7 ms·

Someone elaborated on the cultural marvel that is the humble American hamburger: that a food made of ground beef, bread, pickle, lettuce, tomato, and a couple s

Someone elaborated on the cultural marvel that is the humble American hamburger: that a food made of ground beef, bread, pickle, lettuce, tomato, and a couple sauces - most are rapidly perishable items - can be made on demand, year-round, for the incredibly low cost of one dollar is absolutely amazing.

dylan604 5y ago
I would argue that a hamburger costing only $1 is very loosely using the ingredients you think it is.
- hsod 5y ago
  You’d be wrong. Ingredient quality wise McDonald’s is fine. The issue is how much oil/salt they use
  - dylan604 5y ago
    You'd be wrong in assuming I was thinking about McDonalds in the first place. You took it there, not me. There are plenty of other fast food chains with a $1 menu with subpar food. Why are you projecting?
- s5300 5y ago
  I hate to say this, but McDonalds offerings appear to have gotten somewhat decent as of late, with regards to McDonald's/Fast Food in general. It's still trash... but I think it's closer to real ingredients than it has been for quite some time. If we don't see a decade of economic downturn, in 1-2 decades McDonald's may turn into something decently healthy/acceptable, once again in the sense of still being fast food. We could however see the dystopia of McDonald's only accepting fixed amount of meme doge tokens that go on to hyperinflate, and we'll all be able to shake our fists about how we were promised flying cars but got DogeDonalds
  - dylan604 5y ago
    I like how everyone jumped on MickeyDsNuts, but forgets about Jack-in-the-Crack, Wendy's, etc. Like the GoldenArches is the only fast food out there.
    - unixhero 5y ago
      It is out here, outside of the US
      - dylan604 5y ago
        The food that fast food places use outside of the US is not the same food served in the US
        unixhero 5y ago
        At 3am, the only trash food which is open is McDonalds and 711 throughout South East Asia, Australia, Europe. Been there, I've seen things.
        ojilles 5y ago
        I think you should expect a little more diversity at 3am. For example, the FEBO in the Netherlands.
        kwhitefoot 5y ago
        Here in Norway McDonalds advertises that it only uses Norwegian beef in their burgers: https://www.mcdonalds.com/no/nb-no/maten-vaar/raavarer-og-leverandoerer.html https://www.mcdonalds.com/no/nb-no/maten-vaar/raavarer-og-le... "Mesteparten av råvarene våre stammer fra norske bønder. Vi bruker for eksempel kun 100% norsk storfekjøtt, kun norske økologiske egg og norske poteter – og når sesongen tillater det, bruker vi norsk salat, tomat og løk. Vi vet at kundene våre ønsker norske råvarer, og derfor er vi helt og holdent avhengige av norske bønder. Ingen bonde – ingen burger. Kanskje er det din nabobonde som har levert råvarene til akkurat ditt McDonald's-måltid?" Translated by Google because I am too lazy to type my own translation: "Most of our raw materials come from Norwegian farmers. For example, we use only 100% Norwegian beef, only Norwegian organic eggs and Norwegian potatoes - and when the season allows, we use Norwegian salad, tomato and onion. We know that our customers want Norwegian raw materials, and therefore we are completely dependent on Norwegian farmers. No farmer - no burger. Maybe it's your neighbor's farmer who delivered the ingredients for your McDonald's meal?"
- lindseymysse 5y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oagmlbhobnY&t=11s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oagmlbhobnY&t=11s This guy thinks the Big Mac should cost $200
dirkg 5y ago
There is nothing amazing about it. the word you are looking for is tragic, deplorable and criminal maybe. Lets just look at the cruelty of industrial animal farming. There is absolutely no reason meat should cost less or anywhere close to fresh veg. Let alone the leftover disgusting god knows what meat factory horrors that go in a burger. Its unhealthy garbage that kills people and costs trillions in health care. Fresh street food in any Asian country, cooked in front of you, is a million times better, not to mention tastier and just as cheap.
- eurasiantiger 5y ago
  And best of all, you will have no way of knowing what that street food contains or if it will give you cancer after eating just one meal.
- adrianN 5y ago
  It is quite likely that the street food contains ingredients that also come from industrial farming. Only the poorest countries haven't industrialized their farming completely.
  - OneTimePetes 5y ago
    Ironically, in poorer countries, the industrialized farming produce is the "deluxe" one, and they will proudly praise the amount of chemicals used on the local markets. Always wash your veggies if you buy them and inquire about the area they are grown in. Google maps search that area for industry nearby/upstream or landfills
- iypx 5y ago
  As somebody who's only recently moved to a first world country, the "tragic" part is the amount of fat pretty much every food has it added somehow to it! I'm literally starving myself atm eating just meat, potatoes, pasta and baked beans as that seems the only food which is still sold at reasonable prices without any added fat. The hamburger seems pretty healthy to be honest. The unhealthy part is people stacking up to 5-6000 kcal per day from various unsuspecting sources, then comically blaming it on sugar and fast-food... The other day I wanted to buy some biscuits: 24% fat. Before that I bought (first and last time) some hotdogs, while they're processed normally they're still healthy, not the ones in this country though.. 3 minutes after dropping two of them on a frying pan, I find them floating in a 1.5cm of grease that just started melting from them. Where I come from, I'd have to add some 10-15ml of sunflower oil so that my hotdogs don't stick to the pan... Fast-food is really healthy compared to what normal people can buy in any mainstream supermarket, worst part is big name brands will usually have the most fat and sugar packed into their foods.
yodsanklai 5y ago
> the incredibly low cost of one dollar is absolutely amazing. It's remarkable indeed. However, this can be the case only because we don't pay for externalities (including high emissions of CO2, barbaric exploitation of animals). This model isn't sustainable.

