Mc Donalds Bashing

Tha Gopher · 15-12-2004 04:47PM #1

Reading the Mc Donalds threads both here and in food/drink I was just wondering,why the hell is Mc Donalds bashing the favourite pastime of opinionated internet snobs?
Right fair is fair to the thread on AH. McDs probably is sh1te to work in. Infact its almost definite. Im not going on about this specifically,complain all you like as working there really does appear to be some greasy sweaty work(as shown by the way half the workforce seems to have bad acne)

But whats with the bashing of its food? You get virtually none of this in the real world. Bar vegetarians and the parents of one or two people I know,I cant think of anyone who doesnt like something of the McDonalds menu. Fair enough,theres loads I know(mainly older)who wouldnt eat there more than twice a year,but there are few out there with this mad thing about the food being rubbery or whatever. Face it-a Big Mac is a pretty tasty burger, The chips are generally decent considering they are mass produced so to speak. The Filet Fish are great. As are the quarter pounders. The rest of the burgers I generally dont eat,but if your taste is for them then they are good. The only rubber to be found in McDonalds is in their chicken,I dunno how anyone can eat that sh1te its so bloody flat tasting. But apart from the chicken,whos with me on admitting on the internet(the bolthole of the anti McDs freaks,they dont seem to have much ground in the real world)that for the price McDonalds is pretty safe,tasty food?

And I am sick to death of nobs saying things like "Mc Donalds? How can you go near it? Read Fast Food Nation". Yes,because as Milhouse once wisely told us "If its in a book its gotta be true!". I couldnt care less what FFN or Supersize Me show. I eat there most days(Id be in BK or McDs once a day,depending on my taste that day). I could be healthier in terms of strength and ability to run distance,but I am 10 stone,not a bleedin fat ass. I could be used as evidence in those court cases in the USA that eating in McDs daily does little to your weight

And besides,I can honestly say Ive eaten more off tasting meals in "good" restaurents/hotels than McDonalds. Your more likely in my experience to get overcooked,hard steaks down the local "good" place than McDonalds. We all know of people who have moaned because the turkey in the good joint was undercooked,but face it,how many times have you got undercooked fod in McDonalds? How many people do you know got food poisioning there? McDonalds is one of the better chain restaurents-the less said about Pizza Hut the better

pancakeman · 15-12-2004 04:52PM

Wat the hell are u on about? cud have made that post much smaller and we don't care if u like it. your gonna die before us.

Chalk · 15-12-2004 04:54PM

i dont like there food

the sauce on the big mac is nice tho
had a quarter pounder meal last week, first time in ages, watched that super size film and thought it was crap,all it made me do was want a burger

anyway had it for dinner and no side effects :rolleyes: burger just tastes bland without the the big mac sauce

for 7 euro or whatever it cost you could get much nicer quarter pounder and chips from a chipper and still have change

so to summarise
i dont eat in them places cos theyre not as nice as real chippers and you pay more fpor the provelege , meh.

I am MAN · 15-12-2004 04:54PM

I didnt read all of your post because it was too much effort but i just seen the bit where you say ya dont get anyone who doesnt like something off the mcdonalds menu, I can honeslty say I like nothing from McDonalds bar the coke or whatever.

tk123 · 15-12-2004 04:57PM

OK the food is good in my opionion and also what you're saying about people comparing it to "Supersize" me is true - the movie is abt somebody who ate huge amounts of junk food so it doesn't really compare to eating it every now and again or even every day I suppose!
BUT what you're saying about you eating there every day and being perfectly healthy/slim - your cholesterol could be through the roof for all you know. Just cos its not making YOU fat doesn't mean it's not doing you any damage!!

aidan_walsh · 15-12-2004 04:58PM

You like McDonalds, other people don't like McDonalds.
You like some stuff, other people don't like the same stuff.

Now that that has been established, congratulations on another post on the internet.

