Poll: "Ingredients in a Chicken McNugget" or "You Want me to Eat What Now?"

[sky14kemea]

Y'know, even with all the evidence of McDonalds chicken nuggets being horrifying pink blobs turned white with dye, full of lighter fluid... I still like them. :l
True I do tend to go for the cheeseburger nowadays, but if someone offers me a McNugget I'm not one to say no. :0

The sad truth is fast food with weird additives and all that crap does taste good to some people, so they'll keep making it until our taste buds go numb from the extra ingredients. xD

 

[Cain_Zeros]

This is why I say McDonalds isn't food, and haven't eaten there in over a year.

 

[master m99]

let face it if you eating mc donnalds you are not doing it for good of your health so thats why people eat them they just dont care and to be honist i dont think thats a problem IF you only do it NOW AND AGAIN all things in moderation and it prob wont hurt you to much =)

 

[x EvilErmine x]

No. No. No. No. etc ad infinitum

McDonalds is NOT a restaurant. It's a fast food retailer.

In a restaurant you don't have to eat using your hands, you get some form of cutlery (knife and fork, chopsticks, whatever)
In a restaurant you get a waiter/waitress who takes your order and brings it to you.
A restaurant is a place you might take a date (If you take a girl to McD's for a date then you should be disqualified from life)
In a restaurant you don't sit on molded plastic furniture, instead you get a proper table and chairs you can move.

Other than that quite true and i agree with your comments.

You really should look up the definition of restaurant.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restaurant

Yes i know what it says but whatever, i was trying to make a point.

(Mainly that i think we need to come up with a new noun for places like McDonalds)

 

[spartan773]

Ugh. I'd have been perfectly happy not knowing all that. Now that I do, I can't eat another McNugget.

So do me a favor and DON'T list all the ingredients of other food I used to like!

i used to eat at McDonalds... until i found out Burger King and Carl's Jr. have better quality food.

 

[_Janny_]

It contains lighter fluid? Then I'm hoping that if I ate a truckload of nuggets and someone threw a match in my stomach, they'd set me on fire. How cool of a death would that be? Death by chicken nuggets.

Every type of food is bad for you if you really think about it. Maybe all the bad stuff just ends up balancing each other out. Like the bacteria living inside us that's usually harmless if there's a proper balance.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

I hate to break it to you, OP, but a lot of things are deadly if you eat too much. So 5 grams kills? Whatever. Next you'll be asking us to ban salt.

Totally agree, here, I mean really, the fact that its flammable is concerning? You mean flammable like sugar, flour, cornstarch and peanut oil? Also, really, "is a form of butane (lighter fluid)" this is pure scare tactics. Most makeup is petroleum-based, but we aren't freaking out because its "a form" of crude oil.

Well, here's the difference, people don't put makeup in their bodies. And yes, plenty of things are deadly if you eat too much, but your body hasn't evolved to know how to deal with these chemicals, which means that they get stored in fat cells where they build up. We evolved in relationship to the foods that we eat over however many millions of years, but the diet that we consume now has been drastically changed over the course of the past fifty years. We know for a fact that the high rates of cancer, diabetes, and other diseases of affluence that have become so common in the US and in other industrialized countries have a very strong positive correlation with the consumption of processed foods.

The fact is, every ingredient has a purpose. Do you really think McDonald's puts potentially harmful ingredients in it's food for kicks? There is always a reason, from improving the texture, or giving more flavor, to simply making it easier to produce or prepare.

I think what I'm asking here, is: does the benefit of improving texture, giving more flavor, or making things easier" justify adding poisonous chemicals to our foods, even if it is in small amounts? I would contend that it doesn't. Surprisingly little research has been done on the affects that these chemicals can have on the human body when ingested in small amounts over a larger period of time. It's true that I can't say for certain that these specific chemicals cause harm (though there's no doubt that the nugget as a whole will cause harm), but at the same time it also can not be said that these chemicals don't cause harm. When you consider then that we're feeding untested chemical compounds to an entire society of people who may be slowly building them up in their bodies, it's really quite a serious issue. We, as a people, are taking a gamble with some truly frightening odds.

Why do we eat it? Because it is cheap, it requires no work to prepare, and it (supposedly) tastes good. Unfortunately it is as simple as that, what with prices on healthier foods being what they are... And because McDonald's is a massive corporation, if the government were to ever try and stop this the lobbyists would swarm on D.C. and never let it pass.

The fact that it's cheap is an illusion, the only place that it's cheap is at the register. The entire industrial food system is based around corn, all industrial meat comes from corn fed animals (most of which shouldn't be eating corn), and outside of the corn fed meat are the many compounds added during processing (particularly HFCS) which are made from corn. But the corn that it's all made of is sold below the cost of production because it's been heavily subsidized with taxpayer money. Add to that the cost of repairing the damage to the soil caused by raising corn in a monoculture, the cost of the fossil fuels (and the toll they take on the environment) used both to create NPK fertilizers and to transport the corn, the corn fed animals, and the other corn products. Then factor in the cost of the health related issues created by industrialized food, costs which you don't pay at the register, but instead pay later in life. All these things, and honestly a couple others as well, are costs that you don't pay at the register, but they're an integral part of the actual cost of a Chicken McNugget; you're actually looking at a pretty expensive way to slowly poison yourself. People are, of course, free to disagree with me, but the fact that these costs are not made clear at the time of purchase seems like fraud to me, people think they're buying chicken, but they're not.

