McDonald's

Ri-ra

I heard the other day that the words "100% beef" on the wrappers at McDonald's is actually copyrighted, so they can use the phrase, but that the "meat" is not actually 100% beef.

I also heard that there is no milk in the milkshake. It's all hydrogenated vegetable OIL. Ewwwww.

smoke.me.a.kipper

i also heard the fries are made from eggs and flour but i dont have a clue if this is true or not.

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Hobbes

I heard they spit in your burger if you tell them to **** off.

Lump

Pff, anyone that eats in mc donalds deserves to die.

John

Fidelis

We all appear to love McD's to bits, eh ?

On the fries, there's meat in them. Some vegetarians in the States sued McD's over it.

Long live Burger King ?

Lucy_la_morte

I used to work at McDonalds, possibly the most disgusting place on earth - Especially for a vegetarian.

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Miaow.

Lucy la morte.

irishguy

f**k burger king long live supermax at least its irish

Xterminator

Have you ever noticed that their is no taste from the food in Mcdonalds? I mean it is all the same. For example

I tried one of their new hotdogs the other day, and I might as well have been eating pure quorn or soy, cause there was no taste off the sausage. Even the ketchup only had a sweet sugar taste, and the mustard must be yellow soy, cause it had no flavour. The bun was very bland

I had a hot dog in Abrakebabra, a couple of days later,and their was a smokey flavour from the hot dog, in a crunchy bagguette, it had lettuce and mayo and a german mustard that wasn't 'HOT' but was more 'hot'.

I dont work for or advertise for these places, but the difference between the 2 was marked.

My only interest is in having a meal i can enjoy!
I knwo that most McDonalds are owned by irish franchise-ees who pay x amount for the name, but are more or less irish businesses.

Xterminator

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hobbes:
I heard they spit in your burger if you tell them to **** off. </font>

PS.. anyone who tells someone to **** off while they are making your food
1. Deserves what they get
2. Is braindead

Doesnt everybody wait till you have you food and then tell them what you think of them!?


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WhiteWashMan

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Lucy_la_morte:
I used to work at McDonalds, possibly the most disgusting place on earth - Especially for a vegetarian.

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you said you were 14.
its illegal for you to work under the age of 16....

Thorbar

If I can manage it these days I never buy food outside of home. Either get home for lunch dinner or if I'm heading out I bring a roll with me. No matter where you go these days you're going to get dodgy food and ****e hygiene literally. GO CAPITALISM!!!1!!1.

C B

Yes those pre-capitalist days were just filled with plentiful and nuitrious meals.
a$$hole!

Evil Phil

From http://www.mcdonalds.com/legal/index.html. McD's apparently own the trademark for the following. "Lifting Kids To A Better Tomorrow" and "Healthy Growing Up" are particularly scary!

