the average American eats at McDonald's 55 times a year that's like having Ronald McDonald as your personal chef for almost two months straight but before you grab those car keys for another MCV visit there's something you should probably know remember when your mom used to say you are what you eat well if that's true most of us are walking talking about science experiments thanks to McDonald's burgers last week I found a McDonald's burger I'd forgotten in my car from wait for it 3 weeks ago the scary part it looked exactly the same as the day
I bought it not a spot of mold not even a weird smell my leftover homemade burgers turn into science projects after just 3 days a regular burger has about 5 to six ingredients meat salt pepper and maybe some garlic or herbs if you're feeling fancy but grab your reading glasses because a McDonald's burger ingredient list reads like a chemistry textbook we're talking about 70 different ingredients that's not a burger that's a science fair project that somehow ended up in the food industry but what really gets me is the beef situation while McDonald's claims to use
100% beef they've mastered the art of making it taste the same every everywhere every time it's like they've discovered some sort of meat flavored clone stamp tool in Photoshop but for burgers a friend of mine who used to work at a meat processing plant told me they use something called pink slime basically all the leftover bits of meat cleaned with ammonia yummy right but the head scratcher is that these burgers are practically Immortal scientists have kept McDonald's burgers for years and and they look practically the same as day one one researcher in Iceland even has
a burger from 2009 on display in a glass case it looks better than I do on most Monday mornings the burger has its own webcam and everything it's probably more famous than most Instagram influencers at this point you might be thinking well maybe it's just really good preservation techniques sure and maybe my cat is secretly writing a novel when I'm not home the truth is real food should decompose if bacteria which usually love a good meat Feast won't touch your burger maybe that's Nature's Way of waving a big red flag you'd think with all these
chemicals the healthiest choice would be to grab a salad instead but McDonald's definition of healthy might just be their biggest illusion yet 730 calories that's how many calories are in a McDonald's Southwest salad with crispy chicken and dressing for comparison a Big Mac has 563 calories you read that right choosing the healthy option at McDonald's is like going to a casino to save money my friend Sarah spent an entire month eating only McDonald's salads trying to lose weight the only thing that got lighter was her wallet the yogurt parfait might be the greatest magic trick
McDonald's has ever pulled it looks innocent enough yogurt berries granola sounds like something your fitness instructor would approve of right wrong one parfait packs 22 GRS of sugar that's more than two Crispy Cream glazed donuts they've basically created a dessert and convinced everyone it's a breakfast health food that's not marketing that's straight up source the psychology Behind These healthy menu items is brilliant in an evil genius sort of way McDonald's knows that when someone in a group wants to eat healthy they can stop that person from vetoing McDonald's allog together look we have salads they
say it's like putting a treadmill in a candy store it's not there for you to use it's there to make you feel better about buying the candy the only product we will ever promote on our channel is a book by Claude Davis a veteran prepper about 126 superfoods and preservation methods from crisis times like the Great Depression and wartime that are impossible to find elsewhere we decided to promote his book because we are the last generation able to share these techniques and superfoods to our children or grandchildren it would be a shame to see this
information about highly nutritious foods and preservation methods to survive crises disappear you can check it out in the description of this video down below my personal favorite is their sliced Apple bags they took Nature's perfect snack cut it up added preservatives to keep it from browning and somehow made it less healthy than the original Apple it's like they're saying an apple a day keeps the doctor away unless it's our Apple then maybe keep the doctor number handy a nutritionist once told me that if you want to eat healthy at McDonald's you should order a burger
without the bun no fries and a water at that point you might as well just go home and eat a plain hamburger patty in your kitchen while staring at the wall at least you'd save some money and if you're thinking of treating yourself to dessert instead good luck with that broken ice cream machine sorry our ice cream machine is down these six words have probably crushed more dreams than any High School rejection letter it's become such a universal experience that people have actually created apps to track which McDonald's have working ice cream machines that's right
