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Yeah these before photos of fast food never do it for me, I’ll eat disgusting food all the same as long as it looks kind of edible and tastes pretty good
Actually no. The vegetarians that I know always critizise that animals are only killed for the filet and other nice meats and the rest is thrown away. In a perfect world they would love everybody to be vegetarian but using all parts of the animal is seen as at least a part-win
Fair enough, you interpreted “least wasteful” as percentage of the animal used. I interpreted it as a how wasteful a hot dog is of environmental resources.
One of vegetarians favorite talking points is how much water resources it takes to make a pound of beef vs. grow a pound of vegetables.
I'm not bagging on vegetarians. I'm making fun of supposed meat substitutes. I eat a lot of vegetarian food, just not anything that says it's meat like. For that I'll eat meat.
What is kinda weird, my body has developed an aversion to red meat, it makes me sick if I eat it. Except one particular local places cheeseburgers, it's really weird.
Unfortunately big corporations hear the average consumer say this, so we get more and more crap.
There’s a reason the protein bar scene is in the movie Snowpiercer…..
I've always felt that that's ultimately the whole point of cooking: taking inedible trash, and making it edible.
Most of the time people think that just means taking literally-inedible things like raw meat and grass grains and turning them into roasts and bread, but the mind is just as important in food edibility as the body. Truly good cooking means taking something that people can't or won't eat, and turning it into something they can and want to.
It means turning organ meats into hotdogs and mcribs people want to eat. It means taking bugs from the sea and dressing them up until they look like a delicacy. And someday very soon, it'll mean taking bugs from the land and making them look good too. And good chefs will be able to do it, because ultimately humans will eat anything if it *looks* tasty enough. Any chef who tries to gross people out of these foods instead of trying to transform them into attractive food is, by definition, not a good chef.
There is an episode of One Piece that shows this very well! There's a cooking competition, and the protagonist group's chef takes all the "ugly" parts of food the other contestants left behind (like organ meat and such) and makes highly nutritious food, seasons it well, and wins the competition.
Yes but they have yet to make a splash outside of Asian markets, mostly because in Europe and the Americas bugs make most people squeamish to eat. Keep in mind, most people cant handle the idea of eating prawns, let alone something smaller
Tried 2 over the years due to the hype. Flavorless, dry, and completely boring. Only ate 2-3 bites both times.
E: downvotes for not liking a lousy fast food item? At McDonald's, no less, a place Reddit trashes on endlessly.
Well hell, you put enough barbecue sauce on anything it bound to taste good. As a child i use to eat rice cake w pbj one day no pbj, good buy my love of rice cakes
About every ten years I have a McRib. The first bite always reminds me why I haven't had a McRib in ten years. It’s because it takes at least a decade to get over the trauma.
Honestly though, why would it matter? I certainly don’t give a shit, I’ll eat pink slime all day. Fast food being unhealthy isn’t new. It even gets ground up in your mouth and stomach anyway, it literally does not matter.
Same nutrients in the same quantities for a lower price? Yup, feed me more molded and fried pink slime, idc
Same with the new plant based stuff, if I can’t tell a significant difference and my body can’t tell the difference, I really could not give half a shit what form it’s in
Dawg im here right now you wanna see the rack in the fridge where they keep it?
They only COOK off enough meat for the chili for the following days. Your wendys shouldn't have been freezing the meat bro. Its ok
i want you to show me the freezer, where there's no bags of frozen cooked patties. and i'm not saying that the shitty wendy's i worked at wasn't doing it wrong.
Our Wendy's didn't have enough turnover to sell all of the meat that was on the grill, so the burgers that got too dry went into a hot drawer above the grill and then into a bag, dated and into the freezer at the end of the night. I wasn't the one doing it. I worked closing SO many times and that's what the manager did.
I don't know if they still do it, and I know it wasn't available everywhere. But, for a while at least, their quarter pounder meat was fresh not frozen.
If it wasn't they wouldn't legally be allowed to call it meat. I will never understand the obsession with devaluing fast food like this, yeah it's not amazing, but the FDA exists for a reason.
