Why Is the McRib Only Offered Occasionally and Why so Randomly?
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Poor ad placement. Nobody gives a shit about some snobby looking glasses.
I pay cash for ad free content. I realize some people have sponsors to afford to provide videos, but this is obnoxious, to put it mildly.
I actually appreciate finding out about that company considering i myself do in fact wear glasses 👓... if you guys dislike that ad so much hey guess what... its at the beginning of the video you don't have to watch it!!! Holy sh*t revolutionary idea i know.
its only seasonal only at the peak of ABORTIONS as its made of Fetus carcasses.
@@kingdingaling781 The really annoying thing is that youtube has already been putting an obscene number of ads on videos anyway. You have to sit through 2 unskippable ads just to get to their in video sponsor and then there are more ads in the middle of the video.
Got scared for a second, thought Simon was replaced in the beginning.
#cancelsimon
I was just about to click off the video because of it lol
Same here, maybe they had found something in one of his 10year old tweets lol
Same
That's Daven Hiskey, one of the... Writers? I think. I remember a few years back he did take over hosting for a few months, and I kinda miss him sometimes.
The McRib has had more farewell tours than Motley Crue.
...but not quite as many as KISS...
@@thomasborders6882 Kiss has been on their Farewell Tour since like what 2003?
Not as many as The Stones.
😂
Lmbo, that's funny.
I feel that someone made a bet you couldn't get a reference to the Holy Roman Empire into a story about the McRib. Well played.
BANQUET sells mcRibs in the frozen part of your grocery store. It’s the same boneless patty covered with BBQ sauce
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And it is just as nasty. I don't understand the appeal of McRIbs.
Not as good IMO.
Ahhh! But what about the bun?! That soft-bread, oven-like, near sour-dough perfection.
I remember listening to an interview with a mcdonalds test kitchen chef where he talked about the issue where sometimes he would ask if they could use a certain ingredient and the answer would be ‘there just isn’t enough of that on the planet right now’. What a crazy logistical issue to work around.
Yeah, really! If McDonald's really does serve ~1% of the world's population (78 MILLION people) every. Single. Day...
Yeah, it's not too hard to see them driving a species to extinction through demand.
@@benjaminoechsli1941 well that's not scary at all.
@@benjaminoechsli1941 what species is extinct because of McDonald's
@@asherdie Never said there was one. I said it was perfectly reasonable to say they could.
@@benjaminoechsli1941 no it's not. Unless your a goof.
Krustyburger regrets to inform you that we are discontinuing the RibWich as the animal it is made from is now extinct.
Think smaller with more legs
I can't help but think that the salt extraction of the protein and molding of the patty looks quite a bit like how the Ribwich is cast.
I laughed the first time I heard this and today when I read it. Thanks
lol beat me to it
Ha! The Unholy Trinity Burger - Burger Squared.
I remember when McRibs first came out. There was a lot of fanfare beforehand, and I couldn't wait to try one. But when I finally got the chance, I realized after just a couple of bites that the thing tasted awful. I haven't had one since.
More than I ever wanted to know about the McRib... and yet, I watched the whole video.
I have never eaten that😬
I want to know how people go around the ribs when eating the burger lol.
Its only shaped like ribs, but boneless except for the animal byproducts.
@@nathanhyde2079 Heh, I was kidding of course
Simon is a snake charmer!
11:20 I was a teenager working at McDonald's during the Teeny Beenie Baby crisis. 100,000 happymeals in a week sounds like a conservative estimate. We literally had elderly ladies shouting F-bombs at us when we ran out of toys.
29 cent hamburger days
Those crazy Beanie Baby days... I remember reading about the family who wasted well over $100,000 buying up Beanie Baby toys because "They're gonna be worth a lot!" And then the bottom fell out of the market...
I always thought the pause in offering the McRib was to give people time to forget it’s not really that good.
You take that back!
How dare you
False, completely false.
Agreed, it’s like they tried to hide the taste of its “meat” with all that sauce.
I miss the build your own lettuce tomato burger deal. Came in a plastic tray.
I am glad there is a channel that unapologetically tackles the tough questions. Thank you Simon!!
He pronounces "Mattel" in a really odd way that makes me think he might be an alien.
