Subscribe by EmailWhy you should NOT eat Mcdonalds’ food
June 14, 2007 by Geeks are Sexy | 54 comments
Yes folks, this video proves that McDonald’s fries and Big Macs are not technically food.
Ok, maybe the fries were preserved after all that time because of their salt concentration, but you have to wonder why the Big Mac didn’t start to mold until the third week. What are your thoughts on this? :)
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I should not have watched that right after lunch. Feeling a little queezy here.
Hmmm, maybe a warning would have been appropriate then, but unfortunately, it’s now too late :)
ok its called moderation! i eat mcdonalds every day practically (i work there) and im actually skinnier than when i started working. Be active and burn the calories off! I know how our store works and i know the calorie intake by no means is mcdonalds good for you, but neither is ANY OTHER FAST FOOD PLACE! well maybe subway. but they are really expensive. expecially if you work at mcdonalds. lol. im just saying their is nothing wrong with eating mcdonalds if you eat small portions, exersize, and choose foods outside of mcdonalds once in awhile!!!! oh and p.s. we also have SALADS, FRUIT & WALNUT, AND THE YOUGURT THINGS lol. parfeits(?) so quit your bitchen its your fault if your a fattie mcdonalds doesnt grab you off the street, hold a gun to your head and say eat here or die! =D thank you have a great day, please come again ;D
- a loving mccrew worker -
Has your beloved mcdonalds ever told you that even their salads have unnecessary sugars and everything else is coated in cornsyrup to make people addicted? have you ever had your blood pressure taken? because unless you are only eating salads everyday at Mcdonalds, I doubt your healthy. and ya maybe Mcdonalds doesnt grab us off the streets with a gun, they dont have to, they are one of the biggest advertisers and practically brainwash kids to think they love their food befor the kids are even 4 or 5! Ya eating small portions is very important, its the key if you want to eat fast food, and ya Mcdonalds may not be as expensive as subway, but you know why? EXTERNALITIES!!! Look them up! it means the real costs of the food is not factored in, like how much grain and water and land it takes to produce just one pound of beef (est. 2,500 gallons of water!!! – 50% of U.S water used for cattle!!!)… so please before you defend Mcdonalds, and dont get me wrong, I think ppl need to exercise more and be portion wise, but learn the facts… McDonalds, like many other big corporations is evil!!!
It just so happens that those big “evil” corporations account for 53% of jobs in the entire world! Hey, lets be honest, this is a capitalist country. They’ve taken advantage of opportunities presented. If you had the opportunity to run a Wal-Mart, McDonalds, K-Mart ect. You would snatch it up in a heartbeat. Dont hate the game, hate urself for being a shitty player. Also with the way our economy is now, even those “big evil” corporations are suffering. There losing business which forces them to start laying off workers, and were not talking a just a few workers, but over 50,000 of them in the U.S at places like Home Depot, Staples, IBM (the list goes on). Thats my 2 cents and then some. P3ac3 h0mi3s!
i doubt you know the meaning of player if you actually have a job at mcdonalds-how low can you go
casey matee
mcdonalds is bad forr you , if you think their good for you and not high in salt then oh dearrr , mcdonalds is a shithole when it comes to healthy food its a processed shitt , and all chemicalss , you should get a better job in a reall restuarant
lOVE BEN
that comment it happend to me but iam taking the high road and trying to put the mcdonalds out of bissnes because have you seen all the salt, sugar and fat in it i got some saples of my unkle he dons that sorta thing and my results where horrible
umm.. their french fries don’t have any moisture in them what so ever, thus for they will not mold. but still next time you do this put some water in with them and see what happens.
Yuck. McDonalds FTL.
Can anyone here tell me where all that anonymous traffic comes from? My stats engine reports 100’s of *unknown* hits on this post per hour!
Well there is this project at this high school and on of their topics is Fast Food
so most of the students have watched this site.
Well, I just saw this link on a finnish irc channel, so maybe this is just circulating around irc, and probably on different message boards too.
Btw. a few weeks ago I found an apple under my bed, and it looked just normal, even smelled good, but I was really amazed after looking at it’s receipt, it was 2½ months old! Even the vegetables and fruits we eat aren’t safe..
Yeah, have you ever noticed that sometimes, apple have a thin wax film on top of them? It makes them look all nice and shiny, and probably helps push away the decomposition phase by a few weeks.
I can almost guarantee the wax keeps it from decomposing. A trick for camping is to cover eggs in liquid wax to seal the pores in the shell. They can be kept at room temperature like that with no problem. Well, eggs only age one fridge-week each room-temperature-day so without wax they’re fine at room temperate for about a week, but you can go on like a 2 week camping excursion with eggs if you wax them.
The reason why an apple doesn’t go bad so fast is the high acidity content. The outer skin, although waxed, will in fact “protect” the apple from going south. That is probably due to the produce vendors requiring a higher shelf life for them.
Cheers,
JM
@Kiltak
this was posted on thatsfit.com
Another reason to follow the principle that “good food goes bad.” Without preservatives, a Big Mac should not show just a little mold, but should be unrecognizable as a food item by this time. After the Silent Spring study was released last month listing 10 food additives that are known to cause breast cancer in animals, this is scary.
Lynne Eldridge M.D. Author,”Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time” http://www.avoidcancernow.com
Wow, that is really disgusting. But at the same time, I still like McDonalds fries! If only we could get our hands on the chemical responsible for that flavor, we can avoid having to ingest the non-food fries.
I believe it’s beef broth. I’m fairly sure it’s McDonalds that has the non-vegetarian French fries.
That is disgusting! I’m so happy I don’t eat that… well, you can’t call it food now, can you?
Anyone know if this was an outtake from “Supersize Me?”
