The McDonald's Glass Scandal

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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024

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  • @fern-tv
    @fern-tv  Год назад +2368

    This comment section is officially open for Shrek memes.

    • @ed8586
      @ed8586 Год назад +79

      Get outta my comment section!

    • @realDave1337
      @realDave1337 Год назад +51

      Shrek is love, Shrek is life

    • @l2_linksklix
      @l2_linksklix Год назад

      ​@@realDave1337👈🗣HE LIKES YOUNG BOYS

    • @Resuone
      @Resuone Год назад +19

      This is why you don't intrude Shrek's swamp.

    • @Resuone
      @Resuone Год назад +3

      ​@@realDave1337young boys fan zie ik!

  • @HumansMakeAIArt
    @HumansMakeAIArt 10 месяцев назад +1783

    I majored in art in college and did a lot of oil painting. The professors were VERY clear to us about the risks of cadmium and insisted we never directly touch paints made from cadmium. Putting it in drinking glasses is horrifying!

    • @john-ic5pz
      @john-ic5pz 10 месяцев назад +75

      👍🏻
      meanwhile in the chemistry dept...
      the Merck Manual (a book of commonly used chemicals and their properties) includes the taste of _many_ of the chemicals including many dangerous ones.

    • @Kalvinjj
      @Kalvinjj 10 месяцев назад +42

      @@john-ic5pz I wonder how in heck they determine the smell and taste of some substances that kill you near instantly. Like Diborane that is all sorts of unstable and highly reactive, and still has it's smell described as "sweet and repulsive".

    • @DaTimmeh
      @DaTimmeh 9 месяцев назад +81

      ​@@KalvinjjI have heard of one guy who basically dedicated his scientific career to just tasting metals and recording the findings. Reminds you that the difference between f'ing around and science is just writing it down.

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 9 месяцев назад +10

      ​@@DaTimmehAnd the guy that measured sting pain?

    • @you-nh8xo
      @you-nh8xo 8 месяцев назад

      You're an art major. Shut up.

  • @masterofdesaster4902
    @masterofdesaster4902 Год назад +5593

    The questions “did McDonalds poison millions of kids” is very sarcastic and I love it.

    • @fern-tv
      @fern-tv  Год назад +486

      😏

    • @coobk
      @coobk Год назад +511

      dont you mean
      "and I'm lovin' it"

    • @masterofdesaster4902
      @masterofdesaster4902 Год назад +45

      @@coobk
      I’m trying to do my best English is not my first language. I genuinely want to know if my sentence is grammatically incorrect or if it is a style issue.

    • @coobk
      @coobk Год назад +178

      @@masterofdesaster4902 i did not mean to correct you, your sentence was completely gramatically correct, i was referencing mcdo's famous "I'm lovin' it" slogan, wich you could have inserted for a pun.

    • @reverse_dns2043
      @reverse_dns2043 Год назад +15

      ​@@masterofdesaster4902dont you know the slogan "i'm lovin it"?

  • @ettaz
    @ettaz Год назад +1389

    Coming from a painting background, I was not surprised at all when the video mentioned cadmium, and I completely expected the worst offender to be puss in boots. Cadmium yellow is a very pretty shade and nowadays it's made with different chemicals and pigments, but it used to be made with cadmium, and lots of it (see also lead white). Its one of things used to authenticate old paintings.

    • @JorenVaes
      @JorenVaes Год назад +72

      Many artists still use cadmium and lead paints today. Heck, I have some that I bought less than a year ago that contains both.

    • @BryceLynch838
      @BryceLynch838 11 месяцев назад +64

      People say Cad Yellow is what gave Bob Ross cancer. He used it in every single painting he did. Today his paints are non-toxic.

    • @sadjunk5861
      @sadjunk5861 10 месяцев назад +7

      i was wondering what happends if the pain washes away after years of use? can cadmium still be found on the glass?

    • @ZacksRockingLifestyle
      @ZacksRockingLifestyle 10 месяцев назад

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@BryceLynch838cancer is a mitochondrial, metabolic disease, primarily characterized by failures of apoptosis (pre-programmed cellular breakdown) and oxidative phosphorylation (cellular breathing).
      Bob Ross was, by all accounts, a very nice person. He should not be shamed for not knowing how cancer works, nor for not knowing what has been learned about cancer since his passing. Cancer comes from what we eat, and/or are fed in the womb, though.
      Cells need energy to function. Human cells are intended to be primarily fueled by ketones, which are produced from fats. Human cells are also able to metabolize carbohydrates in the form of glucose. Cells can only prioritize metabolizing one type of energy at a time. The ability to switch between ketone synthesis and glucose synthesis is known as “metabolic flexibility.” When a cell loses its flexibility, that’s step one for the formation of cancer.
      Cancer cells, unlike properly functioning human cells, ferment fuels in an anaerobic (oxygen-free) environment. Cancer cells are unable to ferment ketones as fuel, thus meaning it is imperative that ketone synthesis remains functional. However, cancer cells are able to ferment lactic acid, instead, which is the compound that builds up in our muscles as we use them (“feel the burn” …of lactic acid build-up). Cancer cells also ferment glucose. The fermentation of glucose and lactic acid by cancer cells is known as the Warburg Effect. Current studies show that glutamine, which is a protein, is also capable of being fermented by cancer cells, thus helping explain why cancer cells are so hard to nail down & terminate.
      Or, yk, “iT wAs ThE yElLoW pAiNt.”

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 10 месяцев назад +14

      @@sadjunk5861it would obviously go with the paint. The cadmium is what makes it yellow, so if you take all the yellow paint off, where is the cadmium?
      But if the pain comes off, you'll get much more of the cadmium than just a surface rub.

  • @imcoorey
    @imcoorey 9 месяцев назад +2039

    blaming my low IQ on tainted shrek glasses.

