Here's the link: http://www.feingold.org/enews/HappyMeal.html (http://www.feingold.org/enews/HappyMeal.html)
So, this lady bought a Happy Meal and sat it on the shelf behind her desk for a year, expecting it to rot and/or stink. It didn't, and a year later is essentially odorless and looks almost identical.
First reaction is WTF does McD's put in their food to allow this. I'm never eating there again! [I rarely eat there anyway as their food is absolute shit [puke]]
On second thought though, I think this is normal. The food dried out since it wasn't raw (the meat), and wasn't in plastic or anything. No moisture = no mold or rot. Think crutons and dried/cured meats. No bugs because the meat was cooked.
What's the consensus here? [coffee] Normal response, or McD's is slowly pickling us all with their chemicalized food. ;D
I don't find it unusual that it dried out.
I do find it interesting that they say their burger patties are made with 100% pure ground beef.
That implies with and not of... meaning there must be other ingredients as well.
What is the % of beef vs. other fillers/mystery meat/chemicals etc?
[puke]
humans also don't completely rot under the right environmental conditions
Oh yeah if you ever noticed the buns are made with a noticeable amount of sugar.
Try a piece sometime when your palate is clear.
Healthiness abounds
:-\
Quote from: alfisti on May 11, 2010, 11:41:09 AM
Oh yeah if you ever noticed the buns are made with a noticeable amount of sugar sweetener.
Try a piece sometime when your palate is clear.
Healthiness abounds
:-\
fixed it for you. high fructose corn syrup if I had to guess.
mitt
Quote from: mitt on May 11, 2010, 11:49:06 AM
fixed it for you. high fructose corn syrup if I had to guess.
mitt
Or whatever is even cheaper than that.
Good point.
They prolly like the HFCS due to the fact that the human body will not properly send the "I'm full" signal to the brain while consuming it.
Quote from: alfisti on May 11, 2010, 11:53:10 AM
They prolly like the HFCS due to the fact that the human body will not properly send the "I'm full" signal to the brain while consuming it.
I saw on a PBS documentary about GM foods, that everything used sold at MCD's contains corn by-products - the fries, soft drinks, cardboard cups, plastic straws, paper bags, ketchup, meat, fry oil, etc...
mitt
Quote from: mitt on May 11, 2010, 12:03:44 PM
I saw on a PBS documentary about GM foods, that everything used sold at MCD's contains corn by-products - the fries, soft drinks, cardboard cups, plastic straws, paper bags, ketchup, meat, fry oil, etc...
mitt
what isnt? everything is based of corn these days.
their beef patties contain assloads of salt. thats probably the main preservative.
way to go lady...... some starving kid in Ethiopia died because you wasted that meal.
Quote from: bobspapa on May 11, 2010, 12:16:47 PM
way to go lady...... some starving kid in Ethiopia died because you wasted that meal.
[laugh]
It isn't all that surprising. I feel like I have found french fries that were YEARS old in cars. It must have been a nugget happy meal (I think I may have found a really old nugget under my car seat once too :-X )
There is no way that a cooked burger wouldn't rot or the bun wouldn't grow mold
Quote from: mitt on May 11, 2010, 12:03:44 PM
I saw on a PBS documentary about GM foods, that everything used sold at MCD's contains corn by-products - the fries, soft drinks, cardboard cups, plastic straws, paper bags, ketchup, meat, fry oil, etc...
mitt
And the cups, straws, and bags are remarkably delicious also.
Super Size Me, the movie, did a little experiment with Mcd's and real food.
It is left in glass jars for a few months and NEVER changes [puke]
Supersize Me - McDonalds Fast-Food Test (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on6BSfHlK_w&feature=related#lq-lq2-hq-vhq)
"Supersize Me" was a good movie, and McDonald's food is indeed poison, but the narrator in the clip above is an idiot. The McDonald's fries had very little water content when they were placed in the container, whereas the considerably larger "regular restaurant" fries were certainly more moist. The difference is the amount of water which is needed by the bacteria, and that remaining water evaporates away from the smaller McDonald's fries faster than from the larger, thicker regular restaurant fries.
had she went to in and out..... she would have eaten it.
Quote from: bobspapa on May 11, 2010, 02:15:36 PM
had she went to in and out..... she would have eaten it.
+1
Quote from: bobspapa on May 11, 2010, 02:15:36 PM
had she went to in and out..... she would have eaten it.
Eating it and in and out go hand in hand.
Quote from: MrIncredible on May 12, 2010, 08:48:47 AM
Eating it and in and out go hand in hand.
yeah, but usually eating it goes before the in and out...
Quote from: Bacon Junkie on May 12, 2010, 03:01:07 PM
yeah, but usually eating it goes before the in and out...
no special sauce for you!
Many years ago they used to store wine in large vats. They then place a skim coat of olive oil over it to preserve the wine. The grease on the fries and the meat probably helps preserve them.
I just don't get the bread. I'll go with the crouton theory.
Here's a couple of things that just popped into my cranium...
Human longevity is on the rise in the past 30 years. FACT.
McDonalds dominance is on the rise in the past 30 years. FACT.
Related facts?!? Hmmmmm....... [scratches chin...]
Human longevity is destroying the economic wealth model of the global economy
people must die in increasing numbers ...the .XLS master document ordains this truth
especially the old and useless who burden the economy with ailment expenses
Medical technology over the past 30 years has been closing in on McDonalds ability to do its part in culling the herd
Quote from: RAT900 on May 12, 2010, 08:19:48 PM
Human longevity is destroying the economic wealth model of the global economy
people must die in increasing numbers ...the .XLS master document ordains this truth
especially the old and useless who burden the economy with ailment expenses
Medical technology over the past 30 years has been closing in on McDonalds ability to do its part in culling the herd
The people who have primarily eaten this shit their entire lives (happy meals, other McDonald's and fast food shit, and all these foods with chemical preservatives in them) aren't the ones who are old and burdening society right now. All those folks were born in 1910's to 1940's or so. So maybe McDonald's will start doing its part when my generation starts dieing off at a ripe old age of 50. Hell, McDonald's is the least of my worries considering what I put in my body and do to it.
Quote from: Jobu on May 12, 2010, 08:43:59 PM
The people who have primarily eaten this shit their entire lives (happy meals, other McDonald's and fast food shit, and all these foods with chemical preservatives in them) aren't the ones who are old and burdening society right now. All those folks were born in 1910's to 1940's or so. So maybe McDonald's will start doing its part when my generation starts dieing off at a ripe old age of 50. Hell, McDonald's is the least of my worries considering what I put in my body and do to it.
hey I was born in 1951 and raised on White Castle and Wetsons....canned corned beef and tomato soup when overseas....I am sure my heart muscle looks like a well marbled cut of beef....
you will have new and bizarre ailments derived from all the genetic engineering of foods....like an octopus tentacle growing in your brain because of that broccoli your mother made you eat when you were 10 ;D
Quote from: Duck-Stew on May 12, 2010, 07:04:11 PM
Here's a couple of things that just popped into my cranium...
Human longevity is on the rise in the past 30 years. FACT.
McDonalds dominance is on the rise in the past 30 years. FACT.
Related facts?!? Hmmmmm....... [scratches chin...]
I thought the life expectancy of the younger generations now where expected to live shorter lifes then their parents?
Quote from: Le Pirate on May 13, 2010, 11:28:55 AM
I thought the life expectancy of the younger generations now where expected to live shorter lifes then their parents?
Correct. This is apparently the first generation in the US where life expectancy is expected to go down.