2 Chainz gave more glimpses of his future musical direction in a new freestyle for the LA Leakers, a show that has been on an absolute tear when it comes to showcasing the most impressive lyricists in hip-hop. While dropping by the Power 106 studio has always been something of a rite of passage for rappers looking to promote new projects or introduce themselves to the world at large, the past year has seen rappers of greater and greater stature drop by, from rising stars like Cordae and Latto to established industry leaders like Big Sean and J. Cole.
Unsurprisingly, this was far from 2 Chainz’s first appearance. Back in 2017, he stepped all over Kendrick Lamar’s then-new single “DNA.” as he showed off his ability to adjust his flow to sound more like the Compton rapper’s. On his new freestyle, though, he went the other way, forcing a classic hip-hop single to mold to his own flow — although, it’s clear he’s been working on adding more dimension to his delivery as well. Busting raps over Pharcyde’s 1993 classic “Passin’ Me By,” Chainz references the meme-launching Mystikal rhyme about fighting a bear, turning the lyrical grizzly into a silverback gorilla. The result is the same, though: If you see Chainz engaged in fisticuffs with this wild animal, the one needing assistance won’t be the 6’5″ rapper from Atlanta.
Chainz’s song selection is right in line with his recent declaration to move on from trap rap and his recent output incorporating more classic hip-hop boom-bap sounds into his arsenal as he ages into elder-statesman territory looking to follow in the footsteps of other veterans like his ColleGrove 2 partner in rhyme Lil Wayne. Judging from his LA Leakers freestyle, that’ll be a good look on him, but first, he’s finishing his trap career strong with Dope Don’t Sell Itself, due sometime this quarter.
In the clip, Paltrow is eating one of her infamous vagina candles which she says tastes funny, but not bad! Okay, Gwyneth! Uber Eats also dropped two more teasers, one with icon Jennifer Coolidge and another with Trevor Noah.
Coolidge’s ad features her shockingly exclaim “Lipstick? Delivered with Uber Eats?!” before chowing down on the purple stick, which she claims tastes like “purple.” Noah’s ad does the same routine, but with deodorant. Uber encourages fans to find out why the celebs are eating their non-edible food by tuning into the Big Game next Sunday, but it’s not hard to assume. The ads are supposedly to promote non-food items that Uber Eats is starting to offer, including toiletries, makeup, and, allegedly, candles.
This isn’t the first time Uber Eats has had a star-studded ad campaign, as their Elton John/ Lil Nas X commercial went viral last Fall, and who could forget their Wayne’s World reunion from last year. All of these star-studded, high-budget commercials beg the question: do people really use Uber Eats? It seems so.
Check out the rest of the ads below, then tune in to watch the thrilling conclusion on Super Bowl Sunday. Also to watch the game, presumably.
CNN president Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned from the news network on Wednesday, catching the entire media world, and employees at CNN, by surprise. Zucker admitted in his resignation email that he had failed to disclose a “consensual relationship” with his closest colleague, who he did not name. However, CNN chief marketing officer Allison Gollust later issued a statement confirming she was the person involved with Zucker and that the relationship was indeed consensual.
Naturally, the situation has become a bit more complicated than simply an office romance. New reporting has revealed that Gollust briefly worked as an aide for former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was forced to resign from office over allegations of sexual misconduct. His brother, Chris Cuomo, would later be fired from CNN for using his media resources to allegedly disparage the former governor’s accusers. According to Politico, Cuomo’s exit snowballed into Zucker’s abrupt resignation:
In his memo, Zucker said he was asked about his relationship during an investigation into Chris Cuomo’s conduct. Two sources with knowledge of the situation not authorized to speak publicly said that Cuomo’s legal team, which continues to negotiate his exit from the network, raised issues about the relationship between Zucker and Gollust. Cuomo’s legal team asserted that Zucker was hypocritical to suggest Cuomo had a personal conflict of interest when the relationship with Gollust represented a potential conflict as well.
As Politico notes, additional reporting from Puck News’ Matt Belloni claims that Chris Cuomo’s legal team recently made a request that exacerbated the situation with Zucker and Gollust.
