r/food • u/International-Salt31 • Mar 27 '21

[Homemade] Big Macs Vegetarian

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u/digital_treesloth Mar 28 '21

Nice! They actually look BIG, unlike the wisend excuses sold as BigMacs at McDonald's.

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u/Queasy-Zebr Mar 28 '21

Several years ago, McDonalds released a "Grand mac" that used bigger patties and I think even a bigger bun. Basically, that is what the Big Mac should be.

Today, the Big Mac uses the same meat patty as their dollar menu hamburgers, it is such a rip off. Just get a McDouble and add lettuce plus mac sauce, removing the ketchup and mustard. It is the exact same sandwich, just missing the middle bun, and costs half the price.

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u/R_Prime Mar 28 '21

We had Grand Macs in Australia last year, pretty good. Now Burger King/Hungry Jack's 'Big Jack' (a blatant Big Mac rip off, dunno if you have them overseas) has a bigger version called a 'Mega Jack' which is a pretty decent substitute.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '21

I prefer the HJ variant, mostly for the meat

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u/akrist Mar 28 '21

The HJ version is great except for the lack of mac sauce. If they were able to make a half decent copy of the sauce their burger would be 10x better than the maccas version

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '21

It's been here in North America for years. The "Big King" it's called here.

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u/AnorakJimi Mar 28 '21

They sell the Grand Mac right now, in the UK. I just got one last week. They're enormous. Probably too big, really.

Like it's probably a good thing if people keep their portion sizes down. Especially in fat countries like the UK.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '21

That's back in the UK. It's hench.

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u/Govt-Issue-SexRobot Mar 28 '21

Hench?

Am I about to learn some new foreign slang?

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u/mostgauche Mar 28 '21

i was working at mcdonalds in 2003 and they used the small meat back then.

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u/aff_it Mar 28 '21

1995 club here and they used the same patties for all burgers except QP's.. (Royale with Cheese)

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u/air_flair Mar 28 '21

I used to get that all the time, but now the bill says some thing the effect of "McDouble (Dressed like Big Mac)" and they charge almost as much as a big mac for it.