Scott Meyer
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🕑 Added 2024-01-01 08:00:02 +0000 UTCI’m not saying that McDonalds food is healthy. It is not. But because the ingredients are prepared off site in a regularly-inspected factory, then assembled and heated in plain view, I can reasonably hope that it is relatively clean. For the short-term avoidance of food poisoning, that’s the important thing.
Please, I cannot stress this enough, DO NOT TRY TO CONVINCE ME I’M WRONG BY SENDING ME YOUR HORROR STORIES. I worked at a Pizza Hut and a Skippers. I have stories of my own. Nobody’s ever truly safe from the actions of a lone, bad actor with no morals and nothing to lose; a culinary Lee Harvey Oswald, if you will.
Also, I’m sure some of you are thinking that I’m putting a lot of faith in the benevolence of the McDonalds corporation to care about my safety. I don’t trust McDonalds to care about me as a person, but I have a great deal of trust in them to care about their profits, and this is a company that got sued because their coffee was too hot. The last thing they want is to risk anybody proving that their meat is anything other than what they say it is. As such, I figure they will go to great lengths to make sure that anything they label as beef is beef, in a legal sense. (Beef can take many forms.) Either that, or they will make sure that if their beef isn’t, strictly speaking, beef, that people like me will never find out.
Since getting food poisoning counts as “finding out,” I still feel relatively safe.
Comments
David Paul
I rarely seek out McDonalds anymore, but when I do I go for the "Big" Mac (I put it in quotes because I know they've shrunk the burger down over the years, and have since unofficially renamed it the Microscopic Mac). As much as it has shrunk, however, it is still a reliable burger. With that said, you can tell a lot about the standards of a place within a couple of bites. If something ain't right, you'll pick it up quick.
Joel Ronningen
You're forgetting the wisdom of Anthony Bourdain, world traveler and known variable eater - eat where the locals eat. They don't eat where they get sick, either.