    • @legitbeans9078
      @legitbeans9078 4 месяца назад +26

      At least now you know

    • @Brandontreschbodybuilding
      @Brandontreschbodybuilding 4 месяца назад +8

      Feed him medication

    • @quaktoons331
      @quaktoons331 2 месяца назад

      ​@@BrandontreschbodybuildingIf you've got smart pills that raise your IQ, I'll take some

    • @DystopianOverture
      @DystopianOverture 2 месяца назад +10

      Yessssssss! It's not my genetics that gave me 3 learning disabilities it's the Shrek glasses! 😂😂

    • @ContactsNfilters
      @ContactsNfilters 28 дней назад

      ​@@DystopianOverturethe two are intrinsically connected. Check out epigenetics, it's fascinating stuff. It's why I get so aggravated with the nature vs nurture debate. I have a suspicion that a lot of this also has to do with mthfr genetic mutations that affects about 40% of the population and keeps you from being able to convert folic acid into usable folate. That also affects how one's body deals with heavy metals.

  • @ImNotGouda
    @ImNotGouda 8 месяцев назад +945

    idk why but the whole bit with the mom and the xray gun killed me

    • @ASMRGRATITUDE
      @ASMRGRATITUDE 4 месяца назад +41

      Well, the rest of us are sitting here wondering how much of our glassware is affected... and she decided to buy the tool and find out.

    • @Lunk42
      @Lunk42 3 месяца назад +20

      I didn't even know an xray gun was a thing lmao.

    • @LAyersFur
      @LAyersFur 2 месяца назад +7

      ​@@Lunk42 Me too

    • @akpokemon
      @akpokemon 2 месяца назад +1

      Maybe because that was the entire point--it was a bit.

    • @TheSoftestGirlYouKnow
      @TheSoftestGirlYouKnow Месяц назад

      I want to be her when I grow up

  • @Kyrikrliy
    @Kyrikrliy Год назад +2142

    Thanks to that one mom who had an XRF scanner and was worried about some shrek-themed glass, who knows how long it would have taken to notice the danger otherwise

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Год назад +1

      After Jennifer discovered the Lead in the Shrek glasses she actually gave me her XRF instrument (one of my first instruments!) I wish they were more accessible. The ones we use cost about $35,000 new and the new model costs about $50,000 new. I have over 4,000 test results of items / consumer goods (including lots of cartoon character glasses) on my website (not behind a paywall) so families everywhere can look up their consumer goods (or ones similar) and evaluate whether or not they are safe for their children.

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Год назад +95

      The danger is everything from McDonald's that is edible.

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise Год назад +114

      @@bradsanders407This is a pretty crucial point that seems overlooked-their _edible_ products are addictive poison.

    • @zerocalvin
      @zerocalvin 10 месяцев назад +32

      as an artist that deal with cadmium paint, i can tell you that the fear is overblown... there is no real danger unless you are allergic to cadmium which it'll only give you contact allergy... if that glass is like most painted glass, than the design is painted on the outside of the glass, which pose no danger of cadmium leeching into drink...

    • @GreenAppelPie
      @GreenAppelPie 10 месяцев назад +3

      I want one of those now.

  • @paulbangert6005
    @paulbangert6005 Год назад +2850

    Shrek is love, Shrek is life, and now Shrek is also death.

    • @Kindasus25
      @Kindasus25 10 месяцев назад +59

      Shrek is eternal

    • @olibo1149
      @olibo1149 10 месяцев назад +61

      Shrek has become Death, Destroyer of Worlds -Robert Oppenheimer

    • @goobah1389
      @goobah1389 10 месяцев назад +8

      The snake eats its own tail again

    • @johnbash-on-ger
      @johnbash-on-ger 9 месяцев назад +13

      @@olibo1149 Don't you mean Robert Shrek-kenheimer?

    • @IVI4R1U5
      @IVI4R1U5 9 месяцев назад +11

      Shrek giveth, and Shrek taketh away.

  • @floschy_1
    @floschy_1 Год назад +2132

    God damit, how can one meme this hard while still delivering high quality and interesting content plus this regularay. Impressive

    • @C_rrptd
      @C_rrptd Год назад +32

      "It's Ogre now"

    • @CantTellYou
      @CantTellYou Год назад +16

      Life-changing TV specials like “Scared Shrekless” changed my life

    • @clementpoon120
      @clementpoon120 11 месяцев назад +2

      i think there's going to be a massive increase in sales of XRF just because of this video

    • @Bryanbobber
      @Bryanbobber 10 месяцев назад +2

      Shrek is an insufferable character.

    • @FLPhotoCatcher
      @FLPhotoCatcher 10 месяцев назад +1

      I love Mickey Disease! Or is it SickDonald's?

  • @shokasemoney
    @shokasemoney 3 месяца назад +142

    I was in McDonald’s today, THEY ARE SELLING SHREK CUPS AGAIN!! Plastic this time but I think it’s funny that they brought these back

    • @tallula5164
      @tallula5164 2 месяца назад

      omg!!

    • @spazzinvader9083
      @spazzinvader9083 2 месяца назад

      That's wild

    • @orange6538
      @orange6538 Месяц назад

      I have a few of them. They're good now I doubt they would make the same mistake again.

    • @OkamiRose
      @OkamiRose 25 дней назад +1

      @orange6538 …They used lead and cadmium paint on their cups since the 1970s with articles even back them calling them out of it. That’s 30+ years hun. Of course they’ll do it again lmfao

    • @orange6538
      @orange6538 25 дней назад

      @@OkamiRose if you even thought about it for a second, they obviously wouldn't do it again lmao. Why risk the lawsuits when they can just make safe cups this time? (And the new cups are safe btw hun)

  • @gyrozeppeli4862
    @gyrozeppeli4862 9 месяцев назад +47

    I had every single one of these, and when my parents threw them away in front of me, I bawled

  • @iamadrianlol
    @iamadrianlol Год назад +867

    the real controversy is how CRIMINALLY underrated this channel is

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Год назад +24

      It really is so good. I was super thankful to be invited to interview and my kids got a kick of seeing me in a video like this on youtube! (especially that little opening sequence "A Mom With An XRF Gun" - my 15 year old [who has significant disabilities from Lead poisoning] really lit up when he saw that!]

