From: kvigil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kevin Vigil)
Subject: Re: McD's
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:35:46 GMT

brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca (breadner ken u) writes:

>In article <1993Jan25.064518.13788@ultb.isc.rit.edu> csc2212@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>>
>>Wait a sec....
>>Isn't Burger King the real culprit.  They are the ones that Constantly use 
>>microwaves on a day to day basis.  McD's only uses them to warm up my 
>>blueberry muffin.  Burger King takes a patty outta that grease pit and puts
>>it on a bun and then nukes it.  Right? (or wrong????)
>>

>Wrong.
>Well, BK does use nukers and has for years, but it's getting hard to find 
>a McD's in this area which doesn't use them just as much. 

>McDonald's has invented a euphemistic language to cover up the fact that
>these are actually high-powered microwaves. They call them Q-ing ovens.
>The Q, of course, stands for Quality, the Quality McDonald's no longer
>cares about.
>More damning, nothing has been made public in Canada concerning these
>microwaves, which are supposed to be a step forward. That's why I am on a
>crusade to inform everyone what McDonald's has become.

>In my experience, the Q-ing ovens are slower, require more labour, and
>produce inferior product. The burgers that come out of a Q-ing oven are
>dry. Bone dry. They are hotter, but who cares about heat when your bun
>could be up to two hours old and your meat could be up to twenty-five
>minutes old? Even ordering a grill will not give you the fresh food
>McDonald's used to pride itself on serving.
>Even the cinnamon rolls, which used to be cooked in the Pizza ovens, are
>now irradiated in the Q-ing oven.

>I have no idea why McDonald's has done this. None whatsoever. They used to
>sell themselves on fresh food. Now they have emulated Burger King. Up here
>in Canada, nobody goes to Burger King because everyone knows what
>microwaves do to their food. So I figure if enough people find out about
>the "Q-ing ovens", they will start to avoid McDonald's as well. As far as
>I know, that leaves three choices in Canada: Wendy's, which guarantees
>your food in thirty seconds (their food is made fresh, too, one order at a
>time); Harvey's, which does quite well for itself because of its
>continuing mandate to serve fresh food, and A&W, which is rather hard to
>find outside shopping malls.

>Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. And in the name of progress, to
>boot.

>So you know:

>Things which are not warmed in a Q-ing oven:

>All breakfast product. However, this is deceptive. Breakfast product is
>made from twenty to sixty minutes in advance, depending on the item, and
>kept in a warming cabinet. However, it is not dried in a microwave. 
>Hotcakes are the only breakfast product guaranteed to be fresh (They're
>still made on a grill, wonder of wonders).

WRONG!!  

        Hotcakes can now be made up in advance and kept in the cooler 
        until ordered.  Then they are tossed into the Q-er
        
>Pizza. Of course, this is only in Canada and certain markets in the United
>States, as far as I know. And it isn't to everyone's taste.

>Salads. Obviously.

>Fries. The day they start warming fries is the day I quit and expose it in
>every major newspaper worldwide.

>McNuggets. But these are also kept in a warming cabinet for twenty minutes.

        
        
>All times are accurate unless you happen to eat at a store where the
>managers don't care about how long the food sits. Which is most of them,
>in my experience.



>-- 
>Ken Breadner	(brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca)	Wilfrid Laurier University
>lunatic		(the BREADbox...) 	Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 
>Disclaimer: my opinions are warped. Nobody shares them.
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