hello hey man what's the matter you sound like you just saw a clown
thousands upon thousands of people eat at mcdonald's restaurants every day and
you may be one of them controversies and scandals have haunted the fast food giant
like ghosts in a scary movie so here are the top 10 most disgusting mcdonald's facts
mcdees and salt how is that
salty while it's true that most chefs insist that some salt is necessary to bring out the flavors
in many foods there is a huge difference between using salt and abusing it mcdonald's salt overuse
certainly doesn't seem to bother people that much as more and more salt keeps being added
to their beloved menu items salty so salty take the quarter pounder with cheese this cheeseburger
has over 1100 milligrams of salt which is nearly half of a person's recommended daily allowance
the artisan grilled chicken sandwich may sound more healthy than the quarter pounder but it
has even more salt does it really taste that salty though maybe that's why people don't
always realize just how much salt actually goes into their stomachs that's not exactly what you
expect when you order a burger a giant pool of regret you know i have no regrets roger kiosk
roulette no it'd be against my moral compass your moral compass is a roulette wheel if 2020 hasn't
reminded you of the importance of personal hygiene then we don't know what will hopefully it reminded
mcdonald's to clean their self-serve kiosks more often maybe they're even cleaner than back in 2018
when tests conducted in the uk revealed all the junk that were commonly found on the touch screens
that's disgusting obviously these bacteria are often found where sick people are like hospitals
but in a fast food restaurant no thank you no you can't go to public places with a lot of people and
expect to not come in contact with germs and all of that granted but don't we all just wish people
would wash their hands more often businesses like mcdonald's have been under a lot of financial
pressure for a while and one of the ways they plan to cut costs is by relying more on technology like
self-serve ordering kiosks and less on people even though we've already established that not
every customer can be trusted to be responsible there are always costs and setbacks with these
kinds of decisions but poop bacteria on the touch screens shouldn't be something you have to worry
about while ordering your happy meal the worms are in their brain mcdonald's apology accepted
we're sorry we're sorry no one likes to admit when they've done something wrong and multi-billion
dollar corporations are no exception but sometimes it just seems necessary mcdonald's found the
strength to say sorry when it was revealed that their famous french fries were made using
natural beef flavoring this admission was particularly important to vegetarians who
believed the fast food chain when they marketed the french fries as vegetarian hey i'm vegan
mcdonald's disputed this and responded that they never explicitly said the fries were vegetarian
friendly which obviously sparked another debate but in 2002 the company released a statement
on their website saying they had no intent to inflict any hardship on anyone vegetarians or not
many questions still remain like what exactly is beef flavoring and why was it added to mcdonald's
french fries in the first place beef flavoring is a synonym for beef extract and is presumably added
to fries to improve the flavor and make people want to eat them again and again does beef extract
push people into a vicious addiction to french fries maybe maybe not some people even think
there's some sort of devious conspiracy behind it well apology or not conspiracy or not several news
reports confirmed that the golden arches continued to use the ingredient for at least another decade
in many countries so really how heartfelt was that apology anyway you really think someone
would do that just go on the internet and tell lies happiest meal on earth i'm so happy
almost everyone today is familiar with the mcdonald's land characters from the happy
meal especially if you were around when they were first introduced in the 1970s spoiler alert
in case you didn't know mcdonald's has corded children as customers of course for some people
this is a common sense business decision but for others it constitutes nefarious and aggressive
marketing tactics that need to be addressed some health experts tried time and again to pressure
the company into offering healthier choices for the happy meal and eventually made somewhat of
a compromise parents can now choose milk instead of soft drinks and apple slices instead of fries
not so bad but not so great either however the kids of today don't know any difference but we
doubt anyone is ditching the toy just to get those apple slices in a further bid to answer the calls
to ease off on marketing to kids mcdonald's jettisoned the mcdonald land characters like
mayor mccheese grimace and the fry kids some pressure was also put to get rid of ronald
mcdonald the iconic clown but the company drew the line there at least for the time being time
to draw the line mcdonald's hamburgers forever how old are you restaurants and grocery stores are
known to try and make food last as long as they can because wasting food isn't good for anybody
it's not good business however mcdonald's may have unintentionally taken this too far there have been
tons of stories or urban myths depending on how you look at them regarding this issue just like
the alleged miraculous ability of hostess twinkies to last forever mcdonald's hamburgers have been
charged with the same extraordinary long life span some people have claimed that after being
cooked the burgers can last for several years without ever decomposing over the years people
have shared pictures of their favorite menu items like french fries chicken nuggets and hamburgers
to show just how long they can remain unspoiled we've been eating that thing for a week i think
the mayonnaise is starting to turn and the results are quite scary a lot of experts and
websites have tried to debunk these stories or at least give an explanation one of the reasons
why these items don't seem to lose their uselike appeal very quickly is because of all the salt and
preservatives they contain it can also be because hamburgers are relatively low in moisture after
being cooked so it prevents mold from growing but for some reason the first explanation sounds more
likely so the next time you order your beloved big mac think about how long it could sit on
your desk without going bad you just might want to reconsider yet amazingly people are still eating