“I’m told CNN received a litigation hold letter recently from Chris Cuomo lawyers, demanding, among other things, preservation of all communications between Zucker, comms chief Allison Gollust, and Andrew Cuomo,” Belloni tweeted shortly after news of Zucker’s resignation broke.
Potentially important: I’m told CNN received a litigation hold letter recently from Chris Cuomo lawyers, demanding, among other things, preservation of all communications between Zucker, comms chief Allison Gollust, and Andrew Cuomo.
It’s been about a week since Neil Young removed his music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan, and since then, some other notable artists have followed in his footsteps. That list includes Joni Mitchell; India.Arie; and Young’s former Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmate Graham Nash. Now, all of Young’s CSNY bandmates have taken a stand and declared in a message shared today that they want their music off of Spotify, too, both their solo work and collaborations with each other.
The message — signed by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Nash — reads, “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast. While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences. Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music — or the music we made together — to be on the same platform.”
This comes after Rogan himself addressed Young, saying, “I’m very sorry that they feel that way. I most certainly don’t want that. I’m a Neil Young fan. I’ve always been a Neil Young fan.”
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Every year, the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame (Rock Hall, for short) inducts artists with distinguished careers that have stood the test of time. Being enshrined into the Rock Hall is an honor bestowed upon artists who have demonstrated a body of work across many decades that once in the Rock Hall, can help engage fans with music history. The nomination process considers artists whose first commercial recording was released a minimum of 25 years before the year of their nomination, so you won’t see Billie Eilish or Harry Styles nominated anytime soon.
With this year’s new crop of 17 nominees for the 2022 Rock And Roll Hall of Fame class, Eminem leads the way as the only nominee who is in their first year of eligibility. A Tribe Called Quest, Beck, Carly Simon, Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, and Lionel Richie are all nominated for the first time despite having been eligible in the past. The other nominees include Devo, Dionne Warwick, Eurythmics, Fela Kuti, Judas Priest, Kate Bush, MC5, New York Dolls, Pat Benatar, and Rage Against The Machine.
From here, fan voting to help determine who will enter the 2022 class is now open now via the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame website. The inductees are scheduled to be announced in May, with a ceremony later in the fall.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
If there was ever any doubt that Donald Trump truly believed that Mike Pence had the authority to simply overturn the results of a national presidential election because the guy he worked for didn’t win, the former president has gone and outed himself.
Over the weekend, Trump issued a statement in which he outright stated that Pence “could have overturned the Election!” And the fact that he didn’t has put Donald and his former #2 on the outs—so much so that Trump is now insisting that the January 6th committee should be investigating the former vice president instead. While the sheer inanity of it all has everyone talking, Jimmy Kimmel seemed absolutely astounded by the sudden turn of events.
On Tuesday night, Kimmel mentioned the current rift between Pence and Trump (the two reportedly have not spoken in months) and the weekend statement, but noted that “Today, he went about eight steps further with what is certainly among the top five craziest statements made by a former president of the United States. He wrote, on paper—because he’s not allowed to post on Twitter:
‘So pathetic to watch the Unselect Committee of political hacks, liars, and traitors work so feverishly to alter the Electoral College Act so that a Vice President cannot ensure the honest results of the election, when just one year ago they said that the Vice President has absolutely no right to ensure the true outcome or results of an election. In other words, they lied and the Vice President did have this right… blah, blah, blah.
If Nancy Pelosi, who is in charge of Capitol security, had taken my recommendation and substantially increased security, there would have been no ‘January 6th’ as we know it!’
But that wasn’t even the end of the inanity.
Kimmel’s favorite part of Trump’s statement came when he suggested that “the Unselect Committee” (that will never get old) should instead be investigating “why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval in that it has now been shown that he clearly had the right to do so!” In other words: Trump thinks that someone should be investigating his own vice president.
“This is like Bonnie calling for an investigation into Clyde,” Kimmel said. “And the saddest part is Mike Pence is so pathetic, he’d probably agree.”
