McGriddles

[quote name='Rich']
1110 calories
53 grams of fat
505 mg of cholestoral
2550 mg of sodium
Discuss.[/QUOTE]


Damn, I really don't watch what I eat but if it is ridiculous I don't eat it. like a box of rice a roni is 1,000 mg of salt and 800 calories. I try not to eat stuff that is crazy like that but a little while back me and my pops went fishing and we got breakfast at mcdonalds I got 2 of those mcgriddles and hotcakes so I probably ate 5,000 calories alone at breakfast.
 
[quote name='Graystone']Damn, I really don't watch what I eat but if it is ridiculous I don't eat it. like a box of rice a roni is 1,000 mg of salt and 800 calories. I try not to eat stuff that is crazy like that but a little while back me and my pops went fishing and we got breakfast at mcdonalds I got 2 of those mcgriddles and hotcakes so I probably ate 5,000 calories alone at breakfast.[/QUOTE]

I can't believe how America has gotten so caught up into what they eat because something has a lot of calories or whatever. I eat whatever tastes good, whether it has a lot of fat, calories, whatever.
 
[quote name='Moxio']The only good thing at McDonald's is the cheap 99 cent SideSalad, pretty much the only healthy thing there (including other salads) except for the water.

Normally I eat a couple bowls of Cheerios or other fibertastic cereals.[/QUOTE]

I just looked it up online the side salad is like 15 calories, they have a salad with 1200 mg of salt.
 
Are those the nutritional stats of ONE of those McGriddle... things!? UGGGGHH!!! Something THAT small!? Damn. Yet another reason I haven't touched that franchise in over a decade. It's prolly all the grease that's making you feel nasty. I've known a few people that've had their gall bladders removed... and it was always grease that set them off. Now yours might be just fine, but all that grease in one meal prolly has a high chance of bothering even an average person.

On the other hand, Cheapy's breakfast sounds damn good!
 
[quote name='RiCeBo1']I can't believe how America has gotten so caught up into what they eat because something has a lot of calories or whatever. I eat whatever tastes good, whether it has a lot of fat, calories, whatever.[/QUOTE]

Good, I'll laugh my ass off at you as you weigh 400 pounds and i'm still in shape at 60.

[quote name='Aleryn']Are those the nutritional stats of ONE of those McGriddle...[/QUOTE]

Nah, it was both.
 
I got a mcgriddle by mistake the other day and decided to try it out, i'm with you there, I didn't like it at all. Surprised considering friends have been babbling to me how good it is for so long. Tasted too much like something I would make at home when desperate for something edible. I'll be sticking to the bagel sandwitches.
 
Everyone should check out the fim Super Size Me. Its a documentary about the Fast Food Industry made by a guy who eats only McDonalds for a month.
 
[quote name='CheapyD']Everyone should check out the fim Super Size Me. Its a documentary about the Fast Food Industry made by a guy who eats only McDonalds for a month.[/QUOTE]

It's a fantastic film. Make sure to also check out his tv series starting June 15 called "30 days", where he documents other big changes that can occur in 30 days.

As far as McGriddles go, that is the ONE thing that my girlfriend and I eat there and MAN do we love 'em. Something about a subtle "sack of syrup" (as my lady calls it) inside a pancake muffin just does the job for us.
 
[quote name='Aleryn']Are those the nutritional stats of ONE of those McGriddle... things!? UGGGGHH!!! Something THAT small!? Damn. Yet another reason I haven't touched that franchise in over a decade. It's prolly all the grease that's making you feel nasty. I've known a few people that've had their gall bladders removed... and it was always grease that set them off. Now yours might be just fine, but all that grease in one meal prolly has a high chance of bothering even an average person.

On the other hand, Cheapy's breakfast sounds damn good![/QUOTE]

I'm hardly a health nut, but I can't stand McDonald's. It's mostly their advertising campaign. I'm so not lovin' it. Anyway, there was a fellow and his family that got evicted one evening near where we live. So I helped the guy move until it was dark, but his wife brought us the big burger things- You know, the ones with salad dressing, lettuce, cheese, chinese people, ketchup, and horse tube steak. This is after I had proudly not gotten McDonald's for two years at least. He said at least to eat it since his wife bought it, and I did. When we were finishing up moving ( it was 8 at night, freezing cold and snowing), I startted to feel sick. I held it in, and after I got 60 bucks and a shotgun w/ cleaning kit for the five and a half hours of moving, I ran upstairs, got inside, threw on sleeping clothes, and shit my bowels out. I swear, I have never felt as sick as I did after I ate that damn damn thing.

You know the fabeled "two-flush corn log"? This was a "quintuple-flush-animal-grease-undigested-lettuce-log." I felt horrible for the next three days after eating it.
 
Well, since I work at McDonalds, I try to not eat any of their food at all. But the occasional McGriddle isn't a bad thing.
 
[quote name='basketkase543']It's a fantastic film. Make sure to also check out his tv series starting June 15 called "30 days", where he documents other big changes that can occur in 30 days.