He also mispronouned Natick. It's not "naa-tick", it's "nay-tick". But he gets a pass on this, because he's from "old" England, not "New England". :P
mattle
Everything he says makes him sound like an alien to me lol
Go forth, Matt-El, and forge your new Dysnatsy on this remote world
Who gives a f*ck.. Got totally of the subject
I love that you used the infamous Winston cigarette commercial as a clip for the Flintstones 🤣🤣🤣
"Why Is the McRib Only Offered Occasionally and Why so Randomly?" Isn't that obvious? People want more what they can't have.
Yeah, you could probably make a good buck making a 5 second video about it .......
Depends on the country.
Overhere they sell temporarly special burgers normaly sold only in other countries.
If that burger is liked its often sold out early.
Once i have seen a fight between customers break out because he bought the last burger.
Also they make special burgers who are designed for that market.
I get the concept, but I still disagree on the execution. I grew up in the UK...the last time I saw a McRib in the UK was many many years ago, possibly not even this century and it was super popular at that time. Now I live in China, where pork is cheap and indeed the favorite meat. No attempt to launch the McRib here. Finally, note that the McRib is very popular in Germany even while always being on the menu. I really don't think they're playing this game optimally.
Yes... people are stupid.
The McRib is absolutely hideous and disgusting. Horrible tasting in my opinion. I took a bite of a McRib years ago and spit it out. Could not even get it down. And I was not even into home BBQ goodness at that time.
Smoke some 'real' ribs authentic and pull some of that great tasting BBQ meat off the bone and put it on a quality bun. Now that is a proper rib meat sandwich! Yum
The Flintstones almost wasn't, as Jackie Gleason was tempted to sue the cartoon's creators for blatant copying The Honeymooners.
I love McRibs! ... When my father was alive we'd venture out to McDonalds when the McRibs launched. I was such a wonderful memory. As soon as I was old enough (born in 1983) we started it like a nice tradition. We didn't go to McDonalds' often but the McRib was a magical event.
Not sentimental but if you can try the BK Angus burger, it is epic, or at least was while it lasted, I probably ate far too much of them when they were available. Nicely toasted bun, BBQ sauce, cheddar, bacon, caramelized onion, and a chunky big fat Angus beef burger. McRib is good but not that good :-)
omfg. u can buy a pack of that fake meat anywhere. wow. people are so dumb
@@timcollum5015 Haven't found anything that tastes like it. The store kind are not at all the same. Idc if it's "real meat". It was a rare treat and a good memory of someone I lost.
@@timcollum5015
@@xxRegentRaptorx just saying there's a reason why McDonald's can succeed anywhere. People don't want to cook because they're lazy. And they grew up on this crappy food. People don't even know what real food tastes like anymore
I remember living in Indiana in the late 1990s and the media crediting McDonalds with saving the notable Indiana pork industry by altering the normal McRib roll-out date, and buying up the Indiana pork stock, when the market for it had crashed.
Makes sense maccas don’t pay full price or buy the best quality. This was a way to get good quality at rock bottom price
Interesting. Glad it was saved.
That means they bought at below standard market value, which creates more profit margin than usual. So it wasn't out of benevolence, but it certainly prevented economic damage to the local pork industry.
Now one of the biggest players in the US pork industry is owned by China and exports massive amounts to China, where it is very popular. There is so much pork going to China now, the US could totally stop consuming pork and the meat packers could still sell all of it overseas.
Have to wonder if McDonalds hadn't manipulated the market to crash the prices, then stepped in to play hero.
"The ribs were so heavy the car tipped over, and that was it until next week." Not true! After the car tipped over, Fred would park his car, Wilma would walk baby Pebbles back to the house, Fred would follow, let out a sabre-toothed cat, the cat would sneak behind Fred, the hose door would be closed, and Fred would yell for "WILLL-MAAAA!!!", the credits would end, fade to black.
Glad I'm not the only one remembering the Flinstones correctly!
Simon is maybe "too young" to remember. Old-timers like us know it though. :-)
My favorite thing is how Simon can speak with such confidence on topics he knows absolutely nothing about.
