to bulk up the nuggets (at any source of such processed sh*te).

neilo · Jan 19, 2020

Bury the Trash said:
Their cappuccino is ok

Ooh, get you with your frothy coffee. ?

McFlurries are pretty good too, as are any ice cream & sugar based yummies.?

ollie989898 · Jan 19, 2020

Northeastfarmer said:
I’d rather eat my own cock than a kfc

I suppose at least you know where it's been...

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