Whew, the McRib is back!

OK, lately I know it seems like I just blog when I want to rant and rave about something, but I guess that's true. It's kind of fun to write stuff for all the internet to see in a "voice" that I would probably never really use in real life. See, I am not funny when I talk. It's because my funny thoughts, observations, or expressions rarely come to me at the appropriate moment, they show up hours or even days later. Or during church or funerals. So, anyway...I write them for you to enjoy.

Let me say first and foremost, I am a girl who has no problem eating at McDonalds. In fact, the nice ladies who work the drive thru at the Cameron Village location know me quite well, and I felt like I should have given them a Christmas card because they are so nice to me and never ask me questions like "are you sure you really need TWO sausage biscuits, there are no kids in your van at the moment." I like fast food, and feed it to my children probably once a week, sometimes more. So I'm not one of those snobby, "we never eat any fast food" kind of moms.

But can we talk openly about the McRib sandwich for a moment? It was with a certain dread that I heard this commercial on the radio that the McRib is back.

Well, oh my stars of Bethlehem...let me try and hide my excitement. OK, that was easy. The McRib sandwich is one of the few things on the McD's menu that I will NEVER NEVER NEVER eat. It's right up there with the Filet-O-Fish. Ugh! Everyone knows that you can't put actual ribs on a sandwich, right? Surely people must know that the meat can come from any animal and just about any location on the animal carcass, right? Then it's smooshed around in machines, mixed with all sorts of other weird fillers and stuff, and FORMED into what looks like a nice little riblet sandwich.

"Well, Rachel," you must be saying, "they do the same thing to make sausage." OK, that's true. But sausage doesn't pretend to be a real piece of meat. It seems to say, "I'm a big ole mixture of different cuts of pork, I also invite some spices and fillers to join me, and together we're pounded in a nice little patty." OK, I can accept that. But to pretend to be ribs when you're clearly not? That is just creepy and gross.

Furthermore, McD's whole ploy of "come and get some, because soon we're going to TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU." I mean really, how fat and childish have we gotten in this country that we fall into this game? They have been threatening to take it away for years now, and yet it keeps coming back. My hope is that maybe this time they're serious.