Fred yelling was the highlight of that credit roll and the cat kicking him out, lmao
My son swears that the waitress puts a chair on the side of Fred's car. I've tried explaining time and time again that it's brontosaurus ribs but he keeps claiming it's a chair.
I always thought they had to wait for the mystery meat leftovers to build up...
OMG LMAO
You can find the "Mc Rib" meat in the frozen meat (?) Section of many groceries in the Midwestern US year around. It is the identical preformed rib shaped mystery meat that you find at Mc Donalds only thing missing is the bbq sauce to dip it in and the steak bun to put it on with chopped onions in it.
As a former manager at McDonald, here's a little secret, when we first started selling them (per-season) we sold them QUICK and a lot of them, after about two weeks, we couldn't give them away for free. People want the newest and coolest thing out, but once it becomes yesterdays news, who cares!
It's funny people don't realise this, as McD and other chains do this all the time, especially topped burgers that are around for a month and then gone. They only notice the McRib because it's a different meat base, but various chicken sandwiches and burgers with novel seasonal toppings are always cycling through
That's because, though it tastes good, we start to be able to taste that it's made out of every byproduct under the sun, and so you have to take it away and allow time to hit us with the natural Neuralizer again.
Whenever Mcdonalds releases the McRib I will go down and by one and absolutely enjoy it. I'll buy another one a few days later and still like it, buy another a week later or so later, and don't care if I ever eat one again. The process repeats a year later.
I thought it had to do with pork prices and when they are low.
One was enough for me.
They're awful
So, in conclusion, no ribs are harmed in the making of McRibs.
RadioSnivins only the ones of those who panic binge eat the McRibs
@@mrwassef LOL the term _"panic binge"_ struck me as very funny.😅
The McRib is absolutely hideous and disgusting. Horrible tasting in my opinion. I took a bite of a McRib years ago and spit it out. Could not even get it down. And I was not even into home BBQ goodness at that time.
Smoke some 'real' ribs authentic and pull some of that great tasting BBQ meat off the bone and put it on a quality bun. Now that is a proper rib meat sandwich! Yum
@@AlexZander688 Well it's McDonald's, what did you expect? It _is_ actual rib meat, just ground up and compressed back together after being taken off the bone. They can't serve a sloppy joe type sandwich with loose meat, so obviously it's processed. I didn't think it was as bad as you described; it was edible. Just like their hamburgers are going to disappoint you if you're hoping for a top grade hamburger off the backyard grill. If you want an authentic pulled pork sandwich then you shouldn't go to McDonald's for it. Comparing the McRib to that is like complaining that a Volkswagon Beetle doesn't go as fast as a Ferrari. It's like, no duh.
@@xeokym223 it is! That guy is special!🥴 Someone might need to report him! Might have harmed puppies 🐶 and kittens 😸 as a kid!🧐🤔
You can buy the exact same “ribs” in TV dinners, and there’s also bags of them like nuggets in some freezer sections.
We had the exact same nasty pressed "pork" sandwiches in school, and they sucked as well.
Yea well people are idiots, could slap a McDonald's logo on a dog turd a d they'd tweet about it.
@@mikelikesit2122 Sad but true....yum, good shit!
I liked the McRib and I think that the sandwich should be on the menu all the time
Today I found out that McDonald's is so damn huge that they have a major impact on the world's meat value.
There was a period during the year here in WA where we ran out of meat in many grocery markets due to processing plant shut towns. Could still get to McDonald's and get a double quarter pounder though.
And moat of their income is from real estate
@@confidence1884 I don't see any logical argument being made, let alone a fallacy. Please elucidate lest your assertion be seen as spurious verbosity mean only to falsely inflate your conceit.
Customer: "This sandwich is gross."
McD: "We are only going to sell it for part of the year in limited locations."
Customer: "Shut up and take my money!"
It use to be a fair sandwich when they first introduce it ,, now it's horrible !!!!!!
Lol
The hype of the internet, people end up taking their memories and editing them to fit better in a UA-cam comment instead of being honest about it, cancerous the way internet kids think. Genuinely destroying the new generations.
