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Undersize Me? McDonald's Franchise Owners Admit Fast Food Giant "Facing Its Final Days"

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Having seen the writing on the $15 minimum wage wall...

h/t @TopherCarlton

 

And given the new 'lack of transparency' following McDonalds' managements' decision to stop reporting sales numbers monthly...

 

 

It appears McDonalds' franchie owners are voicing their concerns... rather ominously... as TheAntiMedia.org's Nick Bernabe reports,

Embattled fast food giant McDonald’s is making headlines yet again. The company has just launched its much advertised all-day breakfast program, but as that campaign rolls out, franchise owners are voicing their concerns over what may be the company’s dying days.

As we covered at Anti-Media in June, the McDonald’s franchise has been shrinking for the first time in the company’s over 40 year history:

“McDonald’s announced in April that it would be closing 700 ‘underperforming’ locations, but because of the company’s sheer size — it has 14,300 locations in the United States alone — this was not necessarily a reduction in the size of the company, especially because it continues to open locations around the world. It still has more than double the locations of Burger King, its closest competitor.”

However, for the franchisees, the picture looks much worse than simply 700 stores closing down.

“We are in the throes of a deep depression, and nothing is changing,” a franchise owner wrote in response to a financial survey by Nomura Group. “Probably 30% of operators are insolvent.” One owner went as far as to speculate that McDonald’s is literally “facing its final days.”

Franchisees have also been complaining about the erratic nature of McDonald’s corporate decision-making process. As Business Insider reports,

“The lack of consistent leadership from Oak Brook is frightening, we continue to jump from one failed initiative to another.”

They are likely referring to the company’s many marketing schemes that have been implemented recently to slow the bleeding of younger customers as they choose healthier, more local options en masse. As Anti-Media also reported in June,

“Though the chain has dominated the fast food market for decades, recent competition and health consciousness has challenged the popularity of its product. The growth of chains like Chipotle, which recently stopped using genetically modified ingredients, has reportedly diverted customers away from McDonald’s. Additionally, the company is losing a share of its young patrons while the rise of boutique burger chains such as Five Guys has put a dent in profits.

 

[…] The increased closures denote a growing shift in dietary preferences among Americans. This is consistent with recent moves by fast food chains to remove toxic chemicals from their ingredients, as well as with the exponential growth of organic, healthy alternatives.”

Are we seeing McDonald’s final days? If the trend towards healthier alternatives to McDonald’s continues, it’s a very real possibility.

 

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Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:09 | 6681898 JustObserving
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Selling toxic, tasteless food to your customers is not a viable business model.

Lab Tests: McDonald’s ‘Devastates’ Gut Health In 10 Days


Subject also 'turned strange grey' color


We all know food at McDonald’s is virtually unfit for human consumption. Now, disturbing new lab results have reportedly demonstrated the true extent of the damage you are doing to your body when you eat fast food. Specifically, we’re talking about the ‘devastation’ of your gut health — the attack on the most important part of your biological immune response.

In just 10 days of consuming Big Macs, chicken nuggets, fries, and Coca-Cola, Spector’s son was found by laboratory fecal testing to lose nearly 1,400 types of bacteria species from his gut – that’s nearly 40% of his total variety. What’s worse is that these did not return after he switched back to a normal diet.

http://naturalsociety.com/lab-tests-mcdonalds-devastates-gut-health-in-1...

 

This 20-Year-Old Burger From McDonald’s Looks Brand New

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahjewell/this-20-year-old-burger-from-mcdona...

Fri, 12/04/2015 - 17:08 | 6877443 Gordon Freeman
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Calling this article brain-dead would be too flattering...

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:13 | 6681946 Deathrips
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Free advice for Mc D's.

 

Customers were looking for food, not poison. You dissapointed the scheduled programmers that now have Dia bee tis.

 

RIPS

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:18 | 6681968 coinhead
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We gonna go and grab one of their burgers so we can pass it on to our grandkids, so they will know what a cheeseburger looked like.  It shouldn't require refrigeration to make it that long either.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:41 | 6682042 Normalcy Bias
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"Even in the summer when we get ants, the bugs won't go near it."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mcdonalds-cheeseburger-left-doctors-surgery-4940927

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:49 | 6682081 jbvtme
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sally fallon "nourishing traditions"

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:59 | 6682113 Oh regional Indian
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Sadly, here in India, McD's is a booming business.... Till they go boom I guess...

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 13:08 | 6682141 Billy the Poet
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Run for cover if you hear the words, "Where's the beef?"

 

India’s Food Fight Turns Deadly

A mob recently killed a 50-year-old Muslim man. His alleged crime? Eating beef.

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/india-muslim-hi...

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:24 | 6682333 Fredo Corleone
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"Two all-beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun."

