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Taken on it's on and eaten as part of a balanced diet there is nothing wrong with a Big Mac and fries. If you look at the nutritional content of McDonalds meals they are all created with balance in mind. Sure they may be loaded with calories but so is a curry and I note that there is an ED curry club. The Morgan Spurlock film Supersize Me, in which he ate nothing but McDonalds for a month, breakfast, lunch and dinner did end up with him being overweight and having increased blood pressure and cholesterol etc. but I'm sure you would get the same effect eating nothing but pizza or cheap ready made meals from Iceland. I know for a fact that with regards to the beef used, McDonalds use nothing but top grade British beef with no fillers or cereals added.


No I don't work for McD's and I don't work for them as PR or anything like that.


@Louisa - I'm not sure how you can pass comment like that without having met me (or have you?).

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> What are you stressed about, apart from being

> awake at 5.29am, which would be enough to set me

> off, frankly?


1am, 4am, 5.30am, 7am... all the same to me these days! grrrr

" I know for a fact that with regards to the beef used, McDonalds use nothing but top grade British beef with no fillers or cereals added."


Not having a go at MaccyD here - but given the statement above, the burger should taste a little more beefburgery no?


Like McCain's chips - nothing but fresh potatoes. Frozen


So why if I use fresh potatoes and freeze them, do they taste nothing like that?


Something else is afoot

SJ, Have you ever taken the burger out, scraped it cleanish and tried it? I haven't either, but for me, the meat in a Maccas burger just adds chewyness. The hamburger tastes of their very sweet breat and their sauce.


But I do believe their premium burgers "big tasty" et al are made with much better quality meat.


But lately I have gone right off maccas for anything other than McMuffins, which I love!

Birds. Look, I like you and all. You brighten up a sunny day with your cheerful chirruping and I will happily chase cats out of our garden so they don't threaten the robins nesting in our tree. But, BUT, what, at the first glimmer of light, is the dawn chorus all about?

I mean, really? You all have to get together and scream your soddin' beaks off?

If the neighbours had a party that loud at four in the morning I'd be phoning the council.


Sort it out will ya, it's just plain antisocial.

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