@Koala Wrath No, he's kinda right. At least I think it applies to me. I find myself lying about insignificant things all the time for no reason, and I'm pretty sure it's because of the fact that I'm used to being able to say whatever I want online with little chance of anyone bothering to check.
The McRib is absolutely hideous and disgusting. Horrible tasting in my opinion. I took a bite of a McRib years ago and spit it out. Could not even get it down. And I was not even into home BBQ goodness at that time.
Smoke some 'real' ribs authentic and pull some of that great tasting BBQ meat off the bone and put it on a quality bun. Now that is a proper rib meat sandwich! Yum
The last time the McRIb came out in 2012 I was so disappointed to find the sauce was changed. Initially I thought it was just the location I went to had screwed up and used regular BBQ sauce instead of the tangy stuff I remember from the 90's that made it so addictive. Turns out they were all doing it. Hope they get it right this time.
Steak, egg and cheese bagel... ohhhh how I miss you😩
Yesss omg that was so good! When I worked at McDonalds I would open at 4:00am on the weekends, and so my "lunch" break would be early in the day and I would always get that sandwich! I had the whole order planned out to hit exactly what my crew meal limit was lol. That and my lunch order for non-opening days which was the southwest salad and some other stuff. The quarter pounder deluxe or whatever it was called was also pretty good while it lasted.
I liked the steak bagel, but I loved the mcskillet. No other breakfast burrito has ever compared.
Who else didn't know what the hell was going on when Simon wasn't doing the intro??
I upvoted immediately when you gave a proper definition of "barbecue". So many people confuse grilling (direct heat) with barbecue
There is no such thing as direct, nor indirect heat therefore the difference between barbecue and grilling can't be defined as such. If there were a definitive difference it would revolve around temperature over time, not made up terms and marketing hoopla.
Always reminds me of the Simpsons episode, everyone goes mad for a rib burger from krusty burger and travel around to get it until it's discontinued. Obviously a reference to the Mc Rib~
The McRib is only offered occasionally and randomly because it takes time for people to forget how McNasty it really is...
A sign at a nearby McDonalds once had been altered to say "Big 'N' Nasty" instead of "Big 'N' Tasty". Hilarity abounds.
Most fast food is nasty so I don't judge
Glad you don't like it because it means more for me
Take a small plunger (4 inches variety for bar sinks) and attach to a LOOONG pole, usually painters pole. Then..... some duct tape and maybe spray water on cup, like 2 drops soap in it. and boom. sign pole.. LOL. It's harmless yet funny under the age of 30.
@@chrismaverick9828 worcester?
I can’t believe I watched a documentary on a fast food sandwich... and loved it. Now you just need to do these irregularly, but always have them available in Germany. 😋
"... things that happened on television were a national experience." This made feel old, but not in a good way that made me feel wise.
with only 3 free broadcast channels and MAYBE 1 or 2 VHF/UHF channels available, this makes sense.
back when they had the swiss and mushroom melt angus. I would get swiss and red onions on my micribs.... man... it was sooo good!!
Thank you, Simon, for defining “barbecue” CORRECTLY!
“People not from the South
Think barbecue means cookout
And that’s something they’re wrong about
Barbecue is not a verb, and barbecue is not a grill! Barbecue is meat prepared in a very special way, depending on where you go!”
- Rhett and Link
I'm not from the south and I knew that (from near KC)
Not sure he actually defined it properly. "barbecue" comes from the french expression "de la barbe au cul" from the "beard to ass" in a figurative way of how an animal would be staked and cooked over a fire.
Nobody thinks barbecue only means cookout. Its just developed many meanings
I'm from North Carolina, son... you can't BS me on propper 'cue.
:)
The word Barbaque…BBQ… however you want to spell it is from french when they stick a pole through the pig from the Barb (beard) A (to) Cul (ass) barb-a-cul - the fashion of making, cooking, and eating BBQ is of course much older and spread around the world
When adverts are gone,
the viewer's in heaven
the video starts
at time 1:11
Thank you
Good poem bruh
I wonder if that affects their income.
This is a good way to chase off viewers. Who buys the random shit from ads?
You mean you skip what pays them? Why are people so concerned with getting shit for free. Even when all you have to do is sit through an ad that’s shorter than any commercial 🤦♀️
I watched this wearing my "McRib is BACK!" shirt.
