McD’s drops “pink slime” from its burgers
This oughta’ help that next fast food lunch go down better.
McDonald’s is no longer using an additive filler known as “pink slime” in its world-famous hamburgers.
What, you don’t know about the pink slime?
That’s spare beef trimmings treated with ammonium hydroxide to make them safe and possibly tastier.
Pink slime, for all its yumminess, has been the target of some serious criticism, ranging from newspaper reports to a campaign by TV chef Jamie Oliver to get rid of the stuff.
As gross and potentially dangerous as it sounds, the government has said pink slime is not a threat.
Ammoniated beef trimmings were deemed good to go five years ago during a U.S. Department of Agriculture crackdown on ground beef, even though the meat “comes from the parts of the cow most likely to harbor pathogens,” according to Huffington Post. The ammonia supposedly kills any bacteria in the beef.
Eat up.
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Ray Kroc
January 30th, 2012
10:13 am
Mmmmm, ammoniated beef…just makes your mouth water
Sluggo
January 30th, 2012
10:13 am
McPink slime.
“I’m lovin’ it!”
Kurt
January 30th, 2012
10:13 am
This is the reason we started grinding our own beef.
Hamburgular
January 30th, 2012
10:13 am
Yum, I’ll have the double quarter minus the slime
Big Jacket
January 30th, 2012
10:16 am
There goes the dollar menu.
Slimmer
January 30th, 2012
10:16 am
Who you gonna call. The Ghost Busters are at the bottom of this.
SeaWeedShakes
January 30th, 2012
10:17 am
Do they still use seaweed in the milkshakes? Also, do the milk shakes really contain milk
Big N Nasty
January 30th, 2012
10:19 am
Must be why they took the Big N Tasty burger name away
Sad to say
January 30th, 2012
10:21 am
This is a generalization, so my appologies to those who disagree. I think that most of the folks that “dine” at McDonalds are of below average intelligence. Why would you pay $5 or $6 for a greasy and unhealthy lunch when you could make your own at home and take it to work for less than half that amount? Not only would it be healthier, it would leave you with $500 a year more in your pocket, assuming you save $2 per day.
McDonalds preys on kids and the less intelligent among us. They aren’t breaking any laws, so as long as people buy their pink slime, more power to them.
Special Sauce
January 30th, 2012
10:21 am
Gives a new name to the two all beef patties “special sauce” lettuce and a bun. “Big Yak”
Ronald McDonald
January 30th, 2012
10:23 am
1 Mc slime burger coming up,
disbot3000
January 30th, 2012
10:24 am
I knew there was a reason why I always hated McD burgers. Nasty.
Ronald McDonald
January 30th, 2012
10:25 am
Uh, yes…Can I have a Number 1, with extra pink slime, please?
FRiendly
January 30th, 2012
10:29 am
will they make the changes today? if so, I may order a quarter pounder with cheese and large fries.
linda
January 30th, 2012
10:29 am
Good grief. Disgusting.
NOM NOM NOM
January 30th, 2012
10:31 am
Has anyone seen my cat?
trystme
January 30th, 2012
10:31 am
Gross!
Buffy
January 30th, 2012
10:31 am
KMA Sad to Say! I have an MBA, run a 5 million dollar company, referee college sports, active in my community,and my kids love a biscuit from McDonalds on Saturday morning. You are a miserabble, lonely, bitter jerk Sad to Say. Since youu are so smart and above the McD’s clientele, get back to work you cubicle queen! KMA again jerk!
CB
January 30th, 2012
10:32 am
This was for the chicken nuggets not the beef. Duh, nice research, writer
Al
January 30th, 2012
10:35 am
Wow, Buffy — I’ve never seen someone get so defensive over McDonald’s before. Surprised you have enough time to care about what some random poster says on an unfiltered comment section…about McDonald’s. Seriously? $5M company? Yeah, right.
NOM NOM NOM
January 30th, 2012
10:36 am
Awww, someone got their tender feefees hurt.
Grimace
January 30th, 2012
10:36 am
It was my understanding that the “pink slime” was used for their McNuggets.
Mystery Meat
January 30th, 2012
10:37 am
McRib is Back!
Account-this
January 30th, 2012
10:38 am
Pink slime? Oh, so that’s what’s been making people cranky? Let’s rid ourselves of the slime and put ATL back on the southern hospitality map.
