McDonald's

elexes · 04-08-2003 01:00PM

god this is a old post . but anyways .

whenever i go into mac d's ur bk i just order the burger i want take off all the toppings myself and eat away cause i dont like the stuff they put on them .

if i actually want a nice burger i will be willing to wait a while and willing to pay extra for the burger i do not believe that mac d's or bk can fill this void . instead i would go around to eddy rockets and get a atomic burger there where i can complain as much as i like if it aint done to my liking but usualy without fail they will be just fine .

if u wanted good nice food you would not go into mac d's or bk . if u want fast food that has basic nourishment values it dose the ticket ...

imo you should not of been refused if u were polite to the ppl on the other side of the counter .

GuanYin · 04-08-2003 01:16PM

Originally posted by elexes
imo you should not of been refused if u were polite to the ppl on the other side of the counter .

Thats probably the key.

He doesn't really sound like the polite type.

elexes · 04-08-2003 02:09PM

i know in my personal experience whenever a person comes into work demanding i do somthing i will put them at the very end of my todo list r take a early / extra lunch .

Miguel_Sanchez · 04-08-2003 02:20PM

Originally posted by elexes

if u wanted good nice food you would not go into mac d's or bk . if u want fast food that has basic nourishment values it dose the ticket ...

Basic Nourishment values? Ah come off it. There's more nourishment in toilet paper than in MacDonald's food I'd say.

GuanYin · 04-08-2003 02:21PM

This thread keeps reminding me I haven't eaten yet today

oq4v3ht0u76kf2 · 04-08-2003 02:22PM

Regarding meat in the fries, no milk in shakes... that's all, for want of a better term, bollocks. McDonald's could not and do not sell things like that, their fries are... shock shock horror horror... fries. The meat is 100% beef whether you like it or not, the chicken is made from chicken breast and, well, you get the point. The reason McDonalds can afford to sell 100% pure beef patties at such a low price is because they are the kings of buying in bulk... think about all the McDonalds in Ireland... now in Europe... now in the world.... you get the idea. The ingredients are fine.

About food safety and hygeine... I started in McDonalds a couple of weeks ago and before then I rarely ate there... now I find myself eating there even on my days off because they are very, very strict about hygeine and safety. Hands are washed every half an hour, if you open a bag of lettuce and don't use it in an hour... in the bin it goes. The same with onions, cheese etc... it's all top quality stuff.

The only time you'll get below quality food in McDonalds is due to the workers ****ing things up. That is all.

patch · 04-08-2003 02:45PM

seen as as a few dummy's appear to be defending Mcdonalds, I was considering posting that there's prolly cat DNA in your burgers. I couldn't remember where I heard that though, so I did a quick search. Feel free to look for harder evidence.

http://www.christinel.org/blog/archives/000122.html

Fast Food Nation.......

amp · 04-08-2003 03:06PM

Kitten DNA in McD's you say... hmmmm. Wonder if they'll sell cakes.

The only reason I'd order a custom burger is if it's quiet and the burgers were looking a little pensionable. Otherwise I just remove the pickle manually (doubles as a check for plasters, beatles, etc.)

sceptre · 04-08-2003 03:44PM

Originally posted by patch69
I was considering posting that there's prolly cat DNA in your burgers. I couldn't remember where I heard that though, so I did a quick search. Feel free to look for harder evidence.

The link doesn't actually say that. Do you have cow DNA in your body from eating beef or chicken DNA from eating chicken? Or potato DNA, ph you get the idea.

Fast Food Nation is actually a cracking read, well-worth picking up. Better off reading the book though than a review of the book put up by some chick.

Sangre · 04-08-2003 04:05PM

Cows eat cats now?

patch · 04-08-2003 04:13PM

Originally posted by sceptre
The link doesn't actually say that. Do you have cow DNA in your body from eating beef or chicken DNA from eating chicken? Or potato DNA, ph you get the idea.