dylan604 5y ago

I would argue that a hamburger costing only $1 is very loosely using the ingredients you think it is.

hsod 5y ago
You’d be wrong. Ingredient quality wise McDonald’s is fine. The issue is how much oil/salt they use
- dylan604 5y ago
  You'd be wrong in assuming I was thinking about McDonalds in the first place. You took it there, not me. There are plenty of other fast food chains with a $1 menu with subpar food. Why are you projecting?
s5300 5y ago
I hate to say this, but McDonalds offerings appear to have gotten somewhat decent as of late, with regards to McDonald's/Fast Food in general. It's still trash... but I think it's closer to real ingredients than it has been for quite some time. If we don't see a decade of economic downturn, in 1-2 decades McDonald's may turn into something decently healthy/acceptable, once again in the sense of still being fast food. We could however see the dystopia of McDonald's only accepting fixed amount of meme doge tokens that go on to hyperinflate, and we'll all be able to shake our fists about how we were promised flying cars but got DogeDonalds
- dylan604 5y ago
  I like how everyone jumped on MickeyDsNuts, but forgets about Jack-in-the-Crack, Wendy's, etc. Like the GoldenArches is the only fast food out there.
  - unixhero 5y ago
    It is out here, outside of the US
    - dylan604 5y ago
      The food that fast food places use outside of the US is not the same food served in the US
      - unixhero 5y ago
        At 3am, the only trash food which is open is McDonalds and 711 throughout South East Asia, Australia, Europe. Been there, I've seen things.
        ojilles 5y ago
        I think you should expect a little more diversity at 3am. For example, the FEBO in the Netherlands.
      - kwhitefoot 5y ago
        Here in Norway McDonalds advertises that it only uses Norwegian beef in their burgers: https://www.mcdonalds.com/no/nb-no/maten-vaar/raavarer-og-leverandoerer.html https://www.mcdonalds.com/no/nb-no/maten-vaar/raavarer-og-le... "Mesteparten av råvarene våre stammer fra norske bønder. Vi bruker for eksempel kun 100% norsk storfekjøtt, kun norske økologiske egg og norske poteter – og når sesongen tillater det, bruker vi norsk salat, tomat og løk. Vi vet at kundene våre ønsker norske råvarer, og derfor er vi helt og holdent avhengige av norske bønder. Ingen bonde – ingen burger. Kanskje er det din nabobonde som har levert råvarene til akkurat ditt McDonald's-måltid?" Translated by Google because I am too lazy to type my own translation: "Most of our raw materials come from Norwegian farmers. For example, we use only 100% Norwegian beef, only Norwegian organic eggs and Norwegian potatoes - and when the season allows, we use Norwegian salad, tomato and onion. We know that our customers want Norwegian raw materials, and therefore we are completely dependent on Norwegian farmers. No farmer - no burger. Maybe it's your neighbor's farmer who delivered the ingredients for your McDonald's meal?"
lindseymysse 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oagmlbhobnY&t=11s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oagmlbhobnY&t=11s This guy thinks the Big Mac should cost $200

dirkg 5y ago

There is nothing amazing about it. the word you are looking for is tragic, deplorable and criminal maybe. Lets just look at the cruelty of industrial animal farming. There is absolutely no reason meat should cost less or anywhere close to fresh veg. Let alone the leftover disgusting god knows what meat factory horrors that go in a burger. Its unhealthy garbage that kills people and costs trillions in health care. Fresh street food in any Asian country, cooked in front of you, is a million times better, not to mention tastier and just as cheap.

eurasiantiger 5y ago
And best of all, you will have no way of knowing what that street food contains or if it will give you cancer after eating just one meal.
adrianN 5y ago
It is quite likely that the street food contains ingredients that also come from industrial farming. Only the poorest countries haven't industrialized their farming completely.
- OneTimePetes 5y ago
  Ironically, in poorer countries, the industrialized farming produce is the "deluxe" one, and they will proudly praise the amount of chemicals used on the local markets. Always wash your veggies if you buy them and inquire about the area they are grown in. Google maps search that area for industry nearby/upstream or landfills
iypx 5y ago
As somebody who's only recently moved to a first world country, the "tragic" part is the amount of fat pretty much every food has it added somehow to it! I'm literally starving myself atm eating just meat, potatoes, pasta and baked beans as that seems the only food which is still sold at reasonable prices without any added fat. The hamburger seems pretty healthy to be honest. The unhealthy part is people stacking up to 5-6000 kcal per day from various unsuspecting sources, then comically blaming it on sugar and fast-food... The other day I wanted to buy some biscuits: 24% fat. Before that I bought (first and last time) some hotdogs, while they're processed normally they're still healthy, not the ones in this country though.. 3 minutes after dropping two of them on a frying pan, I find them floating in a 1.5cm of grease that just started melting from them. Where I come from, I'd have to add some 10-15ml of sunflower oil so that my hotdogs don't stick to the pan... Fast-food is really healthy compared to what normal people can buy in any mainstream supermarket, worst part is big name brands will usually have the most fat and sugar packed into their foods.

yodsanklai 5y ago

> the incredibly low cost of one dollar is absolutely amazing. It's remarkable indeed. However, this can be the case only because we don't pay for externalities (including high emissions of CO2, barbaric exploitation of animals). This model isn't sustainable.