Fast Food Warning
McDonald's Hits Africa.
I just can't help being an animal lover and I am really concerned for their welfare if this is true.
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No te metas en mis asuntos! Comeré lo que me da la gana!
Don't get mixed up in my business! I'll eat what I feel like!
Muuuucho.
Here's why:
Believe it or not McDonald's is one of my favorite places for a quick, low fat and low cal meal. I lost 45 pounds last year, often choosing lunch at McDonald's when I had to eat out as part of my weight loss strategy.
Their Premium Caesar Salad with grilled chicken is 220 calories. A packet of their low fat balsamic vinaigrette adds 40 calories. That's 260 total calories, 8 grams total fat (3 saturated). That and a cup of water and I feel like I've had a good lunch. And I can get that in any town in America.
McDonald's also has a reasonably low calorie and nutritious breakfast in their Egg McMuffin.
McDonald's $1 Fruit and Yogurt Parfait is unique amongst fast food chains. It's far more nutritious and less calorie laden than ice cream. It makes a better choice than hash browns as the breakfast side to an Egg McMuffin.
McDonalds tries to make decent coffee. They come closer than any other fast food chain.
McDonald's sweet tea: Does any other FF chain make tea this good?
Free wi-fi is at most McD's now. Nobody else is doing that as far as I can tell.
With all of the above that is really a big draw for me, you can also keep then kids happy at Mickey D's
It's not my favorite place to eat by any stretch. But the food is predictable, and if you order the right things, it's healthy.
Gee, is there a bandwagon here?
Oh, how easy it is to point the finger! If the parents that let their kids take in that much fat and sugar didn't have McDonald's to blame, I bet they still wouldn't look in the mirror.
Ray might not think much of the food but both he and Goyo list some of the reasons that I like having Micky D's around. But I don''t care where one eats, it is what one eats and it is about portion control and self control.
Fine with me if one wants to skip meat in their diet and during the forty days prior to Easter I actually look forward to the Filet-o-Fish at the big M.
Sorry, ít is something of a pet peeve that so much of the US is having an obesity problem and instead of fixing it, we're blaming someone else. Part of the blame falls on our legal system: I eat too much crap and then I sue the guy that I paid to cook the crap for me! I can steal someone's pickup truck and overturn it offroading and sue the manufacturer!
Now, I'm sad... I guess I'll go eat some more. But portion control!
And a day or so later he added: There was a time that I weighed 250 pounds and I can actually brag that I am part pig! So I feel justified throwing in my 2 cents.
This should put an end to Kenyan's dominating marathon races.
I must give a plug for McDonalds, I drive for two thousand kilometres in heat and long stretches of rough butumin with very few towns just to see my mom in Queensland , and when I see the golden arches I know I can get cool air conditioning, crap food, clean toilets , crap food, reasonable coffee to keep me awake , but crap food, so in the ballance I have to say I am glad to have
McDonalds, but they do have crap food. 
Oh, my God, Eddy, that's awful! I remember when they wanted to put a McDonald's in the Zócalo in Oaxaca, México, and the people revolted. It worked!! The food chain had to find another spot to set up shop and poison the Mexican people.
Nooooo! Another country down in McDonald's quest for world domination :(.
I'm a vegetarian which i guess makes me automatically opposed to McDonalds but even before i turned a veggie, i hated it. I would have no problem with eating meat if it wasn't for the animal cruelty that is responsible for the production of most of the meat we eat nowadays and that which is carelessly butchered and stuffed into fast-food.
What really ticks me off about McDonalds is how they pretend they are all ethical and healthy, committed to free range produce (at least that's what they say in the UK) bla,bla etc.etc... but how can they do that????!!! They have thousands and thousands of fast-food stores all over the world and probably millions and millions of consumers so how on earth can they say that all the meat in their food is free-range etc. ??? It's just not sustainable!
Plus, Certainly in the Uk, there have been many horror stories about what really goes into Mcdonald's Burgers and nuggets and it just makes me sick! It wouldn't surprise me if they slipped a bit of wildebeest meat into the burgers of unknowing consumers, covering themselves by saying that the Beef from African cows tastes so different because of their special African diets!! 
Definitely, I am ticked off at the lack of responsibility of some consumers. It's NOT McDonald's fault that you decided to buy the Supersize burger, fries and drink and got fat and unhealthy! Speaking of which, the Supersize option has long been gone from McDonalds due in good part to the reaction of that documentary where the guy had nothing but McDonalds for like..a few months? What stinks is that, normally, I wouldn't consider getting a supersize meal, but hey, sometimes, I WOULD like the option of just splurging once in a while. Sometimes, I've just come from the park after playing basketball for like 4 hours and am exhausted and NEED a calorie recharge. Supersize me dangit! But noooo, McDonalds now has to think about people that can't think for themselves and not have that option at all.
Another thing that reminded me of was hearing about some guy/lady getting a coffee and spilling some of it on their self. He/she then proceeded to sue (and win) saying that it was the fast food chain's fault (McDonalds? I forget!) for not warning about it (I mean, who would have thought..coffee being HOT??). Another great example of just 'echándole la culpa a los demás'. Sick..very sick.
I heard that the food pyramid we've all come to know, was actually formulated by lawyers, and not food and health nutritionist experts. So..should we actually pay attention to it? Whether or not we should, following that food pyramid would be better than what the 'typical american diet food pyramid' is. I mean, you can pretty much erase the vegetable and fruit sections..then you need to enlarge the meat and protein, fat and sweets sections to rival and maybe even be larger than the bread, cereal and rice group...which then would actually make it a food rectangle, or food box instead of a pyramid.
