McDonald's Corporation

Sweet Ballz Brand Cake Balls Are a Real Thing

I was sure it was a parody. A news release touting Sweet Ballz, a Dallas-based company specializing in marble-sized confections read like a Saturday Night Live sketch. Co-founders of the company had been making cake balls for friends and family for years and had recently found a way to manufacture t ... More >>

Comprehension Crossing The Spectrum

McDonald's is Still Considering Making Breakfast an All-Day Thing. STILL.

Good job, McDonald's. You're kicking around the idea of making breakfast available all day, finally catching up with every single person who's ever had breakfast and realized it should be eaten all day every day. It's taken you long enough, and frankly we're not sure why you've kept such a reactiona ... More >>

McDonald's Reels in a Big One with Sustainable Fish at All US Locations

There's something fishy going down under the golden arches. In February McDonald's will officially launch a new item on the Dollar Menu, Fish McBites, which will pair nicely with the Filet-O-Fish sandwich. In both items, the catch-of-the-day is always wild-caught Alaskan pollock. With 14,000 store ... More >>

Fish McBites Are Back, and I Can't Figure Out Why

Last February I saw a blog post announcing McDonald's latest and greatest offering. Fish McBites were introduced at the start of Lent to give Catholics a way to torture themselves through Easter Sunday. I ordered a small cardboard container of the fish nuggets and ate two or three before I was confi ... More >>

US News Says Fast Food Is Good For You. Kinda.

A news story on US News suggests that fast food could actually be good for your health, but before you run off to McDonald's and pound a double Filet-O-Fish with fries and a large Coke, super-sized, you should read the fine print. The article describes a generic "Sharon's" choice to go to Chili's i ... More >>

McDonald's Is Going Vegetarian. Seen Wearing Skinny Jeans.

McDonald's purists (yes, they are a people), you may want to sit down. The fast food giant is set to open not one, but two of their first entirely vegetarian concepts in India next year. The first location will be in the holy city of Amritsar, near the Golden Temple. The vegetarian menu is a somewha ... More >>

McDonald's to Add Calorie Counts to Menus To Remind You You're Eating McDonald's

This coming Monday, McDonald's will let you know just how many calories you're throwing down. (If you read that sentence like the movie trailer voice-over guy it gets more ominous). According the release, the menu won't change other than you'll see a bunch of scary numbers by the chain's burgers and ... More >>

There Will Be a Bloodied, 10-Foot-Tall Pig at Walmart Today. Just So You Know.

Speaking of pork, the nonprofit, one might say PETA-like, organization Mercy For Animals, is none to happy with where Walmart gets theirs. Which at least partially explains why the group plans to have a caged, bloody pig at the Walmart Neighborhood Market at Central and Hall Street this morning at 1 ... More >>

Twitter Report: Inspired By Epic Athletes, Line at McDonalds in Olympic Park Wraps Around Building

The McDonald's sponsorship at this year's London Olympic games and their subsequent massive Olympic Park restaurant has been one of the most hotly contested issues. Well, other than that whole fencing debacle and, of course, who the hell decided the trampoline is an event but baseball isn't? Regardl ... More >>

Piss Poor

On Meatless Monday, Defending Chipotle

Nearly every time I knock the food at a chain restaurant, a few commenters jump to and tell me why chains are great. Often those comments brand me as a chain-hating snob who only wants to eat trendy food, served by a waiter with bad facial hair and a fedora. But that's not true. Mostly I just want t ... More >>

McDonald's To Phase Out Gestation Crate Pork, a Victory for McRibs Everywhere

​Last November we reported that Smithfield, the world's top pork producer, had recommitted to phasing out gestation-crate confinement at all of its facilities by 2017. Soon they could have incentive phase the questionable practice out more quickly. McDonald's announced yesterday a new initiat ... More >>

Grand Canyon Burger: The Latest in Japan McDonald's Ridiculous Big America Campaign

Burger Business​Earlier this year we approximated the possible future of Japan McDonald's bizarre Big America 2 campaign, which features four Hulk-fist sized America-themed burgers (the "Texas 2" burger featured "flavors of the Lone Star State with spicy chili beans"). Our own product pitches ... More >>

Sweet Sue Diner: Friendly, Cheap and Lots of Thongs -- That's a Sue to Love

Alice Laussade​Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she's full of sugar at Sweet Sue Diner, 3813 Bird St., 469-734-1864. At least, we think it was sugar. Something beginning with an "S" anyhow. Other times in my ... More >>

Yes, The McRib Is Back. And It's Still a Shitty Sandwich

​The McRib is back. Again. The sandwich with a cult-like following will be released nationally through November 14. McDonald's official website is pimping out McRib's return by describing the sandwiches with brazen alliteration -- tantalizingly tart pickles, sensationally savory onions, magnif ... More >>

