Congratulations on the longevity of your bionic parts!
I’ve seen so many friends’ wear out in 10 years. We grew up in a generation of good manners. Whether it was in Scouts or from reading a children’s magazine or even learning by example, we came out on top!
Keep up the good work!!
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We adopted our only child from foster care when he was 7 and we were 51. He keeps us young! He’s 24 now and will be living with us for the foreseeable future. Watching him expand what he will eat and will consider eating after 4 years of extreme food deprivation and food abuse, and then neglect in terms of food for three years after that has been amazing! It’s taken a long time and a lot of patience (from all 3 of us) and we are making progress.
To keep it relevant to McDonald’s, he has said for at least 10 years now that the eggs at McDonald’s are fake. He does like the hashbrowns a couple of times a year and if we are on the road, a single cheeseburger, ketchup only (meaning no pickles or onions) is acceptable. For a long time we had to check to be sure that the cheeseburger was in fact “ketchup only.”
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Keep up the good work!
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I shall name thee Filet o’ McRibken.
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More unholy combos…
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Surely this is a sign of the End Times!
JK.
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Agreed. But just the thing in my youth while driving home from the bar, along with some onion rings
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Many votes here for the old JITB tacos. Old taste memories. We’d drive all over town to the different JITBs to find some if the others were out. Wouldn’t be able to touch one now.
It is a distressing sign of: a) a pathetic need for attention, the “genius” of TikTok and ilk; and 2) demonstration enough that just because something can be done does not make it worth doing.
It’s not as if the three components yield building blocks for a better construction “held together” by pillaging the condiments station. Each Costco offering is just fine on its own.
Our real gripe is Costco’s banishing the $1.50 Polish. If cost/profit were the problem, we’d venture that raising the price to $2.00 wouldn’t have affected sales volume. Oh well, that’s why the big bucks don’t come our way.
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JitB tacos are the perfect replica of grade school cafeteria tacos.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with them, except when you start comparing them to real tacos. But why would a person do that?
That’s like comparing Hot Pockets to real a Calzone.
Just accept them for what they are. Jack in the Box Tacos. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Amen!
I don’t recall grade school cafeteria tacos. Just ‘burgers’, foot long hot dogs, (those were the best!) ‘pizza’ (thick pizza bread) and multiple versions of SOS, tuna(?) casserole and ‘spaghetti’. Tacos would have been a bit risqué at my school.
Mrs. Shipley’s cole slaw. In elementary school. Back when the cafeterias cooked the food themselves. It usually showed up in Fridays, which in those days also always featured fish. No, we weren’t a parochial school, that’s just how it was done in the public schools. Fish on Friday. Fish was either fish sticks or a tuna fish sandwich on a hamburger bun. With either corn or potato chips (no choice; they rotated) and Mrs. Shipley’s cole slaw. (she was one of the 2 cafeteria ladies). I lived for that cole slaw, and I’ve tried to recreate the taste my entire life. Sometimes I get served something very close in restaurants, and I become very happy. Shredded, not chopped. Not sweet, but not tangy, either. Perhaps I’ll try to make some weekend. I occasionally succeed, almost. And think of Mrs. Shipley.
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I was not sure what JITB stood for and Just Inside The Border was what i came up with.
Jack In The Box makes way more sense but i will miss never getting to try a Just Inside The Border taco.
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Where would we be without the splendid memories of in house food prep in our school cafeterias? I do remember ‘Fish Fridays’ and it was always fish sticks with catsup/ketchup, a wee bag of Eggo brand plain potato chips and ta-da ‘fruit cup’ aka fruit cocktail.
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Yeah, fruit cup. We didn’t have packs of potato chips (I’m old). Just chips right in the plate.
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I remember David Steinberg doing a video clip where he drove up to the Jack in the Box speaker and ordered a bottle of Pouilly Fuissé. He then waited for the answer. You’ll have to trust me on this one; I can’t find the video. 
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Them your solution to dining at them is the cheaper/better option: make sht at home and bring it. ANTI-snob.
I worked with a guy who ate McD’s for bkfast and lunch every work day. One day he jumps in the truck with me and says"I can’t pee…I just can’t pee" 'Course he never exercised or anything. Was dead by 50.
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He never visited the urologist and/or nephrologist?
Bummer 
There’s help for that.