there are literally Tech startups dedicated to helping you find a working McFlurry if that's not a sign of how bad things have gotten I don't know what is the numbers are wild a recent survey found that about 30% of McDonald ice cream machines are out of service at any given time that's nearly onethird of all machines if Airlines had the same failure rate we'd all still be traveling by horse and carriage but these machines aren't actually broken most of the time they're just throwing a tantrum the Machines are made by a company called Taylor and
they're basically the Divas of the fast food equipment World they require a 4-Hour cleaning cycle every night and if something goes even slightly wrong during this process they lock up tighter than Fort Knox only certified tailor Technics can unlock them and guess who makes a fortune from repair calls ding dingding Taylor a former McDonald's worker told me the secret menu of error codes on these machines is thicker than my high school chemistry textbook there are more than 20 different error codes and each one requires a different troubleshooting process the poor employees often can't do anything
except stare at the machine like it's a modern art piece they're pretending to understand the whole situation has gotten so ridiculous that it sparked multiple lawsuits franchise owners are suing because they're losing money customers are suing because they can't get their ice cream fix and somewhere in the middle that tailor machine is probably laughing at all of us at least there's one menu item you can always count on getting those famous fries though after learning what's in them you might wish they were broken too there's this amazing Museum in Iceland that displays a McDonald's meal
from their last restaurant before it closed in 2009 the fries look exactly like they did when they were served perfectly golden no mold not even a hint of Decay my grandmother kept her wedding dress in pristine condition for 60 years and these fries might give it some competition for best preserved item of the century the curator just dusts them off occasionally like they some ancient artifact which I guess technically they are now just not the kind Indiana Jones would get excited about here's a fun science experiment take some McDonald's fries and some homemade fries put
them side by side and wait the homemade fries will start growing things that would make a biology teacher excited within a week but the McDonald's fries they'll just sit there mocking the laws of nature looking exactly the same as they did on day one it's like they've discovered the Fountain of Youth but instead of sharing it with humans they gave it to potatoes a food scientist want explained to me that real potatoes contain enough moisture and nutrients to make them a paradise for bacteria and mold but McDonald's fries go through so many processes and get
loaded with so many preservatives that they're basically mummified before they even hit the fryer they're like the ancient Egyptian pharaohs of fast food preserved for eternity but probably not something you want to put in your mouth and don't get me started on the salt content one medium serving of these Eternal fries contains enough sodium to make a cardiologist faint it's like they're trying to preserve us along with the fries maybe that's their secret plan turn all their customers into human jerky speaking of mysterious processed foods have you ever wondered what you're really eating at 4
a.m. when those McNugget Cravings hit ring ring welcome to to McDonald's would you like to try our McNuggets those words at 400 a.m. hit differently we've all been there it's the middle of the night you're hungry and somehow those golden nuggets of mystery meat seem like the answer to all of life's problems but that's when the real questions start popping up in your head what am I actually putting in my body right now the ingredient list for McNuggets reads like a final exam in advanced chemistry there's this one ingredient called dimethylsiloxane the same stuff they
put in Silly Putty McDonald's says it's just an anti- foaming agent for the cooking oil I say if you need to add antifoaming agents to your chicken maybe we should reconsider Our Life Choices the chicken part of the McNugget makes up about half of what you're eating the other half a mix of corn derivatives leavening agents and dextrose which is basically a fancy way of saying sugar yes they put sugar in their chicken it's like they looked at a piece of chicken and thought you know what this needs everything but chicken a food scientist once
broke down the manufacturing process for me first they take chicken parts and grind them into a paste then they add stabilizers preservatives and flavoring finally they shape this mixture into those four famous shapes The Bell the bow tie the ball and the boot that's right McNuggets come in exactly four shapes it's like chicken Tetris but everything is processed into Oblivion in a blind taste test most people can't tell the difference between a McNugget and a nugget made from compressed paper towels soaked in chicken broth I'm not making this up this was an actual experiment done