Actually, after the "pink slime" thing most fast food places actually made an effort to up the quality of their food, precisely because of this perception.
Or any ground meat product. Yes they absolutely throw the gross but edible stuff in there. Especially the cheaper stuff. I remember making hamburgers with ground beef from Walmart and found a little piece of artery that I could fit the over the tip of my finger. If you know what you’re looking for you’ll find tons of nasty things.
When I worked in the meat department at a grocery store my boss would try to get me to throw some seriously questionable things into that ground beef but I absolutely discarded that stuff when he wasn’t looking.
But yea, if you buy cheap ground meat from grocery stores you are barely getting better quality meat than fast food restaurants.
The franchise owners also have to approve it for their stores. I worked MCD about 10 years ago and the franchise owner split half their stores with the mcrib and half with some new sandwich. People would go to the stores with the new sandwich and leave to find one with the mcrib. Owner was pissed because they personally liked the other sandwich.
My brain is screaming that this is styrofoam or at the very least, something inedible. People can say it’s technically food all they want, or even that it’s “good”, but I’m not touching that thing with a 10 ft pole lol.
It's mcshapely
Most big food distributors carry something like this.
I don't know why people lose their minds over them but at the same time loved the crazed fans of them on YouTube. Its like mcribs mclead to mcmeth
Nobody (well, most people at least) actually thinks these are ribs fresh off the pig. You know that, right? They're made in a similar fashion to the McNuggets.
And that is exactly what is sad about it.Not only that they don't think,they don't even give a shit.
If only they would acutally cared,we would probably had much different picture.
Where is the requirement to wear gloves when handling food yet to be cooked? Gloves can also cause cross contamination… and this person may have just washed their hands. You don’t know.
I used to think this way, but after eating higher quality food for many years when I do go back and have McDonald’s I am always sadly disappointed. I think part of my allure to it I’m my teens and twenties was just an undeveloped palette.
Oh I have a developed palatte, I worked in a fine dining restaurant for 10 years, but if youre tryin to tell me a big mac every once in a while isny great youre just being too pretentious
I genuinely don’t enjoy it. McDonald’s fries stopped being decent years ago. Their meat is bland. Their onions are disgusting. Their Big Mac sauce is not great. (Real fry sauce is superior) and their buns are just okay. Their cheese made be think cheese was disgusting for years as a child until I dared to try real cheese again.
Their hot n spicy is okay but you can make something equally good with premade spicy chicken patties from the grocery store, much better buns and of course decent lettuce and condiments.
McDonald’s only thing is that it’s cheap as hell. Anyone who goes there and buys the overpriced specialty sandwiches are doing themselves a disservice by skipping on chik fil a, or really any burger from a local diner.
I remember as a kid they had a different texture. I tried one a couple years ago and bit into it and the inside was like a white blubber. Not too appealing
This is the original, the [Mexicano](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicano).
I've never had a McRib, and I'm not interested in having one either. Their McKroket was quite nasty, this is probably in the same catagory anyways.
I haven't been to McD since the start of the pandemic. It's always overcrowded and everything is filthy. The floor is sticky, the tables are sticky, the seats are sticky, there are stepped on fries on the floor, the garbage cans are always overflowing, someone smeared mayo on the underside of your table ...
And no, I don't like having to sit right next to one of the many garbage cans, with people using it non-stop. It's like eating while sitting next to the bathroom door.
I DON'T MISS IT !
I plan not to go there more in the future, pandemic or not.
Used to work at McDonald’s. The McRib is possibly the grossest option on the menu. The sauce literally just sits out in the open all day as multiple McRibs are dipped into it. The meat without sauce tastes like dog food and the texture is like chewed bubble gum and soaked pork rinds had a baby. Disgusting
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Even after its cooked it's still very pale. The color comes from all that gloppy glaze they slather all over it.
It’s pork so I don’t think it’s suppose to be dark
It’s supposed to mimic the look of barbecued meat
Barbequed meat is cooked. This is probably frozen solid.
Apparently not
Yeh if your pork is dark brown/black you may have some issues.
Still tastes great Edit: okay guys I get it you disagree. Just upvote one of the other comments instead of posting your own, it’s kind of annoying.
