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The Sun
an hour ago
- Business
- The Sun
McDonald's customers left fuming ‘tell me this is a joke' after fast food chain quietly axes beloved menu item
MCDONALD'S fans have been left devastated after the chain stopped selling a popular menu item. The fast food chain has confirmed that it no longer sells the popular Triple Cheeseburger. The burger first appeared on menus in 2020 and followed the successful trial of the Triple-Decker Sandwich. It was made with three British and Irish beef patties, onions, pickles, ketchup, mustard and cheese. McDonald's confirmed to The Sun that it had been dropped in order to make room for new menu items. A spokesperson said: 'We're always evolving our menu with our customers in mind to keep things fresh and exciting.' Fast food fans have taken to social media to voice their frustration at the loss of the iconic burger. One fan said in a post on social media website X: 'mcdonalds getting rid of the Triple Cheeseburger in the UK may be the worst news i've had all week.' Another added: 'Taking the Triple Cheeseburger off the menu is my last straw - done with mcds.' While a third asked: 'McDonaldsUK Why have you removed the Triple Cheeseburger from the menu? You take that away and instead bring in that way overpriced Big Arch thing.' Others took to Facebook to share their disappointment. One disappointed customer said: 'Tell me this is a joke.' While another agreed, adding: 'Give over no they haven't.' A post on the McDonald's website apologises to customers, adding: 'Sorry it's gone, but not forgotten.' McDonald's often switches up its menu to add new burgers, desserts and sides while removing items that are no longer popular. How to save at McDonald's You could end up being charged more for a McDonald's meal based solely on the McDonald's restaurant you choose. Research by The Sun found a Big Mac meal can be up to 30% cheaper at restaurants just two miles apart from each other. You can pick up a Big Mac and fries for just £2.99 at any time by filling in a feedback survey found on McDonald's receipts. The receipt should come with a 12-digit code which you can enter into the Food for Thought website alongside your submitted survey. You'll then receive a five-digit code which is your voucher for the £2.99 offer. There are some deals and offers you can only get if you have the My McDonald's app, so it's worth signing up to get money off your meals. The MyMcDonald's app can be downloaded on iPhone and Android phones and is quick to set up. You can also bag freebies and discounts on your birthday if you're a My McDonald's app user. The chain has recently sent out reminders to app users to fill out their birthday details - otherwise they could miss out on birthday treats. This week the home of the golden arches launched five new menu items, including the launch of an iconic burger. The Big Arch made its debut on the fast food chain's menu on June 18. Several other items also rejoined the menu, to the delight of fast food fans. Among the items returning to menus were Halloumi Fries, the Toffee Crisp McFlurry, Cheesy McCrispy and Toffee Apple Pie. What other items have been discontinued? McDonald's axed several items this week to make way for the new menu offering. Among them were the Cheesy Garlic Bread Dippers, Lotus Biscoff McFlurry, Steakhouse Stack and McSpicy x Frank's RedHot. The menu update comes after the fast food chain discontinued the Chicken Bacon Caesar Wrap last month. McDonald's said it was part of a 'rotation' of its wrap offering. The wrap, which combined chicken breast strips, crispy onions, rashers of bacon and lettuce, was first launched in summer 2023. 3 3 Why are products axed or recipes changed? ANALYSIS by chief consumer reporter James Flanders. Food and drinks makers have been known to tweak their recipes or axe items altogether. They often say that this is down to the changing tastes of customers. There are several reasons why this could be done. For example, government regulation, like the "sugar tax," forces firms to change their recipes. Some manufacturers might choose to tweak ingredients to cut costs. They may opt for a cheaper alternative, especially when costs are rising to keep prices stable. For example, Tango Cherry disappeared from shelves in 2018. It has recently returned after six years away but as a sugar-free version. Fanta removed sweetener from its sugar-free alternative earlier this year. Suntory tweaked the flavour of its flagship Lucozade Original and Orange energy drinks. While the amount of sugar in every bottle remains unchanged, the supplier swapped out the sweetener aspartame for sucralose.