I tend to have have quite a messy car, but every once in awhile I’ll go on a cleaning frenzy.
The last time this happened, I came across a McDonald’s bag, which I decided to use for the rest of the trash in my ride. I opened it up and there was a month old small pack of french fries, which like the video had yet to mold. Yet to do anything. Majorly spooky.
I think McDonald’s was sued by an Indian couple in the 90s for saying their fries were vegetarian & yet they had beef broth in them, which was to make up for the taste they once had when they were fried in lard.
thanks for posting this!
jessica
ewww.
Once the moisture has gone, so will any chance to mold over. Like beef jerky. Those “normal” fries were twice as thick and moist as those McFries, which may well have been room temperature when they were added to the jar.
Ever seen a moldy potato chip?
I remember seeing this on the extra features of the DVD. I’m surprised this is the first time we’re seeing it on the web. I saw it on Digg earlier today.
I don’t know, has anyone thought that frying those skinny fires in oil, depletes the fry of most of its moisture? Hard for mold to grow without moisture, a.k.a.water. Get a Mac fry and one from a burger joint and tell me the one from the burger joint isn’t a floppy moist fry while Macs will always be cooked to perfection, crispy and tasty. Go ahead whine about the fries, but for me, pass the ketchup. Bo, hoo, oh those french fries from big Macs.
I hate Ebaumsworld.
That’s pretty disturbing. I haven’t eaten at McDonalds for ages, but after watching this I’ll never go near them again.
those fries literally had to be precoated all the way thorough with sodium nitrates by McDonald’s before the coking proses for them to not break down so evenly, and for so long, 10 weeks? you gotta be kidding me, and for the record salt alone would not preserve it form the inside out. it’s starch for christ sake, starch should break down quicker than meat!
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Actually, McDonald’s fries are pretty soggy, that’s why I stopped eating there, I couldn’t stand their soggyness. I liked burger kings better, they actually stand up and don’t sag, I’m shore Bk’s would last for infinity as well . I don’t eat at any of these places anymore.
i can tell you why you should not eat at mcd too. i use to work at Mcd in fallon NV. Mcd where i use to work cook there food in black grease! yes, it the cooking ole! i was shock to see my boss try to save money by not changing out the ole 1 a week. i report it to heath food! they call Mcd and told them they coming down to check on thing. that gave my boss time to change out the ole. it sad to see food get cook in bad ole. that scar me the most. i cant stop the world from eatting Mcd food or show the world evened of it! ole so old that it like tar on the floor! it maybe why tho fly not molding! if there a way to show you the ole i will.
Dang I’m hungry now :D
WTF!!!Ewwwww
YEAH YEAH YEAH! cuz we all know that the food we eat will just SIT in our stomaches for weeks on end and not bombarded by acids and digestive liquids….
teeth and bones dissolve in coke even diet coke or pepsi? but who the fuck cares…. FOOD DOES NOT SIT IN YOUR BODY FOR WEEKS it is ALL digested within about 24 hours if you are a normal human and not have some sort of disease~!
NOTHING @ MC DONALDS IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!! enough said…..
NOTHING @ MC DONALDS IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!! enough said….. burger king is better.
I work at mcdonalds and they should def try to cut down on garbage and use more reusable materials for there packaging but the food is very good. I usually get a wrap everytime on my brake. The burgers taste good and once a week would be appropriate. Its like any fast food place dont eat it more than once a week.
its all digested, but the bad part is how its broken down and stored within your body. digested doesnt always mean excreted ahah
Wow i was just eating McDonalds brekfast…..im feeling a little woozy while watching it. I will still eat at McDonalds but i will get things like yourgut or the snack wrap….thanks for letting me know but a warning sign would of been better like maybe its grose dont watch while eating!
Verry Groose
big macs are delicious
You all are really retarded. Display the facts as following: The chicken turned to goo first (WTF is it? It sure as hell isn’t chicken!), the double quarter pounder turned black just like the regular fries (Hm what’s that make you think?), the fillet o’ fish dissipated (turned to ash. Doesn’t sound like any fish I have ever heard of), the big mac took forever to mold it’s artificially flavored and pumped full of preservatives and hormones to keep it fresher longer, now, the fries, when in the factory they are pumped with preservatives and hormones, (like the big mac), and frozen in a nitrogen freezer then thawed (before shipping every product to McDonald’s, EVERYTHING is nitrogen frozen again!). Same goes with EVERY other fast food restaurant in the world, including dine-in restaurants!) The only restaurants excluded from these things are small home-town joints, not some big fancy place! (Yes even subway is just as bad for you as McDonald’s and Pizza Hut!). So, no matter where you go, you might as well be buying a “Heart attack in a bottle” figuratively speaking. (note: I am 17 and did all my studying on this for my report, none of this is proven to be false!)
I deteste mcdonalds, but come on..food goes moldy after weeks.
Next time, do it without the buns, they will always mold first, McDonalds doesn’t make them and once they start to mold, the insides fall right in line.
Ok that’s GROSS!!
I went off of Mc.. when i heard about how the animals are treated before death..
I am not even going to say of you lot will probably bee sick.
ewwwwwww. that is gross. i dont lyk mc D. it is lyk mystery meat and very unhealthy.
“For decades McDonald’s cooked its french fries in a mixture of about seven percent cottonseed oil and 93 percent beef tallow. The mixture gave the fries their unique flavor — and more saturated beef fat per ounce than a McDonald’s hamburger.” -some website
that is disgusting!!!!
srry. as far as i know, they do not do it lyk that anymore. plz correct me if i am wrong.
I suppose it’s a good thing, then, that I stopped eating at MacDonalds when I was seven. The chicken macnuggets were grey and they bounced. They were fun to play with, and I never actually had to eat them after I threw them on the table. My mom got the point the second time I did it.