Daily Double
The burger a lot of Americans have never heard of, because it only lives on some local menus. Two small patties sharing a slice of cheese, dressed with lettuce, tomato, slivered onions and mayo instead of ketchup and mustard. Think of it as a McDouble that went to a salad bar. If you see it on a board while travelling, order it: it is better than it has any right to be.
The story
The Daily Double grew out of the McDouble, which McDonald’s first sold briefly in 1997 and brought back as a permanent dollar-menu item in December 2008. The idea was to keep the same two small patties and single slice of cheese but swap ketchup and mustard for lettuce, tomato, slivered onions and mayonnaise. It was test-marketed in regional US markets in 2011 and 2012 and stayed a local item for years, which is why so many Americans never saw it; Serious Eats reviewed it as a cheap way to get a deluxe-style burger. In 2025 it began turning up on US menus again.
What’s inside
Make it at home
My copycat first, then everything I built on top of it.- My copycat
McDonald's Daily Double (Copycat)
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Nobody sells more burgers. McDonald’s began as a single drive-in run by Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California, and became a burger machine in 1948, when the brothers threw out most of the menu and rebuilt the kitchen like a production line. Ray Kroc, a salesman who sold them milkshake mixers, started franchising it in 1955 and later bought the brothers out.
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