Those were the days when Mayor McCheese and the Grimace ran the fast food show; when the Burger King was still a char-broiling, minimum wage jack with a cheap paper coronet. Alas, with Big Mac out on SSDI, and the Hamburglar now doing life, having run afoul of the EPS "three-time loser" sentencing guideline, McDonald's fattest profit days are far behind it.

There will not be another heyday.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:25 | 6682375 James_Cole
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The increased closures denote a growing shift in dietary preferences among Americans.

Good.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:46 | 6682594 Stainless Steel Rat
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They have serious quality and health issues that can ONLY be addressed if they dig deep and spend the money necessary to hire the finest public relations firms available.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:45 | 6682880 Supernova Born
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Food price inflation takes out those who dwell at the margin first.

McD's has operated on the borderline between food and garbage for decades.

 

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:29 | 6682995 Amish FinEng
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What's so 'Special' about the sauce? Well it turns out Propylene Glycol mixed with salt, sugar, and a dab of horseraddish flavor really sells burgers.

Nah, antifreeze is perfectly safe to consume, daily if you prefer.

And what is a burger? Sawdust mixed with 'pink slime' and beef flavorings. Yum.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:50 | 6683092 RafterManFMJ
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Probably get banned for this just shy of my 5th year 'versary, but I quit going to McNigger's years ago when I first realised they had this website:

http://www.mcdonalds.com/365black/en/home.html

I just checked, and sho enuff, it's still there.

Any White, Hispanic, Asian, or White Hispanic that goes to McNigger's should be laughed at, then shunned.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:09 | 6683397 buzzardsluck
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LOL, clearly they didn't hire sha'ronda, leroy, shadey-nastie or tyrone to write that site.

 

hope you don't get banned btw

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:28 | 6683853 cheka
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the US white young adults are not keen on mcrap

a core demo from the good ole mcdays

need to get ebt for fast food approval in all 57 states

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:57 | 6683931 Oh regional Indian
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We are what we eat...

It's all about population control for the controllers...

https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/population-control-vectors/

And this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnLkfBedUE0

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:26 | 6683454 Antifaschistische
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There's another angle, and I'm not at all convinced that America is now only interested in health food. McDonalds was a way of life for many of us. It was almost a cultural Icon. But go to a McDonalds today and just look around you.  I live in 77024 and it's a dang nice neighborhood...but you cross 1-10 going north to the McDonalds 1/2 a mile away and it's like you're in Tijuana.  Most of the customers don't speak English...and the few that do speak some form of ebonics.  Seriously, everyone tells their kids to NOT go to this McDonalds.

The McDonalds inside Memorial City Mall refuses to hire anyone who could pass a 4th grade math test.

The McDonalds we all did love (in spite of it's health consequences) is gone.  It's a different culture now and is a reflection of America's decline.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:29 | 6683462 Antifaschistische
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ps...and how can you say the younger generation is interested in healthy alternatives and then say they're going to Five Guys...the greasiest burger in town!! it's all demographics...look at the people IN Five Guys.  It's a demo shift.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 23:50 | 6684031 Proofreder
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Grease is where the flavor resides -

When the FDA recommended lowering the fat content of processed foods, people noticed it tastes like cardboard.  So, Sugars were added to make up the taste difference.  Excess sugars are deposited into fat cells in the form of glycogen - fat people's 'cellulite'.  It's fat, folks, contributed by sugar.  Lots of sugar in most everything now, from sucrose (white table sugar) to HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) and all cause disease, from obesity to heart disease to acne, when consumed in excess.   

It's the sugar, not the grease

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 08:08 | 6684441 fallout11
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Michael Pollan (and the documentary Supersize Me) pointed out over a decade ago that even the BUNS at McDonalds contained high fructose corn syrup. It is deliberately added to early everything McDonalds sold as of 2005.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 02:36 | 6684185 A Nanny Moose
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Demo shift = (Same burger + white folks) mo money.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:32 | 6683689 Dave Thomas
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Yeah, remember when BBQ was something that Texans loved? Now it's all taco and chicken joints. Si Supede! / Word up!

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 02:59 | 6684197 wizteknet
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Guess you never been to No Name BBQ then?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:23 | 6683444 sun tzu
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Their PR firm targeted illegal immigrants and hoodrats. Now they can live with it.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 02:39 | 6684186 A Nanny Moose
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CAtering to the lowest common denominator, in order to maximize shareholder value. This brought us Mc D's, Bud, Automatic Transmissions, and the latest World of Warcraft expansion....among other things.

Tue, 10/20/2015 - 02:46 | 6688428 mkkby
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McNigger isn't cheap any more.  That's the main problem.  For the same price you can get a decent meal with real food in a lot of places.  So they shouldn't complain.  They jacked up prices as much as they could - now it's pretty much impossible to grow.

