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Originally posted by jhe888:
Can someone translate and tell us what it is that Americans have wanted for 12 years that McD's has not given us?

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Every couple of years I get nostalgic and forgetful so I go to a McDonalds. Afterwards I realize why I haven't been there for years.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

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Originally posted by jhe888:
Can someone translate and tell us what it is that Americans have wanted for 12 years that McD's has not given us?

Hookers.
Blow.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Every couple of years I get nostalgic and forgetful so I go to a McDonalds. Afterwards I realize why I haven't been there for years.

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Originally posted by xray 99:
I like their coffee. $1.09 including tax.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by f2:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
And I agree, fries in real grease can't be beat. McDonalds still has the best fries though, even with the canola.

speaking of canola, a vegetable oil, The Big Fat Surprise: Toxic Heated Oils - from Nina Teichol's excellent book

In late 2012, as I was researching the latest news on trans fat replacements, Gerald McNeill, vice president of Loders Croklaan, which is one of the country’s largest suppliers of edible oil, told me something scary. He explained that fastfood chains including McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s have swapped out hydrogenated oils and started using regular vegetable oil instead. “As those oils are heated, you’re creating toxic oxidative breakdown products,” he said. “One of those products is a compound called an aldehyde, which interferes with DNA. Another is formaldehyde, which is extremely toxic.”

Aldehydes? Formaldehyde? Isn’t that the stuff that’s used to preserve dead bodies?

He went on to tell me how these heated, oxidized oils form polymers that create “a thick gunk” on the bottom of the fryer and clog up the drains. “It’s sticky, horrible! Like a witches’ brew!” he exclaimed. Partially hydrogenated oils, by contrast, were long-lasting and stable in fryers, which is of course why they were favored. And beef tallow, McDonald’s original frying fat, was even more stable.

Do you really want to scare yourself? Do some research into all of the shit you put into or on your body. It really is amazing that we don't all keel over from some type of cancer in our 30s or 40s.

While the manufacturers of some of this shit will deny it until the cows come home, I am absolutely convinced that a lot of these chemicals contribute to the rise in various cancers, Alzheimers, diabetes, obesity, etc....

If for no other reason, how does one explain the logarithmic rise in these maladies over the past 50 or so years?

Google endocrine distrupting chemicals and hold on to your hat. You screw with hormones and they'll screw with you. Look at breast cancer rates since the advent of birth control pills for example.

I know that I'm going to croak someday and sooner than I'd like, but for the past few years, and going forward, I've gone as organic as I possibly can for this reason. Unfortunately, with all of the precautions that I take, I'll likely get run over by a bus with my luck.

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Originally posted by SigSentry:
I'm just grateful my first job was at Wendy's and not McDonald's. These days there are just way more choices. Where did I read that around half of millennials have never eaten at McDonald's? Fast food and healthy rarely go together but lots are trying...and failing

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Originally posted by arfmel:
“Senior coffee”:55 cents

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Originally posted by jhe888:
Can someone translate and tell us what it is that Americans have wanted for 12 years that McD's has not given us?