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One Year Ago Today…

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We take a moment today to reflect back on where we were 1 year ago this day. McDonalds had invited Kimberly and I to attend a McRib event “Legends of McRib” in New York City. This was unexpected, and greatly appreciated. Having never been to New York, it was an exciting opportunity to see the Big Apple and also dine on McRibs.
Upon arriving at the McDonalds just off of Times Square, we found that McDonalds had extended a fair effort to highlight the 3 of us identified as Legends. Not only was there a massively sized replica McRib, there were signs for each of the 3 of us, a computer lab for people to visit the McRib website, a video booth to record your McRib story, a photo booth so that you could take a picture at the event with various backgrounds, many many many balloons, and white (yes, I was surprised by this as well and joked that it would be stained with red BBQ by the end of the evening) furniture for us to sit on.

©Kimberly Klein



Joey “McRib” Erwin was identified as he seeks on the McRib every day that it is available in his hometown. Adam Winer was identified for the lengths from which he would travel for a McRib. The previous year, Adam had flown from New York to Chicago on a quest to find the McRib. He traveled by car from Chicago to St. Louis as part of this quest. I was identified for the efforts on the McRib Locator.

Joey “McRib” Erwin and Alan Klein at 2010 McRib launch party ©Kimberly Klein


Alan Klein at 2010 McRib launch party ©Kimberly Klein


Joey Erwin, Adam Winer and Alan Klein at 2010 McRib launch party ©Kimberly Klein


2010 McRib launch party ©Kimberly Klein



This McDonalds had a nice looking marquee out front, but just as amazing was the fact that this McDonalds had 3 stories of seating! The event was held on the 2nd floor, and half of the 3rd floor. Media sources had been provided access to the event, and throughout the evening we three “Legends” fielded various interviews regarding our McRib backgrounds. The event was hosted by Leo and John from theChive.com (follow this link to see their take on the Legends event).

2010 McRib launch party ©Kimberly Klein


2010 McRib launch party ©Kimberly Klein


2010 McRib launch party ©Kimberly Klein



Of course we did some sight seeing, Central Park, Ferry ride to see the Statue of Liberty from afar, Grand Central Terminal, Ground Zero, stopping by FAO Shwarz so that Kimberly could play/dance on the Giant Piano, soaking in Times Square on election night, stopping by the 5th ave Apple store among others.

Alan Klein at the Apple Store… Look what is on the computer! ©Kimberly Klein


Alan Klein at 2010 McRib launch party ©Kimberly Klein



It was a great experience, and Kimberly and I had a great time in the Big Apple. We zipped around to various landmarks on our tight schedule, however didn’t feel disappointed in what we saw (other than riding the subway well past one point of interest and having lost around 30 minutes there by the time we got back). Thank you again McDonalds for picking us to participate in the Legends of McRib experience, it is something we will never forget.


Do you have a memorable McRib story? Email us at photos@mcriblocator.com


Don’t forget to enter the drawing for a free McRib (we have coupons to give away!).

Trick or Treat, all Treats with McRib Giveaway!

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In appreciation for all of you fans out there, we will be giving away free McRib sandwiches (via gift card from McDonalds). We have decided to base this contest on McRib Locator related trivia (5 questions).

Here are the rules:

1) You will need to visit our blog post entry related to the contest.

2) Do not close or move away from the contest page while you are filling it out, or you will have to start over.

3) You, of course, may open new windows/tabs to aid you in solving the questions.

4) One entry per household.

5) Contest ends November 5th 11:00pm Central.



Please reply to this post if you have questions!



The McRib will be available until….

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I thought I would take an opportunity to touch back on some rumors regarding how long the McRib will be available in the USA this year.


The story written by Christana Rexrode indicates that the McRib will be around until November 14th. One of my contacts in the know has also indicated the 14th would be the last date the McRib would be available.


Interestingly, the Facebook Golden McRib game indicates a longer duration for the McRib.





Also rounding out the rumor mill is an email I received back around October 11, 2011 from Greg O. from Hicksville, NY. In this email Greg wrote that the management at the store on North Broadway indicated the McRib is on a 3 month trial to determine the future of if the McRib will return permanently, or at what interval it should be back.


Have you heard any other rumors from your local McDonalds on how long the McRib will be back? Feel free to comment on this post so that other fans can hear if there will be opportunities for last chance McRibs as the season winds down.

Golden McRib Contest

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More details are starting to filter in regarding the upcoming Golden McRib Contest that McDonalds is putting on this year. Earlier today, Kimberly discovered this link to the contest, which gives slightly more information about the upcoming contest than the earlier found link found on the McDonalds Website. It appears that it will be an online contest ran via the McDonalds Facebook account.

The page above hints to “weirdly wonderful guardians” that attempt to thwart your  efforts in the contest. I am going to speculate that there may be alternate prizes along the way that you might be able to pursue instead of the ultimate prize (yet to be identified).

As for the weird pixels to the left of the butterfly-pirate, I tried loading the page in both Safari and Firefox on my iMac and the artifact was there in both scenarios. Not sure what it means, if anything at all.


Additionally, McDonalds_Utah offered this Twitter post this evening:



Check back in with to this blog page for the latest, as we will be providing updates as information becomes available to us.

Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes at McRib Locator

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Here at McRib Locator, we strive to give you the most accurate McRib Location information possible. We do what we can to enter in McRib sightings and confirmations, however do rely upon other McRib fans to help us in tracking the saucy goodness. We thank you all for your McRib tracking contributions.


First: To make entered locations as accurate as possible, we have made a location lookup upgrade.

When you arrive at McRibLocator.com you will still see this:


You will enter as much information about the McDonalds location as you have:



When you click “Submit” you will be moved to a page that will look like this:



These are the 10 McDonald locations nearest to the address or city you entered. You simply click “Click here to select this location” to confirm which McDonalds you found the McRib! If your McDonalds does not show up on the list, click the link at the bottom “My McDonalds is not listed, just send what I typed!”. At this time, this feature will only apply to locations in the United States.

You will then be redirected back to the map where you can confirm your location was pinned on the map.



We hope this change will assist in quality checking of the pinned United States locations. For instance,  instead of simply knowing there is a McRib somewhere in NYC, there should be an actual McDonalds location entered!



Second: We have added a Country of sighting drop down option.


We do default this option to the United States as the bulk of our traffic comes from the US, however you should be able to find your country in the list if you are reporting a McRib sighting outside the US. If your country is not in the list, just let us know and we will add it.


If you have comments or questions about the upgrade, please contact us!