I'll never believe fat, TV watching morons are switching for health/quality reasons.  That takes brain power and decision making, which is sorely lacking.  It's just the price.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:44 | 6682727 strangewalk
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At any airport in China, you rarely see an obese person and very few who are even mildly overweight, at any airport in America, you rarely see someone who is not noticably overweight or obese. The runaway culprit-->PROCESSED AND FAST FOODS. If it comes in a can, bottle, box, carton or any kind of wrapping, it is usually poison that will make you fat and sick. If the lying liars tell you otherwise it amounts to the lies of lying liars who lyingly lie, and it is not just the food processors, because fat people equal sick people equal really big profits for doctors, hospitals and big pharma. 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:41 | 6683060 RafterManFMJ
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I agree with you 100%, with the niggling point that vodka, gin, and rum also come in bottles. As does hot sauce.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 23:34 | 6684004 Oh regional Indian
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trouble is that except in extreme moderation, those three will kill you, reduce your quality of life and are great destroyers of men and manhood too.

I am a recovered Alcoholic (functioning at the time, but an alcoholic nonetheless)...

Hard truth...

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 23:53 | 6684034 Wannabee
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@ORI
Hat tip to you sir.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 00:01 | 6684045 Oh regional Indian
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My liver appreciates your appreciation Wanna :-)

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:46 | 6683077 Crisismode
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Chinese people . . . excellent

 

American peple . . . ignorant fools.

Right?

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:32 | 6683473 sun tzu
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No. American people, fat slobs. Most of Asia and Europe, fit and healthy. The difference is Americans eat more processed and fast foods.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:30 | 6683860 sun tzu
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Compare an obese Chinese with an obese American. It's not even close. An obese Chinese or European is like the average American. Only in America is fast food and deep fried crap a way of life for 50% of the population.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 08:17 | 6684452 jcaz
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Obese is obese, dude-  and when you're paying your workers 40 cents/hr to slap Nikes and Apples together,  it's tougher for them to buy doughnuts.

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:17 | 6683214 dark pools of soros
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you could see them through that cloudy air??

they must of been fat then

 

 

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:25 | 6683369 Stuck on Zero
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Amazing thing about China.  They smoke like fish, live in the most polluted, toxic, unhealthful conditions in the world, and have a lower cancer rate than the USA.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 00:00 | 6684044 Proofreder
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... lower cancer rate than the U$A

Give it time, tadpole, just give it time.

Cancer is not like the Flu - takes time to become rooted, develop, spread out and be noticed.  Bad pollution in China is many years behind the US example.  Think LA smog.  China just geting started with serious deadly pollution.  Guess the series of explosions and fires do not aid the people either.

What's Inside Your Body ?

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 01:45 | 6684155 kareninca
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Riiiiight.  Believe the Chinese government's cancer rate stats.  Since the Chinese government is notoriously truthful.

You're being ironic, right?

 

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:02 | 6684356 conscious being
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US .gov cancer stats are real?

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:51 | 6684419 azusgm
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Probably.

Cancer is big business.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:46 | 6683327 FreedomGuy
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Your first sentence about China versus America is true...for now. After that you get it mostly wrong. Americans are fat because they eat too much and are too sedentary. It is not like they are not involved in their own eating habits. For convenience many choose prepackaged foods which contrary to your assertions are not actually poisoned. However, if you choose Twinkies and Hot Pockets three times a day there will be consequences. You can get fat and unhealthy off many things including home made fried chicken.

Processed foods are designed to be convenient and tastey. I eat them all the time. I do not have time or energy to cook. However, I try to choose better frozen complete meals and not load up on food everyone knows is unhealthy if eaten in excess.

For most of history food scarcity and unreliability has been the rule. Through the wonders of technology and free trade we now have the exact opposite problem. You and I sit behind laptops which seem to comprise the core of most everyone's work. We are not so physically active and we have food available 24/7 in amounts, varieties and accessibility not dreamed of even by kings 500 years ago. Even the poorest people in an American slum can buy enough food to double their body mass and it will all taste good and not be spoiled.

However, too many of us have not adapted our habits and appetites to adjust for these factors.

It is not a conspiracy of your doctors, hospitals, pharma and MacDonald's to make you large and unhealthy. That is just conspiracy stupidity that I see too often. What all of those players actually DO is adapt to the demands and realities of the public. As people get larger doctors will get more expert at diabetes and if a pharma company can come up with a better mousetrap to treat it, they will. Interestingly, I expect or hope that MacDonalds and others might come up with better menu choices over time to attract a different sector of the public.

It is economic evolution.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:33 | 6683481 sun tzu
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Processed and packaged foods are not poisonous? Have you tried reading some of the crap in the ingredients section of those boxes?

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:04 | 6684359 conscious being
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Fresh is the only way to go. Very fresh.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:36 | 6683494 sun tzu
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Notice the pharmas hardly cure anything anymore. They just give you a pill to take every day for the rest of your life. 

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 11:52 | 6685166 jmcwala
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Amen brother. Just follow the money. Curing disease by finding the real cause is not a profit making endeavor.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:15 | 6682347 Theosebes Goodfellow
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"Well, I've always said that they were doomed the moment they introduced the Chicken McFuckits!"

