Item
McDonald’s At Home
Media
Title (Dublin Core)
McDonald’s At Home
Description (Dublin Core)
Home cooked meals have always been the norm for us, but in our pre-COVID lives of working full time, gymnastics competitions, church commitments, piano lessons, Kumon, trips to Disneyland and on and on, eating out definitely factored into to our lives at least once a week. In March, that came to a grinding halt. With COVID cases in our area high, and being fortunate to work from home, we quit restaurant food cold turkey when quarantine began in hopes that the numbers would decrease. Ten months later, with daily case rates of COVID in our county now reaching into the 1000s, restaurant food is a distant memory. It was a bit shocking to realize we’ve only had restaurant food five times since March, and each time it was dropped off on our porch for a special occasion. With the kids begging for McDonald’s, we almost caved in December when the McRib commercials started. Instead of giving in, we spent December tackling the challenge of making McDonald’s at home. Big Macs, Egg McMuffins, McDonald’s pies, and yes, even the McRib made it to our homemade menu. It’s been a really fun challenge to try and get the taste just right. Also, a very odd and strange Christmas Eve to attend Christmas Eve service online and then to eat homemade Big Macs. But then, there was something perfect about it, too. What can I say? It’s a good time for a great taste in quarantine.
Date (Dublin Core)
December 24, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Kathryn Jue
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Kathryn Jue
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph
video
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Food & Drink
English
Home & Family Life
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
pre-COVID-19
eating out
quit
restaurant food
Christmas
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
pandemic prompt
my favorite things
McDonald’s
home-cooking
Collection (Dublin Core)
Holidays
Children
Foodways
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
01/09/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
01/19/2021
01/20/2021
02/08/2021
08/02/2022
09/20/2024
This item was submitted on January 9, 2021 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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