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Almost 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 ago
Almost 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 ago
That'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 ago
  HN 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 ago
    I 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 ago
      I 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 ago
  Just 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 ago
McDonald’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 ago
  In the Midwest where I grew up, a burger came with ketchup and mustard. East coast, just ketchup.

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reaperducer 3y ago

Almost 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 ago

That'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 ago
HN 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    I 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 ago
Just 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 ago

McDonald’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 ago
In the Midwest where I grew up, a burger came with ketchup and mustard. East coast, just ketchup.