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
TRADEMARK INFORMATION

The following trademarks used herein are owned by the McDonald's Corporation and its affiliates: 1-800-MC1-STCK, Always Quality. Always Fun., America’s Favorite Fries, Arch Deluxe, Aroma Café, Automac, Big Mac, Big N’Tasty, Big Xtra!, Birdie, the Early Bird and Design, Black History Makers of tomorrow, Bolshoi Mac, Boston Market, Cajita Feliz, Changing The Face of The World, Chicken McGrill, Chicken McNuggets, Chipolte Mexican Grill, Cuarto De Libra, Did Somebody Say , Donatos Pizza, emac digital, Egg McMuffin, Extra Value Meal, Filet-O-Fish, French Fry Box Design, Gep Op Mac, Golden Arches, Golden Arches Logo, Good Jobs For Good People, Good Times. Great Taste., Gospelfest, Great Breaks, Grimace and Design, Groenteburger, HACER, Hamburglar and Design, Hamburger University, Happy Meal, Happy Meal Box Design, Have You Had Your Break Today?, Healthy Growing Up, Helping Hands Logo, Hey, It Could Happen!, Iam Hungry and Design, Immunize for Healthy Lives, Lifting Kids To A Better Tomorrow, Mac Attack, Mac Jr., Mac Tonight and Design, McDonald’s Racing Team Design, Made For You, McBaby, McBacon, McBurger, McBus, McCafe, McChicken, McDia Feliz, MCDirect Shares, McDonaldland, McDonald’s , McDonald’s All American High School Basketball Game, McDonald’s All American High School Jazz Bank, McDonald’s All Star Racing Team, McDonald’s Building Design, McDonald’s Earth Effort, McDonald’s Earth Effort Logo, McDonald’s Express, McDonald’s Express Logo, McDonald’s Is Your Kind of Place, McDonald’s Means Opportunity, McDouble, McDrive, McExpress, McFamily, McFlurry, McFranchise, McGrilled Chicken, McHappy Day, McHero, McJobs, McKids, McKids Logo, McKroket, McMaco, McMemories, McMenu, McMusic, McNifica, McNuggets, McNuggets Kip, McOz, McPlane, McPollo, McPrep, McRecycle USA, McRib, McRoyal, McScholar, McScholar of the Year, McSwing, McWorld, Mighty Wings, Millennium Dreamers, Morning Mac, Quarter Pounder, RMHC, Ronald McDonald and Design, Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Ronald McDonald House Charities Logo, Ronald McDonald House Logo, Ronald Scholars, Sausage McMuffin, Single Arch Logo, Speedee Logo, Super Size, Teriyaki McBurger, The House That Love Built, The House That Love Built Design, twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesoniononasesameseedbun, Vegi Mac, We Love to See You Smile, What’s On Your Place, When the U.S. Wins You Win, World Famous Fries, You Deserve a Break Today,

All other trademarks are the property of the respective trademark owners.

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Celt

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by WhiteWashMan:
you said you were 14.
its illegal for you to work under the age of 16....</font>

No it isnt.
You can only work 8 hours a week and not after 9pm on a school night.

Ri-ra

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Lucy_la_morte:
I used to work at McDonalds, possibly the most disgusting place on earth - Especially for a vegetarian.

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Don't they do a "vegetarian" menu of sorts?

I've also heard odd things about the various oils they use. As someone else said above, they use beef tallow in frying their chips. This caused a law suit to be brought by Hindus and vegetarians in Canada and the U.S.

I also heard that they spit on the grill (routinely) to see if it's hot enough. Never again!

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by irishguy:
f**k burger king long live supermax at least its irish </font>

Pity it's a load of vomit inducing tripe that tastes like it's been regurgitated by a diseased and bloated farm pig before being used to wipe the ar$e of a camel with diahorrea (... allegedly).

I used to live with a bunch of guys who worked in Supermac's - the place is FAR from better than BK or McD's.

They're ALL fairly sh|te but if I was to choose a best among them it'd be ... Burger King.

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pertinax

one thing that must be noticed
was that irish mcdonalds were/are always considerably filthier than their english/welsh counterparts and probably most other places. the (true) story of the irish fast food joint that told its staff that the new cooking untensils purchased were only to be used in an emergency as in when a higene inspector calls.

Victor

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by WhiteLancer:
No it isnt.
You can only work 8 hours a week and not after 9pm on a school night.</font>

Or if you are working in part of a family business ... or if you are an actor ... or ...

Well look at the "PROTECTION OF YOUNG PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) ACT, 1996" SECTION 3

http://193.120.124.98

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3.—(1) Subject to this section and section 9, an employer shall not employment of employ a child to do work.

(2) The Minister may, by licence, authorise in individual cases, the employment of a child in cultural, artistic, sports or advertising activities which are not likely to be harmful to the safety, health or development of the child and which are not likely to interfere with the child's attendance at school, vocational guidance or training programmes or capacity to benefit from the instruction received.

(3) The Minister may, by regulations, authorise the employment of children over the age of 13 years in cultural, artistic, sports or advertising activities which are not harmful to the safety, health or development of children and which are not likely to interfere with their attendance at school, vocational guidance or training programmes or capacity to benefit from the instruction received.

(4) An employer may employ a child who is over the age of 14 years to do light work during any period outside the school term:

Provided that—

( a ) the hours of work do not exceed 7 hours in any day or 35 hours in any week,
( b ) the work is not harmful to the safety, health and development of the child, and
( c ) during the period of the summer holidays, the child does not do any work for a period of at least 21 days.
(5) An employer may employ a child who is over the age of 15 years to do light work during school term time, provided that the hours of work do not exceed 8 hours in any week.

