Tastiest Things You Didn't Know About McDonalds
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
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It’s no secret that McDonald’s food is unhealthy and the company is prone to scandals. But it might surprise you just how unhealthy it really is and how many scandals there truly are. The company-the single largest restaurant corporation in the world, and one of the largest in general-has a long history of mistreating its managers, employees, customers, and even the food itself. As a result, they’ve stacked up a lot of skeletons in their many closets around the globe.
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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.
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"
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.
'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.
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???
I would love a video on how moon pies and RC Cola became synonymous with each other
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
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Man that Super Size Me guy is such a massive fraud
Please do Tastiest Things you didn't know about Burger King
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 burgers have always come in two sizes, what in the industry are known as 10:1 and 4:1 (for the number of burgers required to weigh a pound. 1.6 ounces and 4 ounces, or 45 g and 112 g respectively.)
When it seems like you're getting stiffed on a McBurger, this is because they're smaller than the competition's junior-size burger (they're 8 to the pound at most places, or 2oz/57g) and therefore seem smaller when you get one.
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.
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.
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"
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 wouldn’t mind them bringing back the super sized fries tbh 😂
the reason morgan spurlock's liver was so damaged is because he was a full blown alcoholic
Spurlock is so full of shit I wonder how he manages to walk without stopping to paint the wall brown.
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.
Iconic Today Show weatherman Willard Scott was the original "Ronald McDonald" for early McDonald's TV commercials.
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 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".
I feel like I'm watching a Mojo video
Oh my gosh yes!!! I was wondering what this reminded me of hahah
"Apparently DC has a big clown demographic" LOL, intentional or not I love that line
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.
One of my favorite childhood memories was the laugh my mom gave when my uncle took 7-year-old me and my 5-year-old brother to Mickey D's to get us out of her hair for awhile.
By second grade, I was already eating adult-size meals there (and I was a scrawny kid! Exercise and activity matters, parents. Get your kids outside...anyway, I digress.)
After I'd packed away a large Quarter Pounder meal and my portion of a 20-piece McNuggets split 3 ways, my uncle said to my mom, "that boy eats like a construction worker."
It became a running joke in the family for years. I didn't go into construction work though.
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.
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
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!
oh it's really interesting the youtuber KiraTV did a video for 20 minutes and even the Italian Mafia was in on it because Uncle Jerry needed to make quick cash which is why one of the Columbo's. Columbos were one of the five Italian families in New York City.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Vegetable oils are SO much worse for your body than beef tallow.
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.
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.
You failed to mention how the lawsuit story broke on 911 and that contributed to the monopoly lawsuit being overshadowed in the news
Why is no one commenting on when the worker broke the ice cream machine in real time?! “It actually just broke.” 😂😂😂 5:36
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. 😂
Ronald mcdonald rumered to be everything everywhere all at once
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.
Thanks for sharing
Willard Scott was an original Ronald.
Okay, so I don't have that clown phobia thing, but... That first clown... Did Wes Craven direct that commercial? 😳
How about Duchess, a fast food business that can't seem to die.
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.
I like to think that Ronald McDonald is a Time Lord.
So are we to ignore that Stephen Colbert was swapped out with Elizabeth Banks?! WHY DOES THIS CHANNEL SOUND SO FAMOUS?!
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
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.
I guess customers forget that you can ask for cream and sugar to be added
The tastiest foods at McDonald's now cost more than they used to
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?
The fries tasted alot better before the change
I miss Ronald McDonald was the mascot instead of those minion looking happy meals
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.
Bring back All Day Breakfast! Another casualty of Covid.
Thanks for this! 🍔 #WeirdHistoryFood #FoodHistory #McDonalds
SuperSize Me is total bs!
I worked at a McDonald’s, one of the worst jobs I ever had
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.
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.
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?!
Oh, I still have some of those ashtrays!
the ad jumpscared me for real omg, the volume difference
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
They didn't mention anything about Willard Scott being the first Ronald!
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.
Wendys should be next
Totally forgot about the ashtray’s 🚬
Hey! You pronounced Piqua correctly!
In Japan,he is Donald McDonald.
Have a hard time with "R"''s donchaknow.
Don't know how pirates talk there...
How ironic that my Mcdonald's Delivery app popped a notification while watching this lol. They are watching us
Super size me was a total lie, I ate 8 quarter pounders a day and lost 15vpounds
To this day the industrial mcdonalds coffee makers put out coffee far hotter than most anything else you'll be handed.
no mention of how the supersize me guy lied about everything?
Super Size is gone, but y'all know you can order a basket of fries now, right?
Is the weird history or watchmojo? Where’s the one guy? Lol
The coffee stirrers became contraband
Wait a second where's the regular narrator guy
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!
Unrelated, but is it me or does McDonald's taste different compared to what it use taste like? I specifically remember the McChicken use to taste more real and 'authentic' and now it tastes more 'rubbery' and fake
I was waiting on the disaster that was the 1984 Olympics scratch cards contest. They lost a bundle on that one.
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?
3:45 “Worthless” lol
The large drink today used to be extra large back in the 80s😅
All I know is that I can't stomach their burgers any more since they decided to "season" them. Way too salty, the entire flavor balance is thrown out of whack, maybe it's because I'm comparing them to how they used to taste 30 years ago.
'Can I just get one vanilla ice cream cone?'
**Crashing Sounds**
A wonderful video!
Keep it up, I know you're gonna be great!
Maybe some time we could get duet from the two of you?
You couldn't give credit to Willard Scott who played the original Ronald?
Willard Scott was the first Ronnie McD
Had to eat at Mickey's yesterday, nothing else nearby. That was a pitiful experience, the food was tasteless, I ate C rations in Nam that had more flavor. I now remember why they are the vendor of last resort.
same oil used for nuggets and fries still
Edited to mention that 95%+ stores are franchises and might use different fry vats. Congrats if you live near a good one.