To think McDonald's isn't actually That bad...it's not cardboard and cows ears as people seem to think?

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Looking at the ingredients in most of it, it's fine??

They use organic milk, free range eggs, burgers are meat and salt, probably better quality stuff than the likes of Harvester burgers etc.

People talk about it like you're feeding your kids arsenic, rats piss and pig shit...

I've also thought that before. Place marking in case i'm educated! I've looked up the ingredients and it doesn't seem as bad as you'd think. As you say, high welfare beef etc etc

It’s fine, there’s a lot of snobbery about it.

I don’t really enjoy eating much of the McDonald’s menu. I feel like it’s really small portions, the last chicken wrap I had from there was really rubbish and tbh it doesn’t taste that great. There are better fast food options if you ask me. Even a KFC rice box is a lot nicer.

If I was to go to a Harvester I would eat a ton of stuff off the salad bar. McDonald’s do 2 ‘healthy’ under 400 calorie menu items one is a rubbish spikey lettuce salad you can’t eat and the other is the limp lame rubbery chicken salad wrap.

Horses for courses I know a lot of people enjoy going there but YABU as it’s not even good value for money IMO, it’s high calories for a small portion of food it’s just fast and convenient, it’s not good food

I think if you order a beef burger & chips it’s pretty unprocessed. I guess the buns less so but no worse than buying a sandwich. Anyway I agree OP.

I don’t think McDonalds is any worse than any other burger and chips - the point is that burger and chips isn’t very healthy!

I agree. and a lot of the stuff nutrition wise is pretty good- here in Canada we have grilled chicken wraps etc. kids meals you can opt to have fresh fruit instead of fries ( pretty sure in the UK you can do that too).

A lot of the information online about mcdonald's ingredients is referencing the US. Food standards in the USA are a lot lower than ours, and not just for fast food.

It's not bad food though, either. Less crap in the meat patties than similar supermarket products for example.

I do like the cheese burgers and filet o fish 😋

The ingredients are different in the UK compared to the USA. For example I believe the fries have a lot more ingredients in the USA, more additives etc plus hydrogenated oils.

It's a sandwich and chips 🤷

"Meat" can cover lots of parts of a cow, including its ears.

McDonald's in the UK is different to McDonald's in the US, I think.

Over here it's just normal food.

Agree OP. I’m a massive foodie and I absolutely love a quarter pounder with cheese now and again. I also don’t get the hate for ‘pizza’….. thin bread, tomato and cheese is not exactly unhealthy.

I don’t know how you can really say it’s not ‘bad food’, what are you comparing it to?

it’s fast food. A large Big Mac meal has over 1000 calories in it just for the food not even counting a drink. I don’t think it’s very good to eat like that regularly. Occasionally is fine.

It tastes awful, it's expensive for what it is, and it's not even served quickly. They're getting it all wrong tbh

As in, it's just meat/bread/potatoes.

Burgers in general are calorific but that doesn't mean they're bad.

Most restaurant main meals come out at over 1000 calories. And noone has to order the "large" in mcdonald's.

I used to hate it a couple of decades ago but it's improved a lot since then. I actually enjoy it now.

UK is fine. Is US that’s the issue

Food in general is an issue in the US. No wonder there are so many homesteads.

It isn't that it is not 100% cow, but the fact that it is mechanically recovered. So, if you buy mince from your local butcher and make burgers, you are probably getting meat from a single cow.

In McDonald's, you could, in the single burger, be getting meat from 100 cows thereby increasing the chances of BSE etc. I know it is a small chance, but that is why McDonald's isn't as good for you as it could be. Also, the fact that it is 100% from a cow doesn't mean it is the parts that you'd want to eat.

I read your posts, but not the whole thread, so apologies if this point has been made already.

Have you seen supersize me op?

I know it is a small chance, but that is why McDonald's isn't as good for you as it could be.

I mean, it's fast food at the end of the day - it's not claiming to be good for you.

It's based in the US though, the food is different there.