McDonald's rolled out a few big changes to its burgers in select cities—including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Tucson.
Among the changes: The popular fast food chain is adding white onions to the burger patties while they're still on the grill—as a way to enhance flavor.
Not everyone was happy about it, with some diners leaving some choice words on social media.
A few days ago, McDonald's announced that it would be rolling out big changes to a number of its classic burgers. Among the burgers getting a taste-enhancing makeover are the Big Mac, McDouble, classic cheeseburger, double cheeseburger, and hamburger. For now, the changes have only been implemented at McDonald's locations in select cities: Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Tucson, Portland, Oregon, and Sacramento.
Now that customers have had a chance to quite literally digest the news, they're sounding off on social media with their thoughts.
One of the new changes McDonald's is starting to roll out is adding white onions to the burger patties while they're still on the grill to enhance the flavor. One user on Twitter pointed out a potential downside to this particular new change. According to them, they're no longer able to order a burger without onions.
@McDonalds You just lost a customer. With the “new and improved “ way of cooking your burgers, I am not able to order my burger without onions. Just did at my local McDonald’s and it’s covered with onions that im not able to remove at all. Disgusting waste of money.
— Lori Saucier🐀 #Vaccinated (@Lynville) April 20, 2023
In response, the official Twitter account for McDonald's said, "you can always choose to customize your order to suit your needs." But a number of people are still concerned with the new griddled white onions.
As someone who hates onions, I’m worried about McDonald’s new policy of cooking onions directly on the grill. I won’t eat White Castle burgers for this very reason. https://t.co/27RCKkHShD
— Bill Zeiser (@BillZeiser) April 20, 2023
I have a significant intolerance to onions. They make me quite ill within 15 -20 mins. So when I heard about this new recipe McDonald’s is rolling out,my first thought was I won’t be able to eat burgers there
— Grant (@grantpry) April 19, 2023
I guess McDonald's really doesn't want my business. In their grand wisdom they are going to make burgers with onions already in the patties it's not bad enough they are already put a million onions on there. Now we don't get a choice
— Greg Lovelace (@Greg84487717) April 19, 2023
Others on social media wish the fast food restaurant would have put their effort into making other changes.
"It would be even better if they add lettuce and tomato," one person said in response to the news.
"How about working on thier [sic] service. West Tennessee MCDs service sucks," another Twitter user added.
Quite a few McDonald's customers have taken the "if it's not broke, don't fix it" outlook to the new changes.
If it ain't broke don't fix it. Big Mac fans might not be too happy about the change
— Abe (@Abe95319941) April 18, 2023
McDonald's is making a mistake by changing the taste of their burgers.
If you need an example of, potentially, how big of a mistake, just remember, or look up online, the disaster that was New co*ke.— Jason Fontaine (@Jay36963966) April 21, 2023
A particularly harsh critic tweeted, "Okay, but if the actual meat in the burgers continues to taste like road scrapings, it's not gonna matter."
There has also been some positive feedback to the new changes. One person proclaimed that the food "tastes a lot better than it used to."
Not 100% normal but getting there, tastes a lot better than it used to. About 67% normal I’d say. https://t.co/WbiTAp25P0
— Dragomannia (@DragomanniaTTV) April 20, 2023
McDonald's is aiming to complete the nationwide rollout of its revamped burgers by 2024.
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