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Just a guess, but maybe its because there are different sources of the chicken, by region?
by cf100clunk 3y ago
Just a guess, but maybe its because there are different sources of the chicken, by region?
- inhumantsar 3y agoAlmost certainly this. Not just chicken but breading ingredients, the oil they fry them in, probably salt content. Maybe sauces too?
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- reaperducer 3y agoAlmost certainly this. Not just chicken but breading ingredients, the oil they fry them in, probably salt content. Maybe sauces too? Oil sounds like the likely culprit to me. About a decade ago a bunch of cities, including Chicago, started regulating the types of oil that could be used for frying in restaurants.
- stefan_ 3y agoThat's a nice idea, as if these nutrition facts are super specialized to your precise McDonalds location, and don't actually ya know come down to how much the kid in the back of the kitchen is using the salt shaker. People don't actually believe these are anything more than averages with huge error bars right?
- asu_thomas 3y agoHN is full of propagandized technologists who have yet to realize how few of the world's problems are technical, and how approximately all of them are political. I'm sure there are better essays with similar value, but the one that comes to mind is Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology: https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil394/The%20Question%20Concerning%20Technology.pdf https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil394/The%20Quest...
- phpisthebest 3y agoI disagree, I think most people here understand the problems are political they just not understand that the problem was CREATED by the politics, and instead believe the solution to the problem is political. They refuse to believe that government thus politics is the problem, not the solution
- skidd0 3y agoI have seen your comments elsewhere on HN. It's refreshing to see some like-minded opinions. Do you have any other online presence or some way I might contact you? My email is in my profile here, if you're open to that.
- mlyle 3y agoJust because the numbers may be approximate, doesn't necessarily mean that you don't need to measure again somewhere where you're doing something different. It's far more defensible for regulators to require a measurement or new calculation than to accept "eh, it's about the same, I promise."
- Spooky23 3y agoMcDonald’s does regional distribution that affects some of these factors too; different suppliers, etc. It’s harder to see these days, but where I live in Albany, NY, McDonalds was in the New England region, and we would get the lobster roll “a New England favorite!” Head a few miles away and you’d be in an area supplied out of New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Western NY. This sort of thing is noticeable if you live in a place that’s sort of a Venn diagram from a distribution standpoint.
- saalweachter 3y agoIn the Midwest where I grew up, a burger came with ketchup and mustard. East coast, just ketchup.
- sp332 3y agoIs the script actually getting your location data though?
- zagrebian 3y agoSo the website asks Google for the user’s location, and it all happens transparently without the user’s knowledge? I’m not sure if I’d like that.
- HelloImSteven 3y agoNot saying it's right, but this is pretty standard practice -- it's likely mentioned in their privacy policy somewhere.
- zagrebian 3y agoIf I understand “total cookie protection” in Firefox correctly, this shouldn’t even be possible. When the website makes a request to Google, the user’s Google cookie is not included in the request, so Google does not know which user it is. All that Google can do is try to determine the user’s approximate location from their IP address. edit: I asked Bard about this, and it told me that websites can get the approx. location of their visitors via the Google Geolocation API: > To use the Google Geolocation API, a website must first obtain a Google Maps API key. Once they have a key, they can add the following code to their website: <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY"></script> <script> function getGeolocation() { var location = navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(); if (location) { var lat = location.latitude; var lng = location.longitude; // Do something with the location information. } } </script>
- bamnet 3y agoThis isn't how it works. The Google Maps API doesn't know where users are. Instead, it's probably being used for an autocomplete widget to help users type in an address.
- jmoak3 3y agoSounds plausible, also they may use it to decide the units (cals/joules) of the viewer
- throwaway751 3y agoIt gives an answer without setting location. So why not when blocking it?
- clnq 3y agoDrop-down list with regions where the closest is selected based on your IP automatically? We used IP to determine regions before there even was Google Maps.
- dharmab 3y agoThe cardinality of the suppliers is higher than a dropdown of menus can provide. In some areas that straddle distributors it may be unique for each store.
- clnq 3y agoOh. Drop-down with stores then and the closest one picked by IP location or device location API. Still no need for Google maps unless a user wants to see locations on the map.
- ergocoder 3y agoDamn, McDonald cares this much to provide accurate precise nutrition by geo?
- gumby 3y agoIt may be a legal requirement.