06/02/2026
“Mom, can we get McDonald’s?”
“Well, do you have McDonald’s money?”
Many of us have this memory tucked away in our collective conscience — a universal craving for fast food that we just can’t shake. Chef-owners Omar Tate and Cybille St. Aude-Tate have perfectly captured that moment with their Best of Philly-winning McDonald’s Money burger at Honeysuckle.
“We wanted to make it as absurd as possible,” says St. Aude-Tate. And absurd it is.
“[...] this dish is not just an homage to the Big Mac,” writes food editor Kae Lani Palmisano. “It is an artistic representation of childhood disappointment transformed into playful spite. This is the kind of masterpiece that could only be dreamed up when the yearning for what you can’t have intensifies, when you are haunted by every time your mom passed by those golden arches and your pent-up desire for burger bliss spirals out of control. This burger — this exaggeration of what it feels like when your mom finally acquiesces to your pleas for Mickey D’s — is retribution on a bun.”
Read more about this culinary flex on Foobooz.
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