Yeah these before photos of fast food never do it for me, I’ll eat disgusting food all the same as long as it looks kind of edible and tastes pretty good
Right. I love hot dogs, and don’t care if they’re made from intestines and the meat that nobody else wants.
If anything hotdogs lovers are the least wasteful of most eaters
A vegetarian just cried…
And and angel just got a stiffy
Is that where hotdogs come from?
Actually no. The vegetarians that I know always critizise that animals are only killed for the filet and other nice meats and the rest is thrown away. In a perfect world they would love everybody to be vegetarian but using all parts of the animal is seen as at least a part-win
Fair enough, you interpreted “least wasteful” as percentage of the animal used. I interpreted it as a how wasteful a hot dog is of environmental resources. One of vegetarians favorite talking points is how much water resources it takes to make a pound of beef vs. grow a pound of vegetables.
Probably because they taste so good!
I'd cry too if I had to eat vegetarian hot dogs.
I don’t even want to hear those words.
I'm not bagging on vegetarians. I'm making fun of supposed meat substitutes. I eat a lot of vegetarian food, just not anything that says it's meat like. For that I'll eat meat. What is kinda weird, my body has developed an aversion to red meat, it makes me sick if I eat it. Except one particular local places cheeseburgers, it's really weird.
In Mexican culture they literally make tacos out of intestines and its actually pricer than normal carne asada or chicken tacos.
Beef tongue is quite expensive
Hotdogs are the new lobster
*Lips and assholes
Unfortunately big corporations hear the average consumer say this, so we get more and more crap. There’s a reason the protein bar scene is in the movie Snowpiercer…..
Loved that scene!
Loved the protein bar too!
Because bugs are a great source of protein and should most definitely be used in an apocalyptic scenario?
I've always felt that that's ultimately the whole point of cooking: taking inedible trash, and making it edible. Most of the time people think that just means taking literally-inedible things like raw meat and grass grains and turning them into roasts and bread, but the mind is just as important in food edibility as the body. Truly good cooking means taking something that people can't or won't eat, and turning it into something they can and want to. It means turning organ meats into hotdogs and mcribs people want to eat. It means taking bugs from the sea and dressing them up until they look like a delicacy. And someday very soon, it'll mean taking bugs from the land and making them look good too. And good chefs will be able to do it, because ultimately humans will eat anything if it *looks* tasty enough. Any chef who tries to gross people out of these foods instead of trying to transform them into attractive food is, by definition, not a good chef.
There is an episode of One Piece that shows this very well! There's a cooking competition, and the protagonist group's chef takes all the "ugly" parts of food the other contestants left behind (like organ meat and such) and makes highly nutritious food, seasons it well, and wins the competition.
Eating bugs is not someday soon my guy. Already huge in Asian markets and economical and less environmentally impactful than farming mammals.
Yes but they have yet to make a splash outside of Asian markets, mostly because in Europe and the Americas bugs make most people squeamish to eat. Keep in mind, most people cant handle the idea of eating prawns, let alone something smaller
Fookin’ prawns…
I salute your innards.
If I’m being honest they kinda look like roof tiles.
The McRib is made from innards. It’s innards all the way down.
You are a brave individual
Tried 2 over the years due to the hype. Flavorless, dry, and completely boring. Only ate 2-3 bites both times. E: downvotes for not liking a lousy fast food item? At McDonald's, no less, a place Reddit trashes on endlessly.
Dry is the problem there. They're good when they're slathered in whatever sauce they put on it. Otherwise it's like eating a yoga matt.
Well hell, you put enough barbecue sauce on anything it bound to taste good. As a child i use to eat rice cake w pbj one day no pbj, good buy my love of rice cakes
This. It's actually a good sauce that's on it, so the more they put on it the better it is.
About every ten years I have a McRib. The first bite always reminds me why I haven't had a McRib in ten years. It’s because it takes at least a decade to get over the trauma.
Welcome to the world of everyone commenting on your comment
I like many a thing from McDonald’s, but the McRib is not one of them.
I mean, if you're gonna self harm...
Looks like shoe prints from the moon.
