The dude form Supersize me was an alcoholic, hence the liver damage. There was a lot of stuff that was found wrong with him that was actually unrelated to the food.
Also the worst part is that the point of the documentary seemed to be "fast food is unhealthy and you shouldn't eat it every day" as if nobody knew beforehand.
If you actually watched the movie, they did blood tests beforehand, there wasn't liver damage before. Maybe actually watch what you are critiquing instead of regurgitating something you read somewhere.
@Iwatchyoutube you would have people believe the known functioning alcoholics' liver was damaged solely by fast food and not his dependence on liquor?
Bullshit! He got tested before and after. Relative to each other, liver damage wouldnt move the needle that much in 30 days. Did you watch the movie???
The craziest thing about SuperSize Me is that the dude in the documentary wasn't even sick from McDonald's. It was because he was an alcoholic vegan who was binge eating meat and drinking during the documentary. Most of him hurling is from hangovers.
@@brucewayne1894 No, there was actually retroactive interviews about Spurlock dealing with alcoholism even though the documentary claimed he did not drink.
One more thing. They had to redesign their coffee stirrers. The stirring end was basically a mini scoop. Apparently, some people were using that scoop to snort cocaine. That's why today the end that goes into the coffee is flat.
Man, those fries fried in beef tallow were the best. Used to swing thru Micky Ds just for fries. BTW, I've used beef tallow in cooking forever. And I've outlived pretty much everyone my own age who went with the "best advice" and ate "healthy." I've never been fat or "unhealthy." Very seldom have I even had the sniffles.
It didn’t have anything to do with that It was actually because people who were vegetarian or abstained from eating beef for religious reasons were eating them without knowing they were cooked with beef.
Morgan Spurlock’s issues that he got weren’t even fully from eating McDonald’s. It was the abrupt switch from an all vegan diet to all fast food that did it. He was also heavily drinking during the whole 30 days of the shoot.
in other words his report was heavilyl skewed and hid some facts, which isn't good if you're making a documentary meant to inform people still the loss of the supersize option was probably a good thing, that's way too much
Not to mention if you want a diet only of fast food, you'd have to eat only a maximum of two burgers a day so you don't go over your caloric necessity... if my guy ate 2 burgers a meal 3 times a day, I can't say I'm surprised he gained all that weight when one Big Tasty is over 800 damn calories. I'm not defending fast food, but you have to understand it's something you eat once or twice a month to scratch an itch, not eat it every day.
One of the most important missed points about the coffee lawsuit is that Stella Liebeck didn’t even want to sue them, she was absolutely content to settle for the cost of her treatment and lost income. McDonalds offered her virtually nothing as a counter offer, something like 1000 dollars. It’s also worth noting that the 3 million dollar award was something like two day of national coffee sales. (And they didn’t even pay that, the judge reduced it and then an appeal came to a private agreement) McDonalds barely lost anything in the long term and ruined a woman’s life from negligence and then actively turning her into a joke.
this. she got dragged in the media and in pop culture for suffering /severe/ and painful burns from coffee that was way way way too hot to be served and despite how horrible it must have been, she just wanted to deal with her medical bills and let it go. the counter offer from mc d's was absolutely insulting and yet, very few people talk about it. i feel so bad for her and what she went through.
I remember listening to people who worked at McDonalds mourn the loss of the beef tallow. It made the deep fried apple pies EXTRA crispy and delicious. Then, they stopped deep frying the apple pies at corporate-owned restaurants, but there were a few franchise owners who still deep-fried the pies, just in vegetable oil. People used to go to those locations just to get apple pies. I wonder if there was beef tallow in the crust.
I'm old enough to remember when they used those brown glass ashtrays and when they intro'd mcnuggets and my parents didn't have to check to make sure the burgers for me and the dog were plain (because at least half the time they weren't). It should also be noted in the famous coffee lawsuit that the only money asked for was medical bills to be covered, and the original award from the jury got knocked way down on appeal.
Fun fact for you all: The McDonald's Monopoly story was buried by another, far bigger news story because it hit the news wires around 6 AM on September 11, 2001.
This channel also needs to bring up how much smaller the burgers and serving sizes are. It's a huge difference from when I was young, to now. Smaller sizes with bigger prices.
The complaint by vegetarians and Hindi about the fries being cooked in beef fat resulted in the rest of us ended up with a less tasty product. Once again, a small loud minority scares corporate America into screwing the rest of its customers. What McDonald's should have done was noted on its menu that the fries were cooked in beef fat. Then the vegetarians and Hindi could decide to forgo fries, just like they do with burgers.(I bet McDonald's would have sold the same amount of fries)
The hot coffee lady just wanted mcdonalds to pay the 20k in medical bills and lost time at work but mcdonalds refused so then she full on sued after they refused to pay the 20k, ultimately paying 3+million.
