The McRib Is Back! Eat One If You Dare...

[Hissyspit]

http://theweek.com/article/index/220866/whats-the-mcrib-made-of-anyway

How many ingredients are there?

At face value, the sandwich contains just pork, onions, and pickle slices slathered in barbecue sauce and laid out on a bun. But the truth is, there are roughly 70 ingredients. The bun alone contains 34, says TIME's Melnick. In addition to chemicals like ammonium sulfate and polysorbate 80, the most egregious may be azodicarbonamide — "a flour-bleaching agent most commonly used in the manufactur of foamed plastics like gym mats the and soles of shoes." According to McDonald's own ingredient list, the bun also includes calcium sulfate and ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides, among other chemicals.

Ooof. What's the meat made of?

Pig innards and plenty of salt. Typically, "restructured meat product" includes pig bits like tripe, heart, and scalded stomach, says Whet Moser at Chicago Magazine, citing a 1995 article by Robert Mandigo, a professor at the University of Nebraska. These parts are cooked and blended with salt and water to extract salt-soluble proteins, which act as a "glue" that helps bind the reshaped meat together.

Is it really that bad for you?

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http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/27/why-lovin-the-mcrib-isnt-a-heart-smart-idea

The compound is banned in Europe and Australia as a food additive. (England's 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.

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[msongs]

1. the 1% poisoning the 99% nt

[Auggie]

53. +1,000,000

[Marazinia]

2. I don't mind organ meat

If you're going to kill it, use every part you safely can (that doesn't go for cows though, thanks to the idiotic practice in the beef industry of feeding cows to other cows for so long I'm not willing to up my risk of getting CJD).

It really doesn't sound worse for you than a hamburger. But what's with the poor tortured bun? I'm thinking if I buy another one before they're gone again, I'll ditch the bun and throw it on some regular whole wheat instead.

Of course, if I was going to really shape up my eating habits again, I'd go back to being a vegetarian.

[Hissyspit]

3. If you get one of the Morningstar BBQ Riblets...

chop some onions, some pickles and put it on your bread, it tastes pretty much every bit as good as the McRib.

http://www.morningstarfarms.com/morningstar-farms-hickory-bbq-riblets.html

Here's what you're dealing with in that case:

WATER, EVAPORATED CANE JUICE, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MOLASSES, TOMATO PASTE (TOMATOES), VINEGAR, TEXTURED WHEAT PROTEIN (WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEAT STARCH, PHOSPHATE, CARAMEL COLOR), CANOLA OIL, CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, YEAST EXTRACT, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, METHYLCELLULOSE, EXTRACT OF MALTED BARLEY AND CORN, WHEAT GLUTEN, CARAMEL COLOR, SUNFLOWER OIL, XANTHAN GUM, ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, SPICES.

[demgrrrll]

6. I think yeast extract breaks down to msg. or is that

hydroylzed? yeast extract

[Marazinia]

9. I used to eat their chik patties

They tasted scarily like chicken. Their burgers I never cared for. Boca aren't bad, though.

[dionysus]

37. morningstar buffalo wing and boca spicy chik patties are the way to go!

[dionysus]

35. i love the riblets... didn't that used to be a gardenburger product? i remember buying gardenburger

riblets that were good, never saw them inthestore after a while, now morningstar has em...

[RebelOne]

56. Love Morningstar riblets. Buy them frequently when

i am in the mood for something meaty.

[tavalon]

13. CJD is why I don't touch beef

Prions R Us.

[Liquorice]

16. Pigs in the US are fed the "remains" of cattle, and so it is possible

that CJD could be transmitted by eating a pig that was fed an infected cow. There are some studies that show that eating pork is a risk factor for developing "sporadic" CJD:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0107-07.htm

I recently read that autopsies performed on people who died of Alzheimer's showed that up to 13% actually had CJD. This is a big story that the meat industry does NOT want out there...

http://www.mad-cow.org/Alzheimer_cjd.html

[chollybocker]

4. Eww, gross, pig innards.

I'll stick with the double anus burger.

[progressoid]

15. With extra chuckle...

Jack: ...Oh, uh, hang on. Kenneth, you're from Georgia, aren't you?

Kenneth: Stone Mountain, sir. Although when the Parcells first came to America, they lived in a town called ''Sexcriminalboat''. Do you think that's Cherokee?