    • @GiovanniKody100
      @GiovanniKody100 Год назад +5

      overrated*

    • @olafp.3673
      @olafp.3673 Год назад +17

      Its made by well known youtuber of gernany, they just started their english channel :)

    • @iamadrianlol
      @iamadrianlol Год назад

      @@olafp.3673 ja klar, simpli kennt man doch ;) :p

    • @M2356U
      @M2356U Год назад +7

      @@GiovanniKody100 🧢

  • @pepper4169
    @pepper4169 Год назад +241

    I used one of these glasses for years until my mom broke it, and while buying a new one I found out that they were toxic. Anyway, I have one sitting right next to me as I write this as decor.

    • @toidIllorTAmI
      @toidIllorTAmI 10 месяцев назад +10

      Do you have those Burger King Batman glasses? My mom collected the whole set and I used to mess around with them.

    • @surlyGir
      @surlyGir 4 месяца назад +5

      I still have my shrek glass. I broke one and then bought the same one second hand. Oh well 🤷‍♀️

    • @Heather-lg4gq
      @Heather-lg4gq 4 месяца назад +12

      ​@@surlyGir I have 4 I still drink out of! I'm just finding out about this now 😂

    • @ACEfromVisa559
      @ACEfromVisa559 14 дней назад

      Symptoms include "permanent loss in IQ" so yeah that checks out.

  • @orangy57
    @orangy57 10 месяцев назад +156

    I learned about these cups in a chemistry class, my buddy was shocked since it turns out he had those exact glasses over a decade later. I didn't believe him at first but nope he was right I went over his place a few weeks later and he had 2 of those exact Shrek glasses in a cabinet with all of his other decorative cups and the Shrek cups had most of their paint worn off from time. Makes me wonder how much of it they ended up ingesting or if it was just from dishwashers and stuff

    • @TheSoftestGirlYouKnow
      @TheSoftestGirlYouKnow Месяц назад

      If the cadmium didn't kill me, the anxiety from realizing that would 💀

    • @wh0_am_152
      @wh0_am_152 22 дня назад

      If that's a concern tell him to stay away from printed ceramics in general, virtually all of them contain lead and other harmful elements

    • @epicaddictions17
      @epicaddictions17 9 дней назад +2

      @@wh0_am_152not true at all. I’m a ceramicist and we are now taught the extreme dangers of the materials we work with. If a functional piece is going to be used with food we have to use food safe glaze. This doesn’t stand true to everyone especially less experienced artists and historical vintage pieces as this knowledge was uncommon not that long ago. Most ceramics today are completely safe ❤ I’d be cautious with other countries ceramics as these issues are also not that known. Mexico pottery usually contains lead for various reasons and there are lead testers if you’re extra worried

  • @chromylon6244
    @chromylon6244 9 месяцев назад +28

    I know so many middle aged adults who refuse to get rid of them and still use them today.

    • @titanisback1
      @titanisback1 2 месяца назад +3

      I guarantee if I go over and dig through my grandparents house I can find every single painted glass McDonalds has ever sold. Wouldn't be surprised if I drank out of a few when I was younger too.

  • @Enzo187
    @Enzo187 9 месяцев назад +17

    when these came out my mom got all 4 and we used them for dinner until the recall, my mom didnt want to throw them away so she put them in boxes with the other like 40 character glasses she has but doesnt use because shed be heartbroken if they broke. essentially a cartoon china collection.

  • @SoyLuciano
    @SoyLuciano 11 месяцев назад +412

    This also ocurred with Garfield-themed mugs from the same restaurant franchise, albeit with the deadly chemicals only being discovered after 40-ish years.

    • @mandararomness3932
      @mandararomness3932 11 месяцев назад +20

      Yeah, I still have one thar my mom bought from a thrift store in the 90s to use as a paint water holder lmao

    • @soogymoogi
      @soogymoogi 10 месяцев назад +35

      I drank out of those constantly. Might be why I'm so fucked up, though it's probably the autism

    • @samuelseidel6148
      @samuelseidel6148 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@soogymoogi yo

    • @darthmaltodextrin1899
      @darthmaltodextrin1899 10 месяцев назад +13

      This is actually the reason I read the comments. I was curious if my garfield mugs had bad paint too.

    • @maxjones2546
      @maxjones2546 10 месяцев назад

      the real kicker is that they found the SAME FUCKING CHEMICALS

  • @party4lifedude
    @party4lifedude 10 месяцев назад +367

    I'm surprised that Mcdonalds immediately recalled them and offered a refund, and they didn't just deny it and fight it or try to deflect blame or sue the mother for libel or say that what she did was "stealing corporate secrets" and try to charge her for corporate espionage or libel or something ridiculous. A corporation as big as McDoald's could easily afford the lawyers to get away with it.

    • @Aubreykun
      @Aubreykun 9 месяцев назад +22

      Plenty of companies have done that to Tamara Rubin over the years but usually realize they can't win and either relent or quietly try to let it go to obscurity.

    • @Kass401
      @Kass401 9 месяцев назад

      I bet if this had happened today that's exactly what would happen, after their smear campaign of the woman with the hot coffee went so successfully they'd be emboldened to do anything

    • @bend8353
      @bend8353 7 месяцев назад

      This was before republicans made that acceptable.

    • @TahtahmesDiary
      @TahtahmesDiary Месяц назад +4

      Even now, without playgrounds, they are one of the top toy distributers in the world via Happy Meals. Kids and pretending to care about them is one of their biggest selling points and source of semi-redemption.

    • @F_the_G
      @F_the_G Месяц назад

      No chance. This was damage control. Can't blame this on anyone. Same if you're a truck driver for example. If your load isn't secured properly you can't blame the guy that loaded it. You're responsible for your load/product. Can't just sell stuff and be like "didn't know" or whatever. "I thought I was selling Oregano"

  • @JUEKx
    @JUEKx Год назад +295

    Insanely good mix of humor, quality and a thrilling story told

  • @TheOnlyMissing
    @TheOnlyMissing 6 месяцев назад +72

    6:05 "Naturally as any responsible parent..."