Matt
January 30th, 2012
10:39 am
Glad I never eat that $#!t.
Big Al
January 30th, 2012
10:47 am
I heard about a British girl who has eaten nothing but Chicken McNuggets and chips (fries) for the past 15 years. She was near death until doctors started feeding her vitamin and mineral supplements through an IV. Says a lot about the nutritional value of McDonald’s.
LawDawg
January 30th, 2012
10:50 am
Sad to Say: My IQ is in the top .02% of all people and I love the occasional quarter pounder meal, so I am going to go ahead and say that your assumptions are not correct.
Angie Thomas
January 30th, 2012
10:52 am
I’m glad to hear abt. this pink slime,but it is not my only concern!! I was in a McDonald’s just outside Charleston, SC yesterday AM. I ordered oatmeal whci came with brown sugar/cinnamon, apples, dried fruit and granola. The young lady manning the register forgot to prepare the oatmeal so she had to turn away from the customers waiting to place their orders and fix my oatmeal. She had difficulty opening the smal pkg of frash apple pieces soooooooooooooo she puts them up to her mouth and tries to bite the pkg open with her teeth! In the meantime I’m standing there in disbelief!! saying under my breath Noooooooooooooooo!! Since she couldn’t get the pkg open she threw it in the trash and I began begging please let me put my stuff in my oatmeal!! I didn’t ask for the Manager! I know I should have but I was almost in tears!! So I don’t want pink slime or someone’s SALIVA on my food!! Thanks, Trying to stay Patient Grammy
LawDawg
January 30th, 2012
10:53 am
“Pink slime” seems like an awfully negative term for what is essentially just cast-off beef parts disinfected with stuff that is no worse than what coats every piece of fruit and every vegetable at Publix, Kroger, Walmart, etc.. They could just as well have called pink slime “the stuff in every hot dog you have ever eaten.”
Unless you eat nothing but organic food, you eat stuff worse than this every single day.
Frank Furter
January 30th, 2012
10:54 am
First it was Taco Bells meat…now McDonalds…whos next? http://www.notquitedevils.com
Spade
January 30th, 2012
10:55 am
Sad to say, I don’t accept your apology for your ignorant comment. Since when does dining at McDonalds have to do with a person’s intelligence level? It has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with convenience which is why it’s called fast food. Sad to say you are obviously the one who is a lot less intelligent than you think you are.
LawDawg
January 30th, 2012
10:55 am
Angie Thomas: If you almost burst out crying rather than saying “hey, get my food away from your mouth, just give me the oatmeal”, i question how you have managed to survive in society long enough to be able to read and write on a blog.
LawDawg
January 30th, 2012
10:56 am
Big Al: There is a HUGE difference between eating McDonalds once in a blue moon and never, ever eating any fruits or vegetables.
LawDawg
January 30th, 2012
10:57 am
disbot3000: Yeah, I’m sure all the other fast food places are much better.
Michael
January 30th, 2012
11:01 am
Soylent pink?
Jim Swilley
January 30th, 2012
11:01 am
How is this any worse than the slime in vienna sausages, or indeed the myriad animal parts regularly ground into hot dogs and sausage pattys? Going to a Braves game? Would you like to buy an overpriced ground pork snout “hot dog” with mustard? How about a cup of carbonated horse pee to go with it?
Rodney
January 30th, 2012
11:02 am
“Sad to Say” – really? You’re entitled to your opinion, wrong as it is.
Or were you in fact trolling posters into replying to your vilification?
I, maybe, eat at McDonald’s twice a year. On a road trip. In the car. But I do eat there. And let me assure you I’m in the “above average” smarty-pants category.
I would like to ask – just what are you making at home, every day, healthy and filling, that costs between 3 and 4 dollars per meal (based on your assumption of saving 2 dollars per day on an average 5 or 6 dollar lunch)?
jespasinthru
January 30th, 2012
11:06 am
Throw in a little Soylent Green and really make those burgers tasty! It’s cheap, it’s plentiful, and I know of some OWS types who would make perfect “volunteers”.
McDowner Cow
January 30th, 2012
11:06 am
That is nasty and a very good reason to pay real money for a real hamburger at a locally owned burger place – they’re multiplying like rabbits these days anyway.
John
January 30th, 2012
11:06 am
McRib!!!!! YUMMMMMMMMMM
Eating in Atlanta
January 30th, 2012
11:08 am
Hey Buffy – just because your kids like McDonalds doesn’t mean it’s good for them. My kid would eat cupcakes for every meal if I let her but I don’t – it’s called parenting.