Jack: Uh, uh, no. I mean, you're a Middle American. A Joe Average. You're the only one around here who knows what ordinary people want. So tell me. What makes you laugh?

Kenneth: The usual, I suppose. Two hobos sharing a bean. Lady airline pilots. I remember growing up in Stone Mountain, my whole family would go down to the Chuckle Hut.

Jack: That's the local comedy club?

Kenneth: Oh, no, sir, It's a Chuckle Hut. You see, the chuckle is the part of the pig between the tail and the anus. But at night, the Chuckle Hut becomes the Laugh Factory. And that's a comedy club.

Jack: Lemon, cancel your trip to Toronto. We're going to Stone Mountain, Georgia.

...

http://www.betweenthebreadblog.com/30-Rock-Sandwiches-Humanity-5932934#ooid=Q4ZDV5OnXUNaB0p4lAX4xV7-WNJsR4Od

[hfojvt]

5. wow 24 grams of protein and it's high in iron - 16% of DV

calcium too. I bet there's even some riboflavin, although the new labels will never tell you http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-mcdonalds-mcrib-sandwich-i53939

[AsahinaKimi]

7. The only thing I have ever eaten at McDonalds is their

Fish sandwich and fries. I think they use whitefish for the fish..but not sure. I usually avoid going to McDonald's most of the time. There are local places that make real fish and chips, and fish burgers that I can count on to be the real thing.

[defendandprotect]

8. "Pig innards and plenty of salt" --- not to mention

a whopping amount of violence inflicted on animals --

We're slaughtering 12 million a day or more in US!

[Marazinia]

11. Keep pouring on the guilt

I miss being a vegetarian. It's hard to get back to it because staying healthy takes actual preparation and time when you're on a budget, but I really need to.

[tavalon]

14. Yeah, I guess it does

I ended up as an accidental vegetarian. I stopped eating red meat and then noticed I wasn't eating any meat. Then I started liking tofu. I think that's what finally did it. Though I can't eat TVP because it contains gluten. I don't eat processed sugar anymore, either. Someone at work asked me what's left? Clearly something, since I'm hardly starving. That said, I've lost 25 pounds in the last year. And my gut isn't giving me hell anymore. That's a big plus.

[Marazinia]

52. I did it because the only vegetarian I knew was very energetic and healthy

And I was healthier during the years I was vegetarian. Much healthier, except when I got careless (which I too often did) and didn't keep up with a balanced diet. Not that my diet is balanced now!

[defendandprotect]

68. True --

but beans are good -- I like to mix red beans and black beans when I make Chili --

and if you make a big pot of it, you can freeze some for another meal.

I usually try to get a small head of cole slaw and just shave it and put some kind

of pepper corn/ranch mix on it which we don't usually have. Unfortunately, never

found anything that works on cole slaw as well as some kind of mayo mix. But as a

Vegan I make an exception for cole slaw occasionally and mixed grain pancakes with

sauteed apples and cinnamon. They're also good cold for breakfast and for dinners.

A slice of them -- I usually stack them up in pie like fashion and then put the apples

on top -- can help any meal!



:)

[Marazinia]

95. Darn you

Now I'm hungry and waking everyone up making breakfast at 4 am is not going to make me popular!

The breakfast sounds great, for beans, I tend to make burritos with black beans, rice, salsa, and every kind of hot spice I can think of to mix in. Clears the sinuses while it fills the belly!

[defendandprotect]

107. Right -- I know about needing a pancake fix ....

Spices in the salsa -- great for the sinuses!!

:)

[Major Nikon]

61. At least their lips and assholes aren't going to waste

[defendandprotect]

67. You may enjoy eating them, but doubt others really know what they're eating -- !!???

[Major Nikon]

69. I wouldn't hit a dog in the ass with a McRib

However, I don't have a problem with using all parts of the animal for human consumption.

[defendandprotect]

70. Maybe some day someone will feel that way about your body parts -- !! YIKES!

[Major Nikon]

74. I certainly hope so

[defendandprotect]

75. I would think that would be even a bit beyond the Marquis De Sade -- but good luck!!

[Raine]

10. GAG, that kind of "food" makes me glad I'm a vegetarian.

:puke:

[RebelOne]

57. Ditto. n/t

[tavalon]

12. That sounds so gross

Not that I would ever darken the door of a McDonalds. This isn't going to encourage me.

