A recent McGriddles Stack

So the last one was during the first quarter of this year. 

These are back for a while again. Eating them with pepper this time.

McGriddles is back

For a limited time albeit. Don't know if I'm imagining things but it felt like it's a little smaller.

But it is back.

Oh yes it is back.

I'm lovin' it. For real.

In spite of the insidious smothering cheap evils of fast food, the greatest of them all came out with something that had gotten me enthralled. A long time ago, it was their biscuits. Today, it's McGriddles. Their very recognizable breakfast chicken patty with a disc of egg and salty cheese snug between two slices of corn syrup soaked hotcakes. A simple yet yummy marriage of sweet and savoury. I think I'll be making efforts to go for breakfast more often.

Mega McGriddles

So, I've finally gotten round to eating one of these double pattied McGriddles and I kinda like them better than the regular ones. Simply because there's twice of that salty and peppered chicken meat underneath their sweet hot cake covers. It's a tad pricey in my opinion and would be great if it's a dollar or two cheaper.

McGriddlestacked

I cannot help but feel that McGriddles seem to get smaller as the years go by. This one also looked stumpy compared to the one from last year.

McGriddling in 2024

Feels like they've shrunk. I remember McGriddles being somewhat more substantial. I also remember saying this. The hotcake buns appear to be dryer today and I'm not tasting the "maple syrup" much. Didn't get any serviettes for a takeaway. They're operating on the cheap it seems cutting everything they can get away with. It's otherwise a guilty pleasure that gets more expensive by the year.

I'm loving it.....

....no, that would not be entirely true.

It's actually more of a love hate relationship. The love because I did grow up eating them quite a bit and there is always that little bit of nostalgia in the flavour there. What disagrees with me is the ever shrinking portions and leaps in prices for their food, some of which hasn't changed for literally decades. I would also very much prefer real pork bacon rather than turkey ones.

This McGriddles Supreme thingy. Small stuff for the supreme label. I made up for it by drizzling more of the maple syrup. Wet sticky hotcake sandwich it became.

A McGriddling experience with McD

It's true. McGriddles are back. Ordered this via app and they gave me a McMuffin Stack. I went back to change with the order slip and the first thing the auntie told me was "对啊, Muffin Stack". 😳 Strike one for McD's quality control. Anyways I told her it states McGriddle. I can attribute the error to 老花. She then went to a supervisor who promptly looked at the order and the slip and said to me "Correct, this is the stack." 😳 I told her it's a McGriddle on the order and not a McMuffin. Strike two for McD's quality control. Two layers of verification in the morning have failed to correctly identify a single incorrect order. 😓

Anyways, what I really wanted to bring up was that they took the McMuffin and dumped into the bin and gave me my order. I think - the least they could have done was to ask me if I still wanted it before wasting food and shame on McD for not making an attempt not to waste food.

Dishonesty and wastages at McDonald's

This was a random McGriddle I got because it's back on the menu. I've posted enough about them and wasn't intending to until the order mistake happened again and that kinda triggered me to just say something here about the prevalence of dishonesty and wastage at McDonald's. 

I'm pretty sure that whatever it is I wanted to talk about, doesn't just happen to me and it happens often.

In short, my McGriddle was processed incorrectly and I got a McMuffin. I wasn't paying attention at the unwrap and never realised until I took a bite of the McMuffin. After the exchange was done, I insisted that I'll keep the McMuffin with the bite and they insisted it was company policy and dumped it. Sounds familiar? I'm imagining that there'd be loads incorrect orders and wasted food by McDonalds every month.

Oh, the dishonesty part. The queue numbers for preparation and serving are time coded to meet KPIs. A large part of their KPIs for service are never met. They're just recorded as met for reporting purposes and that's why you sometimes never get your orders even though it shows that it's ready. It's ready as a record, just not for you.

McGriddling

I woke up and for some reasons felt like getting one of these - which was a good idea (imho) since I never get beyond one or two of them before they disappear on the limited runs on McD's menu. Not exactly the healthiest thing but that being said, was health usually a criteria we dwell on while deciding on something that's....yummy? It was as tasty as it has always been. More satisfying than my sandwich yesterday.

Chicken McGriddles with egg

I've never had the Chicken McGriddle before. Just a swap of the protein from their usual chicken sausage to a McChicken patty. Got this without mayo. In retrospect, I prefer the regular ones. Didn't taste bad but I don't think this McNugget-y flavour paired as well with the pancakes.

McGrddl Stck

Just clocking in another McGriddle Stack for the season before they disappear again. These should just stay on the menu.