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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums11 Amazing Facts about the McDonald's McRib
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
(487 posts)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
(11,343 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Along with "chicken" nuggets.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)ONCE.
LiberalFighter
(50,943 posts)And I was willing to try something new. Which I usually don't.
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)....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
(487 posts)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
(56 posts)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
(11,795 posts)Archae
(46,335 posts)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
(50,559 posts)Balut is far more disgusting than a McRib could ever hope to be. Haggis is just sausage.
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)It's much harder core than a McRib. Maybe that's my ethnocentrism talking, but I'll stand by it.
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)What kind of rib does not have any bones in it?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)But I regularly eat Big Macs. I take out most of the bread and stack two of them together into one delicious sandwich.
Initech
(100,080 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Just sayin'
kwassa
(23,340 posts)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
(55,476 posts)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
(5,128 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)a Scottish restaurant.
A little hagis like product should be expected.