Would you agree McDonald's food tasted much better back in the 1990's and Early 2000's than it does now?

Maybe it's just me, but I remember McDonald's food tasting so much better when I was a kid. I remember their burgers were too die for back then. Their chicken nuggets and fries have always tasted the same, but their burgers definitely taste different now. Somewhere down the years, they changed the way they cook their burgers and now they kinda taste smushy and soggy.

Maybe it's just nostalgia and I'm older now and no longer a kid, but I feel like McDonald's food use to taste so much better back in the day.

Anyone else agree?

I would speculate that the quality of their food is not as good as it used to be in the 90's. Their food in the 90's probably wasn't as good as it was in the years prier. When I was a kid, going to McD's was more about the experience. The one we used to go to when I was a kid had a huge play area with all kinds of McD's themed play equipment, all the characters from the commercials there. Sometimes they would even have someone dressed up as Ronald McDonald, it was the best.

Who knows. Taste/palate change over time specially if more than a decade has past.

The experience is definitely not the same, but I'm pretty sure their burgers taste the same. At least where I live. However, I seem to recall them changing the recipe for their fries years ago. I don't remember what changed, but they're still pretty good IMO.

Yes, I totally agree! Either my tastes have changed a lot since childhood, or McDonald's food used better-quality ingredients back then. Now, the mere smell of McDonald's food nauseates me. I remember that in the early 2000s, McDonald's changed oil they were using (at least for the fries) to try to make them healthier. The fries have never been the same since. If they're using that oil for other food, maybe that's why it does not taste as good.

I didn't really like the Happy Meal burger even then.......the breakfast and later the McNuggets on the other hand..........

The commercials were much better too because McDonald's knew when to retire a slogan...............I HATE "I'M LOVIN' IT" SO DAMN MUCH! I WISH THEY WOULD JUST RETIRE IT AND HAVE NO TAG MUSIC FOR THE NEXT SLOGAN!

Just the coffee for me these days!

Honestly, it doesn't taste much different to me. I think the main difference I experience is that as a kid, it was a once a week treat. It was special and about the experience. Getting the food, that happy meal toy, etc. Then in highschool we would go quite often and it's not as special anymore.

Believe it or not, up until the 1990's the closest McDonalds was 145 miles away. To me, I always found the food fair game as long as I could get that damned happy meal toy and show my friends back home the newest happy meal toy. Alf plushies were the coolest...I lucked out when I visited Mc D's and got an Alf boullia boullia baseball plushy.

It wasn't done to be healthier. It was to push the agenda of a fast food business board member. The switched from healthy, tasty beef tallow to unhealthy, artery-clogging vegetable oils, pushed by an idiot who knew nothing about nutrition but had just become vegetarian himself. Heart attacks and obesity were RARE until vegetable oils and shortening (your lifespan) were brought onto the market as "healthy cooking alternatives". Lord only knows how many millions Crisco has killed.

I was born in 1980, so with taste buds changing every 7 years. I would have to agree that the food did taste better in the 90's IMO, for some reason, The patties are more salt and peppery that usaual

Many look back fondly on the 1990s and early 2000s, recalling when McDonald's food seemed to taste better. This perception might be due to changes in recipes, ingredients, or even how nostalgia influences our food memories. Others feel the brand's efforts to adapt to modern preferences and healthier ingredients have altered the taste over the years.

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