Confusing article
January 30th, 2012
11:09 am
The article mentions it as an approved additive to make the beef safer.
And obviously noone notices it in their food. Yet, the article goes on to say it has been the “target of some serious criticism”. But there is absolutely no mention as to what the criticisms are. Are these concerns warranted or just a few nutbags getting attention. Terrible reporting.
Bottom line, is it safe or unsafe?
Chris
January 30th, 2012
11:15 am
“Sad to Say” Are you kidding? Are you really saying the only people who eat at McDonald’s are people who are stupid? What about the CEO who needs a quick bite on his way to a meeting? What about the mother of 4 who needs to get her kids fed in between soccer and ballet? What about the college student who only has 15 minutes in between classes? What you said is a rash generalization. And quite frankly, it’s a false one. I eat at McDonald’s a few times of year. Mostly it’s out of convenience. That’s worth the extra buck or two to me. Plus I like their fries. Are you saying only stupid people pay money for things they like?
Enquiring minds want to know
January 30th, 2012
11:15 am
What are the criticisms by the chef and so called other newspaper reports?
Is it over safety or just the disgusting name?
Is there proof of danger?
Jeff
January 30th, 2012
11:16 am
Kind of a gross name for what goes in em, but how many here have eaten them for years without thinking about it? Me personally, I like a little McD’s from time to time, but since my wife has a gluten intolerance, we don’t eat it but a few times a year.
Read your ingredients. If it says mechanically separated anything, avoid it. Hot dogs, bologna, chicken patties or nuggets….google mechanically separated meat one time.
Read up on flour production…especially the tolerances for “foreign matter”.
Unless you go grow your own, it’s kind of a crap shoot with just about any food out there.
much ado about
January 30th, 2012
11:17 am
nothing
Eddy Freddy
January 30th, 2012
11:18 am
2 billions served=2 billions poisoned. “The government says it’s not a threat”. Not now, but later. Look at the health issues of those folks who eat there: Obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, early life heart attacks, low life expectancy, etc. Our government will never say “No”. 1 – it’s a business, pays taxes, 2 – provides low income jobs. Most importantly – no social security benefits to the deceased ones. Great for the government if you die before you start drawing your retirement. More power, and $$ to us(US) to invade and fight other countries!! That’s our way!
Jeff
January 30th, 2012
11:18 am
@jespasinthru — Funny you should mention Soylent Green. That movie was on cable the other day. Classic!
Demetrio
January 30th, 2012
11:19 am
LawDawg: I know you. You ain’t that smart. Maybe the top 40%. Let’s get real.
JimmyZ
January 30th, 2012
11:19 am
So, does this mean that I can no longer stash a spare cheeseburger in my glove box and have it still be edible when I get the munchies a week or two later?
There goes that three year unrefrigerated shelf life.
EDC
January 30th, 2012
11:19 am
Pink Slime is in everything…not just McDonald’s. Even the ground beef you just bought from the grocery store. Go to http://www.beefproducts.com to learn more.
Demetrio
January 30th, 2012
11:20 am
Sad to Say: You just need to go get a Happy Meal. And chill.
Bryan
January 30th, 2012
11:22 am
the McRib really should be called the McAnus
Blah! Blah!! Blah!!!
January 30th, 2012
11:28 am
Oh well, was just considering becoming a vegan anyway, articles such as this one, along with what I’m learning from reading some of the comments on here will make my decision more set in stone…..
Mystery Meat
January 30th, 2012
11:28 am
Good one Bryan. Then they could change the name of the restaurant to McDerriere’s and serve French food too.
Nonia
January 30th, 2012
11:30 am
Jeez!!!! No wonder the population of Americans developing diseases such as parkinson and Alzhiemers is on a sharp rise in this country!!!!!
Pink slime in the beef, formaldihyde in the french fries, beef that could easily have come from a cow strickened with mad cow disease, brown rice bleached to turn it white, FDA only checking 1 percent of the food that comes into this country!!!!!! Americans consumption far out paces the ability to check the food before it ends up in our stomachs.
Where does the foolishness stop other than stop eating from places like McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell….etc.