The Walking Dead wraps up later this year, but The Walking Dead franchise will continue for as long as people enjoy watching zombies get rock stomped. So, forever. On Wednesday, AMC revealed the cast for the next TWD spin-off, Tales of the Walking Dead, an anthology series that focuses “on both new and established characters set in the world of the original series.” The extremely-talented ensemble includes:
-Anthony Edwards (ER, Zodiac)
-Poppy Liu (Hacks, Better Call Saul)
-Parker Posey (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind)
-Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, this scene from White Chicks)
-Jillian Bell (Eastbound and Down, Brittany Runs a Marathon)
“Anthony, Jillian, Terry, Parker, and Poppy are the first wave of singular talents who will further expand the Walking Dead Universe into harrowing, hilarious, heartfelt, and horrifying new realms and we couldn’t be happier to welcome them to the family, along with these terrific directors. More announcements, more wonderful folks to come,” The Walking Dead chief content officer Scott M. Gimple said in a statement. I, for one, can’t wait to see Dr. Mark shoot an arrow into a zombie brain. TV event of the season.
Tales of the Walking Dead premieres during the summer, while the second half of The Walking Dead‘s final season begins on February 20.
If you look at the history of brewing in America, the craft beer boom is a fairly new phenomenon. While you can get a craft IPA, stout, or lager at any corner grocery store in America now, that wasn’t always the case. Back in the days before the modern craft beer boom, imported beer was a really big deal because that’s where the real variety in flavors and styles was found.
If you’re anything like me, you still have your favorite imported beers that you enjoy when you take a break from the hazy IPAs and barrel-aged stouts beloved by modern American craft brewers. That’s why today, I’m running a blind test with some of the iconic imported beers that paved the way for the contemporary beer boom. These beers — available at pretty much every grocery store or beer store in America — are the cans and bottles that today’s brewers drank before there were ten craft breweries in every town.
Our lineup today includes:
Boddington’s Pub Ale (England)
Asahi Super Dry (Japan)
Guinness Draught (Ireland)
Foster’s Lager (Australia)
Heineken (The Netherlands)
Corona Extra (Mexico)
Hoegaarden Wit (Belgium)
Red Stripe Lager (Jamaica)
Stella Artois (Belgium)
Newcastle Brown Ale (England)
Names like Guinness, Foster’s, Heineken, Hoegaarden, Newcastle, and Stella Artois are household names because they’ve been around and available for as long as we can remember (and then some). But which of these iconic, imported beers are actually the best?
Part 1: The Taste
Taste 1
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
There’s a good deal of fresh-brewed coffee, caramel malts, and dark chocolate on the nose. The palate is lighter than expected. While fairly light, it’s creamy with notes of coffee, bitter chocolate, toffee, and a nice dry, memorable finish.
From my notes: “This is obviously Guinness.”
Taste 2
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
There’s a real manufactured, almost synthetic smell to this beer. There are also some cereal grains and maybe some corn, but not much else. It smells like the way I imagined beer to smell when I was a kid. The taste is exactly like the smell with an almost oily texture that’s slightly bittersweet.
Overall, this is a beer that I don’t plan on drinking ever again.
Taste 3
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Caramel-ish brown in color, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this beer has a bit of a nutty aroma. There are also some toasted malts, but I didn’t really pick up anything else. The flavor is very sweet with some caramel, a nuttier flavor, and a surprise hop flavor that doesn’t really work.
From my notes: “This beer is very thin and unmemorable.”
Taste 4
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Poured into a glass, this beer has a slight skunky smell that (surprisingly!) isn’t off-putting. There’s also sweet corn, freshly-baked bread, and a slightly floral, fruity herbal fragrance. The taste has notes of fruit esters, caramel malts, slight citrus, and a crisp, dry, refreshing finish.
Taste 5
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
This beer’s nose is filled with aromas of sweet yeast, caramel malts, fresh-baked bread, dried hay, and slight toffee sweetness. On the palate, I found clover honey, fruit esters, biscuit-like malts, sticky toffee, and very little bitterness at the finish.
Taste 6
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of citrus, wintry baking spices, and sweet malts met my nose. One taste revealed notes of cloves, candied orange peels, banana bread, and slight lemon zest. The finish was a nice mix of bitterness and sweetness that left me craving more.
Taste 7
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Corn is the first smell that entered my nostrils when nosing this beer. Just a big wallop of corn. This was followed by sweet cereal aromas, maybe some freshly-baked bread, and slight floral hops. From my notes: “This isn’t a super exciting nose, by any means.”
