McDonald’s

Have you noticed, not matter where you go, the portions are smaller and the price stays the same or slightly increases. Today’s example: The Kids Meal. The fry is this itsy bity fry box… soooo cute. Reminds me if Finding Nemo when Dory comes across that baby jellyfish… adorable!

Morgan Spurlock did a documentary on McDonalds a few years ago. He ate their food for a month and supersized every meal. The no brainer result is that it wreaked havoc on his body. Shocking!
Now, if you eat any fried and highly processed food morning, noon and night for a month straight you’re going to see a negative impact on your body, no matter where it comes from. It made for good TV; people hated McDonalds for a week and Morgan got the attention he wanted (just another media sell out).
I eat b-​fast/​lunch at this location once a month. I’m in my mid 40’s and I’m a rather healthy guy (any doctor would verify this). There’s no secret to eating at McDonalds, it’s just being aware of what you put in your mouth and moderation. They have healthy choices but let’s be real you don’t go the McDonalds for the salads (I’ve had them and they are good). My advice to others who want to shed a few pounds, try some of their wraps, they’re actually delicious. Instead of having the mondo size of fries get a smaller size this will satisfy your craving. Finally, eating here several times a month is only going to lure you to the dark side and you will lose the battle of the bulge.
Finally, this location is usually pretty clean. The service is about what is to be expected from a fast food joint. They are quite busy at times the staff does a pretty good job at getting you out of the door. You wouldn’t expect it but they have an awesome cup of coffee.

A typical McDonald’s restaurant on a very busy route 28 in salem New Hampshire. A convenient in and out make it a convenient stop for a quick on the go bite.

Best McDonald’s around.
Well, it’s still a McDonald’s. They move fairly quickly with the high volume they do during peak times.

Wow, no love for the Salem McDonald’s?
This McDonalds is one of the oldest in the area, having been built in the early 70’s; There isn’t even a Playland because that idea came later. (The land is too small, having once been shared by JM Fields, which became Digital, then Lechmere, and is now Target.)
I want to say it even once had the bathrooms on the outside, ‘gas station’ style, before the side dining room was added, but that might be a fuzzy memory of something else.
When I worked there, around 1997, they had just gone non-​smoking, yet smoking happened anyway. Nowadays they have cameras everywhere, which spoils the fun even if it does keep the place from being robbed.
The service here is always much faster than at BK or Wendy’s, and the food is decent. They remodeled the inside a few years ago, adding wood paneling to everything, (Kind of like an Irish Pub-​perhaps they were thinking ‘O’Donalds’, or they overdosed on Shamrock Shakes.) There is also a cozy area in the corner by the front windows, with leather chairs and a plasma TV, usually playing, that’s right, commercials for BK and Wendy’s.
Still, I can’t shoehorn into a Unilocal review all the memories I have of this McDonald’s, whether it was being a child and getting a Happy Meal (Back when Happy Meals had cookies, dammit), getting breakfast before delivering morning newspapers (My first job, which afforded me my first $ 129 electric geeetar), hanging out as a teenager with friends who worked there, working there myself at a desperate time in my 20’s, stopping in to get my brother and I a quick dollar menu snack the day after Mom passed away, eating there before work at the old Victorian Park Haunted Mansion, it goes on and on.
Morgan Spurlock (The ‘Super Size Me’ guy) would have you believe that McDonald’s is an evil entity that is single handedly responsible for this ‘obesity epidemic.’ Well, screw him; For my money, I’m glad its been there my whole life, and I hope it always will be.