Dave
January 30th, 2012
11:31 am
Jamie Oliver ….. there’s a successful dude. Research how much food is being thrown away in California due to the crappy school menu he & Mooshell forced on the public screwell kids.
Deepdiver
January 30th, 2012
11:34 am
McDonalds only serves the highest quality products. Haha. I guess the profit motive means companies will cut any corner to make more profit.
Vince
January 30th, 2012
11:34 am
Thankfully, the Krusty Burger remains the same formula as always.
This Guy
January 30th, 2012
11:39 am
Who just stopped eating McD burgers?
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cd
January 30th, 2012
11:41 am
@Eddy Freddy McDonald’s is not solely responsible for obesity, heart disease. etc. McDonald’s as a company has existed for a long time and generations have eaten the food without suffering chronic diseases. It’s the lack of moderation and physical activity in this country that has caused chronic health issues to increase over the past couple decades. Nobody is forcing anyone to cram cheeseburgers down their throats, take some personal responsibility and stop blaming everyone else.
Stanford
January 30th, 2012
11:41 am
Well, one thing for sure – We don’t need more no stinkin’ govmint regulations control food. If people want to eat ammoniated beef trimmings that’s their god given right to be free!
It’s just a theory anyway no way to really prove it. My preacher said most of these crazy ideas come from foreign countries like France and California and I believe him over some secret govmint agency Czar.
Eat away
January 30th, 2012
11:47 am
If you don’t like the place, don’t eat there.
If you do, simple moderation is good for everything.
Eating a meal at McDonalds or other fast food place a few (not a lot) times a year is not going to do you in.
People want to always pin their demise on one target. Not always the case conspiracy theorists.
grimus
January 30th, 2012
11:47 am
@ stanford… Souynds like your preacher needs to stick to the good word and leave the burgers to the chef… He doesn’nt know what he’s talking about. Some saaid You I had to be smart and rich to eat Mcdonalds… I make over 18,000 dollars a year and my kids and me eat it all the time so there.. Just sayin
get old and spit up your food
January 30th, 2012
11:51 am
I love additives.
Many foods were bland and tasteless before. And the life expectancy was a heck of a lot lower.
Now I can enjoy food and still live a lot longer than others before me..
How freaking old do you need to get?
Good, more burgers left for The Hamburglar
January 30th, 2012
11:55 am
The Hamburglar will take all your burgers away that you don’t eat!
Chilly Willy
January 30th, 2012
11:55 am
I will never eat McDonalds again!!! Now I will go vomit!
Dubious Believer
January 30th, 2012
12:03 pm
“Soylent Green is made out of people!…..PEOPLE!!!!” – Moses
Sam the Sham
January 30th, 2012
12:05 pm
Stopped eating fast food after open heart surgery. Beyond the “pink slime” it’s the high fat, high salt, high carbohydrate nuclear bomb that destroys your heart, arteries and veins and lead to a miserable life and early death.
Taxi Smith
January 30th, 2012
12:14 pm
Why anyone would eat at that place has always been a mystery to me.
bigdawg88
January 30th, 2012
12:16 pm
what’s funny is that the article only mentions McDonald’s, but Burger King and Taco Bell both made the same announcement as McD’s – back on 12/24/2011. Way to go AJC, only a month late!!
BTW: there are still other restaurants using pink slime. Might want to ask the other guys what they use in their ground beef.
Roadrunner
January 30th, 2012
12:16 pm
The article doesn’t say where else Pink Slime is used, could be in other restaurant burgers, could be in ground beef on the store shelves…..
Roadrunner
January 30th, 2012
12:18 pm
Notice the article doesn’t say where else Pink Slime is used, could be in other restaurant burgers and ground beef on store shelves….
Pink Slime? Are You Kidding Me?
January 30th, 2012
12:21 pm
Umm….EWW!!!!!
billie
January 30th, 2012
12:21 pm
So THAT’s what that “Special Sauce” is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
little mickey
January 30th, 2012
12:22 pm
i’ll bet the fries would taste great cooked in that stuff
Sad to Say II
January 30th, 2012
12:23 pm
Sad to Say………….Buffy can’t spell even with an MBA! She runs a pink slime company-
The Happy Meal is always half full, not half empty!
January 30th, 2012
12:28 pm
This stuff is good for you….honest!!!!!
