Out of Pod Experience

meh.. and the topic is "McD's is evil because they're successful" heh. Yeah, greenpeace is standing against GMO's, but they also oppose forest fires, should the rest of us then set fire to the forests? That's far from just some greenpeace issue. There is some level of responsibility we have to preserving the planet, where humans can live, bees too for various reasons. For greenpeace's involvement, well even a broken clock is right twice a day. Smash the clock! hehe

Yet another year with my fruit trees nearly bare.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/neonicotinoid-pesticides-ongoing-death-of-the-beas-epa-slapped-with-lawsuit/5334816
Yeah, but don't harm the GMO crops for making cheap fast food and all that important stuff uh-huh
That's more of a problem with government over-regulation if anything, messing with farmers and their business. But our EPA has failed, oh yet again, to just hand out passes and hope for the best with little to no real testing over extended periods of time. We are talking about genetic manipulation and a "just trust me" sort of green light to anything they want to do. It's a gamble and one in which there may be no going back no matter the outcome.

Yes/no:

• carob
• sunflower seeds
• dried tomato

My answers:
yes, no, and I wish I could get that in a trail mix

each country has a McDonalds sorta custom-tailored to each country's tastes. while there are some basic stuff that is kinda equal no matter which country you go, you have special menu items that are unique to each country. For example, we have the McBifana and the McPrego here, altho they are nothing like the traditional bifana and prego. Over here, we also have the nutritional value of everyhthing McD has, printed on the package, this is why I can say, if their printing is to be believed, that they do put craploads of salt everywhere, but beyond that, no heath hazard nor "bad food" about, just sometimes too salty.

this also means that they had to tailor their business to each country's legislation, and last time I checked, one of the very few good things we have here in europe is the strict legislation.

I didn't see any of that. I just got a basic burger and fries. What I didn't expect was it was actually good! It didn't taste horrible like McDonald's food normally does.

Maybe it's just a US thing.

The first part is overwhelmingly true, the second part is overwhelmingly false. The problem with food in this world is lack of farming space in the overpopulated areas or non-arable land, and a difficulty in logistics. The continental US alone can produce enough food to feed the world using bred crops with no genetic modification, with modern farming technology, without draining the soil of nutrients or clearing land for more farms than already exist.

Good luck shipping all that food to Africa.

In Europe the "meat" is normally sourced within the economic area that the restaurants are operating in. We have different animal health standards and the animal feed is also different which may well affect the taste.

None of that matters when the people who need the food can't afford to pay for the process of producing it anyway.

i'm quite shocked #1 isn't : People eat it.

No, you don't understand. It's only McDonald's food here that tastes like that. Many restaurants here have a unique flavor in their food. McDonald's has a lot of unique and very icky flavors in their food. It smells bad, too, and if I eat it for any extended period of time, I begin to feel that I am not getting enough real food and it's like I am filling my gut with paper products. This takes the better portion of a day to accomplish. I usually feel better going hungry than eating that crap.

I have never found such terrible food at any other restaurant, and in the majority of them the meat tastes like the stuff on the market. Home-made beef patties taste much like the beef patties from Arby's, Jack-in-the-Box, Burger King, Carl's Jr., and even Dairy Queen. The patty I had at that McDonald's in Civitavecchia tasted like a patty from back home, just not the McD's patties I am used to. The bun tasted like a bun from back home, just not...yeah you get it. The fries were like Burger King fries, which while not great are a lot better than those nasty spoiled-grease-sticks they call "french fries" at local McDonald's. And this isn't an area phenomenon or a single store. I've eaten food from a variety of these places throughout three US states. It's no different anywhere in the US.

We have standards on what can go into our livestock too. I think McDonald's is adding things to the food to make it taste bad, and that has to be part of their success in the US. Perhaps elsewhere they don't need to add stuff to sell.

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Taco Bell has a very unique array of flavors in their food that some people don't like. But their food actually tastes like food. They add stuff like corn starch, sugar, paprika, and cocoa powder to the food to give it a distinct flavor.

I eat their in a pinch when the other options are less desirable.



Because it would cut their profit margin. McDonalds definitely has policies in practice that are directly related to profit margins. Open up a regular hamburger or cheeseburger and see how much mustard or ketchup is pumped on. Hardly enough to lightly cover the center of one bun. What burns me even more is when you ask for extra ketchup and mustard it is squirting out all along the edges and makes a ridiculous mess.

Once I even ordered a regular hamburger and one with extra ketchup and mustard. I got what I was expecting so I called over the manager and asked him if what I had on the extra burger was really an acceptable delivery considering how little condiments are on their non-special order burger.

He said yes.

I then told him that the extra burger had enough ketchup and mustard to cover 20 burgers done according to protocol. I then asked when is 20 times a condiment considered extra instead of a ridiculously excessive amount. He looked at me like I was from another planet. I then told him that pictures I have been saving over the years, addresses for the worst violators and the names of the active managers will be documented in a message to McD's corporate quality control headquarters. I am still working on the letter.