That McDonalds burger that wouldn't rot
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All I know is that I always feel like crap after I eat any fast food... However, it is hard as hell to get off of it once you are on it again.
How many of you still eat McD's with any regularity?
How many of you still eat McD's with any regularity?
I agree. I think companies like McDonald's should make an effort to make their food as healthy as reasonably possible, but in the end it's the consumer's choice.
I do occasionally, what bothers me more than the health issues though is that McDonald's just isn't good value for the money most of the time.
I'm a regular Starbucks customer, meaning that I usually make it there at least twice a week.
McDonald's is something that I enjoy only rarely. I would say that 1-2 times a month would be my maximum frequency.
If I'm driving late at night, I really enjoy going through the drive thru and loading up on coffee, burgers, and fries. At any other time of day, there are any number of other options which I usually go for instead.
The food is healthy to eat once in a while (contrary to what some folks would say), but it isn't a good typical meal (as most folks should know anyway).
Forget fresh bread. How often have you seen moldy toast? Mold--as all fungus--really likes a moist environment. Toasted bread grows dry more quickly than fresh, and the buns upon which McDonald's burgers are served are first toasted, removing right up front a significant amount of the moisture (water) which, if still present, would have made them far more mold-friendly and subject to decay. Dry bread, on the other hand, will last a long time because it's not an inviting environment for decay-causing organisms.
I've seen plenty of buns, or bread, that didn't grow moldy after weeks of exposure. Many environmental factors come into play when it comes to mold and, again, other factors with the bread itself again dealing with the salt and moisture content. Bread is more likely to just dry out and grow stale than to grow a ton of green mold on it. The "moldiest" bread I've seen was about as hard as a hockey puck with a couple flecks of green on it that'd easily go unnoticed if looked at from the right angle.
Stuff like this (the OP post), again, doesn't surprise or disgust me know, in part, a thing or two about how food molds, cures and ages.
Stuff like this (the OP post), again, doesn't surprise or disgust me know, in part, a thing or two about how food molds, cures and ages.
Seriously? Our bread gets moldy here in spectacular fashion where one day it looks fine and the next day it's just covered in nastiness.
Yeah, but you live in California with all your crazy hippie molds and stuff out there. 
It probably varies from place to place condition to condition. I just can't say I've ever seen, in person, a really moldy piece of bread. Just hard with specks of green on it.
It probably varies from place to place condition to condition. I just can't say I've ever seen, in person, a really moldy piece of bread. Just hard with specks of green on it.
Huh. Could've sworn you lived in Cali.
Now I got nothing.
Thanks for deflating my balloon.
I'll sometimes pick something up from the dollar menu after I see a late night movie, which isn't often. Maybe two times every 4 months.
Humorous, but I'd like to see a slightly more "controlled" experiment done. I may try it myself, however....
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This is the deleted/extra scene for "Supersize Me" and you can see all of the sandwiches decomposed fairly naturally (it may of had something to do with the natural "less preserved" materials on it (the lettuce, tomatoes, etc. on it aren't going to be as resilient as a cooked, salty, burger.) notices how all of the sandwiches decompose about as you'd expect.
Morgan makes a lot about the McDs fries not decomposing but, again, I suspect it's due to the salt (he comments that "no one can explain how or why. If he talked to his nutritionist girlfriend she may have been able to say or, well, anyone with some knowledge in food and preserving. The "burger stand" fries likely weren't nearly as salty as the McDs ones.
I'll have to try an experiment like this and see what happens but I'd need to do it in as a contained of a way as possible to prevent the smell and other environmental effects from impacting my living space. A perfectly sealed jar might do the trick. Bacteria and mold could survive pretty well in a sealed environment. (And when I'm talking sealed I'm just talking about gaskets and such to prevent air and other stuff from getting either in or out. Not vacuum sealed (all of the air removed.)
But the Supersize Me video is closer to what I'd expect is realistic. I'd be interested if the woman in the OP story has any real way to back-up her claims. Anyone can pull out a dried out burger and fries and claim it wasn't tamoered with/hanged out for months. It's a whole other thing to prove it.
I do, or rather did until a couple of weeks ago. At least once a week - thing is, I'm trying to save money, so McD's is out of the question right now.
Is candy "Not Food" too? Certainly, Mcdonald's is a food which, in excess, causes problems; but that doesn't make it any less capable of being a healthy part of someone's diet. If you look at the various things that a hamburger or fries are made out of, there is no reason why a person should not eat them.
The guy in "Supersize Me" lived on Mcdonald's, and then tried to make a case against the company based on his personally irresponsible experiment. It should go without saying that some things, like Starburst candies, or large quantities of
Mcdonald's, shouldn't constitute a person's primary diet.
Burger and fry haters go too far sometimes. If someone says "I drank a gallon of hot sauce and nearly died, proving how unhealthy hot sauce is." I'll say "No! - You drank a gallon of hot sauce because you're a fool who doesn't understand moderation!"
I think the guy is a fraud.
However that doesn't mean people should eat shit, aka McDonalds. I worked there for a couple months once, the manager would give me dirty looks as I would be eating a peanut butter sandwich everyday. I never ate their food and I regularly told people to go to Wendy's. The manager didn't know that part.
The "food" is the lowest bar possible for it to be considered food. I think I rather eat catfood than a burger from them. Plus the bread... damn the bread wouldn't ever go back, it's really gross. The buns would sit around for awhile, I never saw them get delivered so it had to be a few days inbetween, and they would look like plastic. It's really gross.
It isn't healthy, nothing at fast food is healthy and thinknig that it can be part of a HEALTHY diet is ignorant and insane.
However that doesn't mean people should eat shit, aka McDonalds. I worked there for a couple months once, the manager would give me dirty looks as I would be eating a peanut butter sandwich everyday. I never ate their food and I regularly told people to go to Wendy's. The manager didn't know that part.
The "food" is the lowest bar possible for it to be considered food. I think I rather eat catfood than a burger from them. Plus the bread... damn the bread wouldn't ever go back, it's really gross. The buns would sit around for awhile, I never saw them get delivered so it had to be a few days inbetween, and they would look like plastic. It's really gross.
It isn't healthy, nothing at fast food is healthy and thinknig that it can be part of a HEALTHY diet is ignorant and insane.
