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

[Ham_authority95]

So, you're telling us that Mcdonald's food is crap and full of chemicals....

What else is new?

 

[lacktheknack]

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.

You realize that there's shit dumped in the meat (literally) whenever the skinners at the meatpacking plant make a mistake, right? That Borax is sometimes used to hide the spoiled smell, and several incredibly damaging chemicals are used to extend the meat's longevity?

Seriously, don't look up the ingredients of a fast-food burger if you want to sleep at night.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Is this supposed to shock me?

We put far weirder shit into meat back in the 1920s and 30s.
Pickling agents that weren't...meant to be pickling agents.

Welcome to the world of processed foods. We eat, we live, we suffer, and we die.
Bon appetite'

 

[teisjm]

Can it really come as a supprise, that macdonalds sells the crappiest of crappy unhealthy food?

 

[x EvilErmine x]

Edit

Listen to Capt._Rob he talks lots of sense.

One more thing as well, the fats in these products are usually drenched in Hydrogenated/Trans fats and Unsaturated fats. These are not good for you at all because your body cant brake them down as they are not really found in nature so your bodies enzymes cant process them but it does recognize them as fatty acids so it stores them in adipose tissue and you know the walls of your inner arterial walls.

(p.s if i seem a bit militant about this it's coz i am a bit. People complain when they get sick with diabetes and have heart attacks and stuff and if it's not genetic it's probably been caused by the shocking diet they eat and the no exercise that they did.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

The book is 4 years old, and god only knows how old his source material is, but it is still shocking nonetheless. Technically, if I ate enough of them, I might feel sick and have a flammable stomach. Actually eating enough to have a flammable stomach would probably kill me even if I was eating carrots.

Still, this is what we eat. Why don't we just smoke cigarettes while we're at it.

Calumon: Is this why you only take me to Chip shops and bakeries?

Jack: Chip shop is for the people of Britain in this economy. Bakeries are for you to remember life in Japan.
Look up Takato Matsuki and you'll see what I mean.

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

That's capitalism. When the sole focus of your economic system is growth, at the expense of essentially anything and everything else, you end up with food like this - chemically treated and genetically engineered beyond belief to extend shelf life, increase yield, and maximize profit. The health and well-being of people only enters the equation when it potentially affects profits. I guess we can take some solace in the notion that, should a food end up being too dangerous, they will cease production. After all, what good is highly efficient food if it kills the people who are supposed to buy it?

Also, they've no interest in helping us live healthy. They need to supply biotech and medical industries with a constant stream of sickly and dying people.

No really, fuck big business.

 

[thahat]

Good thing I only eat quarter pounders with cheese.

i eat them without the cheese. well, you CALL it cheese.. but mac'd cheese according to me more resembles 'floormat' XD

 

[Bobzer77]

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.

This, although I'll have to substitute Carl's Jr. with Super Macs as we don't have it in Ireland.

 

[imnot]

Well I prefer KFC anyway, proberly no better but the secret recepie is so dang good.

 

[Viik]

Why eat it and be worried about such rabish at all? Cheap food? I doubt it's cheaper than chicken and simple local grown vegitables. Remove all that uneeded stuff like ketchup, mayoness, you even have beaconess ))) Coka-cola, pepsi and other flavored crap. Less rubish you eat and drink less toxins and conserogens you will be getting.

Corn production in your country is so huge and too big to fail that products such as mcnuggets, and other that are based on it, will always exist, just stop consuming them, make yourself a favour.

 

[Ham_authority95]

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.

You realize that there's shit dumped in the meat (literally) whenever the skinners at the meatpacking plant make a mistake, right? That Borax is sometimes used to hide the spoiled smell, and several incredibly damaging chemicals are used to extend the meat's longevity?

Seriously, don't look up the ingredients of a fast-food burger if you want to sleep at night.

I actually have looked up the ingredients of fast food burgers and I slept better because I was no longer ignorant.

 

[GundamSentinel]

According to my old science teacher there are eight carcinogens in ordinary lettuce. Sure, nuggets and other fast foods may seem (and very often are) nasty, and most certainly shouldn't be in anyones regular diet. But any food you eat these days has nasty goop in them. Hell, everything around you has nasty stuff in them. Most brick walls contain enough trace elements of radioactive material (mostly thorium I believe) to drop life expectancy by a couple of months. Just don't think about it and eat your nuggets. Personally, I don't really like chicken anyway.

 

[Deathsong17]

That 'qualifies' as food because MCDonalds sell it cheap and fast, so people eat it for convenience. If you want quality, don't eat at the lowest tier restaraunt.

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.

That's why I said 'lowest tier' .

 

[zfactor]

If my life were to be divided up into story arcs with themes, one of the two themes of this part of my life would be "what do I need to do to be healthy." While researching the answer to that question I came upon this, a list of the ingredients in a Chicken McNugget. I would like to share with you now an excerpt from the notes I took from Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma.

Of the 32 ingredients in a Chicken McNugget, thirteen can be derived from Corn: The corn fed chicken; corn starch; modified cornstarch; mono-, tri-, and diglycerides; dextrose; lecithin; chicken broth; yellow cornflower; vegetable shortening; partially hydrogenated corn oil; and citric acid. A few other plants are used as ingredients, wheat in the batter, and sometimes hydrogenated oil from soybeans, canola, or cotton is used in place of that from corn. McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients: sodium aluminum phosphate; mono-calcium phosphate; sodium acid pyrophosphate; calcium lactate; dimethylopolysiloxene (which, according to the Handbook of Food Additives, is a suspected carcinogen, as well as a confirmed mutagen, tomorigen, and reproductive effector, it is also flammable); and tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) [which, according to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, is a form of butane (lighter fluid) that the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in food: it may comprise no more than 0.02% of the oil in a nugget. Ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, and a sense of "suffocation and collapse." Five grams of TBHQ can kill.] The nugget is responsible for chicken having passed beef as the most consumed meat in America.

... 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?"

EDIT: Well, it looks like it timed out and cut my poll, sorry folks, no poll today.

WHAT FUN!!!

Did you know the two ingrediants to salt are hazardous? Chlorine kills very fast and sodium ignites when it touches water. Good thing salt is needed for life, then.

My point is if you take stuff apart to its smallest parts, you will find something dangerous on its own. The hazardous parts of the chicken might react to stabilize eachother, making them not as dangerous. Plus, some ingrediants are in such small quantites your body (specificaly the acid in your stomach) can break them down into non-hazardous ingrediants, or they have no effect on you.

 

[Duruznik]

Soo glad that Israeli McDonalds uses kanola oil instead of whatever American McDonalds uses. No TBHQ for me!

 

[lacktheknack]

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.

You realize that there's shit dumped in the meat (literally) whenever the skinners at the meatpacking plant make a mistake, right? That Borax is sometimes used to hide the spoiled smell, and several incredibly damaging chemicals are used to extend the meat's longevity?

Seriously, don't look up the ingredients of a fast-food burger if you want to sleep at night.

I actually have looked up the ingredients of fast food burgers and I slept better because I was no longer ignorant.

"Uninformed". And you've already stated that you hate McDonalds' fast food, so of course YOU will sleep just fine. The guy I was quoting, however...

I don't eat fast food much. It's faster, cheaper, and healthier to make my own food.

 

[lacktheknack]

Soo glad that Israeli McDonalds uses kanola oil instead of whatever American McDonalds uses. No TBHQ for me!

...They use canola oil.