No other posters have provided you with links to show you that the answer to your question is False.
All you have done is said you know somebody. So what? I could say I know a man who once petted a dog which was owned by a guy who was porking M.Monroe while Kennedy and Sinatra force feed her drugs. Does this make it true?
It may be possible to make burgers from worms but that was not your question.
FALSE. End of thread.
Not that I’m naive enough to swallow a denial from the OWNER of McDonald’s, but let’s end this thread here. I think it’s better that way.
Well I posted a link about one of the longest and indept libel cases in British History and a site dedicated to slam McDonalds. If the burgers were made from worms it might have came up don’t you think? Or maybe I’m just being naive :rolleyes:
Let me present you with another stupid theory of mine.
Let’s imagine that my uncle actually sells worm meat for McDonalds. It’s an HYPOTETHICAL SCENARIO, mind you, right?
Well, what does my uncle sells? Meat. Not worms. Meat. Made of worms, but meat anyway. It has the color of meat, the taste of meat, the smell of meat, and comes boxed in nice packet with the words MEAT on it. Not “earthworm meat”. Just MEAT.
Run all the chemical tests on it and you’ll get only one result: it’s meat. Not strange meat, not illegal meat, not contaminated meat. It’s just meat.
Are you following?
Well.
Now, let’s say that some guy from, I dunno, FBI goes to the McDonald’s hamburger factory. What he will find there? Worms, cows, horses, buffalos, rabbits? Nope. He will find… meat. LOTS of meat.
Can you see where I’m going? Well, moving on…
Well, I don’t think that you can actually determine the animal the meat came from just by looking at it on a microscope. Or you can? That, I don’t know. But I want to know. Ignorance is NOT bliss.
And about the fact that ‘it might have come up’, well, there are best kept secrets around. Nobody knew that Rock Hudson was gay before he died, for example…
So meat is just meat. Any animal no matter which one, it’s all meat, no test can tell the difference? Come on man you can’t be serious here. You are just being silly and really making me think that you’re just taking the piss.
A lot of people knew that Rock Hudson was gay. If he had of sued somebody who called him gay do you think it may have came out during the trial? ( sorry about the pun)
Anyway I’m sure you’ll be happy to know that I will not be bothering you anymore and it would be my guess that this will (if it hasn’t already ) become a trend with your threads. Well at least untill you change the way you’re going about things here.
I would however like you to look at my post in this thread. You need to really think about a couple of things that are in this thread. :mad:
Cya around.
Don’t know nuthin’ 'bout no earthworms, but…
Sounds like an oxymoron to anyone who has ever tasted a MacDonald’s burger and meat… Actually, I hesitate to use the two terms in the same sentence…
What the fuck, smartt? What POSSIBLE advantage would McDonalds have to gain by using earthworms instead of hamburger meat? If anyone ever found out, it would mean financial ruin for McDonald’s, Inc., one of the most successful companies on Earth. Why would they jeopardize this position to save a few measly cents (assuming that worms really are cheaper than hamburger, which I seriously doubt). McDonald’s accounts for something like 1 Percent of the entire world beef production (that’s a HUGE amount). Don’t you think they’re in a position to bargain a fantastic price from the ranchers they buy from? World earthworm production is tiny compared to world beef production. Worms produce a very small amount of meat, and they do have internal organs, so I don’t see McD’s simply “grinding them up” (if you’ve ever dissected an earthworm in biology class, you’d know this). What it all comes down to, though, is that:
(1) Lots of people hate McDonald’s, for whatever reason.
(2) These people would LOVE to be able to put McD’s out of business.
(3) If McD’s was using earthworms in their meat, these people would find out.
This is an obvious Urban Legend, and an ancient one. We don’t ask much here, but we do ask that you think intelligently before posting a General Question. If you really want to debate something like “Could McDonald’s use a meat substitute?”, I suggest that you post it in Great Debates.
Sigh…you’re right. Fish tastes the same as deer tastes the same as turkey tastes the same as cow. Damnit, man, do your tastebuds not work? Is your nose so congested you couldn’t tell the difference between chocolate and styrofoam?
Do you think that scientists can genetically test the meat and determine what animal it came from? No…of course not.
New, from McDonalds, it’s the McSoylent Green burger!
And 2-3 KILOS of meat? From an earthworm?!? Jesus H Christ on a happy meal, those aren’t earthworms. Those are snakes. If you can’t tell the difference, it’s no wonder you don’t know what meat is in a burger.
This ain’t new. Check out: Is the ingredient erythorbate in hot dogs really earthworms?
If you don’t believe snopes and don’t believe McDonald’s, then why stop at earthworms?
NEWSFLASH: Is it true that Pizza Hut uses rat meat for its sausages?
How about KFC, and the wonderful rumour that they started using initials because they no longer use chicken, they use some artificial genetically test-tube-grown blob of protoplasm?
How about your local restaurant… Is it true that they’ve been buying unclaimed human bodies from the morgues, and that they’re special of the day is…
C’mon, how about a little reality coming into play?
In the US, anyhow, we have government intervention if food being sold aint what it’s advertised as.
