nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see mcdonalds close down.

how they have the audacity to call their shite "meals" i dont know, and they also have the gall to call themselves a restaurant.

how to confuse mcdonalds staff : if you can get access to the back of the till (the bit facing you), theres a little switch/button. press it and it locks the till. watch the spotty teenage oik of a manger get flustered.

Apparently, in America, the burgers look as good as the pictures above the counter! Here in England it's rare you get something that's just been cooked. I find you're lucky if it's warm.

we have rats in one near me, you can see them if you stop on the road outside.

I rang environmental health and they werent interested unless I saw one in the restaurant. Nevermind the fact it was sitting in the drivethrough eating chips.

Everyone seems to hate McDonalds. ( me included )

If so, who buys their product, and how do they survive?

Simple dai. Pester power keeps macdonalds going, as it does the musical shite that infests the pop charts.

justbecause spouted:
Apparently, in America, the burgers look as good as the pictures above the counter! Here in England it's rare you get something that's just been cooked. I find you're lucky if it's warm.

That's true(I went to florida 5 yrs ago)and they taste better too.
I went to my local Mcdonalds the other day. My fries were cold and my Big Mac looked like it had been put together with a catapult.

justbecause spouted:
Apparently, in America, the burgers look as good as the pictures above the counter! Here in England it's rare you get something that's just been cooked. I find you're lucky if it's warm.

Whether it looks/tastes better is irrelevent. It's still absolute tripe what your eating.

I vow never to go to a fast food restaurant ever again!!! (and im only 1 chapter through fast food nation).

I occasionaly have the veggie burgers if I'm really starving and can't find anywhere else that I like. They don't taste bad actually, kind of a spicy flavour to them. It was fast food that turned me into a veggie in the first place though, don't know how meat eaters can eat stuff like that when they could get a steak or something that at least contains real meat and not leftover bits of shite from the meat plants.

I like their breakfast muffins.

The rest of it sucks.

What gets me is how they always pretend not to understand you unless you use the 'Mc-' prefix in your order... if you say 'Chicken burger please' they look at you with that blank stare and say 'wha?'. But as soon as you say 'McChicken Burger' they understand perfectly.

Bastards.

alpha_centauri spouted:
leftover bits of shite from the meat plants.

meat doesn't come from plants, silly

hugo-a-gogo spouted:


meat doesn't come from plants, silly

Meat comes from cows.
Cows eat grass.
Grass is a plant.
You are what you eat.
Therefore meat = plant.

oh yes, obviously
read my health tips (http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/showthread.php?threadid=13741)

Ordered Fast Food Nation from Amazon today. Everyone keeps tellin' me it's fab.

I have been known to occasionally drop into a fast food place due to lack of other options.

justbecause spouted:
Apparently, in America, the burgers look as good as the pictures above the counter! Here in England it's rare you get something that's just been cooked. I find you're lucky if it's warm.

Yeah, but the advantage of the burgers in the UK is that they're made with beef without too much shit in them.

And when I say 'shit' I mean 'shit'. Am I being clear enough? HAMBURGERS IN MANY FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS IN AMERICA, AND IN THE FOOD SOLD TO SCHOOLS TO FEED CHILDREN CONMTAINS CATTLE EXCREMENT!

There.

Kormiic spouted:
Ordered Fast Food Nation from Amazon today. Everyone keeps tellin' me it's fab.

I have been known to occasionally drop into a fast food place due to lack of other options.

I am now into the second chapter of Fast food Nation. A nice and informative read on the way to work that convinces me not to buy a sausage and egg mcmuffin for breakfast.

Wait 'til you get to the 'meat and potatoes' section.

I have no intention of eating fast food shite anyway. Have stayed away since i got food poisoning from a quarter pounder with cheese.

If You Ever Go To Turkey, Go To A McDs, Its Amazing. They Wrap Everything Perfectly, Give You A String Bag And 15 Mins Later Its Still Hotter Then It Is Straight From The Counter Here.

