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Amy Spencer says: Were you defending me againest spong     The McRib by Joe About every couple years a wonderful thing happens that gives me a new reason to eat out. No, I’m not talking about the Olympics, it wasn’t even a good guess. Christmas and All Saints Day would be other bad guesses. What I am referring to, however, is that delectable dish at Mickey D’s that’s so eloquently named the McRib. This word McRib may not be recognized by your average spell-checker, but to the seasoned fast food eater, it’s a staple on his Desert Island Menu. For those of you who don’t have the pleasure of knowing what the heck I’m talking about, I know there’s a ton of you out there, but I’m mean about this particular subject here. The McRib is a "specialty menu item" on the McDonald’s menu. At least it is in California, where they make us wait to have it, and then once we get it they take it away! McDonald’s description of this dish is "processed pork shaped like ribs, with pickles, onions, and BBQ sauce." Although this might be the quickest way to describe the McRib, I would happily refurbish this by adding that it’s might-righty tasty! What makes the McRib so special? Well, first off, it’s only offered occasionally. My guess is that whatever meat this great sandwich is made from comes from an animal that is pretty hard to hunt, hence, making it harder to stockpile the delicious ingredients to eventually appease the masses. The up side to the limited time deal is that the public will want it more, and respect it more when it’s available. If you had a backyard full of rocks, rocks wouldn’t be all that cool. But if you’d never seen a rock before, you’d surely be amazed once you had. Apply this to the McRib, but don’t go eat any rocks. I assume the next attraction lies in the aesthetics of the McRib. The most noticeable being how it resembles every other McRib ever made. These things are identical, and still, we eat them. When creating this carbon copy sandwich, McDonald’s took great consideration in forming the actual "patty" as it has such detail you can actually see a rib-like texture, the beauty part of this maneuver is… NO BONES! The actual meat looks like a sort of "particle board" of meat. Looks to me like they took bits of other meat and compressed it into one piece, bathed in sauce. Speaking of the sauce... The "mystery meat" is dunked in a reddish barbecue sauce that is unlike any I’ve encountered before. Fortunately, the uniqueness of the sauce is equal or greater than the strangeness of the meat. My personal opinion on the McRib is one of respect. I love these things and often eat them 3 days straight! But after analyzing the sandwich, it doesn’t seem nearly as tasty as it actually is. So much for science. The only question I have about the McRib is: Why pickles? Who puts pickles on anything barbecued "Ronald McDonald is known to children around the world. He now speaks in 20 languages, including Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Russian. " Post a comment in response: |
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