What is in a McDonalds cheeseburger?

[Buff]

If you can't have 8 McDonald's cheeseburgers then you certainly can't have one of these from In 'n' Out Burger!

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

Personally, I thought that movie was stupid and a complete waste of time with no valid point. Doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that if all you ate was fast food for a month, it would not be good...

Mcdonalds gets a bad "wrap", the next movie should be eating anything at Starbucks for a month...I am sure that will do way worst things to you.

I always thought from a scientific method point of view, of from the point of view of trying to prove anything that the methods were terribly flawed, and I think McDonalds was wise to avoid giving this guy a final interview.

Basically he went right from being a generally healthy long term vegetarian to slamming massive quantities of greasy meat into his system, and selecting the least healthiest food items into his system three times a day.

frankly a vietnam era pow camp cook had a better sense of nutrition then this guy did.

Of course he's going to get sick and his liver function for example is going to go off of the chart.

If at the same time that he did his experiment he had a average guy with an average american diet participate in the experiment we would have probably seen a slower decline in vitals by the average male.

would eating super sized grease burgers and super sized fries and super sized suger drinks three times a day for thirty days be detrimental to my health? Well duh, but thats not a statement of how bad McDonalds food is for you, its a testiment of somebody not having common sense, or wanting to kill themselves gruesomely.

I thought the movie was entertaining as hell, by I enjoyed his other movie "Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden much much more"

[red sky]

Originally Posted by Burninator

Errrr....I'm not really sure if you are making a joke or what, but despite my bad grammar I did the use the correct word.

Badder?

[Komskies]

Anyone ever get the Big Harv? I got them to make a double Big Harv, which i think was 16 oz of beef. Talk about mud butt.

[Prototype]

I had a 10 piece Chicken McNugget meal from McDicks last week. The next day my back broke out in a huge case of bacne. Or as I called it, McChicken Pox. I don't think I've really recovered from that meal. My stomach hasn't been 100% since.

OP, I think your problem lies in the following:

a) Most people feel ill from eating the regular meals at McDonalds. Your first problem is you ate at McDonalds.
b) YOU ATE 8 CHEESBURGERS... Did you ever stop to think that maybe that was a bit excessive? I hope you won something worthwhile in whatever bet you were going for, cause nobody says, "I'm just going to eat 8 cheeseburgers" unless your name is KevanGuy.

I'm sorry frendo, but you deserve whatever health issues you are going through due to whatever made you want to eat so much unhealthy food.

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

would eating super sized grease burgers and super sized fries and super sized suger drinks three times a day for thirty days be detrimental to my health? Well duh, but thats not a statement of how bad McDonalds food is for you, its a testiment of somebody not having common sense, or wanting to kill themselves gruesomely.

"

More like a testament to someone wanting to make some money.

He could have gone to McDonald's and had salads for a month and lost weight.

Or, he could have done what that college professor in Edmonton did, had the same diet but worked out religiously and ended up with healthier readings at the end of the month.

If you eat the unhealthiest things there and sit around watching your belly grow for a month . . . . well, that's what's going to happen.

Eating eight cheeseburgers in a sitting is probably going to make you sick. And it did.

Just seems to be confirming the obvious.

Rats. Now I'm having a hankering for a McDonald's cheeseburger for lunch which, I already know ahead of time is going to make me sleepy this afternoon if I cave. Must . . . . resist.

Cowperson

[Prototype]

Cowperson having a hamburger? Isn't that a form of canabalism?

[CaptainCrunch]

Is there a link to the Edmonton Professor story.

[Puppet Guy]

...can't believe that we're almost 50 posts into a thread about a guy eating 8 cheeseburgers and nobody's thought to include this yet:

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Is there a link to the Edmonton Professor story.

Edmonton teacher loses weight on SuperSize Me diet. I guess it would be true to say he wasn't quite the gobbler as the documentary guy but the premise was pretty much the same.

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2005/...lds050301.html

Cowperson having a hamburger? Isn't that a form of canabalism?

Or, as one character in an issue of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commando's in the 1960's described them . . . . . "cannonballs."

Cowperson

[Canuck-Hater]

From the Mcdonalds website, although I bet they are leaving some ingredients out to save their asses.

Patty
100% pure USDA inspected beef; no additives, no fillers, no extenders.

