I had supper at the 41st and Shirley McDonald's in Sioux Falls tonight, a block west from Barnes and Noble. The place certainly looks fancier than when Mom and Dad took me there on our Sioux Falls grocery trips—oh my!—35 years ago. (Hey! Anyone else remember going to Prairie Market and writing prices on cans with those red pencils?)
Maybe McDonald's could go back to spending less on decor and more on cheese:
I've had crackers larger than that cheese. At least they loaded me up with tartar sauce.
No shortage of irony, though. The decor included books, safely removed from the reach of greasy, tartar-saucy fingers:
Among the titles facing the counter: The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.
Do you take every sandwich apart after you buy it? When I go to Mickie
D's I would rather not look, just eat and run. Ignorance is bliss :-)
Cheese speculators at work, Cory. Cheese speculators. Wisconsin's controversial union-busting bill leads to risk assessment by many in the nation's dairy industry. - Doyle Redland reports!
http://www.theonion.com/audio/us-fastfood-chains-agree-to-voluntary-cheese-limit,19329/
If the sandwiches are small, at least you can fill up on grease and irony!
I remember Prairie Market in Mitchell. As a kid it was fun to push the enormous pallet-cart around and mark the cans with grease pencil. Wow, that's been a long time ago.
Cory, next time side-step the deep-fried grease, white bread bun and blob of oily tartar sauce for a MarketFresh sandwich next door at Arby's...loaded with lettuce, turkey, onions, whole grain bread, tomato and big slice of real cheese!
We actually ate at Hardee's on Minnesota Street. Had a Frisco and dad had chicken. The sandwich was big and the meat outsized the bun. Very good meal. Miss the Hardee's we had here.
There is a rumor that Rapid City might get a Whole Foods along with it's new Walmart on South 5th. But I think that's all it is... A cruel rumor.
The recipe for the fish sandwich has not changed. In the early 70's when I worked at Mc Donalds it called for a 1/2 slice of cheese. I also remember Prairie Market and marking the prices.
Gross! dont' eat there. Eat at Qdoba's if you must eat at fast food.
Buy a banana and forget about McDonalds, etc. Bananas come with a biodegradable wrapper.
When my now grown children were little twerps in the 3 to 8 year range, we ventured up to Pierre, SD, and they just about went nuts when they saw the McDonald's arches. We had to stop there. For years they had seen those exciting McDonald ads on TV with sparkling rainbows or whatever and had a fantastic image in their minds of what would happen once we ventured in.
It was a very healthy indicator of the deceptive nature of most advertising. I think it stuck with them until now.
"I remember Prairie Market in Mitchell. As a kid it was fun to push the enormous pallet-cart around and mark the cans with grease pencil. Wow, that’s been a long time ago."
Me to, we once hit my mom in her achilles with the cart. She was not happy.
I laughed out loud! Your photos and descriptions are great! I NEVER go to a McDonald's.. not even for coffee or even water. Google MCD's non-decomposing hamburger documentaries. This food never decomposes... no mold, rot or even odor.... I swear, it's fake food!! Maybe petroleum byproducts?