Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef
24th August 2010
The secret of Big Macs is that they’re not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way. If you’re willing to live with not-very-goodness, you can have a Big Mac with absolutely no chance of being surprised in the slightest.
I think this is just Urban Snobbery – it’s fashionable to sneer at McDonalds, so he sneers. I rather suspect that a Big Mac is superior to any burger that Joel Spolsky could cook. I am notoriously picky when it comes to food — ask anybody who knows me — and I find the Big Mac perfectly adequate. It isn’t the best, but it’s FAR from the worst.
Anyway, he’s really talking about software, and I suspect he knows more about software than about cooking. Enjoy.