Damn I miss the old McDonalds....Aluminum ashtrays, beef tallow-infused French fries, FRIED apple pies, The Hamburgler, metal playplace outside, and NO SALADS ON THE MENU!!
@@Caderic he’s a gourmet French chef, who worked for McDonald’s corporate developing recipes, and created Chicken McNuggets. That’s documented, not “anecdotal at best.” McDonald's first executive chef, René Arend, a native of Luxembourg, created the Chicken McNuggets recipe in 1979. "The McNuggets were so well-received that every franchise wanted them", said Arend in a 2009 interview. "There wasn't a system to supply enough chicken.”
@@ridureyu Cool story. So you are telling me that if a skyscraper engineer designs a 1 story house, the house is by default a skyscraper? Gourmet food is so because of its ingredients and how it is prepared, not because of who prepares it. gourmet: of, relating to, or being high quality, expensive, or specialty food typically requiring elaborate and expert preparation There is no way McNuggets fits that definition. "High Quality" alone disqualifies McNuggets. Naw...You would have been better off by saying "created by a gourmet chef".
When I was a McManager, we broke down and cleaned the ice cream and shake machines every night. Shake one night, ice cream the next, and so on alternating. We cleaned the pump tubes that sent the mix to the machines, the blades that mixed, and all the intricate parts and O rings of the dispensing mechanism. The machines had special washing AND SANITIZING instructions. When I was supervising the closings, I always double checked that the parts were clean. There were many a night when I told the employees to clean it again properly.
My first job was at a Mickey D’s when I was 15. The memory of walking back into the kitchen & seeing one of the guys working the grill matter-of-factly pick up a burger that had fallen on the floor, place it on a bun, & send it out for the first time will remain with me for life.
I’m glad you brought up the story about the lawsuit with coffee because there’s so much misconception about it. The lady was absolutely right along with all the other people who filed lawsuits. She originally just wanted McDonald’s to help pay for her medical bills and stuff but ended up getting so out of control by McDonald’s it cost them 3 1/2 million dollars.
What I really want to know is: why did mcdicks stop with the strawberry sundaes? They were my favorite, and caramel or chocolate just don't hit the spot.
That totally brought back nostalgic feelings. I was born in '76, and those ashtrays were everywhere! I think we even had a few at the house...smoking seemed very socially acceptable at the time. Even in airplanes! I remember old airplane seats still had ashtrays in the arm after smoking was banned.
All airplanes still have ashtrays in them, at the very least in the bathroom. They have to in case someone decides to light up a cigarette illegally so there is somewhere to extinguish it.
I did not know about that McDonald's Monopoly fraud. I also did not realize how serious that coffee burn was or how many people filed lawsuits against them. I was not aware of the sanitation issue for the ice cream machines, but I was more aware of the mocha machine not working at the restaurants (that was particularly frustrating because I would order the same thing when I went there for breakfast, a McSkillet Burrito and a large, warm caramel mocha with whole milk). Very informative video, a lot to think about.
The lady who got burned (also in part due to the cup collapsing which is why they use a sturdier cup now) also only initially asked for her medical bills to be covered but McDs lowballed her multiple times and forced it to go to the jury.
@@btetschner yeah. She wanted the 20k for medical (she had to have multiple skin grafts) and lost wages (her daughter had to quit her job to take care of her since they couldn't afford a nurse). McDonald's only offered her $800. She also was in the passenger seat of a parked car. Her son was driving. Lots of facts on this one get lost in the immediate reaction to the scenario and the verdict, and people trying to frame it for greed often miss the fact that she never asked for a big payday.
When I worked at McDonald's, we received shipments of burger patties once a week. The truck would pull up to the loading dock and drop endless boxes of meat down a long slide rail to the storage freezer we had. So many times I saw some of the boxes crash off of the slide rail and break open, sending burger patties all over the floor. The manager insisted (against the outraged refusal of all of us involved) that they be put back in the box and sent to the storage freezer. When we all refused, the manager would scream and shout and threaten to fire us as they picked up the frozen patties from the floor and put them back in the box. McDonald's! This was in Portland, Oregon in the early 1980s.
