McDonald’s is pleased with the sales of its Angus Burger (currently available in test markets, such as LA) and is planning to release the beast on the unsuspecting Northeast.
“We’re going to be testing Angus burgers later this summer in one of the Northeast markets,” said King, McDonald’s East Division president. “With all test products we want to get a sense of different geographies and demographics so we’re going to take it around the block here in the East.”
Just in case you were wondering, the third-pound Angus with Bacon and Cheese packs 820 calories, 43g of fat, and 65g of carbohydrates. Combined with a large package of french fries (570 calories) and a large Coke (310 calories)… Your Angus Bacon and Cheese lunch provides you with 1700 delicious calories in one meal.
Anyway, the pictures make the burger look pretty tempting, but since we’ve not eaten a McDonald’s burger in 12 years, (don’t ask, you don’t want to know) we’ll probably be able to resist. How about you?—MEGHANN MARCO
McDonald’s to expand test marketing of Angus burger [LA Times]
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rarely go to mcdonalds. however *hangs head in shame* earlier tonight, on my way home from work, i was starving. saw a mcdonalds and said, hey! i’m gonna try that angus burger. i got one w/bacon + cheese. i liked it. but since i eat maybe one burger a year, don’t have much to compare it to. it was juicy, tasty and fresh. i’d consider having another one.
@mic_dee:
I agree, our boss bought the office these for lunch when it first came out. It was actually very different from typical McD’s food. But it was a rather large burger, I didn’t finish it, or the fries.
How Dare ye insolent Fools Doubt That angus!
That Angus Demands your respect and Worship!
If thy Does not comply with that angus, YOU WILL RUE THE DAY you conspired against such a powerful sandwich! It will swoop down on ye like a Tasmanian tiger and ravage your soul with its sharp poppyseed teeth.
Dry you say? Leathery you say? FOOLS! What doth thy want!? If thy seeks the ultimate burger than that angus will satisfy your endless quest for such a thing, And if thy searches for conflict with That angus, THEN CONFLICT THY WILL GET
That Angus Will Powerfullly jet from the sky to your skull in a chesey firey heap, and will suffacate you and others of your anti-angus clan with its mighty buns!
THERE IS NO STOPPING THAT ANGUS, IT WILL EXPAND INTO AN EVER GROWING DICTATORSHIP AND WILL EVENTUALLY CONTROL THE ENTIRE WORLD, PEOPLE WILL FILL THE STREETS HAILING THAT ANGUS AND ALL OF ITS INGREDIENTS, THERE WILL BE A CULT OF PICKLE, A CHURCH OF BACON, A MULTI MILLION DOLLAR KETCHUP FOUNTAIN,
SO GO OUT THERE ARE GET THAT ANGUS AND WHEN YOU DO DONT FIGHT THE URGE TO GET OUT OF YOUR SEAT AND SAY WHAT THE ANGUS’S SAY, “I GOT THAT ANGUS, I PWNED THAT ANGUS, I LOVE THAT ANGUS”
SO THAT ONE DAY, WHEN YOUR CHILDREN ASK “daddy when did you have your first angus” and you will PROUDLY reply “SHUT UP HO, IM EATING THAT ANGUS!”
@oncewascool: “Angus beef implies that it is American beef instead of that stuff that is packed in Australia with sugar added, and froze”
I’m quite slack-jawed that someone in this day and age trumpets the USA as it being a source of meat goodness.
US meat, in places that knows better, is shorthand for:
Salmonella, E Coli, Cloned Beef, Hormones, anti-biotics and Genetically-modified food.
Jeezus, man, you can’t even EAT the stuff without burning it to a charred crisp, according to the manufacturer’s (don’t call them ranchers or farmers) guidelines.
Sure there USED to be a time when we had great meat. But if I were anyplace else in the world, I’d avoid US meat second only to Chinese pet food.
Our agribusiness knows how toxic they’ve made their product. They don’t let consumers even be notified via packaging labels. Since they KNOW consumers would reject their “enhancements” if they had the choice.
I’d take Aussie Beef or French meat in a NY second over US meat. You’d be a fool not to.
First, watch “Supersize Me” if you doubt the pernicious effects of McD’s and all other fast food restaurants. Next, being as I live in SoCal, if this will get those damn commercials off the air (they are of a couple, three guys from Philly or Boston extolling the benefits of this glorious slab of whatever), then I am all for it. For those that don’t value their lives, of course.
How you people still eat McD’s is utterly beyond me. Then again, people make meth by the bathtub, so I really shouldn’t be surprised.
Um, and I didn’t know that you can get “angus meat” from monkeys. Way to go, McDonald’s Corporation!
@FredTheCat: Gotta go with you on this one – the $6 Burger from Hardees/Carls rocks !
For the same price, I’d rather have 2 Double-Double’s from In-N-Out.