Not unintelligent
January 30th, 2012
12:28 pm
I have two college degrees, so I wouldn’t consider myself less intelligent or not intelligent. I DO eat at McDonalds because I don’t feel like making my own hamburgers. I like having the sweet tea and because I don’t NEED to save the $2 a day, then I can get whatever I want, whenever I want. Stop with the generalizations!
Native_Atlantan
January 30th, 2012
12:30 pm
First MAD COW and now this from (umm umm) “healthy” cows. Y’all can keep the beef.
Inspector Clouseau
January 30th, 2012
12:30 pm
Ground Pink Panther meat on a bun….yummy!
Bulldawg
January 30th, 2012
12:44 pm
SAD to Say is CORRECT.
GENERALLY speaking, folks that eat at McDonald’s on a REGULAR BASIS are further down both the intelligence and socioeconomic “ladder”. Period.
Additionally, one can easily make and take their lunch to work for $3-4 a day. For the poster that asked how incredulously, well, fresh deli meat bought by the pound, loaf of bread, pack of cheese and some salad makings = no problem.
ND
January 30th, 2012
12:44 pm
News stories like this make me really glad to be vegetarian.
Ted
January 30th, 2012
12:47 pm
Buffy, WOW I’m impressed. Did you also invent the internet or did Al Gore beat you to that one? Just kidding. I’d probably disagree with most of “sad to say’s” post though. People eat fast food because of it’s convenicene and taste, not because they’re stupid. To fix a healthy meal with vegetables, lean meat, poultry or fish also costs more than a trip through the drive thur.
9 out of 10 if asked would tell you they know it’s not good for you. Healthy food also costs more and takes time to cook.
I still love their fries when they’re hot, but skip the burgers and Mystery McNuggets. For a good Hamburger that’s reasonable, go to 5 Guys.
florida guy
January 30th, 2012
12:49 pm
Just another fact that convinces me that I made the right decision years ago to stop eating at those nasty, grime-ridden suck-holes. Really, is anybody shocked by this???
www.twistedmuser.com
January 30th, 2012
12:55 pm
Why do we have to be told everything. Why cant we just live in ignorant bliss!
Thogwummpy
January 30th, 2012
12:59 pm
Actually, Huffington Post is staffed by a bunch of Code Pink slime…so, whatever.
ML
January 30th, 2012
12:59 pm
Pink slimey arches.
Ward
January 30th, 2012
1:07 pm
It’s beyond depressing that anyone could look at that stuff, something called ‘ammoniated’ meat and think, ‘let’s serve this to people.’ It shouldn’t be served to animals. It’s not even fit to be fertilizer.
The whole profession of ‘food chemist’ should be abolished.
Dont bother
January 30th, 2012
1:15 pm
@SeaWeedShakes
Carrageenan is a seaweed extract used to improve the viscosity of dairy products. It’s used in pretty much every milk shake and ice cream.
Lexi
January 30th, 2012
1:19 pm
Lots of delicate hothouse flowers on this board. Looks as though we are a generation or two removed from any idea of where food comes from, or what it acquires as it makes its way to the market. I love spinach, almost as much as beef, and buy organic, but I wash my leafy greens to reduce my risk of ingesting salmonella. And, every pound of milled grain we buy has insect parts mixed in. Bon appetit.
really?
January 30th, 2012
1:20 pm
to everyone bitching about “generalizations,” STFU! the only reason everyone still eats @ mcdonald’s is because we’re lazy, it’s cheap & usually en route to whatever we’re doing.
sarahk
January 30th, 2012
1:20 pm
I agree with you Sad to Say. And I would like to say it is even more sad the fact that in so many other countries, even lower income countries the beef served at McD’s is of higher quality than the one served here in the US. That is probably because advocacy falls short in this country and people are not as aware of what they are being served; not to mention the high probability of the FDA paying a deaf ear to any complaints or well founded investigations. Just as a form of illustration, our northern neighbor Canada serves all beef McD’s burgers and in Spain, no dollar menu items is allowed given the poor quality of those food items. I think that is a good way to have a long term vision of public health issues in such countries.
Maida
January 30th, 2012
1:40 pm
my next question is what are they replacing the slime with?
trizzle
January 30th, 2012
1:44 pm
Look, this is all about choices, not intelligence levels. As long as you eat in moderation, and not live off mcdonalds, your not gonna die. Everyone eats crap now and then, out of convenience, laziness, or enjoyment. Why come down on people for that? There are a LOT worse things then the pink slime they use in those ingredients to make that food. If you dig down deep enough, you will find that most fast food in bad in content…
Scotto
January 30th, 2012
1:54 pm
Soylent Pink is People!!!