Usually when I’m in a self loathing depressive mood (the type where you want to be self destructive, but I don’t drink or do recreational drugs) I will eat McNuggets and fries. It makes me feel like absolute garbage afterwards, but during I do have a brief comfort from it. It’s my adult Depressy Meal 😂. I already eat like a city raccoon, but McDonald’s messes me up. It’s not like I get sick, it’s just this weird sensation and ‘heaviness’ throughout my body and I just feel sluggish and gross and keep tasting it the next day. Like a McDonald’s hangover
i get that it hurts feelings, but the truth is that there’s a lot of this video essay/ documentary commentary content out there and this channel and its parent channel’s draw is 100% the narrator. this gal is an eloquent and talented speaker but i’m constantly being seriously disappointed to not hear the golden boy.
I've liked most of her recent stuff. They've adjusted their delivery subtly and it's fitting the channel's vibe really well. I do think she should listen to the music arrangement some and work with that lightly gritty sports doc tone that pairs so well with the humor. The other narrator just slightly rolls over the music which is always edited perfectly and I think that docuseries grit and tempo is a large part of the draw.
Surprised that they didn't bring up the McDonald's overprotection of their russet potatoes. I remember there was some drama over that, Lay's took part in a similar situation.
I am a professional small batch ice cream maker. I use industrial grade machinery to make my stuff, and it takes me roughly 15 minutes to fully clean and sanitize one of our ice cream makers. Add 5 more minutes and I can test for the presence of allergens and/or bacterial contamination.
This video celebrating McDonalds using vegetable oil for fries "Yay for vegetarians", when everyone that had the original fries all agrees that the fries were way better before, and after the change they lost everything that made them good. I haven't heard a single person that even pretends to say that they're better now. I haven't seen anyone who thought that the fries were a well balanced vegetarian meal before now either. Back then you knew McDonalds food wasn't healthy and probably wasn't vegetarian. If you wanted a vegetarian option back then you just got the salad.
This reminds me of the McDonald's nearby my place when I was a kid, getting sued because the customer said they got some kind of reaction from the fish burger and McDonald's replying that the fish burger didn't have fish. 😂
A lot of these weren't McD's fault, they just had deep pockets. For instance, you're supposed to brew coffee between 195-205 degrees to pull the best flavor out of the coffee. The fries tasted better before they pulled the beef tallow, lol. Everyone used pink slime as a meat glue. They probably still do. A third party supplier in China had poor sanitation. In china. Imagine that, lol...
Pizza places like Pizza Hut, Dominoes, and Papa John's use extremely high temperature convection ovens that kill all bacteria.... twice as hot as the oil they use to make fries at burger places... There is a reason Pork isn't more common compared to beef and chicken... Only a place with those temps can safely serve it, such as sausage and pepperoni... 7-11 pizza ovens are the lowest at 500 degrees... Papa John's I think is the highest temp at 645-665... The beef at McDonalds is cooked to 185
What kind of vegetarian Karen goes to McDonald's for food anyhow?! Sheesh! Shall I go in tomorrow and demand a diabetic friendly shamrock shake?! Hahaha!
How did you not mention that the original "overweight" Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott?? Ya know, the main weather dude for the Today Show for much of the '80s and '90s before Al Roker? Are our generational memories that shallow?
The cleanliness protocols for soft serve ice cream (in most locales) are pretty stringent. I think McDonalds thought they had the clout to do it 'their way' and Health Departments said NO. Easy solution...Oops, machine is broken.
No, it's reflective of a backdoor deal between McDonald's and Taylor - one of their oldest if not oldest partner. Taylor provides soft-serve equipment to ...DQ, Wendy's, BK, CFA, Culver's, and many, many others with no breakdown issues - the broken machine problem is unique to Taylor's equipment at McDonald's. The ice cream machine is not even part of the official store audit. Most franchises businesses get a choice of approved vendors for everything from grills to ice cream - but not McDonald's franchises when it comes to ice cream, Taylor is the exclusive vendor and authorized tech. They get a minimum $400-600 per service call, they make so much that a quarter of Taylor's annual revenue comes almost exclusively from servicing McDonald's machines that inexplicably "fail" their overnight heat/maint cycle. McDonald's corporate is okay with this b/c it's not costing them anything - the money comes out of the franchise owners pocket.
In Brazil it's very cultural to have ice cream only. Like, there are McDonald's ice cream kiosks around malls. And the cones are made of cassava, which is much tastier
Surprised that the guy handing out winning tickets to his family didn't get MUCH longer in jail. That is seriously messed up! Why is it rich boys always get off light?!
The monopoly guy only got 3 yrs? So I’m assuming he kept his $$ winnings. So rip off millions and only get 3 yrs? Not that bad of a deal for some people.
I knew about the pink slime and coffee lawsuit, but had no idea about the ice cream machine and everything else!! Thank you.. makes you really think about whether McDonald’s is worth it. I’m going to go with definitely not!
