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How Fast Food Providers Beat Inflation - Add Wood Pulp To Burgers
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
On Monday, Quartz published an article by Devin Cohen titled, There is a Secret Ingredient in Your Burgers: Wood Pulp. Given the headline and people’s already present suspicion regarding all of the shady and potentially dangerous ingredients hidden in food items, the article gained a lot of traction. In subsequent days, most journalists and bloggers have focused on the dangers of this additive (unclear) and whether or not it is pervasive throughout the food chain as opposed to just fast food (it appears to be).
The one angle that has not been explored as much is the overall trend. Let’s go ahead and assume that wood pulp is a safe thing to consume, it certainly seems to have no nutritional value whatsoever. So why are companies inserting it into food items? To mask inflation and earn more profits most likely. This was a major theme I focused on last year in a series of pieces on stealth inflation and food fraud, a couple of which can be read below:
New Study Shows 59% of “Tuna” Sold in the U.S. Isn’t Tuna
New Study Shows: Food Fraud Soared 60% Last Year
The Quartz article notes that:
There may be more fiber in your food than you realized. Burger King, McDonald’s and other fast food companies list in the ingredients of several of their foods, microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) or “powdered cellulose” as components of their menu items. Or, in plain English, wood pulp.
The emulsion-stabilizing, cling-improving, anti-caking substance operates under multiple aliases, ranging from powdered cellulose to cellulose powder to methylcellulose to cellulose gum. The entrance of this non-absorbable fiber into fast food ingredients has been stealthy, yet widespread: The compound can now be found in buns, cheeses, sauces, cakes, shakes, rolls, fries, onion rings, smoothies, meats—basically everything.
The cost effectiveness of this filler has pushed many chains to use progressively less chicken in their “chicken” and cream in their “ice cream.”
This is the part that really interests me. When did these companies first introduce this substance into their products and what is the growth trend? My guess is that as food costs have risen, the proportion of non-nutritonal fillers has increased substantially. That said, I’d like to see some data and I haven’t yet.
My big takeaway here is the same as last year’s when I first started writing about the trend. As the cost of food continues to rise, the cost of not paying attention to what you are eating rises exponentially. Companies will continue to try to mask inflation by shrinking package sizes, and when that is no longer possible, increasingly inserting empty fillers (or worse) into their products.
Meanwhile, the following video is a telling spoof on the ingredients in McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets.
On a related note, if you haven’t read my recent post on BPA, definitely take the time: National Geographic Reports – Chemicals Causing Infertility in Pigs are Present Throughout Human Consumer Goods.
Bon Appétit.
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By putting more people on EBT.
don't sweat it. when you inevitably get seriously chronically ill from eating this poison, Obamacare (TM) will be there to save you.
And you fucks probably laughed at the Norks for eating grass, bark and shoes as they starved.
Here, in exceptional Amurika we have our tree bark prepared for us. USA USA USA!
Could be a feature, not a bug…
Marketing.. “ You are what you eat.. Eat our Pulpburgers to be strong as the mighty oak tree” or “only the finest redwood used in out Bunyan Burger”.
Speaking of bugs.. "insect parts" though usually not specified, is an ingredient of most of that stuff.
Didn't the Wookie once tell us all to 'Eat your trees'?
Damn... this shit is even in my Wendy's Frosty. That's just doesn't seem right.
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/07/09/meet-the-15-food-companies-tha...
McDonald’s uses cellulose in the following products:
Wood chips?...pink slime?...wtf?
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One cant even EAT without 'them' trying to fucking make you sick - and 'sick' not just physically...but mentally as well.
And when you see the innocent that just try to enjoy -in moderation- some burger and fries in peace...it makes you want to cry.
But the trees are organic free range. Thats good, right?
If anyone needs me I'll be out in my woods cutting down some burgers for dinner...
"Flame-broiled Whoppers: Now with real charcoal cooked right in!"
Soylent Green... is made out of people..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l5GU4
Just like in the Great Depression (the first one). Grandparents told me stories about people putting sawdust in their bread because they just didn't have enough flour.
And here we are again.
Who ever thought N Korea would be a trendsetter?
Meh, how about "Meat Glue"?
www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hXXrB3rz-xU&vq=large
Yummy
Meh, how about "Meat Glue"?
www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hXXrB3rz-xU&vq=large
Yummy
Sleazy business men looking to maximize profits, they would sell us radioactive waste if the could make more money doing it.
