McRib World Tour
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Anyone else want to join us? Homer and I are going cross country chasing the Mcrib from city to city...
- todelete__20
if i give you my home address will you just send them to me?
- MisterNiddles0
mcrib's good, man.
- CALLES0
The McRib makes a McComeback
The elusive pork sandwich is coming back, briefly; a barbecue without the bonesCompanies:McDonald's Corporation Common S
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MCD 92.12 -0.20Christina Rexrode, AP Business Writer, On Monday October 24, 2011, 7:36 am EDT
NEW YORK (AP) -- The McRib, the elusive sandwich that has inspired a cult-like following, is back.McDonald's Corp. plans to announce Monday that the boneless barbecue pork sandwich that is not always available in stores will be sold at all U.S. locations through Nov. 14.
It's usually up to local franchises to determine when and if they want to sell the McRib, except in Germany, the only place where it's available perennially. But McDonald's said the response was so great last November when it made the McRib available nationally for about three weeks -- the first time it had done so since 1994 -- that it decided to bring it back this year. The company declined to give specific sales numbers.
The sandwich, which is dressed with onions, pickle slices and barbecue sauce, was introduced nationally in 1982. With 500 calories and 26 grams of fat, it's slightly trimmer than the Big Mac, which has 540 calories and 29 grams of fat. And just like the Big Mac, the McRib has become a popular McDonald's offering.
There are Facebook groups like "Bring Back the McRib!!!" There are Twitter tags, where posts range from "Lucky me, the McRib is back" to "If you eat McRibs, you need to re-evaluate what it is you actually want in life." There's even the McRib Locator, a website where true believers can report McRib sightings, and even truer believers can take a road trip when one shows up within driving distance.
If the McRib is so popular, why not just offer it all the time? McDonald's likes to stoke the enthusiasm with an aura of transience.
"Bringing it back every so often adds to the excitement," said Marta Fearon, McDonald's U.S. marketing director, who added that she's not sure if the McRib will reappear in stores every fall.
And how can it be called a McRib if it doesn't have any bones? Said Fearon: "That gives it this quirky sense of humor.".
- mg330
It's made out of people meat.
- set0
Never had a McRib... they don't do it over here
- fooler0
I haven't had a McRib since the late 80's, I was a vegetarian for 10 years, and now that I'm back on the meat wagon I'm craving one of these so bad!
- eieio0
Going to chase real ribs from city to city would make a heck of a lot more sense.
- Peter0
They just had a campaign where I live, and I missed the damn thing.
Great. Now I have to wait another what...10 years?
- eieio0
"And how can it be called a McRib if it doesn't have any bones? Said Fearon: "That gives it this quirky sense of humor.". LOL sense of humor? its fucking molded synthetic meat product.
- manonthestreet0
In Thailand they have a samurai pork burger and you can get a big mac with pork patties.
- GeorgesII0
fat fucks united™
- dopepope0
I waited in line for 11 hours to get my new McRib. Now all I need is a new case. They changed the shape of the bun slightly.
- CALLES0
3. The McRib is a product of "restructured meat technology."
Rene Arend came up with the idea and design of the McRib, but it's a professor from the University of Nebraska named Richard Mandigo who developed the "restructured meat product" that the McRib is actually made of.
According to an article from Chicago magazine, which cites a 1995 article by Mandigo, "restructured meat product" contains a mixture of tripe, heart, and scalded stomach, which is then mixed with salt and water to extract proteins from the muscle. The proteins bind all the pork trimmings together so that it can be re-molded into any specific shape — in this case, a fake slab of ribs.