McDonalds New 1955 Burger!
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Well exactly. Maybe if they were forced to replace the drive throughs with a treadmill for McRun-yourself-to-that-Burger™ type set up, where you had to run a certain distance in order to get access to menu items.
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I get it, instead of "Air Miles" you could earn "McMiles" where you get on a treadmill and swipe your card at the start, jog for a while and swipe your card when you finish and as long as you've accumilated 1000 McMiles you can have a burger, 200 McMiles for fries and 500 McMiles for a choccy shake.
I think we're onto a winner here, don't tell anyone about this.....this time next year we'll be millionaires
Soldato
I dont' get this, they already detail and print the calories and nutritional breakdown for all the products. What is the news here?
I get it, instead of "Air Miles" you could earn "McMiles" where you get on a treadmill and swipe your card at the start, jog for a while and swipe your card when you finish and as long as you've accumilated 1000 McMiles you can have a burger, 200 McMiles for fries and 500 McMiles for a choccy shake.
I think we're onto a winner here, don't tell anyone about this.....this time next year we'll be millionaires
Exactly!
Soldato
Joke?
I thought he was being a bit slow
same here
Caporegime
That fat people can now eat responsibly like they have always wanted to do. When they look up at that menu they will see how many calories everything is and it will shock them into dieting and a healthy lifestyle.
Man of Honour
Soldato
that looks immense. too bad i started a diet today 
Now the numbers will be right next to the cost on the boards at the back, so it's in plain view.
I've gotta say I don't think this will make a massive difference, but responsible people/parents will be able to make more informed decisions for themselves/their children, although you could argue if they are that responsible they shouldn't be inside McDonalds in the first place!
I don't think this will make too much difference to the die hard fatties.
Yes but its always been on the back of the paper they use to line the tray and what they are trying to do is make ppl more responsible for what they eat. I.e, if you see its high in calories you will not eat it and opt for something yet calorific.....yeh right!
What McD's could do is make a lovely pure breast of chicken with a low fat dressing and salad on a brown bap or wholemeal pitta......
Just face it if you want healthy you don't eat fast food! Have a bowl of lettuce some vinigarette and some colon clensing!
Soldato
This isn't just a Mcdonalds thing. It's a voluntary agreement to show the calories in food menus for a number of companies including KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Pret a Manger, Weatherspoons etc.
It's still pretty pointless though as calories are a useless stat on its own.
It's still pretty pointless though as calories are a useless stat on its own.
Soldato
is it as big as their burger were back then? Cheeseburgers are so small in mcd's now!
Soldato
that looks immense. too bad i started a diet today
Don't worry, when you actually buy one it wont look immense at all, like any burger from McDonalds.
How is this going to make people more responsible?
To a certain percentage of McDonald's frequenters calorific count will mean absolutely nothing. To the rest, they know what they're eating and don't care. And, as above, a calorie count next to the food is a useless stat.
You have an uninformed customer; to whom calorific count is a meaningless number next to the big mac meal they waddled in to purchase (I realise non-obese people eat there as well but this is what this is aimed at). Then you have the informed customer; to whom calorific count isn't meaningless, but they've gone in to eat MacDonalds in the knowledge it isn't healthy for them and do so anyway; so whilst the number isn't meaningless, it is pointless.
As for the actual calorie count, why? Would knowing that the big mac meal is 1,630 calories change your diet? Would you then make sure you only ate 900 calories more that day? Or would it influence you to go to the gym to work those calories off? I'll wager that for 99% of people it wouldn't. Again - they either won't know what that means, or won't care.
And again, calories are a meaningless stat. I consume well over 2,500 calories a day, pretty much all being high in calorific value. But because I exercise a lot (ok not at the moment) I know I work off what I need too.
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Soldato
Fair point Skill - fair point indeed!
Soldato
Guaranteed to make the dimwits stop and think about their calorific intake.
Soldato
id rather have one of these again!
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