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So by the same logic McDonald's should publish its secret sauce recipe. There is business value in keeping it hidden. It'd have a chance of happening if Twitter
by soheil 5y ago
So by the same logic McDonald's should publish its secret sauce recipe. There is business value in keeping it hidden. It'd have a chance of happening if Twitter was taken private by someone with the intention of experimentation and improving the world in the long run.
- rufus_foreman 5y agoMcDonald's is required in some places (Canada, for example) to publish the ingredients for its food. For example, Big Mac Sauce: Soybean oil, sweet relish (cucumber, glucose-fructose, sugar, vinegar, salt, xanthan gum, calcium chloride, natural flavour), water, vinegar, egg yolk, onion powder, spices, salt, propylene glycol alginate, colour, sugar, garlic powder, hydrolyzed (corn, soy, wheat) proteins. CONTAINS: Soy, Wheat, Egg, Mustard. -- https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/downloads/IngredientslistCA_EN.pdf https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/downloads/IngredientslistCA_EN.... And there are strict rules about how that ingredients list must be constructed: "Ingredients must be declared by their common name in descending order of their proportion by weight of a prepackaged product. The order must be the order or percentage of the ingredients before they are combined to form the prepackaged product. In other words, based on what was added to the mixing bowl" and on and on for many thousands of words, https://inspection.canada.ca/food-label-requirements/labelling/industry/list-of-ingredients-and-allergens/eng/1383612857522/1383612932341?chap=2 https://inspection.canada.ca/food-label-requirements/labelli... No, that's not the full recipe, but it is information a company might not want to disclose, but is required to disclose because it affects the health and safety of consumers.