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…
msn people think i am a drunk because i always have an arizona can in my hand
I literly disapiotnt the quota chasing cops
I fucks with the Arnold palmer
The McD’s around my way always hold the ice when asked.
I don’t drink tea (hot or iced) so I can’t say whether their Sweet Tea is any good.
Lemme say this about that. Since McD is promoting their Chik-Fil-A replicant to all the folks around the country with a craving for that patty, the commercials are borderline insane.
1 : Southern Style Chicken Sandwich has a “butter-flavored” topping on the bread instead of the real deal. This could be the crazy oil shit leftover from some $1 movie theater or the magic dust they put inside the microwave popcorn bags. Not the real deal.
2 : Breakfast Chicken Biscuit is promoted as being a “homestyle flavor” biscuit. What the fuck does that even imply?
I just got back from DC + Prince George’s County, the highest concentration of affluent black folks in the country (from what I was told). We hit their CFA outpost for some lunch and aside from the Asst. Manager, I was the only only keeping it ofay. Upon entering, and leaving, the line for the drive in was 10 cars deep and not a single same person in that line. Respect the original and only visit McD’s on Sunday for that craving.
I heard it’s 3 cups of actual sugar in each 32 oz. serving.
Ha. And I just had this with my Southern Chicken sandwich meal the other night after getting twisted from the club. Crack
Arizona Green Tea is my crack.
for the love of all things kosher please stop fucken with McDonalds on any level…you know they are trying to kill you?
you know that right?!
It’s prolly the only thing I would ever buy at Micky Deez, and I tell them only a little ice.
Do you know Arizona has a Sweet Tea now?
http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2008/02/19/arizonas-sweet-southern-racist-tea/
I’d never seen the original can before! They must have changed it quick as hell or it never hit NJ to begin with.
Aunt Jackie,
Yes I know they are going to kill me. Everytime I put that straw of sweet tea to my mouth it is like the new cover of the Source mag with Game putting the pistol in his mouthExtra [ll].
Shit is more cracker than crack.. I imagine that the Hamburglar is putting just the legal minimum of hot water into a vat of maolasses to liquify its chemical composition. Then they drive it around in tanker trucks guarded by barbarians like in Mad Max.
“we don’t need another hero. We just need to know the way home from Thunderdome.”
arizona sweet tea has been out for years
D,
You’re such a foodie. I only hit Mc Donalds when the paper is super low and i got $10 left on my card that I can spend for fake chicken and extra salted fries that I have a hard time eating.
black folks always go for some high sugar beverage anyway. that shit was invented to bring us closer to sugarbetes. even with amputated gangrene limbs, black folks would happily die with a full surving of chitlens and ice tea.
L M A O @ every bodies comments and this post… man we’re all goin’ to have the fucking sweets drinking that shit…it taste just like the tea I used to make when I was 8. fill a third of the cup up with sugar and wala. smh.