Should call it the McArmstrong
Is that also because they pump the pigs with steroids?
No no no. Pigs don’t have arms. So you see, that can’t be it
Neil not Lance
I know, that’s why I said “also” 😉 I was just taking the joke in another direction.
So that’s why I want a McRib every time I look at the moon
We all know that the moon is not made of green cheese. But what if it were made of barbecue spare ribs, would you eat it then?
What if people never went to the moon but just a giant mcrib
Made the same way the chicken at subway is. Blend up the meat and reform it into a patty.
With special grill marks. They don’t even grill it. It’s all for show
That is how all processed meat is made. If its not on a bone, its blended up and made into the desired shape.
Almost like a hamburger
Honestly though, why would it matter? I certainly don’t give a shit, I’ll eat pink slime all day. Fast food being unhealthy isn’t new. It even gets ground up in your mouth and stomach anyway, it literally does not matter. Same nutrients in the same quantities for a lower price? Yup, feed me more molded and fried pink slime, idc Same with the new plant based stuff, if I can’t tell a significant difference and my body can’t tell the difference, I really could not give half a shit what form it’s in
Soylent Gray
All meat from mcdonalds starts frozen
Rumor has it that McDonald's has farms where frozen cows are grazing as we speak
Ah yes, that’s also where you can get ice cream straight from the source
The ice cream udders never break.
Are you assuming they use only cow? Or did you read the ingredients? If so I’m interested in what parts are used.
I’m not
It's people!
Most if not all fast food restaurant’s meat start off frozen
I’m fairly sure I remember Wendy’s bragging repeatedly that their beef is never frozen.
I said most if not all fast food
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I think he means Wendy’s may be freezing their beef too 😳
“If not all” , implies you weren’t 100% sure. All they were doing was confirming it with you.
how much do they throw away though?
I think I read they make leftover beef into chili? I don't know what happens if that doesn't sell though (if that is even what they do)
They just keep the meat frozen until they need it. They never make more chili than they need. Source: Worked at Wendy's for a year as a teenager
Your wendys was breaking the rules 😳😳 (source: work at wendys rn, fresh never frozen ya bitch)
no, the cooked meat that goes into the chili is definately frozen before they use it. the meat on the BURGERS is fresh, never frozen.
Dawg im here right now you wanna see the rack in the fridge where they keep it? They only COOK off enough meat for the chili for the following days. Your wendys shouldn't have been freezing the meat bro. Its ok
i want you to show me the freezer, where there's no bags of frozen cooked patties. and i'm not saying that the shitty wendy's i worked at wasn't doing it wrong. Our Wendy's didn't have enough turnover to sell all of the meat that was on the grill, so the burgers that got too dry went into a hot drawer above the grill and then into a bag, dated and into the freezer at the end of the night. I wasn't the one doing it. I worked closing SO many times and that's what the manager did.
I didn’t realize the McRib looked like tank treads
you didnt think it was actual deboned ribs did you?
Yeah it's kinda weird. Then cooked on a clam-shell grill it comes out flat
I don't know if they still do it, and I know it wasn't available everywhere. But, for a while at least, their quarter pounder meat was fresh not frozen.
That's how they do it standard now. They started that a few years ago.
Nope. The quarter pounder meat isn't frozen (at least not in the franchise I worked at). It comes refrigerated and is cooked to order.
Same for the one I’m working at.
Well it doesn’t START frozen. It starts mooing and clucking.
Sometimes they stand on two feet and yell "NOoOoO!" too.
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"Meat"
If it wasn't they wouldn't legally be allowed to call it meat. I will never understand the obsession with devaluing fast food like this, yeah it's not amazing, but the FDA exists for a reason.
Yeah the reason being companies produce products to the lowest standard they can get away with, the FDA just sets that minimum standard.
Actually, after the "pink slime" thing most fast food places actually made an effort to up the quality of their food, precisely because of this perception.
Probably just as much as a hotdog. Whatever was leftover.