(6) Subject to subsection (7), an employer may employ a child who is over the age of 14 years and who is a full-time student at an institute of secondary education pursuant to any arrangements made or approved of by the Minister for Education as part of a programme of work experience or educational programme:

Provided that the hours of work do not exceed 8 hours in any day or 40 hours in any week.

(7) The Minister may, after consultation with the Minister for Education and such other interested parties as the Minister sees fit, by regulations, make exemptions from subsection (6) in relation to the hours of work of children participating in a work experience or training programme approved by the Minister for Education under subsection (6).

(8) An employer may employ a child over the age of 15 years to participate in a training or work experience programme pursuant to arrangements made or approved of by the Minister or FÁS - the Employment and Training Authority, provided that the hours of work do not exceed 8 hours in any day or 40 hours in any week.

(9) Whenever the Minister grants a licence under subsection (2) or makes regulations under subsection (3) or (7), the Minister may attach to such licence or provide in such regulations such conditions as the Minister sees fit.

(10) An employer may retain in his or her employment any child of 15 years of age who was in his or her employment immediately before the commencement of this section:

Provided that the hours of work do not exceed 7 hours in any day or 35 hours in any week.

(11) An employer who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

But McDonalds tend not to employ anyone under 18 (in Dublin) or 16 (rest of Country).

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Victor

Whoops, sorry that that is so long.

BTW, I did work for McDonalds when I was in college - never saw anyone spit or otherwise 'disrespect' the food (other than eating too many chicken nuggets when the manager wasn't watching )

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elexes

ye i know loads of ppl that work in McD's they all h8 it but give me loads o ffood . and they do rob loads of stuff such as nuggets tripple chicken burgers or bags of that caramel . tis nice stuff on burgers

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Kali

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ri-ra:
I also heard that there is no milk in the milkshake. It's all hydrogenated vegetable OIL. Ewwwww.</font>

"do they have Krustys partially gelatenated non-dairy gum based beverages?"
"yep, they call them shakes"
"pah shakes don't know what your getting"

true though... don't think they're actualyl called milkshakes on the menu for that very reason you mentioned

MiCr0

100% PURE BEEF
McDonald’s meat patties are 100% pure
beef. We only use beef bought from farms
accredited by nationally recognised Farm
Assurance schemes, and the entire supply
chain is closely monitored to ensure the
highest standards of animal welfare, safety
and quality. McDonald’s only uses EU-
produced beef from EU- approved
abattoirs. We only use whole cuts of
forequarter and flank with nothing added
or taken away in the process. The meat
patties are prepared and packaged at
McDonald’s approved meat suppliers who
undertake thorough quality checks on
every batch. We use two- sided hot plates
to cook the patties, so no extra fat is
added during cooking. A little salt is added
to season after cooking.

takes from http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/foodfacts/img/NutritionBrochure2_Mar.pdf

Thorbar

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by C B:
Yes those pre-capitalist days were just filled with plentiful and nuitrious meals.
a$$hole!</font>

Ah yes and today there is what 840 million people starving world wide?

Kix

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ri-ra:
Don't they do a "vegetarian" menu of sorts?</font>

You mean the "Veg Deluxe"? It's not very nice. A hodge-podge of unrecognisable stuff with a few very obvious peas embedded in it. All this and a dod*** mild curry flavour. I only ever eat it 'cos the better half's crazy for their quarter-pounder.

Still, on the cleanliness issue, I rate them far, far higher than Supermac's. In Galway at any rate. Supermac's is often filthy, but then again often tasty... Their veg burger is a lot nicer, thats for sure tho it's made in much the same way. Supermac's burger sauce saves the day there I think... And I prefer their chips.

Ri-ra

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kali:
"do they have Krustys partially gelatenated non-dairy gum based beverages?"
"yep, they call them shakes"
"pah shakes don't know what your getting"

true though... don't think they're actualyl called milkshakes on the menu for that very reason you mentioned </font>

LOL-- yeah- I think they're called just "shakes"-- it's been a while since I've in.

Ri-ra

Yeah, Kix, the Veggie deluxe, that's it.

