Monday, September 13, 2004
Guinea Pig Editors!
"Lunch today is chickenhamcheddar sandwich from the Jewel."
This weekend the editors treked to the only McDonald's in Lisle, IL. Their mission: check-out their Oven Select sandwiches, which are being test marketed there (and, as far as Chicagoland goes, there alone). We ordered a Beef and Provelone on a toasted French roll, a Turkey BLT on a toasted French roll, and a Reuben on toasted Rye roll.
Things did not start out auspiciously. While we indeed share Quiznos' preference for mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-toasty!(tm) bread, that was the only good thing about the beef provelone, which was all-but-tasteless save the large slivers of raw onions which the sandwich was chuck-full of. The Turkey BLT fared a little better -- satisfying, but only a notch above your typical Subway(tm) fare. But the Reuben was a revelation! The mix of deli meats, sweet sauerkraut, flavorful rye bread and thousand island dressing (we suspect they were using the big mac's secret sauce) was a glorious mess. The price was right too: $4 each, though we opted for the "special value meal" which includes medium drink and either a small cole slaw or french fries. Confession: when the Eastern-European-English-Challenged cashier offered the special value meal option to us, the editors just said "yes." When the store manager handed us the bag, recounting the 3 sandwiches and adding "and a small fry" we said "wait, we wanted cole slaw" - leaving the impression that we had asked for the slaw when really had noticed while waiting that we had a choice but weren't asked which one we wanted, which you might say is no reason to feel bad except that one of the editors hates it when the people at Burger King ask if he wants fries or onion rings, as-if there are all these onion ring fans out there in Burger King land. Oh, and the slaw? Not bad -- it was near frozen, but when dealing with mayonnaise, that's a good thing!
"Lunch today is chickenhamcheddar sandwich from the Jewel."
This weekend the editors treked to the only McDonald's in Lisle, IL. Their mission: check-out their Oven Select sandwiches, which are being test marketed there (and, as far as Chicagoland goes, there alone). We ordered a Beef and Provelone on a toasted French roll, a Turkey BLT on a toasted French roll, and a Reuben on toasted Rye roll.
Things did not start out auspiciously. While we indeed share Quiznos' preference for mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-toasty!(tm) bread, that was the only good thing about the beef provelone, which was all-but-tasteless save the large slivers of raw onions which the sandwich was chuck-full of. The Turkey BLT fared a little better -- satisfying, but only a notch above your typical Subway(tm) fare. But the Reuben was a revelation! The mix of deli meats, sweet sauerkraut, flavorful rye bread and thousand island dressing (we suspect they were using the big mac's secret sauce) was a glorious mess. The price was right too: $4 each, though we opted for the "special value meal" which includes medium drink and either a small cole slaw or french fries. Confession: when the Eastern-European-English-Challenged cashier offered the special value meal option to us, the editors just said "yes." When the store manager handed us the bag, recounting the 3 sandwiches and adding "and a small fry" we said "wait, we wanted cole slaw" - leaving the impression that we had asked for the slaw when really had noticed while waiting that we had a choice but weren't asked which one we wanted, which you might say is no reason to feel bad except that one of the editors hates it when the people at Burger King ask if he wants fries or onion rings, as-if there are all these onion ring fans out there in Burger King land. Oh, and the slaw? Not bad -- it was near frozen, but when dealing with mayonnaise, that's a good thing!
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