TTG
3 hours ago
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- TTG
Friends unite to bring a travel agency back to their high street and continue town's revival
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Yahoo
3 hours ago
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- Yahoo
3 reasons your hydrangea won't bloom and when to prune for the best flowers
If you gathered in one large room, all the plant pros from all over the world and asked them to name the number one question they are asked by customers, that normally diverse and typically quite contrarian group would find themselves in unanimous and surprising agreement. Questions related to how to prune a hydrangea, why one either does or does not flower from one year to the next, could fuel a reality TV show ... maybe even to rival "Game of Thrones." Here are three reasons why you hydrangea may not be blooming: Improperly Timed Pruning: By far the most common reason for some hydrangeas to not flower is pruning at the wrong time of year. Hydrangeas come in a variety of types. Some set their flower buds in the fall for the following spring. If you prune that type in winter, there won't be many/any left to flower in spring. This is the case for the popular bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla,) the type that typically has glossy, bright green leaves and either pink or blue flowers in summer. The always popular oakleaf hydrangea (H. quercifolia) falls into this same category of old wood bloomers. (Note: a few of the newer varieties of H. macrophylla actually produce flowers both on last year's growth and current season's growth so will bloom in spring even if you prune them hard in winter, but all flower better if you skip the winter prune.) More: Should I use landscape fabric in the yard or garden? Here are 3 things to know Hydrangeas that flower on the current season's growth (sometimes called new wood flowering) can be cut all the way to the ground in winter and they will still bloom the following spring after the new growth is produced. The native smooth hydrangea (H. arborescens) and the panicle/tree hydrangea (H. paniculata) both fall into this category. Winter/Cold Damage: Some hydrangea species can handle a whole lot of cold without even the least of a shiver. When I lived in Bangor, Maine it took no time at all to see that both the smooth hydrangea and panicle hydrangea were (and still are) staples in the landscape. They can handle cold. Big leaf hydrangeas, on the other hand, are best considered snowbirds. They can handle some winter cold but what they don't like is the up and down temperatures of a continental climate. A few warm February days during winter can cause a bit of a false start for big leaf hydrangeas. And once those buds (that contain the flower initials formed last fall) start to swell even a bit, any temperature below freezing will result in a total or partial loss of flowers for the coming season and will leave you with a big green bush with no flowers. If the cold is borderline, sometimes you'll just get a few flowers near the ground where they were either protected from the freeze by snow cover or from a bit of warmth radiated up from the ground beneath. More: How to keep deer out of the garden: 8 things to try Too Much Shade: Many of us who start off with a sun garden know that it won't often last very long. Trees grow. Other large shrubs grow. Over time, a once floriferous hydrangea can lose its flower power as maturing plants in the vicinity start to suck up the essential sunlight. All hydrangeas are quite shade tolerant — meaning they can survive quite nicely in even a moderate amount of shade. But as the amount of incident light decreases, so does the flower production. The solution is to move your hydrangea to a sunnier spot or open up the tree canopy with some strategic tree pruning. There is also a short list of other reasons for a gradual decrease of hydrangea flowers. Of course the ever-present white tailed deer that so many of us battle in our gardens can chow down on your hydrangeas, meaning no buds make it to flowering stage. Poor mineral nutrition, moisture stress, and a host of other cultural insults can keep hydrangeas from flowering but those are minority cases. First things first. Like most plants, hydrangeas do not need to be pruned. If left unpruned, they will be just fine. After flowering, some people like to remove the old blooms (which is completely fine) while others like to leave them in place for little winter texture. But in both the old wood and new wood blooming hydrangea species, no pruning is necessary. If you just let them do their thing, they'll do their thing. Old Wood Bloomers: If big leaf hydrangeas are pruned at the wrong time of year, they won't flower the next year. But that doesn't mean you can't prune and still have flowers. If you want to prune to encourage tighter branching or maintain a slightly smaller plant, prune as soon as the current crop of blooms start to fade. The goal is to encourage lower buds to break and produce new shoot growth before the end of the growing season, with enough time for a new crop of flower buds to form. A thorough watering regime post pruning will help make sure that new growth forms. My general rule of thumb is to do this kind of pruning before the middle of July. Other than the bigleaf hydrangea, oakleaf hydrangea (H. quercifolia) and the less common climbing hydrangea (H. petiolaris) fall into the same group of old wood bloomers. More: How to properly plant a tree: here are 6 things to know New Wood Bloomers: These are far less fussy. If you wantm you can clean them up by removing the spent flower heads about any time of the year. Whole plants (young or old) can be cut to the ground in winter (which will create a plant with fewer but larger blooms), or they can be left to their own devices with no pruning. The no pruning approach will generally produce a plant with a greater quantity of smaller blooms. Worldwide there are somewhere around 80 or so species. Most are shrubs. Some approach tree status. A few are climbing vines. And if you're lucky enough to have a specimen or two of the rarer species in your garden, all you need to know to determine the best pruning time is whether it blooms on new or old wood. But then if you do have some of those plant geek species in your garden, you're probably already getting the pruning question from your friends and neighbors. Maybe you need your very own television series. Paul Cappiello is the executive director at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, 6220 Old Lagrange Road, This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Reasons your hydrangea won't bloom and how to fix it
Times
6 hours ago
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- Times
What's the difference between a solicitor and a conveyancer?
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CBS News
8 hours ago
- Climate
- CBS News
Thousands of PG&E customers in San Joaquin County affected by power outages unrelated to safety shutoffs
TRACY — Tens of thousands of PG&E customers in San Joaquin County were without power Thursday evening due to an unplanned power outage unrelated to the Public Safety Power Shutoffs across the state. Around 36,000 customers in San Joaquin County were affected by an unplanned outage, according to the company's online outage map just before 6 p.m. The majority of the affected customers were in the cities of Tracy, Manteca, and Lathrop. PG&E said crews began "de-energizing" some customers in the county around 4:30 p.m. to rebalance the grid. This outage is not related to the Public Safety Power Shutoffs impacting the county and others across California through this weekend. PG&E said the outage was expected to last around 90 to 120 minutes.