Fast Food Nation is actually a cracking read, well-worth picking up. Better off reading the book though than a review of the book put up by some chick.

*sigh* The point I was making, badly, is that cat's were bought up, ground into feed and fed to cattle. These cattle were turned into burgers. As I said, that was the first site which came up.

If you ate a cat, you would indeed have cat DNA in your system.

The Sweeper · 04-08-2003 04:43PM

Patch

Up to the outbreak of the BSE crisis, a widely accepted animal feed for commercially raised cattle and sheep contained a substance known as MBM - Meat and Bone Meal. MBM would be mixed together with wheat meal and fish meal and bagged up and sold as a high protein feed that was cheap to buy and effective in sustaining and fattening up livestock intended for human consumption.

In order to make MBM you heat carcasses, remove the fat from the top of the pot and dry the remainder to a powder.

With regard to your claim that cows are fed cat, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that this has happened but to be honest, up to the BSE outbreak cows were routinely fed the rendered remains of other cows. I'm fairly sure that it's more cost efficient to render large-animal carcasses to make MBM than it would be to try and produce the same volume of feed from Fluffy and her kittens.

This essentially means that any meat product you consume - chops, a steak, oxtail soup, roast lamb - could have come from an animal that has been exposed to the same rearing procedure as the cattle used for McDonalds meat.

MBM has since been banned as animal feed - although how widespread that ban is and how strictly it's enforced I don't know.

If you're going to take issue with the Golden Arches corpo, I suggest you attack their global conglomerate approach to exploitative employment and the pressure their demand for produce puts on farmers and the environment, instead of being the boy who cried "Cat!".

patch · 04-08-2003 05:18PM

Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels
Patch

If you're going to take issue with the Golden Arches corpo, I suggest you attack their global conglomerate approach to exploitative employment and the pressure their demand for produce puts on farmers and the environment, instead of being the boy who cried "Cat!".

LoL.....Fair enough.......I don't eat there, I don't care if anybody else does! But I'll be that boy if you like.....

DerekD Goldfish · 04-08-2003 06:44PM

Mabye I was being picky but if even the smallst bit of mayo makes me sick and the easi singles type cheeze they put on the burgers is disgusting then I dont think it too much trouble to ask to change it.
I was perfectly polite on those ocasions as im the kind of bloke who will smile nicely at the time and then moan about it to friends and on here after.
I understand that if every person went in and wanted a specal order it would ruin It for everbody but its not my fault im fussy things like gerkins can be taken off easally but mayo of that manky cheeze they use cant.I know im they kind of guy people who work in these place hate but who wants to be liked.
By they way the reason I dont like McDonalds is not because of some petty mistake with the order its because the food tastes like crap.

Victor · 04-08-2003 08:06PM

Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels
"eugh, can you hold the gherkins, I HATE gherkins.

Dill pickle actually. Not that I know the difference.

Apparently it is also legal (though at least Pedigree says they don't do it) to put dog and cat into dog and cat food. Confusing, and disturbing!

So thats why it's called cat food! Although, while buying dog food recently, I noticed one of the other brands with "now with extra lamb" :rolleyes:

Victor · 04-08-2003 08:33PM

Originally posted by Grow up, kids
There is no beef in their fries, ffs.

Pre-1992 McDonalds used a mixed animal-vegetable fat for cooking their fries. In 1992 they introduced a animal fat free fat. In fact, this fat contain trace amounts of animal fat, which made more than a few Hindus throw up.

fizzy · 04-08-2003 11:23PM

i promise i'm no relation of ronald but i've got to say that i *love* mc donalds

i'm a very fussy eater and mc ds is one of the few places i can enjoy a good meal - supersize fries n apple pie does it for me every time

when i was younger i ate the burgers too but i always had to ask for a plain one which caused a long delay sometimes but other than that no probs...

so i'm slightly distressed to see mc donald's doing badly these days in some parts but their irish operation will always be in profit once i'm around. to be honest, i reckon if it *wasn't* for mc donald's i'd be 6 ft under by now

what i don't have much time for is the mc cafe idea where the nicest bit of grafton street is limited to coffee drinking yuppies and the big mac n fries lovers who made them their sqillions are shoved down the back!!! ...excuse me, i think i need to lie down now....