The real sick ones though are those motherfuckers at the FDA that are supposed to be policing them. They rubber stamp the shit so long as the govs skim of the loot is on time.
No punishment will be too heavy for those sick fucks.
"Perhaps most important to food processors is that cellulose is cheaper, he added, because “the fiber and water combination is less expensive than most other ingredients in the [food] product.”
Indeed, food producers save as much as 30% in ingredient costs by opting for cellulose as a filler or binder in processed foods, according to a source close to the processed food industry who spoke with TheStreet on the condition of anonymity."
When they discover that dirt is even cheaper than wood pulp you can bet your burger is going to taste like... well... dirt.
dirt....? It was just ground this morning.
Why does my burger taste like California Chrome?
You wish!
I don't always eat wood, but when I do, I prefer moahagany
Service at McDs has plunged to an all time low in my area. Hard to tell who is worse; the 'diverse' kids with chips on their shoulders, or, the non-english speaking crowd, or, the white teen who does not know how to count. I actually look forward to one of the 'grey hairs' b/c they are usually polite, know how to count and get the order correct.
Just for shitsandgiggles, try paying using Eisenhower dollars (about $1.15 at coin stores). The response I normally get is "We don't accept foreign money".
he he he. I have done similar when I feel a mean streak in me and hand the kid $1.08 for a 96 cent order.
The bewildered look on his face....Precious!
And then it's just a tiny step to using "fecal extract from free range chickens". Why not? Anyone who has ever seen chickens feed know that they think turds are YUMMY. So just dress the little darlin's up with a tiny basker underneath their tail and catch all that valuable burger condiment before it gets mixed in with DIRT.
Oh, wait. Seems we have a twofer here folks. Dirt flavored shit. Yum.
Heck, it doesn't really matter. 90% of the chicken sold in supermarkets has fecal contamination. So why not standardize the fecal/dirt content so that we'll actually KNOW how many McNuggets you can eat before crossing the River Styx.
Also an excellent source of violent diareah! It's all how you spin it.
As always, I would point a little further up the "food-chain" to the sleazy businessmen known as "Central Bankers."
Once you realize that it is IMPOSSIBLE for honest businesses to succeed in a competitive environment undermined by endless fiat, what other option is left other than shutting down entirely?
If they do try to survive without cutting corners, they only end up consuming all of their capital as they try to stay afloat, until such time as reality shuts them down as well.
Welcome to the criminal enclave known as Bizarro World. Please check your sanity at the door.
Has anyone else noticed the surge in articles such as the following? TPTB are desperate, and based on the article we are commenting on here, the general population is actually dumbed-down enough to go for it. This is SO depressing!!!
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34172/title/Why-In...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-22508439
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/04/03/297853835/the-joys-and-ethics-o...
"Its good for the environment, and okay for you!" - Actual food advertisement from 2012's "Judge Dredd" film.
Speaking of bugs.. "insect parts" though usually not specified, is an ingredient of most of that stuff.
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Damn. And here I was, thinking that a delicious woodpulp burger was suitable for a vegetarian.
Cellulose. Yum. What do you think is in a Taco Bell taco?
The two hidden faces of inflation, reduced product size and reduced product quality. On top of which we have to deal with planned obsolensence, put it all together and I imagine the consumer crap we are getting these days is about on par with what 1st world consumers from 1870 would have experienced.
Once upon a time, this species prized quality. Too bad we '(d)evolved' past caring.
meh.. it taste good. Me eat.
By all means enjoy....your illness. Cancer's a helluva way to learn about cause and effect. Don't touch the stove! Ouch!
It is exactly like a drug dealer sifting baby laxative into his blow. It is sick and it's dishonest whether everyone ought to know or not.
I ain't gonna eat that. (I used to eat of lot it at one point)
Who know what they sift into that shit, it's still one hell of a drug
Don't rag on Taco Bell; it's fascinating how they keep coming up with new products using their constant base of only 8 ingredients.
you definitely want to click on the "Tuna" link above.
Key takeaway:
"prolonged, uncontrollable, oily anal leakage” --> the disturbing outcome from consuming a (fake) tuna sandwich
I searched my feelings and decided that I didn't want to experience that condition.
I might offer my boss a sandwich, though.
Thanks to BP's "Core Exit" and Fukushima's "Endless Cesium," I quit eating it all anyway. Right now we only use it so supplement our dry cat & dog food.
Nice Killer Clown From Outer Space avatar.
Why would anyone laugh at NORKs starving? Screw anyone who did or does laugh.
