Have you heard the shocking news that KFC served a customer a deep fried rat instead of chicken?
And we all know that’s not the first time. Still want to keep eating that conveniently easy and ready to go meal?
Take a look at the 19 interesting fast food facts before answering that.
1. Fries
Certain fast food chain fries are riddled with preservatives to prevent any sort of bacterial or mold growth. In this case it lasts for over three years.
2. Average Consumer
In a study it was found the average fast food consumer ingests around 12 pubic hairs a year.
3. Cheese
Cheese products labeled as processed are actually loaded with additives, chemicals and flavoring that make up 49 percent of the product. Half the product isn’t even cheese.
4. Eating Healthy With A Salad
The salads are actually loaded with propylene glycol to keep the leaves crisp. This ingredient can also be found in antifreeze and sexual lubricant.
5. No. 1 Producer Of Meat
One patty from a burger can contain meat from up to 100 different cattle.
6. Indestructible Burgers
Some fast food chains' burgers look identical after 14 years of aging. What are we really eating?
7. Taco Meat
The ground beef at one Mexican fast food chain is actually only 36 percent meat.
8. Chicken
The chicken is primarily fat mixed in with blood vessels and nerves. In fact 55 percent of the chicken is fat; the rest is feathers, skin and corn with chemicals, preservatives, hydrogenated fats and petroleum. Oh, and it is washed in ammonia.
9. Milkshakes
The milkshakes from these fast food restaurants contain more chemicals than your conventional fertilizer.
10. What's In The Meat
The meat in certain fast food sandwiches is a restructured meat product containing pig innards, tripe, heart, scalded stomach and a whole lot of salt. It also contains a flour bleaching agent. Mmm.
11. Sand
Silicon dioxide (aka sand) is used as an anti-caking agent in multiple fast-food items like buffalo wings and chili. The sand helps it to be able to stay in a heater for days. Ew.
12. Beetles
If you eat something that is bright red at a fast food joint, chances are that it has Carmine. What's carmine? It's a bright red food dye. What is it made of? It's made of the crushed abdomen of a female Dactylopius coccus aka an African beetle-like insect.
13. Fountain Soda
Soda being poured into glass with ice
14. Leftovers
In many fast food restaurants the food carries over. Leftovers, anyone?
15. Burger Grill Marks
You know those awesome grill marks on fast food burgers? Well, those aren't real... They're actually put there during their factory phase. Gross.
16. Airbrushed Photos
You know those yummy burger pics that you see on billboards and at countless fast food restaurants? Well, those are airbrushed....
17. Milkshake Chemicals
Most fast food milkshakes contain over 50 chemicals.
18. Fat Taco Salad
The average fast food taco salad has more grams of fat than 16 average Boston crème pies.
19.Changing Behavior
Food dyes are commonly found in fast food joints.
Did you know that food dyes can actually alter your kids’ behavior?
(source:rantfood.com)
