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Posted: 07-02-2006 13:25 Post subject:

Goodness!

Heh. Well, there goes my theory (sort of). Wink

Personally, I hate to toss (for example) a whole onion into the trash just because it rolled onto the floor. I mean.. one must remove the whole skin regardless, so how could it be contaminated with anything?

After years of cooking, I guess it's automatic. If it hits the floor, it's garbage. Razz

edit: post intercepted! this was re: washboard.

Posted: 08-02-2006 09:15 Post subject:

Posted: 10-02-2006 21:47 Post subject:

my son has just bought home a huge bag of mcdonalds after 8 mcflurry sauce, its about the size of a large oven chip bag, and because its sealed it kind of brings to mind the type of bag hospitals use for blood.
sell by date is months and months away and it doent even need to be refrigerated.

oh god i can feel the pounds piling on before i have even opened it.

Posted: 10-02-2006 23:03 Post subject:

Posted: 12-02-2006 00:41 Post subject:

In fairness, I have to say that as much as I loathe junk food...I'm a sucker for a Chinese takeaway curry. Especially when you get a bag of prawn crackers to go with it, and use them to shovel the curry to your mouth.

Posted: 14-02-2006 22:07 Post subject:

My sister was a picky eater. For several years she drove McDonald's staff insane by insisting on a glass of water. This was before water became a designer product in North America that costs more than the same industrially processed water plussugar or even milk, beer or fruit juice--most North American sit-down restaurants still give iced tap water away free and it's often as good as bottled.

Any way, the way they managed to do it was sell her a beverage and then cancel the order. They had to do this in order to account for the paper cup.

McDonald's is Marshalism run amuck. I'm surprised they don't electrify the toilet seats, but that would require a staff washroom. But I like the Chicken McNuggets which I eat nearly once a week, usually after shopping for DVDs. I could become a millionnaire in ten years on what I spend on entertainment and junkfood but why leave money for others to spend?

Take the McLumps home and warm them up and they're pretty tasty compared to any frozen or home-made chicken croquettes I have ever had. I've taken to filling a little metal bowl with ketchup--Ronald Reagan was right--it is a vegetable--the way I eat it.

I resent the Health Police trying to ban everything that's not good for you. They are probably wrong on the nutrition, and they are certainly wrong from several other points of view.

I'll bet that a slice of cheesecake won't decrease your lifespan by 15 minutes. Or 5 minutes. Or even 1 minute, if you have the sense to cut back on the calories somewhere else to pay for the extra fat, sugar, etc. In fact, the pleasure and contentment may outweigh the cost of the extra fat and calories, etc.--the old proverb, "A touch of what you fancy does the soul good" suggests that the benefits of a small dietary luxery outweighs the nutritional side-effects altogether even if they are real.

Bean sprouts and iceberg lettuce are just not worth the risk of contracting cryptosporidium. No nutritional value whatsover, bloody useless as filler, and they taste like the water left over from cooking vapid frozen veggies, only not warmed enough to pass for thin soup.

What the world needs is a Fortean Bureau of Nutrition to investigate the false assumptions and dubious claims of scientists, doctors, journalists, nutritionists, vendors, etc.

I bet they'll discover that eating a slice of chocolate cheesecake actually extends your healthy lifespan by half an hour--15 minutes to eat it (you may not be healthier during this time but you'll be happy which counts as healthy lifespan) and 15 minutes in mental and physical benefits--especially if you are the type who always talks old campaigns over dinner or lunch in restaurants. Over the years you could spend a week or two happily discribing the best slice of pastry you ever had. Nobody talks about bean sprouts.

Vive la France! Vive la Belgique! Vive la Suisse! Oh, Hell! Vive le Liban!

My paternal grandmother was "over-weight" for 70 years out of nearly 90.

Ate like a hummingbird--continuously, while hovering about. It's the hovering that kept her weight under control, and small portions.

Posted: 14-02-2006 23:09 Post subject:

Posted: 15-02-2006 00:56 Post subject:

quite a fun little mcdonalds game HERE

Posted: 31-05-2006 22:13 Post subject: McDonalds and the 'Munchies'

It's a conspiracy, I tell you!

Posted: 01-06-2006 05:45 Post subject:

McDonalds in Hawaii sell Taro pies.

Just thought I'd share that.

Posted: 01-06-2006 16:52 Post subject:

Whut?
Enlighten me,please......

Posted: 28-01-2008 07:48 Post subject:

Food giant to award 'McDiplomas'
By Hannah Goff
Education reporter, BBC News

McDonald's has won approval to offer courses which could form part of an A-level standard qualification.
The fast-food giant, airline FlyBe and Network Rail, are the three firms to be approved to offer courses equal to units of the new diplomas.

It means students could combine units from in-house courses with others to obtain the government's flagship new vocational and academic qualification.

Ministers are keen to involve business in attempts to boost workforce skills.

It follows concerns raised by business leaders that schools, colleges and even universities are failing to equip youngsters for the world of work.

But critics complain that the diplomas they see as the answer to the issue are not sufficiently academically rigorous.

Just last week, four out of 10 university admissions tutors said they would not accept students who had taken the new diplomas which are being introduced next autumn.

Exams watchdog, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, said all three firms had been given awarding body status to Level 3 - which is equivalent to A Levels or the specialised diploma.

And FlyBe has won accreditation to offer qualifications that could theoretically form part of degree - Level 4.

To achieve this status all three firms had to meet a set of standards set out by the QCA in its Qualifications Credit Framework (QCF).

Cabin crew courses

This QCF is a new system by which learners can bank up credits for workplace learning and take them with them to future courses.

A QCA spokesman said: "The Qualifications Credit Framework is a new framework that allows nationally recognised courses to be broken down into units.

"It is componentised so if a learner drops out of a course or can't manage to complete they can take those units with them."

He added: "McDonald's have achieved the standards for awarding accredited qualifications at Level 3.

"This will enable them to assess, track and recognise learning that otherwise would be lost."

From this month, McDonald's will be piloting their basic shifts manager course.

McDonald's chief people officer David Fairhurst said the accreditation was a natural extension of the qualifications the firm already offered.

He said: "Our employees tell us they want the chance to do more formal learning and we're responding to that. From this January, we are proud to be piloting our own externally recognised qualifications for our management training."

Meanwhile, from this summer FlyBe will offer courses covering the work of cabin crews, engineers, call centre staff, some of which will reach Level 4 - degree level.

Network Rail will offer courses up to A-level or Diploma standard mainly to their track engineers at first.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7209276.stm

Posted: 29-01-2008 07:53 Post subject:

Today's Matt cartoon:

An estate agent is showing a family a house. He says,
"There are no local A-level colleges, but it's in the catchment area of a very good McDonalds"!

Very Happy

Posted: 30-01-2008 01:54 Post subject:

I live somewhere where there is no Mcdonalds - you wouldn't have thought it was possible would you? Well into the realms of forteana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_McDonald's_franchises

Lists countries with and without Mcdonalds
However it neglects to list my caribbean island in the without section because it is counted as a dependency not a country - how red tape

So if you want a happy meal here you'll have to buy a plane ticket (or you could go to Burger King, we've got several of those)

Posted: 30-01-2008 01:56 Post subject:

Sorry I just can't get that link to work