I suppose you can't count the beefy fries, but I thought they had salads as well as part of their pitch to vegetarians. Or maybe I'm thinking of the North American ones.

I also heard that a McDonald's in Sacramento kept finding mysterious "holes" in the large blocks of chip grease they got delivered.

So, they set up a cc camera to find out what was going on.

The next day when the tape was played back, they discovered that the nightwatchman had, er, taken to injecting his own, er, special sauce into the blocks of grease.

*Shudder*

Victor

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ri-ra:
I thought they had salads as well as part of their pitch to vegetarians.</font>

I came up with it back in '92, it took them years to adopt it and then they quietly dropped them.

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Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
Pity it's a load of vomit inducing tripe that tastes like it's been regurgitated by a diseased and bloated farm pig before being used to wipe the ar$e of a camel with diahorrea (... allegedly).
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Ok ... confession... I ate in Supermac's today...

I played it safe and only had nuggets & chips with coke... but still...

*sigh*

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stu_69

I worked in mcdonalds for around 2 1/2 years when i was in school and for around a year when i finished. if most people knew what happened they would never eat again. one night around 11.50 when we were just about to close some muppet came in and demanded a bigmac with only lettuce and cheese as he "wanted it hot" as i had already closed up the kitchen and was fu(ked if i was going to open everthing up just for him. so i took one of the made up macs and wiped it with a cloth and remade it up!!! and that was some of the nice stuff that happened.
also as a note everthing that mac donalds sell has MSG(monosodiumglutimate) in it from the fries, meat, shales even the lettuce and basically msg makes you hungry half an hour after you eat it makes your body think that you have already digested the food and for some reason it's not illegal no matter how many times fat people sue mac donalds

WhiteWashMan

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Victor:
I came up with it back in '92, it took them years to adopt it and then they quietly dropped them.


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every other country i have been to in the world has the salad except ireland.

Ri-ra

A McPork? Is that the real name? Holy fu<king sweet baby jesus. A McPork. BTW, can't pigs get the foot and mouth as well?

the fnj

Does anybody find it strange that almost directly after the announcement of the foot and mouth crisis Mc Donald’s releases the Mc Pork? All those pig carcasses are meant to be destroyed but when there should be a shortage of pork Mc Donald’s are able to release Mc Pork? Coincidence? I think not!

jimhenson

You should read the book Fast Food Nation

Sev

I have to say tho, I like the 'McCafe' they have on Grafton Street. It's connected to the main restaurant, but it seems like an entirely different establishment. I dont care what you say, but the hot chocolate they serve is distinctly gorgeous (it's cadbury's).

Ste-

Originally posted by jimhenson
You should read the book Fast Food Nation

I second this I stopped eating out of fast food places before I read it now I have read it I'll never go back to one.
I'd much rather wait the 20 - 30 mins in a restaraunt and pay the price for nice food.

Goodshape

good work.

BKtje

Personally i love some of the food in McDonalds, pesonally dont really care what happens to it (which usually is nothing id imagine unless you piss some one off) before i eat it. Mostly urban legends.
Used to work in BK (managament) and there at least its fairly strict about everything. Couldnt cook chicken in the vegetable fats etc. Of course management couldnt be everywhere at once.
(especially when most of the management are fat ****s and are stuffing their face half the time. Thats the only thing that really made my stomach turn.)

So who heard about the Abrakedabra 'special' sauce incident in Dun Laoghaire? More Urban Legends tbh. (Tho i never ate there but mostly cos i hate the food)

eth0_

Originally posted by MiCr0
100% PURE BEEF
McDonald’s meat patties are 100% pure
beef.

Legally, you can call a meat 100% pure anything in this country and the UK and it can still include sinew, fat, and all manner of gross things.
Personally, i've long since stopped eating processed meats like mince, and for 99c a burger you can't possibly claim it's top quality meat in there!

As for mc D's employing under 18's...they employed me part time when i was 15/16 and still in school....gave me and my friends as many hours as we could work even though we were in school and had specifically said we weren't able to do more than x hours per week.

Oh, and check out the McDonalds in the Blanchardstown centre...I think most of the staff in there are <16! Seriously!

plenderj

Originally posted by irishguy
f**k burger king long live supermax at least its irish

Booyeah

Kalina

I'm allergic to every food product they sell, except the ice cream so I never go near McDonalds. Even the smell of their food is horible.

plenderj

Originally posted by Kalina
I'm allergic to every food product they sell, except the ice cream so I never go near McDonalds. Even the smell of their food is horible.

You're allergic to their food ?

Caesar_Bojangle

I heard the other day that the words "100% beef" on the wrappers at McDonald's is actually copyrighted, so they can use the phrase, but that the "meat" is not actually 100% beef.

Thats very true. If you ask me, its quite ingenious.

DriftingRain

HEHEHE...I don't know about fast food resturants overseas. But the McDonalds here is yummy. I don't usually eat beef at all but their Cheesburgers/BigMac's are delightful. I think I'll go into a corner now ...:D

sceptre

Originally posted by Ri-ra
I heard the other day that the words "100% beef" on the wrappers at McDonald's is actually copyrighted, so they can use the phrase, but that the "meat" is not actually 100% beef.

Let's assume you mean "trade marked" rather than "copyrighted", otherwise what you've posted makes no sense.

"100% Beef" is a perfect example of a phrase that can't be trade marked, signifying as it does an expressible proportion of a base ingredient. Accordingly, McDonald's don't have the phrase "100% beef" trademarked (or indeed "copyrighted"). Additionally it's a phrase they wouldn't be allowed to use if it wasn't true. You are guaranteed that the meat comes from a part of a cow graded as "beef" (in other words, not cows eyeballs, see link below) and hence the description "100% beef" is accurate. Anything else is silly scaremongering by plonkers who can't check facts and who don't know any better.

As a slight aside, have a look here and here. Before the "I heard KFC don't use real chicken either" part of the thread starts, click here.

Sorry to rain on the parade.

DerekD Goldfish

I despice McDonalds about 1 yar ago I was draged into macdonals for the first time in years I order a quarter pounder with just ketchup(when ever you say red sauce they reply ketchup) and onions.
S I had to wait a few minutes after about five minutes I was called and handed quarter pounder with just cheeze I gave it back and told them my order again had to wait another five minutes by this time my mates(if I can call them that after draging me to a mcdonalds) were finished. I took one bite of the burger(which was still the wrong order as it had no onions) spit it out and put the rest in the bin.
I was in burger king once and they had some rodeo burger(or something like that) promotion a quater pounder with onion rings cheeze and bbq sauce. I asked for one without cheeze and they said it couldnt be done. I asked why I was told that it was a specal promotion and coulnt be altered.It wasnt as if I was asking for something extra how hard it is not to put cheeze on one burger for FS.I can only conclude that the burgers we all already made up hours ago.
Harrys or Abrakstrabra are slightly better but not much I tend to stick with proper chipers with proper chips when I want fast food.

Caesar_Bojangle

If my memory serves me right '100% beef' is the name of the McDonalds owned company that manufactures the burger boxes.

l3rian

I love the way McDonalds have 100% and PURE in huge letters on their fries packets, and 'vegetable oil' in tiny letters at the bottom, no mention of the fries ingredients

Grow up, kids

Oh great, a gathering of anti capitalist anti conformists who hate McDonalds. It seems some people here would swallow a brick. Do you believe every urban legend out there??

The main ingredient in McDonald's shakes is whole milk.

There is no beef in their fries, ffs.

As someone else already pointed out, you cannot 'copyright' the term 100% Beef.

The hygiene levels in McDonalds restaurants are far, far higher than your local family run chipper.

Yes, McD's food contains MSG. Big Deal. So does food in every restaurant. Ever eat a packet of crisps? They contain MSG. Enjoy soup? Riddled with MSG. As are pot noodles, anything in batter or breadcrumbs, most rice products and about 75% of products on sale in your local supermarket. Look out for E621 in the ingredients. That's MSG.

Check out your facts before closing your minds, people.

CuLT

Uh-oh, you've awakened Ronald McDonald, you're in for it now...


:E

l3rian

why create a new user name to troll?

Yumadin

Whatever they do to my food ohh yeah its good if its spit that makes my burger so juicy then spit is what should be on it as long as I don't see it! I have to disagree with everyone McDonalds is my favorite fast food!