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- quaunaut, on 10/12/2007, -6/+582@Loonacy
Bud, 40 pieces are where its at.
Though seriously: If you're eating at McDonalds, you don't care about what you're eating. Thats why you're eating at McDonalds. - roosterjm2k2, on 10/12/2007, -64/+558Who really gives a *****?
They taste good, and people aren't dying from them. Welcome to the 21st century. When food has to travel cross country, it has to be preserved. You also need things to keep meat from turning to mush after being frozen. Most of those ingredients can be found in 99% of processed foods. They are there to keep the food safe. The only real "clean" method to keep meats from going bad is to salt-pack them, but then the sodium police would be after us.
I wish digg had a "Sensationalist *****" flag...it would be getting alot of use lately.
As for the TBHQ. Its not "Butane" .. its a derivative. Its a "white to light tan crystalline powder" (google is your friend) ... It prevents oxidization(which leads to rancidity). While doing so, it istelf oxidizes. Basically, when something around it gives off its hydrogen (oxididization) it gives its hydrogen to the the thing that initially lost it. Losing one of its hydrogens, it becomes an inert gas. By the time you eat the food, its well and gone. TBHQ has been used widely in most preprocessed foods for well over 50 years.
Lastly, the stuff isnt put on the chicken (or "inside the box" .. anyone fine white or tan crystalline powder in their chicken nuggets box?) .. its put in the corn oil that they use to pre-cook them in.
Is it that hard for people to do actual research on a subject before writing stuff like this "BUTANE BUTANE BUTANE, you're eating BUTANE!!!!" - Loonacy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+357Poor PATSCRU, you will be missed. Rest in peace, good buddy.
- wop4life, on 10/12/2007, -9/+290McNuggets are PEOPLE!!!!
- DirkVanAss, on 10/12/2007, -14/+262When I was 16 I had the glamorous honor of working at McDonalds. One Saturday a schizophrenic homeless man decided his McNuggets were possessed by Satan so he ran around the store throwing them at people.
Who would of guessed he was right the entire time. - smoothmedia, on 10/12/2007, -40/+254Who cares, it tastes good. The fat and sodium in McDonald's foods are far more dangerous than any tiny trace amount of weird a chemical that may or may not be in a given McNugget.
Ever seen that video where those students get hundreds of people to sign a petition to ban "Di-hydrogen Monoxide" (water)? - PATSCRU, on 10/12/2007, -12/+200Damn, i just dusted a 20 piece for lunch.....
- jackmaninov, on 10/12/2007, -15/+161Mmm, glad I haven't eaten at McD's in like 5 years now.
- EvilGnome, on 10/12/2007, -12/+115Now I know why I feel sick after eating them. That damn TBHQ
- Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+79Chicken McNuggets™
Chicken (45%), Coating (Hydrogenated Vegetable
Oil, Wheat Flour, Maize Flour, Raising Agents (E450
Disodium Diphosphate, E500 Sodium Bicarbonate,
E341 Monocalcium Phosphate)), Dried Egg
Albumen, Pepper, Salt, Wheat Starch, Whey
Powder, Ground Celery, Flavour Enhancer (E508
Potassium Chloride), Vegetable Oil), Water, Natural
Flavouring, Flavour Enhancer (E508 Potassium
Chloride), Potato Starch, Vegetable Oil.
Straight from the horse's mouth. This is from the UK menu btw. Also, the chicken is 100% breast, according to an advertising campaign they had recently. - growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+72I have a strange urge to purchase a 20 piece and light it on fire
- hrhs556x, on 10/12/2007, -1/+65hold on, so let me get this right.....
McDonald's food is unhealthy? - wang1011, on 10/12/2007, -3/+55i wonder why digg doesn't allow you to delete your own comments
- wang1011, on 10/12/2007, -0/+46ha, i guessed tertiary butylhydroquinone, i mean come on what else could it be -_-
- Sarkos, on 10/12/2007, -6/+52Spoiler for people who believe everything they read on the internets: TBHQ is NOT a form of Butane... the article is inaccurate *****.
- msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -10/+47Comment abuse, but this is scare mongering. The article says that it only has ill-effects if you injest a GRAM of it. Do you realize how much that would take? You would be hard pressed to find a whole gram in all of their boxes for the day, let alone in a single serving.
- ExSlashdotter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Jeezum, Morgan Spurlock could have burst into flames!
- endlessoul, on 10/12/2007, -9/+42Wow. I remember one week I ate a 20 piece meal for lunch for 4 days in a row.
Boy, I'll never do that again.
Although, I don't eat McD's anymore anyway.
/thanks to Super Size Me - neonhomer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35I used to work on McD's in high school too. I remember one guy used to come in and order 2 double quarter pounders, a 20 piece mcnugget, and a large diet coke. I don't think the nuggets were the only thing killing him. :)
- scottfarner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Adding a butyl group to a molecule hardly makes it a "form of butane." It is like saying cyanocobalamin (vit B12) is a form of cyanide.
Maybe Al Nye the lawyer guy should be disbarred for lying to the public. Unfortunately I don't expect anything different from a lawyer (facts are irrelevant, if they can make money off a "form of the truth." That's a different story altogether. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Lighter Fluid? So what. I thought it was going to be something really dusgusting like Soylent Green.
- niczar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29TBHQ can't be a "form of butane", butane is a pure hydrocarbon, formula C4H10. It's gaseous at room temperature.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+34This is complete *****, just because "a chemical" is present in a food does not mean its going to harm you.
Ladies and gentlemen EVERYTHING IS A CHEMICAL, you are all made of chemicals, all your food is made of chemicals, everything around you is made of chemicals, get over it.
