Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are taking food…again….I have yet to receive
snacks….
And I need some.
Get ready to have your tastebuds tingled as we talk about the Top 10 Fast Food Urban Legends.
Before we take a big old bite out of this video I have a few things to say – firstly
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Back to this tasty morsel of a video – let me know what your favourite fast food item
is – I am all about some Poutine.
YES CANADA.
Leave me a comment in the comments section down below and we’re gonna chat about food
until we have to call papa john to stop us.
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OKAY FAST FOOD URBAN LEGENDS I AM READY
10 - The Pink Slime Get a load of this picture.
I am almost certain that you have all seen it before.
It has been wideeeeeely circulated on the internet – if you think soft serve strawberry
ice cream, you think yum….when you think animal…well….it’s pretty gross.
This image was said to be mechanically separated chicken – an entire chicken smashed up and
pressed through a mechanical sieve.
No meat wasted – even if that meat was eyeballs and brains.
The pink slime was attributed to McDonalds Chicken nuggets although others were saying
that it was actually mechanically separated hamburger meat.
Either would be totally gross and a total desecration of anything resembling meat.
After reading an extensive snopes article it seems that the pink slime isn’t chicken
but could well be boneless lean beef trimmings – since 2012 McDonalds and a bunch of other
fast food restaurants have agreed to stop buying BLBT.
9 - The Finger in the Chili Ah the old finger in the chili legend.
I am from England, not North America where Wendy’s is located but even I have heard
of this popular legend.
The story goes that in 2006 a Wendy’s Customer, Anna Ayala found a finger in her bowl of chili
at a Wendy’s location in San Jose.
The story became HUGEEEEE and was circulated globally, disgusting people in all states
and beyond, damaging the Wendy’s brand and the fast food industry as a whole.
It turns out though, that Ms Ayala and her boyfriend Jaime Placencia had placed the finger
there themselves as part of an extortion scheme.
8 - The Secret Menu
You always here people talk about secret menus at fast food restaurants.
You’ll see blogs online dedicated to sharing secret menu items and people convinced that
they are in on some kind of delicious illicit society by knowing that actually, you can
order a KFC sandwich with chicken tenders instead of bread buns…or ten burger high
stack creations at McDonalds.
The truth of it is that many fast food restaurants will serve you items that aren’t listed
on their menus because they’re easy enough to make – I ordered a butterbeer from Starbucks
once for example.
For most restaurants it isn’t just a conspiracy … although In n Out Burger do have a secret
menu – its listed on their website under not so secret menu…which maybe defies the
point.
Some secret menu items are still just Urban Legends… like the McGangbang for example.
Although life imitates legend – some stores will now make it for you!
7 - The Spelling Error Ever been to Starbucks and ordered a drink
and had a totaaaallly weird spelling on your cup?
Say you are called James but your cup has come back with J – double AA - YMZE?
Here are a few of my favourites - guess what they actually say.
So this one is Barbara, This one is Laura and this one….oh dear it has all gone wrong…
this one was supposed to be Anne Louise.
WELL rumour has it that Starbucks spells your name wrong on purpose because it is more likely
that you will share the drink on social media and they will get more brand advertising.
It is a certainly widely perpetuated conspiracy theory.
6 - The Animal Fat Milkshake Urban legend has it that your delicious McDonald’s
milk shakes contain more animal fat than their burgers...heavily striking them from the list
of vegetarian things you can eat at the restaurant.
While most people don’t go to McDonalds to avoid meat – they don’t expect it in
their drinks…right?
Well it seems that the pig fat content of their drinks is nothing more than an urban
legend….although that being said – often there is actually more fat in one of these
drinks than the burgers.
There are 28 grams of fat in a large vanilla milkshake and 1100 calories.
There are 26 grams of fat and 520 calories in a quarter pounder with cheese…so…you
know.
5 - Horsemeat Tacos SO legend has it that there is more than just
beef in your tacos…and I guess this is the concern for many fast food restaurants.
