Why You May Not Want to Let Your Friends Eat at McDonalds (or Yourself)

The very weird thing about McDonald’s is what the food actually does to my appetite. If I start eating it about 1 or 2 times per week I will start get to hungry more often. If I stop eating it and go somewhere else like Wendy’s or Arby’s I do not get this effect nearly as bad. But the kicker is if I go to Subway and eat a 6″ sub I will actually get to a point where I am almost never hungry until around 5 or 6 PM and can skip breakfast and lunch.

If you dry it properly, ANY food will last for 20 years. This isn’t exclusive to McDonald’s.

Once again somebody else takes a shot at McDonalds. Newsflash, ALL FAST FOOD IS BAD and a lot of places are much, much worse for your body than McDonalds. McDonalds does not force food down anyone’s throat and the corporation here lately has done everything possible to make it know just how bad the food is but yet, not surprisingly, people continue to clog their arteries with their food. All McDonalds does is provide a good for the needs of people.

I worked at McDonalds for a couple of years. We consistently received 95 or higher on our Health scores, with a string of 100′s 2 years in a row. The only deductions were for some problems with the tile flooring in the dry storage area that was of no harm whatsoever to people’s health. Also, no the burgers do not last for 20 years. I mean, sure you could keep them frozen for that long but I guarantee you once unthawed, they would fall apart and be tasteless (they were tasteless to begin with though).

I feel not pity at all for the people that get fat off of fast food. It’s your own fault. Don’t blame McDonalds.

Now, I will say, the dirty bucket with shake mix in it is absolutely uncalled for and disgusting but is not isolated to McDonalds.

I’ve got no problem with Maccas- as a treat on the odd occasion. Eating it on a regular basis however, should be avoided.

People need to take responsibility for their own health and well being, it’s not like the Fast Food Companies are forcing it down your throat.

Must be nice to have your own computer to type this on and not have to use the one down at the library.

Must be nice to be rich enough to afford an apartment with a kitchen instead of having no other option than to eat pre-prepared fast food all the time.

Must be nice to be wealthy enough that you never take your blinders off to see that the people you call fat at their own fault are actually POOR PEOPLE who are forced to fill their stomaches with crap and they would never be able to survive otherwise.

Must be nice to have enough money to be a bigot.

People these days ……

Hasn’t the “McDonalds food lasts for 20 years” thing been debunked 80,000 times by now? I bet it’s been debunked at least once on this site.

How about we stop spreading urban rumors, and start spreading facts, eh?

There’s two factors here:
1) Any well-done burger patty will last for a very long time, it’s basically a dried meat at that point. Like beef jerky, which also lasts (gasp shock awe) many years.

2) All non-burger ingredients in a McDonalds hamburger goes bad pretty much exactly how you’d expect them to… I dare you to eat one after even 1 week in a refrigerator.

>Must be nice to be wealthy enough that you never take
>your blinders off to see that the people you call fat
>at their own fault are actually POOR PEOPLE who are
>forced to fill their stomaches with crap and they
>would never be able to survive otherwise.

WTF? It’s a hell of a lot cheaper to buy healthy ingredients from a store than McDonalds hamburgers. Are you serious, or did I get trolled?

@Alex

That’s true for almost anyone who works at a food restaurant. I worked at Red Lobster and Olive Garden, never ever going to even get NEAR them anymore. Just that the food is tiring after a while, and some of the things they do isn’t so pleasant.

@Werty

My comments were not intended to degrade the poor. They were intended for the ones who choose to eat McDonald’s on a regular basis, poor or wealthy.

And as James said, if you are poor then you should be buying food from the store and cooking in bulk yourself, not spending the money on fast food.

So, therefore, I stand by my comments of feeling no pity whatsoever towards the people who get fat off of McDonald’s food.

@ Alex – the same reason I do not eat at Subways.

I am lucky that there are no fast food places within 6 miles of me. The cost and quality of “meals” at McD’s simply do not meet my ideas of what is a good value.

And pet food may be better in nutrtion – but it does not taste all that great.

Yes I have had a small nibble of a piece of kibble. I wanted to know why the dog did not like his “new and improved best testing ever” food.

Ugh. I haven’t eaten at McDonalds in probably fifteen years. I’ve never been tempted too, and adding the effects of this article gives me even less reason to want a quarter pounder with cheese.