Rodney
January 30th, 2012
1:55 pm
Hey Bulldawg (I’m guessing you’re UGA – figures) – I’m the poster that asked how you can make lunch for that price daily. But you seemed to miss that I asked about those lunches being “healthy”.
I’m not sure a big old meat and cheese sandwich every day is too healthy.
beebee
January 30th, 2012
1:58 pm
test
beebee
January 30th, 2012
1:59 pm
Sad to say is probably some overweight woman who in fact IS a good cook but unfortunately way overweight and thinks she knows what’s best for everybody.
Sahara
January 30th, 2012
2:01 pm
Now I know why McDonald’s hamburgers give my stomach fits…nasty fillers. I haven’t had a McDonald’s hamburger since 1991-92 because they always make me sick on the stomach.
quit being a d-bag
January 30th, 2012
2:07 pm
Rodney, why such a douche? Delta’s ready when you are to go wherever you might be happy. Then again you’d probably mock and be a smarta$$ to the pilots that are flying the plane and criticize everyone around you.
Jason Marcus
January 30th, 2012
2:09 pm
I like big pink wongs. What’s wrong with a little pink sauce to go with them?
Sha'Londria
January 30th, 2012
2:12 pm
I stop @ McD’s maybe once every two or three years, and then only if I’m famished and nothing else is around. I find their food to be disgusting and the counter service usually rude and indifferent. The pink slime news comes as no surprise.
Innocent Bystander
January 30th, 2012
2:35 pm
Add this to the long list of reasons I do not eat at McDonald’s. Disgusting.
Evansdawg
January 30th, 2012
2:55 pm
Have you seen the pink stuff that the chicken McNuggets are made of??? Wretch.
LawDawg
January 30th, 2012
2:58 pm
d-bag: Delta is also ready to lose his luggage along the way.
BG
January 30th, 2012
3:23 pm
Cheap food is poor quality.
BigJake
January 30th, 2012
3:33 pm
And folks wonder why I haven’t had a McD’s burger since high school in the 70’s, when it was the only place in town.
Trish
January 30th, 2012
3:33 pm
This is for the comment made by Sad To Say…I sorry that you think that people who eat at McDonald’s is less intelligent..To me that just shows that you are not as smart as you think you are. Intelligence has nothing to do with eating at a fast food restaurant. True it isn’t healthy and would cost more to eat at everyday than buying what you need and taking it to work with you. But if I am not mistaken have they not found that some foods that are bought from a grocery store have added ingredients that are just as well not good for us??????
Bob Barker
January 30th, 2012
3:34 pm
Have you checked out the ingredients list for a Slim Jim? First item is “mechanically separated chicken…”
jvillebil
January 30th, 2012
3:42 pm
Monday’s begin early and end late for me. I decided to take a quick break here in Fla and read a few things on AJC. This article cracked me up, but not as much as the comments. I literally laughed out loud in my office by myself reading these. Anyone that has raised kids that lived near a McDonald’s has made several visits or has deprived them of the Ronald McDonald experience. Quite frankly I never like McDonald’s and every time I took my kids I never ate as a father. I always refered to it as Crackdonalds. Now that my children are in college they never go there and oh they also call it Crackdonalds. I personally don’t think eating at Crackdonalds has anything to do with your IQ has several people stated earlier. But as far as this article and the comments; I’m luving it!!
@ Buffy
January 30th, 2012
3:44 pm
Sorry, Hon. I don’t work in a cubicle, not that there is anything wrong with that. I don’t “have an MBA and run a $5 million company”. I OWN my company and answer to NO ONE. Not quite as large as the one you are employed by, but it’s enough for all of my family’s needs and most of our wants be taken care of and to have a very happy life. Sounds like you are the one making generalizations. Go hit the crack pipe again, you white trash skank.
Moderate
January 30th, 2012
3:46 pm
Im sad to say.. I agree with you sad to say.
Rodney
January 30th, 2012
3:51 pm
Y’all are funny – I’m betting my label of “d-bag” has more to do with me taking a swing at UGA rather than anything else I’ve said or my attempt at rationality.
Just keep proving my insinuation … btw, I’m perfectly happy here. Born, raised, and educated (Oglethorpe).
