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McDonald's is going to start selling Red Bull and a variety of other beverages in 150 test markets, and might revise its "beverage plans" in the next year or two. They could start selling boiled kitten juice and we wouldn't care, as long as they don't change their magical Diet Coke recipe—DCs from McD's just taste better than all other Diet Cokes for some reason.
Along with Red Bull, other new drink choices include Vitaminwater, Mountain Dew (a Pepsi product), and "'virtually the entire Coke product line,'" according to AdAge.
Larry Light, founder of Arcature and former global chief marketer of McDonald's, said the company realized several years ago that it wasn't meeting consumers' needs in that regard. "We were seeing [customers] buy food at McDonald's and then go buy their beverages at 7-Eleven, or they'd go through a drive-through with the beverage already in their car," he said.
Also, the Oak Brook–based giant has temporarily stopped using tomatoes on its sandwiches as a precautionary move following an outbreak of salmonella.
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i'm waiting for the day american mcdonald's' sell beer like their european and asian cousins.
what sort of garnish would you put in boiled kitten juice? lemon? lime? rhubarb?
xlprg: duh. catnip.
Does McDonald's suspend the inclusion of the beef patty when there is an e. coli out break?
The reaction to vegetable contamination always seems overblown compared to when there is a meat or downer cattle slaughter recall. Probably the result of the USDA vs FDA enforcement.
@Shannon: ten points.
ah, mcd's and red bull. this must be the end times. seriously, will morgan spurlock do a documentary where he drinks nothing but red bull for 30 days?
i say this as someone who only drank it occasionally, but who has put it on her banned beverages list. it just gives me too much of a beatdown. (this is sans liquor, btw.)
I predict in-store heart attacks to increase by 30 percent
Rejected ad copy:
"McDonald's and Red Bull! Now the fat kid in your middle school class can be the fat, paranoid, jittery one!"
That was f*cking Hellarious UTV! Not Hellarious enough to prevent you being in grave danger if caught wearing my Chicagoist T shirt, but still Hellarious just the same!
Pick up yer free drink ticket from Chuck Sudo