McDonald's has been around in some form
since the 1940s and this famous fast
food chain has served billions along the
way some crazy McDonald's myths have
surfaced and these myths definitely need
to be debunked we are here to expose the
truth about these wild and wacky myths
many of which have become urban legends
here are the top 10 craziest McDonald's
myths you want to get some McDonald's
McRib sandwiches contain pink slime no
one wants to head to a fast-food joint
because they're craving pink slime this
is why mcdonalds execs want you to know
that the popular McRib sandwich does not
include notorious and disgusting pink
slime this myth has been around for a
long time but it's just a tall tale
McDonald's upper management has said
that questions about the ingredients in
the McRib are always coming in people
are incredibly curious about this
sandwich and how it's made
a scientist studied the McRib and found
that it's patty is made with water pork
and salt plus a kind of sugar known as
dextrose and some preservatives which
keep the flavor intact McRib Patties are
molded into their signature shape
through a flash freezing process so the
patty is never crafted from off-putting
pink slime you slide me it's made from
ground pork McNuggets aren't made from
pink slime either that's another myth
that we can debunk or right now as you
can see there's no real reason to hate
on the iconic McRib sandwich it's not
made of some crazy mystery meat after
all to prepare the McRib Mickey D's team
members cook the pork patties in panini
presses then they give them a liberal
coating of barbecue sauce and present
them on soft fluffy buns while it's true
that the buttons contain a chemical
that's also used to produce yoga mats
this chemical is deemed food safe Plus
McDonald's higher-ups report that the
chemical compound used in McRib buns
which is called azo dye carbon amide is
a different variant of the chemical used
to make yoga mats you can walk through
the drive thrus know
and then no way that no one that if
you're out and about on foot and you
want to mosey through a McDonald's
drive-through you are out of luck there
is a myth that it's okay to do this but
it's just a myth in real life customers
aren't allowed to do it because it's a
safety hazard if a customer walking
through a drive-thru gets hit by a car
that's a worst-case scenario and
McDonald's won't let people walk through
drive-thrus to eliminate the risk of
accidents between drivers and
pedestrians you'll scratch my car of
course a person on foot just needs to
walk into McDonald's and order at the
counter the drive-through is for drivers
only while walking through the
drive-thru might sound like a fun idea
it's not really necessary is it people
don't even need to go to McDonald's
anymore to get the fast food that they
crave thanks to delivery services that
bring burgers fries and other Mickey D's
fare straight to their homes or wherever
they happen to be when they get the
munchies it's a new era of fast food but
the drive thrus will always be popular
with people who get hungry while they're
on the road
Ray Kroc founded the fast food chain
fresh delicious burger from grill to
counter at 30 seconds
Ray Kroc is commonly believed to be the
founder of McDonald's but he took over
later on rather than getting the ball
rolling
the guys who did get the ball rolling
were dick and Mac McDonald dick was
short for Richard and Mac was short for
Maurice these two bros basically
invented fast food by creating the
Mickey D's franchise and putting
together a speedy service system that
made it easy for customers to get
delicious food quickly both brothers are
sadly no longer with us
they started out in the food biz by
opening a hot dog stand in California
the stand was popular with young men
because the men enjoyed chatting with
the cute lady car hops who delivered
their orders however the brothers were
canny enough to realize that speeding up
service was the way of the future you
thinking what I'm thinking they made
plans for a new franchise that didn't
rely on car hop service in 1948 they
opened the first of the know car hops
restaurants people drove up to the
restaurant and placed their orders
inside food was delivered right at the
counters the restaurant served
milkshakes burgers
and fries and it was a great success it
was called McDonald's and the rest is
history with a lot of help later on from
Ray Kroc McDonald's food doesn't go bad
it'll spit to you some people honestly
believe that McDonald's menu items such
as Big Macs will never spoil let us put
your mind at ease by telling you that
this simply isn't true the rumor started
when people shared pics of McDonald's
burgers that were months or supposedly
years old with no apparent signs of
spoilage to debunk the myth a food
scientist explained that McDonald's
burgers are just like other foods if the
foods don't come in contact with air or
moisture that allows microbes to
flourish the burgers will look much the
same as they did when they were
purchased for a long time after burger
big juicy if they are exposed to air and
moisture that promote food spoilage
they'll rot like any other foods so
don't eat old burgers that look fine
it just isn't safe there may be food
spoilage going on under the surface
which you can't see with your naked eye
stick to fresh fast food if you must
consume McDonald's leftovers be sure
that they are stored correctly in a
fridge and eat them soon after you buy
them such as a day or two afterward in
other words don't treat uneaten
McDonald's food any different than other
food follow the same rules when it comes
to freshness the well-preserved burgers
shown off online which didn't rot
allegedly after months or years may have
been tightly wrapped and then frozen
none of us know how they were stored or
if they were really as old as described
100% beef is just a name just like my
dad used to make until McDonald's fired
it on our quest to find the top 10
craziest McDonald's myths we come to one
of the most famous myths to circulate
over the years a lot of people will have
seen on the internet that McDonald's
doesn't use 100% beef in their burger
patties in fact those people think that
McDonald's doesn't use real beef at all
and they use various other
animals and animal parts to create their
burgers neat smart dog obviously if they
did do this then how can they get away
with it especially when it comes to
advertising many people think that the
answer is a clever bit of wordplay and
McDonald's uses a company called
100% beef so they can say on their
commercials that their product is 100%
beef clever right well it would be if it
were true McDonald's has never used a
meat company called 100% beef or the all
beef company which was another rumoured
name the fact is that McDonald's meat is
