uh salad at mcdonald's what could top
that welcome to watch
mojo and today we're counting down our
picks for the top 10 disgusting facts
about mcdonald's
that is nasty so even at two and three
and four those kids are being lured into
this so bring your appetite bring
everybody for this list
we're looking at less than savory
alleged details about this fast food
giant
disturbing facts aside what's your
favorite mcdonald's order
or better yet which nugget sauce do you
get let us know in the comments below
number 10. chicken wings or heads
we've all heard horror stories about
people finding strange things in nuggets
and burgers
as far as mcdonald's is concerned most
of these fall squarely in the category
of urban legend or hoax
this however is one of the few
verifiable exceptions
that is nasty i don't think it's that
bad that was pretty gross
it was pretty ugly back in november of
2000 a virginia woman got more than she
asked for at her local mcdonald's
as reported by abc news and fox
catherine ortega was plating up some
wings for her kids
when the shape of one caught her eye
this new addition to the mcdonald's menu
showed up in a carton after one virginia
mom
pulled up to the golden arches to feed
her kids the offending wing wasn't a
wing at all
but a battered and deep-fried chicken
head complete with a beak
mcdonald's was testing out wings in the
state of virginia at the time
unsurprisingly they did not take off
this head
peeks back at you you can't escape it
number nine
record-breaking sodium levels a chicken
head is obvious but
salt tends to fly under the radar and
the average amount of salt that makes it
into the average mcdonald's menu item is
astounding this month it's the cheddar
melt a quarter pound beef patty
topped with cheddar cheese sauce and
grilled onions on a rye
bun if we were to pile it up in front of
you in rock form you would gag
now as any chef will confirm salt is
essential to proper seasoning but
mcdonald's has been accused of overdoing
it
official american guidelines recommend
an average of 2 300 milligrams of sodium
per day
there's nothing like the world famous
taste of mcdonald's crispy golden
french fries especially when you can
enjoy a large order of them in an extra
value meal
with a single meal at mcdonald's you can
easily eat up a sizable portion of your
daily allowance
there are 940 milligrams in a big mac
the sausage egg and cheese mcgriddles
they pack a whopping 1290 milligrams
you're gonna want to order a drink to
wash that down
number eight ice cream machines from
hell we've all made the mistake of
forgetting about something in the back
of the fridge
when you open up that tupperware
container there's a nightmarish little
ecosystem
waiting to greet its creator with a foul
stench well as much as mcdonald's might
pride itself on its standards of
cleanliness
there's some equipment that falls
through the cracks the mick cafe
machines apparently take
30 to 45 minutes to clean thoroughly so
depending on the franchise
they have a tendency to get overlooked
that being said
nothing will make you reconsider your
ordering habits
quite like this inside look at the
mcdonald's ice cream machine as
documented by an employee who was asked
to clean it
this part of the machine doesn't touch
the food but still
number seven mcdonald's salads were
often worse than burgers
you may not be aware but mcdonald's has
ditched their salads
they got the axe during covet 19 to help
streamline drive-through ordering
but sources report there's no plan to
bring them back
and honestly it's no big loss my taste
buds just
went crazy the franchise marketed their
salads as a nutritious alternative for
the health conscious
but in some nightmarish twist of logic
they managed to make salads that were
often less healthy than their hamburgers
the courage lies with a man who has the
guts to say
no to a fast food restaurant and eat a
salad instead here's just one example
the
keep calm caesar on chicken salad was
marketed in 2016
as super healthy due to its inclusion of
kale but the crispy chicken option had
more calories fat
and salt than a double big mac oh it's
cleopatra
and caesar and they're bringing a salad
how wonderful
what's their secret it's all in the
dressing ah
salad at mcdonald's what could top that
number six mcdonald's strawberry shakes
contain
everything but strawberries let's first
dispel a popular myth about the mcdonald
chick
these milkshakes are listed simply as
shakes on most menus
resulting in internet conspiracy
theorists taking this as proof that they
don't contain milk unlike traditional
milkshakes mcdonald's shakes do not
contain ice cream
but the very first ingredient is still
milk
beyond that however they're on shaky
ground
in the case of the strawberry shakes the
ingredients list begins a dark descent
into the chemical abyss of horror that
is
food additives do they have crusty
partially gelatinated non-dairy
gum-based beverages
mm-hmm they call them shakes there are a
