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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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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.
You would do well to show that you are not a clueless ignoramus before advising others. IOTW never, ever advise others.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
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.
I don't know, Trump is the one who is openly advocating nuclear weapon proliferation in southeast Asia, which may actually be the very worst political idea I've heard yet in my 40 years.
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.
Give it a month and he'll say something worse.
If he actually gets in don't worry about him because he's all talk. Carefully watch those around him. Cheney got up to all kinds of mischief due to there being a weak President that wanted a title but didn't want to actually do the job.
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.
Examples: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mcdonald-s-create-your-taste/photos
ID: 92264 - name of burger: CHEEKY NAN DOS - By Edwardmilliband J
ID: 92269 - name of burger: THE COSBY SPECIAL - By John L
ID: 92277 - name of burger: DINO COLORING BOOK - By Tim L
ID: 92279 - name of burger: DONT RETURN DEVOLUTION - By Pop K
ID: 92280 - name of burger: THE CLINTON SPECIAL - By Bill C
ID: 92285 - name of burger: FROG FRACTIONS TWO - By Evil L
ID: 92286 - name of burger: SHREKS SWAMP - By Shrek S
ID: 92289 - name of burger: TRIPLE MAYO SALAD - By Shane M
ID: 92294 - name of burger: THE RUNS - By Donnie T
ID: 92308 - name of burger: DAS DRITTE REICH - By Joseph G
ID: 92309 - name of burger: CHRIS CHAN SPECIAL - By Chris C
ID: 92313 - name of burger: REAL BURGER HOURS - By Shlomo S
ID: 92316 - name of burger: BEHUHUHU THE RUB HVE - By Ambien I
ID: 92318 - name of burger: GROIDSLAYVEN - By Analus E
ID: 92322 - name of burger: SHILLARY PRISON BURGER - By Neogafshit N
ID: 92332 - name of burger: EVILORE RPED A GIRL - By Its T
ID: 92345 - name of burger: ITS NOT MAYO - By Ronald M
ID: 92352 - name of burger: MELANIA WHOPER - By Michelle O
ID: 92355 - name of burger: THE CARBONATOR - By Alex W
ID: 92359 - name of burger: ZE HARAM - By Adolfus H
ID: 92365 - name of burger: THIRTY DOLLAR ITALIAN - By Evil L
ID: 92370 - name of burger: SYRIAN SUPRISE - By Op A
ID: 92379 - name of burger: JUST BRIEZY - By Alsoneogaf I
ID: 92387 - name of burger: A SU MADRE - By Eder B
ID: 92389 - name of burger: HAWAIIAN CREAM - By Brent C
ID: 92390 - name of burger: VOAT NEOFAC SUB - By Angluserrare S
ID: 92391 - name of burger: MR MIMEWICH - By Jin X
ID: 92392 - name of burger: BIG AZZ SANDWICH - By Jerry S
ID: 92395 - name of burger: THE BISH BAN BURGER - By Xbannedgafferfubishes N
ID: 92396 - name of burger: ANITA SARKEESIAN - By Gamergate G
ID: 92398 - name of burger: THE BLOODY BATCAVE - By Dasd D
ID: 92400 - name of burger: REAPER - By Arrus D
ID: 92403 - name of burger: THE SLAV BRO - By Polishplumb R
ID: 92408 - name of burger: MY WAIFU - By Hug H
ID: 92414 - name of burger: MAKSTRUGGLE - By Jamaal B
ID: 92416 - name of burger: STRUGGLE MEAL - By Amapizza I
ID: 92422 - name of burger: BLAME SPACE IS TRASH - By Time D
ID: 92424 - name of burger: WHITELIVESMATTER - By Xvfgs D
ID: 92426 - name of burger: THE WELSH MOUTHFULL - By Mark P
ID: 92443 - name of burger: EVOLUTIONION - By Shane M
ID: 92444 - name of burger: DOUBLE EATSALOT - By Daniel M
ID: 92453 - name of burger: NOT TONIGHT - By Charles E
ID: 92456 - name of burger: FRANKFURTER - By Andy T
ID: 92459 - name of burger: YOLOCAUST DENIAL - By Fourchanpol S
ID: 92461 - name of burger: HITLA DID NOTHIN RONG - By Robby D
ID: 92462 - name of burger: MOANA - By Jacqueline M
ID: 92466 - name of burger: WEAD FILE - By Weed F
ID: 92468 - name of burger: THE MUSLIM DRIVER - By Allahu A
ID: 92477 - name of burger: THE TRAYVON MARTIN - By Bradley K
ID: 92478 - name of burger: LIKE FAHTHER LIKE SON - By Azure D
ID: 92481 - name of burger: CERVICAL PROLAPSE - By Fran K
ID: 92487 - name of burger: ISLAM - By Igor A
ID: 92491 - name of burger: MAKMESS WITH EGG - By Will S
ID: 92494 - name of burger: MOHAMMEDTROUMP CHOCKER - By Mohammed T
ID: 92495 - name of burger: ISLAM SPECIAL - By Asdfgsdg S
ID: 92507 - name of burger: THE KITCHEN SINK - By John S
ID: 92511 - name of burger: THE KEITH MEAD - By Keith M
ID: 92531 - name of burger: WEW LAD - By Fil D
ID: 92532 - name of burger: LETTUCE SURPRISE - By Bradley K
ID: 92536 - name of burger: BIG BOY JR - By Ronald M
ID: 92538 - name of burger: THE SHAUN KING BURGER - By Bld M
ID: 92542 - name of burger: THE LONDONISTAN - By Muslimmayor S
ID: 92543 - name of burger: NAINE ELEVEN BEST DAY - By Adolf K
ID: 92545 - name of burger: BESADA SNACK - By Donaldj T
ID: 92547 - name of burger: MY BREAKFAST - By Struggle M
ID: 92552 - name of burger: DINDU NUFFIN - By Bradley K
ID: 92553 - name of burger: VEGAN POETRY - By V M
ID: 92561 - name of bur
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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I don't know, Trump is the one who is openly advocating nuclear weapon proliferation in southeast Asia, which may actually be the very worst political idea I've heard yet in my 40 years.
No it's a good idea. Especially if you have never lived there, or have no family there that keeps you abreast of what's going on. MAD stopped the USSR and the US from destroying the world, China is a belligerent and has nuclear weapons. Other countries that are 1st world or somewhere between 3rd world and 1st don't have any. On top of that China has used it's ability to act in a unilateral manner because their neighbors don't have the ability to project their own power and secure their own national territory. See the most recent case with them building islands in territorially disputed areas to try to claim it. Hell at one point China tried to claim the entire water way up to 23 miles off the coast of the Philippines.
Om, nomnomnom...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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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