BolBill · 15-12-2004 04:58PM

I only started the other McDonalds thread to see what it was like to have worked there more recently than the early 90's thats all. The food is not been brought into question. I made a lot of friends from working there and thank God I worked there.

David19 · 15-12-2004 05:01PM

Mcdonalds doesn't just make you fat. You get a huge amount of sugar and salt if you eat there. You'll also miss out on a lot of vitamins. Its not a good idea to eat there too much. To say fast food nation has no effect on you is a bit crazy. It definitely had an effect on me. So did super size me but not on my own eating habits, more so the people who eat it everyday. That said I do have a burger king or a mcdonalds every now and again. Its not that great really, its just very quick and easy. I think thats why most people eat there. Its cheap too.

Trojan · 15-12-2004 05:03PM

Good for you.

I haven't been there in ~6 years, and don't have any plans to this side of 98.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 15-12-2004 05:06PM

i think I'm pushing a year or so since my last visit..

no plans to go back

Ms Beanbag · 15-12-2004 05:09PM

Mc Donalds food is nothing but plastic. It clogs up your arteries.
Full stop.

Trojan · 15-12-2004 05:10PM

I don't think it's *all* plastic. You need to look inside the packaging...

stevenmu · 15-12-2004 05:10PM

The McD bashing in the media lately has been pretty annoying. Sure it's unhealthy but nobody forces it down your throat. Sure they have ads but that doesn't mean you have to bring your kids there. McDonalds don't claim it's good food you should eat every day, even he head of McDs in Ireland was on the last word a while back and he said he wouldn't bring his kids in there more than once every few weeks. If you over eat anything it's going to pretty unhealthy, I bet eating nothing but bread for a month would be at least as bad as nothing but McDonalds, and nobody thinks we should ban bread. Fair play to McDonalds I say, they provide a service and charge for it, it's not their fault if people over use it.

"sorry, no big macs for you, you've had enough for one night"

simu · 15-12-2004 05:11PM

The last few times I went there (years ago), I threw up afterwards. Stomachs can't be snobby, can they?

Cactus Col · 15-12-2004 05:11PM

People hate McDonalds, for exactly the same reasons people hate Coca Cola, and Microsoft. It's mainly because that these are global brands who dominate their markets. (and let's face it many global companies haven't been hugely ethical in dominating those markets).

And, it seems that anti globalisation is pretty trendy at the moment.

(but wait to see the flocks of people going to Starbucks when they start shooting up all over the place)

herobear · 15-12-2004 05:12PM

actually for what you get, i think mcdonalds et al are a total rip-off
you can get a nice sandwich/roll and juice for cheaper, tastier and healthier too.
the soft drinks in these places nearly always make me want to puke, they're so carbonated its disgusting. the only stuff i pick up in mcdonalds nowadays are the strawberry shake and caramel sundaes....but thats still very rarely.

Stark · 15-12-2004 05:12PM

They've some nice things like the Chicken Flatbread (not sure if you can get it in the MacDonalds in Cork), and the Chicken Premiere (mmm, that bread is nice). But like posters said here, they're still extremely deficient nutritionally speaking. Was stuck in London for a weekend once and I only had access to that food (everything else was too expensive for me), I even went without the chips and the coke (just had the sandwich from the "healthy" menu and water) and I still felt like crap with loads of little yellow spots after it.

Blub2k4 · 15-12-2004 05:13PM

Any chance you would be into doing the super size me experiment too then?

Blub2k4 · 15-12-2004 05:15PM

Cactus Col wrote:

People hate McDonalds, for exactly the same reasons people hate Coca Cola, and Microsoft. It's mainly because that these are global brands who dominate their markets. (and let's face it many global companies haven't been hugely ethical in dominating those markets).

And, it seems that anti globalisation is pretty trendy at the moment.

(but wait to see the flocks of people going to Starbucks when they start shooting up all over the place)

Horse ****, people dislike it because it is extremely unhealthy and crap, plus they destroy the forests for their beef farms.

