Pimped Happy Meal
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A giant beef burger and homemade bun are served with chips and handmade McDonald's-style packaging to recreate an oversized Happy Meal.
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- Being broke students, the makers raided a friend’s kitchen for potatoes, a giant onion, greaseproof paper and an egg, then bought a kilo of meat from Tesco for a fiver and a just-add-water bread mix for 74 cent, with a McDonald’s drive-through visit for reference. A kilo of meat made one burger, bound with an egg and cooked in a giant frying pan; the bun mix got too much water and needed self-raising flour borrowed from other flats before an unrecorded time in a hot oven. The potatoes were peeled and cut into McDonald’s-shaped chips, the onion diced, and both cooked however possible; wrappers were made from greaseproof paper after the drive-through. The onions went onto the burger, every ketchup sachet they had onto the bun, and the makers guess at 2400 calories in the meat, 1200 in the bun and 1000 in the rest, about 4600 in all, more than they could eat. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7
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Step One: Right so our first step to a Happier Meal is to get some mc pimped ingredients. As typical students we are broke and had to resort to cleaning out eilis’ kitchen first of all…a heck load of potatoes, a giant onion, a roll of greaseproof paper and an egg. Then on to Tesco for some Tesco value fun. A fiver for a kg of Tesco’s finest meat and 74cent for some bread-making-powder-just add water-flour-thing.…
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Step One:
Right so our first step to a Happier Meal is to get some mc pimped ingredients. As typical students we are broke and had to resort to cleaning out eilis’ kitchen first of all…a heck load of potatoes, a giant onion, a roll of greaseproof paper and an egg. Then on to Tesco for some Tesco value fun. A fiver for a kg of Tesco’s finest meat and 74cent for some bread-making-powder-just add water-flour-thing. Oh and of course we had to pop into mc donald’s drive thru to eh..rekindle the classic taste of a happy meal in us.
Step two:
Right so next up some serious ronald mc donald style cooking. We got some guidelines on how to cook mc hamburgers the right way but with a kg of meat in one burger we had to resort to our own cooking initiative. Crack an egg into the meat to help it bind..then lobe the whole lot into a giant frying pan.
For the bun get your bun bread making kit thing into a bowl, add the recommended amount of water..or like eilis add too much and then run around to other apartments asking for some self-raising flour ha..knead the dough and chuck into a hot oven for some amount of time.
Step three:
The potatoes are peeled and cut up into mc donald shaped chips. The onions are diced the pimped out way and the two of them are cooked in whatever ways we could.
Step four:
Nearing the final hurdle now for a mc happier life..got out the greaseproof paper and started making ourselves some pimped wrappers. The earlier trip to mc donald’s gave us a hand here.
Step five:
Then with everything all cooked we knocked the pan of onions onto the burger, poured as many sachets of ketchup we had onto the bun, put it all together and wrapped it up in our mc packaging.
And there we had it a pimped to the max Mc Happier Meal!
We reckon there’s about 2400 calories in the meat..about 1200 calories in the bun…and maybe about 1000 calories in everything else…so a guesstimate of 4600 calories..needless to say we couldn’t eat it all.
