Had the last of the McDonald's special burgers, the "Arizona Grande", and boy was that a good burger. The promotion has now ended, so too late to try any of these dandies, but they were all really good.
One poster suggested that it wasn't so clever a marketing trick for McDonald's to put out a different bacon cheeseburger each week (I beg to differ, I bought one each week but mind you I was doing a "scientific" experiment). Another poster (I think this was my lovely wife, Britwife, who suggested that McD's were just trying to get rid of all their streaky bacon and jack cheese stocks before they went off. She might be right.
At any rate, that last burger (the Arizona one, which had nothing to do with Arizona for me) was just awfully tasty, great bun, lovely sauce (onion and pepper mayo, a big patty) and it was just really good. It gets an 8.5.
So, my final rankings in this experiment are:
Miami Melt: 8 stars
New York Supreme: 7.5 stars
California Classic: 8 stars (-2 stars if it was the burger that gave me food poisoning)
Arizona Grande: 8.5 stars
As you can see there is no regional bias in my final reviews, as a Californian I was hoping my home state's burger would be the best but clearly it was outclassed by the Arizona burger.
Final scientific report: They were good!
Marketing advice to McDonald's: They had nothing to do with the States involved, but nobody cared ... and ...
Sell a big bacon cheeseburger on a regular basis, with pepper mayo and Monterey Jack and bacon, and call it the "American Anything" ... and I'll buy one instead of a Big Mac.
Peace out.
S
GO HALOS!
