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they say you are what you eat
but if you eat a lot of Mickey D’s what
you’re made of may require a long
complicated and kind of scary
explanation welcome to watchmojo.com
Stallman we’re counting down the top
five facts you probably don’t want to
know about McDonald’s to be fair the
restaurant chain does have some
commendable qualities but for the sake
of entertainment that’s not what we’re
focusing on today there have been plenty
of scandals and questionable practices
in the history of the mega corporation
but we’re going to keep things simple by
focusing on the food the marketing
behind it and its impact on the way we
eat number five
there are 19 ingredients in McDonald’s
french fries there’s nothing like a
world-famous taste of McDonald’s crispy
golden french fries are you looking for
a surefire way to stump even the most
experienced chef just ask them to make
french fries with the caveat that they
have to use 19 ingredients not chili
fries aisle fries with gravy not poutine
just a plate of plain old french fries
that’s how McDonald’s does it in
addition to your standard you know
potatoes oil and salt
McDonald’s trademark french fries also
includes just to name a few natural beef
flavoring sodium acids pyrophosphate to
host maintain color and something called
dimethyl poli siloxane but don’t let all
those syllables scare you because as
grant imahara
the Mythbusters will tell you in a
certain transparency campaign video it’s
just an anti foaming agent okay yeah
really good hi there’s something a
little suspicious about the way they’re
celebrating the fact the best food is
made out of food the fact it works so
well that you’re probably already not
ruling are you okay I’m fine it just
threw up in my mouth a little bit number
four McDonald’s strawberry shake
contains everything but strawberries in
the interest of fairness
let’s first to sell a popular myth about
the McDonald’s shake McDonald’s
milkshakes are listed simply as shakes
on many menus across the world resulting
in internet conspiracy theories taking
this as proof that they don’t contain
milk
unlike traditional milkshakes McDonald’s
eggs do not contain ice and cream but
the very first ingredient is still milk
however beyond that we’re on shaky
ground in the case of strawberry shakes
the ingredients list begins a dark
descent into the chemical abyss of
horror that is food additives did I have
Krusty partially gelatinous non-dairy
gun-based beverages mm-hmm they call
them shakes there are a staggering 59
ingredients in the McDonald’s strawberry
shake most of which are lumped together
under the umbrella ingredient artificial
strawberry flavoring like methyl
benzoate hydroxy phenol to butanone 10%
solution and alcohol and solvent just
like mom used to make instead of any
other damn bike not number three
McDonald salads might be worse for you
than the burgers in McDonald’s we’re
tossing salads fresh all day every day
you’re on a road trip with friends and
out of desperate hunger pull over to the
Mickey D’s your friends all order a Big
Mac and fries but you’ve been making an
effort to eat healthier
so you offer the salad like a chump
aa salad a McDonald’s what can top that
well they might market their salads as
proof that they can provide nutritious
alternatives for the health conscious
and some nightmarish twist of logic it
managed to make salads that are less
healthy than their hamburgers the
courage lies with a man who has the guts
to say no to a fast-food restaurant and
eat a challenge in the southwest crispy
chicken salad contains more fat calories
and perhaps worst of all more lettuce
than a bacon double cheeseburger the
Caesar salad beats out a double Big Mac
in calories and fat while delivering
less protein and reeking of Caesar salad
oh it’s Cleopatra and Caesar and they’re
bringing a salad how wonderful what’s
their secret
it’s all in the dressing I mean it’s
fresh when you get it it’s fresh when I
pop it in my mouth
number two its marketing strategies have
been called creepy and predatory if you
in 1979 McDonald’s Happy Meal is the
must-have food kids meal they of course
pioneered the Happy Meals
now the minding kids meals also with a
little gotta having toys in fact the
Happy Meal has actually turned McDonald
since you’d be largest toy distributor
in the world surpassing even Mattel and
Hasbro with over 1.5 billion toys
distributed and thank you for such a
happy email it might seem like a cost to
give away but not when you consider that
they aren’t just telling a Happy Meal
they’re making lifelong customers out of
children from the youngest possible age
so even a two and three and for those
kids are being lured into this and it’s
that brilliant marketing they drew the
attention of nutrition watchdog group
CSPI who took McDonald’s to court over
the way they use their toys to lure
children into the business a marketing
strategy they referred to as creepy and
predatory if you’ve got a thirst for
adventure there’s a special place to go
Macdonald number one McDonald’s schemes
68 million people a day go ahead and do
the math if McDonald’s own estimate of
68 million customers per day is accurate
that means they feed 1% of the world
population daily and considering the
official position of any self-respecting
medical professional regarding
McDonald’s can be summed up as don’t eat
that the bigger paints a pretty bleak
picture of our collective health and
nutritional values McDonald’s cultivates
dedicated customers young and keeps them
coming back as they get older with a
versatile and ever-expanding menu of
affordable fast food dictated every
choice or trend well when you put it
that way down to old-school as
McDonald’s training manual proudly
states they sell over 75 hamburgers
every second sexually I’m not even mad
it’s amazing so which of these acts you
find to be the most unsettling enjoying
the blockbuster taste of apples and milk
has never been this thrilling for more
delicious top tens and somewhat unsavory
top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
I like my milk dark very dark
