The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken

[Fangio1951]

You missed KFC
At the age of 20 i worked at McDonalds for a year and never saw a machine broken.

What, was that shortly after world war 2 - when things were made to last......

 

[R-T-B]

Why is this in science and technology?

I mean... it's a milkshake machine conspiracy thread. Even if a valid conspiracy (which it does sound like), it strikes me as more lounge materiel... not science.

 

[jboydgolfer]

that puts regular ice cream to shame

ill take a McDonalds hot fudge sunadae over that long line frozen mustard any day

of course there is better, but a lot of people grow up eating foods like mcdonalds, spaghettio's, & mac n cheese, & other garbage....its not about politics, or 'my frozen caviar is significantly more tantalizing than your nixon ice cream', its more about remembering or comfort food, & if youre 50+, you should know that.

gatekeeping dessert 101

 

[Caring1]

Unbelievable video - I wonder why there hasn't been an anticompetitive case investigated = corruption/collusion at it's finest !!!!!

For what?
Having an exclusive service contract?

 

[maxfly]

Ive never been able to stomach ice cream from a machine for some reason but my wifes entire family worked part time at DQ during their high school years so she friggin loves the stuff. Makes no difference to her where it comes from either. during the summer she will pop in and get an ice cream cone or shake from mcdonsers regularly...im pretttty sure that will change after she sees this!

 

[qubit]

For what?
Having an exclusive service contract?

The reporter in the video also concluded that it’s anticompetitive. If you’ve actually watched the video and understood it, you’ll see that it’s patently obvious that it’s an anticompetitive tactic. Exclusive contracts inherently are so must have appropriate safeguards in place. This one clearly does not.

 

[X71200]

Cook or have 2 meals cooked a day so you won't need no Mc's. That stuff will chew through your veins in the longer run, ending up with illnesses at rather early ages. As for the ice cream, personally all I ask for a desert at home is a basic BIT of chocolate just to sweeten my mouth. If I'm at a restaurant, I'd take something small like a tiramisu generally. Control your mouth and don't fall to these things...

 

[sepheronx]

Cook or have 2 meals cooked a day so you won't need no Mc's. That stuff will chew through your veins in the longer run, ending up with illnesses at rather early ages. As for the ice cream, personally all I ask for a desert at home is a basic BIT of chocolate just to sweeten my mouth. If I'm at a restaurant, I'd take something small like a tiramisu generally. Control your mouth and don't fall to these things...

Well, there is some old guy in the US who had a big Mac every day since it came out. He is still alive.

I'm no fan of McDonalds besides maybe what is on the dollar menu. I do love their Cadbury creme egg mcflurry during Easter. That's about it.

Wendy's is a much better burger up here. At least as far as fast food goes.

 

[X71200]

One individual is not speaking for everyone though, Mc's food is cold meat with bad fats, potatoes, w/e. Not everybody's metabolism is the same but generally speaking, Mc's can get you fatter or make you end up with vein / heart related problems after a long time.

Obviously if you're working out or have a good metabolism, you might not get the fat. Though you should still avoid it for the sake of your own cardiovascular health. It might be acceptable for once in a long while, like when there's no food... but all day everyday is really no good.

 

[sepheronx]

One individual is not speaking for everyone though, Mc's food is cold meat with bad fats, potatoes, w/e. Not everybody's metabolism is the same but generally speaking, Mc's can get you fatter or make you end up with vein / heart related problems after a long time.

Obviously if you're working out or have a good metabolism, you might not get the fat. Though you should still avoid it for the sake of your own cardiovascular health. It might be acceptable for once in a long while, like when there's no food... but all day everyday is really no good.

I was told by various people that all of our food is more or less garbage and eating McDonalds is no worst. Just that eating too much is no good and that comes in general. I wouldn't doubt it either as most food in Canada is heavily processed.

I figure the worst parts of fast food is the soda, the bread and the French fries.

