/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16517573]

How do I stop waking up every morning and going to McDonalds in a trance and buying a Mcgriddle?

[Anonymous No.16517579]

>>16517573
I don't know man it sounds like it would be significantly easier to not do that than to do that

[Anonymous No.16517590]

>>16517579
I have to eat but I'm not cooking scrambled eggs, sausage, and pancakes every morning. So much time to cook that instead of just buying McGriddle for $4

[Anonymous No.16517591]

>>16517573
McGriddles are nasty. I prefer McMuffins.

[Anonymous No.16517595]

>>16517590
Pre-cook 20 of them and just heat one up in the microwave every morning.

[Anonymous No.16517599]

>>16517591
You're nasty

[Anonymous No.16517601]

>>16517595
The problem more is getting cancer or estrogen from the McDonalds ingredients and also saving myself money

[Anonymous No.16517622]

>>16517590
You can buy precooked pancakes or make and freeze some and slice up a big roll of sausage then freeze the patties on a baking sheet so you can grab however many you want at a time out of a freezer zipper bag. You can cook the sausage in the oven on some parchment paper (so there won't be any mess to clean up) while cooking the eggs. The pancakes can be thrown in the oven to heat up when the sausage is close to done.

[Anonymous No.16517637]

>>16517573
i thought i was the only one who did this. i got a sausage and cheese mcgriddle, a plain biscuit, a chicken and cheese biscuit, and four hash browns with a large black iced coffee

[Anonymous No.16517642]

>>16517573
this is basically me. I never touched mcdicks breakfast until 2020, before that I would either eat greekyogurt+muesli in the summer or oatmeal in the winter, with coffee. Now it's literally every workday I'm in the drivethru, they know me by name and Jada is the cute one. If I sleep in on the weekends I'll be in a panic to get to mcdick's before 10:30.

Sausage mcmufflin 2-for-2, extra butter, and a 99 cent coffee in the app. 3 bucks a day. Manageable habit. But it's every day. As you said, "In a trance". It's clearly not good, and I'm "thicker in the middle" since being off the oatmeal. But.... It's what gets me outta bed in the morning.

[Anonymous No.16517645]

>>16517637
I don't know if this is popular but I substitute folded egg for scrambled egg and it's so much better. It's three times as big and tastes way better for the same price.

[Anonymous No.16517651]

>>16517622
I might do this. any recommendations on brands? I feel like the store brand frozen pancakes are gonna suck

[Anonymous No.16517654]

>>16517642
>Now it's literally every workday I'm in the drivethru, they know me by name and Jada is the cute one.
lol. My cashier is a sweet 80 year old woman who is always happy to see me. She hates everyone who works there and shit talks them

[Anonymous No.16517656]

>>16517573
make your own at home using some english muffins.
tastes better and much much cheaper than spending $5 plus driving every day.

[Anonymous No.16517665]

>>16517573
Explain to me how anyone wants any breakfast bread besides southern biscuits. Don't you know you could have that on a southern biscuit? If it were homemade an English muffin could compete but at a chain restaurant it's just going to have the flavor of an industrial freezer in every bite.

[Anonymous No.16517671]

>>16517665
I can't bake. I've tried and they always come out bad

[Anonymous No.16517679]

>>16517651
Sorry. I don't buy store bought pancakes but maybe someone else knows a good brand.

[Anonymous No.16517685]

>>16517671
Walmart actually sells a bag of good frozen biscuits. I was surprised by them.

[Anonymous No.16517692]

>>16517685
Ok I will try

[Anonymous No.16517717]

>>16517654
I'm glad she has you to talk to! I hope she's not there under dire circumstances, I can't imagine working there at 26, much less 80. Guess I just jinxed myself. Love to her though.

But... Can I spill some beans? Jada works at my local McDonald's, and it's right next to R. Kelly's high school. In the popular imagination it's presented as the so-called "Rock'n'Roll McDonald's" downtown, at least that's what's pictured in various articles and documentaries. But this one in the neighborhood is where all the kids at his school would hang out, and where he'd go back to cruise once he was famous. It'd be a stop on my "Checkered History Tour" for sure.

[Anonymous No.16517724]

>>16517590
>having to eat breakfast

NGMI

[Anonymous No.16517732]

>>16517573
I wake up at 5AM... don't eat till 9:30am, which is usually a piece of fruit or if I worked out the day before some home made jerky.
Then for lunch it's usually some carb heavy meal...

OP, you gotta figure out how to not eat a heavy breakfast. Breakfast is the biggest meme of all time.

