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£1.49 McDonald’s ripoff cheap burger

2021-07-05 · 10 min

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  1. Hello, welcome back to new lunchtime.

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  2. Today I've got this ripoff McDonald's

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  3. burger that I thought looked kind of

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  4. funny, so I would, I would like to try it.

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  5. Look at the box and the branding, it's

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  6. just like McDonald's. Even the text, the

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  7. way they put Big Stack, it looks like Big

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  8. Mac, and the burger is basically a Big

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  9. Mac. It's got the middle bread bun and the

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  10. 2 patties, so this should be interesting.

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  11. I wonder how they don't get sued by

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  12. McDonald's. Snacksters. You know what,

    Segment details0:36–0:39 · rev_85f1b1d3073b15f5f757e3b089124275_11
  13. why, why doesn't McDonald's just bring out

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  14. their own brand of supermarket food? They

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  15. could have like the official McDonald's

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  16. Big Mac that's microwavable and

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  17. then sell that in supermarkets. Well,

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  18. McDonald's should hire me. Okay, so to

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  19. make the Big Mac or the Big Stack,

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  20. um, cook from frozen.

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  21. Oh, it's been in the fridge, not the

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  22. freezer. Is it supposed to be frozen? I

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  23. think it was in the freezer aisle. I

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  24. forgot now. Put sauce in a cup of warm

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  25. water to defrost. Set cheese slice and

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  26. burger bun to one side. Place burgers

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  27. stacked on top of each other. On the

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  28. center of a microwavable plate for 2

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  29. minutes and then flip the burgers halfway

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  30. through. Well, this is more complicated

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  31. than I expected. Toast the bun.

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  32. Assemble the product into a burger

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  33. including the cheese and microwave for 1

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  34. minute. I feel like I'm working at

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  35. McDonald's now. Okay, so let's do an

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  36. unboxing.

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  37. Da da da da. Oh wow, that's weird.

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  38. It's not like the microwave burgers I'm

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  39. used to. Usually I have a Rustler's or a

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  40. Quickster's. This one's called a

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  41. Snackster, and usually a Rustler microwave

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  42. burger is already assembled, but this one

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  43. is like this.

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  44. So it says we have to toast the buns.

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  45. Hmm, I don't know if I would bother. Oh,

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  46. I have a toaster so I could. We've got

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  47. sauce and then 2 burger patties.

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  48. Let's see what they smell like.

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  49. Hmm, smells quite nice. I wonder if they

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  50. taste like McDonald's patties. So it says

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  51. place it in the microwave for 2 minutes,

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  52. flipping halfway through. So I put it in 1

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  53. minute to And then flip it over and then

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  54. do another minute, I guess.

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  55. That's one minute.

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  56. And then the buns, we put them in the

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  57. toaster.

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  58. Can only fit two. What about the

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  59. heat setting?

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  60. Reheat, defrost. Hmm.

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  61. How do I turn it on?

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  62. Oh, there we go. It doesn't have

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  63. the green lettuce in it. I guess I should

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  64. have bought my own.

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  65. Okay, so we need to flip them over.

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  66. Wow, they're very oily. They seem

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  67. like they're done already.

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  68. They're pretty hot already. I don't feel

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  69. like it needs to be heated anymore. I

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  70. think that's fine.

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  71. Okay, let's take these out. I don't want

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  72. to burn them. How do I take it

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  73. out?

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  74. Hmm, I guess it could go a bit longer.

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  75. Nice and toasted. Oops, bit brown this

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  76. one. Okay, the last one.

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  77. Okay, I think that's toasted enough.

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  78. Now we assemble the burger.

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  79. Hmm, I think the cheese would just melt if

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  80. I put it on.

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  81. Wow, this is a very wet-looking burger.

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  82. Smells a bit like the burgers I had back

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  83. in secondary school.

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  84. They're always very sloppy and squishy.

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  85. Place the middle one and then

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  86. the next one.

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  87. Ta-da! And then the sauce.

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  88. Okay, I think that's it. Look at this

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  89. microwave Big Mac.

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  90. Wait for it to cool down a bit.

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  91. Looks quite nice. Okay, I'm gonna give it

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  92. Hmm,

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  93. doesn't really

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  94. taste like McDonald's. It really tastes

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  95. like the burgers I had at school.

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  96. The sauce tastes like McDonald's sauce.

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  97. Maybe if you put some lettuce and a

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  98. pickle, it might taste more like

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  99. Not bad. I still

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  100. prefer Rustler's microwave burger.

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  101. I'd give it a 5 out of 10. I don't think

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  102. I'd buy it again.

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  103. It's not amazing.

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  104. Has it expired? June 22nd.

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  105. See how many calories it has.

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  106. Wow, 600 calories.

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  107. See that? Big Stack Burger per

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  108. Big Stack Burger, 595. Wow,

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  109. that's a lot of calories.

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  110. It's good for me because I'm trying to eat

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  111. more. But if

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  112. you're on a diet, you want to avoid this.

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  113. Oh look, it's 49% beef,

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  114. 37% chicken. So that's

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  115. why it tastes weird. It's like a

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  116. weird mixture of beef and chicken.

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  117. Chicken fat burger sauce.

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  118. Wow, these are really fitting. Beef and

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  119. chicken burger.

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  120. I've had half of it, so that's 300

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  121. calories, and I feel full already.

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  122. Well, I'm gonna finish the other half by

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  123. myself, so thanks for watching.

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