As far as McGriddles go, that is the ONE thing that my girlfriend and I eat there and MAN do we love 'em. Something about a subtle "sack of syrup" (as my lady calls it) inside a pancake muffin just does the job for us.[/QUOTE]

That doesn't sound like a good idea... I heard he almost died on with McDonalds. He could seriously screw himself if he repeatedly does stuff like that. Not only that, but his previous tests could have effects on later ones and you couldn't be sure of the true cause.
 
[quote name='basketkase543']It's a fantastic film. Make sure to also check out his tv series starting June 15 called "30 days", where he documents other big changes that can occur in 30 days.

As far as McGriddles go, that is the ONE thing that my girlfriend and I eat there and MAN do we love 'em. Something about a subtle "sack of syrup" (as my lady calls it) inside a pancake muffin just does the job for us.[/QUOTE]

I dunno I thought the movie was alright. My biggest problem with it is that it was a documentary in the new Michael Moore version of documentaries. What I mean by this is that its horribly biased.

One example I remember of this is when he eats a supersized double quarter pounder meal and then throws up. Well duh, you cram too much stuff in your stomach and it can't stretch out enough then sure its going to want to expel what's in there. I mean that could happen with ANYTHING that you eat and had nothing to do with it being McDonalds.

Regardless of whether you agree (I personally do agree with him, McDonalds is horrible for you) or disagree with him, it would have been nice to see both sides like the people who duplicated his test but limited their calories and exercised regularly and were in good shape (some even better) at the end of their test.
 
Two Points:

1.) Anyone who goes to MacDonald's for the nutritional value present in their food needs to be mercilessly beaten.
2.) McGriddles are potentially one of the most disgusting things I've ever eaten, and this is coming from a guy who just recently found a bag of open jellybeans fromhis 8th grade Washington DC trip(I'm almost 20) and ate them to see what flavor "gray" was.
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']I dunno I thought the movie was alright. My biggest problem with it is that it was a documentary in the new Michael Moore version of documentaries. What I mean by this is that its horribly biased.

One example I remember of this is when he eats a supersized double quarter pounder meal and then throws up. Well duh, you cram too much stuff in your stomach and it can't stretch out enough then sure its going to want to expel what's in there. I mean that could happen with ANYTHING that you eat and had nothing to do with it being McDonalds.

Regardless of whether you agree (I personally do agree with him, McDonalds is horrible for you) or disagree with him, it would have been nice to see both sides like the people who duplicated his test but limited their calories and exercised regularly and were in good shape (some even better) at the end of their test.[/QUOTE]

Have you seen the people that frequent McDonalds? Yea... they are avid exercise nuts... :roll:
 
Reality's Fringe]Two Points: 1.) Anyone who goes to MacDonald's for the nutritional value present in their food needs to be mercilessly beaten. 2.) McGriddles are potentially one of the most disgusting things I've ever eaten said:
and ate them to see what flavor "gray" was.[/b]
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xD! :rofl:
 
I heard dat u have to leave the mcgriddle sandwich in the sun for 2 days

becoz on the 3rd day it will rise again in fulfillment of the scriptures
 
[quote name='Kayden']Have you seen the people that frequent McDonalds? Yea... they are avid exercise nuts... :roll:[/QUOTE]


All I'm saying is that there's 2 sides to every story and he could have at least presented something, anything, on the other side of the story.
 
[quote name='JEKKI']I heard dat u have to leave the mcgriddle sandwich in the sun for 2 days

becoz on the 3rd day it will rise again in fulfillment of the scriptures[/QUOTE]

... :roll:
 
[quote name='CheapyD']Everyone should check out the fim Super Size Me. Its a documentary about the Fast Food Industry made by a guy who eats only McDonalds for a month.[/QUOTE]

And then gets sick from all the sugar in the soda he drank, not from the McDonalds.

Amazing how propoganda works, eh? Besides, if you eat in excess of ANYTHING, you will get sick.
 
[quote name='KwanzaaTimmy']I used to work at McDonalds. Don't Eat Anything There. Grade D Prison and Institutional.[/QUOTE]

Wouldn't doubt it. Taco Bell uses Grade C. Usually reserved for prison and military consumption.

Anyway, I was also thinking that the Super Size Me guy got sick from the McDonald's because he did absolutely nothing to work off the food, and also he wasn't "used" to fast food like most people are. His girlfriend only fed him organic stuff, tofu, vegetarian fare and such. After eating something for a long time, if you mix up your diet, you'll react badly to it.

Kinda like the stories I hear about Whataburger (a burger chain based out of my hometown, and running into Texas, Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and other surrounding places). People who come from other states and eat it tend to get sick. I guess you have to be Texan and/or used to eating it to tolerate it. Although it's not bad; they use decent quality foods. Still, I'm a BK fan. :)
 
[quote name='Rich']And then gets sick from all the sugar in the soda he drank, not from the McDonalds.

Amazing how propoganda works, eh? Besides, if you eat in excess of ANYTHING, you will get sick.[/QUOTE]

It wasn't sugar pickling his liver; the fat in the food was doing just as much damage. Though he did eat an unholy amount of sugar, since it's in almost everything on their menu.
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']I dunno I thought the movie was alright. My biggest problem with it is that it was a documentary in the new Michael Moore version of documentaries. What I mean by this is that its horribly biased.

