I'm reading Morgan Spurlock's book right now. It's called "don't eat this book" (so he doesn't get sued for someone trying to eat it and then injuring themselves) and I just read something really freaky that I thought I'd share.
You guys know that Mcdonalds cooks the french fries in Vegetable oil right? Well, it seems that when they made the switch from beef tallow they didn't like the new taste so went ahead and added some beef flavour back into the vegetable oil. The proof of this is on the nutritional information page of the offical Mcdonald's website. It says waaaaaay down the bottom there:
No products are certified as vegetarian; all products may contain trace amounts of ingredients derived from animals.
Doesn't that freak you out some? They aren't even going to promise that the sprite doesn't have animal derivative in it.
Ok, so I'm not a vegetarian and as you all know I'm pretty anti-Mcds anyway, but that's a pretty freaky statement there. Much more worrying than "may contain traces of nuts".
Huh. In America you can also get a "Mighty Kids Meal" which is bigger than a happy meal. They're advertising it for older children and apparently it comes with a "cool fun toy". I want a cool fun toy.
and hey! They have Grimace on there too! I thought they'd phased him out!
(Man, do you remember those colouring calendars Mcds used to put out about this time of year. I loved those.)
Posted by jenni at December 20, 2005 10:06 PM