10 unpleasant facts about McDonald's

Compiling lists of facts about fast food, invariably fall into a state of shock, because in all these facts it is difficult to believe.





1. 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.

2. Golden Arches "McDonald's," according to psychologist Louis Cheskin - Freudian symbol. It is "a huge pair of breasts mother McDonald's».

3. 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».

4. The 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.

5. small salaries 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.

6. Injuries in the staff in the young two-fold higher than in adults. Every year in the cafe maimed to 200 000 people.

7. Young Manpower 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.

8. Taste of potatoes from the "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.

9. 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 USA.

10. In addition to flavor products to "McDonald's", the company "International Flavors End Fragransez" produces the smell of 6 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.

11. Cows are designed 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.