The You Meal

Scott Hardie | October 7, 2020
Now that McDonald's has had success with the Travis Scott meal and a J Balvin meal, supposedly based on those artists' favorite combinations, what would your fast food meal be if you were a celebrity? Bonus points if you customize the food in some unique way like changing the toppings.

Erik Bates | October 8, 2020
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Steve West | October 8, 2020
Any fast food places have chicken salad? If so, I'd order that, add bacon and tomato and remove the crust. Side of tater tots with brown gravy for dipping. And a Strawberry Crush or YooHoo with black coffee.

Samir Mehta | October 8, 2020
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Scott Hardie | October 16, 2020
Taco Bell for me too. Start with a burrito tortilla, add chicken and Mexican rice and a double portion of three-cheese blend, melt it in the steamer, and add white onion and sour cream before rolling it up. It comes out so cheesy, gooey, creamy, and satisfying. Make it an even less nutritious meal by adding a side of cinnamon twists and either a Dr Pepper or Mtn Dew, and you'd have what I ate pretty often while working at Taco Bells in college. (Technically the meal that I ate most often was "whatever customers abandoned after ordering and was left under a heat lamp in case someone else wanted it," because that was free, but this cheesy chicken burrito was second.)

I was originally going to limit this discussion to McDonald's in the spirit of the original celebrities, but I almost never customize food at McDonald's, outside of requesting a specific sauce for chicken nuggets. It didn't even occur to me until Erik said it that I could swap out the beef patties. I so miss the recently discontinued bagel sandwiches at McDonald's that I've been tempted to bring home their other sandwiches and insert the contents into toasted bagels myself, but at that point I should just make my own bagel sandwiches from scratch.

I will have to try some of the above. Thanks for the ideas. :-)