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Up in Canada (at least my part), McDonald's coffee is a great affordable coffee. It's better than Starbucks or (🤮) Tim Hortons. It's not going to compete with a bespoke artisan coffee shop that squeezes cat butt glands or whatever justifies selling a $5 cup for $10, but it's better than almost everything else for the price.
The cost is twofold, justified by having:
1- actual quality cherries, grown and dried in a labor intensive ways by farmers actually making real money directly off of the sale of their coffee and-
2- small, local coffee Roasters actually taking care of the roast on a coffee you want to taste while also getting paid for their hard work.
That probably sounds fucking snobby as hell but it really makes a difference that is hard to ignore once you start tasting it.
No butt glands involved, feline or otherwise.
The real takeaway issue is $10 for a $5 cup of $.11 cents worth of ground coffee beans.
The town I live in has 2 Tims, 1 McDonald's, and no cafes. I never considered how deeply it would eventually hurt leaving a place with quality cafes and restaurants for a place without. At this point we're considering on just moving to an unorganized township because there's no point in paying the higher property taxes (there's a long list of complaints to go with that nugget).
It's fairly cheap for getting coffee out and it's better than Starbucks coffee. Sure, go to a cafe if you have the means, but many don't.
Yeah, the US general has a lack of cafés. I imagine there are two reasons. First is the culture doesn't really encourage it (though that's mostly newish, and has to do with the second point). Second, the sprawl, especially in suburban hell, does not allow for many third places at all. There's almost nowhere people go to sit around and relax outside of their house. It's a real shame and I think it's caused a lot of issues.
You can usually get it for a dollar with the app and it's better than a lot of the stuff that can be made at home with an automatic coffee maker. I used to get it a lot until I could afford to support smaller coffee places
Big doubt that it's better than almost anything you can make at home with an automatic coffee maker. It's awful. The convenience is the only reason.
I concur to this; I used to work at McDonald's, and we only changed out the coffee like twice a day if that
We must've had different experiences with it. I also wouldn't say it's better than almost anything you can make at home with an automatic coffee maker - just a lot of it. I'd take it over any of the more common supermarket brands of coffee grounds (Folgers, Starbucks, Great Value, Dunkin, Peet's, and Maxwell House in particular)
At least in Toronto, it's one of the better options.
Montreal too. Before I got into specialty coffee (which is altogether another thing) I was pretty much only drinking mc-d's in the mornings. There's no real grocery store option for at home pour over that compares either.
Last time I visited the US, McDonalds and Dunkin' Donuts was easy places to get coffee on the road that wasn't see through, like pure water, or tasted like shit
As far as widely available (especially in BFE where it's this or a shitty gas station) it's decent coffee. I'd say it's better than Starbucks, mostly because Starbucks coffee is terrible. Almost no big chain gives you coffee worth the $5 of whatever they charge.
so you can sue McDonalds
it's like playing Lotto, but you also get a Coffee to it