[Hutchewon]

17. I never eat at McDonald's because...

They have stood against my neighborhood in comercializing it. They have gotten the city to change the traffic patterns so that wrecks would not block the entrance to their 'restaurant'. The city installed a traffic island that now shifts all the traffic to my street increasing the possibility of carnage. In my mind they are a great example of what is wrong with this country.

[RebelOne]

58. Even before I became I vegetarian, I never ate at McDonald's

because I knrew what was in their supposedly meat hamburgers.

[DAMANgoldberg]

18. Where I live...

The dish for various parts of the pig with cornmeal is called Livermush/Liver Pudding, and the OP should know what I'm referring to. In other parts of the country, Hog Head Cheese or Scrapple in the Penn. Dutch country. It's amazing how enough BBQ sauce and onions can cover up a piece of meat that otherwise has a bland taste (especially Mack's, as opposed to Neese's or Jenkins).

[ejpoeta]

19. I read this to my daughter (12) and then said, doesn't it sound tasty.

she said she doesn't ever want to eat mcdonald's cheeseburgers again. I said, this is the mcrib, but the cheeseburgers aren't any better. I also said that most fast food is the same way. I can't stand mcdonalds. Yech!

[sfpcjock]

20. How come the 1/3 Pounder tastes like anchovies?

Just saying.

[no_hypocrisy]

21. "What's the meat made of?"

Reminds me of Jamie Oliver showing a bunch of kids what's really in Chicken McNuggetts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2OK6xDd7Hs

And the kids would still choose the reconstituted inards, sinew, bone, skin, organs over "real" chicken meat as long as they were packaged as round, breaded McNuggetts.

The McRib shows the same calloused boardroom logic. Create a product that's not really food, not even reconstituted chitlin's. Serve it with lots of BBQ sauce to hide the fact there's no flavor, sell it at a price that is affordable, make it for a "limited time", and you will have created a market for it.

[hobbit709]

22. McDonald's tells a McFib about their McRib.

It ain't rib meat, it's barely meat.

[Erose999]

23. McRib is zombie meat. It keeps coming back from the dead.

[Odin2005]

26. LMAO!

[Luciferous]

31. lol

[awoke_in_2003]

66. It is the Brett Favre of fast food...

buy it quick, it is going away soon. No, we really mean it this time.

[ragemage]

24. Now this is scary for Halloween

I was tempted to go and try the McRib. I have not had one in many years. After reading this I will stay away.

[Odin2005]

25. EWWW, organ meats is the one thing I WILL NOT EAT!!!

[ReverendDeuce]

27. They are DELICIOUS and I will enjoy them this season!

I love them.

End of story.

n/t

[Rebubula]

28. Meh...

...I come from the South. We eat pig innards all the time - Scrapple (which I do not like), sausage (love) and even chittlins (they are not delicious, but they are not too bad when prepared right) and pigs feet (ok...gotta be drunk for these, but they are tasty when you are already pickled - lol) .

Now...for the McRib - I used to LOVE this particular sanni. However, McDs has changed the recipe for the BBQ sauce and it changed my feel for the sanni. I had one yesterday and it was rather bland.

I may not eat one again - but it will not have anything to do with the contents.

[TuxedoKat]

29. I bought one last year

it was so disgusting -- took one bite, spit it out, that was it.

[Evasporque]

30. Prepping for profit in the pending zombie apocalypse...nt

[snooper2]

32. I worked at McDonalds when they first came out, would make triple McRibs when i got hungry :)

Probably ate hundreds of them 20 years ago..

I'm still shitting out the correct hole and based on my beautiful daughter my sperm is still good so I say go for it :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Change has come]

85. Of course.

:rofl: :puke: :rofl: :puke: :rofl: :puke:


I've always tagged you as a "company" person.

[snooper2]

103. Company man eh?

ROFL :rofl:

You got a little graph on the basement wall where you plot posters handles? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[TwilightGardener]

33. I had one McRib back in the 80's--found a chunk of gristle, nearly vomited.

Stopped eating Taco Bell beef tacos for the same reason--bit into a strangely large, long skein of some kind of gristly gray-whitish tissue, and nearly vomited. These sorts of experiences are what might finally tip me over into vegetarianism.

