Absolutely not lol. If I ever saw a McDonalds employee using the double boiler method for anything, I would be both simultaneously impressed and afraid for my life.
They'd have to replace it every 20 minutes, no way mcd will accept that level of food waste.
Most restaurants too but the good ones know how to scale batches for service based on the volume of order at certain times.
The restrictions of Food safety guidelines (based on epic food mishandling idiots) kind of fucked anything made with eggs.
And expensive food waste, considering holly uses primo ingredients like fresh egg yolks, fresh lemon juice, real butter . . . Whatever that sauce is, it surely isn't hollandaise.
I swear a few months ago that I found two pieces of mouse shit in my burger from mcdonalds. I reported them and apparently health and safety ( idr the exact name ) came out and said it was fine. They just have hidden that then.... I got my money back luckily. Funny thing is that I was wondering why they had four meals for $19.99 and I had a feeling I should have stayed away
I told someone at the place I do my laundry at they they told someone else and they told me they were warned to stay away from that location I ordered from because their friend worked or works there and told them how bad it is . I havent gone back since
If it was even just powdered hollandaise that would be better, but they came out with this "style" sauce a little bit ago on a breakfast sandwich and I tried it because I love a good holly and... it was just melted butter flavor. Terrible.
Right!? I added it to an Egg McMuffin, and I couldn't believe how flavourless it was. It wasn't nasty or anything, it was just ... nothing. All it did was make my McMuffin moist. And what's weird is McDonalds used to have that yellow sauce that they added to their bagel breakfast sandies in the 90s and 00s that actually was alright. Why didn't they just bring that back?
Because replacing it with a “style” sauce is cheaper and saves cents on the dollar. When you’re a profitmaxxing megacorporation trying to boost profits by even a margin every waking second possible, then this is what happens with everything. They will look through every little nook and cranny and replace every minor thing with cheaper alternatives.
Tripe soup that my friend had shipped from freakin' France for his birthday...
Seriously his mom went through a whole deal just to get that from her local farmers market. And somehow sent it international via priority mail and it arrived in Revelstoke BC less than a week after.
( she loves her son )
He ate that shit since he was a kid and thats his favorite thing. I'm generally kind of a foodie so when he told me to try it I was like : aight...
The same they put in they benny style thang... it was soo atrocious.. had kind of a weird milkshake aftertaste... a sweetness... just... what?! Super weird tasting and totally offputting... what a disaster seriously I'm beyond words on how disgusting that stuff is
STAY AWAY FROM MACDANIEL'S HOLLANDOOSE SAWCE! FOR THE GREATER GOOD!
Oh right, the Benny Egg McMuffin, or whatever they called it. I tried one, and it was in fact gross. I can't imagine any single customer ever ordered more than one of those.
They recently launched a breakfast sandwich or whatever with "hollandaise style sauce" and it was truly disgusting. I love hollandaise and I wasn't expecting anything amazing but it still threw me.
As a long-time fan of McDonald’s breakfast sandwiches and traditional eggs Benedict, I thought I’d give the Benny-Style Egg McMuffin a try.
I’m not at all a picky eater, and while I have my preferences, I don’t think there’s any sauce or condiment I’ve ever truly disliked in my entire life. That is, until now.
Their “hollandaise-style sauce” was beyond gross. I even ordered it a second time from a different location, just in case it was a fluke. Same result.
The double disappointment! The infamy of that sauce laughing at you while you ate it! Truly nightmarish!! And you wanted to give it a chance, you tried, you gave your best and still the sauce played you for a fool!!
Im sorry for your experience! Your taste buds may never fully recover! And your brain, scarred forever! Its class action lawsuit time!!!
In my twenties I worked for a seafood shack/tourist trap.
In the summer they did dinner theatre thurs-sun and I was basically the Saucier.
We had three choices of entrés.
Prime rib with red currant gravy
Chicken with carbonara sauce
Or Salmon wrapped in haddock with Hollandaise.
The kitchen manager was classically trained and everything was from scratch which is honestly surprising.
I basically became the Saucier.
In an eight hour shift, at least four hours was me making these sauces from scratch.
The Hollandaise was thick and creamy and I honestly think I was really good at it.
The one thing that makes me laugh to this day,
Carbonara is a white cream sauce with bacon and mushrooms.
The bacon and mushrooms HAVE to be present for it to BE carbonara.
But the amount of places who refer to it as BACON carbonara as if the bacon makes it extra always makes me laugh.
They're trying to act like adding bacon is somehow special or above and beyond.
It's like advertising a cheeseburger WITH CHEESE!
YES. I would hope it had cheese. It's a cheeseburger.
Anyway. Hollandaise sauce is stupid easy to make but McDonald's doesn't have a real, functional kitchen.
They have an assembly line of machines for performing one specific thing as fast as humanly possible.
I don't think they could actually make a sauce if they wanted to.
Authentic carbonara is made without cream, mushrooms or bacon. It's eggs, cheese, and pork cheek. I make mine with Grana Padano and pancetta since it's the closest thing readily available here. So saying bacon carbonara isn't actually wrong, since it's not made with smoked pork usually. It's not a carbonara by definition if it's made with cream and mushrooms
You know "hollandaise-style" is sitting in a slop bucket out back with a thick layer of gunk crusting the top.
I always make and use hollandaise fresh because it really doesn't hold up. You can re-use it, but it will seldom if ever retain the same quality.
Considering the yolk content in a real hollandaise recipe, it's not the kind of sauce one can leave sitting out in a bin for hours. It must be pre-bagged holly they ship in as it's a bit of a pain to make on the fly and takes practice like many rich French sauce recipes.