"(TM)?"
Is that a Trademark or Tyrannymark?!
thermite
now termites
what the fuck is next?
anthracite.
Next will be the additive Soylent Green (SYG)
Now you know why they are trying to all the illegals over the border.
The real riots will start when people find out that their Soylent Green is only 5% people and 95% filler.
Methyl cellulose:
Methyl cellulose does not occur naturally and is synthetically produced by heating cellulose with caustic solution (e.g. a solution of sodium hydroxide) and treating it with methyl chloride. In the substitution reaction that follows, the hydroxyl residues (-OH functional groups) are replaced by methoxide (-OCH3 groups).
Different kinds of methyl cellulose can be prepared depending on the number of hydroxyl groups substituted. Cellulose is a polymer consisting of numerous linked glucose molecules, each of which exposes three hydroxyl groups.
Jesus, Joseph and Mary.....these fucker really ARE poisoning us. Wood pulp that is bleached to form a thickerner which is made up of GLUCOSE molecules after the bleaching process.
God help us !
And.....looking back on this statement.....what exactly IS Methyl Chloride....which is listed as the other ingrediant along with sodium hydroxide ( which is found in Drano).......
Methyl Chloride:
Chloromethane, also called methyl chloride, R-40 or HCC 40, is a chemical compound of the group of organic compounds called haloalkanes. It was once widely used as a refrigerant. It is a colorless extremely flammable gas with a mildly sweet odor, which is, however, detected at possibly toxic levels.
So....bleach and refrigerant is mixed with wood pulp and then THAT is put into our food.
And Obamacare is going to make that ALL better. Rightttttttt........
i dont blame the food co's. Who is causing bottom line pressure and what agency gives them a pass?
Are you FUCKING kidding me ?
Right is right and wrong is wrong !!!!! These fucks KNOW this shit is poison and they STILL do it. You can ALWAYS CHOOSE to shut your business down and REFUSE to sell this shit to the public, no matter what government agency allows you to do it or if the FDA says its "reasonably" safe.
Fucking do the right thing....even if that costs you your livelihood or life.
Ever run a restaurant. Profit is hard to come by and regulators are up your ass at every step of the way!
No I wouldn't do it, thats not the point. They are in a war for their lives.
And no I dont eat fast food. Thats my solution.
I don't blame them though.
Edit: maybe they can charge what you will pay when they mechanize the production.
I would prefer that anyway
A food story: I got a burger at applebees 10-12 years ago. Took a bite and thought this tastes funny. Wife took a bite and wife agreed. Grabbed the menu and sure enough it said 100% meat. I gathered that it was bullshit animal by product.
At that point I assumed that restaurant food from that level down was doing the same thing and they are or worse. I also assumed that the fda was worthless which they are.
Moral: if you eat at crappy restaurants you are a lazy idiot as you can know what you are eating if you make it yourself. Eat right and exercise and you might not have as much of an issue with obama and his healthcare destruction.
LOL I can't believe the outrage at what is in friggin Whoppers. Jesus open your eyes people. You didn't know this red arrows.
Ah you are what you eat
Got wood?
Wasn't there something, a few decades ago, about wood pulp being mixed in and fed to livestock? So now we can eliminate the "middleman"?
Here it is ... 1979!
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19790117&id=B6MrAAAAIBAJ&...
Speaking of things mixed inot feed: http://www.taoslandandfilm.com/independent-films/Cattlegate-Michigan-PBB...
Cattle got cement fed to them, too. Still do.
+100 You got a good memory! :-)
Thanks - 72 in a few more days.
Now, here's a community that has avoided GMO like the plague since Monsanto first came out with it.
#2 Coolest Small City in the U.S.: http://www.buzzfeed.com/fuze/coolest-small-cities-its-time-to-roadtrip-to
But from the dark side, enters Heartland Co-op ... http://www.ahead-iowa.org/grain-dust-pollution-how-bad-does-it-get/
Grain Dust Pollution – How Bad Can It Get? A. GMO Grain Dust: 28.7 ton per year across Fairfield (estimate) Dr. Robert Brook? of the University of Michigan, one of the most prominent air pollution scholars and researchers in the country, spoke recently in Dalby Hall in M.U.M.'s Argiro Center, and said that the potential pollution from this grain elevator complex in Fairfield should be taken very seriously. GMO dust could potentially be entering our blood streams, in very finely grained sizes that one may not even notice - accumulating over the years? Despite rigorous continuing efforts to not eat gmo food, would we all be forced to breathe the equivalent (or more?) if this facility is built?As both Darwin & Uncle Chesty always said,
"Yours is not to wonder why, yours is but to do or die."
