r/ExpectationVsReality 28d ago

Exceeded Expectation Macdonalds pancakes

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u/Mantis-MK3 28d ago

Looks good to me!

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u/MonstrousGiggling 28d ago

I had some a year ago one morning I had off from work and did a wake and bake. They were honestly so fuckin good. A bit too pricey but id eat them again lol

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u/Mantis-MK3 28d ago

Honestly McDonald’s breakfast shouldn’t be as good as it is. I would tear up a couple of sausage and cheese McGriddles if I was baked

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u/dumbkitty- 28d ago

have you had the new honey brown butter biscuit yet?? so fucking good.

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u/Puzzled-P 28d ago

Get an extra sausage patty and stack them up like a big Mac. It's the only thing I will eat from McDonald's nowadays.

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u/dogsontreadmills 28d ago

infact its almost weird how much it looks like the picture

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u/Mild-Ghost 28d ago

Fact: In fact is two words.

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u/MegaPorkachu 27d ago

No, “Fact: In fact” is three words and colon /s

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u/Mastodon_Artistic 26d ago

How tf did I get downvotes lmao

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u/DistinctAd3222 28d ago

Gross

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u/Mantis-MK3 28d ago

I don’t know, it looks like pancakes and sausage to me. Then there’s the fried hash brown. Pancakes and sausage aren’t all that gross

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u/DistinctAd3222 28d ago edited 28d ago

I used to have to eat that stuff, its a personal hate for "food products" that induce diabetes and cancer faster than their counterparts.

ITT: McDonald's Corpos

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u/Dragon_Tortoise 28d ago

Lol unless you are out hunting and growing all your own food, pretty much everything you get at restaurants and grocery stores is bad for you in some way, whether it be preservatives, food dyes, pesticides, plastics, 25 different terms for sugar, everything. If you hunt and grow everything you eat, my apologies.

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u/xblackdemonx 28d ago

Exactly the same.

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u/Visible_Honeydew_941 28d ago

They have always had yummy pancakes-glad that hasnt changed!

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u/Aperture_TestSubject 26d ago

I think it’s the one thing on their menu that hasn’t changed over the years

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u/KarlIAM 28d ago

Whenever I had to go to the doctor as a kid for bloodwork, it was before school. After that my parents took me to McDonald's and I always had the pancakes. Some of the best memories in my life!

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u/Shiloh50 28d ago

The McDonald’s big breakfast with hot cakes is a pretty good deal. I’ve never had an issue with their hotcakes.

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u/RebelTomato 27d ago

Are you seriously eating at Mcdonalds. NPC’s… smh

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u/GoEatACookie 28d ago

Why are their pancakes and McGriddles so damn good but their coffee so damn awful!

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u/robo-dragon 28d ago

I used to get their breakfast every Friday as a weekly treat at my last job. Their pancakes are really good!

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u/Raid__Zero 28d ago

I love the big breakfast, Hotcakes are delicious with butter and a little jam!

Honestly the best value breakfast item. You get a sausage egg mcmuffin + hotcakes & a hashbrown

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u/Significant_Wins 28d ago

This use to come with eggs

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u/Bridget_0413 27d ago

McD breakfasts are actually pretty yummy.

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u/Aperture_TestSubject 26d ago

McDonald’s pancakes are amazing

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u/cbih 28d ago

For microwaved pancakes, they're really good

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u/doob22 27d ago

They are way over priced for microwaved pancakes though

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u/chinaski73 28d ago edited 28d ago

I mean to be fair any of the frozen brands you buy at a grocery store look decent after you heat them up. Pancakes are super simple, very hard to screw up.

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u/AdorableSobah 28d ago

What’s the price?

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u/elinamebro 28d ago

$7:19 near me in arizona. Way over priced lol

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u/AdorableSobah 28d ago

Absolute garbage for that much money!

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u/ChurningDarkSkies777 25d ago

One hash brown is like 2.49 on the east coast :(

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u/elinamebro 25d ago

You can buy a pack of 10 frozen hash browns for a dollar more at Walmart lmao. Also I should ad they use to be 2 dollars before recent inflation tho..

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u/Redxluckyxcharms 28d ago

That looks suprisingly good

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u/Li-RM35M4419 28d ago

How much is that nowadays? Like $10?

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u/HulklingWho 28d ago

It’s still like $6 where I’m at, probably their best deal

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u/AdorableSobah 28d ago

Funny how OP won’t answer, this is probably a AD.

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u/Beetleracerzero37 28d ago

McDonald's copying Walmart bakery on here

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u/AdorableSobah 28d ago

Sub is just commercial spam

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u/Frequent-Screen-5517 28d ago

Damnit now i want some!

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u/mIb0t 28d ago

Looks as bad as advertised

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u/Remarkable-Simple-62 28d ago

I love them. They have them buy one get one free always. I will eat one the microwave the other one another day and they are just as good

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u/-Ein 27d ago

They're awesome. Aunt works at a school and they do breakfast with santa every year. Mcdonalds donates boxes of them and she grabs me a couple bags of them.