I don’t understand why we only ever hear about McDonalds. Ever since “Super Size Me” came out a few years ago, the cool kids have decided it’s the most disgusting, vile, horrid corporation to ever exist in our day and age, and we all follow–pitchforks in hand. I’m not sure–I’ve done no research to back this up, but I have a feeling that other companies are breathing huge sighs of relief; thinking they can get away with whatever they want because anytime anything happens with any of the McDonald’s restaurants, McDonalds is what is going to pay, and the focus is PERMANENTLY off of them. Recently, KFC transferred it’s oh-so-secret recipe from one place to another safer place. We all cheer and are all warm and fuzzy because after all, the thing was written in PENCIL and was signed by Harland Sanders. We don’t question the integrity of that recipe. All we are concerned with is the fact that it is orignal and C. Sanders wrote it all by himself. What if we found out that soiled towel squeezings and spider eggs were part of his secret ingredients?

Don’t just diss Mickey D’s if you are going to diss bad-for-you-food. Either eat it, or don’t. McDonalds isn’t the only company out there trying to make a buck off of being cheap.

“Must be nice to be rich enough to afford an apartment with a kitchen instead of having no other option than to eat pre-prepared fast food all the time.”

“Must be nice to be wealthy enough that you never take your blinders off to see that the people you call fat at their own fault are actually POOR PEOPLE who are forced to fill their stomaches with crap and they would never be able to survive otherwise.”

“Must be nice to have enough money to be a bigot”

Most poor people are that way because they’re not too bright. (or their parents aren’t) I’ve seen poor people pile into an expensive cab and go get an unhealthy pizza, and then take it home in the cab. These were welfare recipients. For the money they spent on that cab and really malnutritious food, they could have eaten 5 days out of a grocery store. It wasn’t like they didn’t have time to cook, they just sat around on their fat asses watching T.V.

I agree, the real issue isn’t McDonald’s. food. It’s the fact that stupid people seem to be the ones having all the kids.

Question: What kind of sustainable society do you expect us to have when the stupid, unhealthy people are the ones reproducing the most?

Answer: Wait and see.

I dont understand the point you are trying to make about money. I can eat for a few days on the same amount of money it costs me to eat one meal at McDonalds. I doubt that McDonalds is a multi billion dollar corporation because they cater to the poor.

I eat McDonalds about once a month now. I could hear a million horror stories about it and I would not think twice about eating there. I never understand the point of the McDonalds stories like this. Yes some stores have poor business and health practices and yes the food is unhealthy but when it comes down to it I do not care what other people choose to put in their bodies. An exception I have to this is lazy parents who feed their kids too much fast food. A child is not in control of their nutrition so parents should be a little more diligent in the decisions they make about their kids’ health.

As for this post not being what youve come to expect from Neatorama, I agree. There really is no neat or interesting angle to this story but keep in mind that its a queue post not a post from one of the authors we’ve come to know. I often like even the mediocre posts because of the conversations that take place in the comments

Also – I miss the mouth burning deep fried crispy delight that was the McD’s apple pie. This dried out, baked cardboard apple thing they have now is no substitute for the original.

Does anybody else remember when you used to get a little packet of cookies shaped like McDonalds characters in your happy meal? I wonder why they did away with those

Yeah, this was kind of like one of those “Wal-Mart is evil” attack posts. Or maybe a toned-down PETA ad.

I’m starting to dislike the Upcoming Queue, too.

Yeah, this was kind of like one of those “Wal-Mart is evil” attack posts. Or maybe a toned-down PETA ad.

I’m starting to dislike the Upcoming Queue, too.

Wal-Mart IS evil, though!

If you are poor, and you don’t have “The skills that are needed to cook it”, (food) and you go and have more kids, you “deserve” more than just being poor.

I didn’t say “all poor people” I said most poor people.

BTW David Darlzwik how is your life going in Michigan?

Do you really think that in Grand Rapids there is nobody poor who take offense at your remarks?

If you really want a barf attack just talk to the produce people at Whole Foods. ACCKKKKKGGG>

My best friend worked there for 3 days and then she just couldn’t take it anymore.

I havn’t eaten McDonalds in over a decade, since all their food tastes like cardboard, and they use some orange sludge to thicken their milk-shakes (even the white vanilla ones) gross!

This article must have come from the queue because it’s totally biased and clueless.
I love the part about how “McDonald’s supports the destruction of the Amazon rainforest” because the chickens eat soy feed grown on the rainforest. That whole statement is predicated on the premise that only chickens raised for McDonalds eat soy based feed and the soy based feed can only be grown on rainforest land.

i agree with nerdalert. i expected a better post from neatorama.

To The El Bee En

We do live in China! It is beautiful nature here, but we are still shocked by things like that.

I think the best way to get rid of things like that is to bring more publicity without blaming anyone.