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It's on the news today that the chicken nuggets sold in McDonald's contains dimethylpolysiloxane. Dimethylpolysiloxane is better known as silicon, which is used to stop the nasty little bastards from frothing during deep frying. It's also the stuff they make breast implants from. Hmm hmm, plastic and chicken! Actually, silicon is not that uncommon in processed foods. So anyway, what's the nastiest food additive? And why?

Nothing wrong with additives, I say.

Artificial colours.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Nothing wrong with additives, I say.

Only if the additive multiply our lifespan by ten.

Monosodium Glutamate.

Slartibartfast wrote:Monosodium Glutamate.

One salt, one sugar. Yum.

Read The Fast Food Nation if you are really curious but fair warning: this book will make you think twice about walking into a fast food restaurant.

The Kernel wrote:Read The Fast Food Nation if you are really curious but fair warning: this book will make you think twice about walking into a fast food restaurant.

Why? Scare the pants off of me, Kernel.

Stofsk wrote:

The Kernel wrote:Read The Fast Food Nation if you are really curious but fair warning: this book will make you think twice about walking into a fast food restaurant.

Why? Scare the pants off of me, Kernel.

That doesn't sound like a very appealing prospect...

Anyways, you got me, I haven't actually read it yet. My sister did, and she told me a few of the worst stories (like the "breeding" of the KFC chickens and what not) but I don't remember the details all that well. Still, it was enough to keep me out of fast food restaurants.

I read Fast Food Nation for Econ last semester. Apparently, chickens are fed cattle meat and cattle are fed chicken meat. Fun stuff.

Bah, nothing beats a good fried rat in a KFC bucket. A freind of mine got one a few years ago.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Anything regarding KFC breeding freak variants of chickens is complete and utter bullshit.

I really don't see what the big hoopla is over additives, though. Especially preservatives...

I would say Sawdust in all of the bread products, nothing like having your colon torn up....

The Yosemite Bear wrote:I would say Sawdust in all of the bread products, nothing like having your colon torn up....

What bread products?

the buns on the hot dogs, and the hamburgers.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:the buns on the hot dogs, and the hamburgers.

This is too unbelievable without a source. Do you have one? I mean, I didn't believe McDonald's adds plastic to their chicken nuggets until I saw the list of ingredients with my own eyes.

Actually the FDA allows up to 1% rat in pure beef, allows up to 5% sawdust filler in white or wheat bread, the bargin bread brands list it as Cellulose in the incrediants. I learned this watching 60min when I was a kid.

Potassium bromide as an additive to bread. It makes it swell more. It can also kill you or turn you into an Horrible Mutant Killing Machine!

Weren't people putting all sorts of nasty non-food crap into food before the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in the early 20th century?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:Weren't people putting all sorts of nasty non-food crap into food before the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in the early 20th century?

one of the original ingredients in early coca cola was actually cocaine, iirc.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Actually the FDA allows up to 1% rat in pure beef, allows up to 5% sawdust filler in white or wheat bread, the bargin bread brands list it as Cellulose in the incrediants. I learned this watching 60min when I was a kid.

Please forgive my inability to accept that, based on the source.

Darth_Zod wrote:

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:Weren't people putting all sorts of nasty non-food crap into food before the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in the early 20th century?

one of the original ingredients in early coca cola was actually cocaine, iirc.

The pure food and drug act didn't so much ban additives in food as ban meat that was hosting advanced bacterial civilizations from going to market. It also banned most patent medicine.

Coca Cola started out as wine spiked with cocaine. That stopped when the city of Atlanta banned alcohol. So they switched to kola nut extract, cocaine, and water. By the time the Pure Food and Drug Act passed, Coca Cola had long since eliminated the cocaine, and the drink was being sold as a beverge, not medicine.

you'll note I dont eat meat except seafood.

Enforcer Talen wrote:you'll note I dont eat meat except seafood.

Hows your murcury levels.

There's bacteria in everything, it's impossible to keep contaminates out of food, enjoy