[Music]
they say you are what you eat
but if you eat a lot of Mickey D’s what
you’re made of may require a long
complicated and kind of scary
explanation welcome to watchmojo.com
Stallman we’re counting down the top
five facts you probably don’t want to
know about McDonald’s to be fair the
restaurant chain does have some
commendable qualities but for the sake
of entertainment that’s not what we’re
focusing on today there have been plenty
of scandals and questionable practices
in the history of the mega corporation
but we’re going to keep things simple by
focusing on the food the marketing
behind it and its impact on the way we
eat number five
there are 19 ingredients in McDonald’s
french fries there’s nothing like a
world-famous taste of McDonald’s crispy
golden french fries are you looking for
a surefire way to stump even the most
experienced chef just ask them to make
french fries with the caveat that they
have to use 19 ingredients not chili
fries aisle fries with gravy not poutine
just a plate of plain old french fries
that’s how McDonald’s does it in
addition to your standard you know
potatoes oil and salt
McDonald’s trademark french fries also
includes just to name a few natural beef
flavoring sodium acids pyrophosphate to
host maintain color and something called
dimethyl poli siloxane but don’t let all
those syllables scare you because as
grant imahara
the Mythbusters will tell you in a
certain transparency campaign video it’s
just an anti foaming agent okay yeah
really good hi there’s something a
little suspicious about the way they’re
celebrating the fact the best food is
made out of food the fact it works so
well that you’re probably already not
ruling are you okay I’m fine it just
threw up in my mouth a little bit number
four McDonald’s strawberry shake
contains everything but strawberries in
the interest of fairness
let’s first to sell a popular myth about
the McDonald’s shake McDonald’s
milkshakes are listed simply as shakes
on many menus across the world resulting
in internet conspiracy theories taking
this as proof that they don’t contain
milk
unlike traditional milkshakes McDonald’s
eggs do not contain ice and cream but
the very first ingredient is still milk
however beyond that we’re on shaky
ground in the case of strawberry shakes
the ingredients list begins a dark
descent into the chemical abyss of
horror that is food additives did I have
Krusty partially gelatinous non-dairy
gun-based beverages mm-hmm they call
them shakes there are a staggering 59
ingredients in the McDonald’s strawberry
shake most of which are lumped together
under the umbrella ingredient artificial
strawberry flavoring like methyl
benzoate hydroxy phenol to butanone 10%
solution and alcohol and solvent just
like mom used to make instead of any
other damn bike not number three
McDonald salads might be worse for you
than the burgers in McDonald’s we’re
tossing salads fresh all day every day
you’re on a road trip with friends and
out of desperate hunger pull over to the
Mickey D’s your friends all order a Big
Mac and fries but you’ve been making an
effort to eat healthier
so you offer the salad like a chump
aa salad a McDonald’s what can top that
well they might market their salads as
proof that they can provide nutritious
alternatives for the health conscious
and some nightmarish twist of logic it
managed to make salads that are less
healthy than their hamburgers the
courage lies with a man who has the guts
to say no to a fast-food restaurant and
eat a challenge in the southwest crispy
chicken salad contains more fat calories
and perhaps worst of all more lettuce
than a bacon double cheeseburger the
Caesar salad beats out a double Big Mac
in calories and fat while delivering
less protein and reeking of Caesar salad
oh it’s Cleopatra and Caesar and they’re
bringing a salad how wonderful what’s
their secret
it’s all in the dressing I mean it’s
fresh when you get it it’s fresh when I
pop it in my mouth
number two its marketing strategies have
been called creepy and predatory if you
in 1979 McDonald’s Happy Meal is the
must-have food kids meal they of course
pioneered the Happy Meals
now the minding kids meals also with a
little gotta having toys in fact the
Happy Meal has actually turned McDonald
since you’d be largest toy distributor
in the world surpassing even Mattel and
Hasbro with over 1.5 billion toys
distributed and thank you for such a
happy email it might seem like a cost to
give away but not when you consider that
they aren’t just telling a Happy Meal
they’re making lifelong customers out of
children from the youngest possible age
so even a two and three and for those
kids are being lured into this and it’s
that brilliant marketing they drew the
attention of nutrition watchdog group
CSPI who took McDonald’s to court over
the way they use their toys to lure
children into the business a marketing
strategy they referred to as creepy and
predatory if you’ve got a thirst for
adventure there’s a special place to go
Macdonald number one McDonald’s schemes
68 million people a day go ahead and do
the math if McDonald’s own estimate of
68 million customers per day is accurate
that means they feed 1% of the world
population daily and considering the
official position of any self-respecting
medical professional regarding
McDonald’s can be summed up as don’t eat
that the bigger paints a pretty bleak
picture of our collective health and
nutritional values McDonald’s cultivates
dedicated customers young and keeps them
coming back as they get older with a
versatile and ever-expanding menu of
affordable fast food dictated every
choice or trend well when you put it
that way down to old-school as
McDonald’s training manual proudly
states they sell over 75 hamburgers
every second sexually I’m not even mad
it’s amazing so which of these acts you
find to be the most unsettling enjoying
the blockbuster taste of apples and milk
has never been this thrilling for more
delicious top tens and somewhat unsavory
top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
I like my milk dark very dark
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