There is no way of knowing that what the companies are saying is in their food is actually what
is in their food.
I guess the Horsemeat scandal was one prime example of that and it perpetuated many urban
legends about fast food ingredients.
So the truth of it is is that Tacobell was wrapped up in the 2013 British horsemeat scandal
when their three UK outlets were showing significant traces of horsemeat in their ground beef,
which is a fundamental ingredient to pretty much all of their menu items.
4 - Salad’s Are Healthier Options Does anyone still believe this?
Surely not, right?
When it comes to fast food….
Never trust a salad without checking what is in it.
Fresh vegetables are better for you than unrefined sugars, carbs, cheese and greasy meat… but
a lot of fast food salads actually come with all of these things as well!
Wendy’s Garden salad with Manderin chicken is worse than their double quarter pounder
burger – although it weighs a lot more so is more likely to fill you up.
The Tacobell Fiesta salad has 45 grams of fat and 840 calories, more than most of their
burritos and the Burger King Chicken Tendercrisp salad has more calories, fat, carbs and sugar
than the whopper.
I’m not saying don’t get the salad, I am saying check ingredients and nutrition
information if you want to know you are getting a healthy option.
3 - The Eternal Burger The rumour is that Fast food, especially McDonalds
burgers will never decay and will look basically the same as they do today forevermore.
Why?
Because preservatives, bro!
So a few posts went viral on social media – a woman shared an image of her Chicken
Nuggets Happy Meal she bought six years ago in Alaska and it looked exactly the same…
and of course the 12 year old burger that didn’t rot.
The truth is that yes, there is a wholeee load of preservatives in fast food, but they
would still rot in a lot of conditions, but they seem preserved if they are stored properly.
2 - Coca-cola contains Cocaine Legend has it that sugary soda coca cola got
its name because it used to contain cocaine.
I don’t know about the name part but the cocaine part is real!
Back in the early 1900s there was indeed a class A narcotic in the soft drink!
By 1929 the drug was removed but when people started swilling back cool glasses of coke
in the late 1800s they had no idea cocaine was bad for them – some even gave it as
medicine to children.
There is still a worrying drug in cocaine, something a large proportion of the world
is hooked on – Sugar.
Sugar can be a killer and there is a LOT of it in coke!
1 - The Mutants There have been a number of fast food mutant
monster urban legends, but the most popular apply to KFC and McDonalds.
In early 2000, rumours started flying around the internet that Mcdonalds meat was made
from genetically modified cow mutants, grown specifically to be burger food in secret lab
somewhere.
The original source seems to be from a fake email “uncovered” in Brazil.
The email said that the people who had seen the creatures reared in the lab were horrified.
They said that the mutants had no limbs, bones, horns or fur, that their heads were the size
of a baseball and they were fed through tubes directly through to the stomach.
Similarly, KFC were accused of genetically engineering headless chickens.
So far as we are aware this is a hugeee myth….
Okay so that was the Top 10 Fast Food Urban Legends – do you know any more!
Let me know in the comments section down below.
Also….has this changed any of your opinions on your favourite menu items?
I’m gonna read some comments from one of DANNT’s videos – unprecedented, I know
! It is related though – the Top 10 Discontinued
Snacks that have returned.
– shall we do this specifically with fast food?
Jordan Graham said: I loved those cheese balls so damn much and I still do to this day although
I don't really eat them a whole lot anymore.
But now that Danny's mentioned them I feel like going out to the store or somewhere and
getting a huge jar of them...?
WOaaah it sounds like Egypt is the place to be!
Corgi Lover wrote: In Egypt we have strawberry Twinkies, chocolate Twinkies and the original
there are even ones with icing like...BRUH?
Jonathan Emptage said: Yes I'd love a part two My favroute snack is Lamb and mint walkers
sensations but that particular flavour has been discontinued.?
Ooooh what a flavour!
I am nots sure how I feel about that!
I like the Worcester sauce ones!