On the lighter side, I was in Tokyo once on a long trip and was really getting tired of Japanese food so I decided to get a MacDonald’s burger. OK, so it was clearly an act of desperation. I took one bite of it and realized that what I was eating was not comprised of beef. I have no idea what it was, but it wasn’t beef and when I querried at the counter, the manager kindly informed me [imagine a cheezy Japanese accent] “not beef… not cow”.
“Well, what then?” I wanted to know. Again the manager with his Japanese accent… “Ahhh… not sure. Not beef. Not cow. Engrish not so good…” Then he dismissed me with a polite bow and I knew then that, like everything else I had eaten in Japan, it was probaly best not to dig any deeper into the origins of this mystery meat.
Compared to some Japanese dishes, earthworms might have been a more appetizing proposition - in fact, come to think of it, I did eat grasshoppers (but not before I had a coupla Kirins in me…)
Don’t quote me on this but I think I have heard that in Japan they were trying seaweed burgers at McDonalds. I heard they were pretty good. In NYC they have veggie burgers at McDonalds.
In India and other Hindu countries they use lamb instead of beef for obvious reasons. Japan however does use beef, I don’t know if there was a communications problem or they were trying out a new product.
How the hell should I know? The only thing I know it that there IS a market of earthworm meat. Everything else is speculation.
Or, so you really thing that the meat has the exact taste of the animal it came from, only dead? Cow meat tastes like cow, soy meat tastes like soy… yeah, right. And don’t be so radical. Meat and meat may have similar tastes; styrofoam isn’t even a food.
If you’re really stuck with the notion that earthworms comes only in hook-bait size, then you should watch the Discovery Channel more.
It tasted sort of like and had the consistency of ground pork. It also had a redish hue, plus it was a lot greasier than those cardboard-ish patties that MacDonald’s serves in the U.S… Perhaps it was a truth-in-advertising thing where HAMburgers had to be made of HAM… If so, they must have added other “ingredients” to make it taste a little less pork-like. My waiter at the Tokyo Hard Rock Cafe claimed that many burger places in Japan use horsemeat. Having never tried horse, I couldn’t tell if that’s what it was. I would think that horsemeat would be more expensive, though, so I have my doubts.
I went to the McDonald’s site for japan and they mentioned a teryaki burger. It is a sausage patty on a bun with teriyaki sauce. Perhaps that is what you ate?
Also, Smartt…do they have the discovery channel in Brazil?
Is it your assertion, then smartt, that earthworm tastes like beef?
Furthermore, there are basic chemical analysis tests that can show wether a certain piece of meat is beef or not. (I saw this on Dateline awhile back, testing the purity of ground beef sold in NYC) Are you asserting also that earthworm will pass this test?
I believe that McDonald’s advertizes that they use 100% American beef (not positive about the American part, but quite sure about the 100% beef).
I seriouly doubt that McDonald’s would risk their business by secretly substituting earthworm meat.
This conversation is too silly for words.
In the OP, smarttp, you asked:
Note that you asked a question here. The usual intent of asking a question is that you want an answer. That does not seem to be your intent here. When people gave you the answer “no”, you immediately got on a soapbox and said that everyone was wrong, there’s a huge conspiracy, your uncle in Kathmandu is the only one in the world who knows the truth, blah, blah, blah. If you’re so sure you know the answer, berk, why the hell did you ask the question? This is the General Questions board, and it’s called that because people come here to get answers to questions. If you’re so knowledgeable on this subject, why are you wasting your time here instead of filing a class action lawsuit against McDonalds for advertising their hamburgers as 100% beef?
OK, let’s go through this somewhat slowly…
I checked out on the web for earthworm prices. I could buy Red Wigglers (Eisenia fetida) for the bulk rate of $25 a pound (1,000 of them). If I’m looking to get fancy, I could buy some European Nightcrawlers (Dendrabaena veneta) at the low low rate of $45 a pound.
Mickey D’s would go broke if they bought from them.
Now, there are some australian breeds of earthworms that get up to 11 feet in length, but they aren’t thick and they certainly can’t net you up to two pounds of meat…unless of course you want to show me the Discovery Channel program you watched and drop the pretense of your uncle, the worm farmer. Either way, McDonald’s would have to import earthworms from Australian, which certainly isn’t cost effective when there are cows right in their backyard.
And, um…
This is almost too stupid to even bother responding to, but I’m feeling generous today. Of course cow meat tastes like cow because well…cow meat is cow. That’s what it tastes like. It’s circular reasoning because by it’s very definition it’s true. How do you know that oranges taste like an orange? Ever eaten one before it fell off the tree? Deer meat tastes like deer because it’s deer. Fish meat tastes like fish because it’s fish!
And soy meat tastes like whatever the hell you think it tastes like because there’s no such thing as soy meat! Gooooooooooooood lord!
[sub]We watch now as the dreaded predetor Soy patiently stalks and attacks the Tofu herd. Notice that the horn and drum section have increased their tempo. This is a tell tale sign that a kill will come soon.[/sub]
Of course. We have 100+ channels on cable to choose from. Brazil is not a jungle. The RAIN FOREST is.