McDonald's hamburger bun resists molten copper

[Doom_Guy]

McDonald's "big mac" hamburger bun resists being burnt through by molten copper.

I was always suspicious about the kinds of sketchy ingredients that they hide in their food, but this finally convinced me never to eat anything from there again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdghgZhObSk

 

[Rachel_X]

I'd kill for a McDonalds right now.
That's your fault.

 

[Hypoxia]

McD must have hijacked the Twinkie "immortal dough" recipe.

25 years on the shelf and it won't go stale.

Probable asbestos-filled.

 

[pensivepoet]

I can't eat at McD's without my stomach hurting an hour later.
You tryin to give me nightmares, Yates?
Can't you find any positive conspiracies?

 

[phrodeau]

I now know that I've got something in common with molten copper.

 

[TheNextNewGuy]

I don't know if anyone remembers "Super Size Me", the documentary in which Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's food for 30 days to show how bad it was for you. (He ate a "normal" meal 3 times a day and gained 24 pounds. Shortly after the movie came out, McDonald's eliminated super sizing.)

In the extras at the end of the DVD version, they put French Fries from McDonalds, other fast food restaurants, mom and pop greasy spoons, and from grocery store freezers (cooking them, of course) into glass jars (like what you would find monster cookies at your local grocery store).

The real fries from the mom and pop's -- potatoes with no chemicals, cut fresh and immediately deep fried -- began to rot and mold within a day of being put into the closed jar. But the McDonald's fries looked almost like they'd just come out of the deep fryer a month after the experiment was begun.

 

[Hypoxia]

I don't know if anyone remembers "Super Size Me", the documentary in which Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's food for 30 days to show how bad it was for you. (He ate a "normal" meal 3 times a day and gained 24 pounds. Shortly after the movie came out, McDonald's eliminated super sizing.)

Alas, the film was bogus.

No one has been able to replicate Spurlock's results, and even basic math disputes the claim that his McDiet consisted of 5,000 calories a day.

As Tom Naughton points out in his documentary, Fat Head, there's simply no way Spurlock could have been eating that much food if he was sticking to his own rules. A large Big Mac meal clocks in at "just" 1,450 calories, and it's by far one of the fattiest items on the menu. This means that even Supersizing lunch and dinner every day and adding dessert falls well short of the 5,000 calories a day Spurlock's nutritionist claims he was consuming. In an effort to find out just exactly what the hell, Naughton attempted to contact Spurlock to obtain his food log, but Spurlock (who makes a huge deal in his documentary about McDonald's never calling him back) never called him back.

Meanwhile, researchers from the Making Sure Movies Aren't Stupid department of Sweden's University of Linkoping tried to replicate Spurlock's experiment by tasking healthy college students with the challenge of eating 6,000 calories of fast food per day, inadvertently also answering the question "What's the easiest way to get guinea pigs ever?" At the end of the 30 days, the students had none of the liver or cholesterol troubles Spurlock reported. According to the guy in charge of the experiment (aka an actual scientist, not the guy who created MTV's I Bet You Will), the students' metabolism was able to adapt to the extra amount of food they were eating. They did feel more tired, but none of them experienced the mood swings and depression Spurlock claimed to have endured.

So either Spurlock slightly exaggerated his results, or he had an amphetamine addiction he left on the cutting room floor.

I do not claim a McDiet is good for one. The smell alone drives me out; the taste nauseates me. But the film is false. Bwah.

 

[Emerson40]

In the extras at the end of the DVD version, they put French Fries from McDonalds, other fast food restaurants, mom and pop greasy spoons, and from grocery store freezers (cooking them, of course) into glass jars (like what you would find monster cookies at your local grocery store).

The real fries from the mom and pop's -- potatoes with no chemicals, cut fresh and immediately deep fried -- began to rot and mold within a day of being put into the closed jar. But the McDonald's fries looked almost like they'd just come out of the deep fryer a month after the experiment was begun.

Hasn't everyone found that stray fry under the seat in their car, months after that late night swing through the McDrive thru.

As golden and crisy as the night it dropped between your ass and the centre console.