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ilikedragons
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06 May 2006, 8:23 pm

Why do they get more condiments?



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06 May 2006, 10:40 pm

Well, on the bright side they aren't serving ssoylent greens yet :roll:


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08 May 2006, 10:32 am

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McDonalds is such sh***y low quality food. I have no idea why so many people choose to eat there. So many people have no idea what good food is. Or they have sh***y taste in food. Where I live, there are abundant choices of inexpensive decent quality tasty food, and still people choose to eat the absolute CRAP they serve at McDonalds. It is incredible.

Interestingly, McDonalds here in Australia has been improving its menu because people are becoming slightly more discerning about the quality of the food they eat. So it is slightly less nasty than in previous years, but it is still nasty crap for people who do not understand what good food is.

I am not even saying "eat healthy". I am saying even if you ignore health and just go for good-tasting food regardless of health, there are still a million better choices than McDonalds crap. It astounds me that people are willing to pay actual MONEY for McDonalds food. When I look at McDonalds food, the first thing that enters my mind is, "Holy crap, that food looks REVOLTING, how can people eat that??" It is garbage trash that does not deserve to be called "food"!



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08 May 2006, 5:25 pm

Well I've known two people from South America who say that all of our hamburger in North America tastes like it is rotten compared to the meat they ate back home. They both detect an actual flavor of rot in North American hamburger.



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08 May 2006, 5:45 pm

McDonald's is my favorite restaurant. I usually use the drive thru.

The Sausage McMuffin with egg (with cheese) is one of my very favorite foods. :D

From the "Dollar Menu", the double cheeseburgers and small fries are a great value.

God bless McDonald's! :lol:


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08 May 2006, 6:33 pm

I think some of my hamburger was pink once.



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08 May 2006, 8:05 pm

I remember when my Brazilian friend Regina told me that when she first arrived in Canada someone bought her a MacDonald's hamburger. Regina looked at me fiercely as she recounted how she almost spit the hamburger out of her mouth because the meat tasted rotten. Regina claims that all North American beef tastes rotten to her, but especially McDonald's hamburgers. Maybe it's just because Regina is a normal, but I was afraid of Regina when she told me that, because I like McDonald's. I like Big Macs.

They discontinued McDeal's last week.



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08 May 2006, 9:53 pm

I like the old look, better. Maybe it's because I have my Head wrapped around the 1960s. 8)



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09 May 2006, 12:02 am

anandamide wrote:
I remember when my Brazilian friend Regina told me that when she first arrived in Canada someone bought her a MacDonald's hamburger. Regina looked at me fiercely as she recounted how she almost spit the hamburger out of her mouth because the meat tasted rotten. Regina claims that all North American beef tastes rotten to her, but especially McDonald's hamburgers. Maybe it's just because Regina is a normal, but I was afraid of Regina when she told me that, because I like McDonald's. I like Big Macs.

They discontinued McDeal's last week.


That may be some sort of national/continental pride too since places like Argentina are known for their beef. It would be like going to England or Australia and commenting that they don't do some favorite American dish (like fried chicken) very well. Which in fact it may be just fine. I don't eat hamburgers so can't really comment but I love their fries.



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09 May 2006, 1:16 pm

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sweat and sour sauce

So that explains why it tastes so funny! Some secret ingredients are best left secrets, apparently.



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09 May 2006, 3:01 pm

flea wrote:
i dont go in the ball pit. i never did as a kid either beacuse of how gross it was. and if i had a kid i would never put them in something so filthy.
and mcdonalds does carry sweet and sour sauce for their nuggets. they always have.
chillax.


Lol, that's actually one of the few things I do like there - nuggetsw/ sweet & sour. Other than that I'll sometimes go there for a double cheeseburger and medium fry just because it's $2.00.


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09 May 2006, 3:10 pm

Something else too, I see there's a lot of posts that are real abhorant of McDonalds and similar foods. My personal take - we live in a dirty world, we probably consume like 7 hairs in our food a day that we don't know about, there's a certain quota for how many insect parts can be in a chocolate bar, most public water has been through 7 people supposedly, in my own experience I'd rather just take that as it is and if anyone wanted to get on me about drinking public water and tell me its been through 7 people I'd have to laugh and say "Well, make that eight" because we're too immersed in it no matter what we do to really be that worried about it. Of course too anyone who's a great cook and likes to, anyone who's a vegan, I can't blame you though - the stuff's really better served for people who have to work 30 hours a a week, go to school fulltime, possibly work 70 hours a week without school, people who really just don't have the time and energy. What I love about places like Subway or Chipotle though is they're a way for people to eat fast food and actually get something nutritious, if those two are laughable as well then I'd have to suggest that the stuff we'd buy in the grocery store is probably just as badly robbed of minerals and nutrients seeing how it's grown in similar soil.


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09 May 2006, 4:43 pm

Right on. The idea that we can rise above all the mire of the fast food market by not going to McD's is the same kind of pious thinking that allows some people to believe we can act to separate ourselves from an inherently racist society, or a consumer oriented society. The fact is we are all part of the system and cannot really transcend such problems because they are systemic. To believe that one individual can rise above the rest through individual consumer choices is so liberal. We're better off to acknowledge that we are all part of the system and act to mitigate the harms rather than condemn others for their choices while deluding ourselves that we are somehow morally superior to others who remain ignorant of the consequences of the problems. I have seen this so many times where people who think that just because they eat vegan that makes them morally superior to others when in fact if you really look hard at those types they are no better than the rest of us when it comes to how they behave on this planet.



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09 May 2006, 6:40 pm

I wont even look their way until I see the word tofu in one of their foods. THAT is when they have changed to healthy foods.


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13 May 2006, 1:09 am

Have you ever read "Fast Food Nation"?

Who cares about what McDonalds does, or any other fast food chain for that matter? There is absolutely nothing ethical about them.

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13 May 2006, 2:22 am

anandamide wrote:
Right on. The idea that we can rise above all the mire of the fast food market by not going to McD's is the same kind of pious thinking that allows some people to believe we can act to separate ourselves from an inherently racist society, or a consumer oriented society. The fact is we are all part of the system and cannot really transcend such problems because they are systemic. To believe that one individual can rise above the rest through individual consumer choices is so liberal. We're better off to acknowledge that we are all part of the system and act to mitigate the harms rather than condemn others for their choices while deluding ourselves that we are somehow morally superior to others who remain ignorant of the consequences of the problems. I have seen this so many times where people who think that just because they eat vegan that makes them morally superior to others when in fact if you really look hard at those types they are no better than the rest of us when it comes to how they behave on this planet.


Well that is a great argument and all, but from my point of view, you are missing the point. Even if we acknowledge validity of what you say above, McDonald's is still low quality gutter-trash food for people who do not understand what good food/cooking is.

By rejecting McDonald's, I do not see myself as morally superior. Rather I see myself as having better taste, and as having minimum quality standards for the food I choose to eat, quality standards which McDonald's fails to meet. It is not an issue of ethics/morality for me.

Rejecting McDonald's makes me tastefully superior, not morally superior.

In addition, it makes me healthier -- see the docu-movie "Supersize Me".