The Best Food on the McDonald’s Menu, Ranked

Nobody cuts open a Big Mac. But there were four of us, so we got a plastic knife from the counter, cut a cross-section, and then sliced it again into quarters. And it actually looked pretty good— three layers of bun, special sauce, you know the rest. It looked a whole lot like smashburgers you find at sit-down restaurants everywhere nowadays. This is, after all, the Big Mac, the pride of the arches, a pillar of pop culture. And it was not good. The burger patties were dry and flavorless like someone had accidentally built ours with old drink coasters. With no actual burger flavor, it became instead a special sauce and cheese sandwich, most of the texture coming from iceberg shards. For the love of Ronald McDonald, order the Quarter Pounder—and ask for it with special sauce.