The fries were so much better when they were cooked in lard!!! And the cherries that were on top of the shakes ( with the long spoons to eat them with). And when the Big Mac was actually big. Should call it the Big Snack now...
Not gonna lie, the level of detail you cover is the equivalent of the first draft of a Wikipedia article. No mention of "the actor" being Willard Scott, no mention that Supersize me was made by a raging alcoholic, despite showing the clip, "you're pickling your liver."
The dude form Supersize me was an alcoholic, hence the liver damage. There was a lot of stuff that was found wrong with him that was actually unrelated to the food.
Also the worst part is that the point of the documentary seemed to be "fast food is unhealthy and you shouldn't eat it every day" as if nobody knew beforehand.
If you actually watched the movie, they did blood tests beforehand, there wasn't liver damage before. Maybe actually watch what you are critiquing instead of regurgitating something you read somewhere.
@@iwatchyoutube6539 actually dude, the guy who made the film later admitted that he was addicted to alcohol during filming
@Iwatchyoutube you would have people believe the known functioning alcoholics' liver was damaged solely by fast food and not his dependence on liquor?
Bullshit! He got tested before and after. Relative to each other, liver damage wouldnt move the needle that much in 30 days.
Did you watch the movie???
The craziest thing about SuperSize Me is that the dude in the documentary wasn't even sick from McDonald's. It was because he was an alcoholic vegan who was binge eating meat and drinking during the documentary. Most of him hurling is from hangovers.
I wish they'd bring back the option to Super Size the meals but that Morgan Spurlock ruined everything! 😢
I was literally about to say the same thing
Just another way the media controls the message because that information was never added as a disclaimer to his claims!!
How do you know that? Were you there???
@@brucewayne1894 No, there was actually retroactive interviews about Spurlock dealing with alcoholism even though the documentary claimed he did not drink.
The first Ronald eventually became the Today Show's favorite meteorologist, Willard Scott
It's sad that we have reached a point where he is simply referred to as "the actor"
Man that Super Size Me guy is such a massive fraud
I would love a video on how moon pies and RC Cola became synonymous with each other
One more thing. They had to redesign their coffee stirrers. The stirring end was basically a mini scoop. Apparently, some people were using that scoop to snort cocaine. That's why today the end that goes into the coffee is flat.
If you ever see one, you'll go, "Cocaine. Yep..." 😁
I remember those.
Beef tallow is actually healthier for you than most processed vegetable oils.
Problem was that everyone freaked out about the fat content.
Man, those fries fried in beef tallow were the best. Used to swing thru Micky Ds just for fries.
BTW, I've used beef tallow in cooking forever. And I've outlived pretty much everyone my own age who went with the "best advice" and ate "healthy." I've never been fat or "unhealthy." Very seldom have I even had the sniffles.
It's not about the health, it's about vegetarians ordering what they think is just potatoes and getting meat.
I think Mc Donalds cut the tallow because of the "saturated fats" and now it is continuosly discovered they are not even "unhealthy"
It didn’t have anything to do with that It was actually because people who were vegetarian or abstained from eating beef for religious reasons were eating them without knowing they were cooked with beef.
The fries used to taste alot better before they stopped putting in the Beef Tallow
'Apparently DC has a big clown demographic'. At any given time, well said
Yeah they are all supposedly elected. Safest place when the zombie apocalypse happens. No brains there.
Morgan Spurlock’s issues that he got weren’t even fully from eating McDonald’s. It was the abrupt switch from an all vegan diet to all fast food that did it. He was also heavily drinking during the whole 30 days of the shoot.
in other words his report was heavilyl skewed and hid some facts, which isn't good if you're making a documentary meant to inform people
still the loss of the supersize option was probably a good thing, that's way too much
Not to mention if you want a diet only of fast food, you'd have to eat only a maximum of two burgers a day so you don't go over your caloric necessity... if my guy ate 2 burgers a meal 3 times a day, I can't say I'm surprised he gained all that weight when one Big Tasty is over 800 damn calories. I'm not defending fast food, but you have to understand it's something you eat once or twice a month to scratch an itch, not eat it every day.
Please do Tastiest Things you didn't know about Burger King
One of the most important missed points about the coffee lawsuit is that Stella Liebeck didn’t even want to sue them, she was absolutely content to settle for the cost of her treatment and lost income. McDonalds offered her virtually nothing as a counter offer, something like 1000 dollars.
