You can look at me and tell that I know my way around a McDonald’s or ten. I’ve fucked with their products for prA’li all of my forty years. I even use their products to create food items that can open a portal in the tme-space continuum. If the film ‘Supersize Me’ is correct then I should be dying this summer from a heart attack. And still I get online at the Golden Arches for my handful of Soylent Green.
Recently McDonald’s rolled out their own licensed beverage called Mickey Dee’s Sweet Tea. I’ve actually had this drink for some time out of the Harlem McD’s on 135th Street across from my jobsite at the Schomburg Public Library and Cultural Center. Yeah, shit was hell’a fucking good. They were giving it up in this monstrous cup and the price was righteous at $1.00 plus tax.
I used to order my drink with no ice since we all know that McDonald’s ice is from outerspace and never melts. True story. Also, in my mind I couldn’t justify buying McDonald’s sweet tea over two(2) bottles of Tropical Fantasy from the bodega for $1.00 with NO tax. You want to talk about a sweet tea? Tropical Fantasy has 32grams of sugar per serving (8 fluid ounces). That my friends is the equivalent of an ounce and an eightball of high fructose in just half a bottle. I’d like to see how the McD’s Sweet Tea stacks up to that.
The other evening I came home with a container of McD’s Sweet Tea and I decided to perform a little experiment. The McDonald’s that sold me the beverage refused to fill my cup with no ice saying that their rules mandated ice. This must be the rules handed to them from Burger King that you can only give away three ketchup packets per order, no matter how much food was ordered.
I expeditiously consumed the sweet tea and then I opened my cup to see three quarters of the volume filled with ice. I pulled a can of Arizona brand ‘Mucho Mango’ from my refrigerator and poured the beverage into my cup. Lo’ and behold that the McD’s Sweet Tea ice-laden cup could receive only 80% of the beverage contained in the Arizona can. The Arizona can is 23.5ozs. to begin with. McD is charging me $1.09 for less than 20ozs. of their proprietary beverage. What the peanut butter and jelly shit is this?!?
Arizona brand still charges $.99 for their tall boy of iced tea beverages which also contain 29 grams of HFCS per serving. While Tropical Fantasy is still the G.O.A.T. for sweetened tea products even though they have raised their price to $.59 for every 16oz. bottle (that’s $1.18 for 32 fl. ozs.). I am demanding two (2) things now from McDonald’s Corporation…
1) Rescind the mandatory ice statute, or at least offer the ‘ice exemption’ on after hours purchases
2) I need to see the nutritional content of the Sweet Tea product. What type of sweetner is used. If McDonald’s is using actual sugar to sweeten their product then I would be open to giving them a higher rating.
