{"id":19239,"date":"2015-10-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=19239"},"modified":"2023-09-04T21:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T07:31:14","slug":"review-mcdonalds-kale-feta-more-ning-mcwrap-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/27\/review-mcdonalds-kale-feta-more-ning-mcwrap-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: McDonald’s Kale & Feta More-Ning McWrap (Canada)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"McDonald's<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the last few weeks, an overwhelming amount of attention has been paid to McDonald’s breakfast menu — specifically, to the Golden Arches finally ceding to popular demand and serving that menu all day.<\/p>\n

Sadly, despite being bombarded with news articles and ads, we don’t get to partake in your newfangled “all day breakfast” up here in Canada. So I had to suffer the indignity of leaving the house before 10:00 AM. On a weekend. Like a farmer<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I think the first thing I have to note is that the name of these wraps just does not make sense at all. More-Ning? What does that even mean? What’s a Ning? Why would I want more of it? I guess it’s supposed to be a pun? Apparently someone at McDonald’s didn’t get the memo that puns are supposed to make sense.<\/p>\n

Inscrutable wordplay aside, McDonald’s has introduced two breakfast wraps: Sausage & Hash Brown, and Kale & Feta.<\/p>\n

I went with the Kale & Feta, which consists of scrambled eggs, feta cheese, baby kale, and a few slices of tomato, all wrapped up in a whole wheat tortilla. That’s it. No sauce, no seasoning — it’s literally just those four ingredients (mostly kale) crammed into a dry tortilla.<\/p>\n

This was especially off-putting in the first few bites, which consisted entirely of plain kale and tortilla; it was surprisingly horrifying. There are some vegetables that can be eaten on their own without any dressing or accompaniment; kale is not one of them.<\/p>\n

Things improved somewhat once I got to the other three ingredients at the centre of the wrap… but not by much.<\/p>\n

There’s something missing here; it doesn’t taste good. It’s not the quality of the ingredients, which were fine. The scrambled eggs were a little dry and way underseasoned, but they were decent enough. And they were downright gourmet when you compare them to the rubbery yellow slabs of sadness that they pass off as eggs at some other fast food joints (Tim Hortons, I’m looking squarely in your direction).<\/p>\n

The kale and tomatoes were both reasonably fresh, and the crumbled feta gives the wrap a bit of a salty kick, trying valiantly bring some flavour and personality — an uphill battle that it just can’t win.<\/p>\n

\"McDonald's<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s odd; though the ingredients are all okay, they don’t taste particularly good in this configuration. I’m gonna be blunt: this thing tastes like you went dumpster diving at a health food store and then crammed a few ingredients at random into a tortilla.<\/p>\n

What this wrap really needs is something — anything — to lubricate things and provide some flavour. Maybe if the kale had been tossed in a vinaigrette, or if it had been cooked, then this wrap could have been half-way edible. But here — raw, undressed, and abundant — it was a bit of an endurance test.<\/p>\n

I actually really enjoyed McDonald’s last foray into the world of kale, the I’m Greek-ing Out<\/a> salad (which also had the benefit of being named with a pun that actually made sense), so I’m not inherently biased against kale at McDonald’s.<\/p>\n

But though that salad was ostensibly healthy, it had enough dressing and other tasty bits to remind you that you were at McDonald’s, and not the cafeteria at your local gym. The Kale & Feta McWrap, on the other hand, tastes like health food through-and-through. It’s tastes like the type of health food that gives health food a bad name.<\/p>\n

It might just be the worst thing I’ve ever had from McDonald’s — and I tried the McOnion Bits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 400 calories, 19 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat, 0.4 grams of trans fat, 420 milligrams of cholesterol, 840 milligrams of sodium, 37 grams of carbohydrates, 7 grams of fibre, 3 grams of sugar, 21 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> McDonald’s Kale & Feta More-Ning McWrap (Canada)
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $3.99 CAN
\nSize:<\/b> N\/A
\nPurchased at:<\/b> McDonald’s
\nRating:<\/b> 3 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Decent eggs. Fresh veggies.
\nCons:<\/b> Tastes like a health food store dumpster. Ingredients don’t work well together. Dry. Raw kale overload. Desperately needs some kind of dressing. McOnion Bits flashbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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