It’s also worth noting that the 3 million dollar award was something like two day of national coffee sales. (And they didn’t even pay that, the judge reduced it and then an appeal came to a private agreement)
McDonalds barely lost anything in the long term and ruined a woman’s life from negligence and then actively turning her into a joke.
this. she got dragged in the media and in pop culture for suffering /severe/ and painful burns from coffee that was way way way too hot to be served and despite how horrible it must have been, she just wanted to deal with her medical bills and let it go. the counter offer from mc d's was absolutely insulting and yet, very few people talk about it. i feel so bad for her and what she went through.
Her greedy lawyers probably got a huge cut. Rubbing their hands an easy tort suit
McDonald's literally offered her a book of coupons as an apology
I remember listening to people who worked at McDonalds mourn the loss of the beef tallow. It made the deep fried apple pies EXTRA crispy and delicious. Then, they stopped deep frying the apple pies at corporate-owned restaurants, but there were a few franchise owners who still deep-fried the pies, just in vegetable oil. People used to go to those locations just to get apple pies.
I wonder if there was beef tallow in the crust.
They also switched from Tallow to Trans Fat so the fries were a lot less healthy".
Nothing got me hype as a kid more than opening the happy meal toy I was trying to collect
If your in Southern CA, drop by "Frank & Sons". They have a booth there that sells old McDonald's toys & collectibles.
My dad wouldn't let us eat McDonald's so I was always jealous of other kids Happy Meals😅
I remember begging my Dad to take me to McDonald’s so I could get a happy meal toy lol😂😂wish life was that simple again
I'm old enough to remember when they used those brown glass ashtrays and when they intro'd mcnuggets and my parents didn't have to check to make sure the burgers for me and the dog were plain (because at least half the time they weren't).
It should also be noted in the famous coffee lawsuit that the only money asked for was medical bills to be covered, and the original award from the jury got knocked way down on appeal.
Fun fact for you all: The McDonald's Monopoly story was buried by another, far bigger news story because it hit the news wires around 6 AM on September 11, 2001.
This channel also needs to bring up how much smaller the burgers and serving sizes are. It's a huge difference from when I was young, to now. Smaller sizes with bigger prices.
Your hands just got larger
That's you in your profile picture
the reason morgan spurlock's liver was so damaged is because he was a full blown alcoholic
Yup. Straight up lies!
The complaint by vegetarians and Hindi about the fries being cooked in beef fat resulted in the rest of us ended up with a less tasty product. Once again, a small loud minority scares corporate America into screwing the rest of its customers. What McDonald's should have done was noted on its menu that the fries were cooked in beef fat. Then the vegetarians and Hindi could decide to forgo fries, just like they do with burgers.(I bet McDonald's would have sold the same amount of fries)
They still use the beef. the lawsuit did not change the recipe.
The hot coffee lady just wanted mcdonalds to pay the 20k in medical bills and lost time at work but mcdonalds refused so then she full on sued after they refused to pay the 20k, ultimately paying 3+million.
Damn I miss the old McDonalds....Aluminum ashtrays, beef tallow-infused French fries, FRIED apple pies, The Hamburgler, metal playplace outside, and NO SALADS ON THE MENU!!
When I worked at McDonald's i'd only fry up the pies when I made em for myself, they're so god damn good fried
The don't have salads on the menu now and I wish they did because they were so good.
I love pointing out how chicken McNuggets are technically gourmet French cuisine, being the most famous creation of gourmet French chef Rene Arend.
Just because they were designed/created by a gourmet chef, doesn't mean they are gourmet.
@@Caderic sir, I remind you that Technically Correct is the best kind of correct.
@@ridureyu But it's not even technically correct. It's anecdotal at very best, but not even that.
@@Caderic he’s a gourmet French chef, who worked for McDonald’s corporate developing recipes, and created Chicken McNuggets. That’s documented, not “anecdotal at best.”
McDonald's first executive chef, René Arend, a native of Luxembourg, created the Chicken McNuggets recipe in 1979. "The McNuggets were so well-received that every franchise wanted them", said Arend in a 2009 interview. "There wasn't a system to supply enough chicken.”
@@ridureyu Cool story. So you are telling me that if a skyscraper engineer designs a 1 story house, the house is by default a skyscraper?
Gourmet food is so because of its ingredients and how it is prepared, not because of who prepares it.
gourmet: of, relating to, or being high quality, expensive, or specialty food typically requiring elaborate and expert preparation
There is no way McNuggets fits that definition. "High Quality" alone disqualifies McNuggets.
Naw...You would have been better off by saying "created by a gourmet chef".