I mean seriously folks, where's the "nuggets" on a chicken? And, if a chicken did have "nuggets", do you really want to know where they are? Aren't "chicken nuggets" strictly a rooster thing, like "Rocky Mountain Oysters"? Anyway, I think the whole marketing idea was detesticle, er..., detestable!

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:41 | 6682718 logicalman
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You'll be telling us next that fish don't have fingers!

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 00:04 | 6684050 Proofreder
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Nor Buffalo have

wings

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 01:25 | 6684136 Manthong
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What about Butterfly Shrimp?

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:38 | 6683048 techpreist
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I used to work at Chick-fil-A, and the chicken nuggets are made by cutting chicken breast. I was quite proud of the work we were doing back there, and probably the only "processed" foods to watch out for are the fries and Coke. The lemonade is squeezed from lemons, though I still avoid sugary drinks regardless.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 01:48 | 6684158 kareninca
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Chick-fil-A maybe have some better qualities, but they use massive amounts of MSG.  Which is both addictive and leads to greater weight gain for the same number of calories.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:44 | 6683072 RafterManFMJ
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I read a study that they hushed up right quick, but the scientists were able to demostrate that fully 50% of a Chicken McNugget was made of filler, and that filler was styrofoam.  OK, I made that up but the point is, it's actually sounds reasonable if you've ever eaten a McNugget.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:58 | 6683578 tmosley
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It really doesn't. Like most of their food, it is pretty good.  They just have an undeserved reputation as marketing particularly unhealthy food. Fact is that their food is no worse than any other fast food chain.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:56 | 6683926 gruden
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Yes it does.

McNuggets' sold to American fast food lovers contain dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-foaming agent used in Silly Putty. Apparently Pizza Hut cheese also has it.  McNuggets are unfit for human consumption.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1291526/U-S-Chicken-Mc...

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:25 | 6682536 Debt-Is-Not-Money
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"Eating beef."

How did they know it was beef?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:39 | 6682411 ebear
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"Till they go boom I guess..."

or some lunatic brahmin shuts them down.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 00:04 | 6684052 Oh regional Indian
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Why would it be lunacy to shut down a poison serving outlet ebear?

You keep taking these silly, uninformed pot-shots...

 

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 03:45 | 6684221 ebear
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Uninformed pot shots, eh? You mean historical facts verified by multiple sources, while you offer up some lunatic Ajit -prop as a rebuttal?

Well, here's my rebuttal to your rebuttal.
make of it what you will...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wjGc1zGWBc

As for shutting down a "poison serving outlet" well now, you'd have to close half the religious schools in India to achieve that - and I'm not talking Muslims either.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:12 | 6684366 conscious being
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Fascinating.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:27 | 6684379 Oh regional Indian
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Haaahaaa..... :-) Thanks for that trip down memory lane (before I was born BTW).

As for the rest, all good, let us agree to disagree. And Ajit-prop (good one) is brilliant and spot on....

Back at ya!

from 1970 sumething...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo1MykK4u8U

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 14:46 | 6686039 ebear
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"let us agree to disagree"

As long as we know what we disagree on.  That film made a very important political statement.  Recall that only 6 years had passed since independance and separation, so the message was cloaked in comedic garb, but it's there if you read between the lines.

I had a conversation a few years back with a friend who'd lost family members in Blue Star.  I remarked at the time that Brahminism was truly the curse of India, to which she replied, "if only more people understood that."

Comments on banning beef go to the heart of the matter.  I don't expect the rest of the ZH entourage to get that, but I'm pretty sure you do.  To put it simply, I come down on the side of Dalits, Muslims and Sikhs where the freedom explicitly proclaimed in the constitution, yet honored only in the breach, is concerend.

I have about as much time for Hindu chauvinists as you do for Zionists.  They're both cut from the same cloth, and have the same exclusive goals.

If I've mistaken you for one, I apologize, but some of your comments seem to lean that way.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 15:01 | 6686101 ebear
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In the spirit of Chamkila:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4H7a762jKI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EXobrhyqx8

We can sing each other's songs, so why can't we live together?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 13:46 | 6682258 White Mountains
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Sadly, there are plenty of Franken Foods now.  I threw a pot of Ramen noodles into the garden - not even the crows and raccoons recognized it as food.  This also happened to a twinkie I found at a campsite in the woods - came back a month later and the twinkie was was still there, untouched by any living thing!  Fake food is killing millions of people.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:12 | 6682332 Occident Mortal
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You toss pots of food into your garden?

Your garden is covered in old twinkies and noodles?

Do you live on a trailer park?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:29 | 6682380 WillyGroper
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ROFL,

Cuts a step out of composting.

I used to bury my food waste directly into the garden.

