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[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]FAST FOOD FACTS WILL JUST MAKE YOU HUNGRY...[/FONT]
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[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Every month, approximately nine out of 10 American children visit a McDonald's restaurant.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-In a study it was found the average fast food consumer ingests around 12 pubic hairs a year.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-McDonald's Filet-O-Fish was originally developed for Catholic customers, since they generally abstain from eating meat on Fridays.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Burger King is called Hungry Jack's in Australia.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-During the early 1900's, the hamburger was thought of as food for the poor. Street carts, not restaurants, typically served them.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Proportionally, hash browns have more fat and calories than a cheeseburger or Big Mac.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The salads are actually loaded with propylene glycol to keep the leaves crisp. This ingredient can also be found in antifreeze and sexual lubricant.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-To keep salaries low, McDonald's and other fast food chains have intentionally engaged in anti-union activities.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Fast food chicken is primarily fat mixed in with blood vessels and nerves. In fact 55 percent of the chicken is fat; the rest is skin and corn with chemicals, preservatives, hydrogenated fats and petroleum. Oh, and it is washed in ammonia.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Taco Bell has attempted to open stores in Mexico two different times. Their food was labelled as "American Food".[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-There are more than 300,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S. alone.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Singer Jason Mraz supplies avocados to the local Chipotle restaurant.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The popularisation 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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-You know those grill marks on fast food burgers? They're actually put there during production in the factory.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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".[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Most fast food milkshakes contain over 50 chemicals.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The average fast food taco salad has more grams of fat than 16 average Boston crème pies.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Subway's Italian B.M.T., is named after the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-In 1949, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California: the McDonald Brothers Burger Bar Drive-In.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. It cost around $1,000,000.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Traces of faecal matter have been found in fast food soda fountains. Next time you're enjoying a fountain Coke with a friend and think it'd be funny to **** in their drink when they go to grab some napkins, just know that someone already beat you to it.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-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.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-White Castle burgers have five holes in them so that they can cook all the way through without being flipped.[/FONT]
-While fast food is known to make those fat rolls grow, it can actually make your brain shrink. Studies have shown that diets high in trans-fats are linked to the same brain shrinkage associated with Alzheimer's disease.
-After receiving complaints that their "footlong" sub was only 11 inches long, Subway released a statement that said ""With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, 'Subway Footlong' is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length".
-McDonald's is Brazil's largest employer.
-Nearly 90 percent of America's children eat fast food on a monthly basis, and one-third of children visit these foods on a daily basis. Mix that fast food fact with the startling statistic that fast food children gain six more pounds each year than they should, multiply that by 15 years and do you really wonder why your fat kid is fat?
-Subway is the largest restaurant chain in the world. There are more Subways in the world than McDonald's.
-When McDonald's opened an outlet in Kuwait shortly after the end of the Gulf War, the line of cars waiting to eat there was seven miles long.
-The McRib doesn't have any rib bones in it because it's actually "restructured meat" made from pig innards, tripe, heart, and scalded stomach. Then it's doused in salt and all blended in a salt water solution which acts as glue to keep the meat mixture together. This bad boy contains 70 ingredients, one of which is azodicarbonamide, a flour-bleaching agent used in the production of foamed plastics like yoga mats.
-To accommodate workers at the World Trade Center construction site, Subway created a mobile restaurant that moved up the building as they finish each floor.
-Because McDonald's initially did not want its customers to stay and socialise, they installed uncomfortable chairs to deter customers from lingering.
-When you order a Quarter Pounder (or something similar at other fast food chains), what you're really getting is a quarter pound of additives including, lanolin -made from raw wool- and castoreum, which is an extract made from the anal secretions of beaver.
-A genetically engineered hormone called rBGH is given to cows in the U.S. to increase milk production - even though its chemical by-products may be carcinogenic. Residues of rBGH have been found in meat products, such as hamburgers sold in fast food chains.
-A single McDonald's hamburger can contain beef from up to 100 different cattle.
-Pizza Hut sued Papa John's once because they thought that "fresher ingredients" didn't really make "better pizza".
-Caffeine is the most commonly used drug in the world, and high doses can have serious health effects, including muscle weakness, heart irregularities, and infertility. Children and teenagers consume more than 64 gallons of soft drinks per year.