    • @ZeeAzman
      @ZeeAzman 3 месяца назад +3

      Best mom ever… this is Helen Parr as a mom 😅

  • @ash_j_williams
    @ash_j_williams 9 месяцев назад +14

    My mother collected all of these and still has them in her collection cabinet

    • @KaliDwu
      @KaliDwu 9 месяцев назад +1

      Same lol

  • @Gizzmo112
    @Gizzmo112 Год назад +361

    Did you know there is almost always Cadmium in chocolate? I worked for a cacao importer in the Amsterdam harbour. There is a maximum amount, but im sure there is almost always cadmium in your chocolatebar maybe some lead also.

    • @fern-tv
      @fern-tv  Год назад +100

      thats so interesting!

    • @Steamrick
      @Steamrick Год назад +32

      What kind of concentration of Cadmium is normal for chocolate?

    • @Gizzmo112
      @Gizzmo112 Год назад

      around 8 microgram of cadmium per 80g of pure chocolate. Also there is often lead found. And the problem will only get worse. We imported a lot of cacoa from Congo and the levels are higher every year. This is because a tree is like a pump, sucking nutrients out of the ground. Farmers have to remove the leafs falling down to make sure there is less reabsorbed. farmers in Congo fail to do this, also in other countries though.
      Remember: Cadmium and lead are NEVER save to ingest
      @@Steamrick

    • @Steamrick
      @Steamrick Год назад +73

      @@Gizzmo112 As a chocolate addict, that's scary...

    • @Gizzmo112
      @Gizzmo112 Год назад +45

      I wouldnt worry about it too much. Only for pregnant women and small children it is probably not a good idea to eat dark chocolate. Who wants to reach 100 years without chocolate :)? @@Steamrick

  • @Carlosmdna
    @Carlosmdna Год назад +220

    all of a sudden im gonna put our family Shrek glass into the display case, through the years the paint has faded and I thought that was normal. We had no idea it was toxic

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Год назад +85

      yea - the paint "fading" means the cadmium was washing off into your kitchen environment or wearing off onto your hands as you held the glass.

    • @AgentOffice
      @AgentOffice 10 месяцев назад +25

      Absorbed not faded

    • @nesman1927
      @nesman1927 10 месяцев назад +29

      One of my moms friends gave her a set of these a few years back, I had vaguely known about poisonous McDonald’s cups from something I had seen years ago but thought it was about lead paint chipping and being eaten so we would just joke about it. Never even considered it leaching into the dishwasher and covering the other dishes, def smashing those things lel

    • @floriduhgeorgia
      @floriduhgeorgia 9 месяцев назад +4

      How ya feelin

    • @monus782
      @monus782 9 месяцев назад +5

      When the recall happened my mom refused to get rid of the glasses for some reason (I checked and we do indeed have the orange one), however we never use them so the paint is still there and I really hope they haven’t contaminated the surrounding glassware after all these years

  • @ouwyukha
    @ouwyukha Год назад +254

    Now i'm questioning every souvenir glasses in my house. No way my country has stricter regulation than US to prevent this to happening

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Год назад +47

      The us really doesn't have that strict of regulations. Only in very specific areas does the us give a damn. Drugs that you can snort or eat is a big time hell no. But if you can drink them the us doesnt care so much. Sure someone at some point might have wrote on a piece of paper that you can't do this or that but so long as your product isn't killing people upon contact no one is going around enforcing the "no cadmium in kids drinking glasses" regulation.

    • @estherstreet4582
      @estherstreet4582 11 месяцев назад +23

      Cadmium is a big risk, but so is lead. Lead didn't stop being used in ceramics until very recently, if you have any old mugs from before like, the 90s, it's worth retiring them.

    • @Aubreykun
      @Aubreykun 9 месяцев назад +1

      A lot of painted glass has cadmium and lead in the paint, including ones STILL being produced. It's not regulated. The woman mentioned in the video description - Tamara Ruben - has tested so many items.

    • @Tyomak-ov
      @Tyomak-ov 5 месяцев назад

      Your country might have more regulations compare to US. Many foods US has is illegal in other countries because they are toxic

    • @jordy9606
      @jordy9606 5 месяцев назад

      LOL, the US regulations are horrible

  • @MarshmallowAlien
    @MarshmallowAlien 9 месяцев назад +20

    Thank you so much for this video! Because of it I found out that the McDonalds 2000s Mickey glasses my dad and grandma own also contain Cadmium. I sent them both the readings from Tamara Rubin's website along with an OSHA article about Cadmium. I really hope they listen to me and at least stop using them.

  • @shinimegami42
    @shinimegami42 9 месяцев назад +12

    I remember wanting the puss in boots one, and stopping by mcdonalds on the way home from work one day. On the front door was a sign saying they were no longer for sale and could be returned for free fries or money or something. I was pretty disappointed. Cue the news later that night saying theyre toxic.
    Jokes on them i found one brand new for two bucks at a thrift store still in the box and it lives in a glass cabinet.
    I grew up drinking out of the garfield and peanuts glasses in the 80s and 90s, along with literally everyone i knew and several younger people I know now, and i still see them at thrift stores from time to time.

    • @PatSayliss
      @PatSayliss Месяц назад

      I use to drink out of the Garfield ones constantly.

  • @Aceshigh451
    @Aceshigh451 Год назад +532

    Like any respectable parent she is in hand of an X-ray gun

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Год назад +43

      It's fun to be the "cool mom" with the x-ray gun. The kids get to do fun science projects for school too! 🤣

    • @Aceshigh451
      @Aceshigh451 Год назад +7

      @@LeadSafeMama not like it’s extremely radioactive ☢️ or anyhting 😂🤣🤣

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Год назад +31

      @@Aceshigh451 I actually use a non-radioactive source tube-based instrument, which is why my instrument costs about $35,000 new (for the old model) and $50,000 new (fully loaded with all software options) for the current model. My mrem (hourly) is 0.078 at 10 cm - which is negligible and registers "non-detect" on dosimetry badges and rings! #ScienceIsFun :-)

    • @Aceshigh451
      @Aceshigh451 Год назад +4

      @@LeadSafeMama nice 👍 👌

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Год назад +7

      ​@@Aceshigh451I think something more along the lines of "Sorry for running my ignorant mouth" or a backhanded "I stand corrected" would have been a much better apology than "nice".

