It is not hard to imagine the meeting that birthed this product.
"People, we're takin' a lickin' on the chicken."
Chicken McNuggets are so vile that they have earned a place as a featured rage recipient on the Angry Arab's page. He is nowhere near as angry as he should be about them, though.
The little grey blobs of what unconfirmed reports claim is chicken have become an international symbol of everything that is revolting and wrong with fast food, so it is no surprise that McDonald's, after several years of this, finally noticed and decided to take action.
According to the commercials, the new Select Chicken product is so delectable that your loved ones will attempt to wrest it from you if you leave it unattended for even a nanosecond. I was skeptical, but I like to keep an open mind, so I decided to give it a shot.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that my preferred fast food chicken is KFC Original Recipe, so I was prepared to find the McDonald's Chicken Selects to be too crispy for my taste, and I was not disappointed.
They are very crispy.
To say the quality and overall taste were an exponential improvement over the dreaded McNuggets would be to damn the Selects by faint praise, I am afraid that is about all I can offer.
I found them comparable to Popeye's Chicken Strips, which are not bad, but they are not very good either. Like the Selects, they are very crispy.
McDonald's seems to have gone out of its way to maintain the Selects' seasoning level safely below anything that might cause the consumer to perceive flavor of any kind. I assume this is just good marketing, since quite a lot of Americans, especially children, prefer their foods to be as flavor-free as possible, but for those of us who do not feel that we have eaten unless our eyes water and our tastebuds fire rocket launchers, McDonald's Chicken Selects offer scant enchantment value.
Article comments
1 - Jason Koulouras
Good critique - the only time we eat at McD's is very rarely for breakfast. We have given up on them for the lunch and dinner options.
In trying to please everyone they end up pleasing no one. I have noticed this trend in keeping food flavour free especially for kids in restaurants as well.
Kids get used to what they are exposed to so we make sure our kids get a wide range of flavours and cultures when it comes to food. As such, they have a wide range of tastes from Middle Eastern to Japanese to Spanish to East African foods. McD's is the cultural antithesis to such an approach to food.
Loved your book links - some good choices there.
2 - bob jones
I think that mcdonalds is great, sometimes i watch the young girl that works there and imagine we are lovers ! lol
oh god she is great!
3 - Clever Funny Guy
Hi, my name is steve, and ( i know this sounds desperate) but i am really looking for that special someone to fulfill my life, i make a great dad (even though i'm kidless!)
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4 - Chauncy Thighs
I like mcdonlads. The woman who serves me is big and greasy, I love watching the way she licks the sweat from her brissled top lip and groans. I love thinking about her chaffed thighs, and dreaming about her rolling around naked in a bucket of sweaty chickens,some of them still alive. I like to think about licking her her dirty, ohh so dirty, back pimples clean. I like to think about spewing in her rolls, then lying down and letting her excrete dirty filth on to my chest.
5 - Lemy
hi my name is lemondray
well i am here to complain about the cheese burger sizes, there just not big enough how can i fit them in my enourmous mouth its stupid.
they are a mere snack compared to my home grown cheese burger. ITs a mix of cat meat, curdled cheese, three bottles of sauce and a sl;ice of crispy bacon ontop its just lovely i recomend you reallly try it
6 - LOL
hi im 11 i really like macdonalds it fun expeciallly when they had the lego in the happy meals, but i was so disppointed in the duplo happy meal and one time i got a girls meal instead of a boys one what a flippy discrace it made me feel yukky.
But one thing i really like is the new pasta zoo those plasticay bits of pasta shaped liked animals is so fun weeeeeee.
my friend jeremy says im imature i hate jeremy
7 - catherine mollson
ok you guys are stuipid grow up this interent site is not for your intertainment. i am dissapointed in the way you are behaving, also making false names are really stuipid- get a life
have a nice day
catherine
8 - Jet in Columbus
I didn't know this was an interent site???
9 - Dr Dreadful
Yes, Jet, you can rent the articles out at very reasonable rates. Some of them can seat five people with their luggage and for a small extra cost you can upgrade to an SUV.
BTW, have you actually scrolled up and read this article? It's freakin' hilarious.
It's one of the great things I enjoy about BC - how some random comment on an old piece can lead you to some gem you never knew was there.
10 - Jet in Columbus
By strange coincodence McDonald's was giving away free chicken sandwiches today with the purchase of a beverage. I thought it was a review of their new product... silly me.
11 - Ruvy
Actually, dudes, this article was great writing. A man wrote about manure in the shape of a chicken strip and had me laughing all the way through the article.
Reviewing Mac&Don's dog food? What a joke! But Ductapefatwa, who appears to no longer contribute here, pulled off the job with class and style.
They have Mac&Don's dog food here in Israel, and those who must indulge in their trough of trash can indulge in the non-kosher restaurant at the Central Bus Station in J-lem or downtown, the kosher version of dog food in Mevasseret Tzion and numerous other non-kosher outlets throughout the country.
But frankly, you would do better to root through a garbage pail for lunch than to eat Mac&Don's dog food - it's cheaper.