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McDonald's 'Make Burger History' Site Hijacked With Offensive Burger Ideas (stuff.co.nz)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Stuff.co.nz: McDonald's New Zealand has been left with egg on its face after a raft of bad-taste burger suggestions customers forced it to quickly take down its new design-your-own-burger website. The company launched its "Make Burger History" site this week, as part of a new promotion where customers can "build your own unique burger" and get free fries and a medium soft drink. "Just come in to a participating 'Create Your Taste' McDonald's and order your Creation at the self ordering kiosk," McDonald's promised. But its failure to consider what pranksters might dream up online has left the company red-faced, with the website overrun by racist, homophobic and otherwise offensive suggestions. The page now redirects to the McDonald's homepage. The burger concepts ranged from the mild, such as "Bag of Lettuce" (literally just a pile of lettuce leaves) and "The Carbonator" (seven burger buns, no filling), to X-rated, including "Girth" (a stack of seven undressed burger patties) and "Ron's Creamy Surprise" (a pile of mayonnaise, best left unexplained). But many went totally tasteless, creating burgers with names like "Mosque at Ground-Zero," "Rektal Prolapse" and "Toddler Body Bag," some of which ended up on the website's front page before it was shut down entirely overnight.
Sometimes I miss out on all of the fun.
How many times is this going to happen before corporations realise if you give people the chance to publish the names of something they'll come up with shit like "Hitler did nothing wrong" and "Fapple".
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
I revile hatred and bigotry. Yet I love the internet.
How can these both be true? Oh internet, you are a sweet sweet mystery.
...I would've just created a "Fullet'o'Fush" and "Chups".
It's one thing to run a promotion like this, but to post things for public consumption before they can be vetted is just idiotic. It's almost like they hired Tay to do their PR.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
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Come on. Just like the other corporations that did this. Sure you're going to get names like "Granny Gusher" and "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong" but who cares? Great advertising and the face-planters and twits will forward it to all their friends. At the end of the day, you just say "The Internets" and "not our fault", wash your hands of the whole thing, and smile all the way to the bank.
"Ask the internet, and ye shall receive that which you did not expect"
It's why I almost want to vote for Trump even though he's a pompous vapid xenophobe who may get us all nuked.
As opposed to the corporate connected felon who will CERTAINLY get us nuked, and nuke a few countries of her own just to show she can?
After all, between Trump and Hillary, only Hillary has actually started any wars.
There is a third choice you know.
Unlike you, I'm not trolling, just informing people of seemingly forgotten history and options.
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You could do the same thing with your own homemade burger and homemade bun IF you used sufficient salt in the burger and bun (which McD's has plenty) and then put into dry storage
Woman in Arizona did the same thing.
The disgust is your imagination. Salted things in barrels were standard on ships taking long journeys before refrigeration.
More like used for it's intended purpose.
No, "excessive" salt doesn't bother most people, that's a fallacy, no correlation between high blood pressure and sodium in diet for normal people.
On the plus side, none of these were more tasteless than the burgers themselves.
What about pure nitrogen? Having said that, I wonder if "offensive burger ideas" isn't a pleonasm as I find burgers offensive in general.
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It has been a long time, but last I remember, the US MCDs had sausage, ham, and bacon for their breakfast biscuits and muffins, and sometimes the "McRib". Create a new sandwich with all four and you get the pork Grand Slam. Just cut back on the rib sauce, please.
A dingo ate my sig...
Or a screenshot?
I could do with a laugh this Friday morning.
To be accurate, there definitely was a correlation observed but it's now suspected it was false positives due to the people eating a lot of salt probably also eating a lot of fat.
You really only need the dry storage. Bread is very good at this as long as it's dry weather and you kept the mold off while it still had moisture. Meat is more difficult to get to last but the same principle applies.
Examples: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mcdonald-s-create-your-taste/photos
You know how jerky is made? You take meat, cut it into slices, then let it dry (sometimes with salt, but you can do it without IIRC if you raise the temperature a bit so it dries faster). Same with breadcrumbs: you take slices of bread, and let it sit on the counter, separated so they can dry quicker (before mold has a chance to form), and then crumble the dried bread. That's all that happened: they made McDonald's jerky and dried bread. There's probably a bit of mold near the center of the burger, where it'd take much longer to dry out, but maybe not, since the burger is relatively thin and dry to begin with. You could do a similar thing with any foodstuffs thin and/or dry enough to dry out completely before it begins to rot.
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"Toddler Body Bag"
That's my new band name.
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McDonald's burger patties are also thin af, they dry out quick so they dont rot.
Make Poverty History -- Make Burger History. Apologies for posting the obvious. We Germans had a taste of this a few years ago when chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport asked its customers to invent new flavors of its square shaped product. Try "Ritter Sport Gorgonzola" as a search term to get a peek at some not-so-tasty submissions.
This is the part where you discover that eating lots of fat is also not bad or not as bad as they think. The studies have been coming hot and heavy on that one too, and it seems that hypertension is more directly related to our new lifestyle. This is echoed in other societies where they've followed the same path. One of the more interesting cases is southern okinawa, where the same is happening. People think it's the food and that's part of it, the other part is because the kids and middle-aged adults aren't doing what they did for the last 700+ years. Active working lifestyle farming, fishing and so on.
