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20 facts about McDonald's
1. In 1970, Americans spent on this meal $ 6 billion a year in 2001 - more than 110 billion. This is more than a college education, computers, cars. More than books, movies, magazines, newspapers, videos and music - together.
2. The average American eats three hamburgers and four servings of potatoes each week.
3. One in eight US workers used to work in "McDonald's».
4. «McDonald's» consumption of pork, beef and potatoes, most in the United States, chicken - a little less than fast food "Kentucky Chicken frayed».
5. Especially for the "McDonald's" breed bred chickens with huge breasts, "Mr. MD." White breast meat is a popular dish on the menu, "Chicken McNuggets." It changed the entire industry production of chicken meat. Chicken began to sell not entirely as 20 years ago, and cut into pieces.
6. Golden Arches "McDonald's," according to psychologist Louis Cheskin - Freudian symbol. It is "a huge pair of breasts" McDonald's mother.
7. two thirds of all employees of fast food chains do not have 20 years. They work for a very small salary, performing simple operations. In 1958 in the "McDonald's" first appeared in the 75-page guide, which describes in detail the procedure for the preparation of all the actions of food and ways of communicating with customers. Today, in this book of 750 pages, and it is called "the bible of McDonald's».
8. staff turnover in fast food - up to 400%. A typical worker leaves the cafe in 4 months. Among the employees a lot of teenagers from poor families and immigrants, particularly from Latin America, who know in English only the name of dishes on the menu.
9. small salary and the lack of labor protection is replaced by the creation of "team spirit" among the young workers. For a long time managers "McDonald's" teach how to properly praise subordinates and create the illusion of their indispensability. It's cheaper than raise wages.
10. Injuries among young staff, two times higher than in adults. Each year, crippled in their cafes 200,000 people.
11. Manpower Young likes to joke. Videos of fast food in Los Angeles showed that teenagers sneeze into the food, lick your fingers, pick your nose, extinguish cigarettes on products, drop them on the floor. In May 2000, three teenagers from the "Burger King" in New York City have been arrested for being about 8 months spat and urinated in the food. In mixers live cockroaches, and mice to climb at night left to defrost hamburger ... It is known that many employees do not eat fast food in your own cafe until we prepare their own portion.
12. The taste of potato, "McDonald's" everybody likes. Previously, he depended solely on the fat in which it roasted. For decades it was a mixture of 7 percent cottonseed oil and 93 percent beef tallow. In 1990, people are up in arms against cholesterol, fast food and switched to 100% vegetable oil. But the taste is something needed to leave the same! Today, if you ask in the "McDonald's" information about the composition of food, at the end of a long list of modest look "natural flavoring". It is a universal explanation of why everything is so delicious fast food.
13. Recipes potatoes and hamburgers can not be found in cookbooks and in the works of "Food Technology" and "Food Engineering". What we eat there over the last 40 years has changed more than in the previous 40 000. And the taste and smell of hamburgers and the like is done in huge chemical plants New Jersey.
14. About 90% of all the products that we buy, have been pretreated. Conservation and frost killed the natural taste of food. For the past 50 years, neither we nor fastfood could not live without chemical plants.
15. In addition to taste products "McDonald's", the company "International Flavors End Fragransez" produces the smell of six of the top 10 spirits of the world, including "BEAUTIFUL" "Estee Lauder" and "Tresor" "Lankoma." And the smells of soap, dishwashing detergents, shampoo and so on. All this is the result of a single process. You actually shave the same as you have for dinner.
16. Work at the factory has become the most dangerous in America only the official figure is 40,000 injuries a year. US meat processing plants process up to 400 carcasses per hour, while in Europe, no more than 100. Because of low wages among immigrants work here.
17. Cows fed the farmers, as they should, grass. Cows, intended for large fastfudovskoy grinder, three months before the killing of huge herds are driven to a special area where they are fed grain and anabolics.
18. One cow can eat more than 3000 pounds of grain and 400 pounds of weight gain. Meat thus becomes very greasy, just right for stuffing.
19. The increase in grain prices has worsened the already dire situation. Until 1997 - the first ring of the mad cow disease - 75% of US cattle were eating the remains of sheep, cows and even dogs and cats from animal shelters. In one 1994 US cows ate 3 million pounds of chicken manure. After 1997 in the diet were additive from pigs, horses and chickens, along with sawdust from the chicken coops.
20. Obesity - the second cause of death after smoking in the United States. Every year die from it of 28 000 people. The 2-fold increased rate of obesity among the British, who are more like fast food for all Europeans. In Japan, with their marine and vegetable fat diet before almost it was not - they have become all.
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Source: ntb.org.ua
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