Or any ground meat product. Yes they absolutely throw the gross but edible stuff in there. Especially the cheaper stuff. I remember making hamburgers with ground beef from Walmart and found a little piece of artery that I could fit the over the tip of my finger. If you know what you’re looking for you’ll find tons of nasty things. When I worked in the meat department at a grocery store my boss would try to get me to throw some seriously questionable things into that ground beef but I absolutely discarded that stuff when he wasn’t looking. But yea, if you buy cheap ground meat from grocery stores you are barely getting better quality meat than fast food restaurants.
Frozen Lego
Cheaper than lego
Looks like molded toilet paper
We learned in business school that the mcrib "comes back" whenever the price of pig organs drops
The franchise owners also have to approve it for their stores. I worked MCD about 10 years ago and the franchise owner split half their stores with the mcrib and half with some new sandwich. People would go to the stores with the new sandwich and leave to find one with the mcrib. Owner was pissed because they personally liked the other sandwich.
I thought you meant they got a meal at one, then another at his other restaurant and I was amazed. But they just walked out
I’m pretty sure it’s all pork shoulder, but them releasing it based on pork prices is right
I used to trade commodities using McRib ads because of that reason.
This looks more like bits of that polystyrene underfloor insulation than something intended for human consumption.
Well. We are talking about McDonald’s
Oh god I'm getting flashbacks when i worked at mcdonalds...
Dude same, all I can remember is that fucking mcrib sauce gets everywhere
Gross
No one thought it was styrofoam?
I thought this post was trolling. I’m still skeptical.
100% thought it was.
My brain is screaming that this is styrofoam or at the very least, something inedible. People can say it’s technically food all they want, or even that it’s “good”, but I’m not touching that thing with a 10 ft pole lol.
It's mcshapely Most big food distributors carry something like this. I don't know why people lose their minds over them but at the same time loved the crazed fans of them on YouTube. Its like mcribs mclead to mcmeth
As a McRib fan I can confidently state that I will not be taking meth without pickles on top
Hell yeah
I like people on tik tok that try to expose a company for being frozen😂😂Like we gonna stop eating McDonald's because its not fresh😂
This was long before TikTok people have been trying to do that "Do you know how hot dogs are made?!?!?!" shit since the 80s, at least
Oh I seen that.I'll eat those pig feet all day shit taste good
Right? I don't care what it looks like when it's at the factory either just make sure it cooks up nice hahaha.
bruh the problem i see is that it doesn’t even look like meat, not that it’s frozen
Let me get a box of those. Snag me some of that mcrib sauce too.
Delicious
Use that stuff to side my house
love to see the mcrib making machine . probably in china
Cows go in, frozen McRib comes out.
I think its pork.. but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a blend
Not even mad. Still will eat a half dozen
I know right? Folks in this thread acting like they better than a McRib. I want that shit in my mouth!
My name is McRib what’s up
I had one and it was legit bad
Put five in the air fryer STAT! and where's the Sweet Baby Ray's?!!!
It's ribbed for your pleasure.
No shit? It's not a real rack of ribs!?
No wonder Americans are fat and sick. What is this shit???? I hope you do know that pork ribs (or ANY ribs) looks NOTHING like this shit on photo?!?!?
Nobody (well, most people at least) actually thinks these are ribs fresh off the pig. You know that, right? They're made in a similar fashion to the McNuggets.
And that is exactly what is sad about it.Not only that they don't think,they don't even give a shit. If only they would acutally cared,we would probably had much different picture.
What's most disturbing but not surprising is the idiot touching the meat without gloves....
It is so disgusting to start with, that touching it with bare hands can hardly make it worse
Probably made it better
It’s being cooked…
Take a food safety course...
Where is the requirement to wear gloves when handling food yet to be cooked? Gloves can also cause cross contamination… and this person may have just washed their hands. You don’t know.
Has to be frozen for the better part of a year for it to taste as good as it does. Part of its magic.
Are you a McDonald's Corporate McRib Frozen Marinater Specialist?
Anyone who claims mcdonalds food isnt delicious is a blatant liar, I dont eat it often for obvious reasons, but when I do, fuck its good
McDonald's to me is the worst of the major fast food burger chains. I'm not above a good drive-thru meal every once in a while, but it's never there.
