I have been given the opportunity to let off some steam from the team here at burgerater.com, and because there is no punching bag around I will use some blustering words instead. I also will try and not use too much profanity, on occasion it is unavoidable though. This may be one of those occasions.
There are a few components to this angry outburst, and I outline these for you now:

• McDonalds - one of the longest running burger restaurants on the planet.
• Their burger the McFeast®, comprised of beef patty, tomato, lettuce, cheese, onion and pickle.
• Their pre-eminent deluxe sauce (or lack thereof).

To give a little history, in truth, the McFeast® itself was not that great a burger. Originally this menu item from McDonalds consisted of the ingredients listed above, with tomato sauce. It was merely ordinary, average, typical, standard, regular, normal, run of the mill, common, etc.

I’m not sure of the dates, but at some stage the head honchos realised this, and for a limited time they added the option of a condiment – the deluxe sauce. It was a little like dijonnaise, except it had wholegrain seeds in it, where of course dijon mustard has no such seeds. The McFeast Deluxe was born.
And what a beautiful baby it was. New life had been breathed into this once plain burger. The ugly duckling had become the regal swan.
A spike in sales was surely realised, and, like the McChicken before it, the McFeast Deluxe became a fundamental burger on the menu. Standing tall alongside the Big Mac and the Quarter Pounder with cheese.
The re-release (is that a word?) of the McFeast in itself would not have garnered such interest. But that word, oh my, that one word, changes EVERYTHING!!!

McDonalds have the gall to add that word, then serve up a completely different rendition of this once great pillar of their menu, which by the way was usurped by that sh!t-house McOz, oooh you add beetroot and half-arsed grilled onions and dare to have THAT as a representation of what Australia can offer in a burger. It’s not even a decent rival to the Aussie burger from HJ’s.

Check Maccas web-site page titled “What’s New” and there’s a little blurb on the return of the McFeast “deluxe” (it doesn’t deserve a capital D).

• Mayonnaise a replacement for that Deluxe sauce?
• Better than ever?
• All the ingredients you know and love? All the ingredients…All? ALL??!!!!

“What’s Crap” would be a more suitable title.

They most surely know that they’re not fooling anyone; otherwise I would have expected a large campaign championing the return. Only they KNOW it is not a return of the Deluxe, merely a shadow, an impostor, like Arnie’s hologram of Douglas Quaid (Hauser?) that fooled Cohaagen’s henchmen in Total Recall.

What I don’t understand is why they cannot whip up some more of the Deluxe sauce, I know that they still had it in France in July 2006, fly some over and deliver on what your menu supposedly offers.

A slap in the face? More like a kick in the nuts.