McDonald's serves crap and of course it has flavoring. Every burger on planet earth has flavoring. When you order a barbeque flavored burger, you don't think they actually barbeque it, do you? It's a flavoring they add to the exact same type of patty that goes into a regular burger which also has a regular-type flavoring added. Otherwise the patty would be utterly tasteless, a totally blank palette. They don't want a natural taste creeping in that might interfere with their artificial flavorings so the burgers are literally tasteless and they add all the flavorings they want and they can make them taste like almost anything they want them to--a chocolate sundae or a green apple--because they have such flavorings available in the fast food industry. It's garbage and if you don't believe me, eat nothing but McDonald's for six months and then let's have a look at you--although it may be in a funeral parlor.