The McRib contains same chemical in yoga mats.

[pelov]

I remember holding a can of Jiffy peanut butter and reading on the front "Now with 33% peanuts!" or something.

What the hell was I eating before?! What's the other 66%?!

Is it azodicarbonamide?

 

[Brainonska511]

It sucks that most of the stuff you get in the restaurant or even grocery stores is fake these days.

What pisses me off is natural products that arn't actually what they are sold as. Ex: Maple Syrup. If you look at the ingredients, it's not actually maple syrup, it's just synthetically made to be like it. A lot of food products are like this and you would not even realize until you do research/check ingredients.

WTF are you talking about? Maple syrup in the grocery store is maple syrup from a tree. The fake stuff is just called syrup or maple-flavored. It's very easy to distinguish the two. Plus, the real stuff costs a bit more than the fake corn-syrup crap.

 

[IronWing]

Holy crap! Beer contains same chemical found in piss!

 

[Nintendesert]

It sucks that most of the stuff you get in the restaurant or even grocery stores is fake these days.

What pisses me off is natural products that arn't actually what they are sold as. Ex: Maple Syrup. If you look at the ingredients, it's not actually maple syrup, it's just synthetically made to be like it. A lot of food products are like this and you would not even realize until you do research/check ingredients.

Yeah... .real fucking hard to rotate an object and read the ingredients label. :'(

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I think I found the problem. Folks are confusing McD's with restaurants. Fast food holes process food like substances, restaurants cook food.

 

[Crono]

From Wikipedia: "Toxicological studies of the reactions of azodicarbonamide show that it is rapidly converted to biurea in dough, which is a stable compound not decomposed upon cooking."

 

[eits]

i would rather just go to a real food establishment and get a pulled pork sandwich...

 

[Red Squirrel]

WTF are you talking about? Maple syrup in the grocery store is maple syrup from a tree. The fake stuff is just called syrup or maple-flavored. It's very easy to distinguish the two. Plus, the real stuff costs a bit more than the fake corn-syrup crap.

I was just using Maple Syrup as an example. A lot of products you think they are natural and don't even consider researching it further, then it turns out it's not the real thing. Depending on the product the ingredient list is not enough to know.

Juice is bad for that. "Made with 100% fruit" but in reality what they really mean is that part of the chemical soup is a small amount of 100% real fruit added to it. "it's made with 100% fruit" not "it is 100% fruit". Play on words. So many products do this now.

 

[Crono]

I was just using Maple Syrup as an example. A lot of products you think they are natural and don't even consider researching it further, then it turns out it's not the real thing. Depending on the product the ingredient list is not enough to know.

Juice is bad for that. "Made with 100% fruit" but in reality what they really mean is that part of the chemical soup is a small amount of 100% real fruit added to it. "it's made with 100% fruit" not "it is 100% fruit". Play on words. So many products do this now.

Ingredients list usually is enough.

 

[OutHouse]

Ingredients list usually is enough.

sorta like "other natural flavorings"

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Yummy

 

[uclaLabrat]

Maize is a grain.... not a chemical compound used to make plastic...

Ethylene is used to make plastic...it also makes fruit ripen! The horror!

 

[Brainonska511]

I was just using Maple Syrup as an example. A lot of products you think they are natural and don't even consider researching it further, then it turns out it's not the real thing. Depending on the product the ingredient list is not enough to know.

Juice is bad for that. "Made with 100% fruit" but in reality what they really mean is that part of the chemical soup is a small amount of 100% real fruit added to it. "it's made with 100% fruit" not "it is 100% fruit". Play on words. So many products do this now.

Maple syrup was a horrible example then. All my bottles say "Ingredients: maple syrup"

As for the other stuff, if I'm worried about that kind of play-on-words stuff, I either a) read the ingredients list and buy or not buy it, or b) make it from scratch.

But in the end, chemistry is not the devil and it is not true that all chemicals cause cancer. You have to discriminate based on the available evidence and not the hysteria de jour.

 

[Howard]

I have a strong dislike for OP.

 

[SparkyJJO]

McDonald's sucks anyway. I haven't been in one for years.

 

[waggy]

soo i shouldn't eat my yoga mat is what he is saying?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

soo i shouldn't eat my yoga mat is what he is saying?

No. He means eat it, since its the same thing as a mcrib

 

[waggy]

No. He means eat it, since its the same thing as a mcrib

but the McRib sucks ass. i would rather eat a yoga mat

 

[T_Yamamoto]

but the McRib sucks ass. i would rather eat a yoga mat

But they're the same thing.

 

[Doppel]

I bought one of these once. It was the first fast food I EVER bought that I could not finish. Fvcking abominable and awful crap.

 

[Jeff7]

While the amounts are very small, the blog notes that azodicarbonamide, “a flour-bleaching agent that is most commonly used in the manufacture of foamed plastics like in gym mats and the soles of shoes, is found in the McRib bun.”

Stupid question: What's the point of bleaching flour? Does "get your whites whiter" have to apply to everything?



Hell, it's an abomination that my potato chips are slightly yellowed, the same hideous hue as newspaper peed on by an untrained puppy. I simply can't have that. These chips must be the same color as my printer's paper.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Maple syrup was a horrible example then. All my bottles say "Ingredients: maple syrup"

As for the other stuff, if I'm worried about that kind of play-on-words stuff, I either a) read the ingredients list and buy or not buy it, or b) make it from scratch.

But in the end, chemistry is not the devil and it is not true that all chemicals cause cancer. You have to discriminate based on the available evidence and not the hysteria de jour.

I think you are missing my point. My point is, one should not have to read the ingredient list on every single product or do research on a fastfood/restaurant meal when that product should be what it states it is.

 

[SagaLore]

Uh...

While the amounts are very small, the blog notes that azodicarbonamide, “a flour-bleaching agent that is most commonly used in the manufacture of foamed plastics like in gym mats and the soles of shoes, is found in the McRib bun.”

What does this have to do with the mcrib? Its apparently in a lot of bread:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azodicarbonamide

Toxicological studies of the reactions of azodicarbonamide show that it is rapidly converted to biurea in dough, which is a stable compound not decomposed upon cooking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azodicarbonamide#cite_note-8

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Uh...




What does this have to do with the mcrib? Its apparently in a lot of bread:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azodicarbonamide

oh!
so my bread is pretty much a yoga mat.

so yoga mats=bread

 

[gorcorps]

This is old news... isn't it? Wasn't there a simpsons episode where the lunch lady was grinding up gym mats to make food? I thought they were referencing this.