When I was a McManager, we broke down and cleaned the ice cream and shake machines every night. Shake one night, ice cream the next, and so on alternating. We cleaned the pump tubes that sent the mix to the machines, the blades that mixed, and all the intricate parts and O rings of the dispensing mechanism. The machines had special washing AND SANITIZING instructions. When I was supervising the closings, I always double checked that the parts were clean. There were many a night when I told the employees to clean it again properly.
My first job was at a Mickey D’s when I was 15. The memory of walking back into the kitchen & seeing one of the guys working the grill matter-of-factly pick up a burger that had fallen on the floor, place it on a bun, & send it out for the first time will remain with me for life.
Why is no one commenting on when the worker broke the ice cream machine in real time?! “It actually just broke.” 😂😂😂 5:36
"Apparently DC has a big clown demographic" LOL, intentional or not I love that line
That original Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott, who later became the weather man on the Today show
I can't believe they didn't mention that!
@Inasimplerhyme we've reached a point where people no longer recognize him, so he's just "the actor"
I’m glad you brought up the story about the lawsuit with coffee because there’s so much misconception about it. The lady was absolutely right along with all the other people who filed lawsuits. She originally just wanted McDonald’s to help pay for her medical bills and stuff but ended up getting so out of control by McDonald’s it cost them 3 1/2 million dollars.
Thank you for talking about the hot coffee lawsuit. I hate when people make fun of the woman who brought the suit. It was extremely dangerous
What I really want to know is: why did mcdicks stop with the strawberry sundaes? They were my favorite, and caramel or chocolate just don't hit the spot.
Knowing them, people aren't buying enough of those so they stop selling them. I bet they have them elsewhere in the world.
Still available in Australia. Much better than they used to be as it's now topped with real fruit jam, not just fake syrup
I tried to order one last month and the guy acted like i was an idiot
That totally brought back nostalgic feelings. I was born in '76, and those ashtrays were everywhere! I think we even had a few at the house...smoking seemed very socially acceptable at the time. Even in airplanes! I remember old airplane seats still had ashtrays in the arm after smoking was banned.
All airplanes still have ashtrays in them, at the very least in the bathroom. They have to in case someone decides to light up a cigarette illegally so there is somewhere to extinguish it.
Wish it was still like that, i'd love to be able to experience lighting up a cig in a restaurant right after a big satisfying meal
@@scarletcrusader5431wtf
I wouldn’t mind them bringing back the super sized fries tbh 😂
Iconic Today Show weatherman Willard Scott was the original "Ronald McDonald" for early McDonald's TV commercials.
I did not know about that McDonald's Monopoly fraud.
I also did not realize how serious that coffee burn was or how many people filed lawsuits against them.
I was not aware of the sanitation issue for the ice cream machines, but I was more aware of the mocha machine not working at the restaurants (that was particularly frustrating because I would order the same thing when I went there for breakfast, a McSkillet Burrito and a large, warm caramel mocha with whole milk).
Very informative video, a lot to think about.
Well, the ice cream can't be that bad...when there isn't any. Because the machines are always broke!!!
@@Caderic Hahaha!
The lady who got burned (also in part due to the cup collapsing which is why they use a sturdier cup now) also only initially asked for her medical bills to be covered but McDs lowballed her multiple times and forced it to go to the jury.
@@josephshrike3972 That is super shady, I did not know that. Thank you for the info.
@@btetschner yeah. She wanted the 20k for medical (she had to have multiple skin grafts) and lost wages (her daughter had to quit her job to take care of her since they couldn't afford a nurse). McDonald's only offered her $800. She also was in the passenger seat of a parked car. Her son was driving. Lots of facts on this one get lost in the immediate reaction to the scenario and the verdict, and people trying to frame it for greed often miss the fact that she never asked for a big payday.
When I worked at McDonald's, we received shipments of burger patties once a week. The truck would pull up to the loading dock and drop endless boxes of meat down a long slide rail to the storage freezer we had. So many times I saw some of the boxes crash off of the slide rail and break open, sending burger patties all over the floor. The manager insisted (against the outraged refusal of all of us involved) that they be put back in the box and sent to the storage freezer. When we all refused, the manager would scream and shout and threaten to fire us as they picked up the frozen patties from the floor and put them back in the box. McDonald's! This was in Portland, Oregon in the early 1980s.
