History of McDLT | Full Documentary | History of McDonald’s Chapter 9

After many videos made on the loved and discontinued sandwich, this is the essential video telling you everything you would and could ever know about the McDLT.

The McDLT was a sandwich from McDonald’s that debuted in the 1984 and was discontinued in late 1990. There were a few reasons why the sandwich met its inevitable fate.

In this video you will learn:

What the McDLT was

The ingredients of the sandwich

How it got it’s name

What the D in McDLT stands for

Who created it

How it was created

The burgers McDonald’s made that came after the McDLT to try and replicate its success

The McLean Deluxe

The Arch Deluxe

The Big N Tasty

Polystyrene

George Costanza

& so much more

So sit back, relax, and take a trip back in time and watch the full and complete definitive story on the McDLT.

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[roryscott]

Great job! The Arch Deluxe debacle explains why people in ads just about worship the product they're selling. The only ones who don't like the product are terminally uncool or the Noid.
Then again when you only have 30 seconds maybe they should have known better than go for a nuance sell

[jfilesgraphics]

I worked at McDs when this product came out. The first order I got for it, the customer wanted it without one of the ingredients. Kinda caught me off guard because I was just learning how to make the darn thing lol. As far as the concept goes, it sucked. The burger side never stayed hot for very long and the "cool" side went bad too quickly. I know they were trying to compete with The Whopper, but it was a miss on that one.

[LyleFrancisDelp]

As far as I can remember, it was discontinued due to the styrofoam container. I never understood why they couldn’t have continued the item, but with a cardboard or paperboard container.

[BrianTerrill]

I remember working at McDonald's in 1995. We only had a few McLean Delux patties available. If we ran out, we simply used the quarter pounder meat.

[Pocketrocket-pjus]

Sorry to point this out but Jason Alexander's first big role was in the 1981 Horror Classic,
'The Burning.' A highly underated, Slasher Nasty, that borrowed a fair amount, from F13, (including SFX Maven Tom Savini, who picked The Burning, over F13 2!

JASON...Alexander, not Voorhees, was in a big part of the movie a it gave him the resumé item he needed going forward.

Yes, he did a lot commercials, some I had never seen before so thanks. But you dropped the Ball on how much of an impact a exposure a role in a early Slasher movie, can get you seen. Just ask Kevin Bacon, Johnny Depp and even Jennifer Anniston starred in the Horror classic, 'Leprechaun', not long before 'Friends.'

IMDB can be a helpful tool :) Take care and keep putting up great content! I'm lovin' it ;)

Cheers from Montreal Quebec Canada

[Pocketrocket-pjus]

17:20

TBF, most items at FF restaurants vary in quality and stopped me from buying 3 times a week, to once every few months.

There's just no consistency. I understand the franchises are individually owned, ( my good friend's Father, owned 2 locations, back when I was in grade school and beyond.

Guess where his Bday party was, every year!!
lol

[kindayellowx]

The best by the best, stellar as usual

[domr]

I also often think of biting into a McDLT through the many years but sadly they discontinued them. If they and some customers felt it was a bother to put the 2 halves together which I loved doing, or that the lettuce or tomato may fall out of place by doing so, then why THE DARN didn't they change the McDLT back to the same way they did in the beginning with the 2 halves already joined together? Burger King does it why not McD? There is nothing wrong to have the tomato and lettuce be warmed up in a burger by serving the 2 halves already joined. OR if they want the 2 halves separate again since they sold maybe billions or is it many many millions? Then you mean to tell me they still can't come up with new packaging that will hold and keep the 2 halves separate other than foam that was banned?

[jamalsoward]

McDonald's needs to bring Breakfast All Day, McDLT, Big 'N' Tasty, McLean, Cheddar Melt, Touchdown Burger, also known as the Superhero Sandwich. Bring back the lemon pie, cherry pie. wild berry pie, Big Mac variants(Little Mac, Mac, Jr., Double Big Mac, and the Grand Mac). If not permanently on the menu, but annually, once every year. That keeps the menu interesting. Bring back the fried pies, let customers have a choice in wanting pies baked or fried.

[kpopnbeer]

Now I want to try an order of beef tallow french fries, bet they taste awesome.

[joey]

Great video! McDLT was great. Arch Deluxe was horrible. The biggest problem with the Arch Deluxe was the bun ... so gooey. I hated the bun, and I would order it with the regular Big Mac bun. But, they didn't know how to handle that, and would always mess up the order. Big N'Tasty was ok, but not memorable. McDonald's finally got it right with today's Quarter Pounder Deluxe. I didn't need the hot and the cold to be separated (it was a pain to assemble), so the Quarter Pounder Deluxe gets the thumbs up.

[ArmyNavyAcademy]

Why don't they put the cheese on the hot side

[Seventizz]

Is the Quarter Pounder BLT not on every menu? It’s the same thing as a McDLT except the packaging. Doesn’t taste the same though.

[theintrovertedaspie]

*McDonalds*
😖✋ *Start making the McDLT boxes out of cardboard or other biodegradable stuff*
*Get rid of the McDLT entirely and ruin everything for everyone*

[brand]

Never heard Nacogdoches pronounced like that.

[kenyyaringano]

One of these days the youtube algorithm will bless you. This is amazing content

[BELCAN]

You can't beat a well made Whopper. All McDonald's can do is find their own niche sandwich.

[chriswilton]

The Big n Tasty for a dollar in 2002 was awesome! Me and my girlfriend loved'em.

[SkyVega-lprq]

"Serenity Now!, Serenity Now..." 😇

[thetalkingarchive]

One curiosity I had was why did the McDLT creators put the cheese on the cool side, rather than the hot side where it could melt onto the beef. Whenever I put my McDLT together I would lift the tomatos and put the cheese onto the beef before combining the two sides. I also remember in the Los Angeles area, McDonald's had the California Deluxe from 1993 to 95. It consisted of double meat, double cheese, special sauce, sliced onion, non-chopped lettuce, tomato and pickle. It was very similar to the Big & Tasty.