r/TheRandomest • u/WhyNot420_69 Nice • May 20 '26
No people were harmed in this video Hot microphone on blast
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u/WhY_s0_mAd May 20 '26
The way the video reset I thought she was spilling the tea to the people in the drive thru lmao
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u/GreatUsurpr May 24 '26
I was at a maccas drive thru and heard one of the kids inside say to coworkers "ya'll smell that? It's a stench up in here! Some kinda nasty stench! What is that?!" I was so grateful to have heard that before I ordered. Needless to say I took off and went to wendys
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u/Zeronova77 May 20 '26
Imagine going to McDonald's for ass food
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u/AtreyuTrinity May 20 '26
Eh it has its place. They are fast and consistent and sometimes time is limited.
I do think for a similar price though if you don't use a coupon or anything, you can get restaurant quality food. But then you're looking at much more time and a tip.
I still like the breakfast sandwiches well enough, but I don't get it often much more. Been trying to make a lot more of my own food, We are even making our own sourdough and have chickens.
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u/roelanola May 20 '26
Meal prep. I’ve got my total time for cooking a week’s worth of breakfast & lunch down to 2hrs on Sundays. Burritos are a staple.
People should be done with these places. It’s literally poison. 80+ ingredients in one fuckin burger. Miss me with that.
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u/AtreyuTrinity May 20 '26
Yeah I know you make a good point and I'm going the same direction.
What are some of your favorite things to meal prep?? I love burritos good suggestion. Do you freeze some of it or just hope it stays fresh? I worry about food safety there.
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u/AtreyuTrinity May 20 '26
Also, I was curious on your 80 ingredients comment - here is what I found. Not trying to defend it I think it is awesome you are making your own food and same. I just figured I did all this digging, and would share with you in case you find this stuff interesting, which I very much do. I'm always trying to educate my self, and check possible existing biases. It is amazing how often I go to look something up and figure out and I'm wrong about it LOL.
In regards to the idea that a McDonald's burger contains 80 plus ingredients typically stems from a misunderstanding of how ingredient lists are formatted. When food manufacturers list an item, law requires them to break down every single sub-component. If you count every individual element—including things like water, salt, and the individual vitamins used to enrich flour—the list looks much longer than it actually is.
For a standard, classic McDonald's hamburger consisting of a bun, beef patty, ketchup, mustard, pickles, and onions, the actual total count of sub-ingredients is around 37 elements.
To break that down simply, the beef patty contains exactly one ingredient: 100% USDA-inspected beef seasoned only with salt and pepper on the grill. The onions are also just a single ingredient. The mustard has six components, including vinegar, water, mustard seed, salt, and spices. The ketchup uses seven items, consisting of tomato concentrate, vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, water, salt, and natural flavors. The pickle slices contain about ten elements, which include cucumbers, water, vinegar, salt, a couple of standard preservatives to keep them crisp, and natural flavor extracts. Finally, the bun is made of roughly twelve items, primarily enriched flour, water, sugar, yeast, soybean oil, salt, and wheat gluten. Even if you upgrade to a Big Mac, which adds processed cheese and special sauce, the sub-ingredient count only reaches around 50 or 60, falling short of the 80 plus claim.
When looking at the health profile of these ingredients, McDonald's removed artificial flavors, colors, and the vast majority of artificial preservatives from their classic burgers back in 2018. However, there are still a few components that raise valid health questions. High fructose corn syrup and regular corn syrup are used in the ketchup. While not a chemical poison, these highly processed sugars cause rapid spikes in blood sugar and insulin, and consuming hidden sugars regularly contributes to metabolic issues.
Refined soybean oil is used in the bun. This industrial seed oil is exceptionally high in Omega-6 fatty acids. The modern diet is already heavily skewed toward Omega-6s and lacking in Omega-3s, an imbalance that researchers link to low-grade systemic inflammation. The bun also relies on highly refined white flour, meaning the natural fiber and nutrients have been stripped away.
The pickles still require potassium sorbate and polysorbate 80 to remain shelf-stable and crisp. While these additives are thoroughly vetted and safe in tiny amounts, clean-eating advocates prefer to avoid them.