  • @iluminattipa
    @iluminattipa Год назад +89

    Fun fact, when the development on prince of egypt, underperfoming animators were moved to shrek's team as they thought the prince of egypt would earn more. The workers called this move "getting shreked"
    I find it so funny to think that these kids were shreked

  • @LoWsDominios
    @LoWsDominios 9 месяцев назад +5

    Goddamn that intro was intense for a fucking glass. *grabs popcorn*

  • @samuraivader3814
    @samuraivader3814 9 месяцев назад +5

    All I remember from this is the recall sticker on the McDonald's drive thru window that was there until it got remodeled

  • @TheRealDoctorBonkus
    @TheRealDoctorBonkus Год назад +385

    “Her husband died but her name is also Karen” brutally unhinged but amazing journalism and production value none the less

    • @NeilMalthus
      @NeilMalthus 10 месяцев назад +15

      I had to have a little laugh when I heard that! :D

    • @catlover2223
      @catlover2223 3 месяца назад +3

      She uses her Karen Powers for good!

  • @godi3263
    @godi3263 Год назад +128

    Thank you so much for this video,
    Here in France we have mustard pots with often Pokemon,Marvel,Disney painting on them.
    Lots of people (including me) uses these pots as glasses to "recycle" them after the video i did some research about it to see if they would be toxic or not,
    It turns out that they are.
    They also contain lead and cadmium which can fall into small particles after cycles in the dishwasher..
    I had never heard of it before, no warning on the products or elsewhere.
    Great video like always!

    • @mkesenheimer
      @mkesenheimer Год назад +9

      Can you point me to the articles or evidences? We too have these glasses at home, and I wonder, if I have to get rid of these now.

    • @yodukenukem
      @yodukenukem Год назад +3

      Wait you are from France and speak English?
      I am officially curious if we’ve found a one in a million

    • @kyralindsey5885
      @kyralindsey5885 Год назад +21

      ​@@yodukenukempeople can be bilingual

    • @71lizgoeshardt
      @71lizgoeshardt Год назад

      I am also in France and would be interested in your sources ! We have a cabinet full of these glasses...

    • @sanpellegrinolimonata
      @sanpellegrinolimonata Год назад +1

      Oh no, are the small nutella pots (e.g. the small christmas ones) also bad?!????

  • @Silver0Crow
    @Silver0Crow 10 месяцев назад +53

    Love the quip about Happy Meal being first loot box for kids, u got my chuckle!
    FYI: Kinder Surprises were the first loot boxes, tho, Ferrero introduced them in 1974, whereas McDonald started Happy Meal in 1979

    • @VertisSidus
      @VertisSidus Месяц назад

      i'd hesitate to call anyone the first. wikipedia says cracker jack started doing theirs in 1912

  • @dj-chemicalz811
    @dj-chemicalz811 2 месяца назад +3

    Oh hey I remember these little things. My mom went out of her way to collect every single one and refused to turn them in when the recall was ordered

  • @sjayne27
    @sjayne27 9 месяцев назад +7

    I only found out about these glasses being toxic about a month ago. I had been using them EVERY DAY for the past six years! Hopefully it did not damage me. 🤞

  • @StanislavUtikeev
    @StanislavUtikeev Год назад +43

    God I wish it was Farquaad, so they'd call them "Farquaadmium Glasses".

  • @UnluckySadBoi
    @UnluckySadBoi Год назад +258

    Bruh. I drank out of this as a kid all the time. it was my favorite cup. In fact, I still have it in my childhood home's cupboard.

    • @theoneandonlysnoopcat
      @theoneandonlysnoopcat Год назад +53

      I actually still have the same garfield cup they showed in the video. It was my favorite as a kid. Fuck

    • @KomradeCPU
      @KomradeCPU Год назад

      got some cadmium in the brain brah, that's rad @@LeticiaFerreira-zg9gt

    • @DogDogGodFog
      @DogDogGodFog Год назад +21

      Did you do an IQ test? (To see whether it damaged you)

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Год назад

      ​@@DogDogGodFoghe started his comment with a letter grouping in this order, b r u h. What do you think his iq is going to be? Clearly sub 100.

    • @BrianRRenfro
      @BrianRRenfro 10 месяцев назад +59

      @@DogDogGodFog He started his comment with "Bruh." I think we have our answer.

  • @Airbourne92
    @Airbourne92 Год назад +647

    Isn't McDonald's poisoning their customers regardless of Shrek glasses?

    • @akteno2796
      @akteno2796 Год назад +48

      Its a Trick question, the awnser is yes regardless of the topic discussed in the video, this question was intentionally like that.

    • @DaRadicalCavy
      @DaRadicalCavy Год назад

      Given meat is a proven carcinogen and a bad one at that absolutely the are. Nevermind anything in drinks or other products.

    • @livinginsidegemses
      @livinginsidegemses Год назад +11

      @@commygames bro probably has 8 chins and is 400lb from eating a million big macs per day

    • @Lau2856.
      @Lau2856. Год назад +1

      ​@@commygamesthis is bull§hit.

    • @turok4714
      @turok4714 Год назад +15

      @@livinginsidegemses, @Lau2856. It depends on where you live, in Europe (especially in the EU) McD has to comply with all strict health laws.
      and the ingredients are regularly controlled by the Ministry of Health. In addition, genetically modified foods are completely banned.
      But even in Europe it is generally considered unhealthy fatty food and therefore you rarely indulge in it unless you want to gain weight quickly.

  • @Catsith78
    @Catsith78 6 месяцев назад +17

    fern-tv is my new addiction. I absolutely love this channel. Thank you for your content!!!
    Also, describing Shrek 4 as Mortuus Equus Syndrome is brilliant! Mortuus equus is latin for dead horse. It's an expression used to describe something as useless or ineffective, although it has been previously valuable. Also, syndrome in medical terminology, is a disease or disorder caused by set of medical signs and symptoms, which are correlated with each other, while often remaining unknown. Mortuus equus syndrome meaning that for a set of reasons, shrek used to be great but now it just doesn't work anymore. Bravo to that rotten tomatoes user. Excellent choice of words!

