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I'm surprised black pudding hasn't been mentioned yet...
 
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yomamma said:
Does anyone here eat at McDonald's? Does anyone here eat at McDonald's Since the movie Super Size Me?
I ate at McD's the day after I saw the movie (last Sunday) on general principle. No, I did not supersize.
 
Oh, and the thing that irks me most about hippies is that they lie. Whoever gave you these "facts" pulled a fast one on you.
yomamma said:
-McDonald's is said to be the world's largest purchaser of cow eyeballs.
Ok, "is said" means...nothing!
-McDonald's salads have more fat calories than Big Macs :bugeye:
Really? Maybe you could check... http://www.mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.index1.html In fact, the Big Mac has 30, but there are only six combinations (of a possible 40) of salads and dressings that get you over 30g. The vast majority have less than half.
-That tiny McGriddle is the most fattening thing there.
There are 3 McGriddle's - the one with the most has 48grams. A 5pc Chicken select has 51.

Ya know - I was thinking of eating at Subway today, but I think I'll eat at McDonald's instead...
 
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Monique said:
Technically, why would eating organs be so much worse than eating cow meat?
Simple: it sounds worse to a hippie who is trying to create an emotional reaction.

yomamma, I hope you never find out all the dirt on all the other foods you eat - you'd starve to death.
 
Moonbear said:
Actually, I thought someone already did, which is why it was something I had heard of before. Maybe that's why they now offer listings of their ingredients? Knowing about unexpected ingredients is even more important to anyone with a food allergy.
I thought posting the ingredients and nutrition facts, was federal law.

The premise of the movie was one such lawsuit, the judge said that in order to win the suit, the plaintiff had to prove both that McDonald's wanted you to eat every meal there and that doing so would make you sick. The guy in "Supersize Me" took it a step further and purposely choose to eat things high in fat. Regardless, the plaintiffs failed to make their case.

For anyone who thinks that we should assume McDonald's wants us to eat every meal there, apply that logic to any other food/situation (for example, beer...) and see if it works...
 
I have another little peeve with McDs. Recently I ordered a Quarter Pounder and a drink. The girl fixs my drink and then puts a Quarter Pounder w/cheese on the tray. I told her I just want a plain Quarter Pounder and she tells me they don't have those anymore. I asked, "What if I don't want cheese?" She replies, "then you have to order a Quarter Pounder w/cheese hold the cheese." I asked her if there was a discount for that and she said no. I then stated that it seemed to me that all customers that want a Quarter Pounder are now charged for a Quarter Pounder w/cheese even if they don't want any cheese and the manager that overheard this said yes. He then explained that they dropped the plain burger because they didn't sell enough so now it's extra work for them to leave the cheese off of the cheeseburger and that's why there's no discount. I wonder, does Wendy's discount their chili if you ask them to hold the fingers?
 
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C1ay said:
I have another little peeve with McDs. Recently I ordered a Quarter Pounder and a drink. The girl fixs my drink and then puts a Quarter Pounder w/cheese on the tray. I told her I just want a plain Quarter Pounder and she tells me they don't have those anymore. I asked, "What if I don't want cheese?" She replies, "then you have to order a Quarter Pounder w/cheese hold the cheese."
I stopped ordering quarter pounders because they kept giving them to me with cheese on them when I didn't order it with cheese. I thought it was just the morons at the drive through window. There's no way I'm waiting for them to make anything to special order, it might cause their collective last neuron to explode to try to figure out how to do that.
I wonder, does Wendy's discount their chili if you ask them to hold the fingers?
:smile: No, there's no extra charge for fingers. :smile:
 
Just got back from lunch. I had a quarter pounder with cheese (a burger without cheese is unAmerican :devil: ) (25g fat, 510 cal), a medium fries (16g fat, 350 cal) and a medium coke (210 cal).

Keeping in the spirit of this thread, I forced a co-worker to eat there as well (he rides a bike to work). He had a crispy chicken sandwich (23g fat, 500 cal), medium fries, and medium coke.
 
Moonbear said:
I keep thinking it would be fun to start making my own sausage.

