For those not in the know, the “McGangbang” is one of those

Published 8:00 am Friday, March 4, 2011

For those not in the know, the “McGangbang” is one of those “secret” menu items that only fast food aficionados or people with access to the internet seem to know about. We wondered, would we be able to one of these babies from a McDonald’s in our city of nice?Made of a chicken sandwich stuffed in the middle of a double-patty cheeseburger, the McGangbang promises its seekers two things: a sincere challenge – it’s such a secret item that many McDonald’s employees have never heard of it – and a nasty bout of indigestion, should you actually find one. (One should only consume so many McDonald’s foodstuffs at a time, after all.)Of course, half the fun of searching for a McGangbang is in the name. (One can only assume that the chicken sandwich, got between two beef patties, is the gangbang recipient.) It’s a name that feels naughty to speak, sounds titillating when heard but is actually relatively tame. It’s the sort of name my high-school age brother and his friends might come up with, if they knew what gangbangs were. And there’s the catch: ‘McGangbang’ sounds like something a pair of high schoolers made up to fuck with underpaid fast food workers. If I were a McDonald’s employee, stuck by a blustery drive-thru window all day, and some punk rolled up and asked me for a McGangbang, I’d assume they were screwing with me. And I’d probably react accordingly. McDonald’s employees deal with a lot of bullshit, being McDonald’s employees and all, so when we set off to find a McGangbang, I didn’t expect half as much courtesy as I received.