-Charlius-
McDonald's in Africa: Can We Afford It?
LuisaGomez said: Have you seen the shape and consistency of nuggets... What kind of chicken is that?
JulianChivis said I´ve been told it´s not real chicken
Oh it's real chicken, alright: Radiation-laced, mutated, talking, clothes-wearing, regenerative, bloated-eye-having chicken. If you don't believe me just have a look at this archival photo obtained from the McDonald's Institute in lower East New Delfia:
You didn't think that Ronald kept her around just for show did you...Oh no. This was and always has been a chicken with a purpose. Legend has it that in the 60s, in a McDonald's laboratory somewhere deep inside the rocky mountains, in a project code named "Operation Chickenfeed," a chicken named Early was genetically engineered to never stop growing and thus to provide a viable food source for generations to come. Every time Ronald plucks off a wing, another grows back.
Unfortunately for Early, the side effects of these experiments has been severe and include extended bouts of insomnia, severe paranoia, depression and fits of uncontrolled rage. In the fall of 1992, Ronald was forced to implement "Operation Chicken Proof," an attempt to remediate the damage caused to his organization stemming from the allegations which arose in the wake of the week long rampage that Early undertook in downtown New York City. This fiasco occurred following the annual Macy's day parade in which Early was able to briefly escape and elude her captors, prompting a shutdown of the city and a nationwide manh...er...that is, Chickenhunt.
Now, poor early has grown to nearly 3 stories and is kept in a cryogenic state (in an attempt to stunt her growth) in a secret underwater lab buried deep within the Mariana trench. In recent years, Ronald, in an attempt to keep pace with Early's growth, has implemented various marketing campaigns such as the "20pc chicken nugget" and "99¢ nuggets." Unfortunately, each of these attempts has failed to stymie the growth of this gargantuan chicken.
Unfortunately, this has not been the only casualty stemming from McDonald's laboratories attempts to cultivate new and dynamic food sources. Here are a few photos obtained from internal documents which reveal some of the clown's other failed experiments and cover ups:
The Fry Guys (Forced Cannabalism?)
An Earlier Failed Fry Guy Experiment
Infiltration of McDonald's Operatives Governmental Positions
Ties to Organized Crime
Big Mac Consumption May lead to birth defects
Various Averse Effects Implicated in Consumption of McDonald's food products:
Dramatic obesity, poor circulation, skin conditions, early onset dementia, lack of mental focus, emotional instability, paranoia, schizophrenia, memory loss and uncontrollable fits of binge eating
For many years, however, these experiments went largely unchecked and unnoticed by the public, largely due to the powerful and influential ties McDonald's has with all of the major media outlets as well as to the army of lobbyists it employs and extensive campaign contributions made to elected officials. Implications of corruption and misdoings appear to be widespread and reach all the way to the top of our governmental institutions. It has been reported that each of our last 6 sitting presidents have, at various times and on numerous occasions, received compensation for being photographed eating big macs during photo-ops.
In 2002, McDonald's stock took a devastating hit when researches from 4 continents published an article entitled, "Fowl Air" in the prestigious scientific journal Nature. This was then followed just weeks later by the publication of the article, "Fowl Play" in the environmental magazine, Clean Earth. In the scientific study, researches report having first discovered a seepage of CO2 gases bubbling up from somewhere deep within the Mariana Trench. Soon after, through the freedom of information act, investigators were able to discover the details of Early's genesis (although, her specific whereabouts remain shrouded in secrecy, mostly due to a federal gag order that was issued in 1999).
As a result of these investigations, many in the scientific community now agree that the entire global warming phenomena has been a direct result of the overactive metabolism of carbon sources required to sustain a 30 ft tall chicken. Further investigation also found that the increase in CO2 levels emanating from this source were increasing at a nearly exponential rate and if left unchecked, scientific models projected that the global warming phenomenon could increase at such a rapid pace that by December 2012, in coincidence with the end of the Mayan calender, human society will no longer be able to sustain itself and life as we know it on earth will end.
¿Cómo puede la gente ser tan cruel?
This is personal A few years ago my daughter had a very serious operation and was very weak and anemic after coming through, they held off on a blood transfusion because of the current problems and said she had to start eating fast. Of course she didn't want anything at all but finally admitted to a craving. I know all the reasons why, reverting to childhood, comfort food, etc, and I honestly thought there is no way she will keep That down, but I ran out and brought it back and she managed a few bites which got her stomach ready for food - and I have never looked at MickeyDs the same way since. And it's not like my kids had McDonalds a lot as children but of course they adored the playground area and always begged to go. It was in a way like going to a nice park with a drink and fries. (And by the way how do I get my text 'off' the rim of a picture?)
People get big and fat from the greasy fast food, then they have to go and pay another company (Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, Weight Watcher's) to get skinny again. It's a vicious cycle. The best way is to not allow yourself to get so heavy in the first place!
Y despues, vamos a el zoológico. He oído que se puede dar a comer a los animales! Imaginete! Hay una jirafa al que le gustan los Big Macs!
and afterwards, let's go to the zoo. I hear that you can feed the animals! Imagine, I heard there is a giraffe that likes Big Macs!
I hate to say this but, even though i absolutely, 100% hate McDonalds with a passion, maybe a large, wealthy company moving to Africa is not such a bad thing. It would give people employment and help the economy 
. I just wish it wasn't stinking McDonalds!!!