You really should try it, it's a lot of fun plus you can make so many different varieties: chorizo, linguica, italian, 5-spice asian, seafood...mmmmmmm! Plus you can control the fat content. Just don't think about what went through the casings the last time they were used.

Chi Meson said:
Someone brought up sausages; with my scottish heritage, I get annoyed when people bring up the haggis thing: "Ewww, do you know what they put in haggis?" Essentially all parts of a sheep are used (no need to list them all) and traditionally it is then stuffed into the stomach lining and then boiled. Well, what the heck difference is that from any English German or Italian sausage? The European cultures ate the whole thing! WHen they were down to the bones, they boiled them and made stew! I'm not familiar with the culinary cultures of other continents, but I'll bet all meat eaters learned to eat the entire animal (the parts they couldn't eat, they wore). I see this as the most responsible use of livestock: waste nothing.

Have you seen the haggis they now sell in cans? I just read about it in Saveur, I'll try to find the info on it and post it. I also recall seeing something about haggis-flavored potato chips. I agree about the most efficient use of the animal, we used to eat beef heart regularly, as well as liver. Kidney isn't too bad, but not something I choose. I had sweetbreads (calf thymus) when I was in New Orleans recently and they were great. Tripe is nice is soups too.
 
My father is from Scotland and loves his home made Haggis. Now me personaly, I can't even look at it, let alone put it in my mouth.
But give some fine Chorizo and flat bread and I'm a happy camper.
 
Chi Meson said:
with my scottish heritage, I get annoyed when people bring up the haggis thing: "Ewww, do you know what they put in haggis?"
I'm half Scots, and am revolted by the concept of Haggis. I don't even eat it when they pipe it out on Robbie Burns day. Most of it would be okay, but I detest oatmeal.

hitssquad said:
The finger doner has still not been discovered.
Can't they get prints off of it. :confused:


C1ay said:
I asked, "What if I don't want cheese?" She replies, "then you have to order a Quarter Pounder w/cheese hold the cheese."
Back in the early 70's, when I was living near Windsor, my friends and I always went to Burger King. It was pretty good, and the only place where you could get special-order burgers. My neice came to visit once, and was a vegetarian. At the time there were no salads or anything like that available. After thinking for a minute, I ordered her a Whopper—hold the meat. They made it without batting an eye and charged me 35 cents for it. :smile:

It was about that same time that Red Barn in Detroit was fined for selling horse-meat burgers.

DocToxyn said:
You really should try it, it's a lot of fun plus you can make so many different varieties: chorizo, linguica, italian, 5-spice asian, seafood...mmmmmmm! Plus you can control the fat content. Just don't think about what went through the casings the last time they were used.
You should be able to buy the plastic casings that they use for weiners somewhere.

DocToxyn said:
I had sweetbreads (calf thymus) when I was in New Orleans
I thought that sweetbread was pancreas. :confused:
 
Danger said:
Can't they get prints off of it. :confused:

Not all bite victims have been arrested before :-p
 
Like Mike Meyers said in "So I Married an Axe Murderer:"

"I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."
 
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yomamma said:
That's why I dont' eat fast food, they got fingers! There was a guy who got custard from a fast-food restaerant and he really did find a finger!

I really don't go out to eat unless it's chili's.
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!

I watched the Daly show last night. They convinced me that the chili finger was a fake, but the custard finger is real. I need to watch better news.
Moonbear said:
I stopped ordering quarter pounders because they kept giving them to me with cheese on them when I didn't order it with cheese. I thought it was just the morons at the drive through window. There's no way I'm waiting for them to make anything to special order, it might cause their collective last neuron to explode to try to figure out how to do that.
I just feel grateful if they didn't spit on it. For minimum wage spending hours working over a hot stove in a customer service job, I'm surprised anyone would want to eat food prepared by fast food employees.
 
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DocToxyn said:
You really should try it, it's a lot of fun plus you can make so many different varieties: chorizo, linguica, italian, 5-spice asian, seafood...mmmmmmm! Plus you can control the fat content. Just don't think about what went through the casings the last time they were used.

:smile: As long as someone else had the job of cleaning them, I'm okay with that. I think I'll put a meat grinder on my Christmas list this year. :biggrin:


Have you seen the haggis they now sell in cans? I just read about it in Saveur, I'll try to find the info on it and post it.
Why? I can't imagine eating it fresh, let alone out of a can!