Nice memory -- nice find! Very interesting perspective.
Now try to imagine convincing folks in 1979 that this would be occurring 35 years later -- at McDonalds -- in the US.
They all would have found that notion to be completely bat-shit insane. (same as many things we have been witnessing!)
Perhaps all of this is a mind-control exercise? From your article: "Kelley said wood cellulose -- for reasons not totally understood -- produces a 'tranquilizing, therapeutic effect' on cattle."
</tinfoil-hat>
Remember Less Bread? It was semi popular about 25 years ago. Advertised as a diet food. Its popularity took a big hit after one of its main ingredients (fiber) turned out to be sawdust.
They only quit because when it was toasted, It smelled like burning wood.
True Story.
They should've advertised it as "hickory smoked" and raised the price.
HOLY CRAP.....did you read the part where....
"Kelley said wood cellulose --for reasons not totally understood--produces a "tranquelizing, therapeutic effect" on cattle, produces a superb quality of beef."
OMG...they really ARE fattening us up to be made into Soylen Green !!
LOL
Don't forget the Flouride in th water...
...and the FaceFuck experiments on manipating people's emotions...
...and the awesomely easy access to SSRI drugs...
Yep. But none dare call it conspiracy. Say, I wonder if my sports team is winning the big game? I'd better go check.
every morning
But do you grind it into your burger?
Comment of the Day!
Now excuse me while I go beat my meat (into a pulp).
Don't forget to slather up your wood with lye and refrigerant.
Methyl cellulose does not occur naturally and is synthetically produced by heating cellulose with caustic solution (e.g. a solution of sodium hydroxide) (Sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda,[3][4] or lye) and treating it with methyl chloride.
Chloromethane, also called methyl chloride, R-40 or HCC 40, is a chemical compound of the group of organic compounds called haloalkanes. It was once widely used as a refrigerant.
Seems they're beginnning to put it everything now. I was reading the label on some pimento cheese at the grocery store today and lo and behold...cellulose as an ingredient. So if you're a termite go for it.
Any pre-packaged shredded cheese has always had either cellulose or silica as an anti-caking agent.
Oh, wait, you said pimento.
Never mind.
Damn! And I just found there's even nitrous cellulose in my gun powder!!
It's everywhere! It's everywhere!!
Hide the sausage?
Let's play hide the inflation. Reduce package weight but not package size. Cut the meat with wood chips and pink slime. Those guys that got Mad Cow disease may have got off easy.
Read other day that BEER isnt required to list ingredients so quite a bit has added bizarro material like -
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) – alcohol is already addictive with some people, but with MSG?! Holy smokes.
Propylene Glycol (an ingredient found in anti-freeze)
Calcium Disodium EDTA (made from formaldehyde, sodium cayanide, and Ethylenediamine)
Many different types of sulfites and anti-microbial preservatives (linked to allergies and asthma)
Natural Flavors (can come from anything natural including a beavers anal gland)
High Fructose Corn Syrup
GMO Sugars – Dextrose, Corn Syrup
Caramel Coloring (Class III or IV made from ammonia and classified as a carcinogen)
FD&C Blue 1 (Made from petroleum, linked to allergies, asthma and hyperactivity)
FD&C Red 40 (Made from petroleum, linked to allergies, asthma and hyperactivity)
FD&C Yellow 5 (Made from petroleum, linked to allergies, asthma and hyperactivity)
Insect-Based Dyes: carmine derived from cochineal insects to color their beer.
Animal Based Clarifiers: Findings include isinglass (dried fish bladder), gelatin (from skin, connective tissue, and bones), and casein (found in milk)
Foam Control: Used for head retention; (glyceryl monostearate and pepsin are both potentially derived from animals)
BPA (Bisphenol A is a component in many can liners and it may leach into the beer. BPA can mimic the female hormone estrogen and may affect sperm count, and other organ functions.)
Carrageenan (linked to inflammation in digestive system, IBS and considered a carcinogen in some circumstances)
I can understand the brew your own beer movement now.
gender ambiguity in the food chain is the future.
better living through chemistry and carelessness ......
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Intersex fish found in 3 Pennsylvania river basins
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-pennsylvania-intersex-f...
Furthering the "everybody is gay" hypothesis.