very well inspected by governing bodies
and not only that McDonald's themselves
have to print the ingredients of their
patties by law on their website it
clearly states their patties are made
with 100% USDA inspected beef
there is no clever wordplay here just
the simple and straightforward facts the
french fries are vegan friendly
delicious McDonald's french fries aren't
the right choice for vegans although
many people believe that these salty
golden brown treats are made without any
animal products the truth is that the
fries are made with natural beef flavor
which is derived from beef products this
means the fries aren't exactly ideal for
vegetarians either in 1990 and
beforehand
McDonald's actually made its fries by
frying them in beef tallow today
vegetable oil is used instead but
there's still the issue of seasoning
which does contain animal products the
current oils used to make the fries are
corn canola and soybean no vegan diet no
vegan powers a blend of the oils is the
secret recipe for great mcdonald's
french fries the seasoning is another
part of the secret the oil was changed
from beef tallow to a blend of vegetable
oils for health reasons but Mickey D's
needed to mimic the taste of the initial
beef tallow recipe because that recipe
got rave reviews so it added seasoning
made from natural beef ingredients this
is why the fries aren't good choices for
vegetarians and vegans luckily a lot of
fast food joints do offer vegetarian
friend
and vegan friendly items and it seems
Canadian McDonald's do offer a true
vegan friendly french fry the milkshakes
contain pig fat
I'd love a shamrock shake if they got
any of those it's September Jonathan
when you enjoy a creamy sick McDonald's
milkshake such as a limited time only
shamrock shake do you assume that you're
ingesting pig fat as well as other
ingredients some people do but they're
wrong a lot of people who believe this
myth actually avoid the milkshakes
because they're understandably grossed
out by the pig fat thing but they don't
have to miss out because McDonald's
milkshakes do not really contain pigs
fat this rumor really got around it got
so much traction that McDonald's in
Australia went so far as to debunk the
myth right in the nutritional
information section of its website
basically McDonald's provides full and
complete nutritional information for
everything on its menu and we aren't
just talking about McDonald's Australia
we mean all McDonald's everywhere on the
planet so it's not hard to find full
lists of ingredients and you'll never
see pigs fat listed as a milkshake
ingredient because there is ZERO pigs
fat in these creamy and sweet drinks if
you don't believe us look for yourself
the truth is out there and doesn't take
very long to find people love to start
negative and salacious rumors about
restaurants they are juicy but most of
these rumors just don't stand up to
proper fact-checking
Mickey D's doesn't use genuine eggs some
people believe that McDonald's doesn't
use genuine eggs in its breakfast menu
items but they are under the wrong
impression there are genuine eggs in Egg
McMuffins and other similar breakfast
items such as sausage McMuffins with egg
this famous McDonald's food myth
probably cropped up because Mickey D's
uses a liquid mixture to make its
scrambled eggs the mixture definitely
contains real eggs fast-food restaurants
like McDonald's have to serve a ton of
menu items in no time flat I blame the
chicken this means that the restaurants
put a lot of thought into how to
facilitate quick food preparation the
would mixture use to make the scrambled
eggs speeds up food prep it's a
practical way to get those eggs made
each day with other egg dishes such as
the Egg McMuffin the eggs are cracked on
site and cooked so McDonald's does use
real eggs and dishes promoted as
containing eggs McDonald's isn't exactly
secretive about what it puts in its menu
items these days there is full
transparency if real eggs weren't used
McDonald's would let the public know but
this just isn't the case McDonald's food
is healthier nowadays God Mac you've got
a lot of beef there are healthy items
available at McDonald's but the reality
is that most people who come to the fast
food chains locations don't want the
healthier items they want burgers fries
McNuggets Mick flurries and so on people
tend to come to fast-food joints for
classic fast food and some fast food
from McDonald's and similar restaurants
isn't always the healthiest choice
depending on what you order it's
possible to take in a lot of calories a
burger might contain several hundred
calories or less depending on which
burger is ordered and which toppings are
added so don't assume that the grub
served at McDonald's is better for you
than it would have been in the old days
there's still lots of sugar salt
calories and fat in fast food including
food from Mickey D's I wanna eat it's
best to enjoy fare from McDonald's and
other fast-food joints in moderation
rather than eating a lot of it all the
time when fast-food is an occasional
indulgence you're enjoying it the smart
way fast food at Mickey D's is quite
affordable and convenient to access it's
easy to go too far with McDonald's food
or any other fast food from Taco Bell to
KFC to Burger King and beyond people
need to be mindful about what they are
putting in their bodies in terms of
calories fat grams sodium sugar and
nutrients information about fast food
ingredients and calorie counts is
readily available at most official fast
food websites including McDonald's a
fast food chain gave cash to terrorists
death to America
did McDonald's fund terrorists no
of course not some rumors about fast
food chains are very damaging and cruel
and this is one of them but this myth
has been debunked how did this crazy
myth become so prevalent well in the
latter part of the 80s in the UK a rumor
about McDonald's secretly giving money
to the provisional Irish Republican Army
sprouted up the funds were supposedly
delivered through the Irish Northern Aid
Committee or noir raid for short this
information apparently was leaked by a
source who misunderstood something
important after watching a CNN talk-show
basically McDonald's helps employees by
funding their IRA accounts complicated
for the big fella
not by funding the IRA Group which is
the Irish Republican Army there's
obviously a huge difference between IRA
accounts and the IRA group IRA accounts
are individual retirement accounts so
McDonald's got undeserved bad press so
once again sure McDonald's has probably
deserved some of the shade it's gotten
since it opened for business but it
never funded terrorism and as you can
see this is just one of many
misconceptions about the fast food chain
and how it operates
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