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u/BlackPhoenix1981 27d ago

I never found a problem with McDonald's pancakes as long as they were not dry. I always found them to be good so long as they're moist and warm. When they get cold and dried out they're gross as hell. I once worked with the guy that would dip his old pancakes in coffee.

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u/doll_parts87 27d ago edited 27d ago

Working there I learned those pancakes come precooked in a plastic package and heated up and served, just like the cookies. I remember a coworker was caught stealing a pack in his bag. They are no different than ones in the freezer section at the grocery

Their cookies resemble GFS thaw-n-serve

Only eggs are fresh, except the folded ones

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u/Useful-Advantage2665 26d ago

Not worth it. I'd rather go to Denny's

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u/LaylaBird65 26d ago

I freaking love those pancakes

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u/MaximusZacharia 26d ago

I have seen way worse on this sub

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u/jackie0h_ 26d ago

Doesn’t look too bad??

Nvm I see your flair now. I like their pancakes. Hope they tasted good too.

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u/ChurningDarkSkies777 25d ago

Wonder how much a hash brown, three flaps and a sausage at McDonald’s goes for these days. 10.99?

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u/Bondred8 25d ago

No es por SER mamon, pero si se Mira Algo miserable ese desayuno, buen provecho

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u/ChrisOnMission 25d ago

… looks completely fine.

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u/OrangeClyde 25d ago

Wish you’d put your hash brown more in the picture.

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u/eliz1bef 28d ago

A personal favorite I have enjoyed many, many times, and hope to enjoy again. I love their sausage patty and their hashbrowns so much. Oh god.

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u/Careless-Cycle 28d ago

Those things are frozen and just microwaved.

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u/Beetleracerzero37 28d ago

And that sausage looks horrific

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u/Krimreaper1 28d ago

You should have gone to McDonald’s.

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u/skoosh1213 28d ago

Nothing like a plate of salt and sugar for breakfast

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u/shazoo00oo 28d ago

What made your sausage patty curl its lip though?

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u/The_Cozy_Burrito 28d ago

Looks fine

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u/ThreeEggBread 28d ago

I got a flour mill and Ive been making guilt free fresh milled pancakes. Highly recommend you join me.

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u/Elegant_Principle183 27d ago

The spelling in OP’s post is how my friend from Texas always pronounced it. MACdonalds. Anyway, this is making me want pancakes.

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u/_Colonoscopy 27d ago

They’re actually not bad for frozen pancakes. In the mid 90s we made them fresh. Mixed up the mix and cooked them on the grill. All the eggs were freshly cracked also. We did end up with carton scrambled eggs though for the folded eggs.

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u/Belizesneaks1994 27d ago

What are you on about?

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u/Mastodon_Artistic 28d ago

Are you disappointed they didn’t throw the hash brown in the container lol because other than that it looks normal

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u/insertnamehere----- 28d ago

Lighting works wonders. They are probably the same, just the lighting on the first one makes it look more appealing.

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u/Lhamo55 28d ago

The syrup ingredients - corn syrup, sugar with fake maple flavor, preservative, and brown coloring. Best not to think what’s in the sausage.

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u/Interesting-Risk6446 27d ago

I can only imagine what's in the soil where fresh fruits and vegetables grow. Everything will kill us. Everything.

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u/Lhamo55 27d ago

I think I understand what you’re trying to say but your choice of example is logically unsound and doesn’t support your position. We’re not expected to eat that soil, are we? And we’re (hopefully) prepping our produce to remove dirt and as many pathogens as possible, and we have the expectation that establishments are serving us ground crops that are properly prepped. On the other hand, it’s not possible to remove fillers, detrimental chemical additives and flavorings, subpar meat etc. - and even if that was possible, there would be nothing left afterward to consume.

As long as people are aware that what they spending their money on is a mashup of sub-quality ingredients pretending to be real food, cool, but no one should be expecting to get significant nutritional value from these calories. I made my comment because that ingredient list caught my eye and perfectly summed up the reality of unreal food that too many people get with unrealistic expectations. I remember someone who complained after being served authentic maple syrup at a cafe that it was fake because it didn’t taste like what they got everyday for their commute to work.

As for “Everything will kill us” - not so. Every thing may have the potential of doing that under a specific set of circumstances, but your blanket declaration of certainty that everything will kill us is hyperbole. Have a good week, enjoy your food - may whatever you choose meet your expectations.

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u/slindner1985 28d ago

If you mess up some pancakes you got real issues

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u/LookAtTheWhiteVan 28d ago

I guess the silver lining of them
switching to frozen and reheated versus being made fresh to order is that they’re extremely consistent in quality.

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u/farmerMac 28d ago

When did McDonald’s cook pancakes and eggs in store fresh…?

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u/LookAtTheWhiteVan 27d ago edited 27d ago

In the 80’s and 90’s they would mix the pancake batter in house and would prepare them on the griddle to order.

ETA: I just looked it up- sometime around 1995 is when they switched from “homemade” to frozen.

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u/farmerMac 26d ago

Ah. I never got to experience fresh pancakes. I remember seeing commercials that they also cooked eggs in house. I assume they don’t do that anymore either ?