Originally posted by: mrzed
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: SampSon
Any thread about McDonalds boils down to Amused vs. everybody else.
His claim is that McDonalds food is the same as any other food out there, even food made at home. This claim has been refuted an endless number of times on this forum.
I still cannot make my ingredient list at home match the ingredient list of McDonalds. But back to the topic of the thread that Amused always derails.
People hate McDonalds because they can.
Really?
Care to explain what ingredients in a McDonald's burger you cannot match?
My facts have not been refuted. On the contrary, the nutritional info and ingredients of McDonald's foods are virtually identical to the same foods served in other restaurants, and the most popular identical foods cooked at home.
It's not about "Amused vs everyone else" because a fair number of people in this thread can see the facts and agree with me. This is facts vs myths.
Much as I find Amused's defense of the Clown baflling, I'll side with the idea that mcDonalds is not greatly different than other FF restaurants.
Comparing to home-cooked food, I think is more problematic. Certainly, many people do not cook healthier food at home, but the problem here is that you are comparing McD's foods with the "identical foods cooked at home". Hardly makes for a fair challenge. I know when I make burgers and fries at home, I make oven fries, because they are healthier. I also serve vegetables as a side dish, as opposed to a quart of sugar water.
That said, the hamburgers are an easy one: they are fundamentally the same.
But the fries are not. Anyone I know who fries at home does so in 100% vegetable oil, unlike restaurants, which always use hydrogenated products unless they tell you otherwise.
Examples: McD's Fries:
French Fries:
Potatoes, vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor (wheat and milk derivatives)*, citric acid (preservative), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent)), salt. Prepared in vegetable oil ((may contain one of the following: Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated corn oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness), dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent). *CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK (Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients.)
Beef flavour - probably added to replace the flavour they used to get from tallow.
The really weird one is the folded eggs, espicially after one poster claimed that they are just pre-scrambled, far from it:
Folded Egg:
Pasteurized whole eggs, food starch-modified, soybean oil, natural flavors (botanical source), sodium acid pyrophosphate, carrageenan gum, flavor enhancer [salt, maltodextrin, natural flavor (plant source), spices, herb, turmeric (color)], monosodium phosphate, citric acid, soy lecithin. Prepared with liquid margarine. CONTAINS: EGG, SOY LECITHIN
That said, aside from the trans-fats in the fries, there is nothing really scary in the list.