I always wondered why it smelled so good.

If you cook a hamburger at home (god forbit the old fashioned way, use mincemeat, add spices, shape to patty and fry), and chips, it smells good (actually the hamburger never smells that good when cooking does it? But the chips do). But point being it doesn't have that siren smell that McDs has.

Turns out they have a lab in New Jersey where they have spent decades perfecting a chemical with that smell.

Theory is "imprinting". The sense with the biggest nostalgia thing is smell, so they get the kids into all the McDs with the playground stuff, subject them to THAT smell (designed to be unique), and for the rest of your life you associate that happy childhood feeling with THAT smell (I think its infused in the cooking fat).

So later in life, you smell THAT smell, and go in for a Big Mac to satiate that feel-good childhood thing. And you do it for the rest of your life (and take your kids in to play while doing it).

These guys are good!

Actually, there was more I found interesting too.

The potatoes have a natural sweetness that changes during the harvesting season. So half the year, they are adding sweetness, the other half, removing it, so that why they always taste the same.

I couldn't help noticing too that English chips are non salted, but American are salted up to the eyeballs. So much that I can't eat them without a gallon of water - but maybe only because thats maybe once a year that I end up in a McDs eating fries - just too damn salty. Might be worth adding that we have never had salt at home and never add it to anything, so thats why we notice it so strongly.

Oh, BTW, the senate just renamed the Freedom Fries back to French Fries on their menu. International relations must be warming.

Have you also notice Gat that nearly all food joints have an extractor fan that blows out onto the street to entice you in! :sly:

I find the smell nauseating, I don't even eat hamburgers at home. I am also not keen on sausage either. Grissly bits and to much fat makes me gag. If I make a burger at home, I have to buy the meat, strip it of grissle and most of its fat before mincing it, that way I know what I am eating. Nothing but the best.

I would then serve it, with a vegetable or two and some new potatoes, boiled and tossed in butter or mixed with fresh mint and Helmans mayonaise. Cheaper brands just won't do.

I like lean meats cooked till they fall to bits.

Burger king, Mcdonalds and all the fast food joints 9 times out of 10, over salt fries, which also seem to taste more like cardboard. I prefer homemade chunky chips that are dry and crisp on the outside and succulent inside. Did you know that larger chips have less fat and fewer calories?

In watching a recent programme in Britain about fast food joints, I think they are a serious health hazard and should be avoided at all costs. In America the sue me culture is growing with cases against such fast food franchises, and I am not surprised at the number of cases of food poisoning rising each year. These firms are lax in their food hygiene preparation and sadly this is the end result.

MAUREEN
NORTHERN ANGEL

Urgh, no, no, no I hate the smell but then I hate McDonalds so the smell alone would never entice me! Do you know that a Big Mac, Coke and fries is 1500 calories! A woman's daily intake should be 2000 - I don't pay attention to this but it was one of the mags and I was shocked at how high it was. Mo, I did read that chunkier chips have less fat than the dinky ones you get from McD's.

Give me a home-made burger with herbs, spice and whatever else you want to throw in it - much more tastier, less fatty and you know exactly what is in it and you can make it to own standard - have it flattened, big, small etc - nothing tastes better!

I do love the good old-fashioned fish & chips though, they really do make me drool at the mouth, throw in a couple of pickled onions, smother it with chip shop sauce, vinegar ( no salt )...mmmmm, lovely!

I went and watched Super Size Me after reading about it, and that reinforces everything we ever thought about junk food.

I think my diet was pretty good anyway, but after all that reading and the movie, its gone up a notch.

I'm also hatching a scheme to get my little one to never want to eat ice cream, colas, or fast food. Don't know if it will be successful, but it will be a long faught campaign. The SSM movie pointed out that kids in the States are subjected to about 10,000 commercials for junk food every year (thats 30 a day, which I suppose means about 5 hours tv a day times 6 per hour or something like that). And if you give positive messages at mealtimes, you are outgunned daily 30 to 3.

There's a lesson there somewhere about tv as well. Its going to be a long war........

:sick: Noooooooooooooooo it doesnt its horrible....... And I refuse to cook burgers at home too cos they stink the whole house out, Eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww........ :sick:

I do love a Maccie D's vanilla thick shake though...........

Errrrrrrr NO i don't think MUCK Donalds smells good. Ewwww.

Errrrrrrr NO i don't think MUCK Donalds smells good. Ewwww.

I'm with you on that one:good:

I like the smell, but then I worked there for a year or so while I was in sixth form and I think they must submit you to subliminal messaging because I just wanted to eat a Big Mac whenever I go past MacDonalds - and I'm a vegetarian!

Has anyone else seen this site? (http://www.makeupyourownmind.co.uk/)

Questions you can put to Mcdonalds.
There are some really interesting questions in there, but it seems that Mcdonalds seem to answer most of them with a standard reply or saying that certain information is confidential because it's sensitive competitive information!

I do love a Maccie D's vanilla thick shake though...........

Don't succumb to the guy named Ronald in the dirty rainmac saying "care for a sweetie little girrrl...?" He's after your waistline.

Isis stay away from the shakes...there is more animal fat than milk in those things :sick: