Hi Ryan, regarding the calories, what you need to remember is that if you live anywhere in the world outside of the USA, Liberia and Myanmar, we do not use freedom units. The energy labels are measured in kJ (kilojoules), an SI (metric) unit. You need to divide by about 4. The reason McCafe is better in Australia is that we have a huge cafe culture (so they need to be good to compete) and McCafe was invented in Australia (Swanston St Melbourne, 1993 to be exact).
The joke is the US is one of the few countries to remove it's British colonisers - but retains 'imperial' measures! Even the Brits don't, except for miles. As Kid Rock says, the metric system is a failure in the US except for the near universal adoption of the 9mm pistol.....
@@crackers562 I think Starbucks failed before McCafe was Australia wide. Gloria Jeans and dare I say Dome sort of meant there was no reason to have Starbucks, not to mention the independent cafes that serve espresso everywhere
Yeah it’s annoying aye, just happy that some products read with both kilojoules and calories instead of just kilojoules cause I hate having to do the math with it since I suck with things like that! 😂💯
@@loisthehedgehog7658 Can't you just compare the quoted kJ to the fraction of an 8,000kJ daily allowance? (Average is 8,700, but I use 8,000 to be safer lol).
Kilojoules is a better measurement cause it’s measuring the chemical energy as opposed to the density of macro nutrients. Wich makes working out the amount of energy you need for your daily activity easier Because calories can’t tell the difference between 100 calories of fat or carbs or protein.
In addition: Believing 2,000 calories is a whole day's amount for the average man will get you very skinny in a short period of time ;) It's more like 2,000,000+ calories if you keep ignoring the k in kcal.
The US uses corn fed beef that was fattened in a megafarm before being processed. Prior to 2018 US McDonald's used fillers (pink slime) to bulk up their patties to save money. Australia doesn't have megafarms where the animals are fattened with corn based feed and McDonald's in Australia never used meat fillers to bulk up the patties.
@@drakas110 It's kind of weird they do that, must be just to keep suppliers on their toes, McDonalds beef is pretty much sourced from Australia / Brazil / USA and sent around the world as all three countries are major major beef exporters. Would be weird for Australia or Brazil to import beef.
McCafes are never separate, always inbuilt, sometimes a separate counter - depends on the building size. Most standalone, purpose built Maccas will have the counters separated, usually not the case if the Maccas is in a pre-existing area. It's a misconception I've seen in mostly videos floating around from US creators who have never actually been here, just heard and perpetuated the misconception.
There use to be separate McCafes, normally located in high streets, but they slowly either all shuttered or became thin McDonalds with a McCafe with limited seating. You probably didn't notice, because some weren't even McCafe branded. Some of the hidden ones still exist, but I think the McCafe branded ones haven't been a thing for like 6 or 7 years.
This is the George Street Macca's in Sydney CBD. I once accidentally left my phone and wallet in their bathroom. I was about five blocks away when I realised, ran back, and thankfully someone had handed them in to the staff. Never seen a separate McCafe, though.
Formula:1 Calorie = 4.184 kilojoules, rounded to the nearest whole number - so 100 calories is 418.4 Kilojoules (kJ) . a Maccas hamburger might be 500 cal = 2092 kJ; 750 cal = 3138 kJ
Australians don’t live on fast foods. We only eat it occasionally. Our family only ever had Maccas when we were traveling long distances in the car. It’s easy to find a Maccas along the highways. We would usually have a fast food meal once a week as a special treat. We mostly got fish and chips or Mexican though because we are not huge Maccas fans. We also spend many hours outdoors running around, biking, swimming or whatever every day and that helps us to stay thin and healthy. We have a better balance in our life here.😊 oh and that is kilojoules not calories so you need to look at converting those figures. I especially like the ham, cheese and tomato toasties because they use sourdough bread to make it and it’s really delicious. Much better than the burgers. I hate the pickles they use.
I had my first visit to Maccas in over 10 years and I still only had coffee and a muffin one month ago. That's how often this old Aussie goes to Maccas
The statistics prove otherwise. Many Aussies DO live on fast foods. Only 3 out of every 10 adults is in the healthy weight range. I'm not saying all overweight people live on fast food and junk food. Some do have genuine health issues that causes them to gain weight, and unfortunately, many ignorant people look down upon them assuming they all live on Macca's. But the sad truth is, MANY Aussies DO live on fast food. Particularly in the poorer socioeconomic areas.
Hey Ryan in Australia we don’t only have Angus and wagyu cattle, we also Hereford, Murray Greys and more beef cattle breeds. There’s also festivals here in Australia about our livestock such as Casino Beef Week and The Guyra lamb and potato festival. I live in regional Australia a little rural town called Guyra in New South Wales Australia
My standard Macca's order is what I like to call the Mc'f*#koff burger. There is no actual burger bun but instead it uses the McChicken patties as the bun. So the build goes. Chicken patty, cheese, 1/4'r patty, cheese, 1/4lb'r patty, bacon, cheese, 1/4lb'r patty, cheese, mustard, ketchup, chicken patty. I call it the McFuckoff burger because when I first ordered it, (just to see if they would) the manager yells out McFuckoff you're gonna eat that!
McCafe is normally inside McDonald's either on an adjacent counter to the main one or around a corner, so its connected but seperate. You can order from either menu but have to pick up your Maccas and McCafe orders from their respective counters. Also I think you're confusing Kilojoules with Calories😅
Toasties are Toasted sandwiches & ALWAYS have cheese to melt. Usually a combination of cheese plus ham & or tomato - buttered on the outside & cooked in a flat grill press.
Hey man, love the vids so far! In Australia though we use KJ (Kilojoules) instead of Calories (as others have mentioned) however, the double Big Mac being 3200 KJ comes out to be 765 Calories!
Please don't argue with a man whois both ignorant of Australia and condescending at the same time just to make money from RUclips. He learns nothing and has zero empathy
McDonald's, and most international McDonald's, is run as a separate company in Australia. The Australian branch is still "owned" by the US company, but they keep it at arm's length so they cater it to Australian tastes. Its sort of brilliant by McDonald's part because they will try out things in the smaller markets before rolling it out elsewhere - its how McCafe started. Certain things are just because there is a local competitor they need to compete with. Also the Australian Maccas is actually healthier, KJs are worth ~1/4 calories
I live on the Central Coast and the Macca's here is always clean and always busy. Our beef is certainly very high quality and the cattle get to walk around and do "cow things" in the paddock not a feedlot . The toasties are very good too . McCafe is not a separate thing,it's another part of the Macca's and the cakes etc are all usually yummo. I love the thickshake but of course the machine is always broken 😂
We do have feedlots actually but those are for when a cow has travelled a long journey either in a truck or been driven by stockmen. When they arrive at their destination they're worn out and thin. they need fattening up again so they go to a feed lot. Generally they don't mind. In my experience cows here are usually happy until their very last moments and if they're slaughtered in the conventional way they never even have time to wonder why this funny room smells of blood and there's no more food.
@@Zankoran we don't do feedlots like some other countries. Intensive farming . The only time my cattle have ever been in yards is at sale etc. It makes for happier beast's and less stress so imo the meat tastes better. We try to farm generally,with less stressful practices.
@@infin8ee That was literally what I was saying. We don't keep cattle on feed lots unless they have been or are getting ready for sale/long distance travel. I'm not farmer but I have family who run a beef farm in southwestern VIC.
I'm from the Cenny Coast too haha! The closest I've seen to a seperate mcCafe and Maccas is at Westfield Tuggerah where the mccafe is in the middle of the foodcourt whilst the maccas is 50m away.
@@peter65zzfdfh source please. Wi ki's telling me the rates are 41.9 for the US & 29.0 for Australia. All other results I'm finding show similar numbers. Our numbers aren't great, but they are much lower than the US. Our rates were in sharp increase many years ago, which was part of why councils ripped out "safe" playground equipment & replaced it with stuff kids would actually use. Doctors also got bonuses for referring obese people to dietitians for advice & help in reducing our obesity rates & it has helped stabilise it a lot, but not fixed the problem
and even those in the deserts, that do then get feedlotted to increase weight for sale, will be kept in feedlots for only 2-6 weeks here, ie just long enough to put weight on, not fat. In the US, 4 months in feedlots is the average, aiming to increase the actual fat & marbling content, rather than just weight. Also, the cattle here that are most likely to go into feedlots are the cattle on remote stations, so normally in the north, which means they tend to be exported, rather than being sent to cities here, since export destinations are closer to where they live & feedlot than major cities in Australia are
One calorie (kcal) equals 4.18 kJ or 4,184 joules (J) . To convert from calories to kJ, multiple calories by 4.18. Conversely, to convert from kJ to calories, divide kJ by 4.18. For example, a medium-sized banana (126 grams) provides 112 calories (kcal) or 468 kJ .
Australians are proud of their McDonald's restaurants. The staff work very hard to keep them clean for customers. Rarely see an unkept restaurant here.
Yeah nah, I wouldn't say we're proud of Macca's... we DO have plenty of feral Macca's... This place was literally just a heritage building converted into Macca's. .
@@emmajames4106 In Melbourne on Russel St late @ night it's not sanitary to even step foot in it. Al the drunks frequent it and leave a mess . I honestly don't know how they're allowed to continue operating serving food to customers in that filth. I feel sorry for the stuff who have to work in that environment also.
We used to have a McFeast with more salad including beetroot. I simulate it by getting a Quarter pounder with lettuce. The US Maccas burgers have buns that are too sweet. You put corn syrup (fructose) in everything to increase consumption. Even in pretzels.
i never seen a separate McCafe in aus , i think that might be a miss conception. Our portions are also not as large as america the triple cheeseburger here is smaller than a double cheese in america. The KJ nexto the food isnt calories either, i believe it kilojoules, 3000 calories in a burger would be inhuman.
No Ryan, all the McCafes are inside the Maccas. They have their own counter which also displays the cakes and pastries. That video is probably a bit old not having the name change.
not all! Different stores use different bread it's not consistent , The 1s that do break use generic bread as a cost cutting method. In other words they employ tight ass practices , cheap skates. If the bread @ a fast food joint collapses whilst u hold it go to another store.
Hungry Jack's flame-grilled beef is a better tasting product, but they have much worse customer service generally. Just no interest in making it a pleasant experience
We make toasties at home in the sanger toaster. Butter the utside of the bread, put your ham, cheese and tomato on and toast it. If you have no anger toater, ty a frypan and a food turner. Flatten it before you turn it over. We don't have plastic spoons anymore. The latest is choc ic-cream mcflurry with sauce and tim-tam crumbs. The angus burger is different to the wagyu burger. The now have a spare-rib one too.
I had a ham and cheese toastie on sour dough this morning with a cappuccino (drive through). My local Maccas is actually quite good for coffee, every car in front ordered one. You need to get over here mate!
Ryan, you need to bring your wife and bub down under to sample the Maccas stores, at least one in each capital city and a few regional ones just to make sure they're consistent, maybe you can get McDonalds USA to sponsor you to do that as a QC check mystery shopper type deal. For some reason our Macca's Ice cream machines are usually working, so maybe you can find out the secret and help out the US stores 🤣
The company that distributes and services them in Australia is a different, unaffiliated, company as the one in the US. They also use some contracted repairers rather than doing all service and repair in-house. Its AFAIK the same two machines in Aus that are in use in the US. They still do legit break down (they are machines after all), its just the technician gets sent out far quicker. Also, I don't know if this is true for the US or even all of Aus, but my local one has 3 machines (I think two are functional at any one time and one is being cleaned). So if I went in and they were all broken, I would just stop going there.
@@smalltime0I always had my suspicions that the "secret" was related to maintenance, as you say they are after all just a machine, and any machine that's poorly maintained will have problems 👍
There is no separate McCafé mate, there all attached, what happened was some American who made a video assumed it was separate, the video was reacted to by the rest you Americans and now everyone thinks because of that one video it’s all separate, it’s definitely not, I forget what video it was, came out years ago, has a lot of views it’s like the one go to video for Americans to react to about Australian food or maccas in general
The Mcflurry used to do the good mixing thing, but now they're just fancy sundaes and I'm sad about it. I want my oreos mixed in with my ice cream, but their Pavlova McFlurry was amazing. Chunks of Merienge and a sweet passionfruit pulp sauce over the soft serve. was so good!
the McFlurry is made with the same machine for the soft serve, you pull a lever and the ice-cream drops down and you rotate the cup/cone to swirl it. then toppings are just added on top afterwards
The McFlurrys used to be mixed with the special spoon and those cups you mentioned. Now they just fill those paper cups with soft serve ice cream and just top it off with Oreos or whatever mix in choice you want. But they don’t actually mix it for you anymore. And now they got rid of those plastic McFlurry spoons and just provide a simple disposable wooden spoon 🫤
Maccas has just recently stopped doing all day breakfast in Australia, it was around for quite a few years though. I believe there may be a couple of items like bacon/ sausage and egg muffins and hash browns that are still available.
little known fact, wagyu and Kobe beef comes from Australia, raised for the Japanese market, they feed on a native plant, called saltbush and it gives them healthy salts, along with vitamins and minerals, which helps develop the marbling, there's a lot of beef cattle breeds that are raised on it, including Angus, which is why our beef has so much flavour; saltbush is good for humans too, both the berry and leaves
Australia gets used as a test market quite often (probably more often than we know about) for US brands so I’m not surprised at all if we got the new buns etc before you did
Loaded fries became a big thing in Australia after "halal snack packs" or HSPs became popular in Australia as a prime food to get on a drunken night out(they are usually chips loaded up with kebab meats/gravy) along with kebabs-which are a huge thing in the UK because of the huge amounts of immigration in both countries. I guess in USA you probably get tacos/burritos from Mexican places?
Surely, nothing could be more quintessentially American than comparing McDonald's across the world. Italians would be comparing wines, French would compare cheeses, with Germans it would be autos, British would compare weather, Aussies would compare snakes, and Kiwis....????. For Americans, of course it's fast food and burgers. 😂
That MacDonald's outlet is one of my locals. I live just a short walk from there. I have probably sat at the table they are using because I must have used all of them over the years. It looks nice because it is an ex-bank branch. 19th century banks (during the gold rush) looked very fancy and heritage laws means MacDonalds can't change it too much.
Ryan's hungry again! 😂 Just say, one brekky, ta! I love their Angus burger! 😋 Oh yes Gravy Day (check out their other Pub Choir songs), cool! If you walk to and from.Maccas,, you'll definitely stay fit! 🤗 We have "real" cheese and "real" meat - from grass fed real cows! (They used to have chicken salads too!) Real icecream from.real milk! Yum! Our Cadbury's products are made in Tasmania, so they are also fresh! Happy snacking, later Ryan! 🙋
Hey Ryan, from experience as a customer of McDonald’s in Australia the McFlurrys aren’t mixed the topping is just on the iced cream when we receive it. I usually choose to have m&m’s as my topping. I do have to say though we can choose to add some kind of topping whether it be caramel or chocolate to our McFlurry for a small fee.
McFlurry machine uses the spoon to mix it but it’s very thick so nothing flies away. Also, the cup has fold-over flaps which leave a smaller hole for mixing, but I have yet to buy one with the flaps folded.
Ok. Something about our beef. (From someone whose family have spent holidays on a relative's beef farm) Hormones and excess antibiotics in our livestock are prohibited. For the most part cattle are field raised rather then barn raised like american beef. (American cattle are often raised in barns because of cold weather whereas here being in a barn would be too hot) Provided our cattle are well-fed (Sometimes a problem with all the droughts) they are typically healthier and happier which makes our worst quality beef still better then the sort of beef you get in the rest of the world. In addition Australia has more land to dedicate to livestock that is unsuitable for growing crops so we have less vegetables and more meat per person then anywhere else. An american meal might be a few side dishes and a piece of meat. An australian meal will be mostly meat and one side dish. An american friend of mine complains when a Restaurant asks if he wants "Chips or salad" because to his experience he should have both whereas here you have more meat and fewer side dishes. Also fewer courses. We generally don't do appitizers/entrees and I have rarely had a dessert course with my meals except in more formal/special environments.
@@Delsin4077 Australia didn't stop stirring McFlurry's until ~2015 (may have been earlier if your store was trialing it or much later depending on the store). The McFlurry didn't even arrive in Australia until the early 00's. Now they're little cardboard containers and wooden spoons it wouldn't be possible. They were always overpriced and now they're just sad as well.
A quick lesson about units of energy: - What people call calories is actually kilocalories (kcal). This is often very important to know if you're converting from metric to imperial (kJ to kcal). - The metric unit of energy is the joule. In most of the world we measure the energy in food in kilojoules (kJ).
I have had that Cookies and Cream cheesecake (which they no longer sell in Western Australia) and it's one of the best cheesecakes I've eaten. I was NOT HAPPY when they stopped selling it. Crazy decision. I also love how the icecream cups are not plastic anymore.
You'll see in almost all fast food outlets in Oz a sign saying "The recommended daily intake for an average adult is 8700kJ" which is roughly 2079 kCalories. "Toastie" = Toasted Sandwich or Toasted "Sanga" (Sang-ah) I used to work for an American based company in Sydney years ago and we'd frequently have some of you on secondment for 6-12 months. One of the common things I heard mentioned was our beef tastes different. The majority of Australian beef is grass fed, whereas in the USA grain feeding is much more common.
Loved your reaction - gotta be honest, I'd never seen some of them doubles..... EDIT: Chips and Gravy is a staple in almost every fish and chip shop, pizza shop, chicken shop.......If you haven't got chips and gravy, u gonna go broke
He just says it for clicks, he knows the difference between calories and kilojoules. Hes been informed many times. Ryan has sucked me in for another comment. Damm!🎉
When I order the double big Mac I change the burger bye upgrading it to a triple big mac and I also do the same with the triple cheese burger and change it to have 5 beef patties and cheese slices it's awesome that Macca's let's Aussies do that
We have the Angus burgers here now. Not limited addiction anymore and yeah as other people have commented, I don’t have to explain between calories and kilojoules
I love gravy on my fries more than chicken salt. Whenever I visit a Jollibees in the Philippines, I never put the gravy on the chicken joy, it always goes on my fries and just leave the catsup behind.
Yeah so australia used to do the spoon spin thing but some number of years ago they stopped. Now it's just basically a Sunday in a cup and they dump the topping on top.
Australia is the test bed for MacDonald's there is a whole new menu being released December 2023 and some of the items are being rolled out to the USA was in the news this week .The loaded truffle fries are awesome , also this video isn't in the darling harbour prescient, this is the George Street CBD MacDonald's
As an honorary Aussie, Ryan, we will teach you and all other Americans the difference not only between Calories and Kilojoules, but also between Shrimp and Prawns.
the mcflurry cup solution? oncwe they introduced the cardboard cups they stopped mixing our mcflurries,, so theyre basically just a fancy sundae at this stage
Hey Ryan great vids. Maccas here in Oz is great. The McDonalds here is kilojoules not calories. 1 calorie = 4.2 kilojoules so fries were only 714 calories. McFlurry toppings get added by a pull handle that drops a certain amount of topping in the cup. No spoon mixers that I have seen or can remember any anywhere. If I have it right Aussies invented McCafé.
1:20 If my binge watching of Bondi Rescue serves me well, I think that ocean pool + beach is Bondi beach (probably why you have seen that clip so much)
We had all day Becky for a while. In Victoria we have Mc Cafe in every restaurant. How old is their video? I think that the loaded fries was short term only. Certainly not available in Victoria. I don’t think that we get half of those burgers in Vic. Our cones have just hit $1:15
Ryan, Ryan, Ryan. Remember Aussies measurements are metric so we work with kilojoules NOT calories and there are 4.1 kilojoules in a calorie so if you divide those kj by 4, you will get how may calories in the meal!!! I don't eat Macca's very often but ours is soooo much better and healthier than the USA. The McCafe is always in the Mecca's stores, very rarely separate.😁😁
McCafe was tested and trialled in Australia first, because we are the ones with the great coffee culture. If they could get it right for Aussies, it would work anywhere.
im not surprised about maccas, we in Australia like to improve on other peoples inverntions etc , like take condoms for example, they say Kiwis in vented using sheep intestines as condoms , then we Aussies decided to improve on that and take the inrestines out of the sheep first
The last big mac i had was like cardboard in between some dry bread. I was really let down. Im going back to the chicken caesar wrap. And yes im in Australia
Hi Ryan. Unfortunately, the loaded fries and all the cakes are no longer available at Maccas, McCafe. The toasties are the best!!! My go-to is the ham, cheese and tomato.
I don't think they actually mix mcflurry's anymore. I remember when they first came out they used to have the machine to mix it, same way you're describing where the spoon would spin to mix the mcflurry. But it hasn't been like that for years, I don't remember when they stopped doing it that way but I feel like it's been over 10 years at least since they stopped doing that here.
Ryan, put your glasses on, as no mention of calories was in the vlog. 4.2 kilojoules is roughly 1 calorie, so if something was 2,100 kilojoules that would be 500 calories. If only the USA converted to metric like the rest of the world, and like we did 50 years ago, calories would no longer be commonly used.👍
Sorry. 3rd post. Our burger patties are made from pure beef, not soy filler like in USA/Canada. Angues beef patties is just a premium product to already good beef.
Don't disregard the shakes - they're the main reason I go to Maccas :) The best McDonalds shakes I had ever were in Tahiti :D Their Tahitian beef burgers were pretty good too.
Try dividing KJ’s by 4 to get calories. In 3 years I have been to Macca’s twice and that helps keep the weight off. Our beef has no hormones and yes we have Wagu beef. My son has beef cattle on his Organic farm. He farms on his weeks off from the Emergency room.
I was curious so I looked it up. A regular big mac in Australia has 564 calories/2360 kilojoules, a regular big mac in the USA has 590 calories/2469 kilojoules. I'm not sure what makes the difference because the McDonald's US website is quite vague about their ingredients. Both burgers are made with a bread bun, I can tell you what the buns are made from in Australia, but not in USA.
In general we use less sugar (and much less corn syrup) in processed foods than in America. Especially in bread. So that might have something to do with it.
I worked in McDonalds Aus in 1998 and they dramatically lowered the amount of sugar content while I was there. They used to toast the buns and they would come out all shiny, at some point they stopped and started looking matte. Around that time they were making nutrition labels compulsory and so a lot of the added sugar was removed from products. There's a few g less sugar, there's no soybean oil in the Australian bun (soybeans not being a massive crop in Australia compared to canola). It's very likely a difference in the bun or maybe a tiny tiny bit leaner beef. I'd bet the sauce etc is probably imported to Australia from the US anyway, especially since it contains High Fructose Corn Syrup.
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Hi Ryan, regarding the calories, what you need to remember is that if you live anywhere in the world outside of the USA, Liberia and Myanmar, we do not use freedom units. The energy labels are measured in kJ (kilojoules), an SI (metric) unit. You need to divide by about 4. The reason McCafe is better in Australia is that we have a huge cafe culture (so they need to be good to compete) and McCafe was invented in Australia (Swanston St Melbourne, 1993 to be exact).
And this is why Starbucks did not go well in Australia while Mackas has lasted.
I was going to thumb it up but then you said freedom units and ruined it
The joke is the US is one of the few countries to remove it's British colonisers - but retains 'imperial' measures! Even the Brits don't, except for miles. As Kid Rock says, the metric system is a failure in the US except for the near universal adoption of the 9mm pistol.....
@@crackers562 I think Starbucks failed before McCafe was Australia wide. Gloria Jeans and dare I say Dome sort of meant there was no reason to have Starbucks, not to mention the independent cafes that serve espresso everywhere
In Germany, most products are labeled with both kJ and kcal. So Germany also has a bit of freedom.
Oh Ryan! Do NOT confuse calories with kilojoules young man!
Yeah it’s annoying aye, just happy that some products read with both kilojoules and calories instead of just kilojoules cause I hate having to do the math with it since I suck with things like that! 😂💯
I was going to say the same thing
@@loisthehedgehog7658 Can't you just compare the quoted kJ to the fraction of an 8,000kJ daily allowance? (Average is 8,700, but I use 8,000 to be safer lol).
Kilojoules is a better measurement cause it’s measuring the chemical energy as opposed to the density of macro nutrients.
Wich makes working out the amount of energy you need for your daily activity easier
Because calories can’t tell the difference between 100 calories of fat or carbs or protein.
In addition: Believing 2,000 calories is a whole day's amount for the average man will get you very skinny in a short period of time ;)
It's more like 2,000,000+ calories if you keep ignoring the k in kcal.
The US uses corn fed beef that was fattened in a megafarm before being processed. Prior to 2018 US McDonald's used fillers (pink slime) to bulk up their patties to save money.
Australia doesn't have megafarms where the animals are fattened with corn based feed and McDonald's in Australia never used meat fillers to bulk up the patties.
100 percent aussie beef
in some Mc dolands in the USA they us Austalian beef
Also using hormones in meat for human consumption is highly illegal.
@@drakas110 It's kind of weird they do that, must be just to keep suppliers on their toes, McDonalds beef is pretty much sourced from Australia / Brazil / USA and sent around the world as all three countries are major major beef exporters. Would be weird for Australia or Brazil to import beef.
@@drakas110 Australian beef has always been popular in the States going back many decades . Not just the chain stores but many other food outlets.
McCafes are never separate, always inbuilt, sometimes a separate counter - depends on the building size. Most standalone, purpose built Maccas will have the counters separated, usually not the case if the Maccas is in a pre-existing area. It's a misconception I've seen in mostly videos floating around from US creators who have never actually been here, just heard and perpetuated the misconception.
There use to be separate McCafes, normally located in high streets, but they slowly either all shuttered or became thin McDonalds with a McCafe with limited seating.
You probably didn't notice, because some weren't even McCafe branded. Some of the hidden ones still exist, but I think the McCafe branded ones haven't been a thing for like 6 or 7 years.
And remember that Australia invented "McCafe"
This is the George Street Macca's in Sydney CBD. I once accidentally left my phone and wallet in their bathroom. I was about five blocks away when I realised, ran back, and thankfully someone had handed them in to the staff.
Never seen a separate McCafe, though.
The idea of a separate McCafé was in a RUclips video by some overseas person. They got a lot wrong. Talked about Vegemite on burgers. Ridiculous.
I have.
Hey Ryan, it's not calories, we use kjs which is kilo joules. So you need to pull up the conversion table lol
1 calorie is 4.175 kilojoules
@@helendunham4410Yep, which is why I put up another post.
3000 kjs = 717 calories
I think you mean ‘conversion’ 👍
@@IdonthaveatwittersoFoff. Thank you for pointing that out, and correcting my atrocious mistake. I really appreciate that.
I fixed it up 😁🤗
Hey Ryan... kj vs cal
1 calorie is approx 4 kilojoules.
So 4000 kj = 1000 calories
Formula:1 Calorie = 4.184 kilojoules, rounded to the nearest whole number - so 100 calories is 418.4 Kilojoules (kJ) . a Maccas hamburger might be 500 cal = 2092 kJ; 750 cal = 3138 kJ
Australians don’t live on fast foods. We only eat it occasionally. Our family only ever had Maccas when we were traveling long distances in the car. It’s easy to find a Maccas along the highways. We would usually have a fast food meal once a week as a special treat. We mostly got fish and chips or Mexican though because we are not huge Maccas fans. We also spend many hours outdoors running around, biking, swimming or whatever every day and that helps us to stay thin and healthy. We have a better balance in our life here.😊 oh and that is kilojoules not calories so you need to look at converting those figures. I especially like the ham, cheese and tomato toasties because they use sourdough bread to make it and it’s really delicious. Much better than the burgers. I hate the pickles they use.
I had my first visit to Maccas in over 10 years and I still only had coffee and a muffin one month ago. That's how often this old Aussie goes to Maccas
@@micheledix2616 lol more then me
The statistics prove otherwise.
Many Aussies DO live on fast foods.
Only 3 out of every 10 adults is in the healthy weight range.
I'm not saying all overweight people live on fast food and junk food.
Some do have genuine health issues that causes them to gain weight, and unfortunately, many ignorant people look down upon them assuming they all live on Macca's.
But the sad truth is, MANY Aussies DO live on fast food. Particularly in the poorer socioeconomic areas.
@mebeme007 very true and often the Maccas and other fast food outlets are strategically built / placed closer to lower socio-economic areas
Hey Ryan in Australia we don’t only have Angus and wagyu cattle, we also Hereford, Murray Greys and more beef cattle breeds. There’s also festivals here in Australia about our livestock such as Casino Beef Week and The Guyra lamb and potato festival.
I live in regional Australia a little rural town called Guyra in New South Wales Australia
Ryan getting calories and kilojoules confused hurt my soul.
My standard Macca's order is what I like to call the Mc'f*#koff burger. There is no actual burger bun but instead it uses the McChicken patties as the bun. So the build goes. Chicken patty, cheese, 1/4'r patty, cheese, 1/4lb'r patty, bacon, cheese, 1/4lb'r patty, cheese, mustard, ketchup, chicken patty. I call it the McFuckoff burger because when I first ordered it, (just to see if they would) the manager yells out McFuckoff you're gonna eat that!
😂😂😂😂😂
McCafe is normally inside McDonald's either on an adjacent counter to the main one or around a corner, so its connected but seperate. You can order from either menu but have to pick up your Maccas and McCafe orders from their respective counters.
Also I think you're confusing Kilojoules with Calories😅
Toasties are Toasted sandwiches & ALWAYS have cheese to melt. Usually a combination of cheese plus ham & or tomato - buttered on the outside & cooked in a flat grill press.
The most hilarious thing happened, before the video started, a macca’s ad played 😂
I’m Aussie btw
We have chocolate soft serve now also, it's really nice. Nice change from vanilla
Hey man, love the vids so far! In Australia though we use KJ (Kilojoules) instead of Calories (as others have mentioned) however, the double Big Mac being 3200 KJ comes out to be 765 Calories!
Not sure if you saw in one of your other videos but McCafe was invented by Mcdonald’s Australia
Hahaha “not sure if You saw in Your last video” 😂
In Melbourne, actually!
@@valsyaranamual6853 On Swanston Street actually 😜
Please don't argue with a man whois both ignorant of Australia and condescending at the same time just to make money from RUclips. He learns nothing and has zero empathy
McDonald's, and most international McDonald's, is run as a separate company in Australia. The Australian branch is still "owned" by the US company, but they keep it at arm's length so they cater it to Australian tastes.
Its sort of brilliant by McDonald's part because they will try out things in the smaller markets before rolling it out elsewhere - its how McCafe started. Certain things are just because there is a local competitor they need to compete with.
Also the Australian Maccas is actually healthier, KJs are worth ~1/4 calories
I live on the Central Coast and the Macca's here is always clean and always busy. Our beef is certainly very high quality and the cattle get to walk around and do "cow things" in the paddock not a feedlot . The toasties are very good too . McCafe is not a separate thing,it's another part of the Macca's and the cakes etc are all usually yummo. I love the thickshake but of course the machine is always broken 😂
We do have feedlots actually but those are for when a cow has travelled a long journey either in a truck or been driven by stockmen. When they arrive at their destination they're worn out and thin. they need fattening up again so they go to a feed lot. Generally they don't mind. In my experience cows here are usually happy until their very last moments and if they're slaughtered in the conventional way they never even have time to wonder why this funny room smells of blood and there's no more food.
@@Zankoran we don't do feedlots like some other countries. Intensive farming . The only time my cattle have ever been in yards is at sale etc. It makes for happier beast's and less stress so imo the meat tastes better. We try to farm generally,with less stressful practices.
@@infin8ee That was literally what I was saying. We don't keep cattle on feed lots unless they have been or are getting ready for sale/long distance travel. I'm not farmer but I have family who run a beef farm in southwestern VIC.
I'm from the Cenny Coast too haha! The closest I've seen to a seperate mcCafe and Maccas is at Westfield Tuggerah where the mccafe is in the middle of the foodcourt whilst the maccas is 50m away.
@@beeanca8126 hi,small internet 😁
Australia has a outdoor lifestyle most people are active here children mostly play outdoors so I'd say that is why we aren't as overweight.
26% of Australian's are obese. 25% of Americans. I say this as an Australian. Possibly the most extreme examples are less common in Australia.
@@peter65zzfdfh source please. Wi ki's telling me the rates are 41.9 for the US & 29.0 for Australia. All other results I'm finding show similar numbers.
Our numbers aren't great, but they are much lower than the US.
Our rates were in sharp increase many years ago, which was part of why councils ripped out "safe" playground equipment & replaced it with stuff kids would actually use. Doctors also got bonuses for referring obese people to dietitians for advice & help in reducing our obesity rates & it has helped stabilise it a lot, but not fixed the problem
Ryan, McCafe was created in Australia and went global after its success down under
Our cows are mostly grass fed in other words they wander around and feed themselves from the ground hence healthier.
and even those in the deserts, that do then get feedlotted to increase weight for sale, will be kept in feedlots for only 2-6 weeks here, ie just long enough to put weight on, not fat. In the US, 4 months in feedlots is the average, aiming to increase the actual fat & marbling content, rather than just weight.
Also, the cattle here that are most likely to go into feedlots are the cattle on remote stations, so normally in the north, which means they tend to be exported, rather than being sent to cities here, since export destinations are closer to where they live & feedlot than major cities in Australia are
One calorie (kcal) equals 4.18 kJ or 4,184 joules (J) . To convert from calories to kJ, multiple calories by 4.18. Conversely, to convert from kJ to calories, divide kJ by 4.18. For example, a medium-sized banana (126 grams) provides 112 calories (kcal) or 468 kJ .
Australians are proud of their McDonald's restaurants. The staff work very hard to keep them clean for customers. Rarely see an unkept restaurant here.
Oh! I don't think we are at all that proud of " our" MacDonald's at all to be fair
The place that this was filmed at a heritage bank from the early1900's
Yeah nah, I wouldn't say we're proud of Macca's... we DO have plenty of feral Macca's...
This place was literally just a heritage building converted into Macca's. .
I went to a Maccas in Sydney, the damn walls and ceiling were covered in pickles!!
@@emmajames4106 In Melbourne on Russel St late @ night it's not sanitary to even step foot in it. Al the drunks frequent it and leave a mess . I honestly don't know how they're allowed to continue operating serving food to customers in that filth. I feel sorry for the stuff who have to work in that environment also.
We used to have a McFeast with more salad including beetroot. I simulate it by getting a Quarter pounder with lettuce.
The US Maccas burgers have buns that are too sweet. You put corn syrup (fructose) in everything to increase consumption. Even in pretzels.
i never seen a separate McCafe in aus , i think that might be a miss conception. Our portions are also not as large as america the triple cheeseburger here is smaller than a double cheese in america. The KJ nexto the food isnt calories either, i believe it kilojoules, 3000 calories in a burger would be inhuman.
Yep the conversion rate is about 0.23 calories per Kj.SO its still about 700 calories.
We had a separate cafe in Hobart CBD for a while.
No Ryan, all the McCafes are inside the Maccas. They have their own counter which also displays the cakes and pastries. That video is probably a bit old not having the name change.
My biggest issue with McDonalds and Hungry jacks is the buns are so soft they disintegrate in your hand.
And too sweet, not like our bread buns from a bakery.
not all! Different stores use different bread it's not consistent , The 1s that do break use generic bread as a cost cutting method. In other words they employ tight ass practices , cheap skates. If the bread @ a fast food joint collapses whilst u hold it go to another store.
Hungry Jack's flame-grilled beef is a better tasting product, but they have much worse customer service generally. Just no interest in making it a pleasant experience
We make toasties at home in the sanger toaster. Butter the utside of the bread, put your ham, cheese and tomato on and toast it. If you have no anger toater, ty a frypan and a food turner. Flatten it before you turn it over. We don't have plastic spoons anymore. The latest is choc ic-cream mcflurry with sauce and tim-tam crumbs. The angus burger is different to the wagyu burger. The now have a spare-rib one too.
I had a ham and cheese toastie on sour dough this morning with a cappuccino (drive through). My local Maccas is actually quite good for coffee, every car in front ordered one. You need to get over here mate!
The one time i had a ham and cheese toastie i think it was at Goulburn or Yass on a road trip, there was a big hair in it 🤢
Ryan, you need to bring your wife and bub down under to sample the Maccas stores, at least one in each capital city and a few regional ones just to make sure they're consistent, maybe you can get McDonalds USA to sponsor you to do that as a QC check mystery shopper type deal.
For some reason our Macca's Ice cream machines are usually working, so maybe you can find out the secret and help out the US stores 🤣
The company that distributes and services them in Australia is a different, unaffiliated, company as the one in the US. They also use some contracted repairers rather than doing all service and repair in-house.
Its AFAIK the same two machines in Aus that are in use in the US.
They still do legit break down (they are machines after all), its just the technician gets sent out far quicker.
Also, I don't know if this is true for the US or even all of Aus, but my local one has 3 machines (I think two are functional at any one time and one is being cleaned). So if I went in and they were all broken, I would just stop going there.
@@smalltime0I always had my suspicions that the "secret" was related to maintenance, as you say they are after all just a machine, and any machine that's poorly maintained will have problems 👍
There is no separate McCafé mate, there all attached, what happened was some American who made a video assumed it was separate, the video was reacted to by the rest you Americans and now everyone thinks because of that one video it’s all separate, it’s definitely not, I forget what video it was, came out years ago, has a lot of views it’s like the one go to video for Americans to react to about Australian food or maccas in general
The Mcflurry used to do the good mixing thing, but now they're just fancy sundaes and I'm sad about it. I want my oreos mixed in with my ice cream, but their Pavlova McFlurry was amazing. Chunks of Merienge and a sweet passionfruit pulp sauce over the soft serve. was so good!
If you want your Oreo's mixed in with your ice cream... see the spoon that comes with it. It's called stirring it together yourself.
the McFlurry is made with the same machine for the soft serve, you pull a lever and the ice-cream drops down and you rotate the cup/cone to swirl it. then toppings are just added on top afterwards
The McFlurrys used to be mixed with the special spoon and those cups you mentioned. Now they just fill those paper cups with soft serve ice cream and just top it off with Oreos or whatever mix in choice you want. But they don’t actually mix it for you anymore. And now they got rid of those plastic McFlurry spoons and just provide a simple disposable wooden spoon 🫤
Maccas has just recently stopped doing all day breakfast in Australia, it was around for quite a few years though. I believe there may be a couple of items like bacon/ sausage and egg muffins and hash browns that are still available.
little known fact, wagyu and Kobe beef comes from Australia, raised for the Japanese market, they feed on a native plant, called saltbush and it gives them healthy salts, along with vitamins and minerals, which helps develop the marbling, there's a lot of beef cattle breeds that are raised on it, including Angus, which is why our beef has so much flavour; saltbush is good for humans too, both the berry and leaves
Australia gets used as a test market quite often (probably more often than we know about) for US brands so I’m not surprised at all if we got the new buns etc before you did
Also most people I know only have Macca's once or twice a year.
LOL Australia invented McCafe'. Conceptualised and launched in Melbourne, Australia in 1993
The mcflurry cups have the sides that fold in to leave a small hole for only the spoon to fit in and doesn't spill.
Loaded fries became a big thing in Australia after "halal snack packs" or HSPs became popular in Australia as a prime food to get on a drunken night out(they are usually chips loaded up with kebab meats/gravy) along with kebabs-which are a huge thing in the UK because of the huge amounts of immigration in both countries. I guess in USA you probably get tacos/burritos from Mexican places?
Surely, nothing could be more quintessentially American than comparing McDonald's across the world. Italians would be comparing wines, French would compare cheeses, with Germans it would be autos, British would compare weather, Aussies would compare snakes, and Kiwis....????. For Americans, of course it's fast food and burgers. 😂
Actually we mostly shorten everything with O e.g. .. SmokeO, ServO, BottleO, ArvO, SalvO ... etc
I'm on smoko, so leave me alone
smoko and bottle-o are still 2 syllables (smoke break and bottle shop) so we must just like the drawling o sound.
My youngest daughter worked at that maccas back in 2000 and her older sister was the AM at the Buger King 3 door down the street at the same time.
That MacDonald's outlet is one of my locals. I live just a short walk from there. I have probably sat at the table they are using because I must have used all of them over the years. It looks nice because it is an ex-bank branch. 19th century banks (during the gold rush) looked very fancy and heritage laws means MacDonalds can't change it too much.
We are metric remember, so 1 Kilojoule = 0.24 calories, or 1 calorie = 4.2 kilojoules.
Ryan's hungry again! 😂 Just say, one brekky, ta! I love their Angus burger! 😋 Oh yes Gravy Day (check out their other Pub Choir songs), cool! If you walk to and from.Maccas,, you'll definitely stay fit! 🤗 We have "real" cheese and "real" meat - from grass fed real cows! (They used to have chicken salads too!) Real icecream from.real milk! Yum! Our Cadbury's products are made in Tasmania, so they are also fresh! Happy snacking, later Ryan! 🙋
Just to clarify, too, the vast majority of our McDonald’s have the cafes in them. 👍🏻
No its angus beef! Not wagyu 😂
Hey Ryan, from experience as a customer of McDonald’s in Australia the McFlurrys aren’t mixed the topping is just on the iced cream when we receive it. I usually choose to have m&m’s as my topping. I do have to say though we can choose to add some kind of topping whether it be caramel or chocolate to our McFlurry for a small fee.
They used to be mixed, they basically stopped ~4 years ago when they changed them to cardboard containers and wooden spoons instead of plastic.
McFlurry machine uses the spoon to mix it but it’s very thick so nothing flies away. Also, the cup has fold-over flaps which leave a smaller hole for mixing, but I have yet to buy one with the flaps folded.
Ok. Something about our beef. (From someone whose family have spent holidays on a relative's beef farm) Hormones and excess antibiotics in our livestock are prohibited. For the most part cattle are field raised rather then barn raised like american beef. (American cattle are often raised in barns because of cold weather whereas here being in a barn would be too hot) Provided our cattle are well-fed (Sometimes a problem with all the droughts) they are typically healthier and happier which makes our worst quality beef still better then the sort of beef you get in the rest of the world.
In addition Australia has more land to dedicate to livestock that is unsuitable for growing crops so we have less vegetables and more meat per person then anywhere else. An american meal might be a few side dishes and a piece of meat. An australian meal will be mostly meat and one side dish. An american friend of mine complains when a Restaurant asks if he wants "Chips or salad" because to his experience he should have both whereas here you have more meat and fewer side dishes. Also fewer courses. We generally don't do appitizers/entrees and I have rarely had a dessert course with my meals except in more formal/special environments.
In Australia, they don't mix the McFlurries. They simply put the ice cream in and then ad the Oreos, etc. You mix it yourself while eating it.
We stopped doing it in the early 00’s
@@Delsin4077 Australia didn't stop stirring McFlurry's until ~2015 (may have been earlier if your store was trialing it or much later depending on the store). The McFlurry didn't even arrive in Australia until the early 00's. Now they're little cardboard containers and wooden spoons it wouldn't be possible. They were always overpriced and now they're just sad as well.
@@peter65zzfdfh I worked at McDonald’s in 2009 and we didn’t do it then
A quick lesson about units of energy:
- What people call calories is actually kilocalories (kcal). This is often very important to know if you're converting from metric to imperial (kJ to kcal).
- The metric unit of energy is the joule. In most of the world we measure the energy in food in kilojoules (kJ).
Hi Ryan, a cheese toastie is a very popular snack, or light meal here in Australia. Almost every cafe would sell this.
The Maccas down the road has a McCafe inside.. they're not always separate (North Brisbane).
I have had that Cookies and Cream cheesecake (which they no longer sell in Western Australia) and it's one of the best cheesecakes I've eaten. I was NOT HAPPY when they stopped selling it. Crazy decision. I also love how the icecream cups are not plastic anymore.
Maccas still do monthly or seasonaly specials like $1 cheeseburgers, loose change menu etc etc
You'll see in almost all fast food outlets in Oz a sign saying "The recommended daily intake for an average adult is 8700kJ" which is roughly 2079 kCalories.
"Toastie" = Toasted Sandwich or Toasted "Sanga" (Sang-ah)
I used to work for an American based company in Sydney years ago and we'd frequently have some of you on secondment for 6-12 months. One of the common things I heard mentioned was our beef tastes different. The majority of Australian beef is grass fed, whereas in the USA grain feeding is much more common.
We used to have all-day breakfast here too but not anymore. We do have extended breakfast until 12pm.
McFlurries haven't been premixed with the machine for some time now.
We get them with a bamboo spoon now as well.
And... The McRib is back!! It's still not great, but it's back. 😅
Loved your reaction - gotta be honest, I'd never seen some of them doubles.....
EDIT: Chips and Gravy is a staple in almost every fish and chip shop, pizza shop, chicken shop.......If you haven't got chips and gravy, u gonna go broke
He just says it for clicks, he knows the difference between calories and kilojoules. Hes been informed many times. Ryan has sucked me in for another comment. Damm!🎉
Wrong he is dumb
Either that or he's just got a memory like a sieve, like his brother Tyler.