The fact remains that a large number of posters agree with me. Sensible, moderate fast food (McDonald’s or otherwise) intake is not a common denominator amongst the intelligent.
Elitism, however, seems to run rampant amongst another group …
Rodney
January 30th, 2012
3:53 pm
And it appears my skill at proofreading my own words has lapsed in this mid-afternoon haze … I meant to say “… is not a common denominator amongst the unintelligent.”
Fire away.
David
January 30th, 2012
3:56 pm
WOW and we’ve been eating this all along and never knew.
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
4:02 pm
Buffy, I think you crossed some toes today. I dont think your job was relevant to the subject matter.LOL Plus who cares if you run a 5 mill company. Thats chump change these days.LOL Now if you had said, i OWN a company like that…different story. Also, your MBA doesnt mean a thing. You can be easily replaced just like the rest of us.lol I think @Buffy was right. You seem to be making generalizations.
Super size me should have shown people that something wasnt right. Another blogger was rigth though. Its in ALL the beef products. Check his link. Its true. Yum yum…lol
Hamburglar
January 30th, 2012
4:02 pm
The Grimace did it!
upstream
January 30th, 2012
4:06 pm
Sounds like a Mc Tummy Ache!
NOM NOM NOM
January 30th, 2012
4:07 pm
Still looking for my cat over here.
LawDawg2
January 30th, 2012
4:13 pm
I’m retired, but wonder who LawDawg is billing for her time on this.
As for the rest: Get Real. Has anybody noticed what kids eat off the floor, yard, flowerbed, under the bed, taken out of the dog’s mouth? We vertebrates have been eating whatever we can find for 400 million years. (and, thinking on it, most of them have died along the way….).
Just thinkin'
January 30th, 2012
4:14 pm
Is this the same stuff Cousin’ Eddie was grilling with in the Vegas dessert when the Griswolds were visiting on Vegas vacation?
Buffy, is running a $5 “million” company difficult?
Jen
January 30th, 2012
4:16 pm
Go watch Food Inc. You might think twice about eating McDonald’s (or any fast food for that matter) again. As one poster said above, “cheap meat = poor quality”. Support your local farmers.
jvillebil
January 30th, 2012
4:16 pm
LOL NOM NOM
LawDawg2
January 30th, 2012
4:16 pm
I’d love to know if it’s @Buffy’s company! Better balance than a Mondrian.
Samantha
January 30th, 2012
4:21 pm
That’s just PLAIN NASTY!!!
rod
January 30th, 2012
4:22 pm
Eddy Freddy, you go from pink slime to funding wars? I pray that was you I saw get tazzed at the occupy rally
Sad to Say Get a life for God’s sake
jvillebil
January 30th, 2012
4:25 pm
I worked on a remote caribbean island for almost a year. Only got to come home every 40 days or so. My first trip over I stayed almost 2-months, eating only fish and conch. Only one mom and pop grocery store and the closest town 45 minutes away, well actually only town. When I finally got back to the United States and my wife and kids picked me up at the airport on a Friday evening, they all asked, “Where would you like to go for supper? Steakhouse, Italian, anywhere.” My reply, “Just get me to the nearest fast food joint I want a big on greasy American burger and I don’t care who’s it is.” They looked at me like I was nuts but it was the best tasting burger ever. LOL. But I did tell them to pass up Crackdonalds and any other would be fine. McDonald’s = Great Marketing but lousy burgers. But each to his own.
A
January 30th, 2012
4:28 pm
This is the reason I’m a vegetarian.
Ronald's bad stepbrother
January 30th, 2012
4:29 pm
I think I’m gonna McBarf
jvillebil
January 30th, 2012
4:33 pm
As far as the pink slime goes, I always thought that was mayo and ketchup mixed???
Hilliard Crump
January 30th, 2012
4:48 pm
Sooooooooooooooo…….
Nutritionist
January 30th, 2012
4:51 pm
I eat nothing but Chinese food so I have absolutely nothing to worry about.
Mystery Meat
January 30th, 2012
4:54 pm
@jvillebil Thanks for the positive first comment. I personally added several of the humorous comments under several different aliases hoping to make someone laugh (as laughter is the best medicine other than pink slime). I always look for the ground beef in the grocery that has the darkest shade of pink slime (nearly red). I think it is the freshest! Enjoy the weather in Jville, FLA!
