If the recession could be summed up into a fast food item, it could likely be the new Mac Snack Wrap from McDonald’s. I was alerted to the existence of this wrap while watching the Chargers lose to the Jets today, a commercial showed an attractive girl of vague ethnicity with curly hair biting into a Mac Snack Wrap. She looked at the camera with her snack wrap in her demographically inoffensive hands, gazed deep into my soul and said “eat this motherfucking snack wrap” with her eyes. Five minutes later I was at 16th and mission, hopping over an icehead on my way to McDonalds. I walk into the McDonalds and order my value priced $1.49 Mac Snack Wrap and a medium fries, “hold the corn syrup water my good man, I came merely for transfats”. I carry it home, only slightly caring that I am a chubby dude carrying a bag of McDonald’s home to eat alone.

The Mac Snack Wrap claimed to be “all that is Mac in a wrap”. It was, in that “all that is Mac in a wrap” is not very good. It looks a lot different from it’s advertised picture and it tastes roughly like a half-chewed Big Mac was deposited into a white corn tortilla. Iceberg lettuce, “special sauce” and new oddly shaped beef patties are not what we should be eating as human beings who respect ourselves. It is OK when stoned, but there is better food to eat at this price point, I recommend a tripe taco for $1.75 at an El Tonyanese truck if you want a tasty snack minus the self-loathing.