[Hissyspit]

38. I found both a chicken feather and a piece of wire in my KFC chicken breast once.

[TwilightGardener]

41. Ew--I haven't had KFC in a while, but that's an incident that would make me swear off it for life.

[KamaAina]

64. Must've been chicken wire

:P

:puke:

[cordelia]

54. My mom tried a McRib in the 80s, too, and

said it contained something like a knuckle, so she's never had another and I've never had one after that tale.

Your Taco Bell story has nauseated me, so I won't be going back there. That's a good thing, so thanks. Not that I've been in several years anyway.

[yella_dawg]

34. I love the McRib...

But I only eat that which is identifiable as food. "Tastes good!" does not make it food.

[NeedleCast]

36. I'll probably have one

I eat at "fast food" places between two and four times a month on average. I'll probably make one of those trips to McDieties for a McRib. One wont kill me and more than a Little Debbie fudge round will.

They're tasty. I don't really care what part they're made out of. Never have understood why eating some animal organs is "gross" and eating other animal organs is acceptable.

[LanternWaste]

44. Social mores.

"Never have understood why eating some animal organs is "gross" and eating other animal organs is acceptable...."

Social mores. :shrug: Also dictates why eating a dead family member is considered unacceptable too...

[Evasporque]

39. McGristle is Back!

McLigaments and McUffal

[tawadi]

40. Now THAT is a Halloween scare

:scared:

[geardaddy]

42. lips and assholes.

[Texasgal]

43. Scalded stomach?

:scared:

[Kablooie]

45. That must be why it has the texture of a dryer lint mat in a tasty sauce.

[Hissyspit]

46. And the sauce is not all that tasty.

[Kablooie]

93. Did I say tasty? I meant testy.

As in testy culls.

[bullwinkle428]

47. When I have a craving for BBQ, I'll go to an actual BBQ establishment.

[cyglet]

81. Me too...closer to my house than McD's anyway n/t

[mainer]

48. A McRib should have rib meat! Thanks for educating us.

I've never had one, but the name McRib was enticing. Until I found out there was no rib meat.

[whopis01]

49. It looks (vaguely) like a slab of rib - bones and all

I always thought the weirdest thing about the McRib was that it looks like a little slab of ribs where you eat the bones as well.

I'm not opposed to anyone having one if it is what you want - after all it isn't like you could pick one of those up and actually think it was ribs. I don't think anyone ever ate one and said - wow the meat falls right off the bones and then the bones become meat and fall apart as well!

I've had them before - even think they are kind of tasty. But there is no way you can't admit that thing is really really weird.

[CreekDog]

50. A dare is what it would take!

:rofl:

[guitar man]

51. Meh.... I've survived worse than that

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger :silly:

[closeupready]

55. I like them, but I'm not eating fast food anymore.

I'd like to try that KFC Double Down, or the new Wendy's Dave Burger, but I just can't find the time or justification for it.

[thereismore]

59. Meat glue. Gag. nt

[Cali_Democrat]

60. I remember eating a McRib a long time ago when I was a lot younger

I think I took two bites and threw it away.

[Major Nikon]

62. Parts is Parts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTzLVIc-O5E

[DefenseLawyer]

63. The McRib is tasty

One a year is plenty, and no, I don't want to know what's in it, but the boys in the lab deserve credit where credit is due. Whatever mixture of space age polymers and salt they came up with makes a tasty quasi-meat sandwich.

[southernyankeebelle]

65. They taste horrible

[KoKo]

71. Well...I don't eat there at Mickey D's, anymore...but I'm barfing wondering who ELSE uses these

products? I have a Bar-B-Que" place near me that's a chain. I wonder if they are "mixing up some pork stew of parts" and selling it off to me as ribs.

How would we know these days?

[KoKo]

73. Judging by the Praised Comments here for "McRibs" ..I'd say it's "Obama RIBS" that

folks are defending. I guess this post should have been placed in GDP...instead of GD...given how many positive posts for "McRibs" there are here...and many are very snarky.

[sarcasmo]

72. Banned in Europe good for Americans, USA, USA, USA.

[JVS]

78. Actually, the McRib is always on the menu at McDonalds in Germany

[cyglet]

80. Probably actual rib meat n/t

[JVS]

84. Nope. Same as here,

just processed a bit differently.

[sarcasmo]

104. I was speaking of the compound not the actual Mcrib.

The compound is banned in Europe and Australia as a food additive. (England's 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.