On another note...I have a 4.5 yr old loaf of bread that's not moldy.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:31 | 6682548 azusgm
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My mother tore up some cheap old white sandwich bread (that my aunt just had to have) and threw it out for the birds. There were plenty of birds around, but I eventually had to rake up the larger pieces because the birds wouldn't eat the stuff.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:05 | 6683381 ForTheWorld
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What kind of crap do industrial bakeries put in white bread?

The sad thing is - it can take less time to make a dough and put it in the oven than it does to put your shoes on, grab your keys, walk to the car, get in the car, start it, drive to the store, park, get out of the car, walk to the store, buy the bread and then go back home.

Unless you're doing a no-knead, long proof dough, which requires about five minutes of actual work, and 18 hours of proofing.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:52 | 6683752 Bohm Squad
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Azodicarbonamide.  Makes it fluffy.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 23:50 | 6684029 juangrande
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And kills your beneficial gut bacteria.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:59 | 6684430 azusgm
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Every time I bake bread from scratch, it takes four hours.

It is really tasty bread but I can't do it very often.

Tue, 10/20/2015 - 09:19 | 6689004 White Mountains
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Occident Mortal You must be a city boy who thinks food comes from the grocery store and fast food restaurants. 

Compost.  Fertizer.  Look it up on Wikipedia.  Food grows in soil.  Soil.  Another good word you for to learn about.  That's a good boy (taps your head).

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:00 | 6683587 tmosley
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That's because it dries out and gets hard before anything find it. Throw out some rice and it will be the same story.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:53 | 6683920 gruden
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You saying birds & critters won't eat hard things, like seeds & nuts...?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 13:56 | 6682286 giggler321
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>>Even in the summer when we get ants, the bugs won't go near it

On a plus note, all the doom sayser and prepers on ZH should probably be stocking up since their junk lasts years...

http://tinyurl.com/4dtru2

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:41 | 6682055 Save_America1st
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In the future, after the franchise wars, all restaurants will be Taco Bell

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFiDoOgRTpk

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 13:24 | 6682198 jenniewadeguy
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The cockroach of Fast Food operations?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:48 | 6682885 palmereldritch
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Nope. Carl's Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-4LU79qbU

Now with more molecules!

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:19 | 6681973 TongueStun
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But Recovery Summer 7 is just around the corner.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:26 | 6682008 CuttingEdge
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Shit, JO

I recall a happy meal on a coffee table being snapped for 4 years, but twenty???

Fucking unreal the unbiodegradable shit they are prefabricating these days...

 

"But don't forget, your child does get a free toy with his happy meal, Mr Single Parent with his kid for the Saturday afternoon".

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:59 | 6682112 Freddie
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Nobody wants to go to god damned McDonalds and get their ass beat by Trayvon or Michael Brown.

Homey employee beating wilding Shaneekwas with a metal rod.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pIwN7rtjo0

The only thing dumber is American white males cheering on NCAA, NFL, NBA Trayvons and cheering white genocide like idiots.

I do not watch TV but the endless dumb white male commercials are pretty accurate.  People who wtach and cheer that shit are idiots.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 13:28 | 6682209 jenniewadeguy
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Well said.  So well, in fact, that I am refraining from adding an unecessary sarcasm such as "Go Steelers". 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:16 | 6682348 Herd Redirectio...
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Any company that uses the 'dumb white male' stereotype in their commercials, boycott.  Hell, any company that uses commercials, boycott.  Thank me later.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:28 | 6682682 Bill of Rights
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Spot on tv is a waste of brain cells as is sports I make fun of my sheep buddies who sit there cheering like a bunch of dopes. When people ask hey did u catch that football game last night I say whats football lol blank stares. Fact is I'd rather watch paint dry

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:44 | 6682728 logicalman
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If people got half as worked up about government and banking as they do about sports, the world would be a much better place.

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:00 | 6683143 lakecity55
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I have an idea! Let's make the politicians wear sports uniforms!

"Didya see McCain fumble that Bill last night? We oughtta beat his ass! I lost 2 large on that bet!"

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:54 | 6683342 FreedomGuy
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I enjoy the NFL and an occasional baseball game as entertainment. But what I do find amazing is the amount of analyses, commentary and deep seriousness of any reporting on sports. You would think it was world peace at stake as to whether the Steelers will trumph over the Bears. The investiagtion into the IRS throoughly abusing its powers as a precursor to autocracy gets less play or thought than whether Tom Brady really knew his footballs were underinflated.

Bread and circuses.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:19 | 6683424 Yohimbo
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if only they invested half that charisma in solving the nations problems, ironically they are counter to solving the problems, and the actually may in fact be foundation to the problems

Tue, 10/20/2015 - 03:14 | 6688445 mkkby
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And they have football analysis ALL FUCKING YEAR.  It's bad enough during the season.  But so many imbecile americans are addicted to this shit, they can profit from tv/radio show in the off season.  I go into a bar during the spring and have to hear football talk -- it's enough to make me ill.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:13 | 6683629 WhackoWarner
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Just think of the oncoming gift we will all have.  McD's, UNDER TPP, will be able to sue for any loss in profits if society ever wakes up to the harm of GMO's, paste garbage pink slime, artificial sweetners  AND passes legislation that limits the huge carrying costs that result in medical costs.  The medical costs that result from eating/drinking/planting this crap.