  • @brileevoices
    @brileevoices 10 месяцев назад +16

    Back in 2007 we had the painted McDonalds glasses from Shrek the Third. Not the same ones that were recalled but I can imagine it had the same stuff in it because it was basically the same exact cups just with different designs. I drank out of that thing for years. It was the only glass I drank out of (besides the McD's Flintstone mug once in a while but I assume those were ok because they weren't painted?). I remember the designs getting kinda scratched up over the years too and I still drank out of it. It was my favorite glass. Crazy to think about now. I never even knew the other glasses were recalled until recently!

    • @Mar-pe9kx
      @Mar-pe9kx 2 месяца назад +1

      We also had the Shrek the third glasses! I remember when the story broke about the shrek 4 glasses and my mom made us throw them away out of caution. I kinda wish we kept them just for decoration because they were pretty cool. I was obsessed with drinking out of them too.

    • @annasewalson4537
      @annasewalson4537 23 дня назад

      @@Mar-pe9kxwe had some at my house growing up, and my mom threw them out too 😢

  • @LeadSafeMama
    @LeadSafeMama Год назад +49

    Thank you so much for this! I will share some links here to several Lead Safe Mama articles with more specifics on several of the glasses in question.

  • @danielsantorski5270
    @danielsantorski5270 Год назад +71

    4:14 - wait, you couldn't choose the Happy Meal toys in the US? What the heck where the displays with numbered toys in them for? When I was a kid, my parents always asked which one I wanted when they bought me a Happy Meal, and at worst they were out, so I had to pick another one.

    • @asdfgidji879
      @asdfgidji879 Год назад +25

      its not like a rule that you can pick your toy but most employees will give the one asked for, as a kid id exchange them like if i got one i already had i just wouldnt ipen it and id ask for a different one. No one seemed to mind but i was like 8 so i mightve just not noticed how annoying i was

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Год назад +2

      File this under making a big deal out of nothing at all. About like this whole video.

    • @Alyhias
      @Alyhias 5 месяцев назад +3

      You can ask for a certain one, but at the time many kids just didn’t asked and hope they got what they wanted. Still relevant now

    • @ASMRGRATITUDE
      @ASMRGRATITUDE 4 месяца назад +1

      Back in the 1980s, my McDonald's never let us pick. Easy to get stuck with duplicates. If you didn't have siblings it was pretty hard to trade so you would end up with many duplicates.

    • @BlackcapCoder
      @BlackcapCoder 4 месяца назад

      This was a thing in Norway too. They also had a little staircase up to the counter, a ball pit and a balloon tree. Those are all gone now and has been replaced by touch screen displays you can order from so you don't have to interact with humans

  • @cup0cakeyz
    @cup0cakeyz Год назад +94

    The shrek glass is connected to jonestown?? Did not expect that 😭

    • @bhatkat
      @bhatkat 10 месяцев назад +5

      Very weak link, not impressed they mention it.

    • @longiusaescius2537
      @longiusaescius2537 10 месяцев назад +2

      Huh not surprised

  • @secondnature87
    @secondnature87 10 месяцев назад +15

    Wasn't expecting Jonestown to be involved in this video

    • @punchdrunkassassin
      @punchdrunkassassin 2 месяца назад

      I can't believe how far I had to scroll to find mention of Jonestown!

    • @Am3r1Kan0
      @Am3r1Kan0 Месяц назад +2

      That specific detail surprised me as well.

  • @TheZombifiedGuy
    @TheZombifiedGuy 4 месяца назад +4

    The whole sequence with the x-ray gun brought me so much joy. Indeed, Jennifer is no ordinary parent.

  • @GreenAppelPie
    @GreenAppelPie 10 месяцев назад +35

    I remember my parents refusing to purchase themed glasses at McDonald’s because of the lead scare, and admittedly because they were frugal to a fault. We did however always have those printed jelly jars that because juice glasses.

  • @lego_minifig
    @lego_minifig Год назад +77

    I remember my grandma collected these. She flat out refused to get rid of them when the recall happened but she did retire them from the cabinet in favor of McDonalds limited release Coke glasses.

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Год назад

      Hi - I had commented on this earlier but I don't think they allow links in comments.I have test results for the coke glasses on my website - so you can show them to her (and hopefully convince her to stop using them). Just put the words "Coca-Cola Glass" in the search bar at the top of any page of my website and the article should pop right up.

    • @Zanoab
      @Zanoab 11 месяцев назад +4

      My mom did the same. After getting the full set, she tried to get more as extras and got upset when they refused to sell any. There wasn’t much concern about exposure because they only allowed adults to use glassware.

    • @GoodOlTazzy
      @GoodOlTazzy 4 месяца назад

      I've been collecting limited release coca cola glasses from Mc Donald's for a few years now.

    • @lego_minifig
      @lego_minifig 4 месяца назад

      @@GoodOlTazzy they are nice glasses

  • @SouthPeter98
    @SouthPeter98 Год назад +62

    Crazy that since that Mcdonnalds email and now this channel grew by 100k. This super high quality format you came up with for this and Hoog is crazy good, the 'youtube essay' market will be short work

    • @Jaangraphyt
      @Jaangraphyt Год назад +4

      its the second channel of 2 RUclipsrs. No surprise.

    • @MrLegendra
      @MrLegendra Год назад

      @@Jaangraphytwhat RUclipsrs?

    • @Canleaf08
      @Canleaf08 Год назад +12

      @@MrLegendra Simplicissimus or Bored2Guys from Germany.... fern is their 2nd English channel.

    • @zekiz774
      @zekiz774 Год назад +10

      ​@@Canleaf08and Hoog

    • @ab7319
      @ab7319 Год назад +6

      ​@@MrLegendrasimplicissimus and hoog. Hoog makes Videos in english and simplicissimus in german

  • @Borbo3560
    @Borbo3560 9 месяцев назад +3

    why does my family still have these toxic glasses bro😭😭

  • @AprilToy-z2l
    @AprilToy-z2l 10 месяцев назад +4

    It only took McDonald’s for the Shrek cups to truly learn their lesson about painted glass cups.

