11 Amazing Facts about the McDonald's McRib

[hack89]

3. The McRib is a product of "restructured meat technology."

Rene Arend came up with the idea and design of the McRib, but it's a professor from the University of Nebraska named Richard Mandigo who developed the "restructured meat product" that the McRib is actually made of.

According to an article from Chicago magazine, which cites a 1995 article by Mandigo, "restructured meat product" contains a mixture of tripe, heart, and scalded stomach, which is then mixed with salt and water to extract proteins from the muscle. The proteins bind all the pork trimmings together so that it can be re-molded into any specific shape — in this case, a fake slab of ribs.

yum!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/11-amazing-facts-about-the-mcdonald-s-mcrib-170212930.html

[shintao]

1. Why can't people just be happy with the real natural goodness of food?

The obesity in America is bulging over and showing fat around the edges. You have a salad, you got to dunk it in some fat dressing crap. Your bread is filled with lard and oils, the meat packed in fat, the mayo running over in fat oils.

Try this! Go to the store and only buy natural foods, ahhh,......that is like a head of green lettuce to you Pork Fat consumers or boxes and cans and cardboarded greasy grilled chunky fats crap.

Make you a plain salad, lettuce, tomato, avocado, onion, salt/pepper. Experience what real food tastes like again.



And what the hell is Happy about a Happy Meal?

[backtoblue]

2. i'm gonna puke. thanks hack.

[hack89]

3. You are very welcome

[femmocrat]

4. Good lord. This is a staple in our school cafeteria.

Along with "chicken" nuggets.

[mysuzuki2]

5. I had a McRib once.

ONCE.

[LiberalFighter]

18. Same here. Couldn't stomach it.

And I was willing to try something new. Which I usually don't.

[beerandjesus]

6. I read this article several weeks ago....

....and still ran right out this past Saturday for a tasty McRib!

Can't do the McDonald's thing like I could in my 20s, but I have to pay my respects from time to time, since McDonald's is the taste of America!


(And by the way, if I wanted to get sanctimonious about this, I'd start in on how if you're going to be killing animals for food, it's better to use the whole animal rather than just throwing away the tripe, heart, etc.... but I won't go there. )

[shintao]

7. Soylent Green

The film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green".

[downandoutnow]

8. Who knew McRib eaters were so trendy? -- "tripe, heart, and scalded stomach" -

Organ meats are so in right now! All the best hipsters in Portland, Silver Lake and Williamsburg are into them. Of course, McRib eaters don't get the opportunity to pay outrageous prices to eat them, at restaurants with uncomfortable communal seating, concert-level noise and painfully slow service.

[a la izquierda]

9. Reason #1001 that I'm a vegetarian.

[Archae]

10. Want some natural food?

In other countries they eat all sorts of weird things, even though they are natural.

Just look up "balut."

Or "haggis."

BTW, I do enjoy a McRib ever once in a while.

[jmowreader]

13. Balut and haggis are very highly processed

Balut is far more disgusting than a McRib could ever hope to be. Haggis is just sausage.

[beerandjesus]

22. I've had balut.

It's much harder core than a McRib. Maybe that's my ethnocentrism talking, but I'll stand by it.

[Yavin4]

11. The big hint was that it had no bones

What kind of rib does not have any bones in it?

[Aerows]

12. I'd pretend to be appalled

But I regularly eat Big Macs. I take out most of the bread and stack two of them together into one delicious sandwich.

[Initech]

14. Somehow the phrase "restructured meat product" sounds quite disturbing.

[dimbear]

15. Needs moar plastic. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

16. One Ribwich, please

[Major Nikon]

17. Meatloaf is "restructured meat technology"

Just sayin'

[kwassa]

19. I worked on a commercial for the McRib sandwich more than 30 years ago.

In the City of Industry, east of downtown LA, in the middle of an industrial park existed a fake McDonalds restaurant used only for filming commercials. It might still be there. The "restaurant" has two entrances, fake shrubbery on wheels, and a lighting grid in the ceiling. No kitchen. We spent an endless amount of time lighting the sandwich for product close-ups, the only part of the commercial we were filming.

I enjoyed it from a technical standpoint, as it was one of the most sophisticated lighting set-ups I ever worked on. It is all about the budget, which allows time, and care.

I never had any desire to eat the sandwich.

[Taverner]

20. Damn, I don't know whether to recoil in horror or give them a medal

That process gets weirder and weirder...

I'm suprised it didn't have one step like "ensure iron is hot enough to pour into the mcrib"

[7wo7rees]

21. Ya gotta see dis.

[whistler162]

23. Well what do you expect it is

a Scottish restaurant.

A little hagis like product should be expected.