| Big Macs don't hold up well, because the sauce goes best with a warm burger and is no longer palatable when it's been sitting on top of a cold patty. The shredded lettuce is already sad when fresh, and will inevitably get everywhere. Big Macs are not the item to buy. Instead, their basic cheeseburgers and their double versions are far cheaper and more versatile, and provided you can peel them apart, they can be partially revitalized with some ketchup from a packet. If you skip the cheese, you will lose some flavor but greatly increase the chance that you'll be able to uncover one side of the patty to add ketchup later. Their beef burgers with the bigger patty aren't worth buying if you're not going to eat them fresh. This is more true now that they've started cooking them from refrigerated patties, instead of frozen ones, although I don't know if that applies to airport locations also. (But if you know you'll have access to a microwave, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese microwaves the best out of all their beef items.) But if you're going to be buying food from them knowing it will get cold, consider their chicken items. Nearly all of them will taste good and hold up better than the beef items. Actual cuts of chicken that have been breaded and fried taste fine cold, so their premium breaded chicken sandwiches are good choice. Pair them with some barbecue sauce. For even more flexibility, their chicken nuggets are fine cold, you don't have to eat them in one go, and they go well with the barbecue or sweet and sour sauce. In my opinion, their cheap chicken sandwiches have an unpleasant aftertaste that the similarly-constituted nuggets do not, so the nuggets are the superior choice among their cheaper chicken items. |