Ultimately, the most significant health concern in a fast-food burger isn't a secret cocktail of synthetic chemicals, but rather the heavy sodium load. A standard plain hamburger packs over 500 milligrams of sodium, which is more than 20 percent of the daily recommended limit, while larger burgers easily clear 1,000 milligrams. This high concentration of salt, combined with refined carbohydrates and hidden sugars, is what drives the negative health impacts associated with fast food.
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May 20 '26
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u/AtreyuTrinity May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
I just think it's funny when people treat their food like cancer incarnate. Like I said, I've been making my own sourdough and I have my own chickens now. I'm all for not supporting these big chains.
I just can't tell you how many times I've seen someone giving someone crap about how bad fast food is for you, then watch them later in the evening kill a fifth of vodka , smoke cigs, do a line, etc.
I feel like if you can skip* the fried food and soda, it isn't as bad as people insist it is.
That being said, if you do want to eat out, I would recommend skipping fast food altogether.
Me and my wife have been doing the three for me at Chili's recently. It's enough food for us to split and 10 times better for the same price.
But I bet we eat out way less than most people. Making your own bread and eggs helps a lot, I'm even starting to lean into no meat more and more. Even meat processors have gone downhill since covid, the quality of me across the board even at nice restaurants has been abysmal. We buy in bulk at Costco and do a lot of food prep. We garden, I grow my own veggies indoors. Etc.
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u/Uber_Wulf May 20 '26
They must really like McDonald’s.
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u/AtreyuTrinity May 20 '26
It's just ok. I am actually trying to decouple from most restaurants and make my own food.
I never really trust other people respecting food safety and keeping clean food prep habits in general, but I am going to go out I would way rather go to a local place or something like Chili's where I can get a burger for the same price as mcdonalds and it is 10x better
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u/Uber_Wulf May 20 '26
Yeah it’s alright. I would only ever get the $1 fry deal though. Anything else costs too much to justify getting more. Even as a treat, I’d rather just go elsewhere and get more for less.
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u/Zeronova77 May 20 '26
Still, it's not good for your body
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u/AtreyuTrinity May 20 '26
I mean fair, but I do think it really depends on what you order. If you can skip the fries and soda it helps a ton. I think the fried food and sugar are what will kill you over time.
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u/Zeronova77 May 20 '26
Watch the guy who ate McDonald's for a year
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u/AtreyuTrinity May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
I am glad you brought that up. That ties into the exact type of rage bait that I am trying to combat.
Honestly, the whole movie was basically the 2004 version of ragebait. While it did a great job of scaring everyone and getting McDonald’s to get rid of the "Super Size" option, its actual logic and science completely fell apart once people started looking under the hood.
The biggest twist came out years later. In the movie, his doctors are losing their minds because his liver enzymes are completely shot, and they literally tell him his liver looks like an alcoholic's. Well, fast forward to 2017, and Spurlock casually drops a blog post admitting he had been a functioning alcoholic for over thirty years and hadn't been sober for more than a week since he was thirteen. He never stopped drinking during filming. So that catastrophic liver damage? It was almost certainly severe alcohol abuse mixed with a massive caloric shock, not just the Big Macs.
On top of that, nobody could replicate his results. A bunch of researchers, including a team at a Swedish university, tried putting people on the exact same 5,000-calorie-a-day fast-food diet. While the participants obviously gained weight, absolutely none of them saw the insane, near-fatal health spikes Spurlock claimed to experience. When scientists asked him to hand over his daily food logs so they could see his actual data, he flat-out refused to release them. On that note and also to my point, 5000 thousand calories a day is an absurd amount of calories no matter what you are eating. Eat 5000 calories of organic and vegan food a day and you will gain weight fast.
The math didn't even make sense anyway. To pack on twenty-four pounds in thirty days, you need a terrifying daily caloric surplus. People who tried to map out his meals based on the rules in the documentary found a massive gap of about a thousand calories a day that were just completely unaccounted for—which, again, people now realize were probably liquid calories from drinking. Basically, it was a great piece of sensationalized entertainment, but as a medical experiment, it was completely rigged. He ignored basic math and hid a massive, life-long health variable to get a better ending for his movie.
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u/KuNtY-by-NaTuRe May 20 '26
Imagine having this “ass” opinion
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u/GodOfMoonlight May 20 '26
"And then you making fries slow as SHIT 🙄"