Location: 2510 Hampshire Gate, Oakville
Website: https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca.html
McDonald’s is making a big hullabaloo about their “remastered” classic burgers (the Big Mac, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese, and the Cheeseburger). This includes a promotion where you can get a Big Mac for three bucks, so I figured it was worth a shot.
The improvements, according to McDonald’s:
- 100 per cent Canadian beef patties now cooked in smaller batches for hotter and juicier beef
- Storage changes for fresher and crisper produce
- Onions added directly on the patties on the grill to intensify flavour
- More of our legendary Mac Sauce applied on Big Macs
- New bun recipes for warmer buns
I got a Big Mac, and… I don’t know. It’s a Big Mac? It tastes like a Big Mac? I’m sure if I were that guy who eats multiple Big Macs every day, it would have blown my mind with all the little differences. But it’s been a year or two since I’ve had one. It tasted exactly the same to me.
Actually, that’s not entirely true — it’s clearly saucier. The amount of sauce is kind of insane. It oozes out of the burger with every bite. It’s a mess.
Obviously the dry, mostly tasteless McDonald’s patties need a lot of help (and no, they are absolutely not juicier in any discernible way). But even still, this was overkill.
The only other change that stood out were the onions; you could tell just by looking at them that they had been put on the griddle. They had a bit of colour to them. But if that made any particular difference to the flavour, I certainly couldn’t tell.
Still, it wasn’t bad. I liked the Big Mac before, and I like it now — but I guess I prefer the old version, because the amount of sauce on the new one is bonkers.
Michael Eats 
Why is this on Michael Eats and not Tasty Burgers?
I tend not to review fast food for Tasty Burgers, unless it’s a nicer place like Five Guys. I just don’t think it’s fair to compare a McDonald’s burger to something like Rudy or whatever. They’re technically the same thing, but… not really.
Copy that!
The new and improved BIG MAC is horrible!!!!! Why????? Why change the original one and only BIG MAC!!!! Wrong move!!! In my opinion it does not taste like an original BIG MAC!! With the first bite it totally falls apart and is extremely messy!! The bun as a totally different flavor-way too much sauce! I felt as though I was eating a knock off! I will no longer be eating them!! It’s a sad day!!!