[cyglet]

79. Lots of things banned in Europe and fine to sell here

HFCS. Trans fats. Red #5.

People over profits sounds nice....

[cherokeeprogressive]

76. Had one Saturday. Loved it. Tomorrow for lunch I'm going to have the KFC bowl thingy with bacon.

Everything is better with bacon.

I guess none of the snobs posting on this thread would ever eat such NASTY and harmful foods such as...

Andouille
Andouillette
Haggis
Menudo
Pancitas
Trippa di Moncalieri — in Moncalieri city/Piedmont/Italy (tripe sausage, that could be served in thin slices with few drops of olive oil, minced parsley, garlic and a pinch of black pepper, or used mainly for "Trippa alla Savoiarda" recipe )
Trippa alla fiorentina — in Italy (fried with tomatoes and other vegetables)
Trippa alla Romana — in Italy (done with white wine and tomatoes)
Trippa alla Savoiarda — in Piedmont/Italy (stewed with vegetables, white wine, sauce from roasted beef and served covered with grated Parmigiano Reggiano/Grana Padano cheese)
Tripoux

or any one of a hundred other tripe dishes from around the world.

[Logical]

83. +1000' what a bunch of assholes posting their arrogance on this post!

[Jamastiene]

98. Menudo? Sure, I eat boy bands for breakfast.

:P

:hide:

To each their own. I'll eat some things at McDonalds(although I never had a McRib, just never had an urge to try one) and if someone else doesn't want to, that is their prerogative.

Still, I love that there is a food named after a boy band called Menudo. :D

[pinboy3niner]

100. :) Have you ever seen what's IN boy bands?

It's well-documented that they're made of...

Snakes and snails
And puppy-dogs' tails

And hormones. Lots and lots of hormones. :)

[wickerwoman]

111. I'm happy to eat tripe when it's called tripe and that's what I ordered.

If I went into an Italian restaurant, ordered Ribs alla Romana and got tripe, I think you can understand my being a little put out.

I also eat organ meats (mostly liver and kidneys) but only ones I get from a reputable butcher and which I *know* are fresh and which I intend to cook within hours of buying. Livers and kidneys filter toxins and you can end up with some nasty consequences if the animal's diet isn't reasonably clean. They also go off incredibly fast.

With Mad Cow disease and God knows what else floating around out there, it doesn't pay to be cavalier about eating offal. And it certainly doesn't help to have companies like McDonalds with questionable sourcing and food hygiene practices trying to pass off offal as something it isn't.

[flvegan]

77. Sold BY idiots, TO idiots.

Sad but true.

[Logical]

82. I like them! So I am an idiot? How progressive of you!

[flvegan]

86. "Like" is an emotional response.

Eating crap because one "likes" it is one thing. That doesn't make you an idiot, just makes you nutritionally stupid. No big deal. Eating it because you think it might be food makes you an idiot. Up to you how that plays out.

Yes, question my progressive "cred" because I made a point about how you don't apparently know how to fucking feed yourself outside of palate pleasure. Shame on me.

[Logical]

88. Lol......you don't have many friends I assume!

[flvegan]

90. Keep assuming.

[cherokeeprogressive]

91. Wow. That was just mean. Not how I think of you at all.

I'd bet money that L's diet consists of foods you'd approve of as well as those you don't. Mine does. The steamed veggies I ate tonight at dinner were grown right here on the little patch of land I live on. I confess though that sometimes I do succumb to pleasures of the palate...

So you think L is an idiot for what he "likes". I think that's pretty much unlike you, and I'd like to think you see me as an idiot for reasons other than my occasional dietary diversions...

[Prometheus Bound]

102. It might have been a tad mean, but you have to admit it was pretty funny!

[Union Scribe]

94. That looked like a pretty emotional response, too.

[Liquorice]

96. Well I don't think anyone would argue that eating a McRib is healthy. We all know

McRibs are unhealthy. So in that regard, it's like smoking. And many people think smokers are idiots for smoking.

Then there's the argument that McRibs aren't really "food" at all. There are certainly people who would classify the McRib as unfit for human consumption. McRibs have little to no nutritional value and have a lot of really bad potentially harmful ingredients, so there is a case to be made that only idiots would consider a McRib "good" or even food.

