Thank McDonald's for Keeping You Thin

Food for thought

I love it. It's so true. They really go after the chains because they're big, not because they're the worst thing for you.

And there's a stretch of Milwaukee Avenue in Niles that proves that, if people want something other than chains, the chains go away -- Arby's, Bonanza, and a couple of other places have been replaced by Greek, Korean, and Middle Eastern food, all standing side by side -- but with a lone McDonald's remaining across the street from them.

It is worth noting that McDonald's can't go in where it isn't wanted. Wilmette voted to keep out McDonald's -- as did Ulaanbataar, Mongolia. And neither has a McDonald's.

Wilmette voted to keep out McDonald's -- as did Ulaanbataar, Mongolia.

One of the all-time great sentences on LTHForum.

Nice to see another GNR fighting the good fight in their corner of our fair city.

http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.ph ... 1&start=30

Ulan Bator really didn't need a McDonalds. I really could have used one in its sister city of Ulan Ude ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan-Ude), though.

Cynthia wrote:And there's a stretch of Milwaukee Avenue in Niles that proves that, if people want something other than chains, the chains go away -- Arby's, Bonanza, and a couple of other places have been replaced by Greek, Korean, and Middle Eastern food, all standing side by side -- but with a lone McDonald's remaining across the street from them.

There is a Taco Hell a block south, but you forgot that Burger King became El Sueno - a decent sit-down Mex place, and on a neutral-to-negative score, Fluky's became Goodi's.

Here's a visual on the 72 oz steak mentioned in the article. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUWjsJiWxY&feature=related[/url]

dippy-do-da-egg wrote:Here's a visual on the 72 oz steak mentioned in the article. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUWjsJiWxY&feature=related[/url]

Shocking...the lack of support this hero received. I couldn't believe the negativity, the bad-mouthing and nay-saying that arose all around the guy as he sat down to confront the big piece of meat. His strategy was brilliant: divide and consume. Very entertaining.

Shouldn’t he be ejaculating torts out of every orifice upon witnessing such candid testimonies to the addictive power of old-timey diner fare?

That's a helluva sentence. Love it.

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Wilmette voted to keep out McDonald's -- as did Ulaanbataar, Mongolia.


One of the all-time great sentences on LTHForum.

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Yes, one of the great quotes. Are they sister cities?

David Hammond wrote:

dippy-do-da-egg wrote:Here's a visual on the 72 oz steak mentioned in the article. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUWjsJiWxY&feature=related

Shocking...the lack of support this hero received.

When he added his name to the roster of "winners", I noticed that the person immediately before him completed the challenge in 37 minutes. And the one at the top of the camera frame did it in 32!

Yikes.

I don't know if Burger King serves this monstrosity at breakfast anymore.



But, back in the day, when it was garnering much media attention, the "Ultimate Omelet Sandwich" grabbed my attention, thinking to myself, "How could four scrambled eggs, six strips of bacon, three pieces of sausage and cheese on a roll be any thing other than simply effin' devine?" Certainly, BK's marketing efforts would have lead me to believe that.

The truth was that the damn thing wasn't even edible, much less palatable. And this was in the day that I truly met very little food that I didn't like.

Therein lies the problem with fast food. too often they choose "big" and "bad for you" as synonymous marketing adjectives for "tastes good".

In my severely restricted state of what I can eat these days, I'd much rather have two bites of a Paradise Pup Bacon Cheeseburger than a whole Big Mac.

Attention American Marketers: It's about taste, dumbasses!

YourPalWill wrote:.

Therein lies the problem with fast food. too often they choose "big" and "bad for you" as synonymous marketing adjectives for "tastes good".

The fast casual chains have taken the lessons that the fast food industry learned and run with them. They try to emphasis "fresh" and "quality", but more often are just as bad for you as McDonald's. I'm surprised there has been more scorn of them.

For example, Panera Bread's Sierra Turkey sandwich is 420 calories and 20 g of fat. A Quarter Pounder is 410 calories and 19 g of fat.

Kim

Though there is one major difference between large chains and the diners here - marketing, with a strong emphasis on changing the target's behavior so they will consume more product, more often. A diner's marketing is usually limited to signs in the window, whereas we are bombarded everywhere from public television to the train to the airport with ads telling us to eat branded fast food even when we aren't hungry. Note the chart in the article listing how much money is spent on this endeavor.

I'm not taking away the individual's responsibility for what they eat, but I don't think it's hypocritical to target businesses spending these kinds of dollars to convince us to eat badly.

McDonald's has quietly finished its conversion of french-fry fat to trans-fat-free canola/soy/corn oil. The fries are also taste-free, as far as I can tell.

Of course, the process of removing flavor began in the 1980s, when McD's caved to attacks from Phil "The Poisoning of America" Sokolov and other food nannies and replaced beef tallow with what was supposedly heart-healthier hydrogenated vegetable shortening.

Frankly, I hope Phil Sokolov is spending eternity frying in a vat of the trans-fats he foisted on America.

It is my understanding that McDonald's Canada still fries potatoes in beef tallow.

In the lower 48 I still prefer McD's fries to any other chain's....which isn't saying much.

JimInLoganSquare wrote:Food for thought

The simple fact of the source of the article makes it suspect, that and the article itself is what might amount to "piss poor journalism"

auxen1 wrote:It is my understanding that McDonald's Canada still fries potatoes in beef tallow.

In the lower 48 I still prefer McD's fries to any other chain's....which isn't saying much.

Current ingredient list for french fries from mcdonalds canada:

French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethypolysiloxane).

So it looks like the fries are vegetarian.

In its latest act of publicity-grabbing food-nannyism, CSPI is poised to sue McDonald's over the Happy Meal.

Cynthia wrote:
It is worth noting that McDonald's can't go in where it isn't wanted. Wilmette voted to keep out McDonald's -- as did Ulaanbataar, Mongolia. And neither has a McDonald's.

It is also worth noting that two nations that have McDonald's restaurants do not go to war with each other (and don't confuse me with facts refuting this.)

When do we see the long anticipated Wilmette v. Mongolia war that we all have been waiting for? I wonder how that would go...a nation with Ghengis Khan as a national hero or Wilmette who had a ban on handguns until two years ago?

AngrySarah wrote:

Cynthia wrote:
It is worth noting that McDonald's can't go in where it isn't wanted. Wilmette voted to keep out McDonald's -- as did Ulaanbataar, Mongolia. And neither has a McDonald's.

It is also worth noting that two nations that have McDonald's restaurants do not go to war with each other (and don't confuse me with facts refuting this.)

When do we see the long anticipated Wilmette v. Mongolia war that we all have been waiting for? I wonder how that would go...a nation with Ghengis Khan as a national hero or Wilmette who had a ban on handguns until two years ago?

This gets into a corollary law, which is that any two margravates with Mongolian BBQs do not engage in competitive biathlons.