I also recall seeing something about haggis-flavored potato chips. I agree about the most efficient use of the animal, we used to eat beef heart regularly, as well as liver. Kidney isn't too bad, but not something I choose. I had sweetbreads (calf thymus) when I was in New Orleans recently and they were great. Tripe is nice is soups too.
I can't stand beef liver. It even smells bad! My mom made it once, and I was willing to try it until I smelled the stench wafting out of the kitchen. As for those other organs, just tough to chew on. I haven't had tripe, but I heard the texture is really the issue, that it just feels odd in the mouth. But maybe in soup, it would boil long enough to soften?
 
Moonbear said:
I can't stand beef liver. It even smells bad! My mom made it once, and I was willing to try it until I smelled the stench wafting out of the kitchen.
The way I make it, you might like it. I've served it to people before without telling them what it was and they loved it. My ex swore he hated liver, but after having it my way, he asked for it all the time. It has to be sliced very thin and coated with seasoned flour, then I pan fry it with tons of thinly sliced onions that have been caramelized with bacon. Oooh, I need to go make some! :-p
 
Danger said:
You should be able to buy the plastic casings that they use for weiners somewhere.

I thought that sweetbread was pancreas. :confused:

You can indeed buy cellulose-based casings, but the texture is weird and the finished product just looks fake, better to pack it in some hog guts.

As far as the sweetbreads, we're both right, they can be obtained from both thymus and pancreas. The ris de veau I had was probably thymus due to the size and since that cut is cheaper and thus more common.
 
Huckleberry said:
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!
How about having the meat before the pudding. :wink:
I watched the Daly show last night. They convinced me that the chili finger was a fake, but the custard finger is real. I need to watch better news.
I just feel grateful if they didn't spit on it. For minimum wage spending hours working over a hot stove in a customer service job, I'm surprised anyone would want to eat food prepared by fast food employees.
I don't know what everyone has against the daily show! they do tell the news, they just make fun of it.
 
Evo said:
The way I make it, you might like it. I've served it to people before without telling them what it was and they loved it. My ex swore he hated liver, but after having it my way, he asked for it all the time. It has to be sliced very thin and coated with seasoned flour, then I pan fry it with tons of thinly sliced onions that have been caramelized with bacon. Oooh, I need to go make some! :-p

That's what everyone tells me who likes liver. Smother it in onions seems to be the standard M.O. I also don't like liver pate (that someone snuck onto crackers and I didn't know what it was until I took a bite...it was a lot of effort not to gag and to manage to politely swallow), and I'm not sure if liverwurst is actually made with liver, but I can't stand that either (tasted a lot like the pate). There are some foods that I just don't like much, but can eat them if they are served to me, so I'm open to new preparation methods of those, but liver is in the category of things I find absolutely vile. I can't imagine it being at all redeemable.
 
Moonbear said:
That's what everyone tells me who likes liver. Smother it in onions seems to be the standard M.O. I also don't like liver pate (that someone snuck onto crackers and I didn't know what it was until I took a bite...it was a lot of effort not to gag and to manage to politely swallow), and I'm not sure if liverwurst is actually made with liver, but I can't stand that either (tasted a lot like the pate). There are some foods that I just don't like much, but can eat them if they are served to me, so I'm open to new preparation methods of those, but liver is in the category of things I find absolutely vile. I can't imagine it being at all redeemable.
Oh, if you don't even like pate, it could be that you are sensitive to the "liver" taste. There is a bitter flavor. Also, liver can have a "grainy" texture on the tongue. I think I eat liver just for the onions. :redface:

It's funny because eating liver was once thought to be healthy, but isn't it now considered to contain a lot of toxins and not so good for you? Or is that a fallacy?