  • @daleshirley8083
    @daleshirley8083 Год назад +97

    We have and use the entire set! It's my wife's favorite, so glad I'm subscribed to your channel and seen this video! Getting rid of these IMMIDIETELY! Bought the whole set at a yard sale about 5 years ago!

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Год назад +21

      Good choice! I still haven't gotten my hands on an original set to test to report the exact levels on each glass. I was surprised that the video said only the cat was positive for Cadmium - but I think that must have been that only the cat was positive for cadmium when a dust wipe sample was taken. The Mickey Mouse ones I tested from Y2k are also positive for high levels of Cadmium - higher than the shrek ones.

    • @el4689
      @el4689 Год назад +24

      maybe just put them on display instead. i’ve got some similar old painted cups, and although knowing this i will never use them again, they are still very precious to me. your wife might appreciate not tossing them out

    • @bene9354
      @bene9354 Год назад

      RIP

    • @Limelaz23
      @Limelaz23 Год назад +14

      you may want to hold onto them! Since many got recalled, they are pretty rare to get and might be worth alot in a few years! Just don't use them please ^^"

    • @ztac_dex
      @ztac_dex Год назад +6

      put it on display and dont used it instead

  • @bluecoke6828
    @bluecoke6828 Год назад +22

    Sounds crazy to me that there stil is no good legislation for those types of glasses

  • @patricks.3822
    @patricks.3822 Год назад +18

    Did you know there is almost always Cadmium in food?
    Sometimes more sometimes less (also depending from where):
    Chocolate: ~150 μg/kg
    Grain (wheat): ~35 μg/kg
    vegetables: ~5-30 μg/kg
    WHO: Tolerable weekly intake for cadmium at 7 μg/kg body weight/week (EFSA: 2.5)
    Example: 100kg body weight -> ~ 6x 100g-bars of chocolate per day are ok according to WHO

  • @harlech2
    @harlech2 10 месяцев назад +10

    "Her name is also Karen"
    I had to struggle to keep my water off my keyboard and monitor.....

  • @ninjacats200
    @ninjacats200 3 месяца назад +5

    Mcdonalds has new glasses coming out here soon. I'll have to keep an eye out for someone testing them. I'm curious if they changed their ways or if they are just gonna do it again expecting that people have forgotten.

  • @ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman
    @ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman Год назад +15

    I always suspected that the reason people remember shrek so fondly might be led poisoning. Now shrek 2 on the other hand, that is where it is at

  • @Volkowitsch
    @Volkowitsch Год назад +22

    "Her first name is also Karen" ~ this made my evening a better one. Thanks!

  • @kniivves
    @kniivves Год назад +78

    "Her first name.. was also Karen" This had me ROLLING

  • @HistoryNerd129
    @HistoryNerd129 19 дней назад +1

    Shrek to McDonalds to mom-with-an-xray-gun to Jonestown is a crazy video progression

  • @roflewafe47
    @roflewafe47 2 месяца назад +1

    I still have one of these. We used it all the way to 2020 without knowing. The entire thing blew right past us

  • @oskar7962
    @oskar7962 Год назад +16

    0:39 I almost choked on my food because that was very unexpected.

  • @stebansan
    @stebansan Год назад +37

    SHREK IS LOVE SHREK IS LIFE

    • @lemonleader8504
      @lemonleader8504 Год назад +5

      Shrek is Cadmium

    • @stebansan
      @stebansan Год назад +1

      @@lemonleader8504 no, puss in boots is cadmium. SHREK though, shrek is love, shrek is life

  • @LuxAudio389
    @LuxAudio389 2 месяца назад +5

    "Not selling saturated fats to kids is not an Option!" Lol I would love to buy a shirt with the McDonald's logo or Happy meal inage with that quote. 🤣

    • @LycanFerret
      @LycanFerret 26 дней назад

      It's also out dated. Saturated fat and cholesterol are essential building blocks of your cells. The brain is 30% cholesterol, your skin uses cholesterol to make vitamin D, insulin, testosterone, and estrogen are made up of mostly cholesterol, saturated fat is the most stable and least oxidizing edible fat.
      The vilification of cholesterol and saturated fat is the worst crime ever committed on the human race.

  • @CarpetCloser
    @CarpetCloser Месяц назад +1

    so many mcdonald scandals and here i am working for them

  • @arsinclair
    @arsinclair Год назад +15

    1 minute into the video and things finally started making sense. They are not talking about spectacles, but about drinking glasses. I guess I need to take a day off. 🚬🙄

  • @RexyRonin
    @RexyRonin Год назад +10

    Love the presentation script! Great attention to detail too! Didn't think the rabbithole ran that deep!

  • @TracksWithDax
    @TracksWithDax Год назад +18

    I would love to hear from the manufacturers of these products

  • @Tenticklez
    @Tenticklez 4 месяца назад +1

    My family had a few of these in a cabinet until 2018. We knew they were toxic and did not use them.
    Scary part? The older they got the more faded the paint became and when we finally got rid of them.... the paint flaked off.

  • @DrawciaGleam02
    @DrawciaGleam02 3 месяца назад +1

    I remember these glasses! I remember an AD where the characters were being moved around as people used the glasses. One character is literally CRYING for it to stop.

  • @thomasschmidt8544
    @thomasschmidt8544 Год назад +19

    My kids like their modern drinking glasses with soft-colored painting on them but they adore my 30 years old glasses with sparkling (although fainting) disney figures painted onto them. I fear the latter ones or even all of them have to miraculously disappear overnight.

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Год назад +1

      The main thing to realize is that it just takes a microscopic amount of Lead or Cadmium to poison a human. I have full test results for lots of these glassware items on my website if you need additional supporting evidence to convince you to stop using them. Lead exposure in kids causes permanent brain damage (which my kiddo has from being lead poisoned and is why I do what I do), learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, headaches, GI issues and more. Lead exposure in adults causes an increased risk of heart disease, early onset dementia, fertility (and "performance") issues - and lots of other impacts that are being more widely studied and reported on. I personally recommend people throw them in the trash so they break so no one might use them in the future.