And just because a chemical that you use to burn lighters is also in your food means jack too - chemical energy is what you live on and there are lots of chemicals that make up a lot of things.
- Carbon, the same element thats present in pollution is naturally found in your body in abundance, actually, you are significantly made of carbon-based chemicals!
- Chlorine, the same extremely deadly element used in chemical warfare makes up 50% of a certain substance ingested by millions of people every day, infact this substance is vital for your health.
- Hydrogen, the gas that was inside the Hindenburg when it violently exploded killing dozens of people is perhaps the single most common element in your body, and makes up most of a certain chemical substance that can actually kill you and yet most people drink this substance every day and suffer no bad health from it.
- Nitrogen, sounds like something you dont want to mess with, and if someone told you there had been a nitrogen leak and it was in the air you would want to get out of there pretty quick right? Guess what, nitrogen makes up most of the air you are breathing right now.
and as for Butane - it contains nothing but Hydrogen and Carbon molecules!! - insomuchas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Its not bs, the ingredients McDonald's admits to right here
http://app.mcdonalds.com/bagamcmeal?process=item&itemID=10077
White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, chicken flavor (autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (canola oil, mono- and diglycerides, natural extractives of rosemary). Battered and breaded with: water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, food starch-modified, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, whey, corn starch. Prepared in vegetable oil ((may contain one of the following: Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated corn oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness), dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent). CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK - Triffid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25if you're eating 20 piece nugget meals with any regularity... I think the lighter fluid is the least of your worries... http://www.mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.index1.html
- slapded, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24what about the mc-lean?
i used to work at mcd's as a kid and was in charge of the nuggets. I remember when parents would order their kids 4 piece nuggets. i would challenge myself to stuff as many nuggets in that tiny box as i could. i think i fit 10 in there. i fit over seventy in a 20 piece box. odd, nobody complained. - TheJuggernaut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24@roosterjm:
Corn and corn products can still make up more than 50 percent of the nugget, if they're broken out and listed as different products. Doing that lets McD's spin the ingredient list a little so chicken comes out on top. - ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25How do they get the number 56% corn content?
"I counted thirteen [ingredients] that can be derived from corn: the corn-fed chicken itself;..."
They're calling the actual chicken a corn product! Try giving a vegetarian a chicken breast and telling them that it's OK because the chicken was corn-fed so it's really just made of corn. - merien, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22What percentage of the fat in your home barbecued chicken wings consists of lighter fluid?
- sugrloafah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Yeah, just because TBHQ has the word butane in it, doesn't mean its a derivative of butane. Look at the chemical structures, they're completely different molecules.
Oops... scott beat me to it. - NeoCortex, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Wait, I haven't seen Grimace in a while. Anybody know what hap... Dear God, No! Why did you do it Ronald? Why?!?
- fireball74, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20No, but you just described how they taste....
- cyclopropene, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19@insomuchas
Natural foods are full of toxins. Just because it is made by humans doesn't mean it is worse (or better) than something made by nature. e.g. caffeine, which is three and a half times more toxic than TBHQ:
http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/CA/caffeine.html
Harmful if swallowed. Experimental teratogen. Irritant in humans. May affect CNS.
Toxicity data
(The meaning of any abbreviations which appear in this section is given here.)
ORL-RAT LD50 192 mg kg-1
Oral Rat Lethal Dose 50% Kill 192 milligrams. - mrlost117, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20moral of story... don't eat 1000 nuggets in one sitting
Im hungry - EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18You'll notice mosquitoes don't bite you after you've axed a box of TBHQ errr.... nuggets.
- deviouskoopa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17From Wikipedia article:
"McDonald's Chairman Fred Turner approached one of his suppliers in 1979 and requested “I want a chicken finger-food the size of your thumb. Can you do it?” Chicken McNuggets were developed soon thereafter." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16How many of these ingredients are in the breading vs. the chicken inside.
Also, calling a corn fed chicken a "corn derivative" is just lame.
Beef isn't a grass derivative. Pork isn't a slop derivative. Duck isn't a pond scum derivative. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15OMG whats next? smoking is unhealthy?
- oblongmouth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Without reading the article I'm going to guess that its sawdust, toenail clippings and clegnuts.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Come on guys, people are right that this is over-reacting. Almost nothing humans eat is free of things you'd rather not think about being inside of you. In fact, these aren't even toxins, but harmless preservatives. I eat a lot of veggies, and know darn well that while they are extremely nutritious, they also get far more rancid INSIDE my body than anyone could imagine. We are mortal organisms, we don't have a choice to keep nasty stuff out of us, thats why are bodies are built so robustly. Just be glad you aren't in the middle ages where a significant part of your diet would consist of trace manure. Exercise to keep up your immune system and eat foods that help you exercise and you will be fine.
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16@insomuchas
Just be careful about all the dihydrogen monoxide you ingest. MacDonalds put it in their shakes, but it is also found in sewage and cancer cells. Many people have died by simply breathing it in. - underthelinux, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14groce?
- ryannerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10No. This is the ingredients in Burger King's fries. Try again.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11this is so stupid. I mean, it's not like TBHQ is not approved by the FDA for use in food. Judging by how little of the stuff is probably in these McNuggets, you would have to eat hundreds of the things to start to feel sick from the THBQ, and by then you would be a lot more sick from the chicken itself
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12i'll still eat them
- valehru, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Did anyone else get a craving for chicken nuggets after reading that?
- InternetUser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Stay away from water; it's got hydrogen in it!
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Next week they'll be claiming that salt contains chlorine gas. Sheesh
- AlanNye, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10It's that last ingredient that will get you. Flame on!
- SasquatchBill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yeah. As in, "I saw horse hooves at the grossery store. They were groce."
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