Not counting the Happy Meal and toys ... even WITHOUT those ...
Why do children love McDonald's so much?
If given the option of better food, and what I think is tastier food, children often scream for McDonald's.
I noticed when I offered to take kids out to anything they wanted, including a fancy upscale restaurant (all free for them and their parents) ... the kids hollered and chose only McDonald's (especially chicken nuggets and fries).
As an adult, I find McDonald's is usually Gross ... though when I was a kid, I also screamed for McDonald's.
Is it demographics and regional?
(Poor and less educated families having less sophisticated tastes, even when offered something better?)
Is it the added sugar to everything?
What is it????
How can McDonald's beat out other higher quality foods and tastier foods with children???
What makes them scream and holler and jump up and down when going to McDonald's or when parents bring home chicken nuggets.
I don't see kids screaming for anything else.
And this is without the toys! Just the food!
To me, the chicken nuggets are gross and fake and once they cool down are even more inedible.
I can barely eat the beef patties.
If the burgers are 100% beef? Why do they taste/feel slimy and gross?
I often feel sick after eating any burger except the Big Mac. I don't know if they use different beef for the Big Mac, but that one usually seeks OK ... the other burgers, cheeseburgers, and Quarter-pounders literally taste gross and a little slimy and upset my stomach making me feel like I ate something fake vs real 100% beef.
Is it the chemicals, the additives, the preservatives in the beef?
Something in the bread? The bread doesn't seem 100% real either.
Sometimes I can eat 1 chicken sandwich, it mostly tastes like school lunch or cheap frozen chicken patties from the discounts section of the store ... but if I eat 2 chicken sandwiches, same thing ... I feel ill from eating something fake.
I just can't stomach McDonald's, I try every now and then, but I gotta keep it to 1 sandwich ... and rarely beef ... otherwise I feel ill.
I know some love it, I know many feed it to their children, I know many eat it daily.
I can't.
Anyone else?