How my co-worker was treated at McDonald's

musicismylife78 wrote:

MrMerkinball wrote:

In those situations, it is better to let it be in the moment. Nothing will be accomplished by causing a scene.

McDonald's as a corporation would be horrified if they heard about it. Write a letter to Corporate Office detailing the incident, names (if you have them) and the franchise location.

CC the Manager of the location, and the local newspaper. You will get results.

while i somewhat agree with you, i would have called the store out right at that moment, but i am a white male, and rarely or ever am in a situation like this. secondly, you assume mcdonalds is a righteous company. thats a HUGE leap friend. mcdonalds is a multi billion dollar multi national corporation. their buisness practices have long been called into question, whether thats how they treat their animals that later are used in the burgers, and other meat products, and how they make and use their products. reguardless of if you enjoy their food or not, mcdonalds buisness practices across the board are outrageous at best. you assume that mcdonalds is made up of, at least in the higher ups department, ceos, presidents, managers, and so on, of righteous and do gooders. i am cynical. but mcdonalds isnt made up of those people. if a company treats its products, and by extension its customers with outright disrespect, why is it crazy to assume, that mcdonalds as an entity is corrupt.

PJPixie wrote:

intodeep wrote:

That sucks.

Only good thing is McDonalds sucks a lot so if you never go back to a McDonalds for the rest of yoru life you won't be missing much.

I love Chik Fil A they seem like such a well run business. They are for the most part all clean resturants and the people that work there seem polite not matter which location i go in.

There is a new Chik Fil A not too far from where I live. Did you know they are not open on Sundays?
I was informed by their management that they take that day for their employees to have family time, church etc.
I thought that was interesting.

intodeep wrote:

PJPixie wrote:

intodeep wrote:

That sucks.

Only good thing is McDonalds sucks a lot so if you never go back to a McDonalds for the rest of yoru life you won't be missing much.

I love Chik Fil A they seem like such a well run business. They are for the most part all clean resturants and the people that work there seem polite not matter which location i go in.

There is a new Chik Fil A not too far from where I live. Did you know they are not open on Sundays?
I was informed by their management that they take that day for their employees to have family time, church etc.
I thought that was interesting.

Yeah it sucks I always want to go there for breakfast on sunday because their breakfast biscuit kicks so much ass and i always go "ahh damn it's sunday they are not open"



I'm not much of a religious guy but i think it is cool they stick to their morals and leave that day for their employees to spend with family or worship how they choose. I mean them not being open cost them money, but for them it is more important to be closed. I kind of like that.

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

iluvcats wrote:

I remember when they used to say mcd's used worms in their hamburgers in 1978 and then kangaroo meat.

I think the Kangaroo meat was linked to Jack In The Box. There is nothing that even comes close to the flavor of their tacos, so perhaps they are made of 'roo!

“The ingredients listed in the flyer suggest a lot of thought goes into a nugget, that and a lot of corn. Of the thirty-eight ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, I counted thirteen that can be derived from corn: the corn-fed chicken itself; modified cornstarch (to bind the pulverized chicken meat); mono-, tri-, and diglycerides (emulsifiers, which keep the fats and water from separating); dextrose; lecithin (another emulsifier); chicken broth (to restore some of the flavor that processing leeches out); yellow corn flour and more modified cornstarch (for the batter); cornstarch (a filler); vegetable shortening; partially hydrogenated corn oil; and citric acid as a preservative. A couple of other plants take part in the nugget: There's some wheat in the batter, and on any given day the hydrogenated oil could come from soybeans, canola, or cotton rather than corn, depending on the market price and availability.

According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, quasiedible substances that ultimately come not from a corn or soybean field but form a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. These chemicals are what make modern processed food possible, by keeping the organic materials in them from going bad or looking strange after months in the freezer or on the road. Listed first are the "leavening agents": sodium aluminum phosphate, mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. These are antioxidants added to keep the various animal and vegetable fats involved in a nugget from turning rancid. Then there are "anti-foaming agents" like dimethylpolysiloxene, added to the cooking oil to keep the starches from binding to air molecules, so as to produce foam during the fry. The problem is evidently grave enough to warrant adding a toxic chemical to the food: According to the Handbook of Food Additives, dimethylpolysiloxene is a suspected carcinogen and an established mutagen, tumorigen, and reproductive effector; it's also flammable. But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse." Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill.”

Pepe Silvia wrote:

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

iluvcats wrote:

I remember when they used to say mcd's used worms in their hamburgers in 1978 and then kangaroo meat.

I think the Kangaroo meat was linked to Jack In The Box. There is nothing that even comes close to the flavor of their tacos, so perhaps they are made of 'roo!

i read in, i think, The Omnivore's Dilemma that 56% of a mcnugget is corn.

“The ingredients listed in the flyer suggest a lot of thought goes into a nugget, that and a lot of corn. Of the thirty-eight ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, I counted thirteen that can be derived from corn: the corn-fed chicken itself; modified cornstarch (to bind the pulverized chicken meat); mono-, tri-, and diglycerides (emulsifiers, which keep the fats and water from separating); dextrose; lecithin (another emulsifier); chicken broth (to restore some of the flavor that processing leeches out); yellow corn flour and more modified cornstarch (for the batter); cornstarch (a filler); vegetable shortening; partially hydrogenated corn oil; and citric acid as a preservative. A couple of other plants take part in the nugget: There's some wheat in the batter, and on any given day the hydrogenated oil could come from soybeans, canola, or cotton rather than corn, depending on the market price and availability.

According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, quasiedible substances that ultimately come not from a corn or soybean field but form a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. These chemicals are what make modern processed food possible, by keeping the organic materials in them from going bad or looking strange after months in the freezer or on the road. Listed first are the "leavening agents": sodium aluminum phosphate, mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. These are antioxidants added to keep the various animal and vegetable fats involved in a nugget from turning rancid. Then there are "anti-foaming agents" like dimethylpolysiloxene, added to the cooking oil to keep the starches from binding to air molecules, so as to produce foam during the fry. The problem is evidently grave enough to warrant adding a toxic chemical to the food: According to the Handbook of Food Additives, dimethylpolysiloxene is a suspected carcinogen and an established mutagen, tumorigen, and reproductive effector; it's also flammable. But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse." Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill.”