Any ideas on brewing McDonal's brand coffe at home? (short of bribing a mcdonalds employee)

Drive through.

Brilliant. Why didn’t I think of that!?

/sarcasm

=)

Phone up a McD and ask them how they make their coffee and what brand/variety of beans they use. You have nearly infinite retries to get that conversation right to get the answer you want, since McD’s are as numerous as a plague of locusts.

burn the water,now you have it!

If you really want to avoid McDonald’s…switch to FourBucks.

Buy a sample and one of these:

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