And get a half gallon of sauce!
Iâm old enough to remember its first roll out!
What year was that?
It was when I was a little kid, I remember.
My parents, my brother, and I all went to the neighborhood MackyDâs to try it when it was advertised.
Ah, I just Googled it.
Debuted in 1981.
I was probably 9 years old at the time. Sounds about right. Fourth grade or so.
The thing I donât understand isâŠwhy does MackyDâs only have this from time to time? Why not make it a permanent menu item?
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My favorite story on this was once a MCdonalds employee accidentally put the McRib sauce in the shake machine instead of chocolate syrup and the customers loved it
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The likely sell more of them like this. I was 5 then. I do remember when the McDLT came out. Jason Alexander did the commercials.
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Probably to build up anticipation. Build up excitement.
I loved the McDLT!
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What is the attraction with the McRib? I tried it and could not eat another bite.
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Probably the 80% sugar sauce. Like Raising Canes, its sh!t without the sugar sauces.
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WowâŠ1981. Surprised it wasnât before that. I worked at McDs in 83 for a while and that thing was already not in demand.
They would sit in the sauce for days in-between orders. Weâd all get wide eyes when someone would order them wondering if we were going to kill them. The âcooksâ would have to break through a 1/4" layer of solidified sauce to fish one out. They were so nasty and so much farther from BBQ than TacoBell is from Mexican food.
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As I said, I remember it being advertised when I was a kid for the first time, and within a week or two of that, my parents taking me and my brother to the MackyDâs down the street in our old neighborhood to try it.
That commercial is peak 80s! Great find.
And the McDLT was pretty good, too.
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Keeps the hot hot, and the cool, cool.
Apparently the owner of my McDonalds in Lufkin came up with the McDLT idea and demonstrated it with ashtrays. I also find the McRib to be disgusting.
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Worked at McDs in HS. I can say with 100 percent truth that everything McDs sells is made from 100 percent real ingredients and is generally clean. The only exception: the McRib. People if you only knew what that âmeatâ smelled like when it is removed from the vacuum sealed package they ship it in you would never eat another one. I still have nightmares!
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In 1993 Walmartâs snack bar debuted the âRibwichâ in a decade-later imitation. It was stellar.
McDonalds is definitely a restaurant I will never eat food from.
They literally wrote the script on fake ultra processed foods that destroy the body and the McRibb is one of their most famous Frankenstein concoctions
So many disappointments here. Fast food heathens.
Rumor has it that just 2 or 3 McRibs a year are enough to keep you alive forever. Or preserve your body forever, I canât recall the exact phrasing.
Team McRib 4ever
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Technically true.