UPDATE: Jan. 26, 2018 at 10:28 a.m. EST
Just like Joni Mitchell famously sang, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. McDonald's clearly takes that adage seriously, considering how it adds and removes the McRib over the years, serving it for just a small window to ensure you really race to restaurants when it's back. Now, it's giving the Grand Mac and Mac Jr. — two varying sizes on its classic Big Mac — the same treatment.
After disappearing from menus, both sizes are back, Brand Eating reported.
UPDATE: Jan. 21, 2017 at 5:11 p.m. EST
If you've spent the past few months secretly envying anyone living in Texas and Ohio, seething with jealousy over the fact that the states were chosen to test out the Big Mac's two new sizes (Grand Mac and Mac Jr.), you're in luck: Both sizes are now available nationwide.
While the Mac Jr.'s essentially just a single-patty Big Mac, the Grand Mac features a heftier patty and an extra slice of cheese.
Since burgers account for about 20 percent of the chain's sales, and restaurant traffic's expected to stay relatively the same throughout 2017 -- meaning Mickey D's can't expect an uptick in people suddenly deciding to hit up the drive thru -- the chain's banking on appealing to people's desire to have better control over their portions (whether they want a bigger burger or a smaller one), Bloomberg reports.
"Supersizing" may still be a dirty word, but a mega meal by any other name is still just as grand.
ORIGINAL POST: April 29, 2016
Remember back in the day when you could get your meal at McDonald's super-sized and indulge in way too many fries? Here's how that turned out:
Well it seems that the company has moved on from the Super Size Me shame and is revisiting the idea of offering larger portions. McD's is toying with all-you-can-eat fries in Missouri and recently released a massive 4 patty burger in Japan. Now, the famous brand is focusing on ways to make the Big Mac, errr, bigger (and smaller).
Texas and Ohio are the The Chosen states that get to test out the new Grand Mac and Mac Jr. According to Texas Monthly,the Mac Jr. is just your regular Big Mac minus one patty, and the Grand Mac (which doesn't add extra patties but does add an extra