Whitt's End: 5.20.11

​ Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Mavs got outplayed last night, plain and simple. The Rangers' loss to the Royals was more painful. Texas was one pitch from winning until .230-hitting Mike Aviles capped a gutsy 11-pitch at ... More >>

Scenes From Frisco At the Arrival of In-N-Out Burger

Photos by Patrick MichelsNever a dull moment in Frisco.As Alice related earlier this afternoon, there was a serious crowd out in Frisco for this morning's In-N-Out Burger grand opening. Covered in In-N-Out gear, giving friends a play-by-play while they stood around in line, they all had pretty much ... More >>

10 Fast Foods That Sound Like Sex Positions

Paris Hilton dives into a very 'Big Carl.' (Western bacon style)​Just about anything can take on a sexual connotation, and while efforts are being made to sex up food, what of the unsexiest of all edibles: fast food? Nope, there are still fuck-tastically named items on every drive-through menu ... More >>

Chick-Fil-A Goes Green, but Keeps the White Napkins

Chick-fil-A's first store designed to meet environmental design standards, opening this week in Fort Worth, will feature energy efficient appliances, low-flow restroom fixtures and a cistern for plant irrigation, but the fast food chain's still isn't ready to institute unbleached paper napkins.  ... More >>

Super Disappointed: NYT's Praise for Mac's BBQ Gets Chilly Reception

​The mess of wintry weather that roared through Dallas this week couldn't have been worse timed for Billy McDonald, the legendary pit master whose Deep Ellum joint made the highlight reel of New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton's four-day DFW eating tour. In a story outlining area eats ... More >>

Five Horrible Novelty Burger Trends

Via EaterWe'd like to six-shoot that Nacho Whopper outta here.​Dear Burger King, we'd like to request to live outside test markets. The fast food chain currently is testing its "Nacho Whopper" (comes in a double) in the Netherlands, and we couldn't be happier. Keep that nacho thing away from us. Y ... More >>

Cold "Oatmeal" is Hot With Trendy Breakfast Eaters

Oatmeal, once derided as dull, is now so trendy that at least one Dallas-based restaurant chain's slapped the name on a dish of uncooked rolled oats, yogurt and fruit. ​The sweet breakfast snack is officially muesli, but - after nearly a decade of name-tweaking --Corner Bakery now sells it as ... More >>

Riding With the Vice Squad As "Operation Triangle" Nets John With Infant Child In Car

Photos by Andrea GrimesEscort seeks escort. Wonder if she also babysits?​We'd just pulled up to the corner of Kiest Boulevard and Polk Street in Southwest Dallas this afternoon when a guy in a black Ford Escort rolled down his window to talk to a pony-tailed undercover vice cop. She'd been milling ... More >>

Those Burger Commercials of Yore

It's still National Burger Month, so we here at Days Gone Bite are celebrating the ultimate meat sammich with a look back at some of the more memorable fast food burger commercials.Feel free to link to your faves in the comments, as we're really just hitting the Biggies that crop up here in the Lone ... More >>

Everyone Loves Dr. Dog--Except For Pitchfork

Pairing Off: Campbell's Tomato Soup

Patrick Michels​Matching wine to tomato soup wouldn't seem all that difficult. Fine dining restaurants routinely piece together bisques and fresh purees, after all--and their sommeliers can generally cope. But in this column we don't bother to make fresh, upscale, herb infused soups. That wou ... More >>

Rules To Eat By

​An American style milkshake in part requires a blend that will stand a spoon but can be sipped from a straw without much trouble. Response to last week's ranking of ten different milkshakes, however, suggests some people really don't consider the difference between a milkshake and stirred up ice ... More >>

Burguesa Burger: Doing an America Fave the Mexican way

Extremely Big D

Take an insanely historical tour

Food For Thought 3.20.09

"Dunkin' Donuts has always appealed to the 'Everyday Joe.' We really appeal to a broader psychographic and not so much a demographic--everyone from a company CEO to a construction worker." (Casey Corrigan, spokeswoman for the doughnut chain, on the continued popularity of their coffee. While Starbuc ... More >>

What About Bob?

Laugh openly at Robert Hawkins

Last Night: Lollipop Shoppe at Sloppyworld

Strawberry Fields Never

There's the Beef

Richard Linklater's ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good

The Cowboys Smell a Rat

The Man Who Couldn't Sell The Iron Giant

Irrelevant? Us?

Does anybody listen to the media?

A Blue Christmas

The MAC's cool yule

Dem Bones

Learning can be a real workout

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

June 20

Eschewing the Fat

Interest groups battle over your next meal

Yankees, go home

Hate is such a strong, strong word

Letters

McFugue, no cheese

Beethoven and the Dead European Males clean up a notorious street corner

Buzz

What's in a name?

Hunky's serves up a great burger--hot buns, too

French, seriously

Unpretentious Bonjour unstuffs Gallic sensibility

Hot Dish

Winedale nation

A man, his guitar, and a last-chance bar on Greenville Ave.