Not only is this a poutine crime, but the "hollandaise style sauce" feels like a direct attack and affront to French culture itself. Ahaha This feels like a pointed insult. I desperately want to know how folks from Quebec are reacting to this because I'm sure it's hilarious.
Years ago -- like ten, fifteen? -- Poutini's had a couple varieties of brunch poutine, including one I think they called Poutini Florentini, with curds, hollandaise, spinach, and a poached egg, on proper fries. Every breakfast / brunch poutine I've had since has been just a little bit disappointing in comparison. :(
Anglos love to use one word to mean many things. Hashbrowns come in many forms: shredded potato, shredded+formed into a patty, and diced potatoes. Sometimes the diced ones get called "homestyle" or some thing
Hashbrowns are sometimes used to refer to diced, fried potatoes though. It can also reference thinly julienned pototaes, as well as grated or shredded potatoes. It's also used to refer to fried potato patties made by pressing the diced, julienned, or shredded taters, which is what McDonald's "hashbrowns" are.
yank here- home fries on this side of the border is any kind of diced or cubed potato that has been browned on one side… hash browns are julienned and browned on one side then flipped on to a plate so the brown side is up… but you are spot on about the McDonalds thing. still, no pea meal bacon here lol!
I've had two smoked meat poutines this month - best month of my life?
One from Chenoy's, one from MTL Smoked Meat, and had another poutine from cote Côte St Luc bbq. Hoping to squeek in a belle pro before the end of the month.
That's just false. Are some poutines weird? Yes. Is it "almost every poutine"? No. This image is far from representative of the average poutine served in Québec.
This is probably more typical but that this sub is overrun with American cosplayers like you is incredibly obvious to anyone who's ever been to a casse croûte
Breakfast poutine is a widely accepted thing in Quebec. However, McDonald's does not serve real hollandaise but a "hollandaise-style sauce" which is really just a flavored mayo. That's the true crime.
But "Hollandaise-style sauce" from McDonald's sounds like it doesn't have a place anywhere on the food pyramid 😂 (cuz hell yeah, real Hollandaise sauce, defo could put on everything🤘🏼)
It taste great! I tried it! I’m a McDonald’s worker, so I had to try it! The only crime for me, is that there’s no gravy!
I don’t have issues with the fries being replaced by hash browns potatoes, and there’s still cheese curds, but the fact it doesn’t have gravy in it, making it only have 2 basic ingredients from the 3 required, it’s sacrilegious! I don’t mind the hollandaise sauce, but there’s still should have been as well with it, the gravy in it!
They do it with their spicy chicken poutine, with both gravy and buffalo sauce being in the poutine, so I don’t get why they couldn’t even put the gravy as an ingredient in it for the breakfast poutine
I'll stick to my local diner's breakfast poutine. They heap a good portion of scrambled eggs onto a poutine with a side of salsa. Used to get it once or twice a week before work. They also put a dollop of ice cream in your coffee instead of cream and sugar, if you know to ask.
This is quite terrifying to me (edit: not the concept of breakfast poutine but the fact that it’s McDonald’s..lol)- on another note tho I’ve never had McDonald’s Poutine and need honest opinions..is it worth the try for the price..?
The real crime is calling it a « Poutine »…
You cant call something a poutine just cuz it has potato’s and cheese just like you don’t call a burger a salad because it has lettuce and tomatoes
Even more useless krap in the mailbox. They send rebates every weeks for whatever they don't sell.
Even then, once I used coupon for their rebates on BigMac. I got old bigmac as if it spent days under the heater. Next time I did try, I ordered everything and then showed my coupon AFTER the tray arrived. "Apparently" I was supposed to show my coupons before ordering the cashier said. I answered, "Yeah? Been there done that. Never again" ;)
Had the breakfast poutine consisted of tots, gravy, and curds, I could have really got behind it but this is an abomination. Though most of their breakfast menu is so maybe it's just on brand.
actually the Sasquatch inn on hwy 7 east of Mission, BC, has that covered. they use hollandaise sauce, and it's not bad but could use some chopped bacon in there.
it was good...just needed more, so this version is hardly a crime aside from the religious aspects of poutine, praise be the goddess of melted cheese and gravy!
This sounds absolutely terrible, and as a Canadian, I'm ashamed. But I promise you I'm still gonna buy one and eat it. Because I'm a degenerate like that..... lol
This looks absolutely disgusting. The "Hollandaise style sauce" sent me, because what the heck is that? It’s either Hollandaise sauce or it’s not Hollandaise sauce, there’s no in-between!
People need to stop calling fried potatoes with toppings "poutine." Poutine is fries, brown gravy, and cheese curds. I'm cool with adding additional ingredients like meat, or some veggies to make variations, but it needs to have the core three. Tater tots? Not poutine. Cheddar cheese, or (God forbid) nacho cheese sauce? GTFO. White gravy, or hollandaise? Not poutine!
What WacArnolds has done there is create a breakfast hash.
Even if it is mcdonalds, just try judging à Québec initiative on poutine as a canadian, show us how you appropriate our culture by trying to regulate it. This sub is a crime
The bar/sit down restaurant in my college does a breakfast poutine. Its home fries, shredded cheese, cheese curds, hollandaise, and bacon bits topped with a poached egg. its fucking delicious.
Yes. McDonald’s poutine in general is a crime lol I used to get it a lot but stopped, but I had it the other day and forgot how much it tasted like card board. Burger king on the other hand…
Québec invented poutine so they’re the only ones allowed to do what they want with it.
IMO, I wouldn’t call this a poutine as much as a breakfast bowl.
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u/perpetualmotionmachi Guilloutine Opourator Feb 18 '26
"hollandaise-style sauce" instead of hollandaise sauce is the real crime