WPCNR CRUISING With Fast Johnny. November 4, 2007: The American dollar may be taking a beating, our jobs may be being outsourced,  the country may be  being taken over, but if there is one field our country is still a leader in, it is fast food. Yours truly discovered the first true breakthrough in fast food in years today – McDonald’s incredible Angus Third Pounder burger.

New Burger In Town! A Fullback Payload!

Stoppin in at Westchester’s best McDonalds in Mamaroneck on Post Road, (where the oldies play),  my companion and I stepped up to the counter, saw the big brown and white sign and ordered the Angus Third Pounder, easily the greatest Mcdonald’s innovation since the legendary Quarter Pounder.

The Angus Third Pounder priced at $6.79 for a Third Pounder Meal at once blows the Burger King Whopper off the counter, and nukes the Wendy’s thin square jobs into oblivion – while priced at half the price of the monster charcoal burgers in Applebees and Cracker Barrel chains.

The Angus is thicker than the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, but being 100% Angus Beef,  delivers a tastier beefier more charcoally payload with a  juiciness the typical McDonald’s burger has never had before. I am not going to spoil your first look at Third Pounder by showing you the picture. It will blow you away, and I would not want to spoil it for you.

The Angus Third Pounder puts real meat in your mouth and comes in an assortment of toppings: bacon and cheese, swiss and mushrooms, deluxe, and Special. I’d stay away from the bacon and cheese because McDonald’s still does the bacon too well but the big meaty thick Angus slab of 100% Black Angus beef is the most satisfying burger McDonald’s has ever created – macho and massive enough to satisfy the biker’s hunger; tangy and charcoal-flavored to “meat” the sophisticated demands of the Westport barbeque guy; and the right size to satisfy the teen appetite.

Even the Bun a Breakthrough! Will Not Crumble on a Full Condiment Load.

The gnarly sesame seed bun has enough crust to hold the hunk of meat without absorbing condiments , and will not flake and come apart in your hands (a typical flaw of all previous big burger buns), and Angus Third Pounder bun  never slips on its big wide and thick payload, either, no matter how much catsup you smear on your Big A. It's wide high, trim and perfectly placed on the bun bed and the bun holds all the fixins (big bermuda, catsup, bacon, whatevah) right in there with no muss on your hands due to the bun's tuck around shape holding the meat secure at the sides.

But the meat's the thing.

My Angus Third Pounder delivered a black seared flavorful burger experience rivaling restaurant taste at a third of the price with a hint of charcoal to it, but with fresher taste than the mundane cardboard taste you get with the whopper, the Wendy’s burgers and even McDonald’s Quarter Pounder and Big Mac.

McDonald’s Angus Third Pounder fits right into one hand comfortably. It frees your second hand for meaningful conversational gestures, without any danger of the Angus Third Pounder construction compromising itself or the mighty burgher within and falling apart in your hand. The structure of the Angus bun is a true breakthrough closing over the edge of the Angus burgher wedge tucking it safely inside. It is the first true McDonald’s bun with taste to compliment it’s satisfying state-of-the –art burger .

Eliminates Mouth Stretch

The Angus Third Pounder  not only approaches the raunchy Charry flavor of the fastpitch and football snack bars with choice tasting meat. It has the exactly, precisely right vertical stretch.  It is satisfying with a height from bottom bun to the sesame top that fits the daintiest of mouths without smearing lipstick. No longer do you have to strain your jaw to fit this big winner into your mouth. 

The Angus Third Pounder is where the beef is! A melt-in-your mouth burger you will savor rather than wolf down, the Angus Third Pounder is fast food you will savor slow, swallow slow and let your taste buds revel in the juices, the macho authority of thorobred steer, done precisely right, not dry, but sizzling leisurely with mellow juices.

You just gotta taste it!