McDonald's is Trying to Remake Its Image Into Not-Horse-Leavings
In DepthHot on the heels of Taco Bell’s attempts to go upscale with their US Taco Co. and Urban Taproom, McDonald’s is attempting to rebrand itself so it will no longer be side-eyed even by scrapple lovers.
McDonald’s recently hosted a dinner where celebrity chefs who will have to live with the fact that they did this for the rest of their careers attempted to prepare haute cuisine using McDonald’s ingredients:
A Kung Pao chicken appetizer was made with Chicken McNuggets doused in sweet and sour sauce and garnished with parsley. Slow-cooked beef was served with gnocchi fashioned out of McDonald’s french fries and a fruit sauce from its smoothie mix. For dessert, its biscuit mix was used to make a pumpkin spice “biznut,” a biscuit-doughnut hybrid.
I was going to come up with fake versions of dishes they could’ve served as part of this, but honestly, nothing I come up with could possibly be more ridiculous than what they already did.