I saw a shirt last year that said "The McRib is BACK! (actually it's heart, tongue and butthole but who cares!)". That made me both happy and sad....damn it...I want a McRib now.
I remember eating one once it was certainly not ribs or barbecue or something that I could even describe until I heard “restructured meat product” this describes the Mc rib perfectly
the McRib is always sold in Germany?
I speak German!
IT'S TIME TO MOVE!!!
Ja, gehört seit den 80ern zum Basismenü hier.
Kann man ausnahmslos in jedem McDonalds Restaurant kaufen.
@@helloweener2007 Ich beneide dich. Hallo aus Amerika :)
kannst du aber deutsch sprechen
@@factbeaglesarebest eh... I'm at the stage where I'd only benefit from full exposure to the language. I could force my way through a basic conversation, i believe.
I've been learning for a bit over half a year now.
@@helloweener2007 Ich frage mich, ob es das Gleiche ist. Ich denke nicht, dass die Rezepte unbedingt weltweit übereinstimmen, oder Qualität der Ingredienten. Ich habe ihn jedenfalls nie probiert. Sollte ich?
Because you can only hunt the insect during breeding season.
Takes a brave man to hunt the neoptarin by himself, ive seen it rip a man in half before he could even take the saftey off
@@thenetherone1597 Imagine if your comment somehow started a whole "McDonalds is using dangerous neoptarin meat in its McRib" rumor. 😆
They definitely are though. I read it on the internet so it must be true.
@@thenetherone1597 what is a neoptarin?
@@FerociousSniper our story begins as all good stories do with hubris...
in 1975 ronald mcdonald met with a South american tribe deep within the amazon rainforest who refused to sell their land for pasture.
They told him of a devil in the jungle, a beast with eyes like fire and skin like steel.
Believing this to be just superstition the clown presured them into a deal and unwittingly purchessed the breeding grouds of the deadliest predator on six legs, the great Neoptera Gargantua. Known to science as the neoptarin.
Of the 10 men sent to flush out the beasts only 3 returned of the 3 only 2 actually saw the beast but just 1 managed to kill one.
Ronald found himself looking over the mangled corpse of something not quite a mantis and not quite a monster its golden skin accented with purple stripes. Fearing the legends were true they decided to burn thd body and speak of it to no one... and thats when the real discovery was made.
We now know that during mating the females eat the males and if she dosnt like the flavour, the show is over. Consequently only the tastiest neopterans pass on their genes.
The smell of the cooking bug overwhelmed the expedition crew and the McRib was born.
Now only ronald himself hunts the beast, not only addicted to the meat but the thrill of the hunt, when asked he told BBC horizon "do you know what a neopteran is? Its honest and pure and if i die hunting one ill know i was bested but something beautiful.
They say only the brave hunt the neopteran but only a fool would hunt them alone... that is why they call him the clown.
*Homer Simpson ina salivated, addicted voice*: "MMMMmm...Ribwich!"
The McRib has 70 listed ingredients.
Think about that for a second.
Now I remember why I haven’t eaten at rotten Ronnie’s for over 20 years.
It can’t even be considered food. Especially if you’ve seen Super Size Me.
Preach. I almost puked when I read that. Wild
It also has a lot of the same ingredients as a yoga mat.
I and my family call it the yoga mat sandwich. lol
Only Simon and his writers would take the lowly, crappy, rib-free McRib and expound with eloquence on economic theory. Well done lads.
Trolling the mass of idiots?
@@brianbarrett2487 Took me a while to work out what Mattal was
Prior to my retirement when I lived in the U.S. I only ordered from McDonalds, Chicken Nuggets or Filet O Fish or the MC RIB. It they didn't have at least one of those. I went somewhere else. Retired now and living on the West Coast of Mexico. None of my selections are available here. Thus I no longer eat at Micky D's.
What keeps bringing me back to McDonalds is their unique sweet-n-sour sauce that I got hooked on as a kid. Thankfully that's never gone away.
their BBQ sauce is beyond reproach
I like their buffalo
Like a crack addiction,
Hot mustard.
Their sweet & sour sauce is definitely the best thing about McDonald's. Period.
