McDonald's...give me some compelling reasons to resist!

Estrella30

its about quality to me ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGtDPG4UfI

porffor

sites like:
http://www.meat.org/

and images like 'meet your meat' on you tube

it won't only stop you eating McDonalds though but will definately help.

hanna1210

See "Food, Inc." Trust me, you won't be interested in food made at that level. Ick. :noway:

CMmrsfloyd

I don't see the big deal about having their salads or other lighter choices, but for me I have a huge issue with the fattier offerings b/c I find it really addictive. I once went over a year without having one of their burgers and then I gave in to the craving one day and suddenly I wanted to eat them all the time. The whole 'smells gross, tastes gross' argument doesn't work if the person has previously really enjoyed it and hasn't decided it's gross themselves. Now I'm off the burgers and fries and if faced with having to eat there, I go for the salad with grilled chicken and the low-cal dressing. If I have extra calories to eat, I might get the real fruit smoothie. I don't feel bad about eating there if I am choosing the options I feel are not as bad for me as the other menu items. I can't justify eating most of their stuff b/c the large amount of calories for the small amount of food just won't work well with my super-hungry, wanting-to-lose-weight self. LOL

But now I really do like my homemade burgers better. :-)

ilookthetype

Just watch Supersize Me by Spurlock. A seemingly healthy guy turned into a mess healthwise in 30 days time.

Not to mention the fact that my 11 year old son won't even eat McDonald's..and he's in their demographic LOL!

That movie is so unfounded and ridiculous, NOT to mention being totally classist and racist.

marialynnporter

all of the food is in oil! a lot of salt! just plan bad for you. and who really knows what is in their food! just make your self a hamburger and bake some fries at home. you would be better off and you will know what is in it.

poustotah

Because 35% of the meat used in McDonald's hamburgers isn't actually meat, it's ground up by-product (such as carcass, hoof, etc.) that is added to the meat. How else do you think they can make a cheeseburger and sell it for 69 cents?

Aside from that, it's just plain nasty.

monih10

EEEWWW....after reading all the posts that everyone posted about the food at McDonalds....I don't think I will ever want to eat there again!! LOL

Howbouto

They use wood pulp as a filler in their food!!

BrettPGH

Oh my god the misinformation and rumors in this thread! Why don't you just say McDonald's uses dead babies in their food and be done with it.

BunnyBearLove

Oh my god the misinformation and rumors in this thread! Why don't you just say McDonald's uses dead babies in their food and be done with it.

LMAO!

Biglovelovesme

Disgusting and not worth it!
Super Size Me
Bloat, gas and calories
Horrible odor that lingers from frying of food "product"
very limited natural ingredients

Bottom line is that there are so many wonderful delicious foods, healthy and unhealthy, in the world...In my opinion McDonalds is just a waste of time, money, calories and effort.

sarahlong09

All this nonsense is a load of crap. McDonald's food is actually high quality. they use real and safe ingredients and are making alot of changes to incorporate a healthy menu variety. I know this for a fact. Yes it does have sodium and the fries have greese, but all fries have grease and if you season your food at home.. its probably got just as much sodium. Key to eating at McDonalds is to make smarter choices. Choose a grilled chicken sandwhich instead of a Quarter pounder and grab some apples instead of fries. Also switch to the oatmeal or egg mcmuffin instead of the mcgriddle with everything. Dont believe every picture or article you see because most of the time its just a person trying to freak people out.

Deathwithab

the chicken is 70% corn syrup
most other stuff is fillered with wood pulp so the company dosnt hav to use actual ingredients
the milkshakes are mostly flour


BUT i stil love eatng the food once in a while lol its delishious

BrettPGH

the chicken is 70% corn syrup
most other stuff is fillered with wood pulp so the company dosnt hav to use actual ingredients
the milkshakes are mostly flour


BUT i stil love eatng the food once in a while lol its delishious

Ok that does it.

You sure about that? Where did you learn this? Got any links to support your statement?


The chicken is 70% corn syrup...you gotta be kidding me...

california_peach

Don't eat there because McDonald's smells like a newborn babies diaper that has been cooking in a incubator/bili light for two hours. This CANNOT be a good thing.

sister_bear

Am going to come back later and catch up on the drama. Looks like this thread is full of it.

I try not to have McD's, but my weakness is their breakfast. Sometimes... breakfast happens.

I work as a corporate trainer and part of my job involves orienting new employees. Every time I go to McDonald's I can't help but think of a new hire I had that told me their drug testing was entirely optional. Ours is not.

I think I should clarify that she acted fist fight upset about our policy versus McDonald's which disturbed me a bit.

Deathwithab

the chicken is 70% corn syrup
most other stuff is fillered with wood pulp so the company dosnt hav to use actual ingredients
the milkshakes are mostly flour


BUT i stil love eatng the food once in a while lol its delishious

Ok that does it.

You sure about that? Where did you learn this? Got any links to support your statement?


The chicken is 70% corn syrup...you gotta be kidding me...

ok 70% might have been an exaduration but they are on average each nugget 57% corn products

There are 38 ingredients in the McDonalds "chicken" nuggets.

Of them: the chicken (which is fed genetically altered corn, then ground with bones), modified cornstarch (without this, the "chicken" nuggets would not be able to hold themselves together, due to the extreme processing of the nugget.), emulsifiers (so that the fats and the moisture in the nuggets do not separate, forming a nasty clot-like knuckle of nugget.), dextrose (sugar.), chicken flavoring (a source of moisture and some flavor that has been leeched out of the nugget by the processing of the product.).

Yellow corn starch and more modified cornstarch are added to make the batter.

