Impractical or innovative?

McDonald's has shared a hack for eating its meals one-handed in a move dividing the lovers of the fast-food franchise.

The Australian branch of the company showed its Instagram following that balancing your burger box on top of your soft drink can create a plate-like mechanism for your meal.

It's the hack you never knew you needed.

"Fancy a one-handed meal?" McDonald's Australia wrote on Instagram.

"Simply unfold your burger box to make a fries tray, then perch it on your soft drink. Easy as," the page said.

Tha hack was shared on Instagram. Credit: McDonald's Australia/Instagram

To get the party started and try this hack for yourself, make sure you buy a meal that's packaged in a box. Nuggets will do.

Open the box and place it on top of whatever soft drink you have ordered sliding the straw between the fold that holds together the top and bottom of the box.

Keep your burger (or nuggets) on one side and pour your chips into the other - voila, it's a plate you can even continue to sip your drink from.

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While some fans of the brands are praising the idea of one-handed eating others are approaching it with scepticism.

"How you supposed to eat burger with one hand?" one person commented.

"I just did this - but a seagull swooped on my burger. Thanks, Instagram."

"The burger weighs more heavier than the chips making the box tip over including the drink. Not a very good idea," another said.

On the other side of the debate, one McDonald's fan thinks it could be a game-changer.

The woman said she's "been living my life wrong for so many years" in the post's Instagram comments.

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