How to eat Vegan at McD's
Not sure why anyone would go to McD's and expect to eat vegan, but here ya go:
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https://vegnews.com/restaurants/veg...t-based-burgers |
There isn't much for a carnivore to eat at McDonald's either. Just the meat patty and water to drink.
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Vegans are 2% of the population. I wouldn't expect any restaurant to cater to them—especially factory fast-food.
Actually, I don't know why anybody eats there. The food is mediocre at best, and full of unhealthy additives. |
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It's tasty and convenient. These are the people who tell me, with a laugh, that food is food and I'm being all restrictive and I'm the one with a disorder. And they believe it. Or need to. |
You must be pretty desperate to be vegan and go to McD's or a similar fast-food/quick-service restaurant. The potatoes and the sandwiches with nothing but bread and a few veggies easily has the highest profit margin. You're financially supporting the restaurant serving meat.
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That's why I think it's virtue signaling because they eat potato chips and drink coke. Seed oils do a lot of the damage and they won't hear of their cold-pressed sunflower oil being the problem.
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I do love that water is a vegan option! ;) :lol: |
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When I travel for work, at a pinch I will sometimes order a couple of plain quarter pounders with a side salad. I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the UK the patties are 100% beef, no additives. The same can't be said for many of the burgers you are served in a cafe or restaurant. |
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According to DD1 (who lives in the UK) this is apparently a UK thing. As I understand it, Five Guys over there also does 100% beef burgers. (At least they did when we visited almost 15 years ago). Every time DD1 has had friends over for burgers, they marvel at how good her burgers taste, and can't figure out why hers taste so much better than the ones they make at home. But everyone she knows is using fillers (which I'm assuming are mostly bread crumbs or flour) in their burgers, just like the restaurants do. I don't know why they do this, unless it was because of post-WWII rationing issue, when you couldn't get enough meat to make enough all meat burgers to feed the entire family, so everyone got used to the meat being extended with flour or breadcrumbs. As an aside, I hated the sausages I was served there, because they all tasted like flour to me - obviously another situation where they were extending the meat with flour or breadcrumbs to make the sausages. |
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Meatloaf always has crumbs in it. But McDonald's does keep their patties 100% beef. Dr. Ken Berry has a video where he demonstrates getting just the patties off the ala carte menu, with a knife and fork. Our local restaurants are not chains, and the ones I go to serve 100% beef, and I just order it without the bun and leave the potato chips on the plate. Because I order cheeseburgers, and it's wasted if it sticks to the bun. |
When I started low carb, TWO decades ago, veganism was already irrational. There was a period where many vegan bloggers were dropping out for health reasons, and then taking down their sites because of death threats.
I don't think they have changed and now we know how much corporate money is being paid to people to promote this. You know the hardcore by how they look because they start losing the fat in their face and the muscles in their limbs. But the overweight vegans simply eat nothing but junk food. Vegan bakeries! Fake meat! Spinach smoothies which have put people in the hospital with the oxalate overload. Yet... no warnings from anyone with a loud megaphone about the dangers of this happy-happy marketing. Like we are children. |
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I was speaking specifically of the burgers UK based restaurants serve in the UK/British Isles, and how it seems that those who are UK bred and born even makes burgers at home with bread crumbs or flour added to them. So you can see why UK natives would be shocked that the burgers made by a US native (such as DD1) are so much better than what they normally have there. With the exception of US based fast food places in the UK (McD's and Five Guys - I see there's also Wendy's in a few towns there now too - their UK website says the burgers are 100% British beef) it seems that everyone does some kind of watered down (crumbed down?) version of burgers there. Yuck. As far as I know, all restaurants in the US that sell hamburgers make them from 100% beef. At least I've never encountered one here that sells some kind of mixture extended with crumbs or flour and passes it off as a hamburger. Of course they all serve it on a bun (which you can ditch) with some kind of potatoes on the side, but the burger itself is all beef. |
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However, I do know that supermarket/restaurant burgers often contain ingredients such as wheat, potato, rice or gram flour, maize or tapioca starch. I wouldn't buy or eat them, but plenty do. |
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It may be regional - she's in Norwich. Or maybe those she knows can't be bothered to actually form hamburger patties themselves, so they buy them with the starchy stuff mixed in and formed, and just cook them without considering what's in them. Apparently they're just used to it - I don't recall eating a burger when we visited except for going to Five Guys one time (which was all beef, because that's what Five Guys serves). I do recall DD1 was telling me that this sausage or that sausage was really good, but I couldn't hack the overwhelming taste of flour in them. Adding stuff like that to ground beef reminds me a little bit of the cheap "blend 'o beef" that was available back in the 70's - it was ground beef with soy protein mixed into it. You had to read the small print to figure out what was different about it, but it was so much cheaper than the 70% ground beef that it was a way you could have something sort of meaty-tasting on a poor newlywed/college student's budget. |
This really shows the ridiculous lengths a vegan demands. They created their own media storm which convinced investors to pour money into foods "no one in their right minds" would want to eat.
Biology explains vegans to me by knowing that when they drastically cut down on their bioavailable food intake, they are essentially on a functional fast. Of course they feel better! Overweight or not, at first, they are actually running on animal fat. Also why that "honeymoon feeling" doesn't last. But they are convinced that avoiding animal foods is the way to get it back. And now they are running on toxic positivity. Now it's entirely mental and avoiding real world feedback. I can always tell a real vegan. They look like someone who is very sick. Sunken, dull eyes, poor skin tone from lack of hemoglobin, and the ones who shoot steroids to keep muscle are really playing with fire. Ironically, most people are in such poor health they believe the health claims and try to be "more plant-based." And blame the lack of good results on them not being "plant based enough." This traps them like a plane spinning towards the ground. They can't fly straight enough to get any lift. |
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