The Mermaid told me about this yesterday, and I just stumbled on the story...

BMcRib sandwiches contain same ingredient as yoga mats, shoe soles

Attention: Your McRib sandwich is probably not good for your heart. It has 980 mg of sodium and 10 grams of saturated fat. But then we already knew that it wasnt exactly health food.

According to Times healthland blog, thats not all it has: The sandwich contains 70 other ingredients. And some of those ingredients, such as azodicarbonamide, ammonium sulfate and polysorbate 80 are kinda gross.

From the story:

These components are in small enough quantities to be innocuous. But its still a little disconcerting to know that, for example, azodicarbonamide, a flour-bleaching agent that is most commonly used in the manufacture of foamed plastics like in gym mats and the soles of shoes, is found in the McRib bun. The compound is banned in Europe and Australia as a food additive. (Englands Health and Safety Executive classified it as a respiratory sensitizer that potentially contributes to asthma through occupational exposure.) The U.S. limits azodicarbonamide to 45 parts per million in commercial flour products, based on analysis of lab testing.

Never had one. I could never get past the idea that the thing was SHAPED like ribs, but had no bones. It's like eating something that comes out of a play-dough factory! BLECH!

You are talking to the wrong crowd here. These people love this crap, defend it and feed it to their kids...

Never had it. Never will.

That makes sense since the McRib looks like a sole of a shoe.

Never had one either. I love Big Macs too much to deviate to anything else. That being said, I haven't had McDonalds in a long, long time. I think it's probably because I'm now car-less and never do drive-thru. The McDonalds in my neighborhood is surrounded by way better establishments, so no real reason to go there. I'm craving a Big Mac now, though.

Sorry. Yeah, never had a McRib.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

Never had one, but read an article last week about the stuff that binds the meat together and how they are "extruded." Now looking at a picture of one makes me nauseous. Not that it didn't before. They served these things in my high school cafeteria and we called it child abuse.

Nope! Not me!

The last time they brought it back, I was in the middle of my crazy health kick and thought I'd break my diet to try one since I love bbq in general and ribs in particular and the portuguee and the giant had been crowing about its return for weeks.


Blegh.

It tasted like shoe soles.

I eat some trash  occasionally (I'm lookin' at you Big Mac) but even I wouldn't put one of those slimy meat sponges in my mouf.

I used to eat these back in the day when eating shoes and yoga mats was cool. Not so much anymore.

I do remember it was one of the unique foods that was delicious and disgusting at the same time. Kind of a Yin and Yang thing, maybe that was from the yoga mats?

I've never had one. I don't eat at McDonalds. Nasty. I may get a soda or a sundae when it's summer.

McDonalds uses quite a bit of interesting techniques and ingredients in their food. You would be surprised.

Somehow wood made its way into a good amount of our food supply as well. Meh. At least we are getting fiber.

http://www.buzzfoto.com/2011/07/companies-that-use-wood-pulp-in-their-food-as-fillers/companies-that-use-wood-pulp-in-their-food-as-fillers/

nope...........no McPIG

Never eaten a Big Mac or Quarter pounder in my life either

I like the Tuscan salad tho

Nope, they never looked appetizing to me for the same reason as you, Squid.

Never had the ribwich. About 2x per year I will have a McNugget meal. Then I feel all sorts of gross and bloated. But still, those fake pieces of deep fried/processed bird by products taste so good.

My kid used to like to eat a plain burger from time to time. I always found them to be bland.

No appy I don't feel the slightest bit bad about letting my kid have an occasional burger from mcdonalds. A treat once a month won't hurt the little dude one bit.

Guess I picked the wrong day to quit smoking McRibs.

Never ate a McRib.
Never went to a yoga class.
I do wear shoes on a regular basis but have never eaten a shoe.

Jr, I was wondering how you were holding up- did you lose power?

Simmer down, stupid phone, one post is sufficient.

Thanks for asking Maestra.

I lost power several times but never for an extended period of time.
Just kept going off then back on after a few minutes at various times over the week. Got lucky this time around since most of Manchester was out at one point. My ex just got power back after a week without it. My daughter got to spend many extra nights at my place. She went to work with me a couple times too.
This past week was like Take Your Kids To Work Week with all the school closings. My daughter isn't going back to school until Wednesday. That will be 7 days off in a row. Plus, 2 more missed days from the beginning of the year with the hurricane. It's not even winter yet.

I hope you've been with power during this time.

I've had power the entire time, but my job is still in the dark. Nothing like a forced vacation. We didn't lose power in irene either.

