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Move

According to the McDonald's website, the actual name of the sandwich is the McGriddles, not the McGriddle. This redirect should be deleted to make room for the article to be moved here. A redirect should be left at McGriddle. I don't see why this move would be controversial, but if you think so, let me know and I'll add it to WP:RPM. --Nick—Contact/Contribs 03:38, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:27, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

McGriddles → McGriddle – I'm sure the website says "McGriddles" unintentionally and WP:SINGULAR suggests that the singular name be used except in certain circumstances. Marcus Qwertyus 02:20, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose the website seems to say it's a McGriddles sandwich, so "McGriddle" is not used in the singular. However, the bread of the sandwich is a "griddle cake". McGriddles sandwich would work though. 184.144.168.112 (talk) 06:58, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Most unlikely that all the website pages are in error, see [1] [2] and note that while I searched on the singular, McGriddle(s) always came back plural, while McMuffin came back singular. WP:SINGULAR says we use the plural in exactly this sort of case. Andrewa (talk) 16:21, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: It looks like McDonald's consistently refers to them as "McGriddles" (let's not assume they made a mistake), but others do use the singular "McGriddle", so it is not "always in a plural form in English" as specified by WP:SINGULAR. –CWenger (^ • @) 16:48, 5 June 2011 (UTC) changed vote, see below[reply]
    • These others are not all that common [3] [4]. Obviously, always in a plural form in English doesn't mean that we only need to find one English speaker who once used the term trouser to make a case for renaming the trousers article. So, where do we draw the line? And is there any evidence that this line has been reached? Andrewa (talk) 01:58, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • It's obviously a judgement call, and you are free to come to your own conclusion. Anyway, I'm also swayed by the thought of how illogical it would sound for somebody to say "I'm eating a McGriddles" or "this McGriddles is delicious". It certainly doesn't sound like a scissors/trousers-type word to me. –CWenger (^ • @) 04:01, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        • I'd guess that McDonalds don't do a lot by chance, and that the slightly illogical sound (I agree on that) is quite deliberate. It has certainly worked in my case, I'd probably not have yet heard of it otherwise, and I guess it may come to Australia, and I'll probably be looking for it now if it does. But, if the term has general adoption (as seems indicated by the data) then it's not up to Wikipedia to pull the plug on it. Andrewa (talk) 04:14, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
          • Yeah, you might be right. I watched a couple of the first ads for it on YouTube and they seem to say "McGriddles" despite the awkwardness (albeit always followed by "sandwich" so it doesn't sound as unnatural).
  • Neutral: McDonald's always uses the plural form, and although occasionally other people use the singular form, there is no pressing need to move it. –CWenger (^ • @) 04:22, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment since this is a McDonald's invented term, how does anyone know that "McGriddles" isn't singular and plural? Wouldn't "McGriddle" need to be supported by reliable sources to prove it exists as a singular form, instead of a typo of the correct form "McGriddles"? 65.95.15.60 (talk) 06:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • Linguistically, this is a good point... McGriddles as used by McDonalds is certainly attested as singular in the links I gave above, and I don't think we've seen a plural attested but it may well be the same as the singular. But that just changes the phrasing of the question a bit... if other English speakers have adopted McGriddle as the singular then it may well be the better article title. But the attestation we've seen to this so far has been very weak. Andrewa (talk) 07:37, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, but support move to McGriddles sandwich; McDonald's appears to use it as an adjective rather than as a noun (plural or otherwise). Powers T 20:29, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • That alternative sounded like a very good suggestion until I checked the facts... Did you follow the link I provided above? It gave three hits [5] [6] [7] and all of them seem to use McGriddles as a singular noun. So it's a bit more complicated than you suggest; They use it as a noun which can also function as an adjective, a very common thing in English. The proposed alternative would need to be supported by some evidence that McGriddles sandwich is the more recognisable term, and given the contexts in which we talk about Macs menu items, I'm skeptical. Andrewa (talk) 01:06, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

McGriddles Sandwich may be removed from McDonalds´ menu

My wife recently visited the local mcdonalds in LaBelle, Florida and noted that the above referenced sandwich has been "stickered" off the menu, as the Angus sandwiches were. I thought about updating the article, but I can find no press release or other reference supporting this, so I can't characterize it as a local decision, a national decision, or a chain-wide decision. So I decided to post here instead, and in case this is happening elsewhere. The sandwich was very high calorie, and many of the high calorie items are being taken off the menu, so this is not surprising. Simicich (talk) 16:54, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Varieties

Can anyone provide any sort of citation or documentation for any of the regional varieties of McGriddles being served ANYWHERE? Because I've searched, and can't find a Scrapple or Ham version documented outside of Wikipedia, and the chicken version is only on the so-called secret menu, and used the Southern-style chicken patty which is no longer available at McDonald's restaurants.. If someone in the Philadelphia, Hawaii, or "Southern" area can confirm this offering, that would settle it, but as is there is no evidence that I can find on the internet to support the assertion that is a variety of McGriddle. 2601:602:8401:CAF1:44E9:6897:B99F:B89A (talk) 07:45, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I found a ref for the Spam McGriddle, so I've added it to the article. Funandtrvl (talk) 18:58, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bacon is standard?

I don’t think that bacon is standard, sausage seems to be offered parallel to bacon rn Pksois23 (talk) 12:31, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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