[Anonymous No.16517734]

>>16517732
I'm trying to bulk though

[Anonymous No.16517740]

>>16517573
Just make some shit at home. I eat 2 eggs and 2 small flour tortillas when I'm hungry for breakfast. I just make a simple egg taco with hot sauce. Add some pre-cooked sausage if you want to. Just make sure you put the tortillas on the pan for a bit. It's easy clean up too.

[Anonymous No.16517745]

>>16517734
Then eat a bigger lunch and dinner. You can eat a literal grain of rice and it'll get your digestive system going again.
If you're really trying to bulk then down a calorie dense smoothie or shake in the morning.

[Anonymous No.16517878]

Damn, I’d love me a Spam McGriddle!

The standard McGriddles sandwich consists of fried bacon, a scrambled egg flap, and American cheese between two maple-flavored griddle pancakes embossed with the McDonald's logo.

When McDonald's launched its all-day breakfast menu in October 2015, McGriddles sandwiches were initially excluded from the menu,[3] but were eventually added in September 2016.[4]

Variants
Sausage
Sausage, egg, and cheese
Bacon, egg, and cheese
Scrapple, egg, and cheese (served in the Philadelphia region)[5]
Spam, egg and cheese (served in Hawaii)[6]
Chicken (limited-time trials, exclusively in Kansas, Ohio and Florida; limitedly available in Canada as of 2020)[7][8]

[Anonymous No.16517926]

>>16517573
>How do I stop waking up every morning
Get piss drunk
>going to McDonalds in a trance
Self control
>buying a Mcgriddle?
eating a bullet might help

[Anonymous No.16517929]

>>16517740
I bet your mother cleaned your ass until you were a teenager

[Anonymous No.16518112]

>>16517573
Stop waking up

[Anonymous No.16518171]

I don't wake up early enough to get McDonald's breakfast.

[Anonymous No.16518251]

>>16517929
listenlistenlisten buddy. the accusation that one can't wipe one's own ass is certainly evocative, but there's a very particular history to it. The guy cooking his own breakfast and cleaning up after himself is NOT the guy who can't wipe his own ass.

"Can't wipe his own ass" means like, mathematics majors who come to student housing without knowing how to take out the trash. "clean it up, wagie" shit. Ignorant "Someone else will take care of my mess" stuff. Not "You can replicate fast food at home!" stuff.

to be honest I've never had anyone to talk about it with but replacing fast-food-service with instant-frozen-food has been my biggest vibe for the longest. Checkers has great fries but shit burgers? they sell them at walmart. Want croissaint-wiches and McMuffin's but BK and McDick's quit bfast at 10:30? White Castle cravings but no car ride to the hood-ass restaurant across town and only want them when you're drunk? Trader Joe's sells better orange-chicken than any Panda Express. Walmart-brand breakfast sandwiches scratch the itch. If you have a microwave and a convection-oven you're set.

[Anonymous No.16519235]

>>16517573
wake up in the afternoon

[Anonymous No.16519386]

>>16517573
Can't deny it, this is the greatest drunk/hung over food to exist. Nothing hits the spot better

[DeadVegetable !Usa74VnLFs No.16519400]

>>16517573
>For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

[Anonymous No.16519450]

>>16519400
pretentious faggot. shove your roast beef up your cocksucking ass. cunt.

[Anonymous No.16519469]

>>16517573
You order the sausage mcmuffin with egg instead

[Anonymous No.16519479]

>>16519400

[Anonymous No.16519504]

>>16517573
Stop blaming yourself, and start blaming everyone else.
Its time to get litigious. Get a powerful lawyer and sue McDonald's. Marijuana is legal here, but pot shops must be greater than 1000 feet from any schools or house of worship. Make the same argument that no McDonald's can be located withing 1000 feet of an obese person with a lack of self control. This effectively ends McDonald's forever, and your problem is solved.
Also, you deserve $175.485 Million dollars in reparations for the damages they caused.

[Anonymous No.16519602]

McGriddles are peak diabetes

[Anonymous No.16519611]

>>16517573
just buy picrel and drizzle a bit of syrup onto it. might not be exactly the same but you'll save money/time/gas, and maybe it's a bit less bad for you idk.

[Anonymous No.16519621]

For me? It's a half-can of hornel corned beef hash, mixed with sweet baby ray's bbq sauce and a spice blend of garlic powder, pepper, and salt. In addition, 2 slices of whole wheat toast (12 grain), and a fried egg on top (runny). Use the fork to open the egg and pile things onto the toast one bite at a time. Tall glass of chocolate milk to water it down.

My favorite breakfast.

[Anonymous No.16520111]

>>16517573
McGriddle is based, but with bacon instead. I'd usually get one after a morning swim practice when I was young. Wasn't a problem for me since I had just swam for two hours.

