Rob has something interesting to say about McDonald's.

Today was a nice sunny, Saturday morning and so I went down to the local McDonalds for breakfast. I can see from the picture you included with your post, that you must like McDonald's breakfast too. My order was Hot Cakes, a Hash Brown, an English Muffin and Tea. I guess having Vegemite with my English Muffin gave it the Australian flavor.

In your blog post you asked us to describe our McDonald's experience and that made me think of something special. Back in the late 90's to early 00's my boyfriend and I used to go to these huge gay dance parties here in Melbourne. They were held in this big warehouse called Shed 14 and thousands of gay men would attend. While Melbourne still has lots of gay parties, they are all small, club based parties these days - nothing on the scale of the Shed 14 parties. We would come home from these parties about 6am or 7am in the morning and we would drive through McDonald's on the way. We would eat our McDonald's breakfast at home before collapsing into bed to sleep for the rest of the day. Now whenever I have McDonald's breakfast, it takes me back to the days of those huge, exciting parties - the excitement of getting ready to go out, arriving at the party, the fun of dancing all night, surrounded by thousands of hot men (not to mention the dark room!) and then the satisfaction of heading home after a great night out. That's my McDonald's experience.

I wouldn't say I'm a regular at Macca's but I do drop by for breakfast now and again. When I'm on holidays though, I do like to check out the local McDonald's and KFC just to see if they are any different from what we have at home. Its always interesting to see the small differences in the menu from country to country.

PS For some really strange reason, Hungry Jacks/Burger King has a breakfast menu in every state in Australia expect for Victoria and New South Wales! Why we can't have breakfast at Hungry Jacks here in Melbourne is beyond me!

(editor's note: i love Vegemite too. remember the good ol' days of Bovril? the red little container that's filled with all that salty goodness. oooh... lewd!)

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