{"id":6190,"date":"2010-11-05T11:07:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?p=6190"},"modified":"2010-11-05T12:50:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T18:50:03","slug":"mcreally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/?p=6190","title":{"rendered":"McReally?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking at the news the other morning. This isn’t unusual, I do it every single morning. Well… When I have access to a TV. If not I listen to the radio. If I don’t have that I look for a newspaper. If I’m cut off from those too, well… I cry.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But that’s another story and I don’t want to talk about it…<\/p>\n

The thing is, even with elections, exploding volcanoes, cholera epidemics, and airplanes falling out of the sky, one of the top news items was a “slow news day” sort of thing.<\/p>\n

“What was that?”\u00a0 you ask.<\/p>\n

The McRib.<\/p>\n

Yes… The sickly-sweet-sauce soaked, pressed, molded, and formed, non-rib pork by-products on a bun with a pickle. You see, “It’s back.”<\/em> This is not to be confused with Carol Anne announcing, “They’re back.”<\/em> We aren’t talking poltergeists<\/em> here. We may, however, be talking zeitgeists<\/em>… I mean, given that the golden arches would like for everyone to get all excited about pressed pork leavin’s on a bun, they are in effect creating their own, artificial, “spirit of the age,” so to speak.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Apparently, though, “the age” only lasts six weeks. It seems that’s what makes the “return of the McRib” newsworthy and not just commercial-worthy. The marketing geniuses\u00a0 at the fast food mecca have created this overwhelming demand for a product by making it scarce. Their official position is even something to the effect that by restricting McRib trade they keep the “true fans” of the sandwich wanting more. And, I wasn’t kidding about them being geniuses – I mean, after all, here I am blogging about their damn McSammich, and adding to the buzz. No offense to my publicist, but I think maybe I need some of these burger folks on my team.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But back to the whole McRib Mania… I really have to wonder if we’re talking “true fans” or just sheeple that are getting excited over this.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Because if rib-shaped, non-rib, pork by-product patties are really your thing, you can buy them at the grocery store all year round. So what’s the big deal with the McVersion of the sandwich?<\/p>\n

The Secret McBurger Police will probably have me silenced for this, but I think I know what makes it so special.<\/p>\n

It just has to be the pickle… I bet they’re importing them.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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More to come…<\/p>\n

Murv<\/p>\n


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It’s baaaaaaccccckkkkk. And scarier than ever. Observational satire from author M. R. Sellars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1806,3136,76,5,7],"tags":[393,3487,2219,677,1032,106,3138,1058,8198,2554,170,1720,818,242,2376,126,1076,1880,1997,8122],"class_list":["post-6190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-cooking-and-recipes","category-food-2","category-humor-life","category-life","category-writing","tag-big","tag-carol-anne","tag-commercial","tag-fans","tag-fast-food","tag-food","tag-golden-arches","tag-grocery","tag-marketing","tag-mcdonalds","tag-news","tag-pork","tag-product","tag-publicist","tag-radio","tag-sandwich","tag-satire","tag-store","tag-story","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}