Ive Given Up Eating At There Tho, And Plan To Read Fast Food Nation As Soon As I Finish The Book Im Just Starting

Maccy Dees is great..... a couple of cheeseburgers and some fries washed down with a coke - yummy!

I think the technical term for them is patties rather than burgers and I far prefer them to birdseye et al that you cook at home.

There's nowt wrong with maccy dees in my opinion - and as for salsas health concerns - you should see some of the places I frequent at 2.30 in the morning, eyes rolling in my head and beer down my shirt - fuck knows what I'm eating but it tastes good thats for sure!

As long as there's plenty of chilli sauce!

I agree, every restaurant has these concerns, its just unusual for you to SEE it

salsa spouted:
we have rats in one near me, you can see them if you stop on the road outside.

I rang environmental health and they werent interested unless I saw one in the restaurant. Nevermind the fact it was sitting in the drivethrough eating chips.

Did they serve them up as "Mc Rats" I bet most stupid fucking kids whould eat them if they had a picture of psychotic looking clown on the side of the box who is probably a pedo.

daidavies spouted:
Everyone seems to hate McDonalds. ( me included )

If so, who buys their product, and how do they survive?

Apperntly they are going down the pan they are closing branchs down all over the place.

While at MCD The other day some Afican women in front of me spent 10 mins trying to buy "Roast Chicken" from them the assistant was to stupid to realise what the women wanted I got fed up with whole pantomine and had to but in and say she wanted KFC down the road.

When she served me and asked me what I what wanted I thought I'd make a joke and said "Fish and Chips" she just
looked at me blankly, stupid silly cow.

I like MCD and so does Waynetta and Frogmella. :)

MCD Sounds like mental health problem or perhaps Morons Crap Diet whould be appropiate.

ace_mcfly spouted:
for salsas health concerns - you should see some of the places I frequent at 2.30 in the morning, eyes rolling in my head and beer down my shirt - fuck knows what I'm eating but it tastes good thats for sure!

As long as there's plenty of chilli sauce!

I know of that all too well ace, many a time I've staggered down the street pissed, scoffing a dodgy doner bought from one of those all night salmonella takeaways that cater for the pissheads.

I had McD's for dinner tonight. Work dictated that I couldn't get home and there's a McD's about 5 minutes from the uni.

So it was a "Big n Tasty Meal" for me.

The fries were limp, the burger started to taste funny as I reached the middle of it. At least the Sprite was alright. So, I ate about half and dumped the rest.

What do you expect for $3.00 though?

I gagging for a black pudding supper now though! Now that's food.

J Arthur Rank spouted:


I know of that all too well ace, many a time I've staggered down the street pissed, scoffing a dodgy doner bought from one of those all night salmonella takeaways that cater for the pissheads.

I think the booze kills the germs i've eatin food drunk I think would bury me fucking dead if was had been sober

Bollocks complete bollocks...I decided to have a break from the norm and not get a burger and get a MCshit fillet o fish ... took 10mins for the cunts to serve it and then on the top it had ta ta sauce all very well, but underneath it had the normal burger topping...mustard,cheese etc... so I took it to the counter and said oi you have put a burger topping on this as well and she said no thats how they come!!!!!!

ace_mcfly spouted:
Maccy Dees is great..... a couple of cheeseburgers and some fries washed down with a coke - yummy!

I think the technical term for them is patties rather than burgers and I far prefer them to birdseye et al that you cook at home.

There's nowt wrong with maccy dees in my opinion - and as for salsas health concerns - you should see some of the places I frequent at 2.30 in the morning, eyes rolling in my head and beer down my shirt - fuck knows what I'm eating but it tastes good thats for sure!

As long as there's plenty of chilli sauce!

So you're quite happy to eat beef containing cow shit as long as you can disguise the taste?

I just don't understand people's compulsion to stand up for their right to eat dirty, bland food.

yeah it contains cow shit - whatever.

There's this right twat that I work with and he took a bird out for lunch...... to KFC!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

So funny - what a dick!

