Food & Drink 12 year old McDonalds burger looks almost the same as a new one

Linkeh

Anyone know how that is physically possible for a burger to survive that long. I know McDonalds food isn't exactly a healthy balanced choice, but wouldn't at least bacteria find some nutruition worth eating? Might be worth adding this to the demot thread for all the Big Macs eaten by us forumites...

 

Urgh!
Just one more reason why I've never eaten at McDonalds my entire life, and why I never will.

 

This is oooollldd. And, IIRC, fake (or at least gamed).

 

Jack Astors (If anyone actually knows that restaurant) has this great bread that they serve. Its shelf life is six months.
It can spend six months on a shelf and not go bad. Sick...

 

Dwarf Bread?

 

Hurrah for Pratchett!

 

Damnit. Now I want a cheese quarter-pounder and vanilla milkshake.


*thinks about making a quick trip to the drive-thru*

 

12 McDonald's hamburgers are healthier that an average pub meal. just to put it into context.

Yes, some of their products are unhealthy. If you eat them everyday.Have a look at the nutritional information on the back of a trayliner, then compare it to the lunch meals you can but from Sainsbury's/Tesco/etc. And i'm pretty sure McDonald's isn't as bad as these people make out.

In relation to the article, what's to say that the hamburger wasn't bought weekly?

 

Big mac meal is healthier than a Brunch Tripple...

 

Shouldn't this be considered a good thing? We have food with amazingly long shelf life. Why is that sick?

 

But not half as tasty!

 

Depends what goes in them !



Brown sauce anyone ?

 

Idk man. I personally love fast food. I eat a ton of it.

I'm not fat either because I maintain and active lifestyle.

 

I find greasy fast food disgusting in general, and Mc is definitely on top of the disgust-list. Still, some times one has to eat in a hurry, on the cheap and sometimes the greasy, salty meal is all I need. The idea is tempting until getting the meal, but after eating it it's disgusting again.

EDIT: AFAIK you're American? Big surprise you like burgers.

EDIT: And if you wonder what's wrong with fast food/current scheme of things in general, watch Food, Inc. Everything stuffed full of crap I wouldn't want to eat, but as-is, it's hard not to (don't really have the money to choose what I want to eat).

 

I eat Thai and Indian food more than fast food or burgers. But in my case, nothing beats a damn good medium rare burger.

 

You have more to fear from the spotty 16 year olds spitting in them, than the food.

 

When people mention how McDonald's isn't *that* bad it always makes me wonder. The problem is there's been no research as far as I can see - other than certain chemicals having a negative impact on your health - and McDonalds doesn't specify what they use, just that they use '100% pure beef'... which in theory would go off pretty quickly. I know the egg they use on the muffins isn't real egg.

Either way, McDonalds spends millions, if not billions advertising and cleaning their image. Meanwhile the people who actually investigate food and the like, won't be spending much money, if any at all on advertising.

It's a bit like the cigarette adverts before the court cases came to a conclusion. 9/10 doctors prefer brand X of cigarette, etc. etc.

I'm not saying McDonald's is good or bad, just that food in general just doesn't have any real studies or proof. It's all just hear-say, and that worries me.

Statements like (not wanting to pick on anyone btw) '12 McDonald's hamburgers are healthier that an average pub meal' in particular are the most worrying. For those adverse to long paragraphs:

* What's an 'average' pub meal, which pubs and meals were sampled to work out the 'average'?
* How is 'healthy' defined? Calories, vitamins, fat, sat fat, sodium?

Now the long winded:
What kind of pub meal? Which pub? I mean, I could find a pub somewhere in the country serving up a massive plate of steak, cheese, chips topped off with butter - or a pub that serves very basic salads with no dressing. We haven't even mentioned what 'healthy' means either. A loophole for this one is to pick something generally considered 'healthy' like Vitamin C, and then just compare Vitamin C content in the two meals. I know the word 'average' was used, but unless they tested EVERY meal in EVERY pub, they used a sample. A common trick is to cherry-pick the sample, if it's just for marketing that's sufficient. If you get caught you apologise and withdraw the ad - but the ad lives in in public memory, so there's no real punishment when it comes to lying to the public in ads.

 

My favourite burger was the original varsities 'Dirty Burger'
3 burgers
onion rings
beef chilli
bacon
fried egg
jalapenos
cheese
all in a bun! im fairly sure everything on McDonalds menu is healthier than that! I treat Maccys the same as any fast/convenience food tbh, OK in small doses but it isnt and never will be a balanced meal.

 

Point taken.
Though it's not exactly the "food" in itself that I'm consciously avoiding, but rather the franchise. I remember a few years ago when famine was striking large parts of Africa, McDonalds launched a campaign for a new burger with the name "McAfrica".

Furthermore, it's not that I necessarily see "food" with a long shelf-life as an inherently bad thing, bud rather that I get slightly suspicious when I hear of beef and cheese being able to sit unblemished for x numbers of years. Some foods are supposed to go bad if not cryogenically frozen, and even then there is some molecular activity that would eventually spoil said foods.

Take MRE's for instance. Vacuum sealed in foil, they can sit safely on a shelf for four years at room temperature, but will also eventually go bad. They are also not intended for sole consumption for more than 21 days in a row, which hints at nutritional issues.

Also, after having seen the movie "Supersize Me" I've become even more adamant that I will never consume even a single "meal" at any of those places. However, I do eat fast foods at times, but these times are few and far between. Sure I see the appeal, but anything I can cook from raw produce acquired at the supermarket consistently tastes better and is undoubtedly healthier than anything I can get at any fast-food joint. And I'm just an amateur who enjoys messing around in the kitchen.

 

Ha! Calling McDonalds food "burgers"... that's a good one.

One of the large problems with McDonalds, and other fast foods, is the same one as the MREs Journeyer mentions. They simply aren't designed to supply a full range of nutrients. A lot of cheap foods aren't designed at actually feeding the one eating them, instead just stuffing them up a bit so they aren't as hungry anymore. Look at ramen. Just that fast food stuffs in even more grease and preservatives than most.