Mind you, ever since I discovered In-N-Out Burger I don't go to McDonald's anymore. 
Posted on 12/01/2005 10:22:24 AM PST by lowbridge
Anyone remember the last time they saw a McDonalds advertisement for their Big Macs, Quarter Pounders with cheese, french fries, egg mcmuffins, etc.? You know, all the unhealthy stuff that made life worth living?
It seems these days the only items on their menu they advertise for is their salads and chicken sandwiches and nothing else.
The last time I recall seeing a McDonalds tv commercial that promoted their Big Macs, fries, shakes, egg mcmuffins, was when I was a kid.
And whatever happened to their tv advertisement characters like: Hamburglar, Grimace, Mayor McCheese? I miss those guys.
I see them very rarely and its usually one that says "I'm lovin it". I hear them more on the radio.
I saw a bizarre commercial with Ronald McDonald dancing with some kids on Cartoon Network not long ago. Don't recall any food being shown.
Remember teh "Shamrock Shake"? Mix taht with a MCRib, now thats livin'!
I cringe everytime my kids say they want to go to McDonald's. Yuck!
As a kid in Chicago, I couldn't wait for St. Pat's day to go to Mac's and get a green shake. OMG they were soooo awful but it was just something we did.
I remember the Shamrock Shake very well. A green colored, mint flavored shake that they came out with every April (St. Patricks Day)
You can find the commercial for the Shamrock Shake (among other McDonald commercials) here:
I haven't had a McRib in YEARS; I wish they would bring it back.
Um, St. Patrick's Day is March 17.
SD
They are back right now. At least here they are.
SD
If you made burgers and fries like that, would YOU tell anyone about it?
Didn't think so.
March, not April, but DEEEEEE-LISH!
(blech, it's just the 'nilla shake with some Scope dumped in)
Our local McDonalds has the McRib right now. I guess there must be another surplus population of whatever-the-hell animal they use to make those things...
Lab-grown steaks nearing the menu
Fancy a beefburger, but want to spare the cow? Tissue engineers experimenting with ways of growing meat in a lab dish could soon provide a solution.
The aim of the work is to develop food for astronauts on long space journeys, such as a mission to Mars. But like much other space research, what happens up there could one day become commonplace down here too - just look what happened to Velcro.
A NASA-funded team led by Morris Benjaminson, at Touro College in New York City, has already taken the first steps. The team removed chunks of live muscle tissue from freshly killed goldfish and raised them in a standard cell-culture fluid for a week. The tissue grew by as much as 14 per cent, thanks to partially differentiated "myoblast" cells in the adult muscle dividing to make more muscle cells, he says.
But growing larger pieces of muscle tissue in the lab will be tricky. The main problem is ensuring a constant supply of nutrients for the growing cell mass. In a tissue fed by a blood supply, the capillaries must be no more than 200 microns apart or else the cells in between become necrotic and the tissue dies.
Although the Touro team developed techniques for growing white and dark chicken muscle in the lab, without a blood supply the chicken meat grew for just two months before it was dead in the dish. Benjaminson is now submitting another NASA proposal to investigate mechanical or electrical methods of stimulating blood vessel growth.
Protein spheres
However, you only need to establish a good blood supply if you want to grow thick slabs of muscle. Vladimir Mironov, director of the Shared Tissue Engineering Laboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston has other ideas. His team thinks the meat of the future will be a processed food closer to a sausage or hamburger.
In a detailed project proposal to NASA, he sets out how to grow cells on protein spheres suspended in growth medium. These could then be harvested and made into nuggets or patties.
His starting cells will be myoblasts, which normally live at the edges of muscle fibres and help repair the muscles if they are damaged. They are better suited than embryonic stem cells, Mironov says, because they are already part of the way down the road to forming the desired cell type, rather than being totally undifferentiated.
The Spamalope, I believe.
SD
Mind you, ever since I discovered In-N-Out Burger I don't go to McDonald's anymore.
SD
I guess some would. I wouldn't *LOL* That would make some disclaimer on the food label!
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