Would you take your mother for a meal to McDonald’s?

Would you take your mother for a meal to McDonald’s? That is the question. Well, would you? I ask it, as I took my 87-year-old mother to McDonald’s recently. What an eye opener that was! Why? Because it was her first visit to a McDonald’s in about 40 years! It will probably be her last! She is slightly disabled and I push her around in a wheelchair. This particular McDonald’s was in Asda, a British supermarket, on the edge of Norwich, England. It was a late lunch, around 3.30pm. We thought Asda’s might have their own restaurant. Horror! There was only a McDonald’s. We decided to try it, as we were on a tight schedule, with little time to hunt elsewhere for lunch. Going to the counter I ordered two strawberry shakes. The machine wasn’t working. My mother had to settle for a coffee. I had an orange drink. My mother liked the chicken burger ‘on display’ but wanted a smaller chicken burger with a small portion of chips. I must have misordered, as she got the ‘ordinary’ one, which apparently was awful. I ordered a ‘¼ pounder’, (this I believe is called a ‘McRoyal’ in Slovakia where I live) i.e. a beef burger.

Category: Food / Eating out / McDonald’s

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