WHY ARE YOUR VIDEOS SO INTERESTING?! You just hooked me into watching a video about the McRib!
When I worked at McDonald's, my favorite sand to make was a mcrib with no sauce, burger patty seasoning, 2 pieces of cheese, lettuce and sometimes pickle.
McRib with no sauce? You barbarian!
@@prollins6443 it was soo good. I hated the sauce. Mostly cssue I had to smell it all day when I worked back there. What they did was cook several and then put them in a little heated pot of sauce where they would sit until someone ordered a mcrib. Imo that's only one step above gasststion food. :/
@@Mitsurugi2424 I worked at a mcD's for several years, I know what you're saying. My workers would make all kinds of weird food when we shut down for the night
McDonald's puts seasonings on their burger patties? Seriously? I would possibly enjoy a McDonald's Patty that had some salt and pepper on it. I can never taste anything like that!
@@dankuchar6821 that's mostly all it is
SUrprised by that. In germany it's always a standard on McD's' menu
Luxembourg too
That isn't fair..I like McRibs...and the fish sandwich has shrunk grrr
Omw to Germany. The mcrib may be a cheap alternative to actual ribs, but damn with a little extra sauce it does hit.
Smaller country than America
pork is generally more popular in Europe, more pigs raised there
"The McRib is a food"
Goodness, I still love the first couple of seasons of the flintstones 😂
Notice "product quality" was last in the mission statement.
Salt is 1st, no doubt.
tbh... i wondered it was there at all.
Well.. yeah. I don't think anyone who eats at McDonald's is really eating there for quality so much as they're eating there for convenience and price. If you don't want to cook, want to eat for a few bucks and probably don't want to have to drive too far, McDonald's is probably going to be your best bet. At that point "it got me full without poisoning me" is pretty much all the quality required.
I'm surprised it's on the mission statement at all.
@@OptimumTaurus Totes, the only time I eat there is late at night when nothing else is open, and I need food to offset the amount of alcohol I drank.
What's weird is that I learned most of this stuff about military grade meat products from The Simpsons via the Krusty Burger.
Steak egg and cheese bagel is the greatest item on the whole menu imo
RIP the best breakfast item...
Taken way before its time 🥺😭
Natick (the town in Massachusetts) is pronounced NAY-tick, as in “day” or “way.”
Kay
yea, I cringed too when I heard his pronunciation of Natick.
Made me literally angry.
And they have a Twinkie factory there. I know this from watching Family Guy.
The joke is on McDonalds. I only go to McDonalds when the McRib is available.
Same.
Why? Did you not hear what it is made of? He left out the face and reproductive organ parts in his description. It's literally made from grabage.
@@injunsun tastes good who cares.
I call BS, you probably go about 2 to 5 times a month.
@@tomcat124us That's an odd hill to die on, but okay.
It's "Mah-TELL", Simon. ("You can tell it's Mattel, it's swell")
I think Simon intentionally mispronounces words all the time just to annoy people into commenting on his videos.
And it's NAY-tick, not NAH-tick, Massachusetts.
@@DavidPlass West WAHHHH-wick
baaaaaahstin?
I've never been able to try the McRib, due to it disappearing so fast, so I came here to learn about it, but I walked away with a PHD in Economics, Food Logistics, French Cuisine, and Military Preparations, along with Amercan AND German history.
Two words: Shamrock Shake... I think it tastes like toothpaste but my kids treat it as a yearly celebration
In Germany the McRib is available throughout the whole year, not just at special times. The Germans always thought they were superior, guess they were right.
McRib, more like McI'm gonna get one right now and laugh at the americans
@@TheDarkbogiTV Good idea, brb
"Superior," only if being willing to eat the garbage nobody else will makes one supoerior. Apparently, the reputation of honeland Deutsche being into eating feces is true? Because he failed to mention it also has the face, genitals, internal reproductive organs, and a lot of "chitterlings" in it. It's literally the garbage they scrape off the slaughterhouse floors, including quite a bit of feces and piss. You're welcome to it all. I'll stick to clean foods, made entirely from plants, sand the death and cruelty. I'll put flowers down for you when you've gone.
@@injunsun what the hell are you even on about?