 

[Kejui]

No. No. No. No. etc ad infinitum

McDonalds is NOT a restaurant. It's a fast food retailer.

In a restaurant you don't have to eat using your hands, you get some form of cutlery (knife and fork, chopsticks, whatever)
In a restaurant you get a waiter/waitress who takes your order and brings it to you.
A restaurant is a place you might take a date (If you take a girl to McD's for a date then you should be disqualified from life)
In a restaurant you don't sit on molded plastic furniture, instead you get a proper table and chairs you can move.

Other than that quite true and i agree with your comments.

The McDonald's down the street from here has:
- eating utensils (including chopsticks, since I'm in Taiwan)
- a person who will bring you your food if they are busy (sounds a lot like a waiter/waitress)
- Movable wooden and metal chairs

Also, teens that go on their first little quirky date...maybe all they can afford is McDonald's, or maybe they don't want the date to be so formal.

Unfortunately, you're quite wrong...it is a "fast food restaurant."

Restaurant

(ˈrɛstərənt, -rɒnt, ‖rɛstɔr?fatatilde?)

[a. F. restaurant, substantive use of the pres. pple. of restaurer to restore.]

1. An establishment where refreshments or meals may be obtained.

2. attrib., as restaurant car, restaurant dinner, restaurant-keeper, restaurant lunch, restaurant manager, restaurant meal, restaurant proprietor.

 

[Imp Poster]

wow, it's funny that a book like that comes out and what does McDonalds do?
Have a special, 20 peices of Chicken McNuggets for $4.99. That's what bothers me.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Because there are worse things out there OP.
And like several people have already said, this is mostly Scare Tactics to get you to buy expensive health food.
Too much of anything can kill ya.
There is ever worse stuff in the Air we breath.
As long as you don't overindulge in fast food, and work out then you will be fine.
Are bodies are made to handle some poisons substances and detox them naturally.

 

[JaredXE]

Chicken McNuggets are tasty. So I eat them.

Problem?

EDIT: There is a government allowable amount of PUS in milk and milk products. Do you expect me to stop drinking milk? We eat gross things all the time, but since most of them are tasty and don't outright kill us, we (the people of the United States)are fine with it, and so should you.

 

[Nerf Ninja]

Don't their fries also qualify as a plastic? I'm sure I've read that somewhere.

 

[omega 616]

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Have you seen the programmes by Alex Riley? We eat some major rubbish like you wouldn't believe.

Food and drink manufactures take full advantage of our ignorance and what they can get away with.

Like you know how you see bars of chocolate with a little green thing in the corner from the rain forest alliance (or something), that little green badge means the coco is covered but the palm oil isn't, so you look and think "oh, it's not causing damage to the rain forest ... even though I don't actually care that much", wrong, it just means it isn't being ruined in the name of coco, it's being ruined in the name of palm oil.

It is also outrageous how little meat there actually is in cheap food, for example. what the difference between a banger and a sausage? The minimum amount of meat in a sausage must be 17%+, in a banger it's about 3%+ (can't remember exact figures) and in some cases the word "meat" is very loose, such as you are allowed so much rendered meat to be classed as meat.

You should really give them a watch, really interesting and funny.

 

[Signa]

I believe alcohol is also flammable and we drink that like water sometimes.

I get your point though, and that's why I stick with the American classic of burgers when I go there.

 

[vanthebaron]

they also bleach their meat

 

[Kpt._Rob]

Every type of food is bad for you if you really think about it. Maybe all the bad stuff just ends up balancing each other out. Like the bacteria living inside us that's usually harmless if there's a proper balance.

I would argue with that premise. Of course any food can be bad for you if you eat too much of it, we as omnivores evolved to eat a wide variety of foods, and we need a wide variety of nutrients to sustain our bodies. We also know that the high rates of cancer, diabetes, and other disease of affluence that are seen in the US and other industrialized countries correlate to a huge extent with our consumption of processed foods, and the Chicken McNugget is really kind of the poster child for processed foods. The implication then is that the industrialized foods that we eat here are worse for us than the whole foods that we evolved to be eating a wide variety of. And there's good reason to believe that it's true, third world countries that eat food produced with more traditionally agrarian methods have much lower rates of cancer, diabetes, and other diseases of affluence than Americans and other industrialized countries do. It doesn't just balance out, we are, undeniably, getting the short end of the stick when we eat these foods.

 

[lacktheknack]

So now, if I may, let me pose a question. What the hell is wrong with us? Why would anyone eat this? Why would anyone think that it qualifies, even remotely, as food? Considering that statistics say that one in three American children eat fast food every day, shouldn't we be asking ourselves some serious questions like "why is it even legal to serve that to people, nonetheless to children, and on a regular basis?"

Because everyone's a money-hog who want everything cheap. This is a cheap way to improve the product. Most people don't care. Simple.

There's always excellent alternatives, but you have to shell out for them. Thus, no one wants them (except me, apparently).

 

[The_Deleted]

McDonald's is and always has been utter shit. Why is it surprising their cheap food, tasteless is full of crap.

 

[Eisenfaust]

we eat them because they're tasty... or convenient... or because we've been conditioned to, pick your poison... either way, knowing whats in them will rarely stop people from eating them (in the long run, anyway)