Mickey D's Premium Salads
Posted
05/31/03
After last week, I swore I would curtail eating food from a restaurant. However, Friday night I happened by one of the new premium salads from McDonalds and was suitably impressed.
I had the Grilled Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad, which came with Newman's Own Ranch Dressing. For a price tag of $3.99, I felt there should be more chicken (there were only about six pieces of chicken, slender and short). Yet the meat was tender and juicy, unlike most chicken breast meat (which is typically as dry as sawdust). The salad also contained bacon bits, romaine lettuce, fresh spinach leaves, grated cheddar cheese, rings of purple onion and thinly sliced carrots. Not bad, but I still think it would have been perfect with more chicken.
McDonalds used to have what they called "Salad Shakers," but I have yet to see them locally. While I lived in Utah a few years ago, I usually ate two "Salad Shakers" a week. I loved the "shaking" method to distribute the dressing evenly amongst greens. The salad fixings were placed into an ice-cream shake container; once the dressing was squeezed in from a packet, the whole concoction could be shaken vigorously to coat the salad. Those days are apparently long gone, though. The replacement is McDonalds Premium Salads.
As I chewed on the salad, it crossed my mind that McDonalds may be placing emphasis on a healthier menu because of the lawsuit filed some months ago by a disgruntled customer who accused McDonalds of causing his weight problems due to high fat contained in the chain's fast food. A company as large as McDonalds needs to cover their act so to speak, but we can all benefit from their scrumptious salads.
Tags: Fast Food;
Salads
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