Given those things, I don't think the belief that idiots eat McRibs is particularly flawed, and it's certainly not outside the bounds of progressive thought to believe that.

[geomon666]

87. mmmm...restructured meat product *drool* n/t

[Skip Intro]

89. Aaaaand you only live once...

as far as we know...

we can all hide under our beds terrified of what might be out there that will kill us, but in the end we're all gonna die just the same...we're all dying and we all will...if you enjoy the sandwich, ENJOY THE SANDWICH!

My only problem with any food like the McRib is that a defenseless animal had to die to make it. This, THIS, we need to change.

[Liquorice]

92. When I read the comments about this story, I can't help but wonder (pics warning)

what the difference is between this:


(dogs going to slaughterhouse in China)
and this:

(pigs going to slaughterhouse)

I really don't think there is a difference. Many Chinese people would certainly say that their dog burgers (or however they fix their dog meat) are delicious and they love them. It's no different here with people saying they love to eat pig meat. And yet, I remember when the activists in China saved those dogs, and everyone here was very emotional about it and supportive of saving the dogs (myself included). But pigs are loving animals too and are quite intelligent, so why do so many find eating them okay, but not okay to eat dogs? It's all right to eat that loving animal, but not THAT loving animal... It's plain old human hypocrisy, I suppose.

[brettdale]

97. Those things were so hard to make

Worked at mcds in the 90's, they would always fall apart, as you took them out, surly they cant have any value to them.

[zinnisking]

99. I work for one of the top sausage producers.

Everyday I walk past the apparatus used to soak the pig intestines that are used for brat casings. I have been around septic systems that smell better.

The feces imbued casings are soaked in a hundred gallons of acids and chemicals (which get dumped down the drain everyday. Hello Gulf of Mexico dead zone). They still stink when they're done. Put that through my mouth and into my body...never!

[Prometheus Bound]

106. Well that got my interest.

That's pretty disgusting. Sounds like a good way to become a vegetarian.

[zinnisking]

109. It helps.

I was a vegetarian years before I worked there.

Not all the casings are made from rancid, feces imbued intestine. Some are artificial.

The ethical and environmental impact that goes into making the sausages is so monumental I don't think most people have teh vaguest clue...

...the chemicals used to prepare the casings, the drums of chemicals and thousands of gallons of water used to clean the equipment, the dumpsters full of waste from packaging, labeling and boxing, the environmental impact that giant pig and beef farms have (Al Franken's book Lying Liars does a good job of explaining the impact of giant pig farms in chapter 'Huge Lagoons of Pig Feces'), the energy it takes to cool almost every inch of the village sized factories...and there's so much more. Not to mention how cruel factory farms are.

Some people probably are eager to call me a hypocrite. I don't lecture people about eating meat. I'll share my opinions if the topic comes up and if I'm in the mood and especially while on a progressive discussion forum. I can accept that I'm a sell out. What are ya gonna do...I need a job.

[RegieRocker]

101. It is such a small amount no harm can come to you.

[negativenihil]

105. damn i love the McRib

Honestly? I don't care about whats in it. I'm sure this will both most of you.

Oh well.

[Warren DeMontague]

108. I'll McPass

No McThanks.

[Cerebral Assassin]

110. Good times

Love those things, and I don't care what they're made out of. It's like blood sausage. I know exactly what it's made from but I don't care because it's so damn tasty.

[Liquorice]

112. What if you found out that the McRib

was made of dog feces? Would that matter? I mean, of course, that the McRib tastes exactly as it does now, but you found out that it was literally a shit sandwich. Would you care? Would that bother you as long as the taste was the same?

Just curious.

[Cerebral Assassin]

113. That'd be different

If it was made of dog feces, it wouldn't taste the same as it does now, so it's a moot question.

[Liquorice]

114. I think it could easily be

disguised in the McRib, what with all that sauce on it. McDonalds could definitey mix some dog poop into the sandwich "meat" without notice. I think, however, that the real answer is that you DO care what's in your food, at least to some degree, and wouldn't eat a McRib if it had dog poop in it, no matter how tasty you thought it was.

[Cerebral Assassin]

115. You got me

With exceptional perspicacity, you have seen through my attempt to deceive the America public with a vague colloquialism. Good for you. Yes, it is true that I do in fact care about the ingredients of the McRib to the extent that I would not eat one if it were made from dog shit. Happy now?