staggering
59 ingredients in a mcdonald's
strawberry shake most of which are
lumped together under the umbrella
ingredient
artificial strawberry flavoring like
methyl benzoate
hydroxyphenyl 2-butanone 10 solution in
alcohol
and solvent just like mom used to make
number five fries with a side of false
advertising
you'd think that the list of ingredients
for french fries would be simple
potatoes oil and salt that should be it
but you'd be wrong
and no mcdonald's is not using a bit of
vinegar in their parboil like you might
do at home
the mcdonald's fries are made using well
over a dozen ingredients
including mouthfuls like sodium acid
pyrophosphate
and dimethylpolysiloxane though not in
all markets
could be people like mcdonald's french
fries so much because of our patented
process
or because they're served up hot and
fresh but wait the fries have offended
in other ways too
for years mcdonald's fries were thought
up as a vegetarian option
in reality however the fries are
seasoned with natural beef flavor
when the truth got out mcdonald's was
forced to publicly apologize
especially to their customers in india
number four
mcdonald's feed 68 million people a day
go ahead and do the math if mcdonald's
own estimate of 68 million customers per
day is accurate
that means 1 in every 100 people on
earth
every day and considering the official
position of any self-respecting medical
professional regarding mcdonald's can be
summed up as
don't eat that especially not every day
this figure paints a pretty bleak
picture of our collective health and
nutritional values
mcdonald's cultivates dedicated
customers young and
keeps them coming back as they get older
with an extensive menu of affordable
fast food to cater to
every choice or trend when you put it
that way it sounds awful
as the mcdonald's training manual
proudly states they sell
over 75 hamburgers every second that is
a whole lot of fast food getting
consumed
sex i'm not even mad that's amazing
number three
its marketing strategies have been
called quote creepy and predatory
debuting in 1979 mcdonald's happy meal
is
the must-have fast food kids meal they
of course pioneered the happy meals
now the mighty kids meals also with
those little gotta have them toys
in fact the happy meal has actually
turned mcdonald's into the largest toy
distributor in the world
surpassing mattel and hasbro with over
1.5 billion toys distributed
it might seem like a costly giveaway but
not when you consider that they aren't
just selling a happy meal
they're making lifelong customers out of
children from the youngest possible age
so even at two and three and four those
kids are being lured into there
and it's that brilliant marketing that
drew the attention of nutrition watchdog
group cspi
who took mcdonald's to court over the
way they use toys to lure children into
their business
a marketing strategy they referred to as
quote creepy and predatory
mcdonald's has historically refuted the
accusation
number two melting nuggets
have you ever seen that video of the
raccoon trying to douse his cotton candy
it's adorable sad and oh so rewatchable
well turns out that if you leave your
nuggets too long
you could wind up just as disappointed
and confused as that poor little trash
panda
unlike the cotton candy chicken nuggets
won't disappear entirely
just the meat will according to an ex
mcdonald's employee and redditer he once
left about a hundred nuggets out in the
heat
when he returned he described the site
before him as
quote a pool of liquid nugget meat can
reportedly disappear in as little as two
days at room temperature and 10 days in
the fridge
blessing nuggets are weird and you
should eat them fast
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number one filthy future tech now
more than ever people are taking heed of
high touch surfaces
it's common knowledge that objects like
handrails and money collect bacteria up
until
2020 however the futuristic appeal and
convenience of touchscreens
seem to win out over our fears of germs
it makes it easy something you don't
have to wait in line it's quick
not anymore in 2018 researchers at
london metropolitan
university reportedly found fecal
bacteria on all eight units
one even tested positive for
staphylococcus while two others had
traces of listeria
mcdonald's released a statement saying
our self-order screens are cleaned
frequently throughout the day with a
sanitizer solution
all of our restaurants also provide
facilities for customers to wash their
hands
mcdonald's is likely cleaning these
screens more than ever
but simply by virtue of being
touchscreen they're dirty by
design if you do have to use a public
touchscreen
be it at mcdonald's or anywhere else do
not touch your face or eat until you've
sanitized and or washed your hands
it's not meant to be life-changing it's
just meant to modernize and evolve the
mcdonald's experience just to make us a
better mcdonald
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