The palate was surprisingly skunky with more sweet corn flavor and some floral flavors. There’s no doubt this is a refreshing, unoffensive beer, but that’s about it.
Taste 8
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
There’s a very sweet, malty smell emanating from this beer. But it was difficult to pick out any other aromas. The palate had a little more action with notes of toasted malts, wet grass, freshly-baked bread, slight toffee, and a little hop bitterness. It’s fairly dry at the finish.
Overall, a decent, fairly light beer.
Taste 9
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
The nose is fairly bland but inoffensive with wet grass, sweet cereal grains, and slight corn. The palate follows suit with cereal sweetness, slightly floral flavor, some caramel, and maybe some sweet corn. It’s fairly light and refreshing, but not overly exciting to any degree. Definitely a crushable, summery beer.
Taste 10
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
This beer’s nose is slightly sweet with cereal grains, a floral backbone, and a hint of caramel and vanilla. The palate is filled with more malts, slight citrus zest, fruit esters, subtly bitter, floral hops, and a nice dry, refreshing finish. All in all, it’s a pretty enjoyable, crisp beer.
How many of us remember the “Foster’s: Australian for beer” commercials that once aired on a constant basis? There’s not much that can be said for Foster’s Lager other than the fact that when you crack open a can it tastes exactly like you assume it will. This five percent ABV lager is known for its golden color and malty, refreshing, no-frills flavor.
Bottom Line:
It’s clear this beer was created to be crushed on a hot day. There’s really nothing to it other than the refreshing nature and the fact that it has alcohol in it.
One of the most famous beers in the world, Corona Extra is light, refreshing, and the kind of beer you want to enjoy with your feet in the sand or on your back patio on a sweltering summer day. Add a lime wedge and you’re elevating this beer to much greater heights than without.
Tasting Notes:
This beer was thirst-quenching and crisp but lacked almost any real flavor characteristics.
In 1927, long before any beer boom, a brewer named Colonel Jim Porter launched Newcastle Brown Ale in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. Why he didn’t brew a porter we’ll never know. Either way, this 4.7 percent ABV malty brew has been popular in the UK and abroad ever since.
Bottom Line:
This is a strange beer. It’s a darker beer, but it seems to want to be hoppier than it should. I just didn’t really like it very much.
For a while, Jamaican brand Red Stripe was inundating us with funny commercials and then they seemed to just disappear. Well, even though they don’t seem to make commercials that air stateside anymore, you can still find this 4.7 percent ABV stubby bottle at your neighborhood grocery store.
Bottom Line:
This is a refreshing, thirst-quenching, easy to drink, slightly boring beer that I’d definitely drink on a hot day in the sun.
The only Japanese beer on this list, Asahi Super Dry is a 5.2 percent ABV rice lager. It’s made with rice and malted barley and is well-known for its very light, refreshing, easy-to-drink flavor profile. This brew was created to be crisp and crushable and it definitely does the job.
Bottom Line:
This beer was crisp dry and didn’t have malt flavor which makes me believe it’s supposed to be crushed on a hot day. There’s no real need to taste it, just drink it down.
Before I knew anything about beer, I heard the name Stella Artois and assumed it was a fancy, expensive beer. While it’s much cheaper than I imagined, this five percent ABV Belgian lager does live up to its fancy name with a well-loved balance of malts and hops that have made it one of the most awarded lagers in the world.
Bottom Line:
This is a well-balanced, crisp, and enjoyably dry beer that I could see myself coming back to again and again.
There are few beers more well-known than Heineken. Well before there was a craft beer revolution, you’d find coolers filled with this Dutch beer from coast to coast. This five percent ABV, crushable pale lager is still a massively popular choice throughout the world to this day.
Bottom Line:
While this beer isn’t overly exciting on the palate, it has enough malt, hop, and fruity flavor to make it the kind of beer you’d grab for on a warm day or as a respite from wintry beers.
Brewed the same way since 1759, Guinness is the most popular stout in the world. This 4.2 percent “meal in a can” is known for its roasted malt and coffee-rich flavor that’s savored at bars, pubs, and homes all over the world, and not just on St. Patrick’s Day.
Bottom Line:
This is a perfect example of how a stout should taste. It’s not overly heavy but has enough balanced flavors to stand up to the coldest winter day.