One example I remember of this is when he eats a supersized double quarter pounder meal and then throws up. Well duh, you cram too much stuff in your stomach and it can't stretch out enough then sure its going to want to expel what's in there. I mean that could happen with ANYTHING that you eat and had nothing to do with it being McDonalds.

Regardless of whether you agree (I personally do agree with him, McDonalds is horrible for you) or disagree with him, it would have been nice to see both sides like the people who duplicated his test but limited their calories and exercised regularly and were in good shape (some even better) at the end of their test.[/QUOTE]

Well you have to remember his point was that McDonald's as a corporation refused to aknowledge that their food was at all unhealthy. The doc supposedly began when he read about two girls that were suing McD's because of their obesity problems, and McD's responded (in print) that their food doesn't cause any adverse effects on people. So his film was to basically contest it in a hyperbolic fashion. Obviously, this film is radically bias, but to say that it is bias in the vein of Micheal Moore and to say that Michael Moore began bias documentary film making is all wrong. Documentary films are not inherently unbias; they are instead one person's, or a group of people's, interpretation of or analysis of a particular topic.

Documentaries have been around for more than 75 years with arguably the first being "Nanook of the North" in 1922 which documented the lives of Eskimos as they battled their natural habitat to survive. But even this film had staged events and was even funded by a commercial organization that had an alterior motive (though it is a fantastic film which should definitely be viewed by anyone interested in documentary films). People have this misconception that documentary films were nothing but well rounded, non-bias works until Micheal Moore came and just ruined the genre. He simply introduced a more commercialized form of the genre.
 
Here's another "propoganda" documentary
Never heard of it before, but looks interesting.

http://www.spannerfilms.net/?lid=161

McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.

McDonald's loved using the UK libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organisations like the BBC and The Guardian crumbled and apologised. But then they sued gardener Helen Steel and postman Dave Morris.

In the longest trial in English legal history, the "McLibel Two" represented themselves against McDonald's £10 million legal team. Every aspect of the corporation's business was cross-examined: from junk food and McJobs, to animal cruelty, environmental damage and advertising to children.

Outside the courtroom, Dave brought up his young son alone and Helen supported herself working nights in a bar. McDonald's tried every trick in the book against them. Legal manoeuvres. A visit from Ronald McDonald. Top executives flying to London for secret settlement negotiations. Even spies.

Seven years later, in February 2005, the marathon legal battle finally concluded at the European Court of Human Rights. And the result took everyone by surprise - especially the British Government.

McLibel is not just about hamburgers. It is about the importance of freedom of speech now that multinational corporations are more powerful than countries.

Filmed over ten years by no-budget Director Franny Armstrong, McLibel is the David and Goliath story of two people who refused to say sorry. And in doing so, changed the world.
 
[quote name='Ledhed']It wasn't sugar pickling his liver; the fat in the food was doing just as much damage. Though he did eat an unholy amount of sugar, since it's in almost everything on their menu.[/QUOTE]


The thing is eating that many fried foods and greasy burgers from ANYWHERE is going to cause adverse health reactions.
 
[quote name='Ledhed']It wasn't sugar pickling his liver; the fat in the food was doing just as much damage. Though he did eat an unholy amount of sugar, since it's in almost everything on their menu.[/QUOTE]

Are you aware of how much sugar he was taking in from the soda?
 
[quote name='Rich']Are you aware of how much sugar he was taking in from the soda?[/QUOTE]

[quote name='Ledhed']Though he did eat an unholy amount of sugar, since it's in almost everything on their menu.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he is. :lol:
 
[quote name='Saucy Jack']Wouldn't doubt it. Taco Bell uses Grade C. Usually reserved for prison and military consumption.

Anyway, I was also thinking that the Super Size Me guy got sick from the McDonald's because he did absolutely nothing to work off the food, and also he wasn't "used" to fast food like most people are. His girlfriend only fed him organic stuff, tofu, vegetarian fare and such. After eating something for a long time, if you mix up your diet, you'll react badly to it.

Kinda like the stories I hear about Whataburger (a burger chain based out of my hometown, and running into Texas, Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and other surrounding places). People who come from other states and eat it tend to get sick. I guess you have to be Texan and/or used to eating it to tolerate it. Although it's not bad; they use decent quality foods. Still, I'm a BK fan. :)[/QUOTE]

like my old dependence on McGriddles. Used to get these things three at a time. Four months ago, I'm told I could have a heart attack within a year, my cholesterol is so damnably high. My health was otherwise fine. SO, I switch to other breakfasty goodness. Well, without the joyous mcgriddle to clear the pipes, got bound up as a mo-fo. then switched to four shots of espresso and granola cereals.

even god doesn't have this kind of regularity.
 
[quote name='Rich']Are you aware of how much sugar he was taking in from the soda?[/QUOTE]

As Trakan pointed out, yes, well aware. My point is, don't act as though the sugar was the only thing making him sick. Sugar alone doesn't explain a fat liver. I'm not disputing that the sugar was hurting him; it just wasn't the only thing hurting him.
 
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