- Pass that bucket of chicken.
So many of us know that,
in general,
fast food really isn't that great for you.
Good food takes time to make, baby.
But the truth is,
your opinion of it may have been based
on some false information.
Like, remember the famous McDonald's
chicken nugget "pink slime picture"
that went pretty viral?
Yeah, that was not what you think it was.
Well, in this video,
I'm going to take the seven most commonly
believed myths that you likely
still believe about fast food and
explain the truth behind them.
Well, today, we're going to tackle some of
the biggest lies about some of the biggest
companies in fast food that you've ever heard.
This is Seven Myths You Still Believe About Fast Food.
There's pink slime in chicken nuggets.
For many years,
people have been asking
"What's in McDonald's chicken nuggets?"
and more specifically,
at what point is that pink slime added?
Well, this pink slime is,
in reality,
a meat-based product referred to as
lean, finely-textured beef or LFTB.
It is actually used as a food additive
to lower the fat content in ground beef.
While McDonald's readily admits they've used LFTB
in the past for their beef,
they haven't used it since 2011 and
McNuggets have never contained it.
Rest assured, burger lovers, that the pink slime was,
at the time, considered perfectly edible.
Still, though, I'm pretty glad they got rid of it.
It looks like unicorn poop.
Taco Bell doesn't use real meat.
Speaking of meat, did you ever hear that
Taco Bell's ground beef is actually unfit
for human consumption and contains only
35% Grade-D meat?
I'm not gonna lie.
I've heard that but it never stopped me.
Well, if so, you're just like millions of people
including Alabama firm Beasley Allen,
who, in January of 2011 decided to sue the company
over the misleading claim that they were serving
beef which wasn't truly beef at all.
But, the firm had to withdraw their case after
only three months when,
in April 2011, Taco Bell proved that their product
was 88% genuine beef and only 12% filler ingredients,
which were all completely safe to eat.
Still, man, 12% filler?
How about 0% filler?
Blech.
Slow food restaurants are a healthier option.
Many people still ask,
"Why go out to a fast food place
"like McDonald's or Burger King
"when you could go to a sit-down restaurant
"and eat a real meal that's healthier for you?"
Next time somebody asks you that,
answer them with this fact.
The healthier option dine-in thing is
totally a myth.
A study done by Drexel University in Philadelphia
revealed that the average full meal consumed at
a "real restaurant" consisted of 2020 calories,
28 grams of saturated fat,
and 3512 milligrams of sodium.
Just to put that into context,
a Big Mac combo with fries and a Coke
has 1090 calories, 12 grams of saturated fat
and 1220 milligrams of sodium.
Now, neither are exactly a healthy option,
but in that scenario,
believe it or not,
McDonald's is the healthier option.
Big Macs for everybody.
Arby's roast beef is made from gel.
This is yet another ridiculous accusation
against another fast food giant.
The rumor here is that Arby's roast beef
arrives at the restaurant in
gel, liquid, powder or paste form,
which is completely absurd.
The most popular rumor says that the product is gel
but before it's used has to be heated
until it resembles meat.
What actually happens is the meat arrives
at each restaurant sealed inside plastic bags
with only a thin layer of basting solution on it.
Now, yes, that solution is gel-like,
so that may be where the rumor comes from,
but the fact remains that the roast beef itself
is real meat.
There's more caffeine in dark roast coffee.
If you're looking to get a bigger buzz
out of your morning cup of joe,
whether it's from Tim Horton's,
Starbucks, McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, whatever,
rest assured that simply ordering dark roast blend
isn't going to be any buzzier than a regular cup.
Where exactly the rumor about dark roast
containing more caffeine started is anybody's guess,
but the idea spread very quickly,
especially with the bold flavor that the roasts have.
The truth is, coffee beans are green to start
and then go dark in the brewing process,
losing caffeine as they darken.
So, believe it or not, lighter coffee actually
has more caffeine.
KFC changed its name because it's not real chicken.
(squawking)
When Kentucky Fried Chicken changed their name
to KFC in 1991,
rumors began flying as to why.
The most incredible and sadly, the most prominent one
is that the company was forced to change their name,
dropping the word "chicken" because
they use artificially modified animals that were
too genetically changed from real birds.
And, unbelievably, this rumor is still being spread
24 years later.
Of course, it's total nonsense,
as not only does KFC not raise their own
chickens at all but they changed their name
due to wanting to step away from
the negative connotation that the word "fried"
has with consumers.
KFC is absolutely real chicken.
McDonald's food never spoils.
Thanks to a certain documentary
that was released in 2004 and
hundreds of social media posts since,
a myth has spread that claims that
McDonald's Big Macs never decay,
due to, of course, all of the harmful industrial chemicals
that the company pumps into them as preservatives.
And back to reality.
The truth is, this myth has been busted
by a number of food bloggers and backyard scientists
who independently performed the same experiment,
leaving Big Macs in different settings to rot.
(gagging)
And rot they did.
McDonald's burgers, just like the ones you make at home,
tend to dry out during the cooking process
and extended exposure to the air
just dries them out even more.
So, decomposition is harder to determine
with eyes alone,
but I still wouldn't eat the end result of that experiment.
I am suddenly really hungry.
Anyway, that's all for this video, guys.
I hope you enjoyed it and if you got something out of it,
other than getting hungry,
be sure to subscribe to my channel
so that you can catch my next video and
I will see you next time.
Bye.
(squawking)
Nope. Don't know what that was.