My first husband's brother's wife's mother was Jewish and had the best recipe for chopped chicken livers in the world. She also taught me how to make the world's best cole slaw and I taught her how to make the world's best potato salad. We should have opened a deli. :biggrin:
 
yomamma said:
Stop whining because we stole mac's idea and made it better. Now mac has surrendered! Microsoft software for all macs! bwahaha!
You have a pretty screwy idea of 'better'. My boss gave me her old 900mHz Pentium 4 machine, and all I use it for is to run my watch software and a couple of games. This G3 at 233mHz puts it absolutely to shame for speed of actually doing something useful. It's twice as fast on Excel or Word. I have no way to compare Photoshop, because the PC doesn't have it, but it's damned fast (loads and opens Photoshop 6 in 7 seconds). :approve:
And if you call a dual-processor 2.7mHz G5 Power Mac 'surrendering', you should seriously consider getting professional care. :-p

Moonbear said:
I'm not sure if liverwurst is actually made with liver, but I can't stand that either (tasted a lot like the pate).
'Wurst' pretty much just means 'sausage'. If it actually says 'liverwurst' on the package, it probably is liver. There are lots that look and are packaged the same, though, such as knockwurst and bratwurst.
 
Danger said:
You have a pretty screwy idea of 'better'. My boss gave me her old 900mHz Pentium 4 machine, and all I use it for is to run my watch software and a couple of games. This G3 at 233mHz puts it absolutely to shame for speed of actually doing something useful. It's twice as fast on Excel or Word. I have no way to compare Photoshop, because the PC doesn't have it, but it's damned fast (loads and opens Photoshop 6 in 7 seconds). :approve:
And if you call a dual-processor 2.7mHz G5 Power Mac 'surrendering', you should seriously consider getting professional care. :-p


'Wurst' pretty much just means 'sausage'. If it actually says 'liverwurst' on the package, it probably is liver. There are lots that look and are packaged the same, though, such as knockwurst and bratwurst.
What kind of mac do you have??!
 
Evo said:
It has to be sliced very thin and coated with seasoned flour, then I pan fry it with tons of thinly sliced onions that have been caramelized with bacon. Oooh, I need to go make some! :-p
MARRY ME! RIGHT NOW! I love liver and onions, with lots of nice rubbery bacon.

Moonbear said:
I'm not sure if liverwurst is actually made with liver, but I can't stand that either (tasted a lot like the pate).
'Wurst' pretty much just means 'sausage'. If it actually says 'liverwurst' on the package, it probably is liver. There are lots that look and are packaged the same, though, such as knockwurst and bratwurst.
 
Danger said:
MARRY ME! RIGHT NOW! I love liver and onions, with lots of nice rubbery bacon.
Hey, you're still in the running, you have that basement corner that is quite appealing. :smile:

'Wurst' pretty much just means 'sausage'. If it actually says 'liverwurst' on the package, it probably is liver. There are lots that look and are packaged the same, though, such as knockwurst and bratwurst.
I love braunsweiger with creamcheese. On a soft, chewy bagel or crusty italian bread, depending on the mood. A glass of good wine and...heaven.

I LOVE rillets, made from duck. The only place outside of France I've had decent rillets was at the Brasserie in Bennington, VT. Anyone else know where I can get good duck rillets in the US..Also, I want to go to another oyster roast and crab feast on the Chesapeke bay like I used to after lightning class sailing or Spinnaker sailing at Annapolis. Night sailing the Chesapeke, completely keeled over with a full moon, the speed we'd get could outrun a stinkpot. :biggrin: Or the coconut bread served in the Canterbury Inn by the big walk in fireplace. So many excellent places.
 
Evo said:
Hey, you're still in the running, you have that basement corner that is quite appealing. :smile:
Glad to hear it. I figured for sure that by now one or more of these young dudely guys would have taken the hope out of it. :!)

Evo said:
I LOVE rillets, made from duck.
Alright, I looked that up in my Funk & Wagnalls and came up empty. :confused: The rest of that scenario sounds pretty good, except for the crab. (Yeah... I know, but I'm allergic remember. I'll happily feed them to you, but they're off limits for me.:frown: )
 
Is it a coincidence that the McDonalds thread is running neck and neck with "the greatest tragedy in human history" thread?

Please ponder. :biggrin:
 
Ivan Seeking said:
Is it a coincidence that the McDonalds thread is running neck and neck with "the greatest tragedy in human history" thread?

Please ponder. :biggrin:
I don't think it's a coincidence.
 
Huckleberry said:
I don't think it's a coincidence.
Right. They're joined at the hip.