Fast Food Yuckiness

[SpyderEdgeForever]

Is Chinese food mostly safe as far as reasonably fast take out goes Ankerson Naperville TwinBoysDad and all? I had some chicken with broccolli recently. Delicious. A friend told me to get the brown rice which he said has less carbs. I love the sauces. I like Duck Sauce but it has much sugar.

That is great sausage advice you gave. It makes me think because I love sausage links and hot dogs. A friend of mine who only eats organic solid non ground meats said sausages are mostly waste meat that is made into sausage to sell it like you said.

Hebrew National hot dogs grilled and chopped into a salad is a fast treat I love.

[James Y]

McDonalds was awesome back in the 70's and 80's.

Back then, I used to love Big Macs. And they tasted the same here, as well as when I lived overseas.

Nowadays, I couldn't imagine ever eating McDonald's again. As I mentioned, I gave up beef and pork by choice 30 years ago, and I had to give up gluten 14 years ago for health reasons. But even if I hadn't given up those things, I still would have stopped eating fast food a long time ago. I'm betting that there's more crap added to it now than ever before.

Jim

[Ankerson]

McDonalds was awesome back in the 70's and 80's.

Back then, I used to love Big Macs. And they tasted the same here, as well as when I lived overseas.

Nowadays, I couldn't imagine ever eating McDonald's again. As I mentioned, I gave up beef and pork by choice 30 years ago, and I had to give up gluten 14 years ago for health reasons. But even if I hadn't given up those things, I still would have stopped eating fast food a long time ago. I'm betting that there's more crap added to it now than ever before.

Jim

Jim,

Same here, Big Macs.

Jim

[Scandi Grind]

I love Chinese/Japanese/Thai food.

I've been loving making homade Chinese food. Pan fried teriyaki is really easy to make, but right now I have some chicken thighs marinating overnight to make on the grill tomorrow, which will be even better than in the pan. We'll be making some fried rice and steamed brocolli to go with it. SO good! I also never liked any restaurants orange chicken, but tried making some at home and was pretty into it. It tasted so fresh and actually orangy.

[Ankerson]

I love Chinese/Japanese/Thai food.

I've been loving making homade Chinese food. Pan fried teriyaki is really easy to make, but right now I have some chicken thighs marinating overnight to make on the grill tomorrow, which will be even better than in the pan. We'll be making some fried rice and steamed brocolli to go with it. SO good! I also never liked any restaurants orange chicken, but tried making some at home and was pretty into it. It tasted so fresh and actually orangy.

Sounds good.

I like the Pepper Steak with Onions that they make. (I could live on it)

[Naperville]

From a post on X:

Here’s How 1 McDonald’s Hamburger contains 1,300 strands of different DNA. This is the result of going from small farms to mega corporations

“We're pooling the bacteria from a thousand different animals”

“Thousands of animals” contribute “to a single hamburger”

“This is a combo bin of meat. The meat in these boxes comes from many different animals and many different places. Some is even from overseas. All of it is ground together to make the juicy hamburger Americans love. Hamburger used to be the scraps left over from butchering just one cow.”

But a significant change has occurred. Now parts of many cows are blended together by the ton.
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If we take the meat from one animal, grind it up and make ground beef from just one animal, we're including only the bacteria from one animal. But if we take the meat from a thousand different animals and grind that together, we're pooling the bacteria from a thousand different animals as well.

So explain this to me, how many different cows would be in one burger?

Well, I suspect that there are hundreds or even thousands of animals that have contributed to a single hamburger.”

[twinboysdad]

We've all but stopped eating fast food entirely, it's all over priced and under quality for what you pay for. We do eat out though but at more standard restaurants that aren't fast food. The one exception is Penn Station.

My local Grocery Store has a Wing Bar.

I do like Chinese Food so I do order that sometimes.

And I like Arby's...

Yeah you got me there Arby's is pretty ok too but they're also practically not fast food depending on what you buy, they're more of a deli restaurant. Chinese is also a guilty favorite.

I love their Double Roast Beef, put Horsey Sauce on them, OH YEAH.

They will still
Make you a Big Montana if you ask for it

[James Y]

Once many years ago, when I still ate some fast food (eating a chicken sandwich at a Carl's Jr.), I saw a little kid sneezing right into a salad bar. The mother told him to get away from it, but it was already too late.

Who knows how often gross stuff like that happens at buffet restaurants when no one is looking?

Jim

[Paul Ardbeg]

Once many years ago, when I still ate some fast food (eating a chicken sandwich at a Carl's Jr.), I saw a little kid sneezing right into a salad bar. The mother told him to get away from it, but it was already too late.

Who knows how often gross stuff like that happens at buffet restaurants when no one is looking?

Jim

Not only at buffet restaurants. Many years ago I read Kitchen Confidential by the late and great Anthony Bourdain. The disgusting stuff that goes around at restaurants is crazy sometimes.

[vivi]

the amount of kitchens I've worked in where an employee would drop a chicken wing, toss it back in the fryer for a few seconds, and serve it, is greater than the number of kitchens I've worked in where this didn't happen.

lots of places only think about doing things the right way when they're due for a health inspection.

[James Y]

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Jim

[JD Spydo]

When it comes to fast food here in the town of Blue Springs, Missouri USA where I live I'm to the point to where I just don't like hardly any fast food joint anymore. I'm to the point to where I personally believe most all of the places are just down right toxic.

With monetary profits being # 1 on their priority list I have to question whether or not the food is just simply fit or unfit to eat. And with the costs of a simple burger, pizza, burrito or basket of fried chicken I find it far more less expensive to cook up something at home. And I mean far less expensive!!! The outrageous price increases are staggering for almost all of the fast food joints here in town. And we have a lot of them.

The only two places that I will eat occasionally are Chipotle and a family owned (mom & pop) Pizza Place. And that is the name of the place too. From what I can determine they both use real, good quality ingredients. But they ain't cheap. If I had to travel across the state I would probably just stop at grocery store delis. It's a sad state of affair when you are forced to select a fast food stand to eat at. It truly is a roll of the dice in more ways than one.

[SpyderEdgeForever]

Ankerson and others:

Human taste buds love salt, fat, and sugar, and salt makes us thirsty.
It is hard to not eat it at times. Burgers are so good.

[James Y]

"This Creepy Video Has Me Very Disturbed"



I haven't touched anything from McDonald's since early 1995, when I permanently gave up beef and pork. And I haven't touched any type of fast food in at least 15 years.

Jim

[SpyderEdgeForever]

I avoid all fast food. Besides, nothing is faster than bringing snacks with me from home.

I also don't eat or drink: sodas, alcohol, candy, ice cream, gum, mints, coffee, energy drinks, caffeine in general, etc.

I cook for myself and my family at least 6 days a week.

This is ideal what you do.

I have eaten some of their food if a friend gives me it for free or if I see a good deal like a BOGOF.

[James Y]

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Jim

[James Y]

"McDonald's Exposed: You Won't Eat Here Ever Again"



Jim

[skeeg11]

No more fast food for me except for an occasional dog at Costco and the rare stop at Der Wiener Schnitzel. No more Micky D's. My first job was at Micky D's as a fry man back in 1969 when fries were properly made from scratch with real fresh Idaho russets and blanched and fried in tallow.

[Naperville]

Bad food is bad food.

Fast food is terrible, but sometimes frozen food is worse.

I bought 4 small personal peperoni pizzas and tonight I ate the last one. Ughhhhhhhhh absolutely terrible. I don't even want to say what it was like eating it. Gross.

[James Y]

McDonald's Worker Seen in Viral French Fry Video Charged



Jim