Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Okay... I get that it's not "healthy," but why do people keep insisting that it's "fake beef?" It's real beef. It's not the same crap Taco Hell uses in their tacos.
Besides being used as a household cleaner and in fertilizers, the compound releases flammable vapors, and with the addition of certain acids, it can be turned into ammonium nitrate, a common component in homemade bombs. It's also widely used in the food industry as an anti-microbial agent in meats and as a leavener in bread and cake products. It's regulated by the U.S. Agriculture Department, which classifies it as "generally recognized as safe."
It was fake for a while & McDonalds said they stopped using it but I'll take my chances at home & make my own burger.
In a statement, McDonald's clarified that it stopped using "select lean beef trimmings" — its preferred term for scrap meat soaked in ammonium hydroxide and ground into a pink meatlike paste — at the beginning of last year.
Excuse me while I throw up. Don't get me started on the Mcrib & that fishy thing.
I keep hearing that Mcdonalds is going belly up, yet every time I go by the local McD, nearly anytime of day, there are from 5 to 10 cars in the drive-through, and 6 to 12 in the parking lot.
Then, about 5 miles down the street, that McD has about the same number of customers.
Wendy's has about the same, BK has fewer, usually.
It certainly appears that McD is doing quite well!
Yes, Hardee's mushroom and swiss burger is much better than a Double Quarter Pounder, but Hardees is three times as far away from here!
Closer frequently wins.
Besides being used as a household cleaner and in fertilizers, the compound releases flammable vapors, and with the addition of certain acids, it can be turned into ammonium nitrate, a common component in homemade bombs. It's also widely used in the food industry as an anti-microbial agent in meats and as a leavener in bread and cake products. It's regulated by the U.S. Agriculture Department, which classifies it as "generally recognized as safe."
It was fake for a while & McDonalds said they stopped using it but I'll take my chances at home & make my own burger.
In a statement, McDonald's clarified that it stopped using "select lean beef trimmings" — its preferred term for scrap meat soaked in ammonium hydroxide and ground into a pink meatlike paste — at the beginning of last year.
Excuse me while I throw up. Don't get me started on the Mcrib & that fishy thing.
Ground beef from the grocery store is processed the same way, as is meat from all other fast food joints. Unless you're getting your beef freshly ground before your eyes, you're eating the same ****.
As for the fishy thing, it's a freaking fried piece of whitefish. It flakes off like any other piece of fish. I'll give you the Mcrib. I have no clue what that is.
Edit: by the way, I am in no way trying to downplay how unhealthy the food is. I just don't get why there is so much focus on McDs while other fast food joints operate in ways just as bad, if not worse.
Last edited by Arcenal813; 05-02-2016 at 05:01 PM..
Yes, Hardee's mushroom and swiss burger is much better than a Double Quarter Pounder, but Hardees is three times as far away from here!
Closer frequently wins.
Hardees is one of the few burgers I will eat. I'm not a burger guy. But the only ones here are far as hell.
I agree they are overpriced you can go to a buffet for that same price and get a lot more food for your money.
I can walk across the street to the Gold Ranch club, go to the Como cafe and get a great prime rib with all the fixins' for $9.83. Out the door,(not including tip). That's pretty strong incentive to IG ore all the fast food in the vicinity. Right here we have Taco Smell, Jack in the Recepticle, Substandard and McChokles. On, and a Pizza Factory, which is actually pretty tasty. I've eaten at all of them at some point, but it would be a rare thing for my SO and I to go out for chow and pick any place other than the little cafe in the casino.
They have a wide variety menu, so.etching for everyone, and super quality food for the price. Not everyone has such an option is such close proximity, of course, but it still doesn't take much to pass over McDonalds.
Ground beef from the grocery store is processed the same way, as is meat from all other fast food joints. Unless you're getting your beef freshly ground before your eyes, you're eating the same ****.
.
Let me try this again.... soaked in ammonium hydroxide and ground into a pink meatlike paste. NOT meat. Meat LIKE paste. Yes, they are all bad for you but when "supersize me" came out word a lot of people backed off eating at McDonalds. And then people started to look into what went into their foods.
Now the FDA says that it's ok to have in foods & that it's safe to eat.
Yet they also say it's ok that you peanut butter can have said number of **** roaches in your peanut butter. Apply that logic next time you go to ANY fast food restaurant.
BTW, we KNOW that the meat we buy isn't processed the same way that restaurants do. We buy grass fed beef from a local farm. Same with anything we eat if we can't grow it we make damn sure it's real food.
I keep hearing that Mcdonalds is going belly up, yet every time I go by the local McD, nearly anytime of day, there are from 5 to 10 cars in the drive-through, and 6 to 12 in the parking lot.
Then, about 5 miles down the street, that McD has about the same number of customers.
Wendy's has about the same, BK has fewer, usually.
It certainly appears that McD is doing quite well!
Where are you hearing this? Certainly not on the news. They've been killing it since they implemented all-day breakfast.
Let me try this again.... soaked in ammonium hydroxide and ground into a pink meatlike paste. NOT meat. Meat LIKE paste. Yes, they are all bad for you but when "supersize me" came out word a lot of people backed off eating at McDonalds. And then people started to look into what went into their foods.
Now the FDA says that it's ok to have in foods & that it's safe to eat.
Yet they also say it's ok that you peanut butter can have said number of **** roaches in your peanut butter. Apply that logic next time you go to ANY fast food restaurant.
BTW, we KNOW that the meat we buy isn't processed the same way that restaurants do. We buy grass fed beef from a local farm. Same with anything we eat if we can't grow it we make damn sure it's real food.
I do too, but most don't. That's what I'm getting at. So many will turn up their nose at [specifically] McDonald's, while eating other junk that is just as bad, and often times worse. Luckily, even our main grocery store down here (Publix) offers a grass-fed variety, often from the local farms, and if one wants to be even more finicky, one can get the meat freshly ground from any cut by the butcher behind the counter. That said, I eat VERY LITTLE beef.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
They've been killing it since they implemented all-day breakfast.