Posted on 07/31/2013 1:34:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Is McDonald’s McDouble cheeseburger (two patties, one slice of cheese, costs about $1) the “cheapest, most nutritious and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history”?
It would appear that way, according to arguments explained by New York Post columnist Kyle Smith.
“It has 390 calories. It contains 23g, or half a daily serving, of protein, plus 7% of daily fiber, 20% of daily calcium and so on,” Smith writes.
“Also, you can get it in 14,000 locations in the US and it usually costs $1,” he adds, referring to the cheeseburger as “one of the unsung wonders of modern life.”
The argument in favor of the McDouble’s greatness first appeared on the Freakonomics blog run by economics writer Stephen Dubner and professor Steven Leavitt
And the arguments are intriguing.
Smith first addresses those who suggest healthier alternatives such as “boiled lentils.”
“Great idea,” he writes. “Now go open a restaurant called McBoiled Lentils and see how many customers line up.”
“But we all know fast food makes us fat, right? Not necessarily,” he continues. “People who eat out tend to eat less at home that day in partial compensation; the net gain, according to a 2008 study out of Berkeley and Northwestern, is only about 24 calories a day.”
The McDouble’s price/calorie tradeoff makes it the most price-efficient food “that has ever existed in human history,” Smith notes.
“Junk food costs as little as $1.76 per 1,000 calories, whereas fresh veggies and the like cost more than 10 times as much,” he writes. “A 2,000-calorie day of meals would, if you stuck strictly to the good-for-you stuff, cost $36.32.”(continued)
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Maybe so but don’t you know that McDs employees are chained to their stations as slaves working for below ‘living wage’ pay?
Who cares if they wouldn’t have ANY job at all without McDs??
That is not the point. Fairness is #1 even if it leads to disaster.
I can eat about eight of them.
On the other hand, sprouted lentils, combined with overpriced French cheese, sandwiched between politically incorrect Israeli matzos, and washed down with cheap southern hemisphere fascist Chilean wine might be a start.
Turning it into a PLU might be a challenge, however.
Nothing beats little green crackers
Typically I eat 4 in a sitting.
the usual coalition of class snobs, locavore foodies and militant anti-corporate types,
“If the macrobiotic Marxists had their way, of course, there’d be no McDonald’s, Walmart or Exxon, because they have visions of an ideal world in which everybody bikes to work with a handwoven backpack from Etsy that contains a lunch grown in the neighborhood collective,”
CC
If that is the only job you can do. Do it with a smile and work a shift at Burger King or Wendy’s afterward. It’s a burger place not rocket science...not brain surgery.
Hey! They’re paying big bucks in North Dakota. Even for menial work. And I believe the greyhound goes there.
Well, probably. I worked at McD’s when I was 14 for a couple of years. The hamburger they used then was real beef. I don’t know what happened since then but I can definitely say their ‘meat’ used today is not the same.
If someone were to ask me face to face whether it is real beef or not, I’d probably say, “Neigh, Neigh - tis not”
It’s 100% all beef. The catch is that’s 100% of ALL of the cow. Eyes, hoofs, bone, tail, everything.
You should put up a picture of the dictator of the country these children come from.
See #9
How about a picture of a creepy ass Kenyan?
Oh, please—$36 a day for 2,000 calories of healthy food?
McDonald’s burgers have the taste and texture of overcooked Brillo pads. I have no idea how they achieve that.
Little green crackers is a reference to a classic movie where they turn undesirable people into crackers which they feed people.
Calling Mcdonalds healthy is a huge stretch.
Sorry—I was directing that “Oh, please” to the Post columnist who made the claims in the article, not to you!
Try this, buy the McDouble for a dollar , and then buy their chicken sandwich for a dollar, take the top off the chicken sandwich and put the rest under the McDouble and you have yourself a triple decker McDouble and chicken sandwich. I do it all the time, It’s a great lunch for $2.00. Add a Sr. Coke for 67 cents. You can’t beat it.
It would make sense as is done in many parts of the world, where a meat is eaten along with a host of (not over boiled) vegetables and legumes.
Then people would be able to eat as many burgers as they want as long as it was accompanied by fresh veggies.
Calories are not the issue
nutrients are
I take ISAGENIX products, and get more nutrients in one shake than a full day’s worth of double burgers gets with fries and shakes and soda, and the difference is:
My stuff has no steroids in the protein
no soy
no artificial sugars
no growth hormones
just good natural foods
and I lost over 50 pounds since January 2013 eating this way, too
If everybody in the Third World could get just one McDonalds double cheeseburger per day, it would cut disease rates by a significant amount. I’ve been saying that this is nutritious food for quite some time, and people laugh at me for saying it. But it’s true.
Hey at least it ain’t the pink slime they serve in the public school lunches!
I'm still trying to figure out how Florida tomato growers have managed to breed plants that produce tomatoes that are uniform in color, texture and size (for easy shipping) and are utterly without taste.
Order it without cheese and it’s the cheapest double burger also.
Yes, it sounds funny ordering a McDouble cheeseburger with no cheese, but they’re used to it.
And that cubic shape too!
You can also order it with lettuce and mac sauce for a minimac. Cost less than half and all you loose is the middle bun.
Very true. Tasteless.
FMCDH(BITS)
The whole “calorie” thing is misleading.
You can eat as many calories as you “need” and still be starved nutritionally.
Better to “graze” in a garden until you’re full.
Of course you need nutrient but calories are important. It’s always been about calories: low fat, low carb, low this or that, it’s always about cutting calories to lose weight and be healthy. If you can eat a good breakfast and lunch then eating a double cheeseburger from McDonalds for dinner with a salad is fine.
They are total garbage, and we already had a thread about this.
I too could eat a whole bunch of those burgers, but then I’d have to go without salt in anything for a month, and I’d be drinking so much water the rest f that day that my innards would be sloshing about.
I paid 15 cents each for my first McDonald’s hamburgers, back in the 50’s. Today my usual choice is the McDouble, and will usually order two of them...maybe 2 or 3 times a month.
How so? And since I didn’t see the other thread I guess there was reason to post another since I’m sure I’m not alone.
I’m 61 years old and have yet to eat an inorganic meal. But then again I laugh when government pronounces men can marry men. I guess I’m a bit old fashioned in that sense. Words still have meaning to me.
CC
It is cheaper to buy meat and vegetables than junk/boxed foods. These boxed food do not fill or keep one satisfied.
You were 14 for a couple of years?
If that’s the way you understood it.
Order this without ketchup and mustard but add special sauce and lettuce, and you gave a way cheaper Big Mac.
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