Bun
Enriched bleached flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, reduced iron), water, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, yeast, contains less than 2 % of each of the following: salt, calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, calcium silicate, wheat gluten, soy flour, baking soda, emulsifier (mono- and diglycerides, diacetyl tartaric acid esters of fatty acids, ethanol, sorbitol, polysorbate 20, potassium propionate), sodium stearoyl lactylate, dough conditioner (corn starch, ammonium chloride, ammonium sulfate, calcium peroxide, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, enzymes), calcium propionate (preservative).

Ketchup
Tomato concentrate from red ripe tomatoes, distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, water, salt, natural flavors (vegetable source).

Mustard
Vinegar, water, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, paprika, spice extractives.

Pickle Slices
Cucumbers, water, distilled vinegar, salt, calcium chloride, sodium benzoate or potassium sorbate (preservative), natural flavor (vegetable source), alum, polysorbate 80, turmeric.

Onions (Dehydrated)

Seasoning
Salt, pepper, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed and soybean).

Why would you ever consider even eating McDonalds? Thats gonna take a long time to break down.

[drewboy12]

This thread sucks... 8 cheese burgers is nothing... I use to eat 7 cheese burgers, a large coke and an extra large fry every Thursday in high school. Im sure I could eat like 15 cheese burgers now and be fine... Hell I order 3-4 large burgers with my meal liek a few times a week and im not even fat...

[kermitology]

^^ yeah, you're just big boned.

Beefcake.

[malcolmk14]

Okay, I've bet drewboy12 that he can't eat 16 cheeseburgers in 60 minutes.

He's doing it tomorrow night, and I'll be providing live updates.

I get $20 and he pays for the cheeseburgers if he can't do it.

He gets $20 and I pay for the burgers if he can.

[Gozer]

[FlamesAddiction]

Some people actually do eat fast food everyday.

My sister has a friend that never cooks and even brings MacDonalds to her kids for lunch at school. I remember when my sister had them over when she was babysitting, she cooked them lunch and they were shocked that we had eggs in the house. They didn't think people would actually make them themselves.

[La Flames Fan]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Some people actually do eat fast food everyday.

Kinda like this guy?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...Mac-fiend.html

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater

From the Mcdonalds website, although I bet they are leaving some ingredients out to save their asses.

Yeah, except that's really illegal, so instead of saving their asses, they'd probably be exposing themselves to one of the biggest class action suits of all time.

[coaster]

Originally Posted by Burninator

McDonald's gets a way badder rap than it deserves. Sure it's not the healthiest food out there, but it's not like McDonald's is doing things to it's menu items to make them worse for you. Potatoes cut and deep fried isn't good for you anywhere you get it from. They sell the same liquid sugar (pop) as everyone else. The problem with McDonald's is that it is easy to get a high caloric meal there and people over indulge (OP for example). You would probably be feeling the same if you had 8 organic burgers verus 8 McDonald's burgers.

Actually McDs does do things to make the product worse. McDs and like companies put huge pressures on beef producers to grow their products bigger, faster and cheaper. Cattle are raised, densely packed in pens, standing in their own feces for their entire lives and are often covered in it when they arrive at the slaughter houses. They are fed chemical coctails and not an ounce of their native diet, grasses. Hormones and genetically modified corn as well as other not so safe additives speed up the growth process. Corn is not what cattle are meant to eat. Chicken feces is an allowable food for cattle as well as poultry that have died waiting to become McNuggets. McDs and others put pressure on slaughter houses to process faster and thus, less safely. Their are now only 13 slaughterhouses in the U.S. that process well over 90% of the beef sold. We would be naive to think it is any different in Canada. The last concern these companies have for the end product is how it will effect their customer's health. Our food is big business, very big business, nothing else.
No matter how good McDs tastes or how much the kids love their toys, hockey cards and Ronald, they sell poison and they don't give a fiddler's @##% about us or our kids. It's the same story for pork, poultry and even the fish we are eating.
It's might be obvious that this is a bit of a sore spot for me. I have only recently come to realize the scope of these companies deceptions and disregard for us. I now buy only locally grown meat products and organic produce.
Sorry if I derailed the thread, but 8 burgers?

[Byrns]

McDonald's food goes through the same inspections as anyone else. So rest assured that you're getting the same fecal content whether you buy the meat at McD's or Safeway.