Usually when I’m in a self loathing depressive mood (the type where you want to be self destructive, but I don’t drink or do recreational drugs) I will eat McNuggets and fries. It makes me feel like absolute garbage afterwards, but during I do have a brief comfort from it. It’s my adult Depressy Meal 😂. I already eat like a city raccoon, but McDonald’s messes me up. It’s not like I get sick, it’s just this weird sensation and ‘heaviness’ throughout my body and I just feel sluggish and gross and keep tasting it the next day. Like a McDonald’s hangover
Vegetable oils are SO much worse for your body than beef tallow.
i get that it hurts feelings, but the truth is that there’s a lot of this video essay/ documentary commentary content out there and this channel and its parent channel’s draw is 100% the narrator. this gal is an eloquent and talented speaker but i’m constantly being seriously disappointed to not hear the golden boy.
I've liked most of her recent stuff. They've adjusted their delivery subtly and it's fitting the channel's vibe really well. I do think she should listen to the music arrangement some and work with that lightly gritty sports doc tone that pairs so well with the humor.
The other narrator just slightly rolls over the music which is always edited perfectly and I think that docuseries grit and tempo is a large part of the draw.
Surprised that they didn't bring up the McDonald's overprotection of their russet potatoes. I remember there was some drama over that, Lay's took part in a similar situation.
I'm sure the McDonalds lawsuits could easily fill up a video on its own, but the big one i remember was the McLibel suit back in the 1990s.
As teen growing up i always had the feeling that the monopoly game was a complete fraud and it was a way for you to spend more money for nothing.
Never played it always threw it away
I am a professional small batch ice cream maker. I use industrial grade machinery to make my stuff, and it takes me roughly 15 minutes to fully clean and sanitize one of our ice cream makers. Add 5 more minutes and I can test for the presence of allergens and/or bacterial contamination.
You failed to mention how the lawsuit story broke on 911 and that contributed to the monopoly lawsuit being overshadowed in the news
I feel like I'm watching a Mojo video
Oh my gosh yes!!! I was wondering what this reminded me of hahah
So are we to ignore that Stephen Colbert was swapped out with Elizabeth Banks?! WHY DOES THIS CHANNEL SOUND SO FAMOUS?!
Probably the greatest fast food chain to ever exist.
if you include their international counterparts, then yes. otherwise they're okay.
The greatest food chain to die young of cholesterol.
Yeah their international establishments are better than the domestic ones.
Meh, food is mediocre
This video celebrating McDonalds using vegetable oil for fries "Yay for vegetarians", when everyone that had the original fries all agrees that the fries were way better before, and after the change they lost everything that made them good. I haven't heard a single person that even pretends to say that they're better now. I haven't seen anyone who thought that the fries were a well balanced vegetarian meal before now either. Back then you knew McDonalds food wasn't healthy and probably wasn't vegetarian. If you wanted a vegetarian option back then you just got the salad.
I worked at a McDonald’s, one of the worst jobs I ever had
This reminds me of the McDonald's nearby my place when I was a kid, getting sued because the customer said they got some kind of reaction from the fish burger and McDonald's replying that the fish burger didn't have fish. 😂
Its sad that a 79 year old woman had to sue for lack of income. She shouldn't have to still be working at that age.
A lot of these weren't McD's fault, they just had deep pockets.
For instance, you're supposed to brew coffee between 195-205 degrees to pull the best flavor out of the coffee.
The fries tasted better before they pulled the beef tallow, lol.
Everyone used pink slime as a meat glue. They probably still do.
A third party supplier in China had poor sanitation. In china. Imagine that, lol...
The coffee lawsuit was more serious than the public perceived. ruclips.net/video/s_jaU5V9FUg/видео.html
I really hope, for you, that Ronald McDonald sees this
@@decarloblackwell5554 I hope not. I find Ronald McDonald just as creepy as The Burger King! 😁
Oh, I still have some of those ashtrays!
Okay, so I don't have that clown phobia thing, but... That first clown... Did Wes Craven direct that commercial? 😳
Pizza places like Pizza Hut, Dominoes, and Papa John's use extremely high temperature convection ovens that kill all bacteria.... twice as hot as the oil they use to make fries at burger places... There is a reason Pork isn't more common compared to beef and chicken... Only a place with those temps can safely serve it, such as sausage and pepperoni... 7-11 pizza ovens are the lowest at 500 degrees... Papa John's I think is the highest temp at 645-665... The beef at McDonalds is cooked to 185
Ronald mcdonald rumered to be everything everywhere all at once
Willard Scott was an original Ronald.
How about Duchess, a fast food business that can't seem to die.
I like to think that Ronald McDonald is a Time Lord.
What kind of vegetarian Karen goes to McDonald's for food anyhow?! Sheesh! Shall I go in tomorrow and demand a diabetic friendly shamrock shake?! Hahaha!
How did you not mention that the original "overweight" Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott?? Ya know, the main weather dude for the Today Show for much of the '80s and '90s before Al Roker?
