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The McRib: enjoy your symptom
- ceejayoz 13y ago> According to the Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives, one gram of TBHQ can cause “nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse.” I tuned out here. Unless a McRib has TBHQ in quantities approaching anything like a gram, this tidbit is pointless scaremongering. People aren't getting delirious from eating these things, and water has dosages that'd give you those symptoms too. I'm no fan of McDonalds food, but there are plenty of legitimate arguments to make against it.
- pedalpete 13y agoI didn't take it to mean that the McRib had a gram of TBHQ, just that is what had been used in testing. I don't think most of the general public need to be any more afraid of the McRib than they already are :)
- ceejayoz 13y agoI know the McRib doesn't have a gram. The article included it - without any indication that it contains probably thousands of times less than a gram - to make it sound scary.
- rebelidealist 13y agoSerious question, is the McRib back?
- joezydeco 13y agoIt's back in the Chicago area.
- selectodude 13y agoThanks for the heads up. Going to McDonalds now.
- camus2 13y agoIMHO , it's not even that good ( tasted it in Montréal with poutine fries a few years ago). In France we get the CBO (chicken/bacon/ognion) , dont know if it exists elsewhere but in my opinion it's the best Mc sandwich ever, the only downside is Mc sandwiches in Frances are smaller than american ones :( .
- groovy2shoes 13y agoI recall seeing an advert for the CBO in the US, but I'm not sure if it's a regular menu item.
- scrabble 13y agoI haven't had or seen one of those, but I believe the Quarter Pounder BLT is the current best McSandwich available to me.
- camus2 13y agolooks good ! is it the same sauce as the deluxe ? another best seller in France is the 280 for 280g. Not a big fan , but that's the biggest sandwich avaible here.
- scrabble 13y agoIt's back in Ontario.
- pedalpete 13y agoIt comes back for a short time, but I don't think it is quite anually. They had it in Australia a few years ago, I don't think I've seen it this year.
- bediger4000 13y agoAte two in Denver a couple of weeks ago. At least in Denver, if you buy the McRib "value meal", you can get a second McRib sandwich for $1. They got me on the margin. McRibs are at least as bizarre as the article says, in my opinion. I'm also going to use the phrase "enjoy your symptom" at work, if I possibly can.
- jaggederest 13y agoOh good, it's not an article in The Atlantic without a pointless reference to Lacanian theory. Haven't they been banned from Reddit for gaming the system?
- tossmeup 13y agoWhy assume/imply organ meat is offensive? If you'll eat any meat... eat the organs too. Sauce it up and swallow it down.
- yesiamyourdad 13y agoIronic that an article hiding under the guise of promoting healthier diet wallows in the gross out factor of the use of organ meat. Argue that TBHQ is bad, that the processing methods are yucky, but focusing on the use of tripe? 2 million years of evolution laughs at your squeamishness.