McDonalds McRib is baaaack thru 11/14

lol!
Deb

It's on the Washington Post, HuffPo, LA Times...apparently, the periodic return of the McRib is always big news!

For anyone who needs a silliness break today: http://youtu.be/xA-ipIB7lcs - Red and Yellow (a McDonald's tribute)

Love it! Thanks for the laugh, Lauren- I needed that silliness break today.

DEb

Right now, though, I am looking at a local/HotBytes banner from Creation Gardens. Let's give them a little love, too!

We would love to be giving them some love but the new system makes it so we really can't. It frustrates me at least two times a week when we drive by their new offices on Market Street and think about what was going to be there!

Here ya go, Boss.

http://www.schwans.com/default.aspx?kwi ... 9&dmg=3321

Wacky! Nothing I'd be interested in, but I'm not sure it's as bad as McDonald's ...

Schwan's is basically a guy selling frozen food from a truck - back in the old neighborhood the guy across the street sold Schwan's. I'll take McDonalds any day.

My family used to buy from Schwann's all the time. We really liked it! Although, this was in the mid to late 90s, so I don't know how it is currently. It looks like they've drastically reduced their offerings. We would buy Market Day in the late 80s and early 90s, as my school (Walden) used them for fund-raising. Since my folks are empty-nesters, they don't order from Schwann's, but they buy from Sam's and Gordon Foods.

Now if you want great food, go to Sam's! Now I want some beef brisket!

Legal poison.

http://theweek.com/article/index/220866 ... -of-anyway

At face value, the sandwich contains just pork, onions, and pickle slices slathered in barbecue sauce and laid out on a bun. But the truth is, there are roughly 70 ingredients.

a flour-bleaching agent most commonly used in the manufactur[ing] of foamed plastics like gym mats the and soles of shoes

Pig innards and plenty of salt. Typically, "restructured meat product" includes pig bits like tripe, heart, and scalded stomach. These parts are cooked and blended with salt and water to extract salt-soluble proteins, which act as a "glue" that helps bind the reshaped meat together.

[Robin Garr]

Pig innards and plenty of salt. Typically, "restructured meat product" includes pig bits like tripe, heart, and scalded stomach. These parts are cooked and blended with salt and water to extract salt-soluble proteins, which act as a "glue" that helps bind the reshaped meat together.

http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive ... picks=true

Further distinguishing the McRib is the implication that the pork comes from happy pigs raised under humane and sustainable conditions. McDonald's buys its pork from Smithfield Foods, which employs Dr. Temple Grandin as an animal welfare advisor and, perhaps as a result, brands itself as "100 percent committed to ... animal care."

HSUS found that Smithfield pigs were living in hellish conditions where basic needs were systematically unmet. Female pigs were crammed into gestation crates, preventing movement for most of their lives; many crates were coated in blood from the mouths of pigs chewing the metal bars of their crates; a sick pig was shot in the head with a captive bolt gun and thrown into a dumpster while still alive; prematurely born piglets routinely fell through the gate's slats into a manure pit; castration and tail docking took place without anesthesia; and employees tossed baby pigs into carts as if they were stuffed animals. The investigator saw many lame pigs but never a vet.

[Robin Garr]

Smithfield Foods

Once a family firm with a great reputation. Big Agra bought the name and turned it into a mega-business of the worst sort. There's plenty of reason to believe that every word of the Atlantic story is true.

Temple Grandin is an impressive person, but I think her services to Smithfield pay lip service at best.