There’s a reason this 4.9 percent ABV Belgian wheat beer is one of the most popular of its style in the world. Brewed with coriander and orange peels, you can thank this flavorful, sweet, yeasty beer for your favorite craft wit beer.
Bottom Line:
This complex, flavorful beer is slightly hazy and filled with fruity, sweet, citrus flavors that all work in unison like a John Williams symphony.
With a name like Boddington’s Pub Ale, you can bet you’re getting a classic, flavorful pub-style beer when you crack a can of this beer open. This 4.6 percent ABV pub ale is known for its creamy, malty, and honey-sweet flavor.
Bottom Line:
This is an interesting beer. It’s malty, sweet, fruity, and surprisingly creamy. It’s a hard beer to figure out, but all I know is that I want to drink it again.
Ed Sheeran is going on tour this year, and now he’s revealed that he’s bringing a pair of rising pop talents with him on the road: Griff and Maisie Peters (the latter of whom is signed to Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man label).
Griff wrote in her post sharing the news, “Ed’s asked if I could join him on some of his European tour dates. I said I’d check my schedule. Kinda have no words, thank you @teddysphotos.”
Peters got more reflective and emotional with her own announcement, writing, “i can’t believe this poster is real but it is i’m going on tour with @teddysphotos all summer :’) playing venues like these with someone like ed is something just so totally beyond the realm of anything you ever think possible when you’re 14 and pick up a guitar and learn lego house on ultimate guitar, and i don’t think i’ll really ever get over it. it was an honour to be asked and i promise i will be practising and rehearsing and writing to make it the best possible show i can give because this is such a once in one million lifetimes experience like. wembley stadium!!!! 5 times!!!!! 😮 see u out there for potentially the most feral summer of our lives <3.”
Find their posts, which contain the dates on which they will be joining Sheeran, below.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Fast food menu hacks are a huge pain in the ass. Don’t get us wrong, we love the idea of remixing food and bringing some new excitement to our favorite restaurant’s menu. But a good menu hack is easier said than done. When you try to take a menu into your own hands you’re left completely at the whims of the person taking your order. They’ll either know what you’re talking about, won’t know, or will but pretend they don’t because they don’t want to deal with the hassle.
Frankly, we don’t blame them for that. They’re selling you burgers for a buck, you can’t demand too much.
Now McDonald’s is making the concept of ordering menu hacks easier. Sort of. Beginning today and running for an unspecified “limited time,” McDonald’s is allowing customers to order four well-known menu hacks by name. The four menu hacks include the Crunchy Double, the Surf + Turf, the Hash Brown McMuffin, and the legendary Land, Air & Sea burger. On a slightly more disappointing note, customers will still have to build them all themselves, which is unfortunate and kind of defeats the purpose of being able to order the menu hacks by name.
It’s also a bit wasteful. Once you start disassembling fast food and putting it back together, it looks incredibly unappetizing. Also what the hell are we supposed to do with all of these extra buns!?
We tasted the entire McDonald’s Hacked Menu so that you don’t have to. At the end of the day, only one of these is worth ordering, and we’re going to let you know what it is, but first, let’s start with the worst of the line-up. The dreaded Land, Air, & Sea Burger.
Land, Air, & Sea Burger
Dane Rivera
This thing actually makes me sad. It is the sort of dish you only eat as a dare or if you lost a bet. To say it’s horrible is putting it lightly. This monstrosity consists of a Big Mac with a chicken sandwich and filet-o-fish shoved into it one stomach-turning creation. It’s like the trashy Turducken of the fast food space and it is, without a doubt, the worst thing I’ve ever eaten in my entire life. Not only is biting this thing impossible (it takes all sorts of maneuvering if you want to experience beef, chicken, and fish in a single bite) but it’s a total clash of flavors. It begins fishy and flakey before melding into a hard-to-chew dry mess that tastes like what I imagine the Cup Noodle Shrimp-flavor styrofoam cup tastes like.
You read that right, the cup not the soup. This is trash.
Altogether this sandwich has three different sauces: tartar sauce, Big Mac sauce, and mayo, and when they combine they taste straight-up foul. The mouthfeel is also something I wouldn’t wish on my greatest enemy. It’s nervy, chewy, greasy, and full of varying textures that all break down at different stages in your mouth. Again, genuinely reminiscent of garbage.