So the dumber dog shit act is just an act? Or is he just American?
When I order the double big Mac I change the burger bye upgrading it to a triple big mac and I also do the same with the triple cheese burger and change it to have 5 beef patties and cheese slices it's awesome that Macca's let's Aussies do that
We have the Angus burgers here now. Not limited addiction anymore and yeah as other people have commented, I don’t have to explain between calories and kilojoules
I love gravy on my fries more than chicken salt. Whenever I visit a Jollibees in the Philippines, I never put the gravy on the chicken joy, it always goes on my fries and just leave the catsup behind.
Hi Ryan. K calories are Kiljoules, divide it by 4. Also the reason the place looks nice is because it is a heritage building.
Yeah so australia used to do the spoon spin thing but some number of years ago they stopped. Now it's just basically a Sunday in a cup and they dump the topping on top.
Australia is the test bed for MacDonald's there is a whole new menu being released December 2023 and some of the items are being rolled out to the USA was in the news this week .The loaded truffle fries are awesome , also this video isn't in the darling harbour prescient, this is the George Street CBD MacDonald's
As an honorary Aussie, Ryan, we will teach you and all other Americans the difference not only between Calories and Kilojoules, but also between Shrimp and Prawns.
You’ll find Our Maccas are listed as Kilojules not Calories, I think it converts to around 4kj to 1 calorie. So 3500 kilojules is around 838 calories.
the mcflurry cup solution? oncwe they introduced the cardboard cups they stopped mixing our mcflurries,, so theyre basically just a fancy sundae at this stage
Basically you can order anything you want at Maccas. 4 patties, no worries. 6 patties would be interesting!
Hey Ryan great vids. Maccas here in Oz is great. The McDonalds here is kilojoules not calories. 1 calorie = 4.2 kilojoules so fries were only 714 calories. McFlurry toppings get added by a pull handle that drops a certain amount of topping in the cup. No spoon mixers that I have seen or can remember any anywhere. If I have it right Aussies invented McCafé.
1:20 If my binge watching of Bondi Rescue serves me well, I think that ocean pool + beach is Bondi beach (probably why you have seen that clip so much)
Australian McFlurry's are no longer mixed up with the machine. the toppings are just put on top. we have wooden spoons now too
We had all day Becky for a while.
In Victoria we have Mc Cafe in every restaurant.
How old is their video? I think that the loaded fries was short term only. Certainly not available in Victoria. I don’t think that we get half of those burgers in Vic. Our cones have just hit $1:15
if you had the bigger stuff you wouldn't have 50% of the population overweight but 75% of your population would be overweight
Kilojoules Ryan. Not calories. Big difference. We’re on metric system. Like the rest of the world. 😂😂
It's kilojoules not calories Ryan. 3000kj is about 700 calories.
I sometimes eat at Maccas when I'm travelling, partly for convenience and partly if I want free wi-fi.
Ryan, Ryan, Ryan. Remember Aussies measurements are metric so we work with kilojoules NOT calories and there are 4.1 kilojoules in a calorie so if you divide those kj by 4, you will get how may calories in the meal!!!
I don't eat Macca's very often but ours is soooo much better and healthier than the USA. The McCafe is always in the Mecca's stores, very rarely separate.😁😁
You forgot the bit where you can buy a beer in McDonalds here. Can't believe you didn't cover that.
McCafe was tested and trialled in Australia first, because we are the ones with the great coffee culture. If they could get it right for Aussies, it would work anywhere.
im not surprised about maccas, we in Australia like to improve on other peoples inverntions etc , like take condoms for example, they say Kiwis in vented using sheep intestines as condoms , then we Aussies decided to improve on that and take the inrestines out of the sheep first
😂 you win the comment of the day. 😂😂cheers brother. 👍🤘
The last big mac i had was like cardboard in between some dry bread. I was really let down. Im going back to the chicken caesar wrap. And yes im in Australia
Hi Ryan. Unfortunately, the loaded fries and all the cakes are no longer available at Maccas, McCafe. The toasties are the best!!! My go-to is the ham, cheese and tomato.
I don't think they actually mix mcflurry's anymore. I remember when they first came out they used to have the machine to mix it, same way you're describing where the spoon would spin to mix the mcflurry. But it hasn't been like that for years, I don't remember when they stopped doing it that way but I feel like it's been over 10 years at least since they stopped doing that here.
In the early to late 00’s is when it stopped because they changed to a cheaper machine which is easier to fix
Ryan, put your glasses on, as no mention of calories was in the vlog.
4.2 kilojoules is roughly 1 calorie, so if something was 2,100 kilojoules that would be 500 calories.
If only the USA converted to metric like the rest of the world, and like we did 50 years ago, calories would no longer be commonly used.👍
This is the only guy in the world that can taste sunflower seeds on a hamburger bun.
Sorry. 3rd post. Our burger patties are made from pure beef, not soy filler like in USA/Canada. Angues beef patties is just a premium product to already good beef.
Wow! You really are a Maccas connoisseur.😊
Don't disregard the shakes - they're the main reason I go to Maccas :) The best McDonalds shakes I had ever were in Tahiti :D Their Tahitian beef burgers were pretty good too.
Try dividing KJ’s by 4 to get calories. In 3 years I have been to Macca’s twice and that helps keep the weight off. Our beef has no hormones and yes we have Wagu beef. My son has beef cattle on his Organic farm. He farms on his weeks off from the Emergency room.
Our processed cheese is always yellow and our butter is yellow.
They are also not in Darling Harbour, they are at the George Street Maccas.
I was curious so I looked it up. A regular big mac in Australia has 564 calories/2360 kilojoules, a regular big mac in the USA has 590 calories/2469 kilojoules. I'm not sure what makes the difference because the McDonald's US website is quite vague about their ingredients. Both burgers are made with a bread bun, I can tell you what the buns are made from in Australia, but not in USA.
In general we use less sugar (and much less corn syrup) in processed foods than in America. Especially in bread. So that might have something to do with it.
I worked in McDonalds Aus in 1998 and they dramatically lowered the amount of sugar content while I was there. They used to toast the buns and they would come out all shiny, at some point they stopped and started looking matte. Around that time they were making nutrition labels compulsory and so a lot of the added sugar was removed from products. There's a few g less sugar, there's no soybean oil in the Australian bun (soybeans not being a massive crop in Australia compared to canola). It's very likely a difference in the bun or maybe a tiny tiny bit leaner beef. I'd bet the sauce etc is probably imported to Australia from the US anyway, especially since it contains High Fructose Corn Syrup.
FYI, in Australia when we refer to gravy we only mean brown gravy.