So, we've established that the burgers (or, to use correct jargon, "sandwiches") are not the most wholesome foodstuff on the market.

Can anybody tell me how bad the Cinnamon Doughnuts (I'm a Brit, and therefore use ugh in certain words) are for us? Because I luuurve them. I've stopped eating fries and sarnies from McDs, KFC etc, but every once in a while I must have a Cinnamon Doughnut from McDs.

Or should I have a crack at Krispy Kreme?

I bet there are alot of people out there who do think eating fast food does little harm.
My housemate insists that frying food makes no difference to how healthy it is for you, but yet moans about that he is overweight.
Ill admit when I was younger, and about 18stone, I didnt think fast food was as bad for you as it was made out. This year Ive watched another housemates girlfriend get consistantly fatter over the year which I reckon is due to her eating at Burger King nearly everyday.

I havent eaten a McDonalds since 2001 and dont intend to.

Dazzla spouted:


So you're quite happy to eat beef containing cow shit as long as you can disguise the taste?

I just don't understand people's compulsion to stand up for their right to eat dirty, bland food.

I agree. If there was little choice, fair enough. But there is so much choice. It all depends on how much your willing to pay (take it literally or otherwise) to eat. I for one am an extremely fussy eater (since food poisoning and various stomach problems - which doctors believe are related).

i brought fast food nation today from waterstones. havent started reading it yet, have brought it to read at lunchtime because i get bored.

Erm.

I actually quite like McDonalds once in a while. And Burger King, and KFC. Once in a while = Once every two months or so.

AnthillMob spouted:
i brought fast food nation today from waterstones. havent started reading it yet, have brought it to read at lunchtime because i get bored.

If you want to be ironic try spending your lunch at MCD while reading it, with any luck you might manage to irritate the Manager though that probably unlikely to happen since he would have to be literate, and manage to read words different from their menu.

Ah yes, alcohol is a factor. A few times I've had several pints followed by staggering in McD's and scoffing about 10 of their (simple) cheeseburgers!

The thing is, they must be about 95% air as you can easily eat 10 of those and still feel hungry.

they probably put an e number in it which makes you crave more of them.

pizza hut used to do that with their ice cream.

salsa spouted:
they probably put an e number in it which makes you crave more of them.

pizza hut used to do that with their ice cream.

Its called monosodium glutamate

/me bows to your superior knowledge

right, im off to see if thats in any of my food

say what you like, but KFC fillet tower burgers are the dogs danglies

Dogs danglies? And I thought McD's burgers were made of dodgy meat!

its not dodgy meat, its 100% beef, they just dont tell which you which part of the cow it came from.

Its hosed off the bone, thats what it is.

I remember some advert... it might've been for MD or it might've been for BK...

"We use 100% beef!"
*shows someone grinding salt over a burger*
"Okay, and a little seasoning."

Yeah, it's called monosodium glutimate I guess :p

At least BK bother to add beef flavouring to their burger.

Cloudane spouted:
I remember some advert... it might've been for MD or it might've been for BK...

"We use 100% beef!"
*shows someone grinding salt over a burger*
"Okay, and a little seasoning."

Yeah, it's called monosodium glutimate I guess :p

Either that or smack which is weird

When I was staying in Stamford Hill, London the local KFC got busted for dealing Crack

GrumpyBoy spouted:




When I was staying in Stamford Hill, London the local KFC got busted for dealing Crack

At least we now know what one of the secret herbs and spices are.

It got be said though none of the others fried Chicken places are any good I got some from "Dixy Fired Chicken" and it was fucking rank I reakon they did'nt slaughter the chickens but just waited for them to die of old age.

Fuck what diease I might have got from eating it, not that I ate much two mouthfulls was enough the only reason I ate a second was because I could'nt belive it was so horrible and was starving.

Well I was drunk and already pissed off so I went got my money back.

i once got told that KFC use deformed chickens and a bloke ate into his chicken and a tumor in the chicken burst in his mouth.

never had kfc xsince.