BOTTOM LINE:
Do yourself a favor and don’t ever eat this. McDonald’s makes the Land, Air & Sea Burger exclusive to the app and that’s where it should stay. If you pay for this thing, you’ll be mad at yourself. Also, chickens don’t fly.
Surf + Turf
Dane Rivera
The Surf + Turf makes a bit more sense than the horrible Land, Air, & Sea. It’s essentially the same thing but a bit simplified and better for it. In lieu of a Big Mac, this build requires a double cheeseburger, which is topped with cheese, pickles, ketchup, onion, and mustard, as well as a Filet-O-Fish sandwich. McDonald’s wants you keep the bottom bun of the cheeseburger and simply remove the top bun of the Filet-O-Fish to merge them together. I think that makes the sandwich a bit too heavy and overly bready, so I say ditch the middle bun idea and just throw that tartar sauce drenched fish filet under the meat patties of the double cheeseburger.
But also… don’t do that. Better idea: don’t even eat this! Seriously, it’s not good. It technically works, but I’m not sure who has ever asked to mix a fish filet sandwich with a burger in the first place. The tartar sauce is a bit of a distraction here, it introduces a slightly sour flavor to the burger which makes it taste like it’s going bad.
BOTTOM LINE:
If you blind taste tested this sandwich, you’d think someone was trying to feed you something expired. Another miss from McDonald’s and an embarrassment to menu hacks as a concept.
Crunchy Double
Dane Rivera
I’m surprised to say that I think the Crunchy Double is actually pretty good. This is one of the simplest builds, it requires a double cheeseburger and a 6 piece order of McNuggets and a side of BBQ sauce. As you’re putting it together It’ll seem like too many nuggets, but you can actually double-layer the nuggets giving you two layers of beef and two layers of crispy chicken. Together, the nuggets add crunch and a bit more salt to the burger and the barbecue sauce works to bind the flavors together, helping them to taste like a cohesive whole rather than two distinctively different flavors and textures.
BOTTOM LINE:
It would be a lot easier to build the Crunchy Double with one of McDonald’s McChicken filets instead of six individual nuggets, but then it wouldn’t taste nearly as good. The nuggets are airy and light whereas the filet is thick and dry.
Does that mean the Land, Air & Sea burger would taste better with nuggets? Probably. But we’re not willing to find out.
Hashbrown McMuffin
Dane Rivera
The Hash Brown McMuffin might be the least imaginative of the four menu hacks, but it’s by far the best. It combines the wonderful Sausage and Egg McMuffin with what is probably McDonald’s greatest contribution to the fast food space, the hash brown. Together, they create a crunchy, hearty, breakfast flavor bomb.
This tastes pretty much exactly as you’d imagine — the hash brown adds crunch and a salty, almost buttery flavor to the sandwich. It’s a bit greasier than I’d like, but you have to appreciate the convenience of having your entire breakfast meal in a single bite. The only thing that could make this thing better is adding bacon… so definitely do that!
If I had one complaint, aside from the lack of imagination, it would be that the hash brown isn’t a perfect fit for the English Muffin bun, leaving you with extra potato seeping out of both sides. This could be easily remedied by cutting the hash brown in half and stacking it, but then that leaves you with too big of a bite with too much focus on the potato flavor. It’s not perfect, but then… what menu hack is?
THE BOTTOM LINE:
If you had to order just one of these hacks, I’d go for the Hash Brown McMuffin.
FINAL WORD:
We won’t lie to you, none of these taste very essential. And, ultimately, the whole hassle of having to build them yourself kind of makes the whole thing more work than it’s worth. It’s fun as a novelty, but if you want to make one of these a regular routine order it asks a lot of you, so keep that in mind.
Generally speaking, we love the concept of McDonald’s making menu hacks more accessible. They’re just doing it all wrong. The wastefulness of most of these hacks (extra buns and extra trash) coupled with the hassle and the disappointing end product just isn’t worth your time or money. If McDonald’s were smart, they’d make their entire menu customizable, like Taco Bell has.
Taco Bell is a true menu hacker’s paradise. Having said that, the Hash Brown McMuffin is the best wake-and-bake stoner food of all time.
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