The Big Mac Snack Wrap

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  • I have never had a Big Mac. I couldn't tell you if I like them or not. That thing, however, doesn't look all that great to me.
  • I think "wrap" is a more descriptive term than tortilla. Because tortilla refers to the bread, not how the bread is used/folded. It's not a burrito (though a buritto is a wrap). It's not a soft-shell taco (which I don't consider a wrap) or a quesadilla (defintely not a wrap). "Tortilla sandwhich," might give the impression that the filling is "sandwhiched" between two tortillas.

    I do love the Big Mac "special sauce," but is it just me, or does it seem that they use about twice the amount they used to. I don't think it's "just me" (unless I've gotten alot clumsier) because I don't remember there being so much sauce that it got all over my hands. And I've noticed it in other restaurants too - even "good" restaurants that know better.

    For example, whenever there's a sauce, I generally ask for it on the side, but last week, hubby and I went to lunch at a restaurant/microbrewery with a very good reputation. I ordered an appetizer as my entree, fish tacos. The description said "a touch" of homeade mayonaise, and it was served with two dipping sauces on the side (a habanero and a barbecue sauce). I thought that would mean that there was barely a smear of mayo on the tortillas. I debated whether to ask for the mayo on the side, and decided not to. Big mistake. They came to the table goopy with mayo, which I scraped off (which even scraping off what I could, still left what I expected to be on the tacos in the first place).

    Even Big Macs can be ordered without the sauce, or with the sauce on the side, or light on the sauce (though that leaves the definition of "light" to the person making your sandwich).
  • That McGangBang sounds disgusting, too! It's funny, I've started eating burritos again. I will only eat them where I can get the nutritional info. Then I tear the thing open and eat the inside. Hmmm, may be I should just order beans on the side and forgo the tort, oh excuse me, the wrap altogether.

    I haven't stepped foot in a McDonald's in over 10 years. Don't think I'll be going any time soon.
  • They could have at least tried it as a lettuce wrap!
  • i would definitely not try that. sorry. but occasionally my hubby gets a Big Mac
    Attack and HAS to have one.. i don't think he'd try the wrap either. it's just not the same.
    I will however say that as disgusting as it sounds and looks the McGangBang sounded and looked good to me. I'm gross. lol. Still- I would never ever eat it.

    Any time I've eaten McDonalds for dinner I wake up in the morning starving like I haven't eaten in two days. I don't know if it's just that it's nutritionally bankrupt, or something they put in it to make you hungrier or what- but I try to avoid them for that reason (as if there aren't a billion other reasons to)
  • Quote: That McGangBang sounds disgusting, too! It's funny, I've started eating burritos again. I will only eat them where I can get the nutritional info. Then I tear the thing open and eat the inside. Hmmm, may be I should just order beans on the side and forgo the tort, oh excuse me, the wrap altogether.
    Linguistic technicallity but wrap does not refer to the tortilla or flat bread itself, but rather to it's generic presentation (usually a type of flat bread sandwhich). The wrapper doesn't have to be a tortilla, it can be any flat bread, or even lettuce (as in viatnamese lettuce wraps).

    If you eat the egg salad out of a sandwhich, you would be leaving the bread (not the sandwich) behind.

    Likewise, if you eat the innards out of a burrito, you are leaving the tortilla (not the wrap) behind.

    However, "forgoing the tortilla" or "forgoing the wrap" would both be correct linguistically. Just as "forgoing the sandwhich" or "forgoing the bread" would both be correct of you wished only to have the sandwhich filling (without the bread, it is no longer a sandwich, as just without the flat bread it wouldn't be a wrap).

    Also, while wraps are usually made with flat bread, not all flat breads are tortillas (just as all sandwhiches are not made with white bread).

    Tortillas, naan, roti, lefse, lavash, pancakes, crepes, and bing (the crepe or pancake eaten with Mu Shu and peking duck) could all be used as "wraps" (and
    dozens of other flat breads).

    Rice paper and lettuce can also be used as the wrapper in a wrap, so technically a wrap doesn't have to even be a bread.