McRice Burger Revealed

As with many things in life, the McRice Burger is better left as a fantasy. I wish I could still have the childlike innocence of wondering what it tastes like, and I wish I didn’t know what it feels like to hold it in my fingers. When I ordered it I had to wait a whole five minutes for them to bring it out with smiles on their faces because someone actually wanted it. That was a bad sign.

It comes in a box. There are bits of iceberg lettuce and red cabbage stuffed between the rice “bun” and the burger patty. The patty isn’t the usual McDonald’s patty; it’s the kind of patty you expect to find in a bad-quality freezer-section box, not that the usual is much better. To top it all off, there’s a mysterious sauce glazed all over the patty and coated all over the lettuce mixture. My fingers got stupidly sticky from the first moment I touched the thing as I tried to get it out of the box. The taste wasn’t any better. Truth be told I really just don’t want to talk about it anymore.

No, I guess I didn’t really expect it to be great, but I did expect it to be fun and interesting. Instead, it was a big disappointment. I won’t be missing it when I’m back in Canada. I won’t be missing it tomorrow.