Organic food snobs pranked with McDonald's food (they're lovin' it) (claims, benefits)

[uggabugga]

hehee..

You probably have a few friends so opinionated about the sourcing and quality of their food, part of you wants to test whether they'd really know the difference between crap and cuisine.

You love those friends, but you also think they're being snobs, and you'd just love to troll them hard.

Well now you don't have to, because two guys named Sacha and Cedrique did it for you. As you can see in the video below, they're on a mission to prank organic food experts in the Netherlands. They pack their bags full of a mix of McDonald's food and real organic food and present it to these connoisseurs of the finer things in life.

Organic Food Snobs Are Unknowingly Fed McDonald's, and They're Lovin' It | Adweek

[FrankMiller]

Well, I don't know if the whole "organic" food thing is entirely about taste as opposed to perceived health benefits, so I'm not sure if this proves anything. But mostly I'm wondering where I can get McDonald's food that doesn't obviously taste like crap. Speaking as someone who used to eat there all the time, before I spoiled it by eating good food.

[Swampmonster]

Originally Posted by FrankMiller

Well, I don't know if the whole "organic" food thing is entirely about taste as opposed to perceived health benefits, so I'm not sure if this proves anything. But mostly I'm wondering where I can get McDonald's food that doesn't obviously taste like crap. Speaking as someone who used to eat there all the time, before I spoiled it by eating good food.

I agree with this^...I do dislike food snobs quite a bit though and take everything they say with a grain of "sea salt gleaned only from the inside of whale's bladder"

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

hehee..

I watched all of it. You know, if they did it here, just their language alone would help to fool food snobs.

[glass_of_merlot]

Originally Posted by FrankMiller

Well, I don't know if the whole "organic" food thing is entirely about taste as opposed to perceived health benefits, so I'm not sure if this proves anything. But mostly I'm wondering where I can get McDonald's food that doesn't obviously taste like crap. Speaking as someone who used to eat there all the time, before I spoiled it by eating good food.

I have a friend who only eats Organic because she thinks it tastes sooo much better. lol
If it was me I would eat it for the health benefits. I like all foods and can't tell the difference between organic beef or not.

[glass_of_merlot]

"it tastes much better than McDonalds, it's much more pure" lol

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by FrankMiller

Well, I don't know if the whole "organic" food thing is entirely about taste as opposed to perceived health benefits, so I'm not sure if this proves anything. But mostly I'm wondering where I can get McDonald's food that doesn't obviously taste like crap. Speaking as someone who used to eat there all the time, before I spoiled it by eating good food.

organic doesn't actually offer any health benefits. unless your wallet needs to lose weight

No Health Benefits from Organic Food « Science-Based Medicine

I think mcd's tastes fine now and then.

[OpenD]

Originally Posted by glass_of_merlot

I have a friend who only eats Organic because she thinks it tastes sooo much better. lol
If it was me I would eat it for the health benefits. I like all foods and can't tell the difference between organic beef or not.

Ironically, what the organic gardening and organic food movement was originally all about was the health of the soil. It was designed to enrich the soil as you grew in it, rather than depleting it. The health benefits from eating food grown that way, it was thought, would be a natural result of growing it in healthy soil.

Then those claims became exaggerated, with advocates claiming all kinds of benefits that simply do not hold up under scientific study. Careful nutritional analysis has shown that when the same variety of food is grown in identical conditions, but with half being organically grown and half being grown using chemical fertilizers there is no nutritional or taste difference. There is only one measurable difference, that organics typically have lower pesticide content. That's it.

[Hyperthetic]

Originally Posted by OpenD

Ironically, what the organic gardening and organic food movement was originally all about was the health of the soil. It was designed to enrich the soil as you grew in it, rather than depleting it. The health benefits from eating food grown that way, it was thought, would be a natural result of growing it in healthy soil.

Then those claims became exaggerated, with advocates claiming all kinds of benefits that simply do not hold up under scientific study. Careful nutritional analysis has shown that when the same variety of food is grown in identical conditions, but with half being organically grown and half being grown using chemical fertilizers there is no nutritional or taste difference. There is only one measurable difference, that organics typically have lower pesticide content. That's it.

Less corporated foods are less body altering foods.

Too many transgenderist zombies running loose these days.

And, face eaters - don't ya just hate 'em?

[Spatula City]

Originally Posted by FrankMiller

Well, I don't know if the whole "organic" food thing is entirely about taste as opposed to perceived health benefits, so I'm not sure if this proves anything. But mostly I'm wondering where I can get McDonald's food that doesn't obviously taste like crap. Speaking as someone who used to eat there all the time, before I spoiled it by eating good food.

Pretty much this.

People mostly choose organic because GMOs are bathed in pesticides that you don't get with organic. One of the 'advantages' of GMOs is that farmers can put chemicals on them that would ordinarily have killed their crops along with the pests.

It has nothing to do with how they taste or some unnatural fear of science, and everything to do with not wanting to eat poison.