{"id":83,"date":"2009-07-06T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-07-06T01:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T01:53:00","slug":"brownsville-trip-not-all-big-macs-are-created-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Brownsville Trip – Not all Big Macs are created equal"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife and I went to visit my family in Brownsville, Texas over the 4th of July weekend. We stopped in Raymondville for dinner on the drive down. There is a convenient McDonald’s attached to a gas station (but unlike the more modern buildings that are gas stations with a McDonald’s attached, this is really a McDonald’s with a gas station stuck on the end).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We got our order and sat down, and Diana discovered that her Big Mac was mis-assembled. (See photo!) She wasn’t sure whether or not she should send it back (after all, the parts were all there… just in the wrong order). I offered to take it back for her, and she let me. I showed the employee what was wrong and asked if we could get a new one. He turned around and had a new one made. He handed me a fresh Big Mac (yes, I witnessed that it was a new one) and I returned to my table. Diana opened it and discovered the new burger was made exactly the same way!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This time she went to the counter, and showed the problem to a diffferent employee. He was mortified (or at least acted mortified for our sake). The new, third, burger was assembled well. In fact, it was the best looking Big Mac I remember seeing. In fact, it almost<\/span> looked like the photo of a Big Mac you see on the ads. Here you can see my wife enjoying her good Big Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife and I went to visit my family in Brownsville, Texas over the 4th of July weekend. We stopped in Raymondville for dinner on the drive down. There is a convenient McDonald’s attached to a gas station (but unlike the more modern buildings that are gas stations with a McDonald’s attached, this is really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}