Are our generational memories that shallow?
Great video, but disappointed you did not cover the McDonald's Olympic contest back in 84. I had free McDonald's meals the whole summer.
I guess customers forget that you can ask for cream and sugar to be added
You’re just going to gloss over the fact that the original Ronald was played by the one and only Willard Scott?
Well its not like he is going to redit the video or something.
Super Size is gone, but y'all know you can order a basket of fries now, right?
They didn't mention anything about Willard Scott being the first Ronald!
The cleanliness protocols for soft serve ice cream (in most locales) are pretty stringent. I think McDonalds thought they had the clout to do it 'their way' and Health Departments said NO. Easy solution...Oops, machine is broken.
No, it's reflective of a backdoor deal between McDonald's and Taylor - one of their oldest if not oldest partner. Taylor provides soft-serve equipment to ...DQ, Wendy's, BK, CFA, Culver's, and many, many others with no breakdown issues - the broken machine problem is unique to Taylor's equipment at McDonald's. The ice cream machine is not even part of the official store audit. Most franchises businesses get a choice of approved vendors for everything from grills to ice cream - but not McDonald's franchises when it comes to ice cream, Taylor is the exclusive vendor and authorized tech. They get a minimum $400-600 per service call, they make so much that a quarter of Taylor's annual revenue comes almost exclusively from servicing McDonald's machines that inexplicably "fail" their overnight heat/maint cycle. McDonald's corporate is okay with this b/c it's not costing them anything - the money comes out of the franchise owners pocket.
This was interesting but the guy narrator is way better, imo. 👍
Who drinks a 180 degree coffee?
Hey! You pronounced Piqua correctly!
I miss Ronald McDonald was the mascot instead of those minion looking happy meals
How ironic that my Mcdonald's Delivery app popped a notification while watching this lol. They are watching us
The tastiest foods at McDonald's now cost more than they used to
The fries tasted alot better before the change
Bring back All Day Breakfast! Another casualty of Covid.
the ad jumpscared me for real omg, the volume difference
In Brazil it's very cultural to have ice cream only. Like, there are McDonald's ice cream kiosks around malls. And the cones are made of cassava, which is much tastier
HOW THE HELL IS A FRANCHISE OWNER CALLED RONALD MCDONALD?!
I thought it was an Always Sunny joke, but nope, people were actually named this way.
Totally forgot about the ashtray’s 🚬
Surprised that the guy handing out winning tickets to his family didn't get MUCH longer in jail. That is seriously messed up! Why is it rich boys always get off light?!
Some say that Ronald McDonald the clown on TV commercials was the eighties Toyota commercial guy, all we know is... he's called The Stig.
That lady that got burnt must be one of the most maligned persons
The monopoly guy only got 3 yrs? So I’m assuming he kept his $$ winnings. So rip off millions and only get 3 yrs? Not that bad of a deal for some people.
In Japan,he is Donald McDonald.
Have a hard time with "R"''s donchaknow.
Don't know how pirates talk there...
SuperSize Me is total bs!
Wendys should be next
I was waiting on the disaster that was the 1984 Olympics scratch cards contest. They lost a bundle on that one.
Figures that vegetarians would ruin fast food, oh wait they are still doing that.
I knew about the pink slime and coffee lawsuit, but had no idea about the ice cream machine and everything else!! Thank you.. makes you really think about whether McDonald’s is worth it. I’m going to go with definitely not!
You believe everything you see?
I am grateful that I live in a town that hasn’t got a McDonald’s
Thanks for sharing
3:45 “Worthless” lol
Bring back Tom Blank as the narrator, he is the voice icon for Weird History Channel/Weird History Food Channel
The fries were so much better when they were cooked in lard!!! And the cherries that were on top of the shakes ( with the long spoons to eat them with). And when the Big Mac was actually big. Should call it the Big Snack now...
Well back when the Grand Mac was around, it was fairly close to the original big mac.
you can't tell me the visuals from 9:44 aren't from Xavier: Renegade Angel
'Can I just get one vanilla ice cream cone?'
**Crashing Sounds**
no mention of how the supersize me guy lied about everything?
Not gonna lie, the level of detail you cover is the equivalent of the first draft of a Wikipedia article. No mention of "the actor" being Willard Scott, no mention that Supersize me was made by a raging alcoholic, despite showing the clip, "you're pickling your liver."
Is the weird history or watchmojo? Where’s the one guy? Lol
Wait a second where's the regular narrator guy
8:08 McCoffee and McScalding herself
Is the voice the same one from Babbletop?
I was wondering that too!
@@kamichan127 right, it sounds exactly the same lol.