Shit, I was taking this shake supplement ViSalus. It was a non-GMO soy products and I mixed up doubles of this shit for almost two years. Turns out my estrogen levels became highly elevated and I indeed started to become irrational, highly emotional, and other thought process changes that never made sense to me. I quit the shakes a few months ago and my brain is back to my normal though processes, but I was turning into a damned woman.
So that's what was up with your posts! ;-)
Brown slime?
No, that is the net result of consuming their food.
Now you know why it tastes like cardboard. ;-)
yeah, and unless they are getting the cellulose from recyling (old diapers?), the tree huggers are going to be up in arms about the senseless slaughter of the trees.
This should save Papa John's some $$$s on packaging, now they can just slather their ketchup sauce on the box and toss on some pepperoni-shaped pink slime.
D/click
Wood Pulp, well at least its natural, sort of getting back to nature I suppose.l
Non-absorbant, sooooo you're better off eating grass out of your yard.
.."tastes like wild hickory nuts!"..
It's worthless filler in FIAT currency as well! ;)
soon enough the fiat currency will be the filler added to oak-burgers...
The McDollar burger, it's green!
"The Mcdollar burger, its green!" Shouldn't you be at church or kneeling towards the crucifix and praying or whatever it is you bible bangers do? Brain dead idiots like you should be thrown to the lions. You dumb down the discussion when you comment.
Last week I pondered how they* could debase Pink Slime, now we know, what happens when sawdust becomes too expensive?
Toxic waste?
If flavored properly Americans will eat toxic waste
It already is and we already do.
Within 5 years the days of wood pulp and pink slime will be remembered as the halcyon days of yore when they are replaces with the matted ass and back hair of illegal immigrants.
Come on, does this affect the top 20%, seriously? This is a nation that can't even stop predatory lending to "our troops". This is a nation that can't even agree that predatory lending exists. This is a nation that LOVES laughing at dumbasses getting screwed.
Survival of the fittest, bitchezzz!
I'd like a double soylent green with cheese.
IT'S MADE OUT OF PEOPLE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE
Burger Queen releases new Pride Burger.
http://weaselzippers.us/192086-burger-king-releases-video-touting-reaction-to-their-gay-pride-whopper/
Onion, RIP.
The comments are priceless.
Jumpin Jehova on a pogo stick, is nothing safe from cultural engineering these days? Actually this is kind of a testament on how fake and plastic our cultural identity has become, we need a fucking fast food corporation to validate our new cultural norms.
Guess it's time to start drinkin early.
WTF. Why can't these goddamn companies stop shoving political shit in our faces and get back to MAKING FOOD.
EARTH TO BOARDROOM - Nobody gives a FUCK what YOU think.
mind controll the young generations, and in no time... you have changed reality.
That's the truth J39. My 15 year old daughter has a couple of non thinking friends that all of a sudden think they are lesbians! Thankfully, I have been lucky enough to teach my kids to think about everything they hear/read cause most of it is BS!
In the end, there will be two corporations like there are two political parties, and you will either shop at Red Corp or Blue Inc. Of course, there may appear to be numerous companies due to anti-monopoly laws and appearences, but through shell companies and wholly owned subsidiaries, there will in fact be only two "choices".
Two! Two is dreadfully inefficient! One choice is all that they need! Just give them two labels.
Fuck you pal; I, for one, care what they think.
Their progressive programming really reaches me! Well I'm off for a Oaken Pink Slime burger at that new chain, Turd Burglar King.
The new and improved wrapper: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=23mlgck&s=8#.U7WlHPldV-M
Apparently the burgers do have 'wood' in them...
So good, you'll suck dick!
http://www.videogum.com/img/thumbnails/photos/krispy_kreme_1.jpg
The Keynesians would have you believe this is their miracle to the world... More people get to eat. Sludge.
Sooooo, I guess when you get in that road rage incident with the moron that just cut you off, and you get outta yer car and threaten to beat the pulp outta him, it's really true! You will be beating lots and lots of pulp outta him!
It's not pulp fiction, either.
And, your woodie, is, well, really a woodie!
TMI
From that video, obviously nuggets also make you annoyingly gay
Fabbaluss! Ssssimply fabbaluss!
Timburger.....!!
Brought to you by the Beaver Foods Corporation...
This all goes away when they open
the FEMA camps
Wrong, they gonna step it up, massproduction (nice workcamps for the people)
Just getting the sheep ready for when they are eating grass and the bark off of trees....
Ahhhh. I miss the good old days of pink slime.
