It's a grim fact of reality that fast food never looks as good as it does in commercials. So how do restaurants manage this photographic sleight of hand? This behind-the-scenes video of a McDonald's photo shoot has all the answers.
Fear not, fast food aficionados -- if you're headed to London for the 2012 Olympics, you won’t have to force yourself to choke down any of bangers and mash. Instead, you’ll have a chance to eat at the world’s biggest McDonald’s. But get in line soon, because the 1,500 seat restaurant will only be open for six weeks.
On Sunday, a young man seemingly drew inspiration from the mischievous McDonaldLand character Hamburglar and stole a $20 bag of food from a McDonald's drive-thru in Maine. It's unclear whether he shouted "Robble robble!" while escaping.
McDonald's Shamrock Shake usually comes once a year around St. Patrick's Day, but as the holiday passes, so does the elusive tasty beverage. Now you don't have to be in March (or Irish) to enjoy one year round.
Once a year, the McRib pops up on the McDonald's menu for a short period of time and fans of the pork sandwich sing its praises to the high heavens.
But something is happening in Austria that will shake the foundation of any McRib connoisseur. It's called the McRibster, and it suggests that the McRib is not the perfection that some claim. Rather, it's just a start.
Erin Carr-Jordan, an Arizona mother of four, received a letter from a lawyer informing her that she had been banned from eight McDonald's restaurants in the Phoenix area.
Why? Most likely because Carr-Jordan has made it her business to document filth at fast food restaurants ever since she lodged a complaint about a dirty McDonald's play area that went ignored.
If you've had a McDonald's hamburger over the last ten years, you've also consumed something that critics have dubbed "pink slime," which consists of spare beef trimmings soaked in ammonium hydroxide to make them edible for humans. Still lovin' it? We didn't think so.
You've probably noticed that more and more fast food restaurants are staying open into the wee hours of the morning or not closing at all. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, this is because McDonald's and the like are now seeing some of their best profits between midnight and five AM.
We all go through phases of having favorite foods, but for one 17-year-old British girl, it's gotten a bit out of hand -- the teen has eaten almost nothing but McDonald's chicken nuggets and french fries for the past 15 years.
There's an old joke saying the only things that would survive a nuclear holocaust are cockroaches and Cher. We'd add Keith Richards to that list, but now a Canadian nutritionist has found one more: a McDonald's cheeseburger.
Even bacteria won't eat a McDonald's burger.