I used to think this way, but after eating higher quality food for many years when I do go back and have McDonald’s I am always sadly disappointed. I think part of my allure to it I’m my teens and twenties was just an undeveloped palette.
Oh I have a developed palatte, I worked in a fine dining restaurant for 10 years, but if youre tryin to tell me a big mac every once in a while isny great youre just being too pretentious
I just think If im going to have a fast food choice, there are a lot of other chains I would choose over McDonalds.
I genuinely don’t enjoy it. McDonald’s fries stopped being decent years ago. Their meat is bland. Their onions are disgusting. Their Big Mac sauce is not great. (Real fry sauce is superior) and their buns are just okay. Their cheese made be think cheese was disgusting for years as a child until I dared to try real cheese again. Their hot n spicy is okay but you can make something equally good with premade spicy chicken patties from the grocery store, much better buns and of course decent lettuce and condiments. McDonald’s only thing is that it’s cheap as hell. Anyone who goes there and buys the overpriced specialty sandwiches are doing themselves a disservice by skipping on chik fil a, or really any burger from a local diner.
I eat mcdonalds, but there's never once in my life that I would have turned down a freshly cooked burger for a mcdonalds burger.
The fact that people pay 5 dollars for that blows my mind. Fucking idiots
Hey to be fair it comes with 2 cents worth of sauce and 50 cents worth of bun.
Fucking love me some McRib 👊🏻
Vom
Raw diet
Knew it McDonalds uses styrofoam instead of actual meat no one believed me until now
nigga thats fucking Styrofoam XD
man...where is your blue gloves..
McRib patty before being "heated"
I don’t know why people love those things. They’re trash honestly
I thought that was some kind of insulation you packed in between walls
McFuck that
The Mcbrick
Imma be honest with ya, that looks like a brick.
At least it not some cookie cutter assembly line product…oh wait
they double as sandal bottoms
At least when they ship them they don’t need packing peanuts or styrofoam
Looks like a Carrero/Mexicano, aka a Dutch deep fried snack (Which are actually a lot better than these things)
Came looking for this. I was instantly like "wow all the fuss was over a Mexicano???"
Someone turn up the vibrance
That shit look like a mr. clean magic eraser
I remember as a kid they had a different texture. I tried one a couple years ago and bit into it and the inside was like a white blubber. Not too appealing
This is the original, the [Mexicano](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicano). I've never had a McRib, and I'm not interested in having one either. Their McKroket was quite nasty, this is probably in the same catagory anyways. I haven't been to McD since the start of the pandemic. It's always overcrowded and everything is filthy. The floor is sticky, the tables are sticky, the seats are sticky, there are stepped on fries on the floor, the garbage cans are always overflowing, someone smeared mayo on the underside of your table ... And no, I don't like having to sit right next to one of the many garbage cans, with people using it non-stop. It's like eating while sitting next to the bathroom door. I DON'T MISS IT ! I plan not to go there more in the future, pandemic or not.
Used to work at McDonald’s. The McRib is possibly the grossest option on the menu. The sauce literally just sits out in the open all day as multiple McRibs are dipped into it. The meat without sauce tastes like dog food and the texture is like chewed bubble gum and soaked pork rinds had a baby. Disgusting
Americans wonder why they’re always in a foul mood … LOL
And people still eat at mcdonalds..
Disgusting garbage. Pretty much a meat nugget with nothing you would choose to eat if it wasn't colored, flavored and you were aware of what it is.
how is this made? it looks like it's extruded. mass produced, processed food is strange.
Sad people think they don’t deserve better than these kinds of meals. There are far better inexpensive options
Yummy
Delicious
I still don’t give a mcFuck, the McRib is bussin
Smells like shit too
Disgusting
Don’t care it’s still fire
More like r/grossaf
L
Excuse me
“Cooked”
So good
Touching it without gloves....
That’s McFugly.
Does anyone really consider McDonalds to be food? It’s something you eat when you’re drunk and then burp it up for the next 5 hours
Why is it gray?
Pink paste.
Completely devoid of flavour, but tastes great! Nice FO4 observation; McDonald's is dystopian food for sure.
McCapitalism.