Hair lice is being turned into a new protein snack at McDonalds.
Especially along the Mexico border.
Yum!
Can I get some BBQ sauce please.
hehehehe
i have friends and we go to mcd's and i'm not ordering anything( i did before cause i'm dumb and ignorant) , so they ask me - how come? i answear that i refuse to support an evil corporation that is responsible for numerous unethical actions. they look at me like im an alien and tell me that im paranoid , they say : "c'mon it tastes so good". i bet devil' s cock tastes good too. lord fucking help me
It seems they are unacquainted with what a lot of salt and cooking with oil will do for food. What they are ignorant of is the high amount of filler and preservatives...
judging by my experience , people are not interested in looking deep into things , thats ''hard and boring'' , '' what is a preservative? who cares , relax nobody dies from that''. people like things that taste good (even if its soylent green), things that make you feel good. it feels good to be american, feels good to be the best
But the [insert "protectionist" agency of choice here] says it's SAFE!
And I hear that from college graduates who believe that is an iron-clad rebuttal.
Watching 14" tall "wheat" along with the GMO corn and soybeans being harvested these days is sad.
No amber waves of grain for you!
Good for you. This might help your resolve, my nigger:
http://www.mcdonalds.com/365black/en/home.html
you know, beavers like wood
Enjoy licking the underside of a rotten piece of wood.
Has all kinda critters inside it.
Has all the essential nutrients and protein.
Watch out when you light that campfire this weekend....you might be the fire starter...the kindling so to speak...what kind of wood I want to know..I bet some taste better than others...I love the Blue Spruce...I planted thousands across Colorado....a beautiful tree..and tastes great too I bet..
EVERYBODY .... Two all beef patties, lettuce, cheese, pickles, wood pulp, on a sesame seed bun.
Did you ever bite into a tumor?
Gushing all that white puss?
It's high in vitamin Z.
A new vitamin just invented by the head chef at McDonalds.
William Dudley of the NY Federal Reserve:
"Let them eat iPods."
McDonalds and GM should team up for the Special Olympics. I see nothing but gold plated tungsten medals on their athletes.
More bark per bite.
i want a double tumor with cheese.
extre white puss, please!
they had a sign for $2.50 happy meals and 50 cent ice cream cones .. meanwhile, MCD sports a 18% net profit margin... how in the F@#$?
That's a lot of wood pulp.
(Save the trees, man!)
Yeah it doesn't add up.
Just bought a pound of ground round from a nice market with real butchers (not the factory packed stuff, but not grass fed organic either).
$5.89 a pound, so $1.47 for a quarter pound of beef, at least .25 for the cheapest little HFCS bun, throw on some pickle/lettuce/tomato/cheese...must be near $2 in ingredients for a real beef burger.
Doesn't leave a lot of room to cover overhead and make a profit, even if you switch to a lower grade bulk ground beef.
The fast food culture, and corpofood has made a mockery of life. I swear it drove be to become a vegetarian, more than 30 years ago now. This forced me to take a hard look at what I put in my mouth. I like convenience, and time-saving as much as the next person but not athe expense of health and well-being. Besides I'd rather have a bad meal in a locally owned place (only once) than not try it and sell out to some frankenchised megakrap.
Wood. It's what's for dinner.
These days the FDA classifies wood as a vegetable.
Libtards will say termites are healthy... Plenty of fiber.
Real maple syrup comes from a tree.
Termites have lots of protein too!
Soylent Green is peopleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
National Geographic Reports – Chemicals Causing Infertility in Pigs are Present Throughout Human Consumer Goods.
Let's give Democrats discounts on this kind of food. When they get sick then let them navigate through Obamacare.
New product ...Sappy meal...:)
The only real reason people I know eat that crap is on a dare to see how long they can clench their cheeks before they have an explosive diarrhea blowout: Taco Bell is still king when it comes to this.
Even the grittiest and scariest of construction site lunch trucks can't hold a candle to the 'blowout' effect of McDonald's or Taco Bell.
True story.
If I eat a McDonalds Sausage McGuffin and an orange drink I will projectile shit a brown stream so violent and yet cohesive it looks like a mud volcano erupting from my boxers.
Haven't yet figured a way to monetize this ability.
LOL, now people who live on McShitters are getting a high fiber diet. I wouldn't be surprised if adding wood pulp actually makes McShitters BETTER for people because wood pulp is likely fairly neutral as opposed to the other shit that they add to their food.
Good one lulz.