 

[64K]

It's fast food places like McDonalds that contributes to 1/3 of Americans being obese and another 1/3 being overweight.

Double Quarter Pounder meal. 1270 calories.

 

[sepheronx]

It's fast food places like McDonalds that contributes to 1/3 of Americans being obese and another 1/3 being overweight.

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Double Quarter Pounder meal. 1270 calories.

Yeah, that is excessive.

The French fries alone are what? 330 - 500 Cal's? I assume the pop is added with its sugar (assuming not diet).

 

[R0H1T]

Ah good ol' Capitalism at its finest

You line up my pockets, I'll do yours

Kind of reminds me of Wintel.

 

[sepheronx]

McDouble®: Calories and Nutrition | McDonald’s

Our McDonald’s McDouble® comes with two all beef patties, American cheese, onion and pickles. Order a McDouble today at a McDonald's near you!

www.mcdonalds.com

Even a McDouble is 400 cal. And you can easily eat 3 of these.

Wow. That is excessive. One more and that's a single days worth of Cal's you should eat.

 

[Splinterdog]

A superbly presented documentary which left me wondering about the other fast food outlets that use the same machines and why Taylors haven't tried this trick with them.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

It's fast food places like McDonalds that contributes to 1/3 of Americans being obese and another 1/3 being overweight.

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Double Quarter Pounder meal. 1270 calories.

That's BS though? Nobody is FORCING those people to eat this kind of shit -- it's a choice. Fact of the matter is, people CHOOSE to eat this. People also choose to sit in front of the TV all day, or glued to their tablets (children especially; my niece is one of them) or what have you. Everything is a choice. I mean, are you gonna put blame squarely on Apple and Amazon for making devices (iPad and Fire tablet) that contribute heavily to childhood obesity (and addiction)?

I'm not going to lie, I LOVE Carls Jr. (Hardees in other parts of the country) burgers, specially their Famous Star and Western Burger. Wendy's has some good burgers too. But I don't eat it every single day, or for every meal, either. And I don't order the largest size or drink regular Coke, which I find sweet as hell. Only time I really eat fast food is if it's an "off day" for cooking around here or it's too hot to cook. But you know what too though? There will be times when I'll want to get a medium sized combo, or a Double Western (basically two patties) "just because", and that's OK too. It only becomes a problem when that's ALL you eat.

That double quarter pounder got me all drooling like Homer over here, lol. Just nix the onions though

A superbly presented documentary which left me wondering about the other fast food outlets that use the same machines and why Taylors haven't tried this trick with them.

 

[AsRock]

 

[Mr.Scott]

It's fast food places like McDonalds that contributes to 1/3 of Americans being obese and another 1/3 being overweight.

View attachment 198174

Double Quarter Pounder meal. 1270 calories.

Don't blame the game, blame the player.
They're not shoving it down anybody's throat.

 

[qubit]

A superbly presented documentary which left me wondering about the other fast food outlets that use the same machines and why Taylors haven't tried this trick with them.

I think they haven't, because they're not forced into an exclusive contract to trade as that franchise, so can go somewhere else for their ice cream machines. In other words, competition.

There's other stuff I wanna say, but unfortunately, it's way too off topic, so I can't.

 

[bobbybluz]

That's BS though? Nobody is FORCING those people to eat this kind of shit -- it's a choice. Fact of the matter is, people CHOOSE to eat this. People also choose to sit in front of the TV all day, or glued to their tablets (children especially; my niece is one of them) or what have you. Everything is a choice. I mean, are you gonna put blame squarely on Apple and Amazon for making devices (iPad and Fire tablet) that contribute heavily to childhood obesity (and addiction)?

