*Wendys*

[alan1]

I travel on the road a lot, so I kinda know my way around fast food. I wish I could get BK burgers with Wendy's fries. However, if I have the time to do it, I'll tear up a Five Guys Burgers and Fries like nobody's business.

I have a Five Guys near me, but I have never tried them!
I hear they are expensive (??)....but good eating

If you go to Five Guys, take 2 friends with you and get a small order of fries to split between the 3 of you.
Trust me on that.

 

[Ernie S.]

If you want a burger make your own.

It's cheaper and tastes better.

Pound for pound, a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with cheese costs more than a Toyota Camry! - Facts - Jun 4, 2011 - OMG Facts

And oranges cost more than apples.

not if you have your own tree

I had apples peaches and pears in CT and oranges avocados and bananas in FL. Pecans, here.

 

[High_Gravity]

I travel on the road a lot, so I kinda know my way around fast food. I wish I could get BK burgers with Wendy's fries. However, if I have the time to do it, I'll tear up a Five Guys Burgers and Fries like nobody's business.

I have a Five Guys near me, but I have never tried them!
I hear they are expensive (??)....but good eating

Five Guys isn't that expensive, you should try it they are pretty good.

 

[zzzz]

Did you know that the burgers and buns do not decompose?

The truth is many processed foods don't decompose and won't be eaten by molds, insects or even rodents. Try leaving a tub of margarine outside in your yard and see if anything bothers to eat it. You'll find that the margarine stays seems immortal, too!

Potato chips can last for decades. Frozen pizzas are remarkably resistant to decomposition. And you know those processed Christmas sausages and meats sold around the holiday season? You can keep them for years and they'll never rot.

With meats, the primary reason why they don't decompose is their high sodium content. Salt is a great preservative, as early humans have known for thousands of years. McDonald's meat patties are absolutely loaded with sodium -- so much so that they qualify as "preserved" meat, not even counting the chemicals you might find in the meat.

To me, there's not much mystery about the meat not decomposing. The real question in my mind is why don't the buns mold? That's the really scary part, since healthy bread begins to mold within days. What could possibly be in McDonald's hamburger buns that would ward off microscopic life for more than two decades?

As it turns out, unless you're a chemist you probably can't even read the ingredients list out loud. Here's what McDonald's own website says you'll find in their buns:

Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, enzymes), water, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, yeast, soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated soybean oil, contains 2% or less of the following: salt, calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, wheat gluten, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, dough conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate, datem, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated monoglycerides, monocalcium phosphate, enzymes, guar gum, calcium peroxide, soy flour), calcium propionate and sodium propionate (preservatives), soy lecithin.

Great stuff, huh? You gotta especially love the HFCS (diabetes, anyone?), partially-hydrogenated soybean oil (anybody want heart disease?) and the long list of chemicals such as ammonium sulfate and sodium proprionate. Yum. I'm drooling just thinking about it.

Learn more: Why McDonald's Happy Meal hamburgers won't decompose - the real story behind the story