-McDonalds chicken McNuggets come in four basic shapes; the bell, bone, boot and ball.
-Pizza Hut uses 300 million pounds of cheese each year. That's about 3% of all the cheese produced in the United States.
-The spread of E.coli and mad cow disease are just a few of the dozen examples of food-born pathogens linked to beef. Some meatpackers have considered radiating meat to kill the bacteria in tainted meat. Some scholars also claim hamburger meat may cause Alzheimer's disease.
-Arby's got its name from the acronym "R.B." which stands for "Raffel brothers" who are the founders of the restaurant.
-Eating fast food can result in high levels of insulin, which has been linked to rising incidences of Diabetes.
-The large fries at Five Guy's are the unhealthiest fries in America. They have nearly 1,500 calories and 71 grams of fat.
-A person would need to walk nine miles to burn off the 923 calories found in Burger King's Double Whopper with cheese. French fries and a large cola brings the total calories to an amazing 1,500 calories (2/3 of an adult man's recommended daily caloric intake).
-The first 100 people who go to a new Chick-Fil-A when it opens get a free meal every week for a year.
-About two new Starbucks have opened every day since 1987.
-When it was revealed in 1990 that McDonald's used beef tallow to flavour its French fries, Hindu vegetarian customers in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, ransacked a McDonald's restaurant and smeared cow dung on a statue of Ronald MacDonald.
-You're never more than 115 miles away from a McDonald's in the continental USA.
-The original Dunkin' Donut had a handle to make dunking easier.
-French fries are the single most popular fast food in America. In 1970, French fries surpassed regular potato sales in the United States. In 2004, Americans ate 7.5 billion pounds of frozen French fries.
-Domino's Pizza cancelled their "30 minutes or less" guarantee because drivers kept getting into accidents while rushing to deliver pizzas. The guarantee led to at least one fatality.
-In-N-Out Burger is one of the few fast food restaurants that actually slice each potato by hand shortly before it is placed in the deep fryer.
-Dairy Queen Restaurants in Texas have a different menu from all other DQ restaurants. You can only get a Steakfinger Basket at a Texas Dairy Queen.
-When France refused to join the American-led coalition against Iraq, some Republicans argued that the name French fries be changed to "liberty fries".
-A 32 ounce McDonald's sweet tea has more sugar in it than two Snickers bars. A Snickers bar has 27 grams of sugar and a McDonald's Sweet Tea has 69.
-IHOP adds pancake batter to their omelettes. They claim it makes them "fluffier".
Ben and Jerry's ice cream has chunks because Ben has anosmia, which means he can't smell, so he relies on "mouth-feel" while eating.
-The invention of the meat grinder in the mid nineteenth century gave rise to the hamburger. Currently, between 40,000 and 50,000 meatpackers, many of whom pack meat for fast food chains, are injured every year, making meatpacking one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States.
-Because of the restaurant's reputation to stay open after disasters, the "Waffle House Index" was created as an informal assessment of the damage caused by a storm.
-McDonald's is the largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes and the second largest purchaser of chicken in the world. Its annual orders for French fries constitute 7.5% of America's entire potato crop.
-By the end of the twentieth century, one out of eight American workers had at some time been employed by McDonald's and 96% of Americans had visited McDonald's at least once. It was also serving an estimated 22 million Americans every day and even more abroad.
-White Castle is the first fast food restaurant.
-High-fructose corn syrup (which tricks your body into wanting to eat more and to store more fat) first appeared in 1967, and the average American now consumes 63 pounds of it a year. It is ubiquitous in fast foods.
-Colonel Sanders' claimed that his favourite food was White Castle.
-In 1965, a college student named Fred De Luca and family friend Dr. Peter Buck started Subway in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The first restaurant was called Pete's Super Submarines. Subway currently is located in 87 countries.
-The founders of Outback Steakhouse never visited Australia.
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"I always wanted to be somebody. Now I realize I should have been more specific." --Lily Tomlin
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein
The Republican motto: "There's been a lot of progress in this country over the last 75 years, and we've been against all of it."
You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people. - Willie Nelson
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. -Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.- Barbara Kingsolver
The Republican motto: "There's been a lot of progress in this country over the last 75 years, and we've been against all of it."
You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people. - Willie Nelson
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. -Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.- Barbara Kingsolver