Obesity. Diabetes are only the least....

 

TPP, the elephant in the room of our destruction as a society.  Bow to the corporations.  Think they had sway before?  Ain't seen nothing yet.  WHY DO YOU THINK "THEY" HAVE KEPT IT SECRET??????

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:16 | 6683417 Yohimbo
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oh thank the lord there are others out there!!!

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:29 | 6682686 Cornfedbloodstool
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Freddie is always on target, BTW Im a Biting Irish Fan.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:04 | 6682773 daveO
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Keep it up Freddie. I avoid MCD's for the same reason. Their dining room is more dangerous than the food.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:09 | 6683792 Freddie
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I really avoid MCD.  The few times I go there - it is sometimes for emergency Internet.  MCD is a way of life for certain people.  Their kids tend to flock there after school.

I can see why they go for that demographic now.  Only really stupid people will eat their crap and the poor.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:18 | 6683821 Cornfedbloodstool
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This locally owned coffee shop that competes with Starbucks has a problem with vandalism. I happened by it the other day and there was literally 50 nigglets standing on this dudes property. My first thought was none of my nieghbors are niggs, second i may have to move. Las Vegas.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:00 | 6683591 WhackoWarner
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Good riddance to garbage.  I ate at McDonalds once. Made me ill.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:20 | 6683833 Semi-employed W...
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I gave it do my dog once. She vomited it up. I probably should have been charged with animal abuse.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:15 | 6681950 DetectiveStern
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The fact it never goes off does make it good prepper food </sarc>.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:48 | 6682071 Christophe2
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Keep some poison-burgers stashed in your bunker, in case you need a 'way out' at the end...  (A bullet would probably be less painful though)

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:15 | 6681952 mvsjcl
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Bacteria smarter than humans? MacFools!

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:16 | 6681958 greenskeeper carl
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I can say that I am one of those 'young' people that are leaving them in droves, and not coming back. In my early 20s I used to eat shit like that pretty frequently, but I started phasing it out of my diet, and in the last 2 years, Ive eaten it maybe a handful of times, only when I am travelling and in a hurry, its prob the eaiest thing to eat while driving. But even then, its once or twice a year. They serve shit food, most of which isn't even real 'food'. No kind of hip new ad campaign is going to entice me back either. Not only does the food suck, its bad for you, and they have the worst customer service of anywhere, hand down. Its like being an uneducated dindu that can't speak anything resembling proper english is a requirement to work there.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:58 | 6682108 Ignatius
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Typically clean, well lit toilets, though.  I leave more than I take if ya get my drift.  I'll sometimes buy a Coke for the road to keep my karma intact.  I'm not sure clean toilets is a workable long range busines model, however.  They won't be missed.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 13:12 | 6682161 Wannabee
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@Ignatius
Brought a chuckle to my morning +1
You are right, stick a fork in it, it's done

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:17 | 6682351 Herd Redirectio...
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Pay toilets, it works at European train stations, but in North America, IDK.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:26 | 6682382 Ghostmaker
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The American homeless will take the pay toilet as a monthly rental.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:26 | 6682383 Ghostmaker
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The American homeless will take the pay toilet as a monthly rental.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:26 | 6683457 harry555
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I think the word you are looking for is a "McShit".

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:05 | 6683604 WhackoWarner
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YOU DRINK COKE?  C'mon.  Do not know what is worse?  McD's or soda pops.  OK Monsanto.  Hands down anything Monsanto.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 00:00 | 6684043 Ignatius
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Rarely.  Old habit.  I am shamed.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:45 | 6682064 Everyman
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McDonalds is just an example of an "optimized" company.  It is optimized for profit margin, and marketing.  The marketing is to "convince" the consumer this is what they want.  All companies tend to follow this downward spiral in the quest for optimized profit margin and revenue generation at the expense of product quality, and service to the customer.

Their current hamburger is not "meat" per se, but a "meat product".  Back when McDonalds started it was REAL ground beef, REAL potatoes, REAL natural fats, and REAL creams and milks and not skim milk and dairy substitutes.  WHY?  Product consistency is considered "quality" and not the taste.  Then everything is packaged as "what the consumer wants", which it is not.  When you want a hamburger, you want meat, cheese, salt and pepper, mustard pickle and onions, smaller order of real potato fries and an original "cane sugar" Dr. Pepper.

This is FAR from the shit they serve. 

 

ON top of that they sell the franchises, and they do not care about market saturation, they get volume out of it.

