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I know this has nothing to do with computers but i can effect your computer time. For instance I bought a Mcdonalds milk shake yesterday and I think I got a bad one. Now i spent last night tossing and turning and all of today in bed trying not to toss my cokeis. Than it turn into some fever like thing with a sore back. Now the question you might be asking yourelf is what does this have to do anything with computers?? The answer is that it can seriously effect your much needed time in Tom's Hardware Guide.
stay away from McDonalds PERIOD. its disgusting. all of it. if you saw how clean things were out back where they cook, you would know what im talking about
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Yeah i know i worked there for 2 years. but I'm a little bummed out that I can't have there shakes anymore because I don't want to take the chance. May burger king has good shakes.
all fast food restaurants are nasty. the only fast food i can eat is jack in the box, very rarely, and wendys thick and frostys and chicken nuggets. everything else makes me feel like sh!t.
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LOL - Jack-in the box!!!
I used to eat there all the time - I lived on Super Tacos back in the late 60's and early 70's.
That is until I looked closley at the wrappers.
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LOL - Drink sharing - that's awesome. I hadn't thought about doing that.
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Their milkshakes taste horrible. Im just about to quit eating fast food all together. Two months ago I was driving back from Atlanta and picked up a burger from Wendys. I ended up with a slight case of food poisioning"OR so I thought". A month later I have all sorts of health issues that dont make any sense. Finally the doc's determined that E-COLI "Spelling?" had just about done me in. Im just now gettting over that crap. Wendy is a Biatch
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I don't know what has happen to me. I feel lousy!!!!!!! went from upset stomach to fever and I'm sore all over. CAn't move without hurting. I now hate Mcdonals milk shakes. And they were so Good. Well i'm sticking to the TCBY or BASKEN ROBINS shakes. Now since i was home today I watched and old computer movie called Hackers or hacker, Have you seen it. Man It'a wierd what they were talking about was hightech then. I think they mentended about a 28 kb modem being the bomb. Do we still use that word.
Fast food, gotta love it.
Wasn't Jack-in-the-box the one that killed a bunch of people with E Coli?
My favorite burger joint was Harvey's, till the local got closed for serving horsemeat.
Of course everyone knows KFC actually stands for Kentucky Fried Cat.
LOL! Thats enough to push me over the edge. No more fast food. What will I do now?
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Just toss a nice steak on the Bar-Bee, it's just about as fast, tastes better, and no need for the bread etc.
Fast food is'nt that bad as long as you eat it with moderation and avoid the multinational chains, just benchmark their meat pattie quality with the one you get at your local 'pa & 'ma restaurant... Beside, the small independant restaurants do a lot more to support your local economy than the bigger chains who treat you like a number and barely pay their incompetent, undertrained and overworked employees
the minimum wages.
You gotta watch <A HREF="http://www.supersizeme.com/" target="_new">Supersize Me</A>, awesome documentary on the fast food industry.
Food and industry are two words that don't belong together IMHO...
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Fast food is disgusting. I've never eaten a lot of it but I did eat it up until I was about 18. Within days of not eating fast food I felt like a different person and all my acne disappeared completely.
Besides that movie, which is excellent, the book "Fast Food Nation" is good as well. I haven't finished reading it though.
The only thing I do eat nowadays is some In n Out occasionally.
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Well, you need to find a socket to plug your HARD drive into. Look for a pink or a brown socket as it really doesn't matter. You should be able to post after a few strokes. If you are still queasy go to the John and delete your Bios-mass. Save and exit into the living room and lie back down. Turn on the telly and load-up the next program.
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Just a little serious here. Time to go see a doctor. It may only be tomain, or some mild poison, but if the burger guy washed his hands in your drink, it could kill you. Get checked for E.Coli, dont die.
I've had food poisoning a few times, I've never died! At least I don't think I have!
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And a few thousand posters here are better off for it.
Now if you would stop eating out of dumpsters, we could breathe a little easier.
Lol, ya know I have 2 buddies who each worked for one of them, and I can't figure out which is worse. From friend "A" at KFC with the "5 second" rule (yes, that's 5 seconds on the floor is ok with 5 secs in the fryer), to friend "B" with the "McBeaks&Feet" special (that's a whole chicken head breaded and fried up like a chicken Mcnugget in some poor kid's meal). Just terrible. What's worse than that is.... I still eat at both places
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I call BS. I worked at McD's for 2 years - that doesn't / cannot happen.