by food researchers their conclusion we're not really tasting chicken anymore we're tasting salt sugar and childhood memories but if you think the nuggets are questionable wait until you hear about those suspiciously perfect breakfast eggs because those perfectly round eggs on your McMuffin have more ingredients than your grandmother's secret cookie recipe a real egg needs exactly one ingredient inent an egg but McDonald's eggs they've turned breakfast into a science project with nearly 20 ingredients including something called liquid margarine my cousin works at a food manufacturing plant that supplies McDonald's he told me they pre-cook the eggs
freeze them then ship them to stores where they're reheated the eggs arrive in perfectly shaped discs like someone took a normal egg and put it through a Play-Doh mold Factory it's the only egg I've ever seen that comes with an instruction manual the funny part is how they Market these as freshly cracked eggs sure they were freshly cracked 3 weeks ago in a factory 500 miles away the only thing fresh about them is the heating lamp they sit under it's like calling a Frozen TV dinner homecooked because you turned on your microwave here's a fact
that'll ruin your breakfast those fluffy scrambled eggs in your breakfast burrito they come in a milk carton not a regular milk carton a massive industrial-sized carton filled with yellow liquid that looks like something from a sci-fi movie the employees just shake it up and pour it on the grill my friend who worked the breakfast shift said it reminded her of the stuff they used to make slime with in elementary school science class the weirdest thing about these eggs isn't even their ingredients it's how unnaturally perfect they look every egg is exactly the same size the
same shape the same yellow color it's like they're trying to make breakfast look like an Instagram filter in nature no two eggs are identical at McDonald's they've somehow managed to clone breakfast speaking of making things look perfect you wouldn't believe the tricks McDonald's uses to get you to spend more money let's start with the color red and yellow will make you hungry That's not just a random design Choice that's science McDonald's picked these colors back in the 1960s because research showed they trigger appetite it's like they're playing Hunger Games with our brains and we're all
tributes who volunteered without knowing it their menu screens are basically a master class in money extraction they put the most profitable items at eye level right where your eyes naturally land those cheap dollar menu items they're hiding in the corner like teenagers who didn't get invited to prom a marketing expert once told me that McDonald's rearranges their menu boards more often than I rearrange my furniture all based on what they want us to buy that month and don't get me started on their value meals the only real value is the extra profit they make here's
some math that'll blow your mind buying items separately often costs less than the combo meal but we're all programed to think combo T savings like it's hardwired into our DNA last week I ordered everything separately and saved $247 not exactly retirement money but hey that's like half a gallon of gas these days the most impressive is their use of smells those vents pumping out french fry Aroma they're strategically placed to hit you right when you're deciding what to order my car automatically turns into the drive-through Lane whenever it smells those fries I'm pretty sure McDonald's
has trained it like Pavlov's dog studies show that 70% of McDonald's customers end up spending more than they planned just because of how the menu is designed the would you like to supersize that the question alone boosted their profits by millions before they officially retired it now they just have different words for the same trick would you like to make that a large same game new name but what happens when you finally break free from the golden arches well my friend tried it for a month and the results were pretty shocking my friend thought quitting
McDonald's for a month would be easy 3 days in his car was still automatically turning into the drive-through Lane like it was possessed by the ghost of Ronald McDonald old habits die hard especially when they're deep fried but then the changes started rolling in faster than a drive-thru order timer his wallet got fatter those cheap meals were actually costing him about $200 a month the physical changes came next that Puff I just woke up in a salt mine look disappeared from his face his skin cleared up like he'd discovered some expensive Beauty secret nope just
the magic of not eating food that has more preservatives than a mummy's tomb his blood pressure dropped so much that his doctor called to make sure the reading wasn't a mistake an average McDonald's meal packs about 1,200 mgram of sodium that's more than half your daily limit in one sitting by the end of the month Tom had lost 11bs without changing anything else in his routine did my friend swear off McDonald's forever not exactly he still goes occasionally he's human after all but now it's a conscious Choice rather than an autopilot response to hunger as
he puts it it's like that ex you know isn't good for you you might grab coffee once in a while but you're not giving them a key to your house again