AnthillMob spouted:
i once got told that KFC use deformed chickens and a bloke ate into his chicken and a tumor in the chicken burst in his mouth.

never had kfc xsince.

That, my dear, is a variation on an Urban Legend. I direct you to http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tumor.htm for verification.

Feel free to indulge once more :D

urban legend of not its fucking FOWL hehehehehehe

Kinky McFoxxy spouted:


That, my dear, is a variation on an Urban Legend. I direct you to http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tumor.htm for verification.

Feel free to indulge once more :D

Why anyone whould want click that with a url like that!

Better to live in ignorence.

GrumpyBoy spouted:


Why anyone whould want click that with a url like that!

Better to live in ignorence.

and that my friend is why you remain ignorant. it's not a 'rotten.com/.jpg' or anything

Saw a programme a while back about a guy who was buying chicken intended for pet food and land-fill, recycling it and selling it off to food distibutors. The investigating police force found it in most of the major supermarkets, in chicken products such a sandwich paste and even in their own canteen!! The bastard left the country while on bail. I'd crucify the bastard, it was disgusting.

when, for my eternal shame, i worked in Lidl, i took all the chickens off display because quite frankly they smelt and some were going green. i was made to put them back on display because they were within their sell by date.

that is pure disgustingness.

Have you read the new "leaflet"things that they stick on the trays?? "I've heard theres all sorts of things in mcdonalds burgers" Then something about Mum knowing whats in them so they must be ok - and another bit about 100% beef - I can only assume this means all of the cow goes into the mincer.:moo:
Remember once when I was kid, eating a maccys buger with my mate when a look of horror crossed her face - she turned her burger towards me and there was an unidentifiable "thing" in it which when she squeezed the bun down, the thing looked like it ws pulsating! Shes been a vegetarian ever since!

In agreement that the veggie burgers are quite pleasant tho.
Mcchicken nuggets?? Mcbeak'n'feet nuggets.
Fast food nation? - a real eye opener!!

AnthillMob spouted:
when, for my eternal shame, i worked in Lidl, i took all the chickens off display because quite frankly they smelt and some were going green. i was made to put them back on display because they were within their sell by date.

that is pure disgustingness.

It is gross.

In my present job I sometimes have go behind Burger King ........ They have four huge Barrels full of lard and it stinks like stagnant shite !

Tell you what ........ I'll take a photo of the filthy stinking shit hole tomorrow to let all you see it !

The barrel of lard or BK itself? :p

Saw a documentary last year about one of the motorway service station BKs where the staff were bragging (to a hidden camera it turned out) that they often go for a dump, handle raw meat etc, not wash their hands ever, and then handle cooked burgers.

I think one was also showing off about spitting on certain ones.

Never ate there since...

Suppose it could be like that anywhere, but once it's mentioned about one particular place it kinda sticks...

That wasnt just BK, it was other fast food joints aswell.

How weird is this ?

six months ago, there was a thread called "kebabs, love them or hate them?" most people who hate McDonalds and think its shite, tripe, garbage or whatever were quite happy to admit that they would wolf down a kebab after a night out with no hesitation.

strange that !

All this talk about the burgers is fine, but does anybody have any info about McDonalds Doughnuts? Purleease?!

Since reading Fast Food Nation, I can honestly say that I will never eat a frozen burger again...let alone a McDonalds burger.

From the treatment of the cattle all the way through to the burger being thrown on your tray, it just aint right.

If people want to keep on eating meat infested with E-Coli, Selmonella and Faecial matter, then that's up to them. If they want to eat meat thats come from slaughterhouses where people are killed, maimed and severely injured by the tools they are using, then that's up to them.

Not for me though....

Here's them tubs of stinking lard from the back of Burger King..........................

Do you want fries with that ?

Finger lickin good.

Eek. Good job I just finished lunch.

unordinarychild spouted:
Since reading Fast Food Nation, I can honestly say that I will never eat a frozen burger again...let alone a McDonalds burger.

From the treatment of the cattle all the way through to the burger being thrown on your tray, it just aint right.

