In the intervening year since the last appearance of McDonald’s McRib sandwich , I will cop to having succumbed to trying a late night McRib after decades of wondering what they were all about.
It was glorious! Rapturous! A rib-flavored delight coated in high fructose corn… I’m sorry. I can’t do this. It was one of the most awful things I’ve put in my mouth, and I’ve eaten at Olive Garden, so that’s saying something. I have no idea what kind of marijuana you McRib fans are smoking, but I bet it’s the kind from California that makes your whole second floor smell like Otto’s jacket, and I am jealous.
Yet every year, fans make a bit of noise when the McRib hits McDonald’s shelves and every year the press fawns over the sandwich’s reappearance as if it’s been gone for decades, not a few McRibless months. The elusive McRib, as you probably (hopefully) know if you’ve ever eaten one, isn’t even a Rib- which makes sense because people would totally be biting into it and breaking teeth or choking and stuff if it was. What it is is a ground pork patty, shaped to give off the illusion of ribs, drowned in gluey-sugar barbecue sauce, dressed with onions and served on a soft roll that may well be the McRib’s most redeeming feature.
Depending on the jurisdiction of your McDonald’s, the McRib became available on October 24th or even earlier. And if you are in such a McRib related frenzy you can’t cope with circling the local McDonaldses to find the McRib nearest you, you might want to check out the McRib locator to minimize the time and space between your mouth and ribby goodness.
Are you a McRib fan? Have you gotten your first McRib of the season yet?