Om, nomnomnom...
Hell, one time I got an ass chewing from my doctor for not having *enough* salt in my blood.
How would anyone be able to tell? What can be more disgusting than a McDonalds hamburger and fries that looks the same after 6 years?
A regular hamburger made from fresh ingredients from the store will exhibit the same behaviour. The key is that the beef is thin, well cooked (i.e. sterile), and that it rapidly loses moisture. So this is natural.
http://www.snopes.com/six-year...
That's why we can't have nice things.
Way too tasty to be served at McDonald's.
people are assholes
At least you got first post little faggot.
Not only does he have first post, but that little faggot got his own jet airplane.
That little faggot he's a millionaire.
Seems simple enough: fat people are fat because they eat too much fat. Until you ask yourself the question how cows get fat. Now it turns out that certain amounts of fat in our diet are actually quite healthy, and much better than all the synthetic stuff we've been replacing fat with. Butter is healthier than margarine, who would have thunk? Sugar is the new culprit now, until the next study comes along.
He has also said that he would never take options off the table and wouldn't telegraph our reactions and responses.
Which means he's an idiot negotiator if he's never willing to do those things. Sometimes it's useful to hint what our reactions might be. Sometimes it's useful to reassure people that you aren't going to cause Armageddon. People tend to be touchy about their continued existence if they perceive you as a threat to it. Pretty stupid position from someone who styles themselves a genius deal maker.
So of course he wouldn't rule anything out because doing so would be ignoring that self imposed principle.
He wouldn't rule anything out because the man is an imbecile as is anyone who seriously thinks he is fit for public office. His only talent is self promotion and aggrandizement. (and no that is not an endorsement of Hillary either)
I'm sure whoever suggested that idea is now being reassigned somewhere else in the corp.. as a burger flipper.
You have no experience with corporations, I see.
There's this principle called "success by fiat". The experiment will be declared a success, and that it's now time to move on.
The guys who did the actual implementation work against their objections get no bonuses this year, while their bosses get their quota too.
I've worked in a food quality assurance lab, and one interesting test is called the 'water activity test'. Moisture level of the food is tested after it is produced. If it was made to spec, it will be dry enough that there isn't enough free water for it to spoil. If it is too wet then they test that lot more heavily for spoilage organisms. Most high acid foods won't grow pathogens, so it isn't a safety issue, just a taste and stability issue. Heavily salted or sweetened foods have low free water, which is why historical techniques for preserving food involved large amounts of either, or both. It's why if you have fresh berries they don't last long, but preserves last a great long time, and dried berries last even longer.
And we all know how bad excessive salt is.
Everyone but you.
Putting enough salt into bread buns to keep them from going mouldy, and enough hfcs to isguise the saltiness, is disgusting.
On a scale from 0 to vomit, the buns at McDeeznutz are not even vaguely close to the chicken nuggets, which dissolve into a pile of froth, seafoam, and chicken paste if you don't cook them.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Hell, one time I got an ass chewing from my doctor for not having *enough* salt in my blood.
That's quite an...unusual...way of testing for salt in the diet.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
How about this one: two slabs of frozen butter with a filling of salt and sugar between to slices of cheese. It's a McMorbid Obesity.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Pleonasm. Nice. I found that in a dictionary once, and only remembered it because it's a humorously redundant word for "redundant." Never seen anyone else use it.
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When I see things like this, I get a chuckle, or maybe a good belly laugh, at some of the burger names.
When I see some of the things people come up with to disparage something like McDonalds, I actually get a glimmer of hope for humanity.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Putting enough salt into bread buns to keep them from going mouldy, and enough hfcs to isguise the saltiness, is disgusting.
Actually bread has tons of salt in it because plain, unflavoured grain is pretty darn tasteless. It also affects the gluten. Making a loaf of bread without salt and not having it comeout as a bland slab is much more difficult than with using salt.
Artesanal bread has tons of salt in it.
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Pleonasm. Nice. I found that in a dictionary once, and only remembered it because it's a humorously redundant word for "redundant."
I used to refer to an excessively large number of redundantisms as a "neoplastic pleonasm." (try saying that fast 5 times)
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But I simply have to ask.
How did the Quarter Pounder® get out the door?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
It's given us a good laugh, and nobody's opinion of McD has changed: Love or hate. Great story.
McDonalds is being mentioned on slashdot and likely numerous other places seen by people who might then get a burger for lunch/dinner. They didn't have to say anything racist or homophobic or whatever evil trigger it is this week and can instead blame the evil white supremacists on the internet while still getting all the publicity.
I'm not sure "by fiat" is necessary.
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jeez - some people are sensitive.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Taste would still deteriorate with time in most foods. Not all chemical changes are suspended just because moisture is reduced. But don't let science interfere with your stupid beliefs.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
I've made homemade bread with only a small quantity of salt - still tastes great fresh out of the oven. Smells awesome too. Now if you want to make something with a longer shelf life, throw in more salt. But lets face it - homemade bread don't need shelf life because it's all gone the same day,
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
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Seems she was arguing for the war, not sure what quotes you have to offer up, but you didn't offer any, so I am not sure if they exist.
Remember, all quotes must be from before the war started for her to have been speaking out against the war.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?