 

Add it all up and it is NO way to run any business for any length of time.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:59 | 6682111 Christophe2
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The profit-driven corporate model is such that it turns practically EVERY food producer into a killer, over time.

Those shitty companies need to constantly improve their profits, which inevitably comes at the cost of quality, but good food ALWAYS has to start from quality ingredients.  Do you think you are getting anything but cheap gutter oil in your packaged foods?

I don't just avoid McD's.  I also avoid all processed foods and ONLY eat home-made food.  Most people don't realize how awful the preservatives are that get added to pretty much EVERYTHING that is packaged in the 'food' store.

And the result is significant: I have an easy 6-pack at 43 years old, and my one work-out a week has me vastly outperforming the young pro athletes at local boxing gyms (LOL!).  (Obviously, I am optimizing more than just my diet to get those results, but my healthy diet is the FOUNDATION of all that, whereas most of the guys I 'compete' with are eating shit and thinking shit)

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 13:12 | 6682152 Everyman
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Agreed.   Am in my 50s and I ran 6 miles+ this AM.

 

And I do enjoy a good REAL cheeze burger from tie to time.  Cut the Carbs and Processed foods.  No secret.

 

POW and POMcD are all huge obese carbo-blimps.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:06 | 6682780 logicalman
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I'm 60 - cycle 100 miles a week averaged over the year - winter too, in Canada.

Couple of weekends ago rode about 60 miles of trails Saturday and another 30 Sunday.

Yesterday was a couple of hours of archery, a bike ride and a hike in the woods with dinner over a fire.

Can't remember the last time I ate at McD's

I try to buy foods with one ingredient and put things together myself.

Good food, plenty exercise and enough sleep seems like a good idea to me.

 

 

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 01:06 | 6684124 Shift For Brains
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I'm 206 but most people think I look 20 years younger. Just got back from going across the entire country doing a handstand on a unicyle. I have 43 inch biceps and my dick is nearly two yards long. I can still swallow an iron lung whole and my six-pack is so pronounced people think it's a 3D model.

I build all my vegetables by hand and create pasta by squeezing semolina flour through the eyeholes of my Cole Haan wingtips. At the age of 198 I won the Mr. Universe Octa-athalon competition when I managed to put six .50 cal rounds in a four micron pattern at 400 yards with snowshoes on both hands while sking over 140mph.

I have never set foot in a McDonald's although some friends tried to drug me and take me bound hand and foot into a White Castle. I got away using a paper napkin dispenser for a sled, made a killing in a 16x leverage long silver ETF,  bought the entire chain and renamed it Home Depot, swore I'd never sell bad food again.

I could go on but you get the picture. Just a pretty fucking incredible guy all around.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 16:54 | 6686641 logicalman
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I get the feeling you think I'm making this shit up.

Come ride with me some day.

I'm pretty good with long bows too - making and shooting.

 

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 03:33 | 6684216 wizteknet
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Damn someone who actually rides more miles then me. Bet its cold up there during winter, don't know how u do it on snow, though.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 09:11 | 6684581 plane jain
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beach tire = snow tire

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 16:52 | 6686636 logicalman
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CAREFULLY!

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 13:47 | 6682262 Tyrone Shoelaces
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Don't forget the HFCS that is in damn near everything now, causing many of us to be fatasses with the 'beetus

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 23:01 | 6683940 sandhillexit
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But the company actually owns all that real estate.  Bury the poor franchisee who had to buy his stake to run the business, and you have a fantastic commercial footprint.  That's where the value is, these days.  

Such a mystery actually.  Kroc came to Calif, ate at a McD Bros in San Bernardino...real hamburger, real fries, fast, clean, friendly.  Now in Calif there is In-N-Out, real hamburger, real fries, fast, clean, friendly.  They are jammed, always.  Lines out the door.  formula still works, my friends.  

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 13:20 | 6682185 Cornfedbloodstool
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I smell bullshit. The Mcy D's on Silverodo has a line that blocks traffic. Las Vegas.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:07 | 6682256 jenniewadeguy
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I smell bullshit, too.

We have one here in my Western Pennsylvania, lilly-white community that is hopping busy for breaksfast, lunch and dinner seven days per week.  Certainly some "pickup truck Chucks" are frequenting, but mostly the patrons are a broad swath of middle-middle income people--and definitely well-represented by the leased-luxury-sedan crowd.

Of a different note, I have just noticed the first ever advent of Shaneekas working the drive thru windows.  I am unclear as to how (and from where) they are commuting being that my community is not on an integrated bus line.  We'll see what that spells in the future.