Tha Gopher · 05-08-2003 01:50AM

Is it just me or is Mc Donalds bashing a bit of a hobby for some? I mean Ri Ra, what do you mean it isnt 100% beef. Do you think they take the time to mix a bit of horse meat into it? For fcuk sake get a grip! If it wasnt beef dont you think somebody would have said"does any1 think these big macs taste like gone off bacon?" Grow up ffs.

Our Man in Moscow-wtf would they go to the effort of making chips from eggs and flour?I know you posted it two years ago so i only hope you got more sense.

If I hear one more person tell me about this fast food nation book ill fcuking shoot them. What,just because a book says that Big Mac lettuce is actually derived from birds sh1te dyed green and freshened with water it makes it true? And is it just me or does this much talked of book not actually seem to be on sale anywhere? Whether its the anti fast food lobby or Michael Moore everybody is prepared to jump on a bandwagon that often is led by some author with half true "facts".

And i think every local McDonalds has had a story spread concerning employees **** into the mayonaisse. Most of these are probably spread by the same take away owners who spread the rumours years ago about chinese restaurents cooking stray dogs and cats in an effort to shut them down.

And if anybody cares the worst experience i had with a nationwide chain was in Abrakebabra. A few years ago they had a joint in Bundoran Donegal,a popular seaside resort. Anyways,queued half an hour in one very long queue only to be told at the tp that that queue was for collecting food. The one next to meh was for ordering. Cheers for putting a sign at the bottom of the queue lads. When i finally did get my food the burger was freezing cold.
They closed there soon after.

I got gandhis revenge from a dodgy burger bun locally before but thats off topic.

While McDonalds occasionally fcuks up your order theres no denying they do great food.

DapperGent · 05-08-2003 11:22AM

Another vote here for people to read Fast Food Nation before they judge all Micky D bashers to be ignorant hippies.

I eat in Mc Donalds sometimes when I'm in a hurry but rarely enough and I don't touch the fries or the chicken. If I was in America I wouldn't touch the beef.

The actual "taste" of the food is manufactured in a chemical plant and simply added. Thats how they got around the beef tallow thing, the fries still taste the same they just use chemicals instead of animal fat.

Finally as the man Eric Schlosser himself said: "There's shit in the meat."

Serbian · 05-08-2003 11:27AM

Originally posted by 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).

I heard they put beef in the Hot Chocolate...

GuanYin · 05-08-2003 12:00PM

Originally posted by Serbian
I heard they put beef in the Hot Chocolate...

I heard they use little childrens tears instead of water.

Mr E · 05-08-2003 12:07PM

I read Fast Food Nation. It put me off McDonalds for about a month. Then one day, I got a craving for a big mac meal, and that was it..... I was back.

- Dave.

Dr. Loon · 05-08-2003 12:24PM

Moany bástards!! I have absolutely no problem asking a worker in Mc D's or BK to change something small on my burger. I do so nicely, and the reason I do it is so my burger (mostly anyway) will be cooked from scratch, therefore piping hot when I receive it.

It won't come out like a saggy piece of shít (falling down anyone?) that tastes like cardboard. It'll be fresh. I am always courteous to the employees, as I believe they have a crap job and they don't need customers giving them grief just cos they can. Plus I don't want any of the "Extra special sauce" we all hear about :rolleyes:

Only one time did I have a problem, it was in BK. The guy behind the counter was foreign and was acting very strangely. He was ignorant and rude. I had to repeat my order about 5 times and he'd fúck it up every time. I rolled my eyes and went to repeat again. He called the bouncer over!! I explained what was going on to the bouncer - the bouncer got the manager for me, who pullled the guy off the counter, and then she got me my proper order - for free. Good stuff. Apparently he was giving almost every customer hassle!

