I saw the documentary "Supersize me" this weekend. Its the one where a man eats nothing but McDonalds for a month, and documents the effects of this on his body.

In the special features section of the DVD, there is a section where the host/subject put various McDonalds foods in jars (as well as food from "normal" burger joints). After a few weeks in the jars, most of the products were filled with green and black stuff.

The fries on the other hand did not succomb to the forces of nature. In fact, ten weeks later, the fries looked exactly the same on day one. Then, due to miscommunication between the host/subject and his assistant, they were thrown out.

As such, armed with a washed out Pickle Jar and a Medium Sized package of McDonald's French fries, I will attempt to replicate the experiment here in my office.

Stay tuned.

Ooooh! An experiment!
Take pictures ^_^


I haven't seen that movie yet, but I intend to as soon as I have time...

I plan on taking pictures. Right now, I can report that the jar is a little foggy (I put them into the jar hot, apparently that is what the author of the documentary did - the condensation is now coating the upper portions of the jar).

And the moral of today's story is: Eat it right out of the oven--all that'll do is raise your cholestorol a few points, rather than give you a nasty disease by foodborne bacteria or fungus.

I was about to say that that was a waste of perfectly good food, but they are only *McDonald's* fries, after all...

In the "Bad Food" thread, Chex told me that McDonalds was the #1 buyer of cow's eyeballs worldwide. When I told my family that, they didn't believe me. So on a recent jaunt to McDonalds (no, I did not go voluntarily), I had chicken nuggets, a supersized fry, and a large orange soda. I felt absolutely sick by the end.

Just a note if you have a McD's milkshake:
There is no icecream like you'd think, it's really chicken cartlidge and fat.

"I'll have a large chicken shake and small fries."

Thanks.

The ice cream too?

Nah, I'm pretty sure ice cream is ice cream. B)

What I think was probaly the funniest part of that entire movie (even if it wasn't supposed to be funny) is when he is doing the flip cards, showing pictures of famous people to kids. They all get George Washington, they all get Ronald McDonald, then there is one picture nobody knows.... Jesus. I just started laughing aloud. :lol:

lol didnt one of the kids refer to GW as Jesus?

lol

I have been wanting to see taht movie. I hear it will make you not want to to eat out again.

Just hearing about it has made me not want fast food.

Which is why they call them "shakes" and not "milkshakes". Actually a chain called Steak and Shake used to have a commercial that pointed that out very bluntly--Steak and Shake actually uses milk in their milkshakes.

Although chicken cartilage is handy stuff. Very useful for making stock, or gelatin...

I can't begin to tell you about the things I make out of chicken cartilage:
ice cube trays, fake mustaches, lifesize models of George Bush.

btw: i've been working on a epic poem about a chicken, which all started from a person running in to the writing center saying, "Guy's, did you know chicken sh## is explosive?!" I thought, that's really got to be my first epic poem. 20 pages into the thing and no end is in sight.

:lol:
here's hoping Judith Gap uses his creativity for good rather than evil

Evil or good, doesn't really matter as long as it's fun...

Remind Carb never to unleash his creative talents if they'll be used for evil.

:angel: ...do bee doo bee doo doo doo, bee doo bee doo... :angel:

*hides in bushes, waiting to catch Carb*

*pats KD on the shoulder on the way past*
Evenin'.

*grabs Carb and pulls him into the bushes before tying him up and putting duct tape on his mouth*

Ooooh, kinky.

:rolleyes:

*leaves bushes and goes off in search of some other mischief*

Hmm. . .I know. . .

*TP's Red's house*

Good thing I live in an apartment!

I don't know whose house this is....

*frowns*

*looks at map*

Oops, wrong map. I ended up TPing. . .24 Sussex Drive?

*runs and hides*

**frees Carb, gives him a gun**
Nothing like a nut with a gun!

*puts roll of toilet paper in OF's hand*

OK...
TP's 24 Sussex. :ph43r:

*watches as Paul Martin comes out and looks around*

**puts flaming bag of dog crap on step**
**rings doorbell**

Day 5 - no sign of mould yet.

Awww... I wanted some good pictures of moldy, rotting McDonalds.

I just saw the DVD on friday, if you want your very own pictures of McDonalds food thouroughly rotted, I think the quickest way is a quarter pounder with cheese allowed to age five weeks. Of course a warm humid environment may shorten this time frame.

Eewww...
*note to self - never eat macDonalds again*

The worst part is that no one knows how long the McDonalds fries would have lasted had the experiment continued

I've followed that advice for the last 7 or 8 years.

A sound philosophy :).

Chex--almost no one believes me when I tell them about the cow's eyeballs.

Thats okay. They'll be enlightened someday.

hey no one ever said you couldn't eat everything.

It is day nine (still keep forgetting to bring my digicam to work). In lieu of a photograph, I'll report that the fries still look Fresh - there is no sign of mold.