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Lol. Well my buddy worked there for several years, and I don't think he would just lie about it. In any event what does it matter? Even after hearing such stories, I still eat that crap
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trust me, it cannot happen. Nuggets come in bags of about 60, ready to be fried.
God knows why you'd even believe him, don't you think you'd read about it in paprs etc? And there would be serious repercussions if it happened.
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okay guys this is me again. It's thursday morning and i'm feeling better but still a little weak and massive headache. I deciding if I want to go to work or not. I think I can go in but i would have to do the easyest job there. Maybe I'll just stay home and read this forum that i thought no one would actually answer to. It's cool that people actually answered it. I think I'll just stay home and watch some Movies on STARZ.
I seem to recall reading about exactly that happening. (chicken head mcnugget). I think it was in the Sun.
forgive me if I can't be fcuked to chase up a linky though
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I severly dislike Mcdonald's and burger king. Not any high-horse 'I'm healthy' stance, just the food's crap. pure and simple. Makes me feel like crap.
I eat burgers from schwartz [sp?] Bros, and I have no idea if they're a national chain or what, but there's two of them in Bath (SW UK). They do all of the cooking and preparation in full view, so you can see they're not spitting in the burgers and stuff.
I more often eat Kebabs from 'The Kebab House' In Bath. Their Shish Kebabs are gorgeous, and their chilli sauce is simple awesome. Not that relish-with-curry powder crap, it's really nice and tangy (and the hot stuff is damn hot
) They're just a little takeaway, not a chain at all.
Good friend of mine got Campylobacter from a KFC. Something similar to e-coli AFAIK. Was really ill for a week or so. he never eats there anymore
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Burger King, Dairy Queen and Wendy's are fine... Wendy's being my favorite. McDonald's is another story all together though... I don't know how they call their burgers 100% pure beef. The burgers I have at home made with fresh ground beef sure don't taste like the McDonald's burgers.
Yeah, the food isn't good for you. I think everyone realizes that. I only do fast food once every couple of weeks... and I try to stick to some of the healthier items on the menus.
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lol u guys are making me afraid to eat at a fast food resturatant lol and there this fast food resturatant in my town u get ruffly about 2 large kfc chips worth and a burger the size of your hand !!!!!! i mean it all for only AU$3.00
Iono, I've known a few fat Asians in my time
And I have read some worldwide studies that the rest of the world is slowly catching up to the US in terms of fatties, <b> ESPECIALLY </b> in countries where fast food like MC Donalds is catching on quickly (like Asian countries)
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Reading this thread makes me never want to eat fast food again (not that I eat much of it anyway). If I do mosy on to McD's or Burger King then I too try to stick with the semi-healthy stuff so I can at least think I'm not decreasing my life expectancy with every bite - not that double quarter pounder heart-attack in a box type stuff.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Subway yet. That's still fast food, right? Subway > *
...and for that matter, Taco Bell is probably a close second, but I'm sure they've got their fair share of horror stories too.
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I don't eat a ton of fast food either, but I enjoy one of Hardee's Thick Burgers once in a while. They did a great turnaround when they started making those. Everyone once in a while it's good to thicken your blood and clog a few arteries! Even if it's not good for the body, it's good for the soul!
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Ah man bad for me or not I am crazy for fast food. Sure I limit myself to once a week for the most part, but I'd enjoy it every day. Like you, i can eat 3 bigmacs and not see the weight pack on. Wendy's MCd's, BK...yummy!!! We even have a White castle coming nearby now.
Anayway, i'd prefer a TBone or Filet, sure, but fast Food sure does taste good. Burger/Fries/and a Chocolate shake used to be what i always ordered at diners too. I could go for that right now.
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LOL that's funny.
No I'm not fat, at least not anymore. I'm a kind of mini Jared (you know from subway)
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OMFG, I forgot Taco Bell. Ok, so I had this buddy who used to work there a number of years ago, and I guess at one point somewhere on the West Coast somebody got a bad bean burrito. Bad as in feces ridden. So my buddy hears about this and he's thinking, "Great, just what we need." He tells me orders like, "I'll have a bean burrito, hold the sh*t please" continued for a good 6 months after...
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Well it's friday the march 4, and I'm happy to say that I'm pretty much completly recovered just the problem with the wierd burping tasting like egg junk. Going to enjoy my food.