BrettPGH

Do you know the difference between corn and corn syrup? Because you didn't mention corn syrup once in your explanation. There's a HUGE difference between "McDonalds chicken is 70 percent corn syrup" and "the chicken mcdonald's uses eat corn." The vast majority of any meat you eat is corn fed.

The things you listed about mcdonalds chicken are true for any breaded chicken you get anywhere.

I don't like mcdonald's either. But I don't make up things just to attack them.

leomom72

i want a hamburger now..LoL..a fresh one of course

tigersword

Or even bite into a tendon or something.

To be fair, I can buy a whole chicken and butcher it myself, and still end up biting into a tendon if I miss it during the butchering process. Just like sometimes I swallow a lemon seed because it falls in my food when I squeeze fresh lemon into it.

As for fast food not getting moldy, like someone else already stated, cooked food doesn't generally mold if it's handled properly. Mold needs a moist environment to grow, and fried and grilled foods shouldn't have any water in them if they are cooked properly (a juicy burger is juicy because of melted fat, not water.) I can buy a potato, cut it into matchsticks, fry it in my home kitchen, and leave it out and it will go stale and get crunchy, but will not grow mold, just like potato chips don't grow moldy.

katapple

I haven't read all the responses...but the 'yuck bucket' At least the one I worked at had one, it's all the grease from the troughs that you use a squeegee to get off the griddle, no joke. it had bits of food in it from anything that stuck to the grill and we had to empty the troughs often and let it congeal in a bucket...hence the name yuck bucket. I haven't eaten there since the first day I worked there....

tigersword

I haven't read all the responses...but the 'yuck bucket' At least the one I worked at had one, it's all the grease from the troughs that you use a squeegee to get off the griddle, no joke. it had bits of food in it from anything that stuck to the grill and we had to empty the troughs often and let it congeal in a bucket...hence the name yuck bucket. I haven't eaten there since the first day I worked there....

That's in every kitchen, of every restaurant, ever. What would you prefer them to do? Not clean the grills? Wave their magic wands so grease magically disappears? Are you saying that when you cook a burger in a frying pan at home, no grease comes out of that patty and into the pan?

I've spent the majority of my working life in restaurant kitchens, and there is no difference between cooking in a restaurant and cooking at home, it's just done on a much bigger scale in a restaurant.

katapple

I haven't read all the responses...but the 'yuck bucket' At least the one I worked at had one, it's all the grease from the troughs that you use a squeegee to get off the griddle, no joke. it had bits of food in it from anything that stuck to the grill and we had to empty the troughs often and let it congeal in a bucket...hence the name yuck bucket. I haven't eaten there since the first day I worked there....

That's in every kitchen, of every restaurant, ever. What would you prefer them to do? Not clean the grills? Wave their magic wands so grease magically disappears? Are you saying that when you cook a burger in a frying pan at home, no grease comes out of that patty and into the pan?

I've spent the majority of my working life in restaurant kitchens, and there is no difference between cooking in a restaurant and cooking at home, it's just done on a much bigger scale in a restaurant.

no, I only use lean ground turkey I think it was the squeegee that turned me off and the amount of times I had to empty it. yeah, I'm sure it happens in all restaurants, but I haven't personally seen it, so somehow it makes it ok ;-P I don't eat fast food anyway, it's too expensive!

ninerbuff

They use wood pulp as a filler in their food!!

OMG, and so does the whole food industry. Wood pulp is nothing more than cellulose which is found in all plants. There is also NO ISSUES with cellulose as a filler in food.
Scare tactics are so unethical.

ninerbuff

All these "health gurus" spitting out statistics with no real evidence to prove what they say. I'll say it again: eating healthy doesn't ensure health. Eating junk food won't necessarily make you unhealthy. People get unhealthy for these usual reasons: overweight or obese, lack of physical activities, bad lifestyle (high stress, emotional eating, lack of sleep, smoking), genetic predisposition.
There are many healthy people that eat junk food and don't have the issues that overweight people have. Olympic athletes eat McDonalds (for free of course) and I doubt anyone here, including myself, could claim we have the fitness or health levels they have.
If you have a hate relationship with Mcdonald's that fine, but don't spout off unfounded rumors and speculations you read and hear from edited documentaries.

VeganInTraining

So i made myself a half pound burger (just realized I forgot to log the bacon) and sweet potato fries.....ended up going OVER for my calories now that I remembered the bacon, but it WAS delicious!

angryguy77

Supersize me was a joke of a movie. If I fried everything I ate at home I would be in a world of hurt just like I would be if I ate McDonalds three times a day. Too much of any food can cause problems.

The guy in that movie was a complete moron. I can't believe how many people let their commonsense go out the window when they watched this junk. But then again, Micheal Moor can make millions of the very system he despises and people still go to his movies.

VeganInTraining

Supersize me was a joke of a movie. If I fried everything I ate at home I would be in a world of hurt just like I would be if I ate McDonalds three times a day. Too much of any food can cause problems.

The guy in that movie was a complete moron. I can't believe how many people let their commonsense go out the window when they watched this junk. But then again, Micheal Moor can make millions of the very system he despises and people still go to his movies.

agreed!

King_Bee

One of the guys at work brought McDonalds for lunch. I have room in my calories for the day to eat at McDonald's for dinner and be fine but i'm interested to see why YOU think I should resist. I know "oh there's so much sodium." blah blah blah blah but give me some serious compelling reasons (or just fun interesting ones.)

I'm not saying that eating fast food from time to time is evil, i'm just interested to see what you all have to say.

Knowing what I have eaten for the last week, i would tell myself, "Emily you hardly eat fast food so if you ocassionaly have it no biggy BUT while you were in CA you ate more than enough junk for the month so wait it out!" Not super interesting but definitely compelling.

Watch Food,Inc.

That helped make up my mind on a few places.