Ms Beanbag · 15-12-2004 05:16PM

stevenmu wrote:

The McD bashing in the media lately has been pretty annoying. Sure it's unhealthy but nobody forces it down your throat

what happens when you bring your kids in and give them a choice between fries & a salad. What do you think their gonna pick?!
the healthy option was a good idea but it needs to be thought out more...

Beruthiel · 15-12-2004 05:22PM

Tha Gopher wrote:

But whats with the bashing of its food?

well there in lies the rub
it's not food
not by my defination anyway....

Cactus Col · 15-12-2004 05:26PM

Blub2k4 wrote:

Horse ****, people dislike it because it is extremely unhealthy and crap

so is the food served in every chipper throughout the land, just so happens that mcdonalds are best at selling it.

why not complain about them?

(least mcdonalds aren't selling the whurley burger meal yet!)

Blub2k4 · 15-12-2004 05:29PM

Cactus Col wrote:

so is the food served in every chipper throughout the land, just so happens that mcdonalds are best at selling it.

why not complain about them?

(least mcdonalds aren't selling the whurley burger meal yet!)

cos the survey asked about mcdonalds...doh!

skywalker · 15-12-2004 05:31PM

Tha Gopher wrote:

The only rubber to be found in McDonalds is in their chicken,I dunno how anyone can eat that sh1te its so bloody flat tasting. But apart from the chicken,whos with me on admitting on the internet(the bolthole of the anti McDs freaks,they dont seem to have much ground in the real world)that for the price McDonalds is pretty safe,tasty food?

arent you doing the exact same thing you're complaining about? nobody bash the food at mcdonalds. its not rubbary its lovely. well except the chicken, thats rubbary. LEAVE THE CHICKEN ALONE, ITS LOVELY RIGHT!

smoke.me.a.kipper · 15-12-2004 05:35PM

i really like some of the mcdonalds menu. id prefer a local chippy burger and chips, but mcdonalds is quick, and im a lazy man.

Blisterman · 15-12-2004 05:35PM

Yeah and at least mcdonalds have better hygeine than most chippers.

Cactus Col · 15-12-2004 05:39PM

Blub2k4 wrote:

cos the survey asked about mcdonalds...doh!

there was a survey?

EKRIUQ · 15-12-2004 05:39PM

If you think McDonalds is bad for you, go to my chipper, grease, grease and more grease, the brown paper bag is soaking with it, I like Mcdonalds food I don't go every week but its not the worst, and its far less fatening than a lot of chippers around the country.

simu · 15-12-2004 05:43PM

TIPPTOP wrote:

If you think McDonalds is bad for you, go to my chipper, grease, grease and more grease, the brown paper bag is soaking with it, I like Mcdonalds food I don't go every week but its not the worst, and its far less fatening than a lot of chippers around the country.

McDonalds is ubiquitous so everyone knows how awful it is. Other chippers are only known in their local area so you're not going to get millions of people whinging about the on the internet - simple as that!

pretty-in-pink · 15-12-2004 05:44PM

if you worked in a ff place, or hotel or restaurant you wouldn't be so quick to eat the food there........clean and healthy my ass. Wait till word of a health visit comes and watch how quickly they all have to change.

anyways, i'll eat some mcDs if im stuck- but generaly speaking all that kind of food makes me spew. If ya eat it enough you won't. I challange any of the "i always/regularily eat McDs" to quit for 3 months, then try it........

It is fatty, bad for you, over salted as it has no taste, they use very little chicken/beef/fish etc- they only have to comply to minimum standards remember- why would they spend more then they have to?

It can make you fat and sick- but its your own fault for eating it. Things like ffn just told us the facts- so its not like someone with a grudge made it all up. You can take it or leave it. Personnaly I think its gross- but it lures you at 3am.

Cactus Col · 15-12-2004 05:49PM

naughty_girl wrote:

- but its your own fault for eating it.

you're right there, I reckon that's a big part of the problem. Nobody wants to admit to it being their fault.

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