McDonalds country specific offerings around the world

[Liam_snorkel]

Good read, thanks for posting it.

 

[brettprevans]

Maccas isnt even the equivalent of a tin of goo. At least a tin of goo started off life as all grain.
craft fourum isnt going to be all that positive to a megaswill/food place.

Now if ur talking about operational efficiency etc then I give them top marks. As with CUB etc. But ur not talking about business models and operations/productions.

I cant even refer to their stuff as food.

 

[brettprevans]

Actually we could be being harsh. He just posted a link with country alternatives like curry maccas wtc. Its a talking point for marketing and cultural influence or at least what american business thinks of countries cultural foods.

 

[eungaibitter1]

I think Ronnie macdonno ran an unlucky sixth

 

[bum]

http://www.theageofmammals.com/burgers/

 

[Dave70]

http://youtu.be/SI6zUHD9-Jw

 

[maxim0200]

A lot of said Greek hamburger/fish and chip joints are now being run by the Chinese, as the Greek's move up the socio-economic ladder.



Unfortunatly this seems to be all to common at most 'local' takeouts now, all run by asians and most have hopeless service and food.
That being said il goto them any day over mcsh*tters! :lol:

Next time you buy a burger from maccas pull off the bun and have a look at the 'bread', its like fairyfloss and bears no resembalance to real bread, its all air and suggar! And they charge you almost 10$ for it.

 

[Bax]

I'm always interested in seeing what other fast food outlets offer around the world.

Subways an interesting one. Along with different pizza toppings and what not. When it's 8pm and there's nothing to eat for dinner, sometimes you've just got to scrape the bottom of the barrel.

 

[Feldon]

For the good oil on food oils check out this story that was run in the Age/SMH earlier this year.

Then butter your toast and go out and get some lard to fry your chips in. Good stuff.

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/oils-aint-oils-20130218-2elzb.html

For those interested in food oils and health, ABC-TV has a two-part series on food oils starting tomorrow night on the weekly Catalyst science programme (check local TV guides).

The Heart of the Matter

Does high cholesterol really increase your risk of heart attacks?

Is the role of cholesterol in heart disease really one of the biggest myths in the history of medicine?

For the last four decades we’ve been told that saturated fat clogs our arteries and high cholesterol causes heart disease. It has spawned a multi-billion dollar drug and food industry of “cholesterol free” products promising to lower our cholesterol and decrease our risk of heart disease.

But what if it all isn’t true? What if it’s never been proven that saturated fat causes heart disease?

In this special two part edition of Catalyst, Dr Maryanne Demasi investigates the science behind the claims that saturated fat causes heart disease by raising cholesterol.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3861759.htm

 

[Liam_snorkel]

<3 catalyst.

 

[OzPaleAle]

+1 for Catalyst
They had a good 2 part episode on sugars a little while back, was very interesting.
Fructose is the devil it seems.

 

[Feldon]

+1 for Catalyst
They had a good 2 part episode on sugars a little while back, was very interesting.
Fructose is the devil it seems.

There was a story in the UK Guardian yesterday on this very subject:

Fructose: the poison index

A ruling on fructose boosts the powerful sugar industry, either by incompetence or collusion, but is based on pseudoscience.

The battle over the compound fructose now reaches new levels of obfuscation. The food industry is a strong – and loud, and rich – proponent, hard to ignore. The European Food and Safety Agency has just weighed in, in favour of the substitution of sucrose (table sugar: a disaccharide composed of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose) with fructose alone, the sweeter of the two – even to the point of allowing health claims for fructose on the packaging of processed foods.

And yet the scientific data on fructose says it is one of the most egregious components of the western diet, directly contributing to heart disease and diabetes, and associated with cancer and dementia. Nature magazine has just published a scathing indictment of fructose by Dr Lewis Cantley, one of the US's leading cancer researchers. But the EFSA says it sees no harm, justifying its stance on the basis that fructose has a lower glycaemic index than glucose.

The concept of glycaemic index is simple. This is how high your blood glucose rises after ingesting 50 grams of carbohydrate in any specific food, which is a measure of a food's generation of an insulin response, and is used as a way of showing a food's potential for weight gain. Glycaemic index is a proxy for how high your insulin level will rise, which determines whether that blood glucose will get shunted to fat cells for storage. Low-glycaemic-index diets promote blood sugar stability and are associated with weight loss. But the EFSA has missed the point. Glycaemic index is not the issue.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/21/fructose-poison-sugar-industry-pseudoscience

 

[OzPaleAle]

Interesting.
There was something they mentioned on Catalyst about Fructose being stored as the type of fat that is around organs, where glucose\sucrose is stored as the under the skin(subcutaneous i think they called it?) type fat that doesn't have the same health implications as the organ clinging type.

Seems fructose makes things brown nicely so its used in bbq sauces\marinades, breads etc.

 

[Feldon]

For those interested in food oils and health, ABC-TV has a two-part series on food oils starting tomorrow night on the weekly Catalyst science programme (check local TV guides).

The Heart of the Matter

Does high cholesterol really increase your risk of heart attacks?

Is the role of cholesterol in heart disease really one of the biggest myths in the history of medicine?

For the last four decades we’ve been told that saturated fat clogs our arteries and high cholesterol causes heart disease. It has spawned a multi-billion dollar drug and food industry of “cholesterol free” products promising to lower our cholesterol and decrease our risk of heart disease.

But what if it all isn’t true? What if it’s never been proven that saturated fat causes heart disease?

In this special two part edition of Catalyst, Dr Maryanne Demasi investigates the science behind the claims that saturated fat causes heart disease by raising cholesterol.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3861759.htm

The second part of 'The Heart of the Matter' is on Catalyst this Thursday night on ABC-TV.

Meanwhile, this story has popped up on the ABC News website:

Professor urges ABC to pull Catalyst episode on cholesterol drugs, says it could result in deaths
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-28/professor-says-abc-catalyst-episode-could-result-in-deaths/5050866

The ABC has responded saying it stands by the programme and its claims and will put the second episode to air as scheduled.