chicken the mcdonald's chicken head that's a big chicken fast food giants like mcdonald's have all
suffered from the slings and arrows thrown by critics ridiculing the quality of their food at
one point or another now we're not delusional we know not to expect gourmet food when going
to mcdonald's but is it too much to ask to not include a deep-fried chicken head in our mc wings
well apparently an unfortunate customer was faced with the troubling answer yes it was too much to
ask the story of this woman has been told over and over but it still remains a little suspicious
it supposedly took place 20 years ago this story could easily be an urban legend spread
and magnified by the sensationalism encouraged on social media the debate however still lingers
online as some people chalked it up to what many today would call fake news skeptics have offered
several arguments to justify exactly this like how the alleged head seems too well preserved
to have gone through all the processing it has to go through before it actually reached the
woman's plate another good point is that it's pretty unlikely that not a single mcdonald's
employee noticed a chicken head being cooked and served and on top of everything else
mcdonald's never got the chance to examine the chicken head in question even though the
customer threatened to sue so there's a lot of fishy stuff surrounding this whole thing
some stories are better left untold and perhaps this one should be put to rest
so that we could still enjoy our mickey d's chicken without having nightmares
those aren't arches nudge nudge wink wink who followed that oh that's some pure dick magic
right there there's this raquel welch joke told in an episode of the 1990s sitcom seinfeld involving
the pope in a lifeboat with the hollywood beauty at some point the pope confuses her generous
anatomical features and the punch line those aren't buoys is exclaimed this is a corny old
joke that goes way back to a different era the mcdonald's franchise got its start in this era
and the people who signed off on the famous golden arches logo might have been big fans of miss welch
mcdonald hired a psychologist to help with the design of the logo and he recommended that the
m be shaped in a way that would evoke maternal love or more specifically the idea of breasts in
a customer's subconscious these efforts to affect people on a psychological level may seem odd to
fast food customers who frequently go to the fast food chain for its tasty burgers and french fries
however it's a highly competitive billion dollar industry and companies seek to gain an advantage
by any means necessary in this context they thought if there were any chance an association
with a bosom would sell more burgers then why not try it this might not be a disgusting fact per se
but it is a little strange that this much thought was put behind it that's weird hamburglar on the
run running running running running running running run in an effort to appease health
food advocates and other groups that attacked mcdonald's for trying to appeal to children
mcdonald's had to let go of most of its colorful mascots and come up with new ideas
although you might not remember this move created a bit of a stir in the advertising world some
people say there's no such thing as bad publicity but judging by the reaction people had to the
rebooted hamburglar the opposite may have been true the character's new look literally polarized
customers literally transformed from a cartoonish rogue to a real-life hipster dad figure it was all
kinds of creepy he looked too much like the kind of dude you wouldn't want to hang around your kids
at parties i mean most people are already freaked out by clowns enough as it is so why bring another
kook into the mix hamburglar has been gone from mcdonald's play places since 2002 so it's hard to
understand why mcdees thought it would be a good idea to bring back the mcdonald bland character
having to be identified as every kid's nightmare for the next few years that's got to be tough the
fast food company probably should have quit while they were ahead and kept the hamburglar retired
we sure don't want any creepy man on our happy meals i stole big macs to feed my silence
mcd's monopoly and scandal let's play this game mcdonald's longest running and most
popular promotion is definitely its crossover with the iconic monopoly board game but just
because it's iconic doesn't mean it's morally right between 1989 and 2001 almost every winner
of the promotion was picked by an inside man ironically and almost comically the man trusted
to preserve the security and order of the game was the mastermind behind this entire scam jerome
jerry jacobson a former police officer realized he had an opportunity to control the game he gave
the winning pieces to people in exchange for a cut of the winnings as bizarre as the crime was
the investigation was led by a colorful special agent at the federal bureau of investigation
named richard dent the fbi conducted a complicated and dramatic sting operation that involved filming
the winners for tv spots in order to gather evidence against them they're going to jail
in august 2001 jacobson and seven others were arrested eventually 51 people were said to
be involved in the sprawling case and most of them were charged with fraud and conspiracy the
monopoly promotion was so popular that mcdonald's decided to bring it back in 2016 minus the whole
scandal part we hope probably not just a salad that looks really good eyes closed please sorry
according to some health advocates the salads sold at mcdonald's can have more fat and calories than
the fast food chain's famous burgers of course it isn't the lettuce or the tomatoes that pile on the
calories but the creamy salad dressings the cheese and the meat adding grilled chicken on a salad was
a great idea but adding the fried chicken in the southwest crispy chicken salad not so great the
serving of salad dressing alone usually has about 10 grams of fat and all the calories that go with
it nixing the dressing would have been a good start but most people are used to putting a tasty
dressing on their salads it's mostly to compensate for the relative blandness of the lettuce
the fact that salads were encouraged as a healthy option is what makes this whole thing upsetting
rage rage by offering these so-called healthier options to their customers mcdonald's has called
into question their own menu's legitimacy a dirty little secret finally out in the open
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