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McDonald's Changes Burger Recipe to Exclude 'Pink Slime'

His show may have been canceled by ABC in mid-season but it seems that celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is still making a difference: McDonald's has just announced it will no longer use the ammonium hydroxide process in the making of burgers. While the fast food chain makes it a point of underlining that the decisio...

27 January 2012
16:11 GMT

McDonald’s Gift Card Offers Lead to Adult Dating Sites

People who enjoy a meal at McDonald’s may be tempted to click on the links that began flooding Twitter in the past hours, promising free gift cards. Like in many cases, there are no free prizes, only a malicious operation that targets the digital assets of unsuspecting Internet users. I don’t know if I s...

4 January 2012
08:03 GMT

Information from 100 Credit Cards Stolen at McDonald's Drive-Thru

A McDonald's employee in Oak Park stole the credit card details belonging to 100 of the establishment's customers by using a hand-held skimming device, which she used just outside the view of the victims. Detroit Free Press reports that Teresa Pulliam was discovered stealing the information after a store m...

17 November 2011
10:03 GMT

There's No Escaping McDonald's in the US or the UK

Assuming you'd ever want to get in your car and drive until you no longer see a McDonald's restaurant, you'd probably have to go abroad if you happen to live in the US or the UK, as HelaBlog brings to attention once more.Two years ago, Data Pointed set out to illustrate (literally) how consumerism was ...

10 November 2011
15:41 GMT

‘Healthier’ McDonald’s Blueberry Muffin Is Saltier than a Burger

Nutritionists have repeatedly warned us that, if one product is labeled “healthier” it doesn’t mean it’s necessarily so. This is also the case with McDonald’s low-fat blueberry muffin, it has emerged. Usually, whenever consumers want to improve their lifestyle even by a bit by making cha...

10 October 2011
16:41 GMT

Woman Tricked into Buying Fake Wooden iPad for $180

22-year-old Ashley McDowell is in possession of a $180 piece of wood that cannot access the App Store after being tricked by two individuals into buying what she thought was a genuine Apple tablet computer. As the story goes, the woman was getting food at McDonald’s at 10 a.m on Monday morning when two men a...

31 August 2011
05:42 GMT

McDonald’s Refuses to Serve Teens in Tracksuits

One McDonald’s location in Leyland, England has a new security rule: after 7 p.m, all under-eighteens wearing tracksuits will not be served food and will be asked to leave the premises. Scott Wilson learned that the hard way.The 16-year-old boy is telling the British media that he went to McD’s for some t...

28 January 2011
14:51 GMT

McDonald’s Manager Rewarded $17,500 for Getting Fat on the Job

Many lawsuits against McDonald’s have been filed throughout the years but they don’t always come to a satisfying conclusion for the plaintiff. A former McDonald’s manager has just won a case on claims he got fat on the job. The man worked for a McDonald’s establishment in Porto Allegre, Brazil...

30 October 2010
09:11 GMT

Artist’s ‘Happy Meal Project’ Proves McDonald’s Doesn’t Ever Go Bad

A Manhattan artist, Sally Davies, set out in April on a journey to discover what happens to junk food in time if kept in inadequate storage conditions. As it turns out the McDonald’s Happy Meal doesn’t go bad – ever. This experiment is similar to the one conducted by nutritionist Joann Bruso, who ke...

12 October 2010
14:21 GMT

McDonald’s Death Ad Causes a Stir

McDonald’s and other giant fast food restaurants have often come under fire for the health risk they present to the general population because of their products. A new television spot targets McDonald’s by showing just how dangerous junk food is. Known as the McDonald’s death ad or the “Conseq...

17 September 2010
13:11 GMT

McFries Pedestrian Crossing Takes Advertising One Step Further

McDonald’s has taken an advert for McFries and turned it into something palpable – literally. In Switzerland, the fast food giant has so-called McFries pedestrian crossings, in what is another instance of intrusive marketing. The moment the photo that also come attached to this article (via here) ended up...

12 August 2010
04:42 GMT

McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys Lure Children to Junk Food

McDonald’s has often come under fire for its products, beverages or attitude towards public health. This time, it’s for its toys in Happy Meals that it’s being criticized because it’s a campaign that targets children directly, luring them to junk food and unhealthy eating patterns, the Center ...

23 June 2010
16:41 GMT

Health Bomb: The McDonald’s McChicken Sandwiched in a Cheeseburger

As of late, a sandwich that, until not long ago, did not even appear on the McDonald’s menu, has started to garner more and more attention. The McGangBang was first named in a 2006 entry in the Urban Dictionary, where it was described as a McChicken sandwich sandwiched between the halves of a double cheeseburge...

12 June 2010
10:31 GMT

McDonald’s Happy Meal Never Goes Bad, Nutritionist Proves

This story could easily be titled “The Power of Preservatives” or “Don’t Feed Your Kids Poison,” it’s being said. One nutritionist and blogger, Joann Bruso, has set for herself the task of seeing how McDonald’s food goes bad and bought a Happy Meal precisely for the purpose. ...

19 March 2010
15:41 GMT

PETA Relaunches Campaign Against McDonald's

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has resumed its protests against the McDonald's corporation, with its renowned McCruelty campaign, which blames the giant fast-food restaurant chain of killing the animals it uses for its products in inhuman ways, even though alternatives exist. The organization...

20 February 2009
10:03 GMT

Subway Vows to Pay More for Tomatoes

Activists managed to persuade Subway to join fast food giants McDonald's, Burger King and Taco Bell in paying an extra cent for each tomato they buy, in order to give workers attending to the fields day and night a fair wage. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, which was behind this success, represents the inter...

3 December 2008
17:01 GMT

Games to Blame for Obesity Says McDonald's

Well, in fact it's the chief executive of McDonald's UK to say that, emphasizing on the childhood obesity issue. Excuse me? Wasn't McDonald's blamed quite often for providing food that makes you obese? You might even remember the famous "SuperSize Me" movie, detailing the entire McDonald's-c...

8 January 2008
15:06 GMT

Free Wi-Fi in McDonald's Restaurants in the UK

McDonald's has just decided to do a great favor to all those burger-loving customers that drive their profits sky high. They will provide from now on free wireless Internet access in its more than 1,000 restaurants across the UK.It looks like McDonald's would do just about anything to keep their customers i...

8 October 2007
13:58 GMT

McDonald's Gets Burger Orders through Cellulars

McDonald's seems to keep finding solutions for people to make as little effort as possible for getting their calorie filling from their fast food restaurants. The latest gimmick is that of allowing users to place their orders and even to pay from their mobile phones. So that they don't have to get up from t...

20 September 2007
10:22 GMT


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