I am really feeling under the weather, I had to go home from work yesterday, they suspected a combination of exhaustion, food poisoning and dehydration.....I was ticked...I missed overtime:(. I am taking it easy today. I stayed home from work and am just relaxing a bit. I was surfing around and saw this tidbits....I will post a second edition tomorrow. I normally add pictures but I ain't feeling it right now.....Still feeling rough from yesterday. After reading some of this stuff, My appetite is still suppressed. And speaking of work, We had our annual bring our anklebiter to work day last Friday and I brought my son. He got a tour of Techops and worked with me for half of the day. I believe he enjoyed it.
FAST FOOD FACTS WILL JUST MAKE YOU HUNGRY...
-Burger
King's Triple Whopper with cheese has an amazing 1,230 calories.
Hardies Monster Thickburger has 1,420 calories and 2,770 grams of
sodium. Carl's Jr.'s Double Six hamburger has 1,520 calories and 111
grams of fat. Most people need only 44-66 grams of fat per day, and
most of them should come from sources like nuts, fish, and olive oil.
-McDonald's hamburgers don't really rot. The burgers have very low moisture content, which basically leaves the meat dehydrated. It's more like jerky than burger.
-Every month, approximately nine out of 10 American children visit a McDonald's restaurant.
-In a study it was found the average fast food consumer ingests around 12 pubic hairs a year.
-McDonald's Filet-O-Fish was originally developed for Catholic customers, since they generally abstain from eating meat on Fridays.
-In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food. In 2006, the spending rose to nearly $142 billion. Nowadays its estimated Americans spend $1200 a year on fast food.
-Certain fast food chain fries are riddled with preservatives to prevent any sort of bacterial or mould growth. In this case it lasts for over three years.
-Burger King is called Hungry Jack's in Australia.
-During the early 1900's, the hamburger was thought of as food for the poor. Street carts, not restaurants, typically served them.
-Cheese products labelled as processed are actually loaded with additives, chemicals and flavouring that make up 49 percent of the product. Half the product isn't even cheese.
-Wendy's founder Dave Thomas went back to school to earn his GED at the age of 61. He didn't want people to see his success and feel inspired to drop out of high school.
-Proportionally, hash browns have more fat and calories than a cheeseburger or Big Mac.
-The salads are actually loaded with propylene glycol to keep the leaves crisp. This ingredient can also be found in antifreeze and sexual lubricant.
-An Alabama law firm once sued Taco Bell, claiming that their meat mixture "does not meet the minimum requirements set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be labelled as beef.
-To keep salaries low, McDonald's and other fast food chains have intentionally engaged in anti-union activities.
-Taco Bell has attempted to open stores in Mexico two different times. Their food was labelled as "American Food".
-There are more than 300,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S. alone.
-Silicon dioxide (aka sand) is used as an anti-caking agent in multiple fast-food items like buffalo wings and chili. The sand helps it to be able to stay in a heater for days.
-Singer Jason Mraz supplies avocados to the local Chipotle restaurant.
-Due to anti-German sentiment during WWI, an alternative name for a hamburger (which was derived from the Hamburg steak sandwiches eaten on immigrant ships between Hamburg, Germany, and America in the 1800's) was "Salisbury steak". It was named after Dr. Salisbury who prescribed ground beef for patients suffering from anemia, asthma, and other illnesses.
-If you eat something that is bright red at a fast food joint, chances are that it has Carmine; a bright red food dye. It's made of the crushed abdomen of a female Dactylopius coccus - an African beetle-like insect.
-There is a secret menu item at Chipotle called a "quesarito". It's a burrito that's wrapped in a cheese quesadilla instead of a tortilla.
-The popularization of the automobile resulted in "flashier" fast food restaurant architecture to catch the attention of drivers. This lasted until the 1970's when communities began to complain about the exaggerated buildings.
-You know those grill marks on fast food burgers? They're actually put there during production in the factory.
-After he left KFC, Colonel Sanders grew to hate the company. He once described the food as "the worst fried chicken I've ever seen" and said the gravy was like "wallpaper paste".
-Television greatly expanded the ability of advertisers to reach children and try to develop brand loyalty early in life. Today the average American child sees more than 10,000 food advertisements each year on television.
-Most fast food milkshakes contain over 50 chemicals.
-Two companies prepare KFC's Original Recipe chicken
. One company only has half of the secret recipe, and the other company has the second half. The complete recipe only exists in one place: locked inside a vault at KFC's headquarters.
-Fast food companies, the movie industry, and theme parks have a long and financially lucrative relationship. The companies seek to promote and "product place" one another for incredible profit.
-The average fast food taco salad has more grams of fat than 16 average Boston crème pies.
-Subway's Italian B.M.T., is named after the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit.
-In 1949, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California: the McDonald Brothers Burger Bar Drive-In.
-Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. It cost around $1,000,000.
-The popularisation of the drive-thru led car manufacturers in the 1990's to install cup holders in the dashboards. As fast food drinks became larger, so did the cup holders.
-Before 2013, Pizza Hut was the number one purchaser of kale. They didn't even serve it though - they used it as a decoration in their salad bars.
