Breakfast Nomination #3 - McDonald's on Princes Street

Breakfast nomination #3 - McDonald's on Princes Street. 

Nominated by our former colleague, Weebl. 

Originally reviewed on June 28th, 2015 

"Fuck you, Weebl!"

His score: 0.5/6 
My score: *dry heaves*

He ate: a bacon and egg McMuffin (£3.39) (though actually ordered a double sausage and egg McMuffin) and a breakfast tea (99p). Food came with a hash brown as a "meal". 
I ate: a bacon, egg and "cheese" bagel (£2.09), also with the hash brown in the meal and a tea (99p)
Total cost: £7.46

Our pros: quick food; cheap; lots of seats, and "tea" "condiments" supplied.
Our Cons: lacklustre service; disgusting food i.e. stringy bacon and plastic-like processed cheese; flavourless tea; depressing atmosphere; useless staff, and they got Gary's order wrong.

Our experience: So, for obvious reasons Gary and I were extremely sceptical about doing this nomination, hence why we put it off for a fortnight. 

Also because we knew they stopped serving breakfast at 10:30am, the idea of getting up that early on a Sunday to eat a fricking McDonald's was not the most appealing of ideas BUT WE FUCKING DID IT. 

The entire experience was everything we thought it would be and more, i.e. disgusting, depressing and made us contemplate our poor life decisions that had led us to that point. 

The staff at McDonald's (unsurprisingly for 10am on a Sunday) looked like they were ready for death, any time, any way just preferably soon.

The guy mixed up Gary's food order though I'm not sure how hard it is to get two small orders right when we were the only customers in the place. 

The food was really disgusting and the processed cheese made me feel sick. 
The bacon was stringy and fatty and the tea just tasted like hot water as all the sugar seeped to the bottom and glued itself to the bottom of the cup, stubbornly refusing to mix with the McDonald's "tea". 

The milk supplied came in a plastic tube and looked like cloudy water. 

I couldn't even finish my food and felt sick whilst eating it. Hell, I feel sick looking back at the images. 


Thankfully we've now got this nomination over and done with so we will NEVER, EVER have to do this again. 

I would NOT recommend McDonald's breakfast - it's cheap but it's cheap for good reason.

All we could think of whilst sadly munching our flat McMuffins was how the hell did Morgan Spurlock eat this shit 3 times a day, every day for 30 days? 
If I knew I had to go back and eat lunch and dinner there today, I'd rather stay at home and starve. 

What’s next:  the Southern, nominated by Simon Messer.