LOL @ McDonalds

[bassybill]

Over here, we had some new nutritonal guidelines of how much red meat is okay to eat - you know, the usual stuff. Most people pretty much ignore this sort of thing nowadays. I guess if you're middle aged and you decide to eat less red meat in order to cut your chance of bowel cancer each year from 1 in a 1000 to 1 in 2000, then that's a personal thing (as is ignoring the advice and basically taking your chances). Anyway, that's not what I posted this for.

What made me smile, while reading an otherwise serious article, was the comparison of six meals for meat content - a cooked full English breakfast, a doner kebab, spaghetti bolognese, a very small steak (5oz), a lamb chop and a Big Mac. Of these, only one had a low enough meat content to meet the new guidelines. I bet you can guess.

I wonder if McD's will start advertising along these lines? "Big Mac - it's a lot less meat than most other meals."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12577618

[Relic]

Sorry...all that I could think of at the moment

[CrispyDelicious]

I've taken my health to the next logical step; I eat a vitamin-infused vegetable paste and spend my entire life in a self-contained, hermetically sealed environment. It's a small price to pay for maximizing my health. It was boring at first, but once you've forgotten what real life was like, the giant hamster wheel is surprisingly entertaining.

[bassybill]

Originally Posted by CrispyDelicious

I've taken my health to the next logical step; I eat a vitamin-infused vegetable paste and spend my entire life in a self-contained, hermetically sealed environment. It's a small price to pay for maximizing my health. It was boring at first, but once you've forgotten what real life was like, the giant hamster wheel is surprisingly entertaining.

That's the best post I've read for a while now. Tremendous.

I just tried to make it my sig. Too long, unfortunately.

[macaroni tony]

I did the same

[Relic]

pfff..I'm just eating McDonalds, smoking cigs, drinking beers...all with reckless abandon.
Once the first heart-attack comes, I'll sue the crap out of all of the above industries, (because it's THEIR fault not mine), then retire to Tahiti and live a healthy lifestyle and enjoy my new found wealth.

[iamlowsound]

I rarely eat red meat as it is and it is never in big Mac form. The other meals are potentially much healthy.

lowsound

[MJ5150]

Originally Posted by CrispyDelicious

..... spend my entire life in a self-contained, hermetically sealed environment.

With the proper precautions, you can still go outside....



-Mike

[billhilly66]

They use real meat in a big mac? Who knew?

Personally, I stick to my bacon, tobacco, and whiskey diet. I almost never get constipated.

[fenderhutz]

Originally Posted by billhilly66

They use real meat in a big mac? Who knew?

Personally, I stick to my bacon, tobacco, and whiskey diet. I almost never get constipated.

Well at least your colon, I am sure your arteries would disagree.

[boynamedsuse]

I can't even remember the last time I ate a Big Mac. Still, I am glad to see that McDonald's is looking out for my health.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

I'd take a big mac over a donner kebab any day.

But I think that's because I stopped drinking.

Has ANYONE ever had a donner kebab while sober?

[Relic]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

I'd take a big mac over a donner kebab any day.

But I think that's because I stopped drinking.

Has ANYONE ever had a donner kebab while sober?

I have no idea what a donner kebab is but two things:
1)Since I had no idea what it is, it's very possible that I ate many drunk
2) in American lore, ANY food with "Donner" in the name, just doesn't sound too appealing...
ie "Let's have a Donner Party kebab yo.."


here, I'll make it easy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

[MJ5150]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

Has ANYONE ever had a donner kebab while sober?

That term may draw some "eeewwwwwww" reactions from residents of the USA familiar with history. Back in 1846, a family started the long journey by wagon from the eastern USA to California to start a new life. Along the way, they got caught in the high mountains of Sierra Nevada and an early snowstorm trapped them. 87 people went into the mountains, only 48 survived. Some of the folks who made it resorted to cannibalism to survive. The name of the family most commonly associated with this tragedy? The Donners.

-Mike

[bassybill]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

I'd take a big mac over a donner kebab any day.

You're clinically insane.

[boynamedsuse]

Gyros are good. I do not know how close they are to a donner kebab, though. The reasonably inoffensive name is probably the reason Gyros caught on here--not so much donner kebabs.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Hey, an american style Donner would be much tastier!

[CrispyDelicious]

Shwarma > donair/gyro.

[UncleFluffy]

Originally Posted by bassybill

You're clinically insane.

+1

But I can't count the number of times I wrecked a pair of jeans walking home from the pub trying to eat a kebab and dribbling all the yogurt sauce everywhere.

Mind you, there was this one place in Blackpool that did an incredible donner, with real mint sauce (as in the stuff your mum put on the sunday dinner) all over it. Mmmmm....

[Relic]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

Hey, an american style Donner would be much tastier!

You're clinically insane.




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