I'm not going to lie, I LOVE Carls Jr. (Hardees in other parts of the country) burgers, specially their Famous Star and Western Burger. Wendy's has some good burgers too. But I don't eat it every single day, or for every meal, either. And I don't order the largest size or drink regular Coke, which I find sweet as hell. Only time I really eat fast food is if it's an "off day" for cooking around here or it's too hot to cook. But you know what too though? There will be times when I'll want to get a medium sized combo, or a Double Western (basically two patties) "just because", and that's OK too. It only becomes a problem when that's ALL you eat.

That double quarter pounder got me all drooling like Homer over here, lol. Just nix the onions though

In the late 80's I had a gig for about one year servicing meat processing equipment. Saws, grinders and slicers mainly. Most of my work involved going to meat processing plants, restaurants and large chain grocery stores (Kohl's was our biggest account back when they still sold food). Some of the plants were hideous while others were spotless. I quickly learned which fast food places to avoid because ALL of the meat used locally came from those processing plants. For commercial fast food Wendy's had the best cuts and least fat, Sonic was the worst. McDonalds would be considered average along with Burger King and a few others. One local A&W only used 95% lean ground sirloin for their burgers and that became the only place I went to. George the owner lived next door and his entire family worked there. He said they ate most of their own meals there and if it wasn't good enough for his own family he wasn't going to sell it to customers. There was a McDonalds 1/2 block away and I asked him if that hurt his business at all. He laughed and said "My customers won't eat that shit". Countless customers were very sad when he finally retired around 20 years ago. The McDonalds is now on the site where George's A&W was.

Sonic's purveyor had been busted a few times by the Feds and getting into the place involved calling them from a pay phone (no cell phones back then) so the guards at the gate would unlock it for me when I arrived. The parking lot had 14 foot high fences with razor wire on top. It looked like a prison. I hated going there and the company I worked for referred to the place as "Rancid Meats", something very close to their actual name. I personally saw employees dumping gray fat into large mixers to make the final product less lean. When done mixing it had an odd brownish color I never saw anyplace else. As far as I know they're out of business now.

One of our accounts was a national seafood restaurant chain and they were notoriously bad for cleanliness standards. They had two locations in the city and we always found maggots in the meat saws they used to cut frozen fish. Pouring and spraying bleach over anything we were going to be servicing was standard practice. They were a favorite target of the City Health Department. Both of those places are vacant lots now.

That job was an eye-opening experience and is one of the main reasons I don't eat fast food anymore. It only added to what I already knew from cooking in restaurants when I was much younger and that in itself is another much longer story. Absolutely nothing businesses do surprises me.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

In the late 80's I had a gig for about one year servicing meat processing equipment. Saws, grinders and slicers mainly. Most of my work involved going to meat processing plants, restaurants and large chain grocery stores (Kohl's was our biggest account back when they still sold food). Some of the plants were hideous while others were spotless. I quickly learned which fast food places to avoid because ALL of the meat used locally came from those processing plants. For commercial fast food Wendy's had the best cuts and least fat, Sonic was the worst. McDonalds would be considered average along with Burger King and a few others. One local A&W only used 95% lean ground sirloin for their burgers and that became the only place I went to. George the owner lived next door and his entire family worked there. He said they ate most of their own meals there and if it wasn't good enough for his own family he wasn't going to sell it to customers. There was a McDonalds 1/2 block away and I asked him if that hurt his business at all. He laughed and said "My customers won't eat that shit". Countless customers were very sad when he finally retired around 20 years ago. The McDonalds is now on the site where George's A&W was.

Sonic's purveyor had been busted a few times by the Feds and getting into the place involved calling them from a pay phone (no cell phones back then) so the guards at the gate would unlock it for me when I arrived. The parking lot had 14 foot high fences with razor wire on top. It looked like a prison. I hated going there and the company I worked for referred to the place as "Rancid Meats", something very close to their actual name. I personally saw employees dumping gray fat into large mixers to make the final product less lean. When done mixing it had an odd brownish color I never saw anyplace else. As far as I know they're out of business now.