Monroe's First Redcoat
January 30th, 2012
5:01 pm
“Pink Slime” sounds so much better than “Rat Parts”…..
NOM NOM NOM
January 30th, 2012
5:38 pm
Nutritionist — “I eat nothing but Chinese food so I have absolutely nothing to worry about.”
Indeed. There’s no possible way that duck feet, beaver tails and squirrel colons could ever be bad for you.
Just be sure you don’t order a “bear claw” at breakfast time, because there’s no telling what you’ll actually get.
bigguy
January 30th, 2012
5:51 pm
It’s my wife favorite recipe….mixed with a little Draino
Anita
January 30th, 2012
5:54 pm
OMG!!! This is disgusting. I am no longer eating at McDonalds. Just unbelievable! YUK!!!!
MattMD
January 30th, 2012
6:08 pm
You would think that if one truly ran a million-dollar company they would be aware that they indeed have to answer to their clients/customers.
Laura I
January 30th, 2012
6:16 pm
If I remember correctly Jamie Oliver’s example was about chicken nuggets and not burgers. Also big deal McD’s is removing it has anyone checked the ingredients in school lunch programs?
Mc Doctor
January 30th, 2012
7:09 pm
I’m with you S2S. Everyone that eats McD’s is an idiot. As for me I’ll stick with Wendy’s, Krystals, and BK. You know…the good stuff
RalphMouth
January 30th, 2012
7:20 pm
This is still what they make McNuggets out of…
http://i.imgur.com/4udvF.jpg
jenkum huffer
January 30th, 2012
8:03 pm
spooks like the slime
jenkum huffer
January 30th, 2012
8:10 pm
i hear Micky D is coming out with the new Mc. Tube Steak. How about some of that special sauce?
Jamal Jenkums
January 30th, 2012
9:31 pm
Who cares? It is just swoogie chow they feed the pavement apes anyway. Humans don’t eat this crap. They must take EBT.
Buffy "The McBiscuit" Slayer
January 30th, 2012
9:41 pm
Bite me Ms. Braggart! If you actually “run” anything, it’s your fat, lazy azz down to Micky-D’s to shut your brat-tards up so you can go back to bed with mayor McBuck. Ubama wiper. Oh, good comment Sorry To Say…
Beel
January 31st, 2012
1:49 am
Some are asking “is it (pink slime) safe?” That depends on wether or not you trust the USDA. Personally, I don”t. It should be obvious by now that just about EVERY government agency should be suspect, at best. There seems to be a new corruption scandal in Washington every week. Read some of the articles about this stuff and make up your own mind. I already have. Let’s not forget that the”chicken” in the McNuggets comes mostly from China and that the so-called “apple juice” comes from apple powder re-constitued into juice. the powder also comes from china. Just look at the box , it says so right on the label! Motts apple juice containers sold at McDs, Burger King and the rest of them.
Dan Williams
January 31st, 2012
10:12 am
Buffy is so full of pink slime.
mary cabrera
January 31st, 2012
7:54 pm
There is some news out there, and you can google it, that some diagnoses of Alzheimer’s are actually CJD, or SCJD. Variant CJD is what is also known as Mad Cow Disease. Many scientists believe the different types of CJD are actually linked to mad cow. There are many blogs you can go to. Check out justice4andy.com. It is UK based but there is alot of info there. Mad Cow is here and is being swept under the rug. Go to this link: http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2009/07/usa-hiding-mad-cow-disease-victims-as.html. You will be horrified at what you don’t know.
mary cabrera
January 31st, 2012
7:56 pm
Oh, almost forgot. Scroll down the page to the video. That is what I wan’t you to see.
pink slime - Tenvipo
January 31st, 2012
8:15 pm
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Ron B
February 1st, 2012
1:21 am
It is amazing to me that the media solely targets mcdonalds when this practice has been in existence for years at all fast food , convenience stores,frozen foods in grocery stores etc.. Why only is mcdonalds targeted? Is it the name? stature?What is it? mcdonalds is the leader in the fast food industry that all others try to mirror.it is a shame that the public is un-aware of what is approved by our department of agriculture and the food and drug
administration.Believe it or not, McDonalds has the most stringent regulations on quality because they are the leader. I am not an Employee, Just an advocate and QSR expert
Eric Starson
February 2nd, 2012
8:45 am
I first found out about it in this video where Cleveland Clinic researchers dissect fast food burgers:
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/whats-in-a-burger/