@@injunsun So you're proud of killing millions of animals only to throw away most of their meat? Being able to utilize all parts of an animal to make food is a good thing in my eyes... not to mention a lot of these parts are actually quite delicious with their unique flavor profile. By being squeamish about offal you are only restricting yourself, you aren't "better".
The demand for Chicken Mcnuggets was too high for McDonald's to keep up? I never would have guessed...
i worked at McDs for a bit, only time people didnt order nuggets is when we had them pre-made for lunch
@@gregoryeverson741 that's the restaurant industry for you
@ArmchairWarrior Aardvark penises
They’ve actually i proved taste-wise. Not sure about ingredient-wise...
@LTNetjak Went over like the legendary Cleveland Indians 10c beer night?
(If you're unfamiliar, look it up. It's the best example of "if something CAN go wrong, it WILL go wrong". That and the White Sox' Disco Demolition Night.)
I love the McRib. I always get excited when I hear it will be back. Then I get sad when I hear, "only for a limited time."
On of the best Business Lessons I’ve ever seen-kudos!
I can tell you why without even watching this video, as someone who worked at McDonalds in my youth: It sells like gangbusters for about a month, then people remember they aren't very good and stop buying them. After a few weeks they only sell 3 or 4 a day.
Just recently discovered that a large chain of local gas stations sell these for 2 dollars and are actually quite comparable to the real deal. Perhaps slightly smaller, no onions and with less sauce but the McRib has been away for too long to say. May have to do a comparison.
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I grew up in Natick (Nayt-ik) and have actually toured that Army lab on a school field trip. We were only allowed to see the metal shop, food processing facility, and parachute test wind tunnel. All wicked cool!! However, the field yogurt they had us sample gave us all the shits. I had no idea that the, dare I say, technology behind the McRibs origins was from my hometown... Gives a whole new meaning to all those McRibs I've eaten at Natick McDonald's...
I had a feeling that it had to do with buying up ingredients when the market was down, but I did not realize all of the other details. Good video!
Basically in a nutshell Mcdonalds is profiting off the fact that random rewards provoke a higher response in humans, and thus they can profit more off of randomly introducing the mcrib. And the randomness of the release is also affected by pork prices, and other factors.
The pork prices made sense to me, easier to find cheap beef, than pork
They lost customers when the customers found they can buy the meat separately in frozen dinners (and more cheaply, even considering the additional cost of buns and toppings)
my school served ribs sammies all the time
@@gregoryeverson741 I do at home all the time, too
@@JohnSmith-qq7fm i buy cheap pork roast, then put in the slow cooker, can make 50 sammies for about 20$
Reminds me of one of my economic classes in college... and it took soooooooo long to get to the answer.
That Warby Parker dude's shirt is the most unflattering I've seen in a long time.
This feels more like a *Business* Blaze episode than most Business Blaze episodes do, lol
I still have my Flintstones glass cups! They are truly really good.
Years ago, I was curious about the McRib sandwich and decided to try one. I thought it was like eating a piece of cardboard.
Once upon a time when I worked at McDs I did a few orders and was shocked to see the option to order McRib patties. I asked my manager and he said that he could bring the McRib back when he wants.
This is why we need to go to Mars so McDonald’s can plant the entire planet with celery.
I love that the McRib was announced to be out in the US again a day after this was put out.
This video was released because the McRib has been planned to come out again...
Why is Daven dressed from something out of a discount Logan's Run?
I wondered the same thing
Super comfy shirt basically. :-) -Daven
It'a all he could find in Simon's basement,
I thought he was going more for that "Steve Jobs" look 😅
To hint at the McRibs secret ingredient maybe?
Kudos to the writer for a damn good basic economics lesson.
I got new fancy new headphones and I can hear the music so clearly behind your magical voice and it's amazing.
Well, it takes time to gather a sufficient quantity of floor sweepings.
Hears Germany has year round McRib
Looks for airline tickets to Germany from US.
How much do you offer? I could send you some ;)
Ironically, I STILL haven’t tried one. Every time I see it on a McDonald’s sign, I have a little thought bubble in my head, “Maybe I should try it this time?” and then immediately change my mind.
