Finally, a quick way to end my life from a McHeartAttack.

I hate made up words for food. I feel like a fool when I have to order something by the made up company word for the item.

Yep, it's national. I saw it too and freaked out. However a cheeseburger I believe is still more expensive than both a double cheeseburger and the McDouble.

Hmm... adding a piece of cheese to the McDouble costs twice as much as adding the same piece of cheese to a hamburger. I suppose the pricing was never meant to make sense, but I thought I'd point that out anyway.

It hit Tucson, AZ a couple of weeks ago. I order(ed) double cheeses from the dollar menu on occasion. The register person called my attention to the change when I ordered. It's OK with me. I like the single slice of cheese better anyway..not as heavy.

SWEET! I now know the cost of a slice of cheese at McD's!

Saw my first "McDouble" on the menu last night while visiting the Pittsburgh, PA area. I wondered what the heck it was.

I assumed it was some way to allow them to use an even lower grade of "beef" since they were no longer calling it a burger.

Hearing that the only difference is one slice of cheese instead of two is...interesting.

i saw the phrase "in the wild" and thought of an lolcat being chased by a cow...

DAMN YOU!!!

It is here in the Nashville, TN market as I overheard two teenage "dude" wingnuts bitching about it Wednesday night at McD's while there with my children. One wingnut was telling the other that he had called corporate McD's and bitched at them for the change.

As an aside this McD's just scraped the old building and build a new smaller one. They ditched the play area and now have three free video game touch screens available for children to play. I thought, game over, the US is screwed now. But it makes sense to attach children with what they all want to do now....

@econobiker:

if your new McD will be anything like we have here in texas, those video games will not last a month and McD will NEVER fix them.

Doesn't make it any less disgusting.

Why not remove one slice of cheese and keep the name? That not only spends less money per burger but there is no added cost of having to make new signs. Dumb.

its practically health food now!

I just noticed the McDouble on the menu at the drive thru 15 mins ago in MA. I orded a mcchicken because I am not blessed with bi-lingualism and did not bring a translator with me. Without either I did not want to enter into a conversation about the menu change as I would not have understood.

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I had some in KC yesterday for lunch. I still prefer the double cheeseburger.

@Kyattsuai:

Further, cheese appears to be more expensive than McD beef. It costs 19 cents to add a piece of cheese(upgrade from mcdouble to double cheeseburger) but only 1 cent to add a piece of hamburger(upgrade from cheeseburger to mcdouble). Further confusing, it costs only 11 cents to add a piece of cheese and a patty(upgrade from hamburger to mcdouble). It's MADNESS and we'll be lucky to live through it!!!

@NumberFiveIsAlive: Then you'd be wanting the Butter McCheese

Can't say that I actually go to McDonald's . . . . is that a bad thing?

@PacmanJr_00: they get a deal on the recycled cardboard used in the mcbeef patty

Well, this is great: it's a low-fat version of the double-cheeseburger!

Sign me up for six of 'em!

My local McD's does not have the "McDouble"; however, the dollar menu does say "Double Hamburger With Cheese", and the "Double Cheeseburger" has been moved to just above the dollar menu at a $1.29 price point, IIRC.

Oh we've been seeing that in MA for over a month now people! My wife and I finally asked what was the difference and it was just 1 slice vs. 2. Either way, I can't tell the difference!

Nothing like good old heart clogging foods while you're not doing holiday shopping!

@Kyattsuai: Adding cheese to one patty is easy... two patties? Way way way more complicated. And when there already is one slice?

Trust me, you do not want to see that go wrong. Half the increased cost is training, the other is surely insurance.

I saw the McDouble on a menu at least 2 weeks ago if not longer here in Boston.

@ajmccoll:If you think about it, all words are made up. None of them really exist at all, outside of our shared cognizance them.

Been on the menu in central PA for about a month.

"I had been waiting for it to happen but last night was a bit of a shock ... we pulled to the window to pay and it was $2.65"

Oh noes! $2.65 for two sandwiches!

This guy is gonna be in the ICU if he actually reads a newspaper...

@katylostherart: Wouldn't that be 2 cows?

Burger King changed the naming system on their drinks and fries; King is now called Large, Large -> Medium, small fries and drink are "value", for their place on the value menu. I'm not sure if they call what used to be medium "small" or "regular" or whatever. Anyone else see that?

@HungryMohican:

I still think you're on to something here. Didn't McDonalds have to stop refering to their swirled soft icecremekelp drinks as "milkshakes" because of a similar reason?

I can proudly say it's been well over a decade since I've eaten anything at McDonald's, and that allows me to exclude myself from this discussion of the price of a slice of cheese.

Wait...

Dammit, I just included myself in this.

@Sarge1985: hey man you can make a lot of cheeseburgers from one cow.

@Kyattsuai: It's in the collating. They have to hire more qualified workers.

@VeeKaChu: That's obviously what he meant. ajmccoll is incredulous that he/she cannot order food by mentally projecting images of food.

@HungryMohican: You might be onto something huge - is there a lower grade of meat? Did you discover it? I bow down to you.

I had one yesterday. I prefer it to the plasticky ooze you get from the two slices of cheese.

Cheese is fat and calorie-tastic anyway, and I'd rather blow that on the fries.

Hmmm... can you order short, tall and venti burgers anywhere?

Flash, just of the newspress:

McDonalds has just created the McCheese. Its a single burger with two pieces of cheese. The profit margins are greater! You heard it first here. :)

The McDonalds at my Walmart has a McDouble on their dollar menu. The double cheeseburger is 1.19. I don't see the big deal here. Yes, I am getting fewer calories for my dollar but really I can do without an extra 75 calories (guessing) that are mostly fat.

I tried it at a McDonalds in California last week (Laval Road West off the Grapevine). I noticed the menu change and asked for a McDouble instead of the Double Cheeseburger. Couldn't really taste a difference.

@ajmccoll: I still say small, medium, and large at starbucks. I refuse to use italian words against my will.

Ugh! Cheese on a hamburger. That's some nasty stuff. How people eat something that comes OUT of a cow on top of something that's MADE FROM a cow makes no sense to me. It's freaky, and it skeeves me out. I just imagine some farmer somewhere saying "Now, Bossy- I'm gonna take your milk and turn it into cheese, and then later on we'll put the cheese onto a tasty burger we'll make as soon as your calf there gets big enough to get sent to Mr. Butcher."

I loves me some burgers, but it always seems like cheese is the final insult to the bovine species.

It's interesting that this pops up once gas prices drop and the costs of that extra slice of cheese is no longer more expensive.

@bagumpity: They are both made from cows. And both technically come out of a cow.

@Kyattsuai: I'm sure the additional 90% increase in cheese layering cost goes mostly towards the production of the necessary training video on the unique steps to make the new sandwich.

I'm just wondering why they're passing along that expense to the customers of the double cheeseburger instead of the new sandwich itself.

@josephbloseph: I saw that sometime around Thanksgiving.

The McDouble showed up on my local's menu earlier this week. I ordered it and was surprised to discover that it had two patties and two pieces of cheese!

I'm guessing that the minimum wage worker who built my repast had either not been properly trained or just didn't care.

Saw it for the first time Wednesday night. Remember that old commercial with the Indian who had one tear rolling down his cheek?

Yeah, that was me in the drive-thru.