I always found it really weird how he was puking on day 1. Alcohol being in the mix makes so much more sense, guessing he was either hungover as fuck or just drunk when that happened, probably also didn’t try to fight it as much because his drunk ass thought it would make his point better, but even when I first saw it, it hurt his credibility. And especially when combined with that big mac dude, figured reality was more complex than he was presenting.
I still avoid McDonald’s, but because it’s one of the shittiest fast food options based on my own experiences (I’ve never been satisfied from just one meal from there while A&W or Wendy’s can satisfy my hunger), not to mention their patties are pretty sad and unappealing IMO.
We had to watch the first part of it several times over in school and I don’t really understand what the point was. Usually got started in the lesson and then the lesson ended but it would never get finished later.
What, eating vast quantities of fast food every day is bad for you? Of course it is, are you fucking retarded?
As someone from the long long ago, it’s funny seeing this post. For my generation, this has the same vibe as “of course smoking is bad for you”, meanwhile the generation before mine was saturated in tobacco smoke and normalized tobacco culture. Sure, there was always an undercurrent that it was bad, but there wasn’t the vehement rejection of it like today.
You could go back further again and do it with something like not wearing seatbelts. The value of seatbelts is obvious now, but it wasn’t always part of the zeitgeist.
The same goes for fast food. We knew it wasn’t great, but healthy eating awareness was hardly a thing back then, especially compared to what it is today. It is precisely because of things like Supersize Me raising awareness, (even ham-fistedly in retrospect) and changing the culture, that we get to call out that shit as obvious today.
You had to be there. You’re welcome.
I think one of the reasons he did it was an executive from McDonald’s had stated that their food was healthy and someone could eat it everyday for a month without health consequences. His goal was to prove this was an obvious lie. Secondly how many low income people are stuck in a system where this is the only food that is conveniently available and how that is making generations of low-income households sick.
Not sure about the alcoholism - but this wasn’t a strict scientific trial so…
Not buying the low income excuse, when I was on low income I would have loved to have enough money to be able to afford fast food every day. If I had been doing that I wouldn’t have been able to afford rent.
I don’t go to mcdonalds but just looked up their prices. A single “big arch” (wtf is that? first thing on the menu) for £10, about the same as a weeks worth of food with the sort of things I was getting poverty shopping.
You may not know this but when it was made McDonald’s was vastly cheaper than it is today. Double cheeseburgers were just a single dollar. It’s somewhat difficult to achieve a multi ingredient hot meal for that price with groceries and it requires doing meal prep and reheating. Today’s McDonald’s is way more expensive which completely invalidates the case for eating it at all outside the breakfast menu (actual eggs).
I am aware of inflation
Not inflation, the price has increased far beyond the inflation rate as McDonald’s struggled to stay profitable and adjusted their strategy and posture (mccafe era).
when the doctor tells him he’s pickling his liver, then abruptly refuses to appear on camera again, that should have been a pretty serious giveaway.
oh great now you got me hungry for pickled liver
is there like foie gras but instead of fat goose iiver it’s like alcoholic goose liver
Came looking, glad I found
Morgan died of cancer a couple years ago. Probably nothing to do with the raging alcoholism and the mcbinge
TIL
A misinformation/propaganda greentext from 4chan? Say it ain’t so.
I don’t know if Morgan was an alcoholic or not, it’s unfortunate if he was, but if you are eating a combined high fat and high sugar (particularly high fructose, as found in soda) diet like he was, you are going to fuck with your liver for sure, regardless. Especially if there is no exercise as well. Quickest way to fatty-liver disease.
But sure, do a favor for the sugar lobby and blame it all on one guy’s alleged alcoholism. It’s not like he’s around to clarify things anymore, or anything.
This shit did tons of damage in the food education areas. So many morons, included here, screeching at McDonald’s.
It’s a cheap salty burger. Nothing more, nothing less.
The fries don’t decompose.
/r/IamveryCulinary material right here.
I don’t use Reddit, silly.
c/IamveryCulinary@lemmy.world
Thanks, silly.
No problem, silly!
You got it, silly.
