From: brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca (breadner ken u)
Subject: Re: McD's
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:44:20 GMT

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).

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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