The solution is to just stop eating fast food, they make it addictive so you always want to go back and get more. Start making your own breakfast, get a Belgian waffle maker, cook some scrambled eggs, and some bacon, and that's a much better and tastier breakfast.

[Anonymous No.16520144]

>>16517573
>How do I stop waking up every morning and going to McDonalds in a trance and buying a Mcgriddle?
make a tasty breakfast at home instead.
there is a ton of breakfast breads that keep great in the freezer. even pita aren't half bad?
in the time it takes me to toast a biscuit, that I made in the day or two prior, minus two minutes to heat the pan, I can cook an over easy egg and ham slice or reheat some bacon that is also cooked ahead of time. In literally 6-7 minutes you could be eating like a king with actual tasty coffee.
you can freeze biscuits before or after baking them, to help prep and cooked bacon lasts a long time
but damn I remember those chicken mcgriddles in 2016 and I was doing exactly what you where doing, almost in a trance

[Anonymous No.16520164]

>>16519621
Your post manages to make the OP look less pathetic
Sorry

[Anonymous No.16520193]

>>16517573
You're addicted OP, lol, they're that good. A drive-thru line is too much for most people, daily. Too much.

There are some alternatives to this pancake bun, I think. There is a maple flavored, banana bread, pumpkin spice, and other rotating seasonally flavored Thomas' English muffins. Even their corn muffin flavor is kind of delicious and honey-like, which they also sell in a kind of pancake sized disc.

Eggo and other brands aren't just waffles, but pancakes, and some are similar to the McGriddle maple flavor. Making your own isn't a bad bet, because they really do freeze well. And, there are precooked bags of frozen sausage patties, where the cost per unit becomes really cheap when you nuke them 30 seconds on a paper towel. You can microwave a single egg in a glass ramekin in the shape of a disc.

[Anonymous No.16520660]

>>16517573
Have you ever thought of buying a bunch of Jimmy Dean Maple Pancake Sandwiches and making the rest at home?
I have a short recipe

[Anonymous No.16520719]

>>16517573
Just make your own

[Anonymous No.16520749]

>>16517573
You need to find the fun in cooking lad.
Nailing a recipe perfectly, getting better at chopping and dicing quickly and precisely.
Never gonna make it if you find cooking to be a chore.

[Anonymous No.16520792]

>>16517878
Hawaii Mcdonald's?

[Anonymous No.16521187]

>>16517573
do amerifats really?

[Anonymous No.16521214]

>>16517591
Same
Corn syrup does not belong on breakfast sandwiches

[Anonymous No.16522016]

>>16517573
it's a shit sandwich, it is way too sweet for me. perhaps you should make your own breakfast at home. It will be much better, i assure you

[Anonymous No.16522027]

>>16517573
Eat a mango or other sweet fruit before leaving the house? Get the good sausage from the Whole foods fresh meat section and cook that instead?

[Anonymous No.16522253]

>>16517590
Just make the eggs and skip the rest of that horseshit. I bet your hands are greasy immediately after washing them, you sweaty pig.

[Anonymous No.16522275]

>>16517590
skip the pancakes, eggs + sausage takes 3 min to make total. 5 min if you count preheating the pan
there's no way a trip to mcdonalds is quicker than that

[Anonymous No.16522292]

By purchasing groceries and eating at home. You might need suggestive techniques like leaving your wallet in the backseat, so as to create a mental and physical disconnect.

[Anonymous No.16522295]

>waking up hungry
???????

[Anonymous No.16522297]

Go to the bathroom sink first thing in the morning and splash cold water on your face. You'll know it worked when you gasp involuntarily. Congratulations, you have triggered your mammalian diving reflex, rebooted your vagal PNS, and are no longer in a state of dissociation. Now you are free to make the decision not to go to McDonalds.

I suggest rewarding yourself by making a superior version of basically the same thing at home
>>16517590
It seems like a lot of work but it's not, break it down into its parts:
>fry 1 egg while microwaving 1 frozen sausage patty
>2 3" pancakes, that's like half a cup of batter total and takes the most time at 5 minutes
clean the other dishes while you wait on the pancakes, clean-as-you-go is the shit
IMO honestly just skip the pancake and use whole wheat toast. Don't forget salt pepper butter and maybe a tart hot sauce like cholula if you like that. You could use blueberry pancake mix if you wanted... change anything you want really

[Anonymous No.16522301]

>>16522295
Lmao, this. I drink enough the night before to stop peristalsis in my sleep so I always wake up with a stomach full of half-digested food and booze to start my day.