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Originally posted by Fearless_Hyena
OK, if you're like me this will make you wanna stop eating at McDonalds....
My senior year I interviewed with a company called IFF -- International Fragrances and Flavors. Now this is a company with almost no PR or advertising for the products they produce. They dont need it, and they probably don't want it. And they're still doing well! The guy i talked to told me they make the base fragrances for Estee Lauder.
Apparently they also make the "chicken flavor" in Chicken McNuggets, and the "hamburger flavor" for Mcdonalds hamburgers.
ISNT THAT GROSS AS SHIT?!?! I mean I already knew that this junk food was garbage, but that's just NASTY!!!
You gotta believe that they aren't the only ones doin that, either...eurgh
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Why do you find this surprising? Almost every food product in a fast food restaurant is so processed that it has no remaining flavour. The average burger can have the meat from thousands of cows in it - tha isn't good for taste preservation! So then they have to put all the 'flavour' back in.
In fact chatting to the IFF people you would have probably found that they saw their work as being like artists, with a blank canvases to work upon. If they wanted to, they could make the fries taste like burgers, the burgers taste like strawberry thickshake or the thickshake taste like chicken nuggets. Its all processed pap with additives.
Sixate
Why do I feel I can always rely on you to resolve the debate with big bold fonts and a death threat
This is kids we're talking about. They have as much idea of the bad effects of this food as the average joe did about cigarrettes a few decades ago. The things they trust the most - TV and schools - encourage them to eat the stuff with messages of spritely, slim, happy families having a hearty lunch. They are being deliberately lied to by very smart, sophisticated companies. They become hooked on the image, the gaeity, the cheapness and the addictive sugar and fat content of these products and no one tells them that they are slowly destroying their bodies. They don't have a clue about E numbers, saturated fats or cholesterol. They only know that it tastes good and no-one has told them to stop.