My Mega Mac Experience
After several failed attempts to try the new Mega Mac burger, I was finally able to purchase one for lunch yesterday. When I arrived at the McDonald’s around 11:30, there were already long lines, and everyone seemed to be ordering Mega Macs. Since demand for the Mega Mac has exceeded McDonald’s Japan’s expectations, they are facing a supply shortage and have limited sales of the Mega Mac to 30 a day at the store closest to my apartment. However, luck was on my side and I was soon racing back to my apartment with a Mega Mac meal in my bike basket.
The Mega Mac came in a container that looked about the same size as the Big Mac’s container [it may have been a few milimeters taller]. It looks pretty big when compared to the pathetically small-sized drinks that come with a normal sized meal at Japanese McDonald’s restaurants.
When I opened the container, I noticed that it wasn’t as neatly constructed as its advertisment pictures. It also seemed a bit shorter than I was expecting.
It looks a bit better from this angle. Perhaps it’s just the cool website in the background.
After a few bites, I had confirmed the obvious: that it tasted very much like a Big Mac. It did have a slightly beefier taste, and possibly more special sauce than a normal Big Mac. If I was eating the same burger in America, where burgers are poorly prepared with not-so-fresh ingredients by employees who hate their jobs and their customers, I’d probably be grossed out by the Mega Mac. However, here in Japan, where every McDonald’s burger is made fresh as soon as your order them, it tasted pretty good. If I’m ever really hungry and in need of a Big Mac fix, I might just order a Mega Mac [if they're not already sold out]. For a graphic closeup of a Mega Mac with a few bites taken out of it, please click to read more.
So, any of you readers enjoyed a Mega Mac yet?
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I wouldn’t say I enjoyed a Mega Mac, but I did consume one. And a few hours later I was puking it up.
First, the size of the box. The place I went to didn’t have any Mega Mac boxes, so they just put them in a regular Big Mac box with a hand written sticker that said メガ on it. So your thoughts that the box is no bigger then the Big Mac one are probably correct.
As for the burger itself, I found it gross and disgusting. I seriously was puking it up once I got home. Perhaps it was the 2 hour train ride from the middle-of-no-where Chiba to the middle-of-no-where Saitama, but I’ve made the trip many a times and never felt sick before.
There was just too much cheap disgusting beef on it. I had one, and I’ll never have one again. But I recommend every self-respecting gaijin try one to 確かめる their true gaijin-ness. We must fulfill the
stereotypeprophesy!Puke-inducing or not, those pictures have made me hungry! And the Mickey D’s is closed, dammit!
i was gonna say, the box looks the same size as the old one. as for the burger, looks pathetic all falling this way and that. so how many added calories is this now? 5000 plus?
Wow—I just posted about my failed MegaMac attempt at about the same time you posted your successful one.
Wow again–I also had a Monty Python reference!
Mmmm. McDonalds. Do they do those things over here?
Agree with other commenters, mind … they always look better than they taste, and never look as good in the “flesh” as they do in the photos.
ugh.. Just looking at those pictures makes me wanna puke.
What a mess that is. Haven’t bought one and won’t buy one – avoid the Golden Arches like the plague it is. Mosburger all the way for me. (Actually I rather like the MCD’s teriyaki burger, an old staple, but that’s about it.) But I did once often go and get four normal burgers when they had their really really cheap sales (like 60 yen each or so), remove the buns from three, and combine everything else into one massive Tower Burger. Probably just as good as that monster there….
I knew you’d slip up sooner or later, JapanProbeMan. I have now evidence that you do in fact have a left hand with atleast three fingers, one being a thumb.
Damn elitists. I’d cram a Mega Mac down all of your throats if I could.
I bought one and did a video on youtube the day it came out because I love the Internet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvVseggm8xM
Wow! MegaMac. MegaCrap would be nearer the mark. You do realize by eating MegaCrap you are funding the War On Terror; depriving starving children in Africa, adding to global warming, destroying your brain and making the keys on your keyboard smell like a cow’s rearend. Not to mention setting a bad example to young people. You should be ashamed of yourself. The world is a dangerous and frightening place without the added threat of MegaMacCraps. Think of all the soya beans used to feed the cows, and all the trees chopped down to give you a MegaCrap experience. Shame on you.-G.P.S.
Oh, thanks for your wonderful comment. I think I’ll head over to McDonald’s tonight and get another “MegaCrap,” so I can chow down on it while laughing about the polar ice caps melting and children I am responsible for the starving/fattening/bombing of.
How many calories in that bitch? Like triple the daily requirement? My heart ACHES just thinking about it…
According to their “nutrition” info, it’s got 750 calories and 46 grams of fat in it. In the regular “set” menu, it includes a medium fries (420 cal., 22g/fat) and a medium coke (140 cal.), for a whopping total of 1,310 calories and 68 grams of fat. It also puts your sex life on hold for a couple of days while your body is working overtime to sort out the gunge. Yuk!
You summed up the McD experience in Japan compared with the states perfectly:
“If I was eating the same burger in America, where burgers are poorly prepared with not-so-fresh ingredients by employees who hate their jobs and their customers, I’d probably be grossed out by the Mega Mac. However, here in Japan, where every McDonald’s burger is made fresh as soon as your order them, it tasted pretty good.”
So true! McD’s in America sucks. But it’s a little better in the small towns in the states than the big cities. (At least NYC)
I don’t know where people get the pathetic idea that eating McD’s will make you fat, stop your sex life and die of a heart attack. Get over it people, lack of aerobic exercise and overall bad education is the real culprit for all the troubles here in america.
In Japan people eat as much fat and refined carbs as in the US. Tempura, Yatai, Yakiniku, Ramen, the list is endless.
What is the difference? In Japan people have to WALK and move around. Using their bodies for even the most simple tasks (try using the japanese style toilets and see if that is not a workout in itself!).
And funding the war and the poor children of Africa? Order me 3 MegaMacs and let the Africans/Iranians and all others worry about their people.
Josh:
Amen.
Hmmm, I enjoy my big macs, and this mega mac interests me, but uh. I think just eating the sandwhich alone would sate me. Chicken nuggets and fries? Holy monkies, batman.
yeah we americans are lazy, but unfortunately, I live out so where if I wanted to walk to town, it would be around 10 miles, and there’s nothing even in my town, grocery stores, thats about it. To get to school would be like 15, and to get to the real shopping areas, or any area that would do you any good commerce wise, is over 20 miles from my house. But if I lived in a city or even in town I’d walk alot more.
In the end, all that really matters in the world is survival. Foods will be fattening, they will be gross at times, ect. We cannot change the world for the better. A world where everything is cooked all nice and fresh and unfattening is like A world dictated by communism. Sure, in theory communism would run great! But human nature would never allow it.
We are too busy, too lazy, too whatever to be concerned about our fast foods. We shove it and go and keep going.
I know it looks like shit, but I can also tell what it tastes like…..And I want one.
Right now.
Go to hell you vile diet!
i’m not a healthnut , but i will never eat at any mickeyd’s , the food is horrible in quality and taste , even burgerking is better (puke)…
its been over 30 years since mcd’s made a real burger of quality ingrediants…
*drooling allll over the desk!* O.o slabs of meat! i like!
i so need a fix of mega mac now! T_T sigh. oh well, i think i’ll just make do with 2 double cheeseburgers stacked up as one, there, double mega mac! heh