Why does McDonald's Suck!?

What is the most despicable thing about McDonald's to you?

  • McMurder -- millions of cows (and other animals) die to provide McD's w/ meat

    Votes: 4 8.0%

  • McFattie -- millions of people in America (and lately, worldwide) are overweight and unhealthy thank

    Votes: 10 20.0%

  • Mc"Culture" -- local restaurants and cultural touchstones are getting squeezed out by the proliferat

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • McChainsaws -- thanks in large part to the demand for cheap South American cattle, Brazil's vast Tro

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • McBrats -- every time your kids see the Golden Arches, they beg and plead to go to McD's for HOURS.

    Votes: 2 4.0%

  • McCrap -- their so-called "food" looks and tastes like special-sauce drenched plasticene to you.

    Votes: 14 28.0%

  • McBourgeoisie -- SOMEBODY's making a ton of money off of it -- and it's not you...

    Votes: 5 10.0%
  • Total voters
    50
Subway (I managed one as a Sophomore in college) is the number two chain in the nation, but I don't usually wait any longer than McDonalds, in fact the lower volume at Subways usually makes a shorter wait on line.

Too bad their sandwhiches taste like cardboard; probably why Jared lost his appetite...
 
Mc Culture.

I remember my shock when I saw McDonald signs in Prague (one of Europes most beautiful cities) for the first time. :mad:
 
The answer of Perfection (McAlloftheabove) is great.

The most dangerous is the McChainsaw. Destroying the unsurrogatable (?) rainforest just for those freaks who are too lazy to make some food from more healthy and eco-friendrily-made ingredients...
The McCulture spread this attitude (and its kins which are as much dangerous as this) all in the world by the remorseless PR campaigns which bends the richhood, the success and the happiness to the western lifeform of consumption, marked by the McDonald's and its kinship.

We could add an other option: McFamine. On that terrain where the fodder is raised for the cows to killed, 10 times more vegetable nutritive value could be raised. There would be no famine in the world! If we'd milk those cows instead of slaying them, the nutritive value of the milk and its by-product could be 6 times more than the value of the hamburgers.

I don't really care about those who poison themselves with the hamburgers, and become fat. Every grub can be used in such a way, if the people who eat them can't control themselves. The McDonald's and its kinship's food is extraordinarily unhealthy. But. Nobody forces them to eat THAT thing.
 
Originally posted by Caranamrta
The answer of Perfection (McAlloftheabove) is great.
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No doubt about that.

Originally posted by Caranamrta
The most dangerous is the McChainsaw. Destroying the unsurrogatable (?) rainforest just for those freaks who are too lazy to make some food from more healthy and eco-friendrily-made ingredients...
The McCulture spread this attitude (and its kins which are as much dangerous as this) all in the world by the remorseless PR campaigns which bends the richhood, the success and the happiness to the western lifeform of consumption, marked by the McDonald's and its kinship.
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Well said!

Originally posted by Caranamrta
We could add an other option: McFamine. On that terrain where the fodder is raised for the cows to killed, 10 times more vegetable nutritive value could be raised. There would be no famine in the world! If we'd milk those cows instead of slaying them, the nutritive value of the milk and its by-product could be 6 times more than the value of the hamburgers.
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Scientifically you're absolutely correct.

Unfortunately I'm a part time card carrying carnivore and I insist on eating meat here and then. Nevertheless I would resign from eating meat if another person on earth wouldn't have to suffer from hunger if I do, but the problem is organization of the exchange. So I momentarily stick to my personal food consumption guidelines, which include the avoidance of low quality animal products gained by breeding animals under painful conditions as far as I can.
 
Caranamrta,
that is a wise and well put post!

I agree with you!
(at least the pancakes are harmless)

In regards to McDonalds, I say "Down with the Clown!"
 
I should be going to sleep now but I am a professional chef and can't help but reply. When people eat the sort of industrially produced food that McDonald's and its ilk serve, after time they forget what real food tastes like. Good food is one of life's great pleasures, one that we need to remember. Also, when you eat in a busy restaurant that serves inexpensive food you are very likely supporting a sweat shop (in America anyway). The way these places make money is by working people like dogs, paying them nothing, and spending as little on food as possible. I know this because I have helped manage high volume restaurants in the past. I have worked in sweat shops, I don't anymore. The irony is that America is undergoing a culinary rennaisance; as McDonald's conquers the world, here it is seen as a relic of the past and is dying. Last week's headline of the Onion sums it up:

"McDonald's Profits Down as People Opt for Food"
 
Really all of them but McCultre the most. One of the great things about travelling (and just generally living) is sampling a wide variety of cultures. In your home city alone, there'd probably be enough food stores to last a good six months (on the one diferent meal each night formula). McDonalds does kill of it's competition and this is sad. The personal touch is lost there (as it is in all fast food stores). I read somehwere that Maccas wanted a golden arches within 20mins drive of every location within the US! :eek:

Also, it tastes digusting!
 
McCrap, It's been ages since I've been to one but from what I remember deep fried cardboard would be more paletable.
 
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