DailyDirt: Grabbing A Burger

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

Fri, Mar 16th 2012 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Hamburgers are one of America's best-known foods, and McDonald's has popularized this kind of fast food all over the world. (The Economist even publishes its Big Mac Index to compare national economies according to the price of McD's iconic burgers.) Here are just a few more interesting tidbits with all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions -- all on a sesame seed bun.

McDonald's stopped using pink slime in its burgers since about August of 2011. It's interesting that no one seemed to notice any difference in taste over the last few months.... [url]
Happy Meal toys cost extra in San Francisco, due to a city law aimed at preventing kids from eating unhealthy fast foods. Outlaw toys and only outlaws will have toys? [url]
Japanese folks who love burgers will be able to order a Big Mac from their car's navigation system. Next: autonomous vehicles will pick up your food and deliver it to you. [url]
To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

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Filed Under: big mac, burgers, food, happy meals, jamie oliver, pink slime, toys
Companies: mcdonalds

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Josh, 16 Mar 2012 @ 6:28pm

Pink Slime
As someone who worked as a waiter and then in a meat market for several years, just because you don't taste something that has happened to your food sure doesn't mean that you don't mind it happening.
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abc gum, 16 Mar 2012 @ 6:35pm

Soylent Green
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Anonymous Coward, 16 Mar 2012 @ 11:47pm

Something you forgot to mention in the other food-related links:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_DietAndFitness/red-meat-tied-increased-mortality-risk/story ?id=15901365
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- Red Meat Industry shill, 17 Mar 2012 @ 9:15am
  
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  I think that link is an advertising campaign paid for by the White Meat Industry Consortium.
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- Chris Rhodes (profile), 17 Mar 2012 @ 10:37am
  
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  Typical observational study garbage.
  
  Refuted.
  Refuted.
  Refuted.
  Refuted.
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- Anonymous Coward, 30 Mar 2012 @ 5:06pm
  
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  correlation != causation
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Pixelation, 17 Mar 2012 @ 12:23am

"McDonald's stopped using pink slime in its burgers since about August of 2011. "

Young boys farts will no longer burn with that green tinge after eating McDonalds.
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Kevin (profile), 18 Mar 2012 @ 7:39am

McDonalds and food in one sentence
McDonalds and food. Would have to be the world's greatest oxymoron
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