    • @JesusLoverx
      @JesusLoverx 10 месяцев назад

      I’m seeing a comment under yours but it’s not showing it when I click it

    • @thomasschmidt8544
      @thomasschmidt8544 10 месяцев назад

      @@JesusLoverx same here. It often happens.

  • @yomomma6633
    @yomomma6633 10 месяцев назад +5

    It’s honestly funny, my aunt actually still has those glasses in her cabinet to be used by anyone who walks in

  • @marshallmade
    @marshallmade Год назад +11

    The subtle jokes in your videos r killing me u do it for shrek💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

  • @jambimc7516
    @jambimc7516 10 месяцев назад +2

    My sister was abarista for a particular popular coffee chain. They would use toilet cleaner on the ice machines because they either didnt have time to clean the machines or just lazy incompetence. The metal that would form the ice would deteriate because of how abrasive the chamical was to the metal. Thus exposing the cadmium to the ice and cause the ice to not form correctly.

  • @salsifi836
    @salsifi836 9 месяцев назад +2

    Average people : Shrek on glasses
    Intellectuals : Shrek in a jar

  • @andremaines
    @andremaines Год назад +34

    The amount of Shrek puns you managed to fit into the script as well as comparing that lady to a political version of 50 cent. Great writing guys! 😂

  • @Fosi94
    @Fosi94 Год назад +7

    4:42 Atlantis is extremely underrated and I don't know why.

  • @samueleriksson2668
    @samueleriksson2668 Год назад +45

    Wow, the timing is almost scary! I just recently finished a meal drinking from a glass with the McDonalds mascot Grimace and a metallic cup with the Berlin mascot Ampelmännchen. (Ironically, I'm an adult). I don't know if the risks apply to metallic cups as well, but my McDonalds glass sure looks eerily similar to the Shrek ones.
    All of a sudden, I feel like reconsidering the way I consume water for some strange unexplainable reason. Thanks for the heads-up I guess 😅

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Год назад

      hi - I had commented earlier but I think they may not allow links in their comments. I have full test results for the Grimace glasses on my website - just put "Grimace" in the search bar at the top of any page of the site. Definitely not safe!

  • @basedokadaizo
    @basedokadaizo 2 месяца назад +1

    my mom still has a couple of these glasses, they're still in my childhood home. they're right next to a vial of MercuroChrome from the 70s-80s in what my family lovingly dubs "the poison display", since it's all displayed on a shelf in a legal bookcase.

  • @HiPtfntco
    @HiPtfntco 7 месяцев назад +1

    Not me having the whole shrek collection in my garage...💀

  • @evan
    @evan Год назад +22

    The puns in this one 😂

  • @ucankushincorporations1318
    @ucankushincorporations1318 Год назад +8

    I am kinda liking this less serious tone fern is taking, viel lekker

  • @RealDymondZ
    @RealDymondZ Год назад +8

    I like the german CC, which is translating Shrek glasses into Shrek-Brillen :D the glasses you have on your nose

  • @wh0_am_152
    @wh0_am_152 22 дня назад +1

    For reference, virtually all printed ceramics have notable amounts of lead and potentially cadmium, radium, and/or uranium. If you want a printed pattern and don't want to deal with this, get it on plastic instead and deal with microplastics.

  • @GreyKid2015
    @GreyKid2015 17 дней назад +1

    This sounds like one of those bizarre clickbait articles. "Woman shoots glass cup, calls police when she sees what's inside"

  • @0topon
    @0topon Год назад +7

    Glad they cleared the swamp of toxic glasses

  • @t.218
    @t.218 Год назад +7

    Me as a employee at McDonalds I can only say it would be such a pleasure to cancel these fucking Happy Meals. For example youre alone with 20 cars at Mc Drive and you have to make 20 Happy meal boxes by yourself while taking orders and other shit. So if anyone ever was wondering about the fact how you can wait for an hour at McDonalds, thats why.

  • @MarcelSchr
    @MarcelSchr Год назад +10

    I would already be happy if I received the entire order. I don't need an extra portion of cadmium thanks.

  • @GoyslopGladiator
    @GoyslopGladiator 10 месяцев назад +6

    Did my childhood shrek cup give me autism??????????????????????????????????????????????

  • @Ostralucia
    @Ostralucia 6 месяцев назад +2

    this is such a high quality documentary but it’s so funny as well omg

  • @Hamsteak
    @Hamsteak Год назад +7

    I still have these glasses, I didn't know it was poisonous

  • @trueberryless
    @trueberryless Год назад +8

    Great sponsorship transition ❤

  • @noopstv1982
    @noopstv1982 Год назад +7

    Some kind of nestlé greenwashing unveil would be interesting in the future.

  • @bconte88
    @bconte88 25 дней назад +1

    That’s nuts that she survived the Jonestown incident at the airstrip. I didn’t even put two and two together when you said her name.

  • @thedayzgod
    @thedayzgod 9 месяцев назад +2

    whats crazy is I had those glasses and was never told they were toxic even after all these years I mean my fam never did research I clearly i think I only drank out of them like 3 or 4 times but jesus....my dad died a few years ago so I dont go over to his house anymore so no clue where they are now what kind of effects can happen from drinking from these cups do we know at all any kind of issues? or we not gonna know till we all old as hell living in old folks homes

  • @1daboi100
    @1daboi100 Год назад +28

    I truly love your content! Could you please do more of crime related videos like the one of that dark web king? Either way thanks for these videos man!

  • @Fettsaeure
    @Fettsaeure Год назад +9

    4:26 shrek should never be taken out of his swamp 😂

  • @-kittn-
    @-kittn- Год назад +7

    Certified Fern gang classic

  • @Launionracing
    @Launionracing 22 дня назад +1

    Me watching this video as I’m drinking milk in my Shrek glass..

  • @opposil
    @opposil 9 месяцев назад +1

    I clicked on this video out of panic because I have several Shrek the 3rd McDonald glasses that I've been drinking out of for years.

  • @culturebreath369
    @culturebreath369 Год назад +18

    The toxic p*ssy line got me. 😂