If they sold hotdogs I could understand, but they sell HAMBURGERS! Hamburgers are BEEF by default... One of their biggest advertising things is "100% Beef", they always mention it in every damn commercial.

Some fast food places advertise things like "angus beef", which means its higher end beef, but to advertise the fact that they actually use beef is pretty damn sad and pathetic.

McDonalds is a pretty sorry excuse for a fast food place... It was good when we were kids, and the only reason I'll eat there is when I'm in a nostalgic mood and I'll only eat their plain hamburgers with extra onion and ketchup.

That is all for today's deep thoughts by brucelee.

 

A frightening number of places, especially in the fast food racket stretch their "hamburger meat" with "textured vegetable protein" and other fillers.

Not that 100% beef really means that much since any old part of the cow qualifies as "beef".

Angus only refers to one breed of cattle, still could be ground parts from just about anywhere in the cow.

The more I think about it, the more vegetarianism seems like a viable alternative...

 

I love hamburgers.

 

Well, they can still use vegetable filler in the hamburgers and still claim the 100% beef, because for all we know they are referring to the beef that they used in the hamburger, just because it has other things like fillers doesn't mean the beef they put into it wasn't 100% beef, right?

I hope that made sense.


And I'm with you, the more I learn about how fast food is made the more I want to be a vegetarian! I tried that for a couple years back in my early 20s but I started getting sick and got really thin, so I reverted back to eating meat.

 

I'd be scared if it said 98% beef.

 

What would be worse, if it said:



"4% Beef"


or


"Made in China"


? I'd soooo take the 4% beef over "made in china"!

 

McDonald's has the best fries.. I been eating their soggy fries since 1975!

 

FYI, Angus beef is no better than regular beef. It's just a type of cow, as someone said, and unless that type of Kobe/Wagyu, it ain't gonna make a difference.

Also, as someone pointed out, "beef" is an ambiguous term - hell, anuses and ******** are still "beef" if they came from a cow.

However, I will give McDonald's this - they have some of the best cheeseburgers. There is something about that ratio of bun to "beef" to ketchup to pickle to cheese to onion that is just right. Now, is it really a "cheeseburger"? I don't think so, but it's good food nonetheless.
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Actually I don't think they can, fillers would be something other than beef in a hambuger and that wouldn't qualify as 100% beef according to FDA standards.

I had a girlfriend who tried being vegetarian and I think she stuck to it pretty good for about 2 years until we were at a bar and grille in Montana where she finally gave in and ordered the Prime Rib.

I don't think I could last very long at all as a veg, I love meat too much.

Giving up fast food I probably really should though, but I gots to have me a filet mignon every few weeks...

 

You ever read that book Fast Food Nation, or watch those "30 days" movies/tv episodes? Everyone says it makes them stop wanting junk food/fast food/burgers, etc.

just makes me more hungry. as long as it tastes good and I don't die from it, I'm all good.
and yes, I understand, that heart attacks, being fat, etc will all kill me but...hey... you pay to play right?

 

haha i like them a day old in the bag or out of the fridge at midnight lol

Besides INO, i like BK...McD's burgers are like a grease sponge...which means they are good but yeah. I miss their old style McChicken from like 10 years ago when they used to come with a round paper strip around them to hold in all the mayo covered lettuce mmm.

Ohhh yeahhhhh

wait...

insurance pays when you have your heart attacks so we're alllll good lol

 

funny you said sponges kyle haha.. I was just telling bryan the other day that mc'd 's burgers taste like a sponge haha.
I think in the past they used to use soy in the burgers as a filler as most places do. But still now even though they say 100% beef its still not saying much cus it tastes nasty. I don't think there is a fast food burger that i do like.. Nothing like making your own.

 

I was vegetarian for a while and I often think about going back to it.

Another option is you could just stop eating at fast food places.

 

You can ask Roo how much fun it is having Doc's try to fix your heart, I don't care whose paying for it I'd rather not have to go there!

 

I'm sure there is some loophole to it being pure beef.

Honestly though, I haven't had fast food in over a year, and the last time I did have it, it was In n' Out. Before that last In n' Out even, I don't know when I was last at a real fast food place. It's not that I made a ln effort to avoid fast food, but the taste just doesn't compare to small eateries around town. The thought of the taste of fast food doesn't even appetize me.