Don't. I tried one for the first one 2 maybe 3 years ago and it was disgusting. They somehow made it worse than frozen dinner meat.
11:10 “For example, McDonald’s is the largest toy distributor outstripping both Hasbro and Mattel...”
Ma-Tell not Matt-Ell (at least in the US).
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@@apollo1573 try english
@@ThadMiller1 that was English sir. I was making fun of the original comment, idk if you could tell.
@@apollo1573 This guy can't say "haute" correctly either, so he's bad at both English and French.
That was an unsettling fact, though pretty obvious when you think about it.
We had a knock off McRib at my elementary School called "barbeque riblet on a bun" 😂 it was offered all year round
I seem to remember this. Sometimes its in freezer aisle.
Buy stocks in Mcdonalds when they make a McRib announcement then sell high. Pro tip
Let's run the numbers: The McRib was announced on October 30th, 2020 to return on December 2nd, 2020. According to SeekingAlpha charts, the $MCD stock price was $213 at close on 10/30. On December 2nd, it was $201.86. Current share price is $213.65. If you bought on October 30, 2020 when the announcement was made public, your return would be $0.65, or 0.3%. The S&P's return in the same timeframe is 16.45%.
Thanks for the "pro" tip, but I'd rather listen to amateurs.
@@racewiththefalcons1 HEY HEY HEY while you're righteous in your schooling, a non investor casually making a comment on stock prices is TOO EASY a comment to correct! lol.
@@elliottvaughn700, 'righteous' is a funny way of spelling 'accurate'.
Buy an AI that is trained to buy and sell stocks. Pro tip.
Buy low, sell high. Pro tip
I would like to know about The Original McChicken. Years ago it had a large Chicken Nugget. Now, it's cheap and isn't the same.
The only thing I get now is coffee 😆
Haven't watched this channel in a while. I'm shocked how jarring it was to hear that voice coming from him with his new(?) look.
The McRib has had more farewell tours than Cher.
But not quite as many as KISS...
"If I could turn back time!"
@@AndrewAMartin I was going to say the same, literally word for word!
Today I found out that there enough people who don't know that "market forces" answers most TIFO questions that a 15 minute video can be made to answer "market forces".
And even fewer that understand "artificial scarcity" and the effect it has on pricing in the US food market.
Love this channel, you can take any random item or event and make me interested in it, keep up the good work
Thing about fast food promo items like the McRib is, they're run on a schedule during certain times of the year. Like how Wendy's will always have their fish sandwich during Lent as an example. So, don't freak out when they say "sorry, we don't have (x item) any more". Just be patient, wait, it will be back within a year.
I thought it was to give people time to forget how bad it tastes.
Natick has a long "A" sound. But interesting none the less about the random McRib
Nay dick thats how Bostonians say it
Massholes! 😂
How about his pronunciation of "Mattel?"
Thank you. I was looking for this comment and didn't have to look too far.
Do people mispronouncing words really annoy people that much, like he’s not gonna re-record the video because you pronounced something different from him
7:15 I wonder which of those goals covers reducing the amount of patty in cheeseburgers by half, in addition the the steady price growth over the years.
Now I know why the late comedian Sam Kinison referred to the mcrib as, "sh*t on bread."
The McRib is to BBQ what Lucas is to quality automotive wiring... it bears no relationship.
That’s an, esoteric, analogy
Do you mean Lucas, The Prince of Darkness?
@@RickMason-yj7pv Of course
It's like pineapple and canadian bacon on pizza. Leave your preconceptions of the name at the door and just judge it on its own merits.
A McPizza revival would be awesome- long overdue.
There are two places that still sell the McPizza, one in ohio, the other in Kentucky, and just a stone's throw away from each other across the Big River too.
@Juni Post , and it still exist.
@@fencepostjay3820 that's so great to hear :-9! Thank you much for sharing.
I was today years old when I learned this was a thing. Sounds kinda eh though.
@@fatalgravity there's commercials uploaded to UA-cam
I remember when they first brought it back. I worked at Mcdonalds. They rib sauce is super smelly (in a good way imo) but I think it may be tough to run it all year due to resources. As a result they run it once and a while so people swarm in the short time.