-According to Waffle House, if you laid all of the bacon they serve in a year end-to-end, it would wrap all the way around the equator.
-McDonald's is one of the largest owners of real estate in the world and it earns the majority of its profits from collecting rent, not from selling food.
-White Castle burgers have five holes in them so that they can cook all the way through without being flipped.
-McDonald's hamburgers don't really rot. The burgers have very low moisture content, which basically leaves the meat dehydrated. It's more like jerky than burger.
-Every month, approximately nine out of 10 American children visit a McDonald's restaurant.
-In a study it was found the average fast food consumer ingests around 12 pubic hairs a year.
-McDonald's Filet-O-Fish was originally developed for Catholic customers, since they generally abstain from eating meat on Fridays.
-In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food. In 2006, the spending rose to nearly $142 billion. Nowadays its estimated Americans spend $1200 a year on fast food.
-Certain fast food chain fries are riddled with preservatives to prevent any sort of bacterial or mould growth. In this case it lasts for over three years.
-Burger King is called Hungry Jack's in Australia.
-During the early 1900's, the hamburger was thought of as food for the poor. Street carts, not restaurants, typically served them.
-Cheese products labelled as processed are actually loaded with additives, chemicals and flavouring that make up 49 percent of the product. Half the product isn't even cheese.
-Wendy's founder Dave Thomas went back to school to earn his GED at the age of 61. He didn't want people to see his success and feel inspired to drop out of high school.
-Proportionally, hash browns have more fat and calories than a cheeseburger or Big Mac.
-The salads are actually loaded with propylene glycol to keep the leaves crisp. This ingredient can also be found in antifreeze and sexual lubricant.
-An Alabama law firm once sued Taco Bell, claiming that their meat mixture "does not meet the minimum requirements set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be labelled as beef.
-To keep salaries low, McDonald's and other fast food chains have intentionally engaged in anti-union activities.
-Taco Bell has attempted to open stores in Mexico two different times. Their food was labelled as "American Food".
-There are more than 300,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S. alone.
-Silicon dioxide (aka sand) is used as an anti-caking agent in multiple fast-food items like buffalo wings and chili. The sand helps it to be able to stay in a heater for days.
-Singer Jason Mraz supplies avocados to the local Chipotle restaurant.
-Due to anti-German sentiment during WWI, an alternative name for a hamburger (which was derived from the Hamburg steak sandwiches eaten on immigrant ships between Hamburg, Germany, and America in the 1800's) was "Salisbury steak". It was named after Dr. Salisbury who prescribed ground beef for patients suffering from anemia, asthma, and other illnesses.
-If you eat something that is bright red at a fast food joint, chances are that it has Carmine; a bright red food dye. It's made of the crushed abdomen of a female Dactylopius coccus - an African beetle-like insect.
-There is a secret menu item at Chipotle called a "quesarito". It's a burrito that's wrapped in a cheese quesadilla instead of a tortilla.
-The popularization of the automobile resulted in "flashier" fast food restaurant architecture to catch the attention of drivers. This lasted until the 1970's when communities began to complain about the exaggerated buildings.
-You know those grill marks on fast food burgers? They're actually put there during production in the factory.
-After he left KFC, Colonel Sanders grew to hate the company. He once described the food as "the worst fried chicken I've ever seen" and said the gravy was like "wallpaper paste".
-Television greatly expanded the ability of advertisers to reach children and try to develop brand loyalty early in life. Today the average American child sees more than 10,000 food advertisements each year on television.
-Most fast food milkshakes contain over 50 chemicals.
-Two companies prepare KFC's Original Recipe chicken
. One company only has half of the secret recipe, and the other company has the second half. The complete recipe only exists in one place: locked inside a vault at KFC's headquarters.
-Fast food companies, the movie industry, and theme parks have a long and financially lucrative relationship. The companies seek to promote and "product place" one another for incredible profit.
-The average fast food taco salad has more grams of fat than 16 average Boston crème pies.
-Subway's Italian B.M.T., is named after the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit.
-In 1949, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California: the McDonald Brothers Burger Bar Drive-In.
-Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. It cost around $1,000,000.
-The popularisation of the drive-thru led car manufacturers in the 1990's to install cup holders in the dashboards. As fast food drinks became larger, so did the cup holders.
-Before 2013, Pizza Hut was the number one purchaser of kale. They didn't even serve it though - they used it as a decoration in their salad bars.
-According to Waffle House, if you laid all of the bacon they serve in a year end-to-end, it would wrap all the way around the equator.
-McDonald's is one of the largest owners of real estate in the world and it earns the majority of its profits from collecting rent, not from selling food.
-White Castle burgers have five holes in them so that they can cook all the way through without being flipped.
Bzzzzzt. Error. The Englishman who took Kentucky Fried Chicken to the UK and made it a success has a copy of the recipe he received from Colonel Sanders himself. There was a story about the man in the news for some reason not long ago is how I know this. ;)
ReplyDeleteWow. After all that I now have a serious gut ache. LOL. However, I found this very interesting and had to share it on Facebook. :D
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