 

PS.  How bad is McDonald's coffee for one's health?  I have about a 4 Large with 3 Creamers per week habit.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:15 | 6682344 Cornfedbloodstool
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The down voters are liars, the first job I ever had was Mickky D.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:19 | 6682354 Herd Redirectio...
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The coffee might have MSG in it.  So you will likely crave McD's coffee, specifically.  And headaches.  Your mileage may vary.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:27 | 6682997 X_Weatherman
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That has to be the worst tasting coffee ever.  Even worse than the stuff I got in the Army.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:34 | 6683296 delacroix
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I've had an iced coffee twice, from mcdonalds, and started to feel uneasy in the gut, before I could finish it.  I make it at home, and no problem?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:05 | 6683606 skipjack
Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:21 | 6682360 Omen IV
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all good - the quicker these people are dead the better off the US will be

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:50 | 6682741 Socratic Dog
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Don't know about the coffee, but the creamer will kill you for sure. 

Don't look for the sarcasm, there isn't any.  That's as straight up  as it comes.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:09 | 6682942 Funkinutt
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I would not trust coffee from McDs unless I saw whole beens being placed in a grinder. I'm assuming it is prepackaged and ground therefore the insertion of additional additives is most likely.

As for the " creamer"? A product of a lab. That " food" used to be hydrogenated oils ( trans fats) purported to be more healthful than cream which now has been proved to be a cardiologists dream. I laugh at the fact is is now triumphantly labeled " without trans-fats" but is still poison. And the sleeping masses gulp it down now relieved but still not question their continuing expanding girths or worsening health. The amount of willful ignorance is incredible.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:30 | 6683011 X_Weatherman
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Can you believe that, in the grocery stores, there is fat freee Half-and Half that is made from (GMO) corn?  If it is not half milk and half cream, shouldn't they call it something else?

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 08:23 | 6684475 fallout11
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Bailey's (yes, the Irish Creme Bailey's) makes an a line of honest creamer for your coffee. There's only like 5 ingredients, and with milk and cream being the first two (and no oils).

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:22 | 6682365 WillyGroper
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@JO,

A little investment now, saves on embalming later. ;)

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:43 | 6682587 Twaddlefree
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While McDonald's food was singularly tested, just about ANY mainstream restaurant or grocery store food would have the same results. This was not a mainstream study, nor was it peertested. I'd say that ANYONE who eats nothing but hamburgers, chicken nuggets, French fries and soft drinks from ANYWHERE will have health issues. I don't eat any of that at home, much less any fast food restaurant. Looks to me like the $15.00 an hour crowd is stirring up some anti-MickyD propaganda.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:55 | 6682752 Socratic Dog
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Good point, I'd go further and say "any restaurant", not quite period but not far off it.  Bottom line is not conducive to healthy ingredients.

Eat at home, cook, no processed shite.  Wash it down with a health-giving draft of fine ale.  Or die decades earlier and much more miseably than you need to.  For confirmation check in with any obese fuck in any intensive care unit most anywhere.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:57 | 6682627 Maxter
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Well for sure nobody at McD is saying to eat only their food for 10 days straight.  A McD once in a while is really not that bad.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:12 | 6682652 1 over Infinity
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They sell what costumers want. It is till a free country.

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:59 | 6682761 Socratic Dog
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That's how you define you freedum?  You can still eat at McDonalds?  Congratulations in living in the land of the free.

You can't eat fries cooked in lard.  That freedom was banned years ago.  For the good of the chemical companies and agribusiness.  Freedom....

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:54 | 6682901 readyforit
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Free blowjobs.  That'l bring back the customers.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:24 | 6682990 economicmorphine
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Sure it is.  McDonald's is no different than Kraft, General Mills or any of hundreds of other ginormous American corporations that market and sell soylent green.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:59 | 6683581 Remington IV
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thx for the update , no one knew

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:34 | 6683699 Takeaction2
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McDonalds management are fucking idiots...you can see the writing on the wall.  Chipoltle and my favorite Panera are just plain awesome.  Hey fuck heads...the market is changing.  Your shit show for food is over.  If I was running McDonalds...I would have a secondary menu...roll it out right next to the garbage menu.  With McDonalds distribution chain, they would be able to kill it if done and played right.  I have eaten at McDonalds probably 5 times in the past 10 years.  You know...you get a craving for that garbage...go get it...eat it...and then 20 minutes later you feel like shit.  HELLO...YOUR OLD SHIT BUSINESS MODEL IS DONE... The question to answer is this  "What would it take to get a healthy person to try McDonalds again.?"  There is your question dumbfucks.....Send the compensation check to ZH...the last good site.  

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:40 | 6683889 cheka
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chipotle is a mcd spawn

enjoy!

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:45 | 6683901 Takeaction2
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Well....then...why don't they learn and change all of the McShit Turds into drive through Chipotles with touch screens in the drive through...or something cool.  Close it down NOW.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:07 | 6683789 Semi-employed W...
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Selling toxic, tasteless food to your customers is not a viable business model

It certainly was for decades, but isn't now.  Maybe the millenials are smarter than they are portrayed.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 23:24 | 6683987 swamp
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Really I think many of the mcDonalds eaters are on food stamps.

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