If people want to keep on eating meat infested with E-Coli, Selmonella and Faecial matter, then that's up to them. If they want to eat meat thats come from slaughterhouses where people are killed, maimed and severely injured by the tools they are using, then that's up to them.

Not for me though....

Do you seriously think any other restaurant is any better?

I dont.

To paraphrase Shakespeare:


a burger joint by any other name would taste as foul

/me Brought Fast Food Nation For £4.99 Today And Has It Sitting Right In Front Of Him

Everyone seems to hate McDonalds. ( me included )

If so, who buys their product, and how do they survive?


apparently it's the 'in' thing to say you hate mcdonalds, after you've secretly just scarfed down 2 big macs and a mcflurry.

i don't mcdonald's. service is pretty consistent in all of them, and i'm quite a fan of them $1 sundaes. people should quit bashing, you know you eat their food anyway.

you know you eat their food anyway.
I haven't stepped foot in a McDonalds for 4 years now. Stop telling me what I eat.

you know you eat their food anyway.

McDonalds is marketed at children, i'd expect you to eat there.

McDonalds is marketed at children, i'd expect you to eat there.

oh? mcdonalds commercials aren't specifically marketed at adults? yeah, i can see how children would totally go for the new cobb salads with organic dressing.

They only sell salad to make themselves look like they give a fuck.

I haven't stepped foot in a McDonalds for 4 years now. Stop telling me what I eat.

and nobody's set foot in this thread for over 2 years :headbang:

If it's a thread that's still relevant, why is that an issue?

I hate McDonalds after 10:30 when they've stopped serving breakfast.... but I've just been to get a muffin in before they stop serving!

Been to a MacD's once. Pure shite.

Never again.

How do they get their coffee so hot? It defies the laws of physics.

I don't have McDonalds anymore. It doesn't taste as good as it looks, it's really greasy and I can usually get better food for a cheaper price.

Throughout the last college year my mates ate there twice a week. They've all put on loads of weight and are covered in spots. It's satisfying because they all thought they could get away with it and wouldn't look like shit after so much unhealthy eating :D

I still eat KFC though, which probably makes me as fat and gross as them.

I go there from time to time. It gives me a sense of personal good feeling to know I am ignoring all the right on twats who think that it is evil and doing what the fuck I want to. Although I did get pissed off when they stopped doing the Big Tasties and made my feelings plain to their helpline.

so what if burgers and mc nuggests contain bits of the cow you don't want to think about eating.

1) They won't kill you, it's only our modern sensibilities that says they are disgusting to eat.
2) They taste good

In school we were always taught about how native/aboriginal type cultures were fantastic and never wasted anything, making use of all parts of animals they killed in big complex ways. In contrast Western society was terribly wasteful, only using the bits they wanted and discarding the rest.

Turns out we're not so wasteful and that we have some vaguely sustainable practices, and the first thing we do is declare it to be disgusting and vile and hideous.

As for complaining about rats outside a restaurant???
There are rats outside.
There are rats outside EVERY restaurant, there isn't much the restaurant can do, and legally I think they are more limited still, since putting down rat poison outside is something you're not meant to d.

If you had seen how many rats there were outside you would have been concerned aswell. It wasn't like one sitting munching on a chip, there were literally loads, everywhere you looked.

just got through reading "fast food nation" after hearing so much about it. i am now aware of the awful disgusting things in a typical fast-food hamburger and that a person is more than likely eating shit (actual shit- feces) when they bite into one.

and i still don't care.

mcdonald's, mmm....

just got through reading "fast food nation" after hearing so much about it. i am now aware of the awful disgusting things in a typical fast-food hamburger and that a person is more than likely eating shit (actual shit- feces) when they bite into one.

and i still don't care.

mcdonald's, mmm....
You talk it, you might as well eat it as well....

Oh give her a break people (not just Ox)... you were young yourself once. I've seen a lot more immaturity from the other forum members towards this person than vice versa, frankly, and she's not the first target I've seen in the "let's all get at one person" culture here (of course if you're just playing, ignore my rambling)

Anyhow, back on topic...

