nosh nook #3 - wednesday, march 18, 2009

snack attack: new 'mac snack wrap' from mcdonald's — who needs the big mac bun? (link)
03.17.09 - the national post - by karen hawthorne

i consume a hell of a lot of snack wraps. the bright, flashy, multi-floor 42nd st times square mcdonalds is right at the base of my office building, so it's extremely easy to just hop in the elevator, take it down twenty-four floors, pop out into the chaos of time sq like a cute lil gopher, procure my snack wrap (grilled chipotle is the current fave) & head right back into the building & back upstairs, pausing only ever so slightly to admire the large ecko sign across the way, which features girls in bikinis making ecko jeans for the world.

starting next tuesday, canadian mcdonalds will start serving the new "mac snack wrap," which is basically a half big mac with all its important ingredients wrapped in a tortilla. i enjoy big macs, but as karen hawthorne notes, "the special sauce oozes into your mouth" & "the flavour is creamy comfort on your tongue." that just sounds plain pornographicly disgusting.

i suppose the mac snack wrap will be a lo-carb alternative to the three-bun big mac, so it's sort of half way in between the full-on big mac & what they tried to do a few years back when they devoted a whole portion of their menu to atkins-style versions of their burgers. that was just plain ridiculous. at least this has some semblance of reality to it. after all, everything tastes better when you wrap it in a tortilla.