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Quarter Pounder With Cheese – McDonald’s
Price: $3.00 | California, Elk Grove | Fast Food Burgers
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Find this Burger
Address: McDonald's
7527 Laguna Blvd
Elk Grove CA 95758
Phone: 916-683-1535
On the Web: http://www.mcdonalds.com
The Joint
McDonald’s is a global fast food chain that actually started out in 1940 as “McDonald’s Bar-B-Que”, a drive-in restaurant with car hop service in San Bernadino, CA.
McDonald’s now has over 31,000 restaurant locations in 119 countries. It’s also the first burger that I can remember eating when I was growing up as a kid in the Southern United States.
The Burger
The Quarter Pounder with Cheese from McDonald’s is one of my first “burger memories”. Both my parents worked, so sometimes when McDonald’s was having a sale, or if they were feeling fancy, they would buy up about a dozen or so Quarter Pounders with Cheese and then put them in the freezer. This was right about the time when microwaves first came out, and me my brother and sister would heat up one after school as a snack.
There’s nothing really fancy about the Quarter Pounder with Cheese, but there are a few things that make it stand out for me. There’s that salty, cheesy taste of the two pieces of cheese. There’s the onions (I preferred when they used the tiny onions that they now use on the double cheeseburgers) smothered in ketchup and mustard. There’s the slightly salty, but unique to McDonald’s taste of the burger itself.
Put them all together and you get a burger that’s “good enough” to bring back fond memories and fill you up on those days when a fancy burger just isn’t an option.
The Verdict
As you can see, I’m definitely not a burger snob by any means. I get cravings for both the quick fix of a fast food burger almost as often as the slow fix of a fancy restaurant burger cooked to a perfect medium rare. When you don’t have the luxury of eating a top notch 40+ point super burger, a Quarter Pounder with Cheese provides a fulfilling trip down memory lane.
BurgerJunkies Rating
- Burger Juiciness (because a dry burger is just wrong) 4
- Bun Goodness (a quality meat holder is essential) 4
- Burger Flavor (is the meat itself extra tastilicious) 5
- Burger Value (you can pay too much for a .99 cent burger and an amazing burger can seem like a steal at $20…and vice versa) 8
- B Factor (this is that super subjective thing that makes each review unique. That gene se qua, that something special about the experience. Could be the special sauce, could be the atmosphere of the joint, could be the ridiculous shakes that you paired the burger with, or it could be some french fries that make you wanna cry) 6
Total Score: 27pts
This is my go-to burger at the Golden Arches. I add to it another pack of ketchup and some fries on top. Good burger!
There is something special about the quarter pounder with cheese. They may put crack in it to “make” you want another one…I don’t know….My husband says the double quarter pounder is not even the same burger flavor. I think it is twice as good.
Oh McDonald’s, my only frienemy, how I hate to love you. I grew up walking distance from McDonald’s so I have probably put so much money in that place that I should own a franchise. I always went with the Double Quarter Pounder with cheese and no onions, as I am not a fan of raw onions.
I always love the quote from Coming to America where Cleo McDowell says ” Look… me and the McDonald’s people got this little misunderstanding. See, they’re McDonald’s… I’m McDowell’s. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.”