One of our accounts was a national seafood restaurant chain and they were notoriously bad for cleanliness standards. They had two locations in the city and we always found maggots in the meat saws they used to cut frozen fish. Pouring and spraying bleach over anything we were going to be servicing was standard practice. They were a favorite target of the City Health Department. Both of those places are vacant lots now.

That job was an eye-opening experience and is one of the main reasons I don't eat fast food anymore. It only added to what I already knew from cooking in restaurants when I was much younger and that in itself is another much longer story. Absolutely nothing businesses do surprises me.

Slightly off topic but, good sir, you sound cool as hell. And I loved reading your post. I'd like to hear more, gladly!

 

[MentalAcetylide]

Well, there is some old guy in the US who had a big Mac every day since it came out. He is still alive.

I'm no fan of McDonalds besides maybe what is on the dollar menu. I do love their Cadbury creme egg mcflurry during Easter. That's about it.

Wendy's is a much better burger up here. At least as far as fast food goes.

Oh hell no! You couldn't pay me to eat a Wendy's burger. The last time I ate a cheeseburger from there it felt like I had a rock in my stomach like 20 minutes after eating it and soon after felt sick to my stomach. F*** Wendy's in general, I say.

If anyone finds themselves hooked on eating out, just watch the movie Waiting. You'll never eat out again!

It's fast food places like McDonalds that contributes to 1/3 of Americans being obese and another 1/3 being overweight.

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Double Quarter Pounder meal. 1270 calories.

That's only true up to a certain point. When people are necking down 3000+ calories per day, regardless of the carb & fat types being consumed, and spend most of the day sitting on their ass & barely moving, its going to get fat. Fast food just speeds it up somewhat, probably why "fast" was placed in front of "food" when they dubbed it.

In the late 80's I had a gig for about one year servicing meat processing equipment. Saws, grinders and slicers mainly. Most of my work involved going to meat processing plants, restaurants and large chain grocery stores (Kohl's was our biggest account back when they still sold food). Some of the plants were hideous while others were spotless. I quickly learned which fast food places to avoid because ALL of the meat used locally came from those processing plants. For commercial fast food Wendy's had the best cuts and least fat, Sonic was the worst. McDonalds would be considered average along with Burger King and a few others. One local A&W only used 95% lean ground sirloin for their burgers and that became the only place I went to. George the owner lived next door and his entire family worked there. He said they ate most of their own meals there and if it wasn't good enough for his own family he wasn't going to sell it to customers. There was a McDonalds 1/2 block away and I asked him if that hurt his business at all. He laughed and said "My customers won't eat that shit". Countless customers were very sad when he finally retired around 20 years ago. The McDonalds is now on the site where George's A&W was.

Sonic's purveyor had been busted a few times by the Feds and getting into the place involved calling them from a pay phone (no cell phones back then) so the guards at the gate would unlock it for me when I arrived. The parking lot had 14 foot high fences with razor wire on top. It looked like a prison. I hated going there and the company I worked for referred to the place as "Rancid Meats", something very close to their actual name. I personally saw employees dumping gray fat into large mixers to make the final product less lean. When done mixing it had an odd brownish color I never saw anyplace else. As far as I know they're out of business now.

One of our accounts was a national seafood restaurant chain and they were notoriously bad for cleanliness standards. They had two locations in the city and we always found maggots in the meat saws they used to cut frozen fish. Pouring and spraying bleach over anything we were going to be servicing was standard practice. They were a favorite target of the City Health Department. Both of those places are vacant lots now.

That job was an eye-opening experience and is one of the main reasons I don't eat fast food anymore. It only added to what I already knew from cooking in restaurants when I was much younger and that in itself is another much longer story. Absolutely nothing businesses do surprises me.

Hmm... yeah, its strange how stuff like this gets swept under a rug... but I think the top people in those companies should be swept under a street-sweeper and deposited at the nearest Port-O-Potty dump.

 

[sepheronx]

Waiting? I'll have to check it out then. I'm not a fan of eating out but it is convenient.