Only some locations have an extra fish patty as an option in the app or on the kiosk menu.
Otherwise, you have to speak to a person. Usually inside the restaurant. Possibly a manager who will know how to key it in.
This added cost is usually a deciding factor.
After following this thread for a while, I ordered a double patty FoF (on the touch screen order do-hickey thing)
with extra tartar and it took a while but it was delivered hot and tasty.
I was not a FoF guy but now i am a willing convert.
Sometimes you have to walk inside a FF place to get it right. No point in getting half way down the road and bitching about the drive thru like Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon.
In the UK the FoF is not ordered by many people. So if you order one, they have to make it fresh to order. So it isn’t a sandwich that has been hanging around in the metal tray thing. I wonder if it’s the same in the US. Also, the bun is steamed so I suppose they can’t just leave them hanging around.
I did not know that, but it might explain my wait.
It was not a looonnnggg time but it was not quite “fast food”, either.
Wonder where they catch (farm?) those square fishies…
I’m going to be a bit pedantic because I like trivia and especially this story. I apologize if you already know the story!
In the States, Filet o’Fish began as option for Catholics in Ohio who avoid meat at Lent, especially on Fridays. It caught on, especially in places like Ohio. Pennsylvania, and upstate NY.
It was a local franchisee, Lou Groen, who came up with the idea, for his customer base, in 1962. Groen owned 43 franchises at one point!
Fried fish suppers (called fish fries) during Lent are common in these parts, too.
Brits are a lot closer to the coast than landlocked Ohio (lake fish isn’t used by McD’s).
I can understand Brits not being fussed about FOF when you have good chippies all over your country.
I miss the bigger FoF sandwich too, but I don’t like tall sandwiches - I dislike those overloaded burgers too. I find two filets on one bun too hard to eat. As much as I don’t care for the bun, I’d rather get 2 sandwiches.
I wonder if it’s possible to swap the plain bun for a sesame bun at some locations.
I would find 2 filet of fish patties on one bun too much fish and too much breading for one sitting.
That’s an interesting observation. Never thought of that. The FoF is one of the more expensive items at McDonald’s - costs around £5 for just the sandwich, which is way more than a hamburger or cheeseburger. Fish and chips has become more expensive recently, especially since the war in Ukraine has driven the price of sunflower oil up quite a bit.
Most of Ohio’s northern border is Lake Erie.
I know. You are correct.
I live 25 minutes north of Lake Erie half my week. I was at Port Stanley last week for lunch.
That’s why I mentioned lake fish is not used in FOF.
I should have said Ohio is really far from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, or the seashore, compared to anywhere in Britain.
Fish and Chips at a sit-down Restaurant with table service in Toronto is running $30 CAD. The take-out from our equivalent to a chippy is running $16-$20 CAD for haddock or cod with chips, $20-22 for halibut and chips. There have been issues with the availability of halibut the past 2 years. Probably worse now, since most halibut sold in Canada comes from Alaska and we have all sorts of new higher prices on American imports.
Alaskan halibut costs around $35-$40 CAD/ lb, when Faroe Island salmon is costing $19 CAD/ lb, cod /haddock is costing $12 CAD/lb, and basa / tilapia might cost $8 CAD/ lb
You’ll be part of the cult. I’ve had a lot of students work there, and they all become part of the McCult. Good business and a great place for a young adult to start in employment.
wouldn’t be my first, or second…
Me neither!
