McDonald's is good in a disgusting way, it ticks all the boxes of a reptile brain evolved to survive in an environment where food was scarce. You get your fats, your sugars, your proteins, your carbs. You walk out of the place feeling bad about yourself and the life choices that led you there but you also feel good in the way you'd imagine a python would feel after swallowing a whole rat.

The burger itself is a good dish. It has an appalling mixture of flavours and textures and it's easy and convenient to cook and to eat. Being the national dish of the imperial hegemon and being marketed aggressively certainly helps it's popularity but it works very well as a meal.