I was thinking that about the schools- not even november and they're already down five snow days!!

$8 - have you ever seen the happy meal won't rot thing? Tough to coke down a burger after seeing one hundreds of days old looking just the same...

News flash. Almost everything you can buy at McDonalds is bad for you.

I remember reading somewhere that the main ingredient in Taco Bell's taco "meat" was silicone dioxide, which is also a main ingredient in sand.

P.S. - I had a McRib back when they came out when I was in high school and it was fucking gross. They were super popular down south, but Southerners aren't the brightest people to begin with.

"These people"? What people? I have never had a McRib and I never will. Deeees-gusting!

I never ate one of these either:

These:

It was all a lie.
It sounded good, but when you actually got that thing everything on both sides was warm.
Having said that, though, I liked those things better than quarter pounders.

Smirk, bless yer little heart and bite my southern ass.

I hate to reinforce any stereotypes further, but do you mean Hep?

Um. LOL I mean Hep!! Maybe you are right. Ive been up since 3am so I have an excuse. jeeeze.

My case...rested.

Aren't worth the 2.79.

Had one today.
I went to my Dad's as per usual Saturday to get his groceries.
And as usual, I call before going as I usually get there around noon/lunch time.
Today, he said to get some McRib sandwiches.
I saw this thread a day or so ago.

Yes I have eaten them before.
If you don't chemically break down their composition BEFORE eating them, they aren't bad.
They aren't great.
Like run through the streets after consuming one buck nekkid with an erection screaming,
"PENIS, GOOD TIME NOW!!", great or anything though.
But they aren't soggy paperboard, leather and vibram insole inedible.

I haul beef and pork trimmings. w/ribmeat.
I'm pretty sure I know WHERE it goes.

Holiday station-stores and Kwik Trip/Kwik Star stores (along with grocery store deli's and
MANY other convenience store chains, ie; Kum-n-Go, Circle-C, Quik Trip, etc, etc, adnauseum)
that have little kitchens for hot foods, pizza and such get these 'riblet pattys' that they
put on the small deli sandwich buns. The pattys are predestined BBQ flavored and sauce is
added. Stores sell them for 1.49 to 2.49.
I have had a few of them too (at $1.49) and from the store's condiment bars add pickle 'chips',
and diced onions if I want, a little more sauce, a few more seconds in the microwave and walla -
Lunch or whatever.

I saw my heart on the ultra sound monitor. Knew it was mine. It was wrapped in bacon.
Cholesterol test comes back that way too. Bacon.
I'm waiting for that God moment when he reaches in for that inevitable cardiac issue
and whispers softly to me, "Didn't think of this when you were eating all that PORK!".

Of course like those sparkly vampires who call themselves 'vegetarians' and only, uh, feed on
animals and not humans, it's like being a beefeater trying to satisfy themselves on tofu.
Sooner or later, you'll crack. And crack bad. And then there'll be headlines. Always is.
Vegetarian Arrested In Pasture
Next To Half Consumed Hereford

Of course, if you chemically break down anything you might consume you will inevitably find
that even water is bad for you. Air too.
So, for the past several millennia, people have been eating and dying as people normally do.
And did it matter what they ate? No. They lived and died just the same.
Back in the days of Hard Times, they wasn't much a nuthin. They didden even have none o dem
calendars or nuttin back then. It was all jus a called Hard Times. Cudden even spell neither.
But they had dirt.
And they ate that dirt.
And they was THANKFUL for that dirt.
And they lived and died just as folk do today.

A hundred years from now will it make a difference if you had, or had not, eaten a McRib?
I think not.



From time to time, the usual moment seems terribly beautiful.

Hows the incomprehensibility meter running now?

I've never had one, because if you deviate from what's on the standard menu the staff acts like they're fucking lost. Anything other than a Big Mac or Cheeseburger takes too long. It's supposed to be FAST FOOD people :p

"This is a fun place, but these people will turn on you like a pack of badgers on meth if you're not careful." - big d

Never tried it, either.

I did try a "southern-style" chicken biscuit a few days ago. Why? I don't know. It was on sale? What I can tell you is that it will never happen again. Is that what McNuggets taste like? Jesus, people. Get a grip - that shit is terrible.

I have had a Mc D.L.T. It was a quarter pounder in a different box.

Agreed both sides were warm.

But it had lettuce! And tomato!!

Remember that seaweed thing they rolled out 20 years ago or so? McLean? Oh, McDonald's. Just give me the quarter pounder and beef fat fries, for god's sake.

I will pretty much eat any meat/product...but this? UGH. No thanks.

Uppy likes McRib.