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Android McRib Locator App Now Available

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After an extensive wait, we have finally released the Android McRib Locator App! This free app is now available in the Google Play Store.

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A brief overview:

  1. Settings: Starting with the feature that might make it easiest to use the application, defining the settings for yourself will save you time when reporting a McRib sighting, or submitting a photo. Enter your name, your email, and the country you will be using the app within, then return to the Main Menu. Once defined, you will not be asked for these fields when they are needed.
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  2. Submit Sighting: Start by selecting if we should try to find the nearest McDonalds Restaurant near you by your GPS, or you may submit the entry by providing the address as you would on the McRib Locator page. You will then be prompted to select the nearest McDonalds to the given address/coordinates.
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  3. Find a McRib: Much like the Submit Sighting option, you will be presented with an option to use your GPS or enter an address manually. After the address is found, the nearest locations with confirmed or unconfirmed sightings are presented. Clicking on the location will launch a mapping program of your choice (or the default mapping program) to provide you with directions to the McDonalds Restaurant. Make sure to double check BEFORE traveling any great distance in case the location has ran out of McRibs.
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  4. Submit Receipt Photo: Already have your sighting reported? Then it is time to submit a photo of the receipt so that we may mark your sighting as confirmed. Take the photo with your phone, then submit the receipt and your Android email service will launch with a generated email for you to send. Review that and send it in. We will review the email and mark your sighting confirmed.
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Try it out today Android users and let us know what you think.

If you have any issues, please let us know (contact@mcriblocator.com) and we will take a look into them as best we can. The more details you can provide the better. For example, a message as simple as “does not work on my phone” really doesn’t help us narrow down what the issue might be.

 

 

Official 2012 McRib Release Date

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As found by Jim R, McDonalds has created a page on their website with a teaser for the upcoming USA nationwide McRib Release. In this teaser, they announce that the McRib is set to return December 17, 2012.



Additionally, we have received a few sporadic reports of locations running out of the McRib in advancement of the national release. Make sure to call ahead if you are planning on taking a journey out of your way for a McRib.

If/when you find a McRib, please mark your sighting at McRibLocator.com and be sure to send us a photo (photos@mcriblocator.com) of your receipt showing the purchase so that we may mark it as confirmed.

Mayor McCheese Slips McRib Release Information

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While they are having one heck of a party down in Texas, much of the rest of the country is left looking in from the outside and wondering when they too will be able to feast on a McRib in their neighborhood.

Don’t worry our fellow McRib Maniacs, we received information today that the McRib is still coming back in mid-December. Additionally we heard directly from McD’s HQ that there will be some lucky towns that will get it yet this month. With conformations in CA, KS, MO, and TX we can see this information already coming to fruition.


There are a lot of people that hunger for the McRib (including us). One way you can help is if/when you find a McRib, please mark your sighting at McRibLocator.com and be sure to send us a photo (photos@mcriblocator.com) of your receipt showing the purchase so that we may mark it as confirmed. The stomachs of McRib fans everywhere will thank you.

McRib Revolution Continues in Texas, McRib event planned.

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As reported yesterday, we know the McRib has returned in parts of Texas. Today we received additional photo proof (via receipt photos and McRib photos) that the McRib is cropping up at several other locations there as well. We have had numerous other reports of the McRib at other locations, however without the photo confirmation we leave those to the fans in the areas to help us validate the sightings.

Here are few of the photos we received today:

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Houston, TX McRib

Additionally today we received word of a McRib Madness Party coming up in the Houston area. In what is billing as the #PilgRIBage, there will be a “Texas sized” McRib Madness Party for McRib fans at 7606 Westheimer in Houston, TX (77057) on November 14th from 9pm until the boneless pigs fly home (or until around midnight, whichever comes first). Not only will you be able to feast upon the McRib, but there will be McRib giveaways, McRib Swag, a mobile gaming truck and other games, prices, music, and even a live local DJ on site.

For those unable to attend, we plan to have some pilRIBage photos to share following the event. If you go, feel free to send us photos as well as we suspect there will be a lot of fans at home drooling over the excitement in Houston. Follow along via Twitter @MCD_Houston.


If/when you find a McRib, please mark your sighting at McRibLocator.com and be sure to send us a photo (photos@mcriblocator.com) of your receipt showing the purchase so that we may mark it as confirmed.

1st McRib of 2012 Season

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As we earlier reported, the first confirmed McRib sighting was in El Paso, TX and was sighted by Erica A. Erica actually had her first McRib yesterday, following a lunch time desire for french fries. An additional interesting tidbit is that the McDonalds nearest Erica was closed for remodeling, thus she ended up at this location. Erica didn’t capture a photo of her receipt yesterday, however met up with her husband today for some saucy love at McDonalds and provided a receipt to acknowledge confirmation.

Reported by Erica A. in El Paso, TX

Thank you Erica for your confirmed sighting, and also congrats on providing the first McRib confirmation of the season!

We also received a few reports of McRibs being available at other locations in Texas today, however have not yet received receipts to confirm these sightings.

If/when you find a McRib, please mark your sighting at McRibLocator.com and be sure to send us a photo (photos@mcriblocator.com) of your receipt showing the purchase so that we may mark it as confirmed.

November 3, 2012 McRib Release Update

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We just received an email from a McRib fan in the Topeka, Kansas area with a photo from the 1100 Kansas Ave McDonalds indicating a November 12th release for them.




We also received an tip from one fan that wished to remain anonymous that the McRib would also be returning November 12th to Wentzville, Missouri.

As is always the case, should you find a McRib, please mark your sighting at McRibLocator.com and be sure to send us a photo (photos@mcriblocator.com) of your receipt showing the purchase so that we may mark it as confirmed.