There’s a day for Fast Food. Of course, there is. McDonald’s sells 75 burgers a second so why not right?
Not going to lie I love McDonald’s. Especially the Quarter Pounder with Cheese. It’s delicious, but my belly shows that I might love them a little too much. Let’s try to gross me out of wanting to eat fast food. It’s all mental.
The Huffington Post published an article that went over 20 pretty disgusting facts about fast food. Here are my six favorite (or least favorite? not sure).
1. Draining the Brain
This is perhaps the most alarming information available about fast food in the modern-day. Everyone is familiar with the fatty contents and high sugar levels present in burgers, chips, and soda in these environments, but what people may be less aware of is the fact that fast food items may also actually have detrimental effects on the human mind.
Chowing down on junk food on a regular basis disrupts the flow of blood to the brain, and after a certain amount of time can make you appear like a member of the walking dead. Unless we begin to actively cut back on our fast food consumption, a world of shuffling zombies might not be such an implausible possibility after all.
2. Fecal Fizz
Some people may claim that they do not necessarily mind where their food comes from as long as it tastes good. However, there’s an exception to every rule, and the fact that thousands of drink dispensers in fast food restaurants have displayed traces of fecal bacteria is surely that exception in this case.
In low doses, the particular form of bacteria found on these drink dispensers (known as coliform bacteria) won’t kill you, but the fact that this strand is commonly found in feces is revolting enough to make even the most unhygienic person want to kick the fizzy drinks forever.
Whilst this substance might not necessarily make you sick, another form of bacteria found in these drink dispensers certainly will: a nasty little strand called e.coli. This bacteria can cause severe food poisoning symptoms, and in rare cases has even caused death.
The message here couldn’t be clearer: stay away from fast food drink dispensers.
6. Fly Egg Sauce
Some disturbing news for you Americans out there. Regulations sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration of the USA actually allow for 30 or more fly eggs per 100 grams and 1 or more maggot per 100 grams to be present in tomato-based sauces.
Admittedly, these guys are the ones who know their stuff when it comes to bacteria, but the thought of scoffing down fly eggs as part of your dish is enough to turn you off fast-food pasta dishes forever.
13. The Sweet Taste of Beavers
Now might be the time to stop slurping on the vanilla and raspberry shakes that are available for selection on so many different fast-food menus.
For added sweetness, the production process for these flavored drinks involves intermingling a head-slapping horrid ingredient into the mix called castoreum – which actually comes from the anal gland of the beaver. Shudder.
18. Crazy Kids
Many of the more colorful foods served up at fast-food chains contain food dyes that attempt to make the finalized product resemble something close to those glossy posters slapped on the restaurant’s interior windows.
If you frequently take your kids to eat at fast-food restaurants, the presence of this ingredient ought to be enough to make you change your habits. Food dyes have been proven to actively alter the behavior of children, making them more hyperactive, intense, bad-tempered, and irritable, and having even more severe symptoms for kids suffering from ADHD.
20. Walk It Off
If none of the above facts managed to put you off purchasing fast food, consider this as a final thought: If you went into McDonald’s right now, and purchased a small burger, small fries, and a small coke, the number of calories, salt, and saturated fat present in this moderate meal means that it would still take you over four hours to walk it all off.
And let’s be honest, the last thing you ever feel like doing after scoffing down a MacDonald’s burger is going for a tiring 240 minute-long walk.
