Right off the bat let me apologize for the title of this post. It’s not meant in the nasty way you might be thinking. You see, the McGangBang is a real thing, and it seems to be sweeping the nation. The concept is simple — take a double cheeseburger and stick a McChicken right in the middle. The folks over at Eat Me Daily have put together more information than you could ever want on the subject — the McG’s history, the spread of it online, stories and videos — you name it, they have it.
I wouldn’t be much of a McDonald’s connoisseur without pointing out a small factual error. Every picture you’ll find of the item features a double cheeseburger and — not a McChicken — but a Junior Chicken. And yes, there is a difference. A big one in my books. The McChicken is a big, juicy, delicious slice of heaven served on a sesame seed bun. The Junior Chicken is an overly spiced, overly cooked, shriveled up piece of nothing. Not a pleasant experience. As the McG seems to be an American phenomenon so far I can’t help but wonder if they don’t have the real McChicken. A sad state of affairs if true.
I haven’t tried a McG, but considering my love of both chicken and burgers, it seems like a no brainer. Maybe I should invent the BBW McGangBang — a double quarter pounder with a REAL McChicken in the middle. Mmmmm.. meat and poultry, together at last.
Thanks to Boo for sending this story my way! 🙂
Super classy post, Jim!
If Mcdonald’s ever starts using Canadian beef again. I’ll try a Mcgangbang for sure. Until then, I have to support our Alberta beef farmers!!!!
How…interesting lol
I might be tempted to try this one day…
gross
I wouldn’t eat the two together – sometimes when I can’t decide on beef or chicken, I have a jr. chicken and a cheeseburger. But I HAVE to eat the chicken first.
When did McDonald’s stop using Canadian beef? I thought it was corporate policy to use beef from the country where the restaurants are. Is this not the case?
Ok, I did a quick research on Snopes.com and the email that went around saying that McDonald’s imports beef is a hoax.
See it here
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/mcdbeef.asp
i don’t get this. they only need one crown and one hell, and the rest can be the center buns like on the bigmac. this thing looks like the leaning tower of mcfood.
that looks revolting
When I first saw the picture I thought it was a fillet o’ fish in the middle, it doesn’t seem so bad with the chicken after thinking that.
I actually tried this last night. My poor wife was standing by with the cell phone ready to go in case I suffered a massive myocardial infarction.
It wasn’t half bad – kind of a tasty treat.
I then promptly retired to the couch and went into a coma.
you say the title of the post wasn’t meant to offend, but why do you think the sandwich is called that in the first place?
See, the reason you get Jr Chickens in the picture is that up here, they’re on the value menu.
In the States, a full sized McChicken is on the Dollar Menu, and there is no Jr available.
I tried the McGangbang yesterday and I’ve got to admit i thought it was heavenly. I got the McChicken, not the Jr. but I noticed something. The double cheeseburger and the McDouble are virtually identical (personally I didn’t notice a single difference, they even appear the same size) but the McDouble is a lot cheaper, about $1.75 CAN with tax, i think. which would bring the McGangbang down to about 6 bucks, which is a little more than the Big Mac but it’s also (in my opinion) tastier and definitely more filling, also less healthy. “Why must the bad food taste so good?”
Jim Squires, if you were a real McDonald’s connoisseur then you would know what is on the U.S. menu.
The McChicken in the States (on the Dollar Menu) is equivalent to the Junior Chicken here. The Canadian McChicken is purely a Canadian sandwich and does not exist in the U.S.
So that is why you see the “Junior Chicken” in pictures, but it is actually the American McChiken. Junior Chicken never existed until a few years ago anyways.
I had no idea anyone else but my friends ate these . You all talk about how gross it looks , But they are like amazing , You gotta try one before you start talking bout how gross they are , Like there amazing && only 3 dollars && like bigger than a big mac && cheaper , I can admit I have like atleast 2 a week , There so good .
At awesome man, the difference between the McDouble and the double cheeseburger is that the double cheeseburger uses 2 slices of cheese while the McDouble uses 1. A Canadian McDonalds employee.
Two blacks and a white in the middle.