Yes, I've seen some very nasty things about the manufacture of burgers. Everything from toenail to testicle goes in there sometimes. With some of the cheap burgers, pork pies, sausage rolls etc you often bite into something and find a piece that is not meat, not fat, not bone and not pleasant - makes me wretch, so I stopped buying cheap brands like "Pork Farms" et al.

I've also seen CCTV footage, people gloating etc, lots of proof of what goes on in some places like that (Burger King admittedly, not McD's). You'd better not be a snotty customer, as that increases the likelihood of you receiving a snotty burger. (Replace snot with spit or smegma as appropriate)

However, I still go to McD's on occasion. It just can't be helped! And I think they have much better control over their staff as well as their burgers... I say this as I know someone (a professional person) who used to be a manager there and is adamant that it's actually a very clean and well controlled place. It's mostly the knock-offs, as well as Burger King, that are the problem I think.

I know someone that used to work in a pork pie factory. Apparently they used to lick the labels to stick them to the pies before wrapping them. :D

I actually went into one in NewYork recently, just to see if it was better than the UK. It was the one opposite the main entrance of the Empire State, so was expecting it to be pristine with super service.

Couldn't have been more wrong, it was only 8pm and there was only 1 other customer in there, there only seemed to be 2 staff and 1 seemed to be the manager \ owner that refused to do shite. The other, although about 30 years old, seemed to understand English but not speak it.

Most the menu was off, the ladies toilets was closed and the entire place was a complete fucking tip. We waited behind the person in front for nearly 20 minutes, then left without food.

Instead we went to Wendy's - Don't think we get those in the UK. Personally i think the food was great, better than the MD or BK we get here, but service was still shite.

This is the general feeling i got from eating out in New York, I'm not sure if its indicative of the whole of the US but if I was to sum it up...

Food was great, but if the yanks did invent fast food, they've clearly forgotten how to do it now.

That doesn't include the many Deli's that we went to - they were ace - another thing we don't really get in the UK that I liked.

we used to have a wendy's in croydon but it closed down. they did square burgers!

I only ever saw a Wendy's when I lived in Uxbridge. I don't think I liked it much.

I think it's a KFC now \m/

I am happy to say that I occaisionally have a McDonalds, or Burger King and enjoy them thoroughly. I find them very tasty. After which I do have a bit of a guilt trip about the "crap" I have eaten.

Then again there are alot of people who "consume" things that they know arent good for them on a greater frequencey which is DEFINATELY going to harm them and of course people know excatly what is going in them.


........and that bloody film where that bloke ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days,WOW who'd have thought it would be no good for you!!!


Bloody McDonalds.............making people to eat their food eh?

I once had a long distance girlfriend whose two motivations for visiting me in Bradford were a) to have the best sex of her life and b) to dine at the Wendys we had in the town centre. It is one of life's great mysteries that they just failed to catch on in the UK and eventually sold their restaurants and got the hell out of dodge.

I'd say they've improved somewhat since my 2004 comment.

The breakfasts are still gorgeous.

I'd said the rest of it is crap - in terms of health, yes it is! It's also not necessarily very filling. In terms of tastiness, yummy. Nothing like one of their cheeseburgers.

I am happy to say that I occaisionally have a McDonalds, or Burger King and enjoy them thoroughly. I find them very tasty. After which I do have a bit of a guilt trip about the "crap" I have eaten.

:stupid: - exactly the same.

I also enjoy the new toasties.

On the downside, you can never be certain that - kids being kids - they're not adding any "special ingredients" to your burger. It's also a highly annoying place to be during school holidays when all the youngsters, chavs and screaming brats are in there...

recently i have eaten maccy dees and they dont make me feel so good. Maybe it's because I eat a big mac meal and wash it down with a cheeseburger... all eaten in about 10 minutes? Or maybe their food really is not so good.
An hour or so after eating I feel very lethargic and with a dry mouth.

Or maybe thats because lunch is up and I have to get back to work?