Gotta love being able to enjoy a shake for so long after you drank it. It's the gift that keeps on giving!
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Glad to hear that you're feeling better. How about a nice McDonalds victory shake?
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To add to the Taco Hell stories, I had a friend who worked there once ... until he was instructed to put the meat from partially eaten tacos back into the fresh stuff. He quit then, and he never ate there again.
As for KFC and McDonalds, I've got a cousin with an bad immune system that has gotten food poisoning from both of those places more times than he can count. But then he's so used to being sick that he usually gives in and eats there again anyway. :\ He's a demented soul. **LOL**
And we seem to not be counting pizza places. I've got a number of horror stories involving Dominos that mostly involve cockroaches. And I've been boycotting Papa Johns for a couple of years now because they've tried to scam me one time too many.
Personally, the only fast food chain I eat at lately is Culvers and Pizza Hut.
And I miss living near a Steak Out. I miss having a chicken breast and loaded baked potato with a hot roll and honey butter delivered right to my door. I never was much of a fan for their steak though. **LOL**
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I've heard one explanation that wouldn't surprise me, but I don't put any actual belief in: That the <i>company</i> they buy their burger patties from is <i>named</i> 100% Beef.
Personally though I think the explanation is simply that they never said <i>which</i> part of the cow they got their meat from. Skin, hooves, hair, kidney, spleen, brains ... they're all 100% pure beef so long as they came from a cow. Grind it all up together and it looks the same.
I've been spoiled though. Ever since I found the holy grail of burgers (ground buffalo) I've hardly cooked myself a beef hamburger since. Mmmm... buffalo.
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I agree... nothing like a good bison burger.
It's so difficult with franchises... each manager has their own way of running things. For example, all the Tim Horton's I've been to in Winnipeg were always clean.. and they had all the menu items available. Now drive up to a town called The Pas, and you'll be treated to a smelly bathroom, day-old doughnuts and maybe they'll have what you want when you want it. (Apple cider was their worst offense... they never seemed to have it when I wanted it).
I know the manager of our local KFC personally, so I trust the environment to be clean... and it is. It sucks how one store can give a franchise a bad name, though. All I can say is you have to complain to corporate... or nothing gets done. The people that manage these stores have to answer to someone somewhere.
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<A HREF="http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/food/pelman01.htm" target="_new"> Here is the court case bout the Chicken Fried Head Nugget </A>
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It is unclear whether the defects in question -– high levels of cholesterol, fat, salt and sugar -- were “discoverable”9 By contrast, to return to the example of the <b>Fried Chicken Head </b>(supra note 7), such defective product clearly should have been discovered upon inspection. upon “inspection.”9 Given McDonalds’ common knowledge arguments with regard to the attributes, however, it may be assumed so. In any case, however, those attributes are later found insufficient as a matter of law to establish products liability. In order to state a claim against the outlets and McDonalds of New York, the plaintiffs must allege that they were in possession of information that the McDonalds Corp. products that they sold were more dangerous than a reasonable consumer would expect. Plaintiffs have failed to make such allegations. This lawsuit is not the typical products liability case because, as referred to above, the issue is over-consumption of products created, manufactured and advertised at a national level. A McDonalds' Big Mac is the same at every outlet in the Bronx, New York; the same at every outlet in the State of New York; and the same at every outlet throughout the United States. Clearly what is at issue in this lawsuit is the national menu and national policy of McDonalds Corp., and the plaintiffs’ real beef is with McDonalds
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Yes, that was one example. That guy earlier made it sound like:
a) The employees did this delibratly
b) The employees can do this when ever they please.
When infact it was not McDonalds fault, but the company which supplies the chicken nuggets.
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W5 did a research study few years back purchasing different food from different fast food businesses and all of them came out with every germ in the book as tested by a reputable lab.
Basically fecal matter, Windex, floor cleaners, human disease such as the common cold viruses and many more things.
I am not Howard Hughes and I have an immune system so I eat where I please.
If I get that sick off something I knew I ate and can prove to my own self that product came from a certain place I would certainly let them know about it.
McDonalds did score higher then all the rest for clean of viral and communicable diseases but they also scored highest for cleaning products in the food such as floor cleaners and glass cleaners.
You now have 2 choices eat at your favourite dive and hope the guy washed his hands after he had a bathroom break, or Eat at a very clean fast food joint and risk being poisoned by cleaning materials. Both scored serious lab results in quantity of food contamination.
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