Anyone that's stroppy with the workers in any fast food place, deserves a glob of cum on their burger IMO.

mooman_00 · 05-08-2003 12:33PM

I eat in mc d's occasionally and have to agree that their food is great and always tastes the same/good.
I also feel that they are for the most part a lot cleaner and safer than other fast food joints as they have standards, rules and regulations that they conform to.
I would be a lot more concerned by the local chipper whom no-one as such watches over. They dont claim to have 100% irish beef, or 100% beef for that matter, as macdonalds do but that doesn't mean that they actually use healthier produce than mc d's.
Id prefer to eat in mcdonalds anyday over some of the local chippers you can walk into.

xx · 05-08-2003 01:03PM

Originally posted by 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.

Good point. I was in the Galway Maccy D's lately and it was spotless (the one on shop street). Been in the Grafton Street Mc D's and its a fetid dump. Full of skangs too. Never again.
Anyway, after a night on the grog, give me a spicy kebab from Abra-ca-stab-ya any day.

Sev · 05-08-2003 01:22PM

Originally posted by Serbian
I heard they put beef in the Hot Chocolate...

Sure that's better than putting something that isn't beef in the hot chocolate as the other stories go.

STaN · 05-08-2003 02:34PM

Originally posted by xx
Anyway, after a night on the grog, give me a spicy kebab from Abra-ca-stab-ya any day.

Abra-ca-bos-nia

So true for local chippers to... *mumble* macari's

anyway, as a former employee when i was an underage sprocket

the staff were always professional and the managers enforced strict health codes. Mistakes are always made.

As for the food, its marked on the boxes as 100% beef or 100% potatoes

Really fun job for 15/16 year olds, and good work expierence as there is allot of different area's of training

Venom · 05-08-2003 02:48PM

Originally posted by TmB
I read Fast Food Nation. It put me off McDonalds for about a month. Then one day, I got a craving for a big mac meal, and that was it..... I was back.

- Dave.

Read that ver same book and I havent eaten in McDonalds since the last world cup.

Miguel_Sanchez · 05-08-2003 04:14PM

Someone said that you can't find Fast Food Nation anywhere?

Hmmmm... have you tried looking in bookshops? I've seen it in loads of bookshops. Easons, Waterstones, Hoggis Figgis would all definitely have it. Even the majority of smaller shops will have it - it has sold a lot of copies as far as I'm aware.

Whatever about the hygiene in MacDonald's (I don't normally hear much bad things about that area) the place's food tastes pretty manky. (Mind you I haven't eaten in a MacDonald's for the last 8 years)

Pretty much all fast food places leave me feeling vaguely queasy a while afterwards. But you do get cravings for burgers and that sort of ****e. It's all the damn chemicals they put in them. Sure you're getting 100% beef - but you're also getting a whole pile of other crap that keeps you addicted. Recent studies have said that the way the majority of fast food is prepared and the chemicals that are added to it make it as addicitive as cigarettes.

http://www.nypost.com/health/513.htm

BKtje · 05-08-2003 04:21PM

and the reason I do it is so my burger (mostly anyway) will be cooked from scratch

If you want a fresh burger all you have to do is ask it for 'off thr broiler'. On the old tills (ie none touch screen) there was a button for this, dont think there is one on the new ones but whenever it was asked for, i told them to just call it back off the broiler.

Just because they you ask for it special doesnt mean it will eb fresh. In BK they put the burger through the broiler (which flame grills them surprisingly), once it pops out its stuck in a device called a 'steamer' which keeps it moist (should only be in there for approx. 10 minutes). During peak times you will